Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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