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[[File:stewie3 3523.jpg|link=Family Guy|frame|Awww, how cute. He has homicidal tendencies.]]

 

 

 

 

 

A form of the [[Devil in Plain Sight]]. Might overlap with [[Girl Scouts Are Evil]], if they do more than just sell you cookies, and with [[Kids Are Cruel]], if the kid's behaviour also transpires in his relationship to other children. Akin to the [[Creepy Child]], except Enfants Terribles are ''truly'' dangerous and vicious at heart, whereas a [[Creepy Child]] isn't necessarily psychotic or evil.

See also [[Corruption by a Minor]], which is often this character's favourite technique to get what they want, and [[Undead Child]] for a common subtype. Often the nemesis of a [[Kid Hero]].

 

 

Not to be confused with [[Metal Gear|Les Enfants Terribles]].

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* The ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]''.

* ''[[Noir]]'' is a case where the Enfant Terrible gets a bit better, more or less.

* Wen from the ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode ''Sympathy for the Devil'' is a killer who stopped aging in his childhood after exposure to [[Green Rocks]].

* On a similar note, Cynthia from ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'' is a perfect example of this. She's an elite soldier working for her foster father, who enjoys killing and likens it to a game - except she knows she's actually committing horrible crimes. However, her father legitimately loves her and is proud of her for her deeds, so she might just be the perfect soldier.

* In her early appearances, Ririn from ''[[Bleach]]'' used the trope for her facade. During one of the fights, despite everything she had brought down on them, both Ichigo and Renji make note of how hard it is to fight brats, and instead opt to attack her two minions.

* Masato from ''[[Mermaid Saga]]'' who is an adorable little child who happens to be an 800 year old sociopath known for poisoning women with mermaid's flesh in hopes for the [[Million-to-One Chance]] (an actual one, not the type that occurs nine times out of ten) that it might make her immortal instead. Of course, the "lucky" one who doesn't die an agonizing death doesn't have it much better either, as he tends to punish them by repeatedly killing them.

* Michio Yuki of ''[[MW]]'' converts from [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid|a sweet, adorable kid]] to this. It happens to him because of being exposed to the titular [[Psycho Serum]].

** In Part 3, the user of the Stand Death 13 is a remarkably intelligent and sadistic baby. Whenever his victims fall asleep, Death 13 pulls them into a dream of an amusement park and kills them; [[Your Mind Makes It Real|his Stand makes it real]]. Should they escape, they have no memories of the dream. {{spoiler|Kakyoin manages to cut a warning into his arm, but is unable to convince the others. Fortunately, he figures out how to bring his own Stand into the dream...}}

* Hansel and Gretel of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' play this archetype well past the hilt with their childish fits of pique-turned-bloodbaths, shared multiple personalities, laundry list of psychosexual disorders, and cutely-adorned heavy machinegun. They aren't supernatural, their immunity to recoil forces aside, but they are very, very messed-up. {{spoiler|Justified, [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|due]] [[Harmful to Minors|to]] [[Snuff Film|their traumatizing]] [[Freudian Excuse|freudian excuses]] [[Dark and Troubled Past|of a past.]]}}

* Narrowly averted with Tokito of ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'', who is referred to as sadistic by one of the characters (who isn't a very nice guy himself, when it comes down to it) and has a lot of onscreen fun torturing people, both psychologically and physically. Eventually, though, she is [[Defeat Means Friendship|redeemed]].

* Vino from ''[[Gash Bell]]'' is an INFANT whose demon partner is more or less Hitler mixed with Satan. And he enjoys watching him destroy the world. After his demon partner is killed one of the main characters adopts him because he's just a baby, but I would have electrocuted the little fucker right there.

* The Fifth diary holder, Reisuke Houjou in ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' is one of these, being an adorable four-year-old who uses his magic picture diary to adorably kill people (i.e., asks a girl to take a bath with him, and then tries to electrocute her). He has a [[Freudian Excuse]] that his parent's didn't love him enough (they never "slept like a river", next to each other with him in between) {{spoiler|due to the influence of the Omekata cult.}}. Well, that and ''God is telling him to kill people''. No, not as in he's hearing voices that he attributes to God, but as in ''[[God Is Evil|God exists, and he's telling a four year old to kill people]]'' (and he tells that to other people, too. Because he's THAT much of a prick.).

