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"I don't requite a shit HOW old you are. Maybe think before you choice a fight next time."

In fiction and in the media, both heroes and villains oftentimes agree on ane thing: they Wouldn't Injure a Kid.

This creed exists for various reasons: it may be because Children Are Innocent, and thus should be protected and kept out of harm's way at all costs; information technology may exist because, to Moral Guardians, seeing a child being brutalized is Harmful to Minors and thus should exist avoided; information technology may also exist because even writers mostly disagree with the idea of writing about harming a kid.

But sometimes, some people just don't concord with that. Or just don't care. And, they do hurt children, sometimes even kill them, in defiance of the Improbable Infant Survival. Indeed, the act of harming a child usually comes off as the ultimate act of villainy.

This trope is most e'er a Kicking the Canis familiaris moment. Hence, the presence of Would Injure A Child is often telltale of a Crapsack World or at least a Darker and Edgier series. However, it is surprisingly easy to subvert this trope simply by using Kids Are Cruel (the flip side of Children Are Innocent) and combining it with Pay Evil unto Evil. Does a soldier shooting a kid soldier all the same seem like an ultimate villain? And want to become all the manner? Make the children creepy or, even meliorate, make them Enfant Terribles and, this time, hurting said children volition await much less as a Moral Upshot Horizon crossing, even though there volition e'er be some Moral Guardians or Papa Wolf / Mama Bear to complain. This may also be done by a Complete Monster to plant that even a villain has lines they won't cartel cross. Naturally, the Friend to All Children sees this type of character equally a mortal enemy, with an exception sometimes for religious figures in some cases.

In Western works, this trope is rare and nearly always done off-console when played straight (read: when the violence towards the child isn't being stopped in the nick of time and causes actual impairment) largely due to broadcast standards; information technology'southward a picayune more than common in literature but withal not very much then. In Japanese fiction, child brutality tin can exist more mutual but is ofttimes framed in a very specific style (again, to conform to their Southward&P) and has actually faded somewhat in the new millenium over content concerns.

Of import Annotation: This trope is almost adults physically pain children, or deliberately placing them in life-threatening situations, fatally or non. The following are non examples: psychological/exact corruption (very common merely not that trope), abduction (only applies if the kid dies or gets effectively hurt), depriving a child of food (that's Denied Food as Punishment and simply counts every bit this trope if taken to the point where the child is at risk of serious harm from lack of food), kid on kid violence (unless adults are forcing the children to hurt each other, that'southward Kids Are Cruel), exploitation for profit by the parents if they aren't injure (that is Fiscal Abuse). Violence to teenagers, with the exception of some of those in their early on teens, isn't an instance either since teenagers are physically stronger than children and lack the "completely caught" element, especially if Teens Are Monsters. Still, teenagers harming children applies.

There is also an interesting Double Standard when information technology comes to characters applying for this trope, since they are virtually Always Male. Rarely are women described as existence physically trigger-happy to children. Even rarer are the instances when they actually kill them. Indeed, killing children is among the few things that permanently forestall a adult female from a convenient High-Heel–Face Turn. Extra points if the killing is done straight and at the woman'due south hands (i.eastward. stabbing, strangling etc...). Compare Pædo Hunt, another child abuse trope where female perpetrators are similarly unheard of.

A Sub-Trope of Boot the Canis familiaris. Oft a cause of Adult Fear. Burn down the Orphanage is a particular grade of this. Come across too Kid Hater, who hates kids but isn't necessarily physically abusive and Squeamish Job Breaking It, Herod!, which is often an farthermost version. If they're not stopped in fourth dimension by the heroes, this overlaps with Death of a Kid. Contrast Improbable Baby Survival and Wouldn't Hurt a Child. Compare Kids Are Cruel, Children Are Innocent. Related to Eats Babies and Child Eater. Usually applies to the Sadist Teacher. If a villain who is quite capable of bothering adults prefers to spend his time equally an antagonist for kids or teenagers, it's fair to say Pick on Someone Your Own Size. For the function-reversed case of this trope, encounter Double Standard: Violence, Child on Adult, in which example it'due south a kid physically harming an adult for comedic effect.

