Tropescilloscope: Creepy Child

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

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Is Serious Business Nice Guy Too Dumb to Live Naïve Newcomer Precision F-Strike A Date with Rosie Palms Death Seeker Brutal Honesty Author Appeal Wrong Genre Savvy Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Animal Motifs Red Oni, Blue Oni Famous Last Words Offscreen Teleportation Determinator The Chessmaster Romantic False Lead Expository Hairstyle Change Earn Your Happy Ending Children Are Innocent Animal Title Index Refuge in Audacity Facial Horror Does Not Like Shoes Gory Discretion Shot Decoy Protagonist Japanese Films Scenery Porn Retcon No Name Given Belligerent Sexual Tension Freeze-Frame Bonus Stylistic Suck Jerk Jock Funny Foreigner Vitriolic Best Buds Chiaroscuro Monumental Damage The End... Or Is It? Translation Convention Romantic Comedy Line-of-Sight Name Science Fiction Films Faking the Dead Foil Good Is Not Nice Shown Their Work Red Herring Evil Plan Danny Peary Cult Movies List Rousing Speech Let's Get Dangerous! 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As Long as It Sounds Foreign Poor Communication Kills Stealth Hi/Bye Extreme Doormat Affably Evil Aluminum Christmas Trees Intrepid Reporter Product Placement Double Entendre Badass Boast Undying Loyalty Depraved Bisexual Leitmotif "Awesome McCool" Name Antagonist Title Tap on the Head Dutch Angle Random Events Plot Anachronic Order The Alleged Car Coming-of-Age Story Crucified Hero Shot Blood from the Mouth A Minor Kidroduction The Smart Guy Say My Name Last-Name Basis Humiliation Conga Mind Screw As the Good Book Says... Foreshadowing Never My Fault Even Evil Has Standards The Faceless Boom, Headshot! Woman Scorned My Greatest Failure Easily Forgiven Brainless Beauty Death by Sex The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Adaptation Expansion Department of Redundancy Department Non-Indicative Name Call-Back No OSHA Compliance Here We Go Again! 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Disproportionate Retribution Public Domain Feature Films Retirony Fourth Date Marriage Breaking the Fourth Wall B-Movie Small Name, Big Ego Improvised Weapon Artistic License – Geography Crapsack World Big Damn Heroes Redemption Equals Death Getting Crap Past the Radar The Reveal For Want of a Nail The Bully Scenery Gorn Drowning My Sorrows Guns Akimbo Same Language Dub Adaptational Attractiveness Eureka Moment Stalker with a Crush Manic Pixie Dream Girl Taking the Bullet Deconstruction The X of Y Arch-Enemy Developing Doomed Characters And I Must Scream Title Drop Madness Mantra Market-Based Title Man on Fire Narrator Historical Hero Upgrade Aww, Look! 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Soundtrack Dissonance Bar Brawl You Killed My Father Parental Incest Redshirt Army Stepford Smiler Bury Your Gays Bond Villain Stupidity Reality Has No Subtitles Spared by the Adaptation Dogged Nice Guy Hair-Trigger Temper Very Loosely Based on a True Story Trailers Always Spoil Blackmail Creator Cameo Arranged Marriage Big Bad Duumvirate Aside Glance I Have Your Wife Covers Always Lie Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Becoming the Mask The Stoner Bunny-Ears Lawyer Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Papa Wolf Rated M for Manly Fantasy Films Mr. Fanservice Improbable Aiming Skills Berserk Button Country Matters War Is Hell Corrupt Corporate Executive Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Animated Credits Opening Training Montage Spiteful Spit More Dakka Match Cut The Film of the Book Older Than They Look Large Ham The Atoner I Need a Freaking Drink And Starring Not Quite Dead Broken Bird Combat Pragmatist Red Right Hand Spiritual Successor Irony Fish out of Water Plot Hole Immune to Bullets Accidental Misnaming Hidden Depths Took a Level in Jerkass Evil-Detecting Dog Genre Throwback Character Development Martial Arts Movie Your Head A-Splode Asshole Victim The Smurfette Principle The Ditz Cassandra Truth Evil Is Petty The Un-Reveal Five-Man Band Sassy Black Woman A Father to His Men Cloudcuckoolander Made of Explodium The Hero Dies Cool Shades Implacable Man Sacrificial Lion Those Wacky Nazis Empathic Environment Unwitting Instigator of Doom Gold Digger Evil Counterpart Heterosexual Life-Partners Humans Are Bastards The Big Guy Historical In-Joke Mistaken for Gay Calling the Old Man Out Villain Ball Air-Vent Passageway Badass Grandpa Ambiguous Disorder Author Avatar The Load Catapult Nightmare Television Movie Index Ascended Extra Mugging the Monster Villain Opening Scene Exactly What It Says on the Tin Blatant Lies Butt-Monkey The Oner Celebrity Paradox Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor "The Reason You Suck" Speech Better to Die than Be Killed Groin Attack Serial Killer Broken Aesop Card-Carrying Villain The Brute Casting Gag Male Gaze Horror Films No Celebrities Were Harmed Manchild Guile Hero Twist Ending The Alcoholic Deliberate Values Dissonance Black Comedy Rape Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Shout-Out Revenge Artistic License – Gun Safety Our Vampires Are Different Red Shirt Oh, Crap! NO INDOOR VOICE Disguised in Drag He Who Fights Monsters Drill Sergeant Nasty Lighter and Softer Costume Porn A.I. Is a Crapshoot My Beloved Smother