Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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