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{{quote|''"People think it's open season on kids right now."''|''This is Wonderland''}}
Nothing better to whip up some outrage in your story than making the badguy a paedophile. More cynical works about this trope will often note that getting people whipped up into a mob-
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== Film ==
* ''[[Hard Candy]]'' is a ''big game''
* A short version is done in ''[[Pay It Forward]]''. Haley Joel Osment's character decides to run away from home. He's shown at a sleazy bus station counting loose change for a ticket. A man approaches him, talking rather creepily and reaching out to touch him. Then Kevin Spacey's character appears, drags the guy into the bathroom and beats the shit out of him.
* The original ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' was vague about the subject, but [[The Remake]] gives Freddy a clear element of paedophilia, and thus this trope plays into the parents hunting him down.
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== Web Original ==
* [[The Other Tropes Wiki]]'s headlong rush to embrace censorship in 2012 was framed as a Paedo Hunt, using this trope as both a rallying cry and as a tool to discredit dissent and dissenters. It conveniently allowed the [[Censorship Bureau|P5]] to tar any work they disliked as "pedoshit" and anyone who disagreed with their agenda as a "pedophile". While admittedly TVT had attracted an unsavory and frankly creepy element that did need purging, the extent to which the campaign was (and continues to be)
== Western Animation ==
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