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''She sent pictures of doom''
''Drawn in her tiny bedroom''
''Fear, terror, panic and doom''|'''[[The Residents]]''', "Pictures from a Little Girl"}}
|'''[[The Residents]]''', "Pictures from a Little Girl"}}
 
There are a lot of things that are [[Harmful to Minors]]. There are a lot of writers who like to subject kids to them anyway. Whether it's parental abuse or a run in with the [[Monster of the Week]], the child ends up traumatized and left with a creepy tendency to draw whatever it was they saw over... and over... and over...
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* In an episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', a little boy at a hospital compulsively draws a monster that adults can't see. After Buffy kicks its ass, we see a picture he drew of the monster with X-ed out eyes and Buffy standing over it [[Buffy-Speak|all triumphant-like]].
* In an episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', Dean connects with a little boy who's been traumatized into mutism by witnessing his father's drowning. Said boy presents Dean with a picture of swirly dark water, representing the lake, and a red bicycle...
* In an episode of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', Hera Agathon horrifies her mother, Sharon, by drawing pictures of the Eye of Jupiter, yellow-haired women, and the number 6. Sharon, meanwhile, had been having dreams of Cylon Number Six taking Hera away from her, and walking into the Opera House on Kobol. It's creepier when you watch the show.
** And she does it ''again'' later in the second half of the season. Her seemingly harmless drawings of "stars" turn out to be {{spoiler|musical notation Kara uses to remember a song from her childhood - "All Along the Watchtower".}} Helo and Athena really need to get their daughter a new hobby, or at least take away Chekhov's Crayons.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Molly Walker suffers from nightmares and continually draws the same symbol in her more nightmarish drawings. Then she was [[Put on a Bus]] and we [[Noodle Incident|never found out]] [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|what it meant]].
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