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* Happens in various ''[[Gundam]]'' franchises where the protagonists are young enough and the universe serious enough. Although combat is generally personified by mechas, the protagonists generally never forget that there is a person inside the war machine that is so easy to objectify, and spend time angsting over it.
** In Gundam 00 the protagonist was brainwashed as a young child into becoming a member of a terrorist organisation. Part of the initiation involved killing his own parents.
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' is all about this.{{verify|reason=The characters in this story are brainwashed to kill. Does that put them in the 'Children who kill when they don't have to aren't this' category?}}
* ''[[Madlax]]'' has this as part of the [[Backstory]]: {{spoiler|the entire plot basically stems from the fact that Margaret killed her own father (in self-defence) when she was 5 years old}}.
* Killua from ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' is an example. Being a member of a [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] of assassins, he's taught to kill from infancy, and forced into the life of an assassin without being given much of any choice in the matter. He was murdering people before he turned 6, and by the time he appears in the show - at an age of maybe 10 or 11 - he's already killed hundreds of people.
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