Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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