Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Difference between revisions

 

Note that if the kid is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] and just has the physical appearance of a child, it doesn't count. This is for when actual children are the ones engaging in the unchildlike behavior.

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2Xbu-XhCI This hilarious condom commercial.] It shows a five year old getting a tattoo, cutting his teacher's chair with a chainsaw and being stopped by the police after stealing a car. He continuously explains that his mom said he could. It turns out he'd overheard her cry out "Yes! Yes! Yes!" during sex in another room and assumed that she was replying to him.

 

 

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', Sousuke [[Adorably Precocious Child|when he was a kid]], as seen in his and Kalinin's backstory. He kills [[The Stoic|without batting an eye]], has an ''extremely'' nihilistic view of things, and is [[Emotionless Girl|creepily unemotional]]. Especially noticeable [http://pics.livejournal.com/fmp_misha/pic/0003qgt1 here].

* After adopting [[Artificial Human|Pinoko]], [[Black Jack]] is more than a little disconcerted to discover that the [[Younger Than They Look|10-day-old]] (who insists she's a "virgin maiden" of [[Older Than They Look|18]] and looks about 6) [[Precocious Crush|has developed feelings for him]]—but what ''really'' scares him is that she already knows what a virgin is

 

 

* Damian Wayne in [[Grant Morrison's Batman|Grant Morrisons Batman]]. He's a ten-year-old who is firmly convinced that he's the natural successor to [[Batman|his father]]'s legacy and [[Nightwing|Dick Grayson]] is an idiot. In addition to being a particularly grim (and potentially deadly) [[Robin]], he is frighteningly efficient at running Wayne Enterprises.

** With Damian, several characters acknowledged it was a bad thing. Bruce originally didn't let him out in the field, and he only became Robin under Dick. Dick got him to act a little more normal though Dick's extreme own personal combo of experience, patience, and just being a good person. [[Batgirl 2009|Stephanie]], after learning Damian had never really played in his life, pretty much forced him onto a moon-bounce with her (though she admitted she was pretty sure he wasn't joking about stabbing her several times during her run) and usually ignored him when he got bratty. Damian acted a little more like a kid around Colin Wilkes (probably to put Colin, who was the same age, more at ease), but it was a major change form his original characterization.

 

 

* Rhoda Penmark in ''[[The Bad Seed]]'' is a multiple murderess before hitting puberty...and completely calm about the whole thing. [[Executive Meddling|They changed the ending for the film, though...]]

* In ''[[Paper Moon]]'', little Addie Pray is a full-fledged con artist who's partners with a man who may or may not be her real father. They stay together in hotels, in the same room.

 

 

* The novel ''[[The Bad Seed]]'' was very controversial, portraying, as it did, a pre-teen girl who's a multiple murderess.

* ''Addie Pray,'' the novel on which the movie and TV series ''[[Paper Moon]]'' was based, is narrated by a pre-teen girl who's a full-fledged swindler learning from an established con man.

 

 

* In an episode of ''[[Sex and the City]]'', Samantha is jealous of a very rich 13-year-old girl for whom she organizes a Bat Mitzvah party. When she overhears the 13-year-old telling her friends about giving blowjobs to keep a man, Sam interrupts to say that this is wrong. When the 13-year-old replies that she has been giving blowjobs since she was 12 and that she knows how the world works, Sam is released from her jealousy as she realizes that at least she had a childhood.

* There's an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' where a mother brings her young daughter into the clinic for possible epileptic behavior. House examines the girl, and determines that she's merely been "[[A Date with Rosie Palms|ya-yaing the sisterhood]]". The mother is shocked, to say the least, but House says that it's reasonable behavior, if a bit atypical.

 

 

* In "Brenda's Got a Baby" by [[Tupac Shakur|2Pac]], Brenda (then 12 years old) [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin'|gets into a relationship]] with her [[Lolicon|20-something]] [[Incest Is Relative|cousin]] after becoming frustrated with life [[Crapsack World|at]] [[Big Screwed-Up Family|home]]. She becomes pregnant, but manages to hide the pregnancy from her family. She ends up giving birth on the floor of the girls' bathroom at school, and tries to dispose of the baby in a dumpster (only to [[My God, What Have I Done?|feel bad]] and take it out). She and her mother are constantly at each others' throats, and finally Brenda is kicked out of the house. She is too young to be hired for honest work and has no place to go, so she sells drugs...until she is robbed at gunpoint and is driven to prostitution. [[Disposable Sex Worker|It does not end well.]]

