Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

Young children, uncorrupted by the world's evils. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Costume Porn The '60s Military and Warfare Films Australian Movies The Load Corpsing Evil Laugh Ambiguous Disorder Manic Pixie Dream Girl All There in the Manual Drowning My Sorrows Deadpan Snarker Groin Attack Celebrity Paradox Neck Lift Black Comedy Rape Irony Obstructive Bureaucrat Television Movie Index Defrosting Ice Queen Pyrrhic Victory More Dakka Leitmotif Sinister Minister Continuity Nod Sequel Escalation Totally Radical La Résistance Back from the Dead Adaptation Name Change Obviously Evil "Awesome McCool" Name Laughing Mad Not So Different Redemption Equals Death Dramatic Gun Cock Aside Glance Car Fu Would Hit a Girl Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Film of the Book Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Oner British Films Take That! Chekhov's Gun Romantic Comedy Dying Moment of Awesome Reality Is Unrealistic Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Major Injury Underreaction Annoying Younger Sibling Noodle Incident Parental Substitute Henpecked Husband Parental Abandonment Mugging the Monster The Dog Bites Back As You Know Broken Aesop Black Best Friend Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Aluminum Christmas Trees Ax-Crazy The Smurfette Principle Only a Flesh Wound Dark and Troubled Past Canadian Movies Stuff Blowing Up Eureka Moment Jerk Jock Dutch Angle One-Man Army A Date with Rosie Palms Determinator Say My Name The Hero Blood Knight Comically Missing the Point Adaptational Attractiveness Kids Are Cruel Bloody Hilarious Bloodier and Gorier Wrong Genre Savvy Dressing as the Enemy N-Word Privileges In the Back Genre Throwback Men Are the Expendable Gender Hero Antagonist Vacation Films Grey and Gray Morality Real Life Writes the Plot Same Language Dub Put on a Bus Once More, with Clarity! Cluster F-Bomb Distracted by the Sexy Death by Adaptation Manly Tears Kill 'em All Hypocritical Humor Bavarian Fire Drill Dull Surprise No Celebrities Were Harmed My Greatest Failure Break the Cutie It's Personal Love at First Sight No Ending Playing Gertrude The '50s Every Car Is a Pinto May–December Romance Deus ex Machina It Will Never Catch On Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Author Avatar Action Genre Amoral Attorney Camp Gay Foil Line-of-Sight Name Anachronic Order Reckless Gun Usage Adapted Out Never Trust a Trailer Catapult Nightmare Your Cheating Heart Children Are Innocent Shoot the Shaggy Dog Demonic Possession Jitter Cam Papa Wolf Heroes Want Redheads Improbable Weapon User Gory Discretion Shot Race Lift Adaptation Distillation Disguised in Drag Faux Affably Evil Historical Villain Upgrade Vitriolic Best Buds Stepford Smiler He Knows Too Much Precision F-Strike The Alcoholic Smug Snake Meet Cute Properly Paranoid Adaptational Villainy Boom, Headshot! You Killed My Father Male Gaze Closed Circle Conspicuous CG Shower Scene The Stinger Antagonist Title Black Comedy Evil Sounds Deep Extreme Doormat Serious Business Blood from the Mouth Oh, Crap! Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy World of Ham Unwitting Instigator of Doom '80s Hair Disproportionate Retribution Psychopathic Manchild Fantasy Films Villain Ball Betty and Veronica Villain Protagonist The Dragon Truth in Television Setting Update Grievous Bottley Harm Imagine Spot Death of a Child Retcon Obfuscating Stupidity Fainting Sole Survivor The Remake Product Placement A.I. Is a Crapshoot I Did What I Had to Do Science Fiction Films The Chick Unusually Uninteresting Sight Slasher Smile Star-Crossed Lovers Composite Character Evil vs. Evil Film Series Ironic Echo Up to Eleven Politically Incorrect Villain Advertised Extra Pragmatic Adaptation The Hero Dies Scenery Gorn Deliberate Values Dissonance Slap-Slap-Kiss The Musical Homage Fat Bastard Have a Gay Old Time Fate Worse than Death Kill It with Fire Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Word of God Central Theme Mama Bear Animated Credits Opening Manipulative Bastard Evil Is Petty Wicked Cultured Depraved Bisexual Badass Grandpa Lighter and Softer Soft Glass Improvised Weapon Historical In-Joke Important Haircut Moment Killer The Quiet One Deconstruction Let's Get Dangerous! Kubrick Stare Punch-Clock Villain Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ungrateful Bastard Not What It Looks Like Hate Sink Establishing Character Moment Hollywood Law Did Not Get the Girl Names to Run Away from Really Fast Broken Pedestal Friend to All Children Fiery Redhead Black Dude Dies