Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

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

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