* As a small and relatively cute child, [[Naruto|Gaara]] reacted to another child's rejection by trying to kill her. Hard to blame him, though, after all the [[Mind Screw]]-ings his family gave him.

** Noah Kaiba from the Virtual Nightmare [[Filler Arc]] is Seto and Mokuba's adoptive brother. Seriously injured just prior to their adoption, Noah's mind was placed in a virtual environment that preserved his conciousness but at the cost of permanently stunting his emotional growth. Despite being in his late teens or early twenties, he still appears as a child within the virtual world, and acts like one as well.

* Despite not having a humanoid form, ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'''s Tachikomas evoke this at times, speaking with cute, childlike voices and behaving in cute, childlike ways just before cheerfully shredding a whole platoon of infantry with a Gatling gun.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has {{spoiler|Pride}}. {{spoiler|Not many kids out there can fill a dark room with working mouths and eyes.}}

** {{spoiler|Subverted, he is over [[Really 700 Years Old|300 years old]]}}

** Actually, as of chapter 106, it appears that {{spoiler|Selim/Pride}} really ''does'' have the mind of a child - just a horribly evil one. After all, all he wants to do is make his [[Big Bad|Father]] happy, and if it means slaughtering a few million innocent people, then so be it.

** In the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime version]], there was Wrath after being corrupted by Envy and remembering his past, but after a while {{spoiler|his mother Izumi made him a better person}}.

* Ralph from ''[[Glass Fleet]]'' may be adorable and loving most of the time, but he won't hesitate to attack and try to kill you if you get on his bad side.

* {{spoiler|"Gozen"/Hikaru}} from ''[[Shugo Chara]]''.

* ''[[Baccano!]]'' (see trope quote 2) has someone who (probably due to horrible torment and constant fear) turned into one. Though it might be just a overcautious kind of self-preservation.

* Although he may be a bit too old to count but 16 year old Hajime Muroto from ''[[Gantz]]'' certainly displays the traits, he plays it out like he's a very innocent and sensitive boy, but as it turns out he's a dangerous psychopathic serial killer and rapist.

* Kouganei Hana from ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]''. A cute little tyke, when she isn't [[Slasher Smile|smiling like a lunatic]] and ordering her [[Humongous Mecha|giant killer robot]] to murder everything in sight.

* Gerard ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|technically Jellal]]) from Fairy Tail. While he's an adult at the start of the story he convinced everyone to ''be his slaves'' as child because they thought he was a sweet, morally righteous kid.

** {{spoiler|Justifed for no one knew that Jellal, himself was [[Brainwashed and Crazy|possessed]].}}

** Played straight with {{spoiler|Rolo}}. The kid is an assassin, who's been killing people since he was ''a small child.'' Nobody would suspect a six year old to shoot someone, but it helps that he can {{spoiler|stop people's perception of time}}.

* Ginger Bread of ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''.

* The purest form of Majin Buu was Kid Buu, a child-like form of Buu completely lacking any sense of morality or moderation. Essentially, his first act on being cleansed of those features absorbed from past victims was to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blow up Earth]] ''while still on it'', reform himself, and start blowing up other planets while trying to find Goku and Vegeta.

** In fact, when he was first released, his first act was an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]... on 700 planets all at once. Something like that would ''definitely'' get the attention of the Kaioshins.

* Young Knives from [[Trigun]] he simultaneously murders and breaks up the crew of the ship who adopted him and Vash, and in the end he leaves everyone including Vash's beloved mother figure to die on the ship after he causes it to blow up.

* The Digimon Emperor {{spoiler|alias Ken Ichijouji}} from ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' has elements of this, but a lot of that is due to the fact that he simply doesn't realize that the Digital World is [[Not a Game]] {{spoiler|until he is defeated and then his Digimon partner dies}}. Just watch his childlike glee when he creates the Dark Spiral and Chimeramon.

