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** Probably [[Ax Crazy|Revy]]. From what can be gathered from the tiny flashbacks, she was raised on the streets of [[Brooklyn Rage|a less-good place in]] [[New York City]] and probably learned her gun skills from gangsters, and killed someone using a pillow as a silencer when she was still pretty young.
* Seta Soujirou of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', given his [[Abusive Parents|horrible childhood]] and subsequent "adoption" by a [[Social Darwinist]] to act as his [[The Dragon|Dragon]], slaughters people with a [[Dissonant Serenity|cheerful smile]].
** Kenshin too, when he buried all the bodies of his guardians and the men who killed them, instead of, say, trying to find help. He was, at most, eight or nine years old at the time.
* In ''[[Saiyuki]]'', there is a scene of a pre-teen Gojyo smoking in his room while his [[Parental Incest|older brother calms his stepmother down.]]
* Meet [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Maria Ushiromiya]], 9-year-old walking encyclopedia of all things relating to Western occult lore and "black magic." Also has a rather [[Annoying Laugh|irritating]] [[Evil Laugh]] and a habit of using it at [[Creepy Child|incredibly inappropriate times]], like after seeing {{spoiler|her mother and 5 of her relatives'}} horribly mutilated corpses.
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* Vincent in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]''. Taking scissors to stuffed toys? Indicative of problems, but not completely unheard of. Taking scissors to {{spoiler|the eyes of Alice's cat? And what about ALICE HERSELF?}} That's not a good sign. It also borders on [[Psychopathic Manchild]] behavior since he still does it as a young adult.
** In confusing flashbacks and illustrations, Alice {{spoiler|or more accurately, the Will of the Abyss... [[Mind Screw|sometimes...]]}} also does this, displaying [http://dragonempress.net/curious/images/pandora-09-05-03.jpg somewhat unsettlingly flirty behavior]{{Dead link}} with Jack and being cheerfully vicious with Vincent. Eventually leading to yet more of this trope from {{spoiler|''Gilbert''}}, who tries to strangle her.
* Several [[Child Soldier|characters]] in ''[[Now and Then, Here and There]]'', especially Nabuca.
* This is a staple of [[Shōnen manga]] and sometimes [[Shoujo Demographic]] manga along with [[Harmful to Minors]]. It's usually treated lighthearted and without any real damage though, unless it's a plot device or a [[Deconstruction]].
* The first time we see Akane Awakusu in ''[[Durarara!!]]'', she's gleefully chasing down Shizuo with a heavily modified stun gun and shouting "Die!" It turns out that this isn't exactly normal for her, as she was a [[Cheerful Child]] before she [[The Runaway|ran away from home]] and only did it because {{spoiler|Izaya told her that Shizuo was an assassin who would kill her family.}}
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** Broly is an extreme case, but Saiya-jin children in general are pretty disturbing by human standards. Originally, Kakarot was sent to Earth to ''wipe out all life forms''. They may look cute and innocent, but [[Not So Harmless|looking is as far as it gets]].
* Played for laughs with ''[[Crayon Shin-chan|Shin Chan]]'', a preschool age boy with the libido of a middle-aged man, who constantly hits on hot women. His baby sister Hima is also occasionally shown to find grown men attractive.
* It's downright creepy what children do in ''[[Naruto]]'', even moreso that nobody seems to care that the main basis of the story is using children as [[Child Soldier]]s at the ripe old age of 12 until one of them goes half mad like Zabuza who [[Deadly Graduation|murders the entire graduating class of his school]]
** In the beginning Naruto himself is especially fond of doing inappropriate things like sneaking into girl's bathing rooms and turning himself into a naked blond girl for laughs.
* Rin from ''[[Kodomo no Jikan]]'', a third grader that gets a crush on her teacher, and then practically lauches herself to him and tries to do sexual advances towards him as a mean to catch his affection.
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