Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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