 

 

* Wicked witches in ''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]'' and the comics that spawned it are big on [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking|Evil Smoking]]. Children aren't an exception.

* Blood Claws in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. Granted, they're not actually children (more along the lines of 18+ due to how long it takes to become a Space Marine), but they just came into adulthood and will blindly charge towards a 40' towering monstrosity while laughing their heads off, not exactly behaviour suited to the average teenager (especially since many older warriors would run away in fear from said monsters).

 

 

* The entirety of ''[[How I Learned to Drive]].''

 

 

* Sign on to any online shooter (preferably an [[Xbox 360]] shooter [[Rated "M" for Money]] and/or [[Rated "M" for Manly|Manly]] for maximum results) and prepare to be called a nigger, faggot, and just about any other offensive word you can think of by [[Internet Tough Guy]]s 12 and under.

* Mildly done in ''[[Psychonauts]]''. The protagonist and his peers are all ten-year-olds, yet some of the kids have an odd fascination with hooking up and making out.

 

 

* Chelsie Warner, the [[Creepy Child]] of ''[[Concession]]''. {{spoiler|She suffers from gender dysphoria, and was born "Charles" until her parents allowed her to start dressing and living as a girl. This itself isn't what's troubling, otherwise we'd be dealing with [[Unfortunate Implications]], but she displays violent tendencies in her very first appearance by stabbing Artie in the eye with a crayon. She then rapes him when he's too delirious to know what's going on. It was later revealed that her hypersexual behaviour was related to a form of bipolar disorder, and she joined a harem of preteen boys run by the practicing paedophile Kate, who specifically seeks out children with this disorder because she believes that allowing them to give in to urges which are already there doesn't count as abuse. The author points out that ''he'' knows that it does count, but Kate does not know that or refuses to believe it. Luckily, the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] shows that by the time Chelsie's an adult she's transitioned fully to female and is much more mentally stable under the care of her adopted father, [[Good Shepherd|the local priest Father Tim]].}}

* Namah in ''[[Dreamkeepers]] Prelude'' is a milder version then people on this page, but she still did a [[Slasher Smile]] when she went into the ventilation system, stole knives, poured hot sauce in the eyes of one of her guards. {{spoiler|Considering that she is being kept in her room to prevent knowledge of a secret affair being leaked, it's kinda justified.}}

 

 

* {{spoiler|Ness and Lucas in}} ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' {{spoiler|are bad enough to make all of the other supposed ''[[Big Bad]]''s nervous.}}

* In ''[[Mall Fight]]'', Sakura acts like she is at least sixteen, despite only being nine, and often has sex with her actually teenage boyfriend. The only time she really acted her age was when she was aged down to five a little before the latest reboot.

 

 

* The Delightful Children From Down The Lane from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''.

* When we see [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Azula]] in a flashback to when she was about 8 years old she engages in typical activities such as teasing her brother and her friend who has a crush on him, doing cartwheels, throwing rocks at animals, throwing fireballs at people, hopefully suggesting that her uncle and cousin might die in battle so her father can inherit the throne, setting dolls on fire, mocking her uncle for leaving a battle after her cousin died, {{spoiler|cheerfully telling her brother and mother that her father has been ordered to murder her brother...}}

 

 

* Comedian Brendon Burns tells a story about catching his 5 year old son masturbating with a soaped up shark toy, his advice was:

{{quote|'''Burns:''' DON'T DO THAT!

* Spotted hyena cubs, the second they've exited the womb, tend to fight each other to the death, especially if they're the same sex. They've also been seen to try to "mock-mate" with each other. Yikes.

 

 

* ''[[One Piece]]'' showed Sanji started his smoking habit at age nine trying to be more adult.

