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Protected by a Child

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Protected by a Child	comment	So The Hero is on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and finds the man who killed his Mentor, his Loved One, his Sidekick Creature Nuisance... or is just an evil bastard. He got the Villain on the ropes, and goes to deliver the finishing blow, ready to stop the evil once and for all... what's this?! Where did that kid come from?! The child of course doesn't want anyone to hurt their family, and refuses to move. Usually, the Hero backs down — with some amount of hesitation depending on the guy's place on the sliding scale of morality, after all — the kid doesn't need to be traumatized. This invokes a realization of what he's doing. Sometimes ends in An Aesop about Revenge. Oddly enough, due to the Harmful to Minors trope, you rarely see a full subversion except in the grimmest Black-and-Grey Morality worlds. On the other hand, if it is made clear the hero Would Hurt a Child and actually went after the child, expect the villain to go completely ballistic against the hero. A nasty variant has the villain invoking this trope by using a child as a Human Shield or hostage. Subtrope of Even Evil Can Be Loved. Contrast Daddy's Little Villain. See also Improbable Infant Survival.
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Protected by a Child / int_12300cc3	comment	In Watchmen, when Rorschach confronts his ex-landlady about her having lied about him. Although none of them directly jump in his way, the presence of her children makes him back down.
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Protected by a Child / int_12b12556	comment	The villain of The Bourne Identity is revealed to be saved by this trope for a while, allowing him to cause the injury that led to the titular character's amnesia in the first place.
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Protected by a Child / int_1377df	comment	In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor is about to kill Dyson to prevent him from developing Skynet, but his son throws himself in the way, screaming, "Don't hurt my daddy!" over and over again. At that moment, Sarah realizes what she was about to do and has a bit of a breakdown, giving her son and the T-800 the time to catch up to her.
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Protected by a Child / int_267cbfa	comment	Done without the child's presence needed in Dominic Deegan. Celesto, having Jumped Off The Slippery Slope, slaughters a Jerkass athlete and turns to kill the stripper he was accosting... only to get a vision of her telling her daughter good night.
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Protected by a Child / int_2ae2daf6	comment	From the Evil Overlord List Cellblock A, #142:
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Protected by a Child / int_315c02fc	comment	Bunch of children in Christmas Evil surround Harry to protect him from their parents who realize that he is the killer Santa responsible for the deaths at the church.
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Protected by a Child / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Ed and Al discover, to their horror, that five-year-old Nina Tucker's father has performed a transmutation on her and her pet dog to make them into a chimera. Nina's father Shou tells Ed that the two of them aren't so different, however, Ed tested the boundaries of alchemy as well by trying to revive his mother. Ed screams "I'm not-like-YOU!!", and starts to beat Nina's father raw in a rage — until the chimera Nina starts to growl and tug at his sleeve; "No, big bwudder." Even Al couldn't stop him before this. In the manga, Scar of all people gets protected by a girl from Xing named May Chang.
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Protected by a Child / int_3955a179	comment	In Vigilante #17 and 18, "Father's Day" and its continuation by Alan Moore, the Vigilante, Adrian Chase has hunted down and beaten up the villain Carl Linnaker after the latter has murdered his estranged wife, kidnapped his daughter Jodie with the intent to rape her note having just gotten out of prison for raping Jodie when she was eight, and has also murdered Jodie's Parental Substitute Louise. Given all this backstory it's a shock to Chase when the child grabs his gun and shoots him to stop him from hurting her father any more. But as Carl explains, as he pulls his own gun and prepares to kill Chase, it's
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Protected by a Child / int_39e3b5ff	comment	Kill Bill: The Bride and her opponent Vernita Green are interrupted by Vernita's daughter Nikki coming home from school; they both act innocent, and Vernita orders her upstairs. When Vernita makes her attempt to bushwhack the Bride, she puts a knife into her at range — and turns to see Nikki staring at them. Later on, when the Bride catches up with Bill, she is interrupted in her attempt to, well, kill Bill, by the sudden intervention of their daughter. This doesn't seem to have been planned by Bill, he just happened to be rearing and taking care of the kid.
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Protected by a Child / int_3a5e2165	comment	True Villains: Gray was ready to strike Sebastian down, but Mia intervened just in time. One of the reasons Sebastian made it out of there alive.
