Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Difference between revisions

[[File:lawndogs-gun.jpg|link=Lawn Dogs|frame|[[Little Miss Badass|Shooting a man and threatening others with a gun is just the beginning...]] ]]

 

 

[[Children Are Innocent|Kids should be kids]], at least that's how the saying goes. That means worrying about little kid things and doing little kid things, such as playing on the trampoline, watching TV, going fishing, or whatever it is that kids do locally. What we don't expect kids to do is to drink alcohol, smoke, have sex, use drugs, hitchhike, commit violent crimes, or do other things we associate only with teenagers or adults. Yes, many adults are upset when a teenager drinks beer, but it's disturbing when a 10-year-old does it.

 

Note that if the kid is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] and just has the physical appearance of a child, it doesn't count. This is for when actual children are the ones engaging in the unchildlike behavior.

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2Xbu-XhCI This hilarious condom commercial.] It shows a five year old getting a tattoo, cutting his teacher's chair with a chainsaw and being stopped by the police after stealing a car. He continuously explains that his mom said he could. It turns out he'd overheard her cry out "Yes! Yes! Yes!" during sex in another room and assumed that she was replying to him.

 

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', Sousuke [[Adorably Precocious Child|when he was a kid]], as seen in his and Kalinin's backstory. He kills [[The Stoic|without batting an eye]], has an ''extremely'' nihilistic view of things, and is [[Emotionless Girl|creepily unemotional]]. Especially noticeable [http://pics.livejournal.com/fmp_misha/pic/0003qgt1 here].

* After adopting [[Artificial Human|Pinoko]], [[Black Jack]] is more than a little disconcerted to discover that the [[Younger Than They Look|10-day-old]] (who insists she's a "virgin maiden" of [[Older Than They Look|18]] and looks about 6) [[Precocious Crush|has developed feelings for him]]—but what ''really'' scares him is that she already knows what a virgin is

** Probably [[Ax Crazy|Revy]]. From what can be gathered from the tiny flashbacks, she was raised on the streets of [[Brooklyn Rage|a less-good place in]] [[New York City]] and probably learned her gun skills from gangsters, and killed someone using a pillow as a silencer when she was still pretty young.

* Seta Soujirou of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', given his [[Abusive Parents|horrible childhood]] and subsequent "adoption" by a [[Social Darwinist]] to act as his [[The Dragon|Dragon]], slaughters people with a [[Dissonant Serenity|cheerful smile]].

* In ''[[Saiyuki]]'', there is a scene of a pre-teen Gojyo smoking in his room while his [[Parental Incest|older brother calms his stepmother down.]]

* Meet [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Maria Ushiromiya]], 9-year-old walking encyclopedia of all things relating to Western occult lore and "black magic." Also has a rather [[Annoying Laugh|irritating]] [[Evil Laugh]] and a habit of using it at [[Creepy Child|incredibly inappropriate times]], like after seeing {{spoiler|her mother and 5 of her relatives'}} horribly mutilated corpses.

* ''[[Japan Tengu Party Illustrated]]'' has a disturbing relationship between a [[Youkai|Tengu]] man and the human child he kidnapped ostensibly to be the vessel for their leader (when he uses her to speak, he ''swallows her and uses her as his tongue''). The child manages to escape the tengu, but the kidnapper is still concerned and obsessed with her. He eventually finds her phone number during a battle, but she never wants to see him again, and besides she's already safe in bed - ''with her teacher'' (she likes "magicians (the teacher) better then monsters (the tengu)") <ref>"[[Real Life]]" tengu are notorious for kidnapping children and returning them (if they do at all) "in a daze", and tales of monks (tengu dress as mountain aesthetics) and their child-novices don't even bother with [[Unusual Euphemism]]s.</ref>

* Vincent in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]''. Taking scissors to stuffed toys? Indicative of problems, but not completely unheard of. Taking scissors to {{spoiler|the eyes of Alice's cat? And what about ALICE HERSELF?}} That's not a good sign. It also borders on [[Psychopathic Manchild]] behavior since he still does it as a young adult.

