Tropescilloscope: Creepy Child

Child displays unsettling behavior. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Big Eater Reality Ensues Happily Married Alas, Poor Villain Bury Your Gays The Alleged Car Adaptational Badass Batman Gambit Sequel Hook Riddle for the Ages Have a Gay Old Time Ghost Fiction Not Using the "Z" Word Adaptational Villainy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Covers Always Lie Camera Abuse Television Movie Index Motor Mouth Smug Snake A Date with Rosie Palms Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rape as Drama Bunny-Ears Lawyer Apocalypse How Parental Abandonment The Chessmaster Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Suddenly SHOUTING! 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