Tropescilloscope: Kids Are Cruel

Children are prone to bullying others. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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