Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

Stories dealing with child death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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