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There is also an interesting [[Double Standard]] when it comes to characters applying for this trope, since they are almost [[Always Male]]. Rarely will women being described as being ''physically'' violent to children. Even rarer are the instances when they actually ''kill'' them. Indeed, killing children is among the few things that permanently prevent a woman from a convenient [[High Heel Face Turn]]. Extra points if the killing is done ''directly'' and at the woman's hands (i.e. stabbing, strangling etc...). Compare [[Paedo Hunt]], another child abuse trope where female perpetrators are similarly unheard of.

 

 

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* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'' has 9-year-old Maria Ushiromiya regularly killed off alongside the rest of the cast. While the first four times were relatively nice ({{spoiler|explosion, explosion}}, strangulation, poison), the fifth time was a gaping neck wound, and the sixth was brutal decapitation. She keeps coming back to life due to a [[Groundhog Day Loop]].

** Maria's mother, Rosa, also physically beats her.

** Another straighter example, especially notable for featuring an adult woman, is when Rina attempts to strangle Rena after beating her up.

** Shion also brutally beats up Satoko for being too clingy to Satoshi, until Rika and Rena pull a [[Go Through Me]], and then she gets [[Punched Across the Room]] by a ''very'' pissed off Satoshi. While Satoko ''was'' extremely dependent on Satoshi, it's still no excuse for Shion almost killing a little girl in the middle of a Yandere tantrum.

** And in-story, the {{spoiler|Raid of La Bastille}} started when a peasant boy got shot to death in front of his parents. For worse, it was almost by mistake since a dumbass soldier wanted to shoot the kid's ''father'' and got the shot wrong.

* Many cases in [[Detective Conan]] involve children getting hurt or killed by [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]]. I.e., we have {{spoiler|two schoolteachers strangling a girl no older than 10 to death because s[[He Knows Too Much]] and then making it look like suicide}}; another case has Conan and his friends being chased around by a [[Serial Killer]] in a library during the night.

* In the [[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]] movie, ''Paint it white'', one of the victims of {{spoiler|the Pict aliens}} is Sealand, a micro-nation who for all effects has the looks and the mindset of a 12-year-old boy. Subverted in the [[Hetalia Blood Bath 2010]], where {{spoiler|it ''looks'' like he'll be kidnapped... but he shows his [[Badass Adorable]] ID and applies [[Defeat Means Friendship]] to his attacker}}.

* The Homunculi of ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' liked to ''eat'' children, as their meat was more tender than adults. Tokiko was the ''only'' survivor of a homunculus attack on her grade school when she was 10.

* Accidentally occurs AND played straight in [[Outlaw Star]] due to both of the children being [[Child Soldier|space pirates]]. The first is when Hilda, who is falling out of control towards the sun in episode 4, latches onto the [[Creepy Child]] magician girl as she is levitating towards the OLS and pulls the pin on a grenade, taking them both out. The second occurrence is when Gene and company destroy a pirate ship outside a space station that was hunting them, which was piloted by the little girl and her two cats Jim had recently befriended. He returns to the fountain to wait for them [[Tear Jerker|but doesn't realise why they never showed up]], presuming her parents had taken her with them early.

* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', this is sort of a given seeing how the heroes are usually [[Kid Hero|kids]] and the villains are adults, but it is worth mentioning that it's a rather common tactic in this 'verse [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|to aim]] [[Combat Pragmatist|for the]] [[Kid With the Leash|trainer]] when possible.

* In ''[[Ginga Densetsu Weed]]'', Thunder and Lector, the Doberman Pinscher assassins for Hougen, threaten to kill Teru if his father didn't kill Kyoshiro. It was also kinda personal, since Kyoshiro was the one who tore off Teru's father's ear.

 

And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you<br />

Have done to this. }}

{{quote| ''The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?''}}

* In the ''[[Disgaea]]'' [[Disgaea Novels|novels]] we meet a [[Rare Female Example]], [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Laharl]]'s aunt [[Disgaea Novels (Light Novel)/Characters|Yasurl]], who abused him as a child because [[Fantastic Racism|he is half human]].

* ''[[Adam-12]]'': Several episodes dealing with child abuse; the assault itself would never be seen on camera. The most memorable child abuse-themed episode is "He ... He Was Trying to Kill Me" (from the spring of 1969), where a 6-year-old girl lets on to Reed that her mother hits her.

* In the backstory of ''[[The Mentalist]]'' [[Serial Killer]] Red John killed Patrick Jane's wife and daughter, just to take Jane down a peg.

* This seems to be the mark of a bad guy in ''[[Maddigans Quest|Maddigan's Quest]]'', in which it's asserted that [[Big Bad|the Nennog]] would kill Timon, Eden and baby Jewel without a second thought if they returned to their own time, and in ''Greentown'', henchman Maska threatens to 'break' Jewel if Boomer doesn't return his bag. In ''Laketown'', {{spoiler|Timon tries to kill Jewel whilst under the Nennog's influence, but can't bring himself to do it (whether or not he would have done it if the Fantasia had failed is a moot point, though he certainly seems to think he would).}}

* [[Complete Monster|Certain criminals]] like Carl Buford in "Profiler Profiled" and Karl Ahnold in "The Fox" in ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' have no trouble hurting and even killing children. Some even specifically target kids!

* Roger of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' would ''kill'' a child (an ''infant'', actually). [[Disproportionate Retribution|For accidentally breaking a leg off of one of his collection of crystal spiders]].

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', the adult green dragon in "Owl's Well That Ends Well" tries to ''kill'' Spike after the latter enters his cave uninvited (not realizing it belonged to another dragon) and eats some of his gems.

* Both villain groups in ''[[Mon Suno]]'' are constantly stalking Chase Suno and his friends to the point of this.

* [[The Joker]] in ''[[Young Justice (Animation)|Young Justice]]'' purposely singles out Robin in battle, which makes sense considering his [[Batman|archenemy]].

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