Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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