First Big Brother Instinct Dumb Blonde Spell My Name with an "S" Rape as Drama Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Adult Fear Rated M for Manly Break the Haughty Anguished Declaration of Love Rule of Symbolism She Cleans Up Nicely Monumental Damage Abusive Parents Shut Up, Hannibal! In Name Only The Reveal Heel–Face Turn Cowboy Cop Meaningful Background Event Spiteful Spit Mistaken for Gay Epic Movie Age Lift Fatal Flaw He Who Fights Monsters Captain Ersatz Recycled IN SPACE! Mind Screw Hoist by His Own Petard Big Bad Our Zombies Are Different Fish out of Water Unresolved Sexual Tension Disappeared Dad Death Seeker Hidden Depths Kick the Son of a Bitch Babies Ever After Intergenerational Friendship Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Silence Is Golden Loophole Abuse Gone Horribly Right For the Evulz Camera Abuse Ambiguously Gay Bitch in Sheep's Clothing "Well Done, Son!" Guy The End... Or Is It? The Voiceless A God Am I Unspoken Plan Guarantee Better to Die than Be Killed Made of Explodium Bait-and-Switch Heel Realization Eagleland French Films The Big Guy Ascended Extra Arch-Enemy Evil Brit Whole Plot Reference Despair Event Horizon Contrived Coincidence Overprotective Dad The Mafia How We Got Here Off-into-the-Distance Ending Final Girl Dark Is Not Evil Fun with Acronyms The Ace Loads and Loads of Characters No Antagonist Creepy Child The Lost Lenore Auto Erotica Only One Name Chekhov's Gunman Brutal Honesty Sir Swears-a-Lot Sassy Black Woman I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cool Shades Meaningful Echo Bare Your Midriff Bad "Bad Acting" Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Market-Based Title Mooks Documentary Sci-Fi Horror Took a Level in Jerkass Big Eater Almost Kiss Demoted to Extra Retired Badass Wretched Hive After the End Adorkable Hypocrite Those Two Guys Bunny-Ears Lawyer It Can Think Thriller Running Gag The Casanova Empathic Environment Epic Fail Man on Fire The Power of Love Book-Ends Instant Death Bullet Film Noir Index I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Yandere Half the Man He Used to Be Stalker with a Crush 20 Minutes into the Future BFG Fourth Date Marriage Intrepid Reporter Title Drop Expy Faking the Dead Crazy Jealous Guy Hope Spot Worthy Opponent Darkest Hour Improbable Aiming Skills Authority Equals Asskicking Double Entendre Wham Shot Film Noir Darker and Edgier Deliberately Monochrome Sealed Evil in a Can Stock Footage Exact Words Famous Last Words Shipper on Deck Needs Wiki Magic Love Flipping the Bird Eldritch Abomination Cool Guns Handicapped Badass Maybe Ever After Knight Templar Red Right Hand B-Movie Getting Crap Past the Radar Calling the Old Man Out Parental Neglect Killed Mid-Sentence Sexy Discretion Shot Facial Horror Asshole Victim Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Card-Carrying Villain No Name Given Ripped from the Headlines Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Lampshade Hanging Action Girl Ms. Fanservice Room Full of Crazy Destination Defenestration Evil-Detecting Dog Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Reasonable Authority Figure Armor-Piercing Question Lock and Load Montage Dwindling Party Italian Films Driven to Suicide Combat Pragmatist Framing Device Captain Obvious Nice Hat Everyone Has Standards Danny Peary Cult Movies List All There in the Script timeperiod Fanservice Taking You with Me Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Straight Gay Rewatch Bonus Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cool Old Lady Villainous Breakdown Overly Long Gag Drill Sergeant Nasty Shown Their Work Anachronism Stew You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Woman in White In Medias Res Wham Line Only Known by Their Nickname Accidental Misnaming Death by Irony Small Name, Big Ego Mr. Fanservice Serial Killer Animal Motifs Even Evil Has Standards "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mr. Exposition Real Life Immune to Bullets Scary Black Man The Mole Hair-Trigger Temper Shirtless Scene Mexican Standoff Motor Mouth The Smart Guy Cool Old Guy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Not Quite Dead Sadistic Choice Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mystery and Detective Films Redshirt Army Be Careful What You Wish For folderlabel Evil Plan What You Are in the Dark Pimped-Out Dress Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bittersweet Ending The Great Depression Evil Counterpart Actor Allusion Insane Troll Logic Madness Mantra Bowdlerise Logo Joke One-Word Title Cassandra Truth Silent Movie All Men Are Perverts