Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

Young children, uncorrupted by the world's evils. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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