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Protected by a Child / int_3b34143f	comment	A version of this happens in Harry Potter, of all places - subverted in that the aggressor himself is a child, and the defender, a cat. At the end of Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry has Sirius Black defenseless and is holding him at wand point, thinking of killing him, when Hermione's ugly, half-kneazle pet jumps over his heart to protect him. Harry doesn't rule out killing Crookshanks as well, but he hesitates long enough for someone to come in and stop everything.
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Protected by a Child / int_3e7c31df	comment	In Let the Right One In, Oskar is saved from the bullies at the last moment by Eli. Although Eli is, admittedly, not a normal child. That said, he's already saved Eli from almost certain death, so this film has two examples of this trope protecting each other.
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Protected by a Child / int_4522fd1	comment	Done the other way around in "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl" of the Whateley Universe. When Generator and Bladedancer have to dive into a supervillain hostage crisis and one of the Felonious Four is about to kill Generator, one of the hostage children steps forward to save Generator. It only partially works. The supervillain is going to mutilate the kid then kill Generator, but spends so much time threatening them that he runs out of time and has to use the escape portal before he can hurt either. Occurs in Thrasher's backstory, as told in a Flashback; his father, the supervillain Mach 5, had stolen several advanced weapons from a Marine Armory, and The Dragonslayers, an elite unit of Cape Busters, were tasked with bringing them back, and bringing him in, probably not in one piece. They managed to find him in a motel late at night, and Highjacker followed him into the room he was renting, alone. Where he went to take Mach 5 down, his son (Thrasher, as a young child) stepped between them. Erik, realizing he didn't have the heart to intentionally kill a child, told Mach 5 that he would let him escape so long as he told them where the weapons were hidden. This was a turning point not only for Mahren but for Mach 5 as well; he retired from crime and became a stockbroker. A second Ironic Echo came when the now teenaged Thrasher steps in between Mahren (whom he had just realized was the same Dragonslayer who had come for his father years earlier) and the badly-beaten superhero Lamplighter, who had attacked a group of students who were on a Parkour run because he thought they were vandals, despite the signs saying that the area was the Academy's property and got soundly defeated by the students and Erik's 'Marine buddies' (e.g., the other surviving Dragonslayers). Mahren was ready to kill the 'hero' who had dared to hurt those he was responsible for, but Thrasher reminded him that he had to set an example.
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Protected by a Child / int_46823c49	comment	Moriarty the Patriot: One of the men William kills in The Final Problem tries to use his children as a human shield, which William finds disgusting, but one of the sons genuinely wants to protect his father. William simply shoves him out of the way, but feels as though he disrespected the child's honor because of it.
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Protected by a Child / int_4a4a982a	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Mariemaia protects Relena from Dekim Barton's gunfire using her own body. Don't worry, she gets better in the epilogue.
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Protected by a Child / int_4ab2232e	comment	In My Hero Academia Our Tiny Hero 8 year old Hitoshi protects Aizawa and Present Mic from a home invader by activating his quirk to make the guy stop beating on them.
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Protected by a Child / int_51b3091a	comment	As part of a Q&A session in the bonus features of the Knight Hunters DVDs, voice actor Tomokazu Seki half-jokingly suggests that this is probably the best way to beat his character, Ken, who is a Friend to All Children.
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Protected by a Child / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987): An accidental example occurs in "Hero for Hire", Doofus glomping Launchpad pulls Scrooge up sharply in the middle of his effort to lay hands on the pilot for his "faked death" scheme.
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Protected by a Child / int_58781ffd	comment	A version of this happens in Congo and its movie adaptation, wherein the gorilla Amy defuses a violent confrontation involving one of the Congo gray gorillas and her trainer Peter by hugging him and generally treating him like a baby gorilla, signing to him, "Peter hug Amy". He quickly understands her strategy, having studied gorillas for years.
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Protected by a Child / int_5921531b	comment	Nonviolent example in Persona 4; Dojima occasionally presses the protagonist on what he does with his time, with increasing hostility; his daughter Nanako (who also happens to be the Justice Arcana) is an expert on shutting him down.