* [[Medabots]] has the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUdHFaLlw1I Ankle Biters], whose Medabot, [[Killer Teddy Bear|Churlybear]], is a deceptively powerful [[Gravity Master]]. Though they don't exactly kill anybody, they are ''nasty'' pieces of work, though granted, Spyke [[Asshole Victim|kinda had it coming]].

 

** Hell, nearly the entire main cast is made of enfante terrible. In one volume, after being taken in by a Christian couple, whose fear for Finch and Mr. Kitty's safety is misguidedly justified due to being in the midst of a zombie apocalypse (the kids themselves don't care what's going on as long as there's candy), they set fire to the husband's wife before escaping.

** Finch (who happens to be the leader of the loosely-knit tricker-treaters) does it again when an old woman gives him an apple for candy, which he sees as unforgivable. If he doesn't get any treats, then the old woman gets "tricked", when Finch and his gang give an apple stuffed with razor blades to a town cop, whose death prompts the woman to get arrested. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5jnV3_HLV4\]

* Recent ''[[X-Force]]'' villain Genocide is a ten-year-old boy. A giant, radioactive skeleton in an intimidating-looking containment suit, but a ten-year-old boy. He's got enough [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear firepower]] to blow up an entire town, and he curbstomped ''Wolverine''. Subverted in that he doesn't appear to be a "bad" kid, exactly, he just admires and tries to please really bad people (the followers of Apocalypse, if you must know).

* Numerous characters from [[British Comics|British Humour Comics]] fit this trope, examples include ''Ivy the Terrible'' and ''Bea'' from ''[[The Beano]]'' ''Cuddles and Dimples'' from ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]]'' and Sweeny Toddler from ''[[Shiver And Shake]]'', Whoopee! and ''[[Whizzer and Chips]]''.

* {{spoiler|Brox}} in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' was an elven woman of unknown age who was murdered and then reborn as a five-year-old boy. Given her taste for sadistic jokes (that's why she was murdered), considerable knowledge, and willingness to step on people to get what she wants, she qualifies.

* In ''[[Attack of Giygas]]'', we have Porky and Ashley. Ashley ends up turning {{spoiler|Lucas}} into one.

 

== Film ==

* [[The Antichrist|Damien]] from ''[[The Omen]]''.

* The kids from ''[[Village of the Damned]]''.

* Stepping away from the supernatural, there is ''[[The Bad Seed]]'', which was a 1956 theatrical film (in which the Enfant Terrible was named Rhoda) and a TV movie in 1985 (where she was named Rachel).

* Several classic horror-movies are filled with them, including the [[Stephen King]] adaptation ''[[Children of the Corn]]'' and its sequels.

* In ''[[The Good Son]]'', the murderous title character is a [[Gender Flip]] version of the aforementioned ''[[Bad Seed]]''.

* ''It's Alive!'' is about a malevolent baby. Within minutes of its own birth, it kills everyone in the room except mom.

* Jody Mitchell from ''Daddy's Girl'' is a psychopathic little girl who kills anyone who gets in the way of separating her from her beloved father.

* Claudia from ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' is a little girl who was turned into a vampire by Lesat to give Louis a surrogate child. Upon becoming a vampire, she is a blood-thirsty murderous child who lures people to her by pretending to be lost so she can kill and feed off them.

* The main character on ''[[The Tin Drum]]'' is more of a sociopath than a psychopath but he's still terrible nonetheless.

 

== Literature ==

* The two children, Miles and Flora, in Henry James' ''The Turn of the Screw''. Although there is some speculation as to whether or not they really were Enfants Terrible or whether the narrator was insane...

* Claudia in ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]''. She's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], though.

** An even creepier example would be "Zero Hour", in which ''every child in the world'' is convinced by an alien race to set things up to let them invade Earth and kill all of the adults. And they agree because they are promised later bedtimes, no baths, and all the TV they want. {{spoiler|And it ends with the main character's daughter leading a group of aliens straight to her parents, while calling to them as she searches the house.}}

* Clark Fries in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Podkayne of Mars]]''.

