Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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