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Protected by a Child / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Blackâ˜†Star's first mission in Soul Eater ends with him defeating the bodyguard Mifune, only to be 'attacked' by his charge, very young witch Angela, who insists that he leave Mifune alone. Shocked that the witch he was supposedly sent to kill is a little girl, the would-be assassin backs down.
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Protected by a Child / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: Tavi encounters a Canim female who fallen behind her pack. Terrified, she bares her throat to him, expecting the worstâ€”but Tavi is distracted by the newborn pups nursing her and immediately tells her in her own language â€œRun.â€� This chance meeting makes him realize that the Canim are not invading Aleraâ€”they are actually fleeing refugees.
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Protected by a Child / int_68959735	comment	Weaponized in Suikoden II, when your army's strategist suspects the enemy leader of setting a trap at a peace summit. He has access to a little girl said leader has a soft spot for and arranges for her to be present when the trap is sprung. The enemy leader proves unwilling to use lethal force with the girl watching.
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Protected by a Child / int_691be369	comment	Happens at the end of The X-Files episode "Salvage." The Monster of the Week, a man who is made of living metal, is brutally tracking down and killing the men he blames for his condition. However, he can't bring himself to kill the final guy because the man had his young son in the car. This leads to his Heel Realization.
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Protected by a Child / int_8501afb1	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children have Marlene does this for Tifa by throwing a Materia at Loz's head.
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Protected by a Child / int_8d817ccb	comment	On Lost, when the survivors have Ben captured in season four, Sawyer says that they should just shoot him and be done with it, and Locke responds that he's not so callous that he will kill him while his daughter is right there watching. Another occurrence of this is when Ben is about to shoot Penny but is stopped when her young son walks out of the boat and hesitates just long enough to get soundly thrashed by a very irate Desmond, who he had just shot right in the groceries.
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Protected by a Child / int_9614fa1e	comment	In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy gets into a tense discussion with Belloq and is on the brink of pulling his weapon — while surrounded by Belloq's well-armed allies. Before the situation implodes, Sallah sends a group of his kids to haul Indy out of there, all crying for "Uncle Indy" to come home. Belloq recognizes the trope and reacts with amusement, telling Indy in parting that it will take more than children to save him next time.
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Protected by a Child / int_98fb7440	comment	In Beautiful Girls, after Steve and his friends beat up Tommy because of Tommy's affair with Darian (as he and Darian were High-School Sweethearts), Mo, Paul and Willie drive up to Steve's house so Mo can carry out a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. After Willie takes Steve's friends out of the equation (by blocking their car with Tommy's snowplow so they can't get out), Mo is about to get back to beating up Steve when Steve's young daughter appears at the door. This gives Mo a My God, What Have I Done? moment, and he leaves Steve alone with Paul giving him a warning.
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Protected by a Child / int_9cc9639	comment	In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, after defeating Hoggmeister, Laharl is about to kill him when the pig's son begs him to stop. If the player's ally-kill count is low, Laharl automatically spares the guy (who joins). But if your kill count is high, you can go to kill him but Flonne will attack you, leading to a nonstandard game over
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Protected by a Child / int_9dc605db	comment	In Little Uzumaki, Kisame is protected from the Godaime Iruka's wrath by the age-regressed two-year-old Naruto... who promptly mistakes Kisame for a fish.
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Protected by a Child / int_9de007d3	comment	In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Agent Sands is left blind by the bad guys and ends up being helped by the Chicleta Boy who he had previously given a large sum of money to simply to make him leave him alone. While the boy does not directly protect Sands, he does act as a guide and a spotter, telling him where the bad guy is during one gunfight, and later coming back to help Sands after he is left wounded in the final gunfight.
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Protected by a Child / int_a193115c	comment	The Assassin has a variant, since the child isn't aware there's any danger. Nie Yin Niang goes to kill a man and finds him with his son asleep in his arms. She decides not to kill him.
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Protected by a Child / int_ac719b97	comment	In the original Stargate movie, when presented before Ra, Jack manages to wrestle a weapon from the guards, turns to shoot Ra... but Ra's entourage of children calmly step in front of him, and he can't bring himself to shoot through them.