* Amity Adora ("Amma") Crellin in Gillian Flynn's ''Sharp Objects''; charming, childlike, spoiled, vicious, manipulative, morbid, sexually precocious, and, incidentally, {{spoiler|a triple murderer}} by the age of thirteen.

* ''[[Redwall]]'''s Veil Sixclaw. He's an [[Exclusively Evil]] ferret, who ends up being raised by the good mice. From the start he makes them suspicious, hence the name they choose for him. {{spoiler|It's an anagram of "evil" and "vile".}} His foster-mother Bryony puts it down to fear of [[Carnivore Confusion]] and adores him, but by his teens he's attempting to poison fellow Abbeydwellers. Some fans who see him as the [[Woobie]] forget that he continues this behaviour in his wanderings, committing highway robbery and murdering two foxes (who admittedly had captured him earlier). [[In the Blood|He apparently gets his psychotic tendencies and grudge-holding abilities from his father]].

** What really mixes up this example is the fact that he {{spoiler|pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Bryony at the end of the book.}} This has the effect of convincing Bryony that he really was evil in his heart all along [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|(it doesn't make sense in context either)]].

** Coin wasn't psychotic as much as he was just a naive kid guided by [[Freudian Excuse|bad parenting]]. He ''did'' hesitate from {{spoiler|killing Rincewind}} because he was harmless, and when he later {{spoiler|defies his father}} he begins to realize that killing people isn't right.

* ''And the Ass Saw the Angel'' (a book written by [[Nick Cave]], whose musical career provides the page quote) has the character of Beth. The [[Unreliable Narrator]] can't quite make up his mind whether she's actually a demonic witch or not.

** {{spoiler|Varys' "little birds" don't just steal secrets. They also carry knives.}}

* ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' combines this with [[Villain Protagonist]] and [[Anti-Villain]] {{spoiler|until his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.

* Her Thumbleness in ''[[Dragonback|Dragon and Slave]]'' likes to select slaves to paint on or tattoo. They usually succumb to infection afterwards.

* Princess Violet from ''[[The Sword of Truth]]''. A spoiled princess who orders to chop off heads a-la the Red Queen. {{spoiler|A few books later, she is taught to cast curses through magical drawings. Cut to a [[Little Miss Badass]] coming to visit; ''Well... Who's that on the drawing? Oh, that's right, it's me. (draws a few lines) Well, Violet, now it's you. Cut to [[Sound-Only Death]].''}}

* Markie, a toddler who makes life miserable for [[Myth Adventures|Skeeve]] and his associates. {{spoiler|Somewhat subverted in that she is actually The Ax, and mature for her race. She was hired to ruin Skeeve's reputation.}}

* The protagonist of ''The Wasp Factory'' by Iain Banks is a 16 year old boy who has killed three children and numerous small animals, the children at a very young age.

* Some of the [[Designer Babies|Desinger Baby]] [[Sex Slave]]s in Miriam "Starhawk" Simos's ''The Fifth Sacred Thing''.

* Mordred Deschain, The Little Red King, from ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series. At least two characters fall victim to this evil baby within hours of his birth.

* Palpatine was this well before he met [[Darth Plagueis]].

 

** There was also a ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' episode with a kid who murdered another one and mutilated himself to scare other kids. When it was realized he wouldn't get charged as an adult {{spoiler|the murdered boy's father shot him.}}

*** Interestingly enough, {{spoiler|the end of the episode seems to paint the ''father'' as the real monster here, revealing that he intended to shoot the kid even before the thing about being charged as an adult was revealed, as he, a psychiatrist, believes that mentally ill people who can't be cured should be killed.}}

** There's also another episode of SVU which revolved around a harassed boy that gunned down members of the school's basketball team, then tried to commit suicide and missed then blamed an alter ego named "Zoltar" for it. He gets better though, as the unit gives him the opportunity to go to a mental hospital to cure his disorder.

** Another episode of SVU looks like it is playing this trope straight (kid comes to school and shoots another kid on the playground) but it is actually subverted (he was shooting at the gangsters behind the fence that have been threatening him).

