Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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