Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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