** Then there were the little bundles of horror that were the killers in "Bad Words" and "Cats in the Cradle." The killer in "Go To Hell" also had an early-teens accomplice who was arguably an even worse person than he was.<ref>He was a pedophile preying on her, but she used that to her advantage by promising to be with him if he killed her family; still, she's young enough that we can still feel for her when {{spoiler|she herself is murdered by [[The Fundamentalist]]}}</ref> Oddly enough, subverted with the killer in "Gentle Gentle," the actual youngest perp seen on the show... who was too young to know what he was doing.

** Let's not forget the role played by- sigh- Justin Bieber as Jason McCann. This may be one of the WORSE ones on this list even though he's sort of a [[Girly Boy]] because instead of sadistic sadism, he cunningly plans, {{spoiler|kills three police officers}}, and does this all by {{spoiler|trying to [[Mad Bomber|bomb the living shit out of them!]]}} It is however worth it in the end when {{spoiler|he gets shot to death by the authorities after shooting one of the officers}}

 

== Music ==

* The previous page-quote, "The Curse of Millhaven", by [[Nick Cave]] and his aptly-named backup band, The Bad Seeds, is about a 14-year old mass murderer, who drowns the neighbour's kid, burns down property, decapitates the handyman (with the [[Chainsaw Good|circular saw]] in his garden shed), stabs an old lady to death, and is directly responsible for an entire class of children drowning, but did ''not'' [[And Your Little Dog, Too|Crucify the Dog]]. Nothing odd about the mass murdering, especially on an album like Murder Ballads, but it just goes to show- even a cute, blonde-haired small town girl can be evil to the core.

{{quote|Since I was no bigger than a weevil

And since Granny was unconscious she was doing no denying!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. }}

{{quote|The cat is dead, the cat is dead,

And Mikey too, and Uncle Fred

The tea was hot, the tea was nice

With strychnine and a little spice

She did ev'ryone of them in, them in,

She did ev'ryone of them in. }}

 

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: the Greeks had Zeus, whose mother saved him from being eaten by his father Cronos (trying to avoid [[Karmic Death]] for overthrowing ''his'' father); Zeus then served up some nasty poison to Cronos while posing as a servant; his son Hermes tops this by stealing a herd of Apollo's cattle almost as soon as he was born and then [[Karma Houdini|sweet-talking his way out of being punished]] for said theft (and, on top of that, killing one of the cattle as a sacrifice to himself).

* The Chinese god of battles Ne Zha (pronounced Nataku in Japan) not only was born in an egg-like sac that took three years to "hatch" (finally Dad got fed up and attacked the thing with a sword, after which Ne Zha burst out), he also brought the wrath of the Sea King down on him when he accidentally killed a young prince when said prince went topside to give him grief about his destructive playing habits.

 

== Radio ==

* The Holy Terror from the ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who]]'' audio of the same name. The child in question is a five year-old boy who has been imprisoned in a dungeon ever since he was born so he would grow up untainted by the world, divine and all powerful. Oh, he's all powerful alright.

{{quote|''Do you think I'll be the best torturer in the world? Do you think my father will be proud of me? WELL? WILL MY DADDY BE PROUD?''}}

 

* In ''[[New World of Darkness|World of Darkness]]: Innocents'', where the player characters are children, a character who hits zero on the [[Karma Meter]] becomes one of these. They aren't necessarily evil, but they have absolutely no empathy or conscience. As the book puts it, they'll probably end up institutionalized.

** The [[New World of Darkness]] game ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' includes Fetchspawn, one of the options for the children of the fake people that the [[Eldritch Abomination|Gentry]] leave to replace Changelings. They have no [[Karma Meter]]. They have no empathy. Most people just assume they're autistic because of their total inability to relate to other human beings on an emotional or social level. They tend to kill things just because. This is all exacerbated by the fact that their touch automatically opens all doors, springs all locks, they cannot be bound or imprisoned, and people tend to ignore them, so they're able to slip around without notice. They are immune to Changeling superpowers, and their touch drains the Lost of magical energies. Oh...and did we mention that at the age of 21 they get sucked back into the Hedge, likely to become Gentry themselves?

