Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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