Tropescilloscope: Death of a Child

Stories dealing with child death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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