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Writers like to play with our perceptions and subvert our expectations, especially when it comes to the innocent. Things associated with purity, happiness, and joy are frequently warped and twisted into something more sinister, either for humour, drama, horror, or eroticism. These are the tropes that make you sit back and think, "Well, thanks for ruining my idyllic childhood."
Related to Evil All Along and Hidden Evil. Contrast with Obviously Evil, which doesn't even bother with hiding any malice, and Index with a Heart of Gold, which is basically the inverse example of this index in tropes about subverting malice. |
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| | An Ass-Kicking Christmas |
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| | Artistic License – Child Labor Laws |
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| | Backstory Horror |
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| | Badass Santa |
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| | Bad Habits |
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| | Bad Santa |
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| | Beware the Nice Ones |
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| | Bitch in Sheep's Clothing |
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| | Catholic School Girls Rule |
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| | Cats Are Mean |
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| | Child Soldiers |
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| | Covert Pervert |
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| | Crappy Holidays |
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| | Cute and Psycho |
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| | Cute as a Bouncing Betty |
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| | Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth |
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| | Cute Is Evil |
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| | Dangerously Garish Environment |
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| | Dark Fic |
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| | Dark Parody |
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| | Darker and Edgier |
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| | Death by Newbery Medal |
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| | Death of a Child |
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| | Delusions of Parental Love |
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| | Demographically Inappropriate Humour |
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| | Demonic Dummy |
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| | Dirty Kid |
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| | Dirty Old Monk |
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| | Disguised Horror Story |
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| | Dissonant Serenity |
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| | Dreaded Kids' Party Entertainer Job |
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| | Dystopian Oz |
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| | Enfant Terrible |
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| | Enlightened Antagonist |
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| | Entertainment Above Their Age |
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| | Evil All Along |
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| | Evil Orphan |
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| | Evil Puppeteer |
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| | Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon |
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| | False Friend |
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| | False Innocence Trick |
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| | False Utopia |
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| | Fighting in the Playground |
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| | Fluffy the Terrible |
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| | From the Mouths of Babes |
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| | Girl Scouts Are Evil |
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| | Good Is Not Nice |
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| | Happy Marriage Charade |
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| | Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday |
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| | Kids Are Cruel |
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| | Kill the Cutie |
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| | Knew It All Along |
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| | Light Is Not Good |
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| | Mature Work, Child Protagonists |
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| | Mister Muffykins |
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| | Monster Clown |
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| | Music/Age Dissonance |
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| | Nature Is Not Nice |
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| | Naughty by Night |
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| | Naughty Nuns |
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| | Nice Character, Mean Actor |
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| | Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book |
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| | Nightmarish Nursery |
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| | Not-So-Harmless Villain |
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| | Nun Too Holy |
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| | Perverse Puppet |
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| | Pervert Dad |
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| | Psychopathic Manchild |
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| | Pure Is Not Good |
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| | Relax-o-Vision |
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| | Repulsive Ringmaster |
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| | Ron the Death Eater |
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| | Rousing Lullaby |
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| | Rule 34 |
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| | Santabomination |
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| | Santa's Sweatshop |
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| | Scary Jack-in-the-Box |
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| | Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear |
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| | Sexy Priest |
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| | Sexy Whatever Outfit |
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| | Sinister Minister |
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| | Sinister Whistling |
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| | Slipping a Mickey |
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| | Smuggling with Dolls |
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| | Snow Globe of Innocence |
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| | Snow Means Death |
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| | Soundtrack Dissonance |
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| | Stepford Smiler |
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| | Stepford Suburbia |
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| | Subverted Kids' Show |
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| | Subverted Sitcom |
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| | Subverted Suspicion Aesop |
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| | Sugar Apocalypse |
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| | Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom |
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| | Surprisingly Creepy Moment |
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| | Sweets of Temptation |
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| | The Dog Was the Mastermind |
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| | The Fake Cutie |
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| | Too Broken to Break |
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| | Town with a Dark Secret |
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| | Tragic Stillbirth |
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| | Trojan Ambulance |
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| | Troubled Toybreaker |
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| | Troubling Unchildlike Behavior |
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| | Twisted Christmas |
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| | Tyke-Bomb |
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| | Uncanny Village |
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| | Undead Child |
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| | Unexpectedly Dark Episode |
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| | Unnervingly Heartwarming |
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| | Valentine's Day Violence |
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| | Vengeful Abandoned Toy |
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| | Vile Villain, Saccharine Show |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? |
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| | What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls? |
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| | Wicked Heart Symbol |
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| | Wicked Toymaker |
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| | Wise Old Folk Façade |
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| | Wounded Gazelle Gambit |
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| | Affectionate Pickpocket |
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| | Black Comedy |
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| | Killer Rabbit |
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