* In ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'', widderslaint were reincarnated Nephandi (mages who were evil because of their malformed souls, or whose souls were malformed by their evil). Even before their awakening as mages, they're irredeemably evil (the fiction introducing them describes an infant crawling into his twin brother's crib to strangle him to death, then falling asleep hugging the corpse like a teddy bear).

* There is a sequel to Cyberpunk 2020 called Cyber Generation, where the Edgerunners of CP2020 have mostly been either killed or grown complacent by buying cushy corpjobs with retirement, leaving the rebellion to their children. It's very possible to play this kind of character in this game, especially if your character is a type of [[We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future|YoGanger]] referred as a Beaver Brat. Beaver Brats mostly come from suburban areas and specialize in talking their way out of trouble by convincing adults that there has been a big misunderstanding and they couldn't ''possibly'' have done it.

 

== Theater ==

* Mary Tilford from ''[[The Children's Hour]]'' is a malicious girl who tells a lie about her two teachers just to get out of going to school. She then blackmails another girl into saying ''she'' started the lie, pull's the other girl's arm out of her socket (albeit accidentally), and steals several jewelries.

 

== Video Games ==

* Bulleta/B.B. Hood from the ''Vampire''/''[[Darkstalkers]]'' series is a borderline example, as although she appears to fit it perfectly, it's sometimes implied that she's [[Older Than They Look|much older than she appears]].

* Played totally straight in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]: Portable Ops'', with a very, very deadly [[Child Soldiers|child soldier]] known as The Frank Hunter to the mercenary community, because of his habit of approaching his targets with nothing except a knife and an innocent cuteness that made it impossible for them to strike back. {{spoiler|He later ends up becoming Null, Gray Fox, and the Cyborg Ninja. Whew.}}

** More implied, but equally straight, the same series brings in a [[Government Conspiracy|government cloning project]] to develop [[Tyke Bomb|exceptionally gifted children]] who could be raised into [[Super Soldier|brilliant soldiers]] - this project created the main character and two [[Big Bad]]s. The name of the project? 'Les Enfants Terribles'. It's not an example of this trope at the time the series takes place, though, because the trouble starts when the Enfants are all well into their thirties. We'll have to hope for Metal Gear Kids.

*** [http://zarla.deviantart.com/art/Les-Enfants-Terribles-38063076 Done.]

*** Actually, Liquid might come very close to this trope, assuming the Official Missions Handbook's claim that Liquid participated as a mercenary at the age of 13 is canon. In either case, Solidus comes the closest, seeing how he was implied to have led a unit in the Liberian Civil War as a teenager (although in his case, pretty much everyone wasn't an adult).

** Don't forget Raiden, who was raised to be a child soldier after his parents were murdered by Solidus, and placed in a unit of young boys that fought in the Liberian civil war. His nicknames were 'Jack the Ripper' and 'White Devil'.

** Flandre is really [[Older Than They Look|495+ years old]]. But she pretty much has a child's mentality.

* ''[[Thief]]: Deadly Shadows'' arguably fits the trope with {{spoiler|Gamall}} although since she's actually {{spoiler|using the form of a girl she killed many years previously, Lauryl}} it may be an "in name only" example.

* The [http://www.nextdimension.org/other/doom3/cherub.jpg Cherubs] from ''Doom 3''.

* ''[[Overlord]] II'''s Witch-boy would be this, if he were cute to begin with. At best he's sort of [[Ugly Cute]]... At least to [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Kelda]].

* {{spoiler|Wendy}} in ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' isn't pure evil, but {{spoiler|she is the sweetest of the orphans capable of charming a delirious serial killer into dog-like obedience. She is also completely in love with the protagonist Jennifer, and the feeling is mutual, at least up to a point. Unfortunately "sharing" is a concept she has no use for.}}

* In ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'', we have Lurkers, though they actually qualify more as [[Fetus Terrible]]. In ''[[Dead Space 2]]'', we have those, plus Crawlers (instead of fetuses, these are babies old enough to crawl...and they have [[Action Bomb|an exploding sac]] on them) and The Pack (Bratty zombie kids...they don't have body-part weapons like most other necromorphs do, but they are fast and ''always'' [[The Swarm|attack in groups]])

 

== Web Comics ==

** On the Monsterful 2010 Xmas Special, {{spoiler|Ruby wanted to kill Santa because he brought her coal, not really a shocker.}}

* [[8-Bit Theater|The Onion Kid]] is mistaken for this after the deaths of his family and several foster families afterward. {{spoiler|Black Mage did it in reality.}}

** BM might have been one of them but we don't know if he was cute (we can guess he was not though)

* Millie from ''[[Ozy and Millie]]''.