* The first time we see Akane Awakusu in ''[[Durarara!!]]'', she's gleefully chasing down Shizuo with a heavily modified stun gun and shouting "Die!" It turns out that this isn't exactly normal for her, as she was a [[Cheerful Child]] before she [[The Runaway|ran away from home]] and only did it because {{spoiler|Izaya told her that Shizuo was an assassin who would kill her family.}}

* The main cast of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' are well-known for their (usually) [[Hate Plague]] induced paranoia and murder sprees, among many other troubling behaviors. The four oldest characters are only [[Vague Age|about sixteen]], with the youngest being somewhere between nine and twelve.

** Broly is an extreme case, but Saiya-jin children in general are pretty disturbing by human standards. Originally, Kakarot was sent to Earth to ''wipe out all life forms''. They may look cute and innocent, but [[Not So Harmless|looking is as far as it gets]].

* Played for laughs with ''[[Crayon Shin-chan|Shin Chan]]'', a preschool age boy with the libido of a middle-aged man, who constantly hits on hot women. His baby sister Hima is also occasionally shown to find grown men attractive.

 

** With Damian, several characters acknowledged it was a bad thing. Bruce originally didn't let him out in the field, and he only became Robin under Dick. Dick got him to act a little more normal though Dick's extreme own personal combo of experience, patience, and just being a good person. [[Batgirl 2009|Stephanie]], after learning Damian had never really played in his life, pretty much forced him onto a moon-bounce with her (though she admitted she was pretty sure he wasn't joking about stabbing her several times during her run) and usually ignored him when he got bratty. Damian acted a little more like a kid around Colin Wilkes (probably to put Colin, who was the same age, more at ease), but it was a major change form his original characterization.

** Tim and many other people still found him very unnerving even by the time of the reboot, though.

* The latest version of the Hellfire Club in [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]. Members include a boy who sold his seven brothers into intergalactic slavery to claim the family fortune and another who dissected his first Atlantean when he was eight. [http://www.comicvine.com/kade-kilgore/29-78998/all-images/108-519086/bessy/105-1942165/ The leader] is a [[Self-Made Orphan]].

 

* Rhoda Penmark in ''[[The Bad Seed]]'' is a multiple murderess before hitting puberty...and completely calm about the whole thing. [[Executive Meddling|They changed the ending for the film, though...]]

* In ''[[Paper Moon]]'', little Addie Pray is a full-fledged con artist who's partners with a man who may or may not be her real father. They stay together in hotels, in the same room.

* This is what makes ''[[The Innocents]]'' still terrifying even to a modern audience.

* ''[[Kids]]'' is almost entirely made of this + [[Refuge in Audacity]].

* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', the title character finds Toby easy to bribe with gin. As Toby tells Mrs. Lovett, they used to give the stuff to kids like him in the workhouse (child labor laws didn't exist way back when) so they could sleep—though as he mentions, you wouldn't ever want to sleep there, "not with the things that happen in the dark."

** Don't forget the ending, when he {{spoiler|coldly and quietly slits Sweeney's throat.}}

* Trish from ''[[Angels Revenge]]'', though it might be [[Justified Trope]] since she's a young [[Teens Are Monsters|teenager]]. She gets just a little ''too'' excited at a drug dealer's [[Groin Attack|unwanted bris]], she latches onto another drug dealer's car in order to track him, and she fatally shoots a kingpin at the end of the movie.

* Pretty much the entire cast of kids in ''[[Twelve And Holding]]''.

 

* ''[[Duumvirate]]'' lives and breathes this trope. Even the littlest kids are perfectly willing to kill at the drop of a hat. It's all just a game to them.

* Rather freakily lampshaded in ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'', where the childhood conditioning all the citizens are exposed to encourages children to act sexually towards each other at about ''pre-school'' age. The people administering said conditioning laugh about how those poor unenlightened souls way back when would have treated such behavior as disturbing.

* At the age of twelve, [[Lolita]] seduces her stepfather. He's not her first lover. ([[Unreliable Narrator|Or at least that's what daddy wants us to think]].)

** It quickly becomes obvious that while she fooled around a bit at summer camp, she's not really prepared for what she's getting into when she gives a grown (and rather disturbed) man the opportunity he's been waiting for.