Adaptation Expansion Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cain and Abel As Himself Heroic Sacrifice Scenery Porn Zombie Stories Broken Bird Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil And the Adventure Continues Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Ass Shove Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dropped a Bridge on Him A Minor Kidroduction Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cat Scare Karmic Death Bad Boss Unreliable Narrator Eye Scream Gorn Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Greater-Scope Villain Anyone Can Die My Beloved Smother What the Hell, Hero? Villain Song Training Montage Humiliation Conga No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ambiguous Ending Award-Bait Song Mighty Whitey Awesome, but Impractical Those Wacky Nazis Sacrificial Lion Does Not Like Shoes Cloudcuckoolander Taking the Bullet Re-Cut True Companions Implacable Man Double-Meaning Title Character Development Dies Wide Open Decoy Protagonist Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Nice Guy Pretty Little Headshots Index of Film Westerns Offscreen Teleportation Creator Cameo And Starring Token Minority Artistic License – History Gainax Ending NO INDOOR VOICE Chekhov's Skill Arc Words Blatant Lies Spared by the Adaptation Rasputinian Death Peek-a-Boo Corpse Foreshadowing Red Eyes, Take Warning Bilingual Bonus My God, What Have I Done? Artistic License – Military Pet the Dog Throwing Your Sword Always Works She's Got Legs Adaptational Badass Air-Vent Passageway Gender Flip Dissonant Serenity Adults Are Useless Morality Pet Superhero Bi the Way Police Brutality Non-Indicative Name Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Works Set in World War II Meaningful Name Hell Is That Noise Heroic BSoD Mercy Kill Slasher Movie Defiant to the End Batman Gambit Developing Doomed Characters Villain with Good Publicity Butt-Monkey Brother–Sister Incest Jerkass Has a Point The Cavalry Funny Foreigner Big Fancy House Guns Akimbo I'm a Humanitarian Badass Boast O.O.C. Is Serious Business War Is Hell The Atoner Drugs Are Bad Based on a True Story Bring My Brown Pants Four-Temperament Ensemble Riddle for the Ages An Axe to Grind Neck Snap I Need a Freaking Drink Cat Fight Determinator aka: The Determinator Tempting Fate Funny Background Event All Just a Dream Heterosexual Life-Partners No-Sell Agony of the Feet Took a Level in Badass Beauty Is Never Tarnished No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Red Shirt Freudian Excuse Five-Man Band Deal with the Devil The Chessmaster Take a Third Option Refuge in Audacity Badass Normal German Films Fan Disservice Protagonist Title Bolivian Army Ending Idiot Ball Those Two Bad Guys Credits Gag Coming-of-Age Story Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Place Naked People Are Funny An Arm and a Leg Karma Houdini Fantastic Racism Interrupted Suicide Fake Shemp Call-Forward I Have Your Wife Dirty Old Man Never My Fault Big Bad Duumvirate Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Historical-Domain Character Twist Ending Too Dumb to Live Brainless Beauty All Girls Want Bad Boys Jump Scare Sanity Slippage Genre Savvy From Nobody to Nightmare Enemy Mine Domestic Abuse Revenge Last-Name Basis Humans Are Bastards Fingore Genre Shift Cruel and Unusual Death The Starscream For Want of a Nail Reality Has No Subtitles Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass in a Nice Suit The Un-Reveal Action Prologue Artistic License – Physics Bound and Gagged Damsel in Distress Punny Name Bottomless Magazines Mood Whiplash Male Frontal Nudity Action Survivor Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Daylight Horror Visual Pun Bloodless Carnage Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Suspiciously Specific Denial Spanner in the Works Apocalypse How Honor Before Reason Never Found the Body "The Reason You Suck" Speech You Have Failed Me Disney Death Country Matters Naïve Newcomer Psychological Thriller Well-Intentioned Extremist Beware the Nice Ones Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Cold-Blooded Torture Trailers Always Spoil Stylistic Suck Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Police are Useless Alpha Bitch MacGuffin Breaking the Fourth Wall As the Good Book Says... Only Sane Man Married to the Job Diabolus ex Machina Badass Longcoat Dirty Cop The X of Y Unusual Euphemism Offscreen Moment of Awesome Drives Like Crazy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Japanese Films Affably Evil Wounded Gazelle Gambit Psycho for Hire Shell-Shocked Veteran Body Horror