Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

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

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