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* In ''[[Pokémon]] 3: Spell of the Unown'', a little girl protects Entei and screams "No More Fighting!". Granted Entei isn't evil - just a bit too much of a [[Literal Genie]].
** In the regular series itself, Brock's siblings pull this on Ash to get him to stop attacking Brock's Onix.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': Ed and Al discover, to their horror, that five-year-old Nina Tucker's father has performed a transmutation on her and her pet dog to make them into a chimera. Nina's father Shou tells Ed that the two of them are [[Not So Different|not so different]], however, as Ed tested the boundaries of alchemy as well by trying to revive his mother. Ed screams "I'm not-like-YOU!!", and starts to beat Nina's father raw in a rage - until the chimera Nina starts to growl and tug at his sleeve; "No, big bwudder." Even Al couldn't stop him before this.
** In the manga, ''Scar'' of all people gets protected by a girl from [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Xing]] named [[Badass Adorable|May Chang]].
* As part of a Q&A session in the bonus features of the ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' DVDs, voice actor [[Tomokazu Seki]] half-jokingly suggests that this is probably the best way to beat his character, Ken, who is a [[Friend to All Children]].
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== Film ==
 
* The Bride from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' had a thing about not killing people in front of their children. Her opponent Vernita Green orders her daughter Nikki upstairs. When Vernita makes her attempt to bushwhack the Bride, she puts a knife into her at range -- andrange—and turns to see that Nikki has seen the whole thing.
{{quote| '''The Bride:''' It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that, I'm sorry. But take my word for it; your mother had it coming. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.}}
* In ''[[Terminator]] 2'', Sarah Connor is about to kill Dyson to prevent him from developing Skynet, but his son throws himself in the way, screaming, "Don't hurt my daddy!" over and over again. In that moment, Sarah realizes [[He Who Fights Monsters|what she was about to do]] and has [[Heroic BSOD|a bit of a breakdown]], giving her son and [[Robot Buddy|the T-800]] time to catch up to her.
* In the original ''[[Stargate (Filmfilm)|Stargate]]'' movie, when presented before Ra, Jack manages to wrestle a weapon from the guards, turns to shoot Ra... but Ra's entourage of children calmly step in front of him, and he can't bring himself to shoot through them.
** And then he nukes them, but we're [[Viewers Are Goldfish|supposed to]] forget their existence by that point plus Ra had established his credibility as a world enslaving, attempted genocide level villain. In the Novelization, the oldest of them gathers the rest and they jump ship before it blows up.
* ''[[The Fall (Filmfilm)|The Fall]]'' toys with this. Although Alexandria is on the hero's side, she still essentially plays this role during the final battle.
* The villain of ''[[The Bourne Identity]]'' is revealed to be {{spoiler|saved}} by this trope {{spoiler|for a while}}, allowing him {{spoiler|to cause the injury that lead to the titular character's amnesia}} in the first place.
* In ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', Smith tries to assassinate a Presidential candidate, but the man uses a child as a shield. While Smith gets taken down by security, the candidate's cowardly actions ruin his chances at election.
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* On ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', when the survivors have Ben captured in season four, Sawyer says that they should just shoot him and be done with it, and Locke responds that he's not so callous that he will kill him while his daughter is right there watching.
** Another occurrence of this is when Ben is about to shoot Penny but is stopped when her young son walks out of the boat, and hesitates just long enough to get soundly thrashed by a very irate Desmond, who he had just shot right in the groceries.
* An inverted case of protecting the heroine from the [[Dean Bitterman]] in Japanese drama ''[[Shokojo Seira]]''. Little Romi is the only reason why school Director Mimura Chieko kept Seira in the school or otherwise she would have been kicked out.
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* Done without the child's presence needed in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. Celesto, having [[Jumped Off the Slippery Slope]], slaughters a [[Jerkass]] athlete and turns to kill the stripper he was accosting... only to get a vision of her telling her daughter good night.
{{quote| '''Celesto:''' Go home, hug your daughter tight, and thank her for that good-luck pinch. ''She just saved your life.''}}
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Baboons, while trying to avoid a fight will hide among infants, as most Baboons won't fight in front of them.
** It's a social survival tactic to get in good with mothers and provide babysitting service for them. If you're carrying an infant, you're largely immune to attacks from other males. If a male does disregard an infant and attack the babysitter, the females will swarm him in defense of the infant.
* Recently, there was a news article about a seven-year-old girl and her mother who were attacked by the mom's ex-boyfriend. When he attempted to kill the mother, THE GIRL TOOK SEVERAL BULLETS! [https://web.archive.org/web/20090831041047/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331548,00.html Amazingly she lived], and the boyfriend will probably get life.
* I seem to remember a story that one of Saddam Hussein's tactics was to place his command centres on the top floors of schools to discourage attacks on the commanders. (I could be wrong about this, so please correct me if I am.)
 
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