Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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