Compare and contrast Don't Make Me Have My Belt Off!, which deals more with concrete discipline from a parent to a child, the big difference being that Would Hurt A Kid e'er implies deliberate malevolence and cruelty towards the child, whereas Don't Make Me Accept My Belt Off! does non, unless explained otherwise by the story.

Offing the Offspring would likewise utilise if the one doing the hurt is the parent of the child, and expiry of the latter results.

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    Advertizement

• Segata Sanshiro has been known to beat up teenagers who don't play enough Sega Saturn, though he draws the line at harming younger kids.
• Several child corruption PSAs, of course.
• One infamous Pop Tarts commercial has a cruel nurse preparing to eat a baby pop tart while the parents are Forced to Watch.

    Arts

• The Apotheosis of Washington: The soldiers Freedom battles in are seen holding torches facing the management of a minor child who recoils away. While information technology seems like Freedom will stop them, the implication is that they are fully willing to burn a child alive if Freedom wasn't there to restrain them.

    Asian Animation

• Happy Heroes: Huo Haha attempts to hit a fiddling girl who wants him to become her kite off of a roof in Flavor 8 episode eighteen. The girl grabs his toilet plunger wand right before he can actually hit her with information technology and uses information technology to go the kite down.
• Mechamato: Paintasso states that also stealing paintings, he is also a kidnapper. So he shoots acid-like paint in a classroom of preschoolers and abducts one of them before flight away.

    Comedy

• Mike MacDonald, when he and his married woman were trying to conceive a child, noted in his act he was going to do his best not to hitting his kids, ever — unless, y'all know, they were coming at him with a knife or something.

  I don't wanna be one of those liberal parents who gets stabbed to death past their kid while saying, "Son, I'one thousand sensing hostility OH GOD!"

• I of Bernie Mac's punchlines in his act was threatening to beat his kids "till the white meat shows".
• Denis Leary, in a larger bit near celebrity entitlement, said that he was looking forward to beating the shit out of his kids.

  'That's therapy for you: mowin' the lawn while cryin'.''

    Fairy Tales

• "The Devil With The Three Golden Hairs": The king attempts to murder a baby simply because he might get married to his daughter when he grows up.

    Music

• Country Music has approached the topic in several striking songs virtually kid abuse. The video for Martina McBride's "Concrete Affections" comes the closest to actually showing parent-on-child abuse on-screen - a young boy watches every bit shadows on a wall draw a woman (an actress shaking a stunt dummy) shaking her daughter viciously. "Alyssa Lies" past Jason Michael Carroll strongly implies that a young daughter had been viciously beaten by her male parent.
• Averted in the video for Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls." In the video, a young man (Brooks, wearing a simulated bristles) horribly beats his married woman upward (later on confronting him over one an matter of his she found out about) and their young daughter witnesses information technology and begs for it to stop. Daddy doesn't accept it besides kindly and advances on her. He'southward simply most to take hold of the little girl when the wife tells him to terminate or else he gets his head blown off. The human presses his luck and is killed.
• Formula 86 by Razakel. Allso Razakel's phase persona.
• Macabre: Many songs are almost children beingness injure, killed or raped. Most infamous being Albert Fish, who they multiple songs roofing the horrific acts he preformed on innocent children.
• In Monster Magnet's "Run into Yous In Hell", the protagonist reveals himself to be driven towards killing himself and his significant other, past the voice of the infant they killed and dumped in a landfill.
• WHIP YO KIDS featuring Overnice Peter by Yourfavoritemartian. I'll punch a baby in the face simply for cryin' on a plane.
• GWAR does this on occasion, an example happening in the climax of The Animated Tales Of GWAR.
• The folk-song based on the old tale of "The Lambton Worm" makes it explicit that the "worm" of the title is a ravening monster that volition happily "swally little bairns alive".
• The narrator of Swans' "Cute Child".

  "I love a child
  I love a beautiful child
  I will hold this child in my arms
  And caress his soft head
  Listen to him cry
  Mind to him cry
  I tin can kill the kid
  The beautiful child
  I will kill the kid
  The beautiful child..."

