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/MingleLinx 1d ago

Breaking Bad

Plane crash happens and part of the wreckage (a teddy bear that probably belonged to a child on board) falls into Walter White’s pool

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u/LimeTunic 1d ago

Hmm this is an interesting example since later on in the series they show an actual child being killed on screen

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u/jertsa_faijja 1d ago

Wait when

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u/MingleLinx 1d ago

Season 5 there was a kid who saw Walt, Jessie, and Todd do the train heist. Todd shot him almost immediately

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u/jimkbeesley 1d ago

There's also the kid who killed Combo being killed by 2 of Gus's men who Walter later runs over.

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u/jertsa_faijja 20h ago

Oh right I forgot

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u/Bamzooki1 17h ago

It was such a cold-blooded and sadistic act that even Walt was disgusted and horrified when he was approaching his worst.

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u/CrassKal 1d ago

There's nothing 'implied' about that kid's death

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u/LimeTunic 1d ago

I never said there was

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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 21h ago

Posting it here implies you did

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u/krebstar4ever 19h ago

They're contrasting an implied death with an explicit death.

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u/LimeTunic 17h ago

It doesn’t

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u/stick_inreddit 1d ago

Foreshadowing

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u/The-Great-Memelord 23h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/8xDfNPJ4mJFSg
Is that…

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u/InfiniteGuy2264 13h ago

"She never loved me! We're all just trash waitin' to be thrown away."

"Buddy, the reason you got abandoned was because the fucking plane literally blew up. You should be lucky to be even alive."

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u/Mr_Bell_Man 12h ago

Maybe the plane crash wasn't so bad after all

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u/Boogeymanhater_299 17h ago

Surely that’s the only time we’ll ever hear of a child dying and only inferential with symbolism, right?

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u/Friendly_Benefit7892 20h ago

Teddy bear sold right in alberqurque