Tropescilloscope: Kids Are Cruel

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

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