    Myths & Religion

• The Bible:
  • King Herod did this in society to try to kill U Seful NotesJesus. It didn't work.
  • Earlier, Pharaoh killed Hebrew sons to go on the Hebrews from becoming strong enough that in instance of a war they could join the enemy and fight against Arab republic of egypt. Fortunately for the Hebrews, Moses escaped slaughter.
  • God Himself kills the firstborn of Arab republic of egypt every bit ane of the Ten Plagues, as well as David and Bathsheba'southward firstborn. In his case, it's given the justification of Omniscient Morality License, which means that God would simply be taking them to a ameliorate place.
  • Regarding the expiry of David and Bathsheba'due south firstborn, David became the Trope Namer for the Uriah Gambit past abusing his Kingly authority to murder Bathsheba's husband in lodge to make her available. Nathan the prophet strongly unsaid that had David non repented for this sin, David himself would have died instead of his firstborn son (who was the production of David'due south adultery with Bathsheba). Because someone had to pay with their life for David's sin ^note In that location is no redemption from sin without the shedding of blood: this is the reason why the Son of God died on the cross for all sins later on and since David repented, the child had to pay. Because David had more than or less raped Bathsheba, that was why she wasn't killed.
  • One oft-misquoted police force in the Old Testament supposedly requires parents to have their offspring stoned to death for beingness ill-behaved, however, the exact wording of that constabulary specifies - regardless of translation - that the accused is both a glutton and a drunkard. Apparently, this is not a kid.
  • Solomon seems willing to do this to a baby that two women both want custody over, only it was really a test to see which woman truly cared most the baby. Ane woman was fine with the "cut the infant in half" thing while the other was horrified by the suggestion.
  • According to Volume of Judges, the Canaanites are notorious for burning their children for their idols, resulting in God telling the Israelites to purge all of the gentiles in Canaan and so they would not be tainted past idolatry.
  • Books of Samuel: In Samuel I, King Saul is ordered to exterminate the Amalekites: every human, woman, child, and animal.
• Classical Mythology: Many Greek myths punish a parent by slaughtering their children. Probably the best known example is Medea with the addition that the children in question were her own and their deaths were to get back at the philandering Jason.
• Norse Mythology:
  • Gudrun kills her own children who she births, then feeds them to to Attila the Hun.
  • Signy, sister of Sigmund (and therefore the aunt of Sigurd the Dragonslayer), is an even more than roughshod example. She casually offs the sons she bore with her husband, deeming them unfit. When she gives birth to her blood brother`south son, she willingly drives a needle through his arm, and he doesn´t glimmer. THAT is the son she deems to exist plumbing equipment.

    Podcasts

• The cult of the Nameless God in Dark Dice kidnapped an entire hamlet's worth of children in order to sacrifice them in an effort to release their god. By the time the party reaches the cultists, only 4 children are left live.
• Tuatha and Solvin from The Fallen Gods are both perfectly willing to fight and kill a child in episode 7. Flint, less so. To be fair, the kid does want to kill and consume them.
• The guards in The Bubble Program arc of Absurd Kids Table, despite existence ordered to "subdue and incorporate" the escaping child experiments, are shooting to impale.
• Sick Lamentable World:
  • The hosts note one of the reasons the Jonestown murder-suicide was so tragic was that infants were amidst the casualties.
  • "2 Roughshod 4 School" covers a mass shooting at a schoolhouse, which got multiple kids as young as half-dozen killed.
• Pretending to Be People features strange hordes of children. Marvin Drinking glass uses them as competitors in blood sports. Clark Bishop is forced to fight one of said children, brutally beating him and leaving him to exist be crushed to death by a Descending Ceiling

