Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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