* Slippery Weasel of ''[[Frog Raccoon Strawberry]]'' is an incredibly evil wizard who is still in diapers.

 

== Web Original ==

* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', both [[Sorcerous Overlord|Arawn]] and [[Our Demons Are Different|Yurius]] were truly horrible even when they were still young. Yurius gleefully set people on fire, and Arawn massacred his foster family as well as plenty of other people who annoyed him but still had the nerve to act totally innocent in order to fool the mages investigating the murders.

* Most users on [[YouTube]]. They just upload harmful videos, write nasty comments and insult each other, even at the teenage.

** A more accurate example of this trope is 12-year-old [[Wise Beyond Their Years|prodigy]] Brandon Cuthbert, who, before the game, sliced up various woodland creatures for experiments. This carries over to when he {{spoiler|dissects the former featherweight boxing champion of the world with a box cutter after suffocating him to unconsciousness with an X-box controller.}} He seems to show some remorse for his actions right before {{spoiler|his death at the hands of Sera Wingfield}} though.

* Vendetta from ''[[Making Fiends]]'' isn't particularly cute, nor is she a [[Devil in Plain Sight]], but BOY is she sociopathic.

** She's smarter than you.

* ''[[Open Blue]]'' features [[Proud Merchant Race|Remillia]], which deploys [[Tyke Bomb]] special forces known as Angels. They begin active duty at the age of 13, and the younger ones tend to use their age to fool targets of their assassinations. [[Senseless Violins]] are just one of their many weapons.

* The Mwa Mwa Penguins you can find at the Pet Shop in Club Penguin embody this trope.

* Within the world of ''[[Magical Girl Hunters]]'', some of the magical girls joined to save the world. Some just like the excuse to kill stuff. Captain Kawaii... * shudder*

* The webcomic / video series ''[[Contemplating Reiko]]'' stars the daughter of Satan and her three older sisters.

* Many/most of the kids from ''[http://skary.net/ Childrin R Skary]'' fit this.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Professor Princess from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' dresses and acts like a young girl but has a psychotic obsession with destroying 'violent' toys, in one instance deactivating Angry Archer's explosive arrows because they were too destructive. However, she uses a wand-like item that destroys things in a blast of sparkles and flowers. Apparently if there's flowers it's okay.

* Stewie Griffin from ''[[Family Guy]]'' is a comedy example; he's a sarcastic, ranting evil genius with a homicidal grudge against his mother, and he's only one year old.

** Most of the younger characters, now and again. Let us not forget Professor Chaos! Bringer of destruction and Doom!

{{quote|Butters: "Society cast me out, and so I vowed to make them all pay! And pay they did! Nobody knows that beneath this sweet eight-year-old little boy lies the most evil, the most destructive supervillain of all time!"}}

** She is in fact, the ''[[Trope Pantheons/Evil|Goddess]]'' [[Trope Pantheons/Evil|of Enfantes Terrible]].

* All of the main cast in ''[[Lil' Bush]]''. Then again, they're [[Strawman Political]] [[Spinoff Babies]] based on [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|real politicians]].

* Charles aka Brainchild from ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', a ludicrously intelligent kid (he mastered quantum physics before he could walk, among other things) whose desire to become a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] is met with benign acceptance by his hippie family.

* Heloise in ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. She's a small girl who works in Misery Inc. as [[Mad Scientist|top inventor]] to create dangerous products for misery and she loves to destroy stuff. She is also [[Ax Crazy|easily angered]] and hates nearly everyone but the [[Morality Pet|titular character]].