    Professional Wrestling

• Bryan Danielson threatened to backhand a girl flipping him off while he was cut a promo in Band of Honor. She started flipping him off again while he continued his promo, leading to him getting out of the ring to confront her, with the crowd chanting for her to "fuck him up".
• An infamous instance came during an episode of WWE Smackdown! in 2004, when – during a storyline involving Lita, Matt Hardy and their baby – Gene Snitsky brought a wrapped towel to the ring while Lita was in the ring, claiming it was Lita'southward baby. After taunting Lita with damage toward the infant, he took the towel, dropped it and then punted it into the crowd.
• Melissa Coates slapped a male child booing prior to her challenging Mercedes Martinez for the WSU Title. Hailey Hatred went and so far as to push over two adults so lift a little girl out her seat and throw her while in search of something to hitting Martinez with.
• While many of the wrestlers of Wonder Ring Distinction would not have been considered legal adults at the time, 9 year quondam HARUKA being put against men well-nigh their physical prime like Kenny Omega took the cake. Water ice Ribbon did similar with Riho, who was eight.

    Tabletop Games

• Shadowrun: MegaCorps that want stable, loyal cyborgs have learned that children make the all-time candidates. HMHVV-infected are cannibalistic so it'south assumed that they'll eventually swallow children. Mr. Johnson may want your grouping to kidnap, hurt, or kill a target child for reasons he's unwilling to divulge.
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • The Dread Emperor, a villain introduced in the Splat book The Book of Vile Darkness, not only gladly hurts children, he uses this beliefs to do good him in the most selfish way. An imposing, two meter alpine man in golden armor, the Dread Emperor keeps children chained to his armor at all times with any damage done to the Emperor himself transferred to the children via the armor's magic. An unrepentant Serial Killer, the Emperor uses these children as a bait for any heroes foolish enough to take him on and does not limit his hostilities to children; he volition often destroy entire city blocks when he's a heed to. When a hero challenges him, the Dread Emperor feels no attrition slaying hundreds merely to kill a target or mentally enslaving any civilians nearby and using them to attack his opponent for him.
  • Pale Night is a powerful demon lord who takes this Up to Eleven. Many eons agone, she tricked Morwell, the queen of the eladrin, into a vile pact that resulted in an entire generation of eladrin children beingness trapped in the Abyssal layer of Androlynne; since then, Pale Night and her forces have been hunting them down one by one at her leisure. To this day, armies of eladrin try to protect the children (who remain forever young due to the pact) and find a means for them to escape. Morwell'south current consort Faerinaal leads the armies presently, and even though his predecessor (and the one before that one) perished doing and so, less than a third of the children survive to the present solar day.
  • The 4th Edition introduces hideous monsters chosen banderhobs who kidnap mortals, some of them actually taking children from their bed at night. (The analogy for the beast in the Monster Manual 3 shows 1 about to do just that.) Where they accept their victims and what they practise with them is a mystery.

    Theatre

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Injun Joe is adamant to kill Tom after he testifies against him.
• Macbeth:
  • Rare Female Example occurs with Lady Macbeth. The violence is only unsaid, but at this point in the play, she seems perfectly capable of going through with it.

    Lady Macbeth: I have given suck, and know
    How tender 'tis to beloved the babe that milks me:
    I would, while it was smiling in my face up,
    Take pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
    And dash'd the brains out, had I and then sworn as yous
    Take done to this.

  • Not merely implied with Macbeth, who has assassins murder Macduff'south wife and young son. His wife is horrified by this, though not because of the children — it screws upward her political machinations. That said, those item murders practise feature among the things she mentions in the infamous sleepwalking scene.

    The Thane of Fife had a married woman; where is she at present? What, volition these easily ne'er be clean?

  • The witches as well mention using a dead baby in one of their spells, simply to bear witness how witches are evil.
• In Pokémon Live!, Giovanni is perfectly willing to impale Ash with MechaMew2'southward Hyper Beam, and he engages him in a fistfight shortly earlier that.
• The Mrs. Hawking play series: In part 5: Mrs. Frost, the eponymous villain sends one of her men, Joe Quinn, afterward Nathaniel's children as a tactic to interruption him in captivity.
• In The Strange Example of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hyde casually knocks downwards a flower girl who gets in his way when he's in a bad mood.
• Westeros: An American Musical:
  • The fact that Gregor Clegane killed Elia Martell and her children is brought up a couple of times.
  • The whole "should nosotros use Edric Tempest equally a Human Sacrifice or not?" debate in Stannis' faction in Act II stems in role from the fact Edric is still quite young and some members of the group are more than willing to look past this than others.

