Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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