Tropescilloscope: Kids Are Cruel

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

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