Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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