Tropescilloscope: Would Hurt a Child

Character has no qualms about using violence against children. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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