* The ''[[Redwall]]'' series. Oh, Dark Forest Gates, the ''[[Redwall]]'' series. The titular first installment features a season-and-a-half year old squirrel—described in the text as a baby and not talking yet—who is personally responsible for the horrible deaths of ''at least'' ten vermin, and assists in the killing of many others by rolling a hedgehog over them ''in the middle of a battlefield''. He's also given a sharp dagger by a hare who thinks nothing unusual of a kid stabbing people with one hand and sucking the other. By comparison, the young, gangly teenager that goes on to see new friends and an adoptive father/Abbot poisoned to death, kills massive numbers of vermin, faces and decapitates a snake that could eat him alive, and comes plummeting from the top of an Abbey with a bird stuck in his shoulder, all by the age of thirteen seasons, seems almost reasonable. Oh, and gets married and has a son before he's sixteen seasons. Combines with [[Angst? What Angst?]]. This may have been intentional [[Values Dissonance]], as the series is set in pseudo-10th century England {{smallcaps|[[Furry Fandom|WITH FURRIES]]}}, but has been somewhat dialed down in the sequels... which still include the slavery of preteen children and [[Harmful to Minors|the murder of their slavers]].

* In the ''[[Green-Sky Trilogy]]'', [[Ill Girl|Pomma's]] addiction to [[Fantastic Drug|wissenberries]].

* ''[[The Tomorrow Series]]'': Aside from the fact that the viewpoint characters are only 16 – 17 years old, and essentially learning to become guerrilla fighters as the series progresses, the group of kids living in Stratton are a more depressing version of the trope: by ''The Night Is For Hunting'', when the main characters meet them, they are well-accustomed to gunfights and mugging people in alleyways.

* [[Artemis Fowl]]

* Tom Riddle from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' was an ultimately creepy kid. As a child, he tormented his fellow orphans - even murdering one's pet rabbit. When he went to Hogwarts he learned to be sly and manipulative, continuing his evil acts and a couple of murders without being suspected by the older, more powerful wizards who could pose a threat. Then, of course, he became Lord Voldemort.

* In ''[[The Iron King]]'', Meghan is shocked to hear her four-year-old half-brother tell her best friend "Go [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] yourself!" Justified in that {{spoiler|the kid is actually a changeling. Her real half-brother is a perfectly normal, sweet kid}}.

* The main plot point of ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'' - teens and preteens as young as twelve forced into an arena to fight each other to the death. And some of them are disturbingly good at it.

* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' mentions "the Little Sultana" who enjoyed torturing people with the Phantom's [[Death Trap|wonderful devices.]]

* Mormon in ''[[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]]'' begins leading the entire Nephite army at the age of 15.

 

* In an episode of ''[[Sex and the City]]'', Samantha is jealous of a very rich 13-year-old girl for whom she organizes a Bat Mitzvah party. When she overhears the 13-year-old telling her friends about giving blowjobs to keep a man, Sam interrupts to say that this is wrong. When the 13-year-old replies that she has been giving blowjobs since she was 12 and that she knows how the world works, Sam is released from her jealousy as she realizes that at least she had a childhood.

* There's an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' where a mother brings her young daughter into the clinic for possible epileptic behavior. House examines the girl, and determines that she's merely been "[[A Date with Rosie Palms|ya-yaing the sisterhood]]". The mother is shocked, to say the least, but House says that it's reasonable behavior, if a bit atypical.

** River ''Goddamn'' Tam, most especially in Serenity, but she's hijacked spaceships and shot people (without looking, yet still perfectly accurate) by the end of the show. She's in her teens.

* In one episode of ''[[Bones]]'', the murderer turns out to be an 11-year-old girl, who shoots her tutor with a shotgun when he refuses to help her cheat on a school project.

* ''[[Leverage]]'': Poor Parker. Mostly, it's played for laughs, but the ages at which she started committing various crimes is alarming. Car stealing at twelve, and getaway driving ''before'' that. Cut to a flashback of what looks like a nine year old Parker skidding around an old lady with a terrified robber in the passenger seat.

* In one episode of ''[[Grey's Anatomy|Greys Anatomy]]'', a man is brought into the hospital after supposedly being accidentally shot by his six-year-old daughter, using a gun that had been carelessly left outside. However, scans show that this man has been shot 17 times. When the daughter is questioned about the event, she asks why her father wouldn't just die, since she had shot him so many times. As it turns out, the girl and her mother had been putting up with severe abuse at the hand of the alcoholic father. The girl, seeing her father begin another attack on his wife, grabbed the gun (which had been left in an easily accessible place) and shot her father.

