Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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