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'''Basic Trope''': A villainous character was at one point a normal, innocent child.
* '''Straight''': [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Jeff Slaughter]], the [[Big Bad]], was once a friendly and ordinary little kid.
* '''Exaggerated''': While he was a [[Cheerful Child|cheerful]] [[The Messiah|and saintly]] child, Jeff becomes a [[Complete Monster]] who destroys planets [[For the Evulz|for kicks]] as soon as he hits adulthood. 
* '''Justified''': Even villains [[Children Are Innocent|were innocent at some point in time.]] [[Start of Darkness|Some]][[Zalgo|t]][[Freudian Excuse|hing]] had to make them bitter and twisted. 
* '''Inverted''': Jeff is an [[Evil Overlord]] as a baby, but calms down and [[Heel Face Turn|becomes good]] when he grows up.
* '''Subverted''': The heroes learn that Jeff tortured animals as a child and [[Enfant Terrible|cheerfully engaged in sociopathic behavior.]] 
* '''Double Subverted''': As a baby, however, Jeff was completely innocent. [[Parental Abandonment]] turned him to this disturbing behavior as a young boy.
* '''Parodied''': As a little kid, Jeff liked to play with butterflies, teddy bears, sing praises of Jesus, heal cancers and stand around being all beamy and smily before becoming an [[Omnicidal Maniac]]. 
* '''Deconstructed''': As a child, Jeff Slaughter was good-natured and was completely harmless. However, all the [[Kids Are Cruel|abuse]] [[Bullying a Dragon|he]] [[All of the Other Reindeer|put up with]] slowly drove him to [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|take out his anger on the world.]] He destroyed his memories of the past and became the [[Big Bad]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Jeff Slaughter secretly thinks the best years of his life were when he was younger, and [[Pet the Dog|kept a single toy to remind him of his previous goodness.]]
* '''Zig Zagged''': Jeff Slaughter, as a child, liked to draw war machines, not out of malevolence, but because he liked to invent things. His parents took this as an alarming sign, mistook him for a [[Creepy Child]] and shunned him. As a result, Jeff became ''really'' disturbed.
* '''Averted''': Jeff's childhood is never shown.
* '''Enforced''': "What was Jeff Slaughter like as a baby? He wasn't evil then, was he?"
* '''Lampshaded''': Jeff's [[Supervillain Lair]] is filled with photos of himself in happier times, in contrast to the [[Death Trap|death traps]] and torture devices he has developed since then. 
* '''Invoked''': "You don't know what I was like as a child! I was happy then! They made me what I am today!"
* '''Defied''': Jeff destroyed all evidence of his childhood when he became evil.
* '''Discussed''': "What was Jeff Slaughter like as a kid? He wasn't always a [[Complete Monster]], was he?"
* '''Conversed''': "It's creepy to think that Jeff Slaughter was a kid like you and me once." "Yeah, [[Children Are Innocent]], right?" 

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Too bad about [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]. He used to be such a sweet trope...

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[[Category:Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]
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