* Parodied in a ''[[Jam]]'' sketch where a man believes he has accidentally killed his friend during an argument. He calls a professional killer/"cleaner" named Maria to dispose of the body, but she turns out to be only six years old. She [[Cluster F-Bomb|uses language that would make a sailor blush]], carries a gun, and when the victim wakes up (revealing that he was only unconscious) she shoots him in the head then hacks him to bits with a saw blade. In the end, the police are called and Maria instantly reverts to a cutesy child act.

** ''Jam'' was based on the radio series ''Blue Jam'', which featured several sketches about Maria. More disturbingly, in this version she is only ''four'' years old!

* Inverted in ''[[Game of Thrones]]''; Robin Arryn is ten years old and ''still breastfeeding.''

** Also played horrifyingly straight throughout the series.

* The Gallagher Children in ''[[Shameless]]'' are all examples of this (or were, at some point in the show's backstory), but they run the spectrum from [[Promoted to Parent]] "reponsible" types like Fiona and Debbie to absurdly worldly but irresponsible or immature [[Street Urchin]]-types like Lip and Carl (who is arguably way more naive than the others). Ian's somewhere in the middle, being self-disciplined and responsible but not taking an active role in raising his younger siblings.

* A major theme in ''[[The Wire]]'' is that the children at the low-rises of Baltimore are already involved in the drug game by the age of ten, even earlier. On the violence aspect, Snoop and Kenard come to mind.

 

* In "Brenda's Got a Baby" by [[Tupac Shakur|2Pac]], Brenda (then 12 years old) [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin'|gets into a relationship]] with her [[Lolicon|20-something]] [[Incest Is Relative|cousin]] after becoming frustrated with life [[Crapsack World|at]] [[Big Screwed-Up Family|home]]. She becomes pregnant, but manages to hide the pregnancy from her family. She ends up giving birth on the floor of the girls' bathroom at school, and tries to dispose of the baby in a dumpster (only to [[My God, What Have I Done?|feel bad]] and take it out). She and her mother are constantly at each others' throats, and finally Brenda is kicked out of the house. She is too young to be hired for honest work and has no place to go, so she sells drugs...until she is robbed at gunpoint and is driven to prostitution. [[Disposable Sex Worker|It does not end well.]]

 

* Wicked witches in ''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]'' and the comics that spawned it are big on [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking|Evil Smoking]]. Children aren't an exception.

 

* The entirety of ''[[How I Learned to Drive]].''

 

* Sign on to any online shooter (preferably an [[Xbox 360]] shooter [[Rated "M" for Money]] and/or [[Rated "M" for Manly|Manly]] for maximum results) and prepare to be called a nigger, faggot, and just about any other offensive word you can think of by [[Internet Tough Guy]]s 12 and under.

* Mildly done in ''[[Psychonauts]]''. The protagonist and his peers are all ten-year-olds, yet some of the kids have an odd fascination with hooking up and making out.

** Then there's Crystal and Clem. They're seen messing around with poison, and there's one scene where they talk about how everyone is "going to be sorry" in very somber monotones far divorced from their usual chirpy facade. It's never explicitly established what their end goal is, but a vague misunderstanding of what happened to Obi-Wan Kenobi seems to be involved.

** Plus she also tries to have sex with Shirou at two points in Fate and one in Heaven's Feel. Which is... [[Lolicon|a little disturbing.]]

* Does it bother ''anyone'' else that [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Mission Vao]], a fourteen-year-old twi'lek, can happily slaughter her way through hundreds of people when previously the worst thing she did was pick pockets and scam people?

* ''[[Rule of Rose]]'': Byzantine plotting, power struggles, and even torture are everyday occurrences in the Aristocrat Club of the Rose Garden Orphanage, and depending on the player's interpretation, some of them don't even shy away from murder if they can get away with it. {{spoiler|And manipulating a serial killer to commit murders is definite canon for one of the characters, although that wasn't considered typical behaviour even for her.}}

* The imagery of mock suicide by teenagers (and, in one case, an elementary-school kid) in ''[[Persona 3]]'' is more than a little disturbing, and likely the primary reason for the game's "M" rating in North America.

