History Main / ProtectedByAChild

* ''TheFall'' toys with this. Although Alexandria is on the hero's side, she still essentially plays this role during the final battle.

-->''"If I have children and subsequently grandchildren, I will keep my three-year-old granddaughter near me at all times. When the hero enters to kill me, I will ask him to first explain to her why it is necessary to kill her beloved grandpa. When the hero launches into an explanation of morality way over her head, [[DaddysLittleVillain that will be her cue to pull the lever and send him into the pit of crocodiles.]] After all, small children like crocodiles almost as much as Evil Overlords and it's important to spend quality time with the grandkids."''
--->-- '''EvilOverlordList''', #143

Where did that kid come from?! The child of course doesn't want anyone to hurt their family, and refuses to move.

** And then he nukes them, but we're [[ViewersAreGoldfish supposed to]] forget their existence by that point. In the Novelization, the oldest of them gathers the rest and they jump ship before it blows up.

* Mildly subverted in ''DirtyHarry'': The Scorpio killer uses a kid as a meat shield, gun to his head and everything. Dirty Harry shoots him in the shoulder, the kid runs off safe. Cue catchphrase as the killer decides whether or not Callahan has any bullets left.
** That's more of a PutDownYourGunAndStepAway situation than anything else, to be honest with you.

* In ''{{Fullmetal Alchemist}}'', Edward and his brother have just discovered, to their horror, Nina's father to have performed a transmutation on Nina and their pet dog. Nina's father tells Ed that the two of them are not so unalike, however, as 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 Ed's brother Al couldn't stop him before this.

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** In the regular series itself, Brock's siblings pull this on Ash to get him to stop attacking Brock's Onix.

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* 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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* Black 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.

* Recently, there was a news article about a seven-year-old girl and her mother who were attacked by the girl's estranged father. When he attempted to kill the mother, THE GIRL TOOK SEVERAL BULLETS! Amazingly she lived, and her father will probably get life.

** Another occurence 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.

* As part of a Q&A session in the bonus features of the ''WeissKreuz'' [=DVDs=], voice actor TomokazuSeki half-jokingly suggests that this is probably the best way to beat his character, Ken, who is a FriendToAllChildren.

* The Bride from ''{{Kill Bill}}'' had a thing about not killing people in front of their children. Her opponent Vernita Green orders her daughter Nikki upstairs. When Vernita makes her attempt to bushwhack the Bride, she puts a knife into her - and turns to see that Nikki had saw the whole thing.

* In ''{{Pokemon}} Mystery of the Unown'', a little girl protects Entei and screams "No More Fighting!". Granted Entei isn't evil - just a bit too much of a {{Literal Genie}}

** Evil sonofabitch yes, bad publicity no. [[http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15634 Hamas]] [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-united-nations-kangar_b_223424.html uses children]] (that are supposedly under the protection of the government Hamas operates) as shields because they know Israel will never purposely target children or civilians. In the west we shower Hamas with praise and damn Israel whenever they defend themselves.
** The UN, that wonderful organization that will unite the world (by making the greatest mass murdering police states in history members of the Permanent Security Council) and [[http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1359197/k.6748/UN_Israel__AntiSemitism.htm doesn't care much for Israel]] [[http://www.hudson-ny.org/1634/unrwa-palestinian-school-hamas-base follows their lead]].

* Recently, there was a news article about a seven-year-old girl and her mother whom were attacked by the girl's estranged father. When he attempted to kill the mother, THE GIRL TOOK SEVERAL BULLETS!!! Amazingly she lived, and her father will probably get life.

** Evil sonofabitch yes, bad publicity no. [[http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15634 Hamas uses children]] (that are supposedly under the protection of the government Hamas operates) as shields because they know Israel will never purposely target children or civilians. In the west we shower Hamas with praise and damn Israel whenever they defend themselves.

* An inverted case of protecting the heroine from the DeanBitterman in Japanese drama ''ShokojoSera''. Little Romi is the only reason why school Director Mimura Chieko kept Seira in the school or otherwise she would have been kicked out.

* An inverted case of protecting the heroine from the DeanBitterman in Japanese drama ShokojoSera. Little Romi is the only reason why school Director Mimura Chieko kept Seira in the school or otherwise she would have been kicked out.

** The UN, that wonderful organization that will unite the world (by making the greatest mass murdering police states in history members of the Permanent Security Council) and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council#Criticism doesn't care much for Israel]] [[http://www.hudson-ny.org/1634/unrwa-palestinian-school-hamas-base follows their lead]].

** The UN, that wonderful organization that will unite the world (by giving the greatest mass murdering police states in history members of the Permanent Security Council) and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council#Criticism doesn't care much for Israel]] [[http://www.hudson-ny.org/1634/unrwa-palestinian-school-hamas-base follows their lead]].