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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]].

* 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.

* ''[[Medaka Box]]'' has Unzen Myorii, the first [[Big Bad]] after the [[Genre Shift]]. He's a [[Child Prodigy|ten year-old]] cute little boy who's [[Establishing Character Moment]] is him breaking the Orchestra Club leader's arm, and then massacring the entire club [[Disproportionate Retribution|for being too loud.]]

* [[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]].

** 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}}

** 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]].