 

* Chelsie Warner, the [[Creepy Child]] of ''[[Concession]]''. {{spoiler|She suffers from gender dysphoria, and was born "Charles" until her parents allowed her to start dressing and living as a girl. This itself isn't what's troubling, otherwise we'd be dealing with [[Unfortunate Implications]], but she displays violent tendencies in her very first appearance by stabbing Artie in the eye with a crayon. She then rapes him when he's too delirious to know what's going on. It was later revealed that her hypersexual behaviour was related to a form of bipolar disorder, and she joined a harem of preteen boys run by the practicing paedophile Kate, who specifically seeks out children with this disorder because she believes that allowing them to give in to urges which are already there doesn't count as abuse. The author points out that ''he'' knows that it does count, but Kate does not know that or refuses to believe it. Luckily, the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] shows that by the time Chelsie's an adult she's transitioned fully to female and is much more mentally stable under the care of her adopted father, [[Good Shepherd|the local priest Father Tim]].}}

* Namah in ''[[Dreamkeepers]] Prelude'' is a milder version then people on this page, but she still did a [[Slasher Smile]] when she went into the ventilation system, stole knives, poured hot sauce in the eyes of one of her guards. {{spoiler|Considering that she is being kept in her room to prevent knowledge of a secret affair being leaked, it's kinda justified.}}

* Nadia (and possibly Dark) in ''[[Kagerou]]'', although whether they're actually children, or even real, is highly debatable. Their actions are made more disturbing by the presence of Kid, who ''is'' very childlike.

* The trolls of ''[[Homestuck]]'' do not, as a rule, have much in the way of childhoods - but some of them develop a strong interest in collectible card games or [[Our Vampires Are Different|rainbow drinker]] romance novels, and others begin earnestly studying for a career in law enforcement or become mass murderers by the age of thirteen.

 

* In ''[[Mall Fight]]'', Sakura acts like she is at least sixteen, despite only being nine, and often has sex with her actually teenage boyfriend. The only time she really acted her age was when she was aged down to five a little before the latest reboot.

 

* The Delightful Children From Down The Lane from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''.

* Played for laughs in ''[[South Park]],'' where pretty much all the kids ([[Token Wholesome|except Butters]]) curse and do other adult behavior all the time. Taken to extremes with [[Token Evil Teammate|Cartman]], however, who has gone so far as [[Moral Event Horizon|attempting to start new Holocausts]].

* On ''[[Daria]],'' [[Dumb Blonde|Brittany]]'s little brother Brian not only acts out of control, he is [[All There in the Manual|apparently]] the reason why the family [[Fridge Horror|doesn't even bother naming their pets anymore]].

* As a kid, [[Big Bad Wannabe]] [[Evil Genius]] [[Xiaolin Showdown|Jack Spicer]] asked for knife-throwing lessons. His mom sent him [[Defied Trope|figure skating]]. So he [[Gadgeteer Genius|made a robot]] [[Impossible Genius|out of her juicer]]. As a [[Teen Genius]], he's trying to [[Take Over the World]] with a robot army... with winter sports as a [[Suddenly Always Knew That|surprise skill]].

 

* Comedian Brendon Burns tells a story about catching his 5 year old son masturbating with a soaped up shark toy, his advice was:

{{quote|'''Burns:''' DON'T DO THAT!

* Spotted hyena cubs, the second they've exited the womb, tend to fight each other to the death, especially if they're the same sex. They've also been seen to try to "mock-mate" with each other. Yikes.

 

* ''[[One Piece]]'' showed Sanji started his smoking habit at age nine trying to be more adult.

* A little later, but in ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', Nobue started trying to smoke in middle school. It nauseated her when she first tried it, but she "powered through" until it didn't make her sick anymore, and now she's addicted. What started it all, however, is when a smoker left a pack behind on a park bench when Nobue was 11. Curious, she picked it up and looked at it. The warning label scared her off of starting for a while, although she did start holding a cigarette in her hand in an attempt to look cool.

 

* In Belgian comic ''[[Violine]]'', the titular 10-year-old drinks whiskey and gets clearly drunk off it, when it's given to her as part of a celebration held by friendly natives in an African country.

 

* Again in ''[[Hounddog]]'', Lewellen is tricked into doing a naked dance for a much older man for Elvis tickets {{spoiler|and gets raped because of it}}. This carried over into [[Real Life]], where many people were shocked that 12-year-old Dakota Fanning had played such a scene herself.