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Protected by a Child / int_b6cb9396	comment	Lost in Space: When Dr. Smith is in danger, see the good doctor pull Will Robinson or occasionally Penny in front of him for use as a human shield.
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Protected by a Child / int_b9bfa46d	comment	In Crash, the store owner confronts the repairman who couldn't fix his door after his store is vandalized and threatens to shoot him. The repair man's daughter, watching the confrontation, races out to save her father and throws herself between the two as the man fires. Amazingly, the kid's uninjured and the store owner's shaken by it all, thinking the kid's an angel from Heaven. Turns out his gun was loaded with blanks by his own daughter, who was afraid he'd pull a stunt like this.
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Protected by a Child / int_bac592d2	comment	The Fall toys with this. Although Alexandria is on the hero's side, she still essentially plays this role during the final battle.
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Protected by a Child / int_d2f4b8ae	comment	In Battle Angel Alita the young girl Koyomi, moved by Den's tirade against Tiphares' callous treatment of the surface dwellers, stands in Alita's way as Alita is prepared to finish Den off. Koyomi declares her intention to join Barjack, and Alita, still remembering Koyomi as the orphan baby she rescued, decides to leave. Den is amused that he was rescued by someone so small and he welcomes Koyomi to Barjack.
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Protected by a Child / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Near the end of Mockingjay, this is supposedly what Snow does to protect himself, though it ends up being a ruse of Coin's.
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Protected by a Child / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: In Pokemon The Movie 3: Spell of the Unkown, Molly stops Entei from killing Ash's Charizard and cries for the fighting to stop. Granted Entei isn't evil - just a bit too much of a Literal Genie. In PokÃ©mon: The Original Series itself, Brock's siblings pull this on Ash to get him to stop Pikachu from attacking Brock's Onix.
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Protected by a Child / int_d9c602eb	comment	Near the end of the South Park movie, just before Terrance and Phillip are about to be killed, the kids stand in the way and begged to the army and Kyle's mom not to kill them. This doesn't do much good, as the kids are only about a third of T&P's height and though Kyle's speech touches the soldiers, Kyle's mom shoots them dead anyway.
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Protected by a Child / int_dd9f7e5f	comment	2666: Pedro Rengifo hires Lalo to be a bodyguard for his family.
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Protected by a Child / int_defedb34	comment	Shadow Hearts: Covenant has a rare double-subversion of this trope. When the party finally reaches the leader of the Japanese Shadow Government, Minister Ishimura, Yuri prepares to kill him, but is confronted by Ishimura's grandson. Instead of backing down, he pushes the kid aside, and brutally beats up the old man. However, in the end he is unable to kill him. If anything, the notion of Even Evil Has Loved Ones angers Yuri even more, as that makes Ishimura a Hypocrite, but the realisation that Even Evil Can Be Loved stops him.
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Protected by a Child / int_e199d649	comment	The final book of the Inheritance Cycle does this. When Eragon, Arya, Elva, and Saphira enter Galbatorix's throne room, he is well aware of the fact that they have a weapon that can pierce his wards, and that they have a witch-child who can say the things that need to be said to kill him. How does he solve this? He makes Elva mute until she leaves the room, and he brings in two children, and in possibly the most conversational tone a villain can have, he essentially says "You make one wrong move, and both of them will die. You do anything I don't like and they die. Hell, you so much as scratch your nose when I don't tell you to, and they both die." It works.
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Protected by a Child / int_ea4f62db	comment	After being a bully for half of an episode of Family Guy, Peter encounters the same bully who picked on him in his school days. He decides to beat him up after what he had done, but before he can do so, Chris beats HIM up and yells at him to stop bullying people.
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Protected by a Child / int_ee6ac780	comment	Although she was an adult at the time (twenty years old) the trope is otherwise played straight between Elena and Diego in The Mask of Zorro. When Diego is about to kill Rafael, Elena throws herself between them, begging her biological father not to kill the man who raised her.
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Protected by a Child / int_ff0bf83f	comment	In Justice League Unlimited, Huntress decides to kill the man responsible for killing her parents before he could go into hiding. The villain is literally at her mercy when the man's son breaks free from his escort. She ends up turning her bow away, sparing his life. This is partly because she's reminded of the night when her parents died, so she punches the guy instead.
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