r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Argie_Theft_Auto3 • 1d ago

miscellaneous [Dark Trope] Implied child death

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• Family Guy - In a deleted scene, Evil Stewie is shown entering the bully's house and giving him a noogie. It seems rather harmless until Stewie mentions "Why's his knuckle turning red?" Then screams of the bully are heard, implying that Evil Stewie noogied his head so hard it punched a hole through the bully's head.

• Old (2021) - In a deleted cold opening, a man is shown crawling and shouting for help in the aging island. What makes this more terrifying is that this person could originally have been a baby or child, it's implied since he's walking on all fours

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u/Ok_Butterscotch8639 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/12qFOaBbu9TZny

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u/Independent-Couple87 1d ago

Similarly, Itachi Uchiha from Naruto during the Uchiha Massacre. There is an infamous fanart of this.

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u/HospitalLazy1880 23h ago

From what i understand Itachi killed none of the children but the other guy did.

Itachi was trying to clear all the adults who were actively planning to take over the village and leave the children who would no longer inherit generational hate from their parents but Danzo wanted as many eyes as possible for his fucked up arm and as such he killed all the children except for one cause Itachi got to him first.

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u/MMH0K 23h ago

Not Danzo, Obito.

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u/Bobahn_Botret 23h ago

Yeah Obito did the murdering but Danzo handled the autopsies.

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u/Background-Can3921 19h ago

No itachi did kill kid in the novel obito was killing the police force

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u/Hayn0002 16h ago

From what you understand? Got a source for Itachi not killing children? It’s in character since he genjutsu tortured his child brother. Then tortured him a second time.

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u/WannabeACICE 16h ago

Lmao this series is so bad

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u/Clemsoncarter24 14h ago

WellThatsAlrightThen!.jpg

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u/Dragishawk 1d ago

"Master Skywalker. There are too many of them. What are we going to do?"

FSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH!

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u/LS-Kun 8h ago

“Understood, Master Skywalker! We fight with you!”

then Anakin and the kids attacked Darth Sideous and the galaxy was safe once more

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u/breakitbilly 1d ago

Nah those kids had it coming.

They know what they did

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u/Insane_Catholic 1d ago

He called Anakin a master after Anakin was denied, he knew what he was doing

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u/breakitbilly 1d ago

Should have been aware it was a bit of a sore subject

Honestly, kid had the right idea, I'd want out of that movie as soon as possible after what the internet did to Jake Lloyd

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u/Vibe_with_Kira 22h ago

On the other hand, Anakin killed the one person that called him master smh

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u/CG-Firebrand 1d ago

The Jedi are evil, from a certain point of view

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u/Fun-Region2179 1d ago

Well then you are lost!

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 20h ago

Woh now exclamation marks are the tools of the dark side. We jedi do not emote.

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u/baguetteispain 14h ago

Anakin was afraid of competition for Padme

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u/Stunning_Season_6370 1d ago

What do you mean they know? They didn't even know what they are going to do!

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u/Plus-Emphasis-2605 1d ago

What they do?!??

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u/JayyyyyBoogie 1d ago

Those younglings liked sand.

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u/ErusTenebre 18h ago

When this movie came out and I was sitting in theaters. When this moment happened I laughed.

Hard.

I don't know why. There maybe is a bit of absurdity to it that triggered the laugh, but I definitely got some side eye lol

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u/malumfectum 18h ago

Probably because the acting was bad, the direction was bad and the writing was bad, making what was supposed to be a tragic moment merely farcical.

Imagine being Ewan McGregor and having to say the line “I have seen a security hologram of him… killing younglings” with a straight face.

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u/Orizifian-creator 14h ago

I remember reading someone say that him covering his mouth while saying that is because he was trying not to laugh at it

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u/leemasterific 12h ago

I rewatched the prequels after the sequels came out, and as terrible as they are, I think the prequels are infinitely better than the sequels. I cannot fucking stomach the “Wait, what?” quippy humor that has infected movies since the MCU came about.

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u/HonestAbe1809 11h ago

I liked Buffy but Whedon’s quippy dialogue style doesn’t work everywhere. At some point you need to take things seriously instead of undermining it with a joke.

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u/HumanSyllabus 21h ago

Um that’s not a child. That’s a youngling.

Probably so that there isn’t a Star Wars movie where “murdering children” isn’t a plot line.

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u/Bamzooki1 16h ago

“YOUR ACTING SUCKS, DUMB KID! THIS IS FOR SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG!”

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u/Jenkins64 1d ago

From my point of view, the jedi are evil

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u/Veraxus113 23h ago

Implied? It's full on COMFIRMED!

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u/MinTy1244 21h ago

"Boo!"

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 1d ago

Why’s that kid react like c3p0

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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 9h ago

I remember actually getting a 'jump scare' when he ignited his saber! 👀

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u/Smooth-Mechanic-7788 23h ago

Bat themed child murder

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u/Askmeaboutships401 23h ago

Revenge of the Sith themed heroes