* Ren Hoek of ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' was portrayed as one of these in the Adult Party Cartoon episode "Ren Seeks Help". As a child, he was playing innocent to his parents, but without supervision he is shown commiting acts of vandalism such as setting fire to buildings and torturing and killing animals. He gets away with it, until one of his victims (a frog) tells his parents about what he's been doing. After some lecturing on the horrible things he's done, they tell him the only thing he can do for the frog is put it out of it's misery - rather than do this, he chooses to let the frog go and suffer more, leading to its eventual suicide.

* [[The Boondocks]] episode "Smokin' with Cigarettes" featured Lamilton Taeshawn, a psychotic young boy from a broken family who lived with his grandmother. He claimed he did terrible things, not for sympathetic reasons, but because he liked to cause people to crash in their cars, break people's arms, and assault elderly people including his grandmother. He killed a dog and later attempted to kill Riley when Riley told him he didn't want to friends anymore.

** The character of Lamilton was based on a boy named Latarian Milton, who stole his grandmother's car at the tender age of seven. When asked why, he responded "I want to do it because it’s fun. It’s fun to do bad things. I wanted to do hoodrat stuff with my friends," one of whom "smokes with cigarettes". The next month, young Latarian was back in the news—for beating up the same grandmother in Wal-Mart because she wouldn't buy him chicken wings. He was subsequently 5150ed.

* An episode of ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' had a [[Incredible Shrinking Man|a doll-sized]] Ned being tormented by a pair of twins.

* Sarah from ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', Ed's little sister. She enjoys beating up the whole main trio, [[Jerkass|especially Eddy]], who are all older than her and boys, for goodness' sake. Normally, she wears a facade that makes her looks sweet and nice, but she very often uses the argument of "telling mom" (and others, which include her attempting to suffocate herself) to manipulate Ed.

* Cousin Eddy from [[Jimmy Neutron]] fits this trope to a T, not to mention is only one years old.

* Porky Pig's toddler charge in the [[WW 2]]-era cartoon ''Brother Brat.'' The kid's mom (a welder at Lockheed who leaves the kid for Porky to babysit) gives Porky a manual on child care. At the end of the cartoon mom shows Porky how to use the manual correctly.

 

== Real Life ==

* School [[The Bully|bullies]], of course.

* Jesse Pomeroy, the youngest person in Massachusetts convicted of murder in the first degree, at the age of 14.

* Willie Bosket, whose crimes, starting at the age of fifteen, led to a change in New York state law, allowing juveniles as young as thirteen to be tried in adult court for murder and face the same penalties. He is still in prison, not scheduled for release until 2046.

* [[wikipedia:Sasebo slashing|Nevada-tan]], a.k.a. "Girl A".

* [[wikipedia:Murder of James Bulger|Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both ten years old when they murdered two year old James Bulger.]]

* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_18404_6-shockingly-evil-things-babies-are-capable-of.html 5 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable Of] makes a tongue-in-cheek claim that ''all'' babies are natural sociopaths. Most people outgrow these troubling behaviors. Others, like those listed above, obviously didn't.

* Julia Drusilla, daughter of [[Emperor Caligula|the original Caligula]]. Her vicious temper was what made him believe she was really his; she had a habit of savagely attacking her playmates. Murdered at the age of two after her father was assassinated.

** Then again, she ''is'' the daughter of Caligula, and knowing that it was a sport among early historians to apply either [[Historical Villain Upgrade|Villain]] or [[Historical Hero Upgrade|Hero]] Upgrades to the historical figures they liked or not, it's not clear if Julia ''was'' or not as ultra super bad as they say. [[Family-Unfriendly Death|And she certainly didn't deserve to be beaten to death by adult soldiers, thank you.]]

* [[wikipedia:Jordan Brown case|Jordan Brown]], who was eleven years old when he murdered his father's fiancee. His motive? The victim was pregnant, and Brown was afraid the new sibling would turn him into [[The Unfavorite]].

* [[wikipedia:Christopher Pittman|Christopher Pittman]] murdered his grandparents in 2001 at the tender age of 12. According to his legal defense, Pittman committed the murders because the prescription drug Zoloft had made him psychotic.

 

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