* O-Ren Ishii of ''[[Kill Bill]]'' commits her first murder at the age of eleven, an incredibly bloody revenge upon Boss Matsumoto, who just two years earlier murdered both of her parents with the help of his men. And the reason that O-Ren was able to get close enough to Matsumoto to kill him? Matsumoto was a pedophile.

 

* A mailman is making his rounds, but one of his deliveries is a package that requires a signature. So he goes up to the house, knocks on the door, and a 12-year-old kid with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other answers it:

{{quote|'''Mailman:''' Uh... hi. Are your parents home?

'''Kid:''' What the [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] do you think? }}

 

* In the classic children's book ''[[Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade]]'', one of the main character's friends decides to hitchhike a ride to a local fair, as she's tired of walking. The rest of the kids are shocked, but go along so as not to get left behind. The hitchhiking adventure ends up having disastrous consequences for the kids. The man drives off away from their intended destination, and the kids jump out of his truck at a red light. But one of them, a 7-year-old, goes back for her purse which she forgot, and the truck drives off with her in it. Looking for a phone so they can call the police, the kids head towards the nearest building they can find: a tavern. Suffice to say everyone in the tavern finds the procession of fifth-graders and the one girl's 3-year-old brother to be a rather strange sight.

* In the [[Judy Blume]] children's novel ''Then Again Maybe I Won't'', main character Tony, his rich next door friend Joel and his old friend from the inner city, Frankie, are hanging out in Joel's basement when Joel jimmies into his father's liquor cabinet. The three boys get drunk. It was the first time Tony and Frankie had done this, but Joel had been drinking enough that he knew well the differences between the various kinds of alcohol.

* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', mention is made of Lyra and Rojer sneaking into Jordan College's wine cellar and trying "the oldest, twistiest bottle they could find". They both end up vomiting all over the place. Rojer questions the sanity of adults who enjoy drinking the stuff, while Lyra stubbornly declares that she ''likes'' it.

 

* The ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' episode "Lois Battles Jamie", there are two instances of this subtrope occurring. The first was Jamie trying to murder his mother by dropping a shelf on her (although it's subverted in that he's acting like this because his brother Reese fed him soda, which evidentially made himself uncontrollable). The second was with Francis in a flashback. When he was a toddler, Francis attempted to douse his teddy bear with lighter fluid and set it on fire (similar to certain people who kidnap other people) before Lois intervened.

* ''[[Rome]]'' has Octavian, no older than his early teens, who calmly tortures a man to death at the instigation of an adult. Another adult takes him to a prostitute, and his older sister seduces him. He combines this trope with [[Wise Beyond Their Years]], which makes him even more unnerving.

 

* From "Little Kids" by Deerhunter:

{{quote|''kids drinking gin on the front lawn

these kids see the sky and they think of him dressed in flames

kids walk behind, slowly stalk, that old man

 

these kids followed him to his shed

these kids come with gasoline and they strike a match'' }}

 

* ''[[Day of the Barney Trilogy]]'' has [[Barney and Friends|Barney]] convince his fans, who are all young children, to kill any adult they can manage to. Specifically featured are two children offing their mother.

 

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after smoking. Even better, their accomplice in this is [[Heartwarming Orphan|Tinny Tim]]. The robbery is his idea: "Gentle jerkwads! I know of a way we can emulate Bender ''without'' throwing up!" Best part: Tim's a robot, so alcohol shouldn't, logically, make him throw up anyway, because he runs on it, so this falls purely under [[Rule of Funny]].

* In ''[[Ben 10]]'', Ben meets Kevin 11, an eleven year old boy who gambles and steals things. This is troubling enough, but Ben still thinks Kevin's a cool guy to hang out with...until Kevin is willing to use his energy absorbing powers to crash two subway trains together and take the cash from the wreckage. When Ben points out that "hundreds of people could DIE!", Kevin shrugs and says "Hey; no pain, no gain."

* Eggy the duckling in ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' absorbed the knowledge of all four of the penguin squad while still in his egg and became a [[Tyke Bomb]] obsessed with the commando life. His mother wasn't pleased.

 

* According to ''The Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers'', 10% of serial killers make their first kill before the age of 10.

* [[wikipedia:Mary Bell|Mary Bell]] made her second at the age of 11, making her the youngest serial killer in history.

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