Cool Car Rich Bitch Dark Action Girl Woman Scorned The Stoner Dogged Nice Guy Manchild The Alleged Car Toplessness from the Back Rule of Three Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hero of Another Story Made of Iron One Steve Limit Time Skip Arranged Marriage Light Is Not Good Historical Hero Upgrade Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Red Oni, Blue Oni Earn Your Happy Ending Fanservice Extra Dramatic Irony Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Not So Stoic Catch-Phrase Shout-Out Suspiciously Similar Substitute Rousing Speech Ghost Fiction Insistent Terminology Animal Title Index Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Leave the Camera Running Death by Sex Horror Films Match Cut Artistic License – Law Rule of Cool Adaptation Dye-Job Anti-Hero Tagline Make It Look Like an Accident Storming the Castle Mythology Gag Get Out! Romantic False Lead Corrupt Corporate Executive Brick Joke Music Stories Fire-Forged Friends All for Nothing Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Badass Bookworm Skewed Priorities Department of Redundancy Department Horror Comedy The Bad Guy Wins Alliterative Name The Stoic Show Within a Show Bury Your Gays Creative Closing Credits Victoria's Secret Compartment Beard of Evil The Ghost Early Installment Weirdness Dark Reprise Artistic License – Biology Early-Bird Cameo Downer Ending Video Credits Hooker with a Heart of Gold Gold Digger Gilligan Cut The Vamp Russian Films Frame-Up Paper-Thin Disguise Tap on the Head Stealth Pun Big Damn Heroes Artistic License – Gun Safety Poor Communication Kills Good Is Not Nice Malevolent Masked Men Martial Arts Movie Hollywood Darkness The Lancer Bond One-Liner Bald of Evil Eiffel Tower Effect Dramedy Affectionate Parody Does This Remind You of Anything? Author Appeal Knife Nut Bland-Name Product Tranquil Fury Adaptational Heroism Guile Hero Fatal Family Photo Narrator Posthumous Character Expository Hairstyle Change Really Gets Around Vampire Fiction Our Vampires Are Different The Faceless Amusing Injuries This Is Gonna Suck Ship Tease Slashed Throat Berserk Button Casting Gag Chase Scene Suddenly SHOUTING! The Ditz Freeze-Frame Bonus Jerkass Villain Opening Scene Laser-Guided Karma Spiritual Successor Parental Incest Retirony Your Head A-Splode Bar Brawl Nothing Is Scarier Together in Death And I Must Scream Random Events Plot Sequel Hook A Father to His Men Novelization Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Evil Is Hammy Happily Married Disney Villain Death Vomit Discretion Shot Public Domain Feature Films Self-Deprecation Covers Always Lie Stealth Hi/Bye Love Triangle Pragmatic Villainy The Bully Reality Ensues Belligerent Sexual Tension Large Ham Not Even Bothering with the Accent Chewing the Scenery Rule of Funny Dirty Coward Pay Evil unto Evil Extremely Short Timespan As Long as It Sounds Foreign Big "NO!" Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Race Against the Clock Translation Convention Super Strength No OSHA Compliance Chiaroscuro Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Missing Mom Jerk with a Heart of Gold Pre-Mortem One-Liner Only in It for the Money Outrun the Fireball There Is No Kill Like Overkill Plot Hole Mundane Made Awesome Blackmail The Cameo Becoming the Mask Curb-Stomp Battle The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite What Happened to the Mouse? Scare Chord Easily Forgiven Plucky Comic Relief Smoking Is Cool Bullying a Dragon Christmas Movies Index Accidental Murder Dual Wielding Insult Backfire Off with His Head! Face–Heel Turn Would Hurt a Child Due to the Dead Alas, Poor Villain The Brute The '90s Mad Scientist Beta Couple Artistic License – Geography Didn't Think This Through An Aesop Older Than They Look Eyepatch of Power Undying Loyalty Gratuitous English The '70s Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Vomit Indiscretion Shot Informed Ability Daddy's Girl Crucified Hero Shot Anti-Villain The Dreaded Big-Bad Ensemble Soundtrack Dissonance Foregone Conclusion Call-Back Black and Gray Morality Flashback Left the Background Music On Death Glare The '80s Big Applesauce Canon Foreigner Red Herring Curse Cut Short Bond Villain Stupidity It's All About Me Abhorrent Admirer Here We Go Again! Not So Above It All Kick the Dog Ominous Latin Chanting Biopic Crapsack World Green-Eyed Monster Hong Kong Films Sports Stories Attempted Rape Femme Fatale Failed a Spot Check Pretty in Mink The Sociopath Crazy-Prepared "Shaggy Dog" Story Actually Pretty Funny Not Using the "Z" Word From Bad to Worse Face Death with Dignity Screw the Rules, I Have Money!