* A little later, but in ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', Nobue started trying to smoke in middle school. It nauseated her when she first tried it, but she "powered through" until it didn't make her sick anymore, and now she's addicted. What started it all, however, is when a smoker left a pack behind on a park bench when Nobue was 11. Curious, she picked it up and looked at it. The warning label scared her off of starting for a while, although she did start holding a cigarette in her hand in an attempt to look cool.

 

 

* In Belgian comic ''[[Violine]]'', the titular 10-year-old drinks whiskey and gets clearly drunk off it, when it's given to her as part of a celebration held by friendly natives in an African country.

 

 

* Again in ''[[Hounddog]]'', Lewellen is tricked into doing a naked dance for a much older man for Elvis tickets {{spoiler|and gets raped because of it}}. This carried over into [[Real Life]], where many people were shocked that 12-year-old Dakota Fanning had played such a scene herself.

* O-Ren Ishii of ''[[Kill Bill]]'' commits her first murder at the age of eleven, an incredibly bloody revenge upon Boss Matsumoto, who just two years earlier murdered both of her parents with the help of his men. And the reason that O-Ren was able to get close enough to Matsumoto to kill him? Matsumoto was a pedophile.

 

 

* A mailman is making his rounds, but one of his deliveries is a package that requires a signature. So he goes up to the house, knocks on the door, and a 12-year-old kid with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other answers it:

{{quote|'''Mailman:''' Uh... hi. Are your parents home?

 

 

* In the classic children's book ''[[Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade]]'', one of the main character's friends decides to hitchhike a ride to a local fair, as she's tired of walking. The rest of the kids are shocked, but go along so as not to get left behind. The hitchhiking adventure ends up having disastrous consequences for the kids. The man drives off away from their intended destination, and the kids jump out of his truck at a red light. But one of them, a 7-year-old, goes back for her purse which she forgot, and the truck drives off with her in it. Looking for a phone so they can call the police, the kids head towards the nearest building they can find: a tavern. Suffice to say everyone in the tavern finds the procession of fifth-graders and the one girl's 3-year-old brother to be a rather strange sight.

* In the novel ''[[Others See Us]]'' the protagonists are quite startled when their grandmother insists they have a beer. {{spoiler|Though it's actually a trick to increase their psychic powers.}}

 

 

* The ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' episode "Lois Battles Jamie", there are two instances of this subtrope occurring. The first was Jamie trying to murder his mother by dropping a shelf on her (although it's subverted in that he's acting like this because his brother Reese fed him soda, which evidentially made himself uncontrollable). The second was with Francis in a flashback. When he was a toddler, Francis attempted to douse his teddy bear with lighter fluid and set it on fire (similar to certain people who kidnap other people) before Lois intervened.

* ''[[Rome]]'' has Octavian, no older than his early teens, who calmly tortures a man to death at the instigation of an adult. Another adult takes him to a prostitute, and his older sister seduces him. He combines this trope with [[Wise Beyond Their Years]], which makes him even more unnerving.

 

 

* From "Little Kids" by Deerhunter:

{{quote|''kids drinking gin on the front lawn

these kids come with gasoline and they strike a match'' }}

 

* ''[[Day of the Barney Trilogy]]'' has [[Barney and Friends|Barney]] convince his fans, who are all young children, to kill any adult they can manage to. Specifically featured are two children offing their mother.

 

 

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after smoking. Even better, their accomplice in this is [[Heartwarming Orphan|Tinny Tim]]. The robbery is his idea: "Gentle jerkwads! I know of a way we can emulate Bender ''without'' throwing up!" Best part: Tim's a robot, so alcohol shouldn't, logically, make him throw up anyway, because he runs on it, so this falls purely under [[Rule of Funny]].

* In ''[[Ben 10]]'', Ben meets Kevin 11, an eleven year old boy who gambles and steals things. This is troubling enough, but Ben still thinks Kevin's a cool guy to hang out with...until Kevin is willing to use his energy absorbing powers to crash two subway trains together and take the cash from the wreckage. When Ben points out that "hundreds of people could DIE!", Kevin shrugs and says "Hey; no pain, no gain."

 

 

* According to ''The Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers'', 10% of serial killers make their first kill before the age of 10.

* [[wikipedia:Mary Bell|Mary Bell]] made her second at the age of 11, making her the youngest serial killer in history.