    Theme Parks

• Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights implied this with their 2010 haunted maze, The Orfanage: it's heavily unsaid that the entire house takes place after the orphanage has burned downwardly and yous're being assaulted past the ghosts of the children, with various imagery and audio hinting at diverse tortures that the children were put through past their caretakers until Cindy demonstrated her abilities and burned down the orphanage with all the kids trapped inside.
• Knott's Scary Farm features the Tooth Fairy, the chief adversary of the haunted attraction of the same name, who is obsessed with teeth and will break into the homes of children who have merely lost teeth to violently kidnap them and have them to a realm of her own. There, she and her minions will brutally and painfully imprison and torture them, ripping out their intestines, bones, organs, and teeth until they are expressionless. She commands her minions to brand things as horrific equally possible, using massive drills, saws, hooks, and knives to mutilate and torment the innocent children.

    Visual Novels

• Kirei Kotomine of Fate/stay nighttime rounded upwards all the surviving orphans of the Fuyuki Fire and cut off their limbs earlier sealing them in coffins that drained their prana. They were alive and aware for the entire x years between the two wars.
  • Zouken Matou has no issues with Shinji treating Sakura harshly or raping her. In fact, he has gone to significant lengths to break her psychologically.
• Some culprits in Ace Chaser set their murderous sights on younger people, although their age commonly never drops below teenage years. So there's prosecutor Gaspen Payne, who encourages the estimate to requite a 9-yr-old boy the expiry penalty because he wants Phoenix Wright to suffer under the Defence Culpability Act.
• In Saya no Uta, Yousuke Suzumi dismembers his young daughter and rapes the young-looking Saya later on getting the same type of Agnosia the protagonist suffers from.
• In Atom GRRRL!!, this is revealed to exist the case for Anna, upon a mother begging to go out during Dave's attempted robbery:

  Anna: Did I fuckin' say y'all could talk? Just proceed your caput down, you lot old cunt.
  Lady: Eeeek!
  Anna: And proceed your brats serenity or I'll bring 'em down to United mexican states and sell 'em! We're doin' business organization right now, and so shut the hell up!

• Your Turn to Die: The Deadly Game's organizers threw iii kids into it aslope the balance of the participants. One of them is already dead by the time it officially begins, another can die depending on your actions, and the terminal ane will almost certainly be scarred for life if he manages to survive.

    Web Animation

• Blitzo from Helluva Boss is perfectly willing to take contracts out on children. I.M.P's jingle even has the line "Kids dice for Costless~!" In the airplane pilot, one time he learns that the boy he had (accidentally) shot was his client's target, he shoots him dead, dismembers his body, then gives the remains to the male child'south mother. Probably didn't assistance that the child was a total Spoiled Deviling who insulted him and his employees.
• This is attempted in the Yogscast Minecraft Series, specifically in Shadow of Israphel, when the titular adversary hunts down the Antioch bloodline and murders Peculier's mother, later trying to target him and his sister Isabel as infants. This forces their father to make a Heroic Sacrifice and end him.
• Carl from Llamas with Hats once created a machine for the specific purpose of crushing orphans to death. In the second episode, Paul also mentions him head butting children off the side of a sinking ship.
• The Lobo (Webseries) episode "Lobo for President" had the Master Man shoot an alien baby for peeing acid in his face up.
• DSBT InsaniT: Dave has no problem with pain Bear, Snake, Duck, and Balloon, who are the four "kids" of the principal cast.
• Chadam: Viceroy ends up kidnapping eight-year old Ripley as another living person to dissect.
• Red vs. Blue: Church building makes it very clear that he is disgusted by Tucker'due south conflicting son, Junior; if the other characters weren't constantly stopping him, Church building would have gone through with his plan of stepping on Inferior'south cervix and killing him.
• My Little Pony Meets: When Spike retrieves Rapunzel's rare gems from the Diamond Dogs, they beat him until he is mortally wounded. Rarity deals them comeuppance, and Rapunzel uses her hair to bring him back.

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