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* '''Reconstructed''': Sally acknowledge that there are some children like Alice who are a lost cause, but the majority of kids aren't all like that, and children mostly do cruel things [[FreudianExcuse because something in their lives made them that way.]] ([[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Still not an excuse since they still chose to be that way.]])

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* '''Reconstructed''': Sally acknowledge acknowledges that there are some children like Alice who are a lost cause, but the majority of kids aren't all like that, and children mostly do cruel things [[FreudianExcuse because something in their lives made them that way.]] ([[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Still not an excuse since they still chose to be that way.]])
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* '''Deconstructed''': Sally the Social Worker [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil cannot understand why Alice still choose to be cruel]] despite having no FreudianExcuse: she lives a somewhat comfortable life, no one bullies her, and has a loving supporting family. Because of this, Sally begins to question if all children are like Alice.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Sally the Social Worker [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil cannot understand why Alice still choose chooses to be cruel]] despite having no FreudianExcuse: she lives a somewhat comfortable life, no one bullies her, and has a loving supporting family. Because of this, Sally begins to question if all children are like Alice.
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** All children are AlwaysChaoticEvil

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** All children are AlwaysChaoticEvilAlwaysChaoticEvil.
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** All children are portrayed as villains.

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** All children are portrayed as villains.AlwaysChaoticEvil
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** Alice is a neonate that dreams about destroying the entire universe.
** Alice is a zygote who's possessed by an ancient EldritchAbomination who's [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere desperately trying]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards to escape her]].

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** Alice is a neonate that who dreams about destroying the entire universe.
becoming a MultiversalConqueror.
** Alice is a zygote who's possessed by an ancient EldritchAbomination who's [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere desperately trying]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards [[HorrifyingTheHorror to escape her]].
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** Alice is punished for her misbehavior and grown-ups try to make her understand why bullying is bad.
** Alice goes to therapy sessions to deal with her bullying tendencies.

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* '''Enforced''': The writer [[ChildHater has a distaste for children]] and plans on portraying children as monsters.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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The writer [[ChildHater has a distaste for children]] and plans on portraying children as monsters.monsters.
** The writer is writing a story with a cast full of children, and they want to make a point about how children can be cruel sometimes. So the writer adds a child to the cast whose role is to be TheBully and bully the child protagonist.

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* '''Subverted''': Alice may seem to act like a bully to other children but [[{{Tsundere}} suddenly acts nice]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Only because she's [[BitchInSheepsClothing hiding her true personalities]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk and using them for her]] [[PragmaticVillainy own selfish purposes.]]

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice may seem to act like a bully to other children but [[{{Tsundere}} suddenly acts nice]].
** Alice seems like a bully at first, but it's because she has anger issues that she doesn't know how to deal with. She gets help from a therapist and her behavior improves.
** Alice seems like a bully at first, but it turns out that a demon is [[DemonicPossession possessing]] her and making her act that way. The demon eventually leaves her body or is exorcised and she turns out to be a nice person.
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Only because she's [[BitchInSheepsClothing hiding her true personalities]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk and using them for her]] [[PragmaticVillainy own selfish purposes.]]]]
** Only because she wants the therapist to get off her case. As soon as her parents stop taking her to the therapist, she reverts back to her old behavior.
** The real Alice is just as bad as the demon that was possessing her, if not [[EvilerThanThou worse]].
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The most of the bullies in school are just too young to feel empathy to others

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** Alice is too young to feel empathy.

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* '''Defied''': "No, children are ''not'' mean, let alone total sociopaths, so we're going to have something [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Alice would cross]]."

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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"No, children are ''not'' mean, let alone total sociopaths, so we're going to have something [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Alice would cross]].""
** Children are taught empathy so they understand why it's wrong to hurt others, and instead learn to be kind to eachother.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is a 12-year-old who bullies the younger kids.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Alice is a 12-year-old who bullies the younger kids.kids.
** TeensAreMonsters
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* '''Reconstructed''': Sally acknowledge that there are some children like Alice who are a lost cause, but the majority of kids aren't all like that, and children mostly do cruel things [[FreudianExcuse because something in their lives made them that way.]] (Still not an excuse since they still chose to be that way.)

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* '''Reconstructed''': Sally acknowledge that there are some children like Alice who are a lost cause, but the majority of kids aren't all like that, and children mostly do cruel things [[FreudianExcuse because something in their lives made them that way.]] (Still ([[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Still not an excuse since they still chose to be that way.)]])
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* '''Reconstructed''': Sally acknowledge that there are some children like Alice who are a lost cause, but the majority of kids aren't all like that, and children mostly do cruel things [[FreudianExcuse because something in their lives made them that way.]]

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* '''Reconstructed''': Sally acknowledge that there are some children like Alice who are a lost cause, but the majority of kids aren't all like that, and children mostly do cruel things [[FreudianExcuse because something in their lives made them that way.]]]] (Still not an excuse since they still chose to be that way.)

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* '''Exploited''': Bob is a classmate of Alice who sees that Alice keeps the other kids under her heel with constant bullying, so he tries to get on her good side to also control the other kids to an extent.



* '''Exploited''': Bob is a classmate of Alice who sees that Alice keeps the other kids under her heel with constant bullying, so he tries to get on her good side to also control the other kids to an extent.

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* '''Inverted''': ChildrenAreInnocent.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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ChildrenAreInnocent.
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** Alice is a ''neonate'' that dreams of destroying the entire universe one day.
** Alice is a zygote who's possessed by the Devil who's [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere desperately trying]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards to escape her]].

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** Alice is a ''neonate'' neonate that dreams of about destroying the entire universe one day.
universe.
** Alice is a zygote who's possessed by the Devil an ancient EldritchAbomination who's [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere desperately trying]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards to escape her]].
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** Alice is the BigBad EnfantTerrible who plots the deaths of children from around the world.
** Alice is practically a ''neonate'' that dreams of destroying the universe one day.

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** Alice is the BigBad EnfantTerrible who plots the deaths of children from and adults around the world.
** Alice is practically a ''neonate'' that dreams of destroying the entire universe one day.
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** Alice is a zygote who's possessed by the Devil who's [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere desperately trying]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards to escape her]].
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** Alice is practically a ''neonate'', yet is an OmnicidalManiac.

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** Alice is practically a ''neonate'', yet is an OmnicidalManiac.''neonate'' that dreams of destroying the universe one day.
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* '''Conversed''': "Do you think the author created Alice as a representation of how [[ChildHater he feels about real-life children?]]"

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* '''Conversed''': "Do you think the author created Alice [[AuthorTract as a representation of how of]] [[ChildHater how he feels about real-life children?]]"

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**Alternatively, Alice is a 37-year-old ChildHater who only ''thinks'' that KidsAreCruel.



* '''Enforced''': The writer has a distaste for children and plans on portraying children as monsters.

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* '''Enforced''': The writer [[ChildHater has a distaste for children children]] and plans on portraying children as monsters.



* '''Defied''': "Yes, children can be downright mean but not all children are total sociopaths, so we're going to have something [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Alice would cross]]."

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* '''Defied''': "Yes, children can be downright mean but not all "No, children are ''not'' mean, let alone total sociopaths, so we're going to have something [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Alice would cross]]."



* '''Conversed''': "Do you think the author created Alice as a representation of how [[TruthInTelevision some children behave in real life?]]"

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* '''Conversed''': "Do you think the author created Alice as a representation of how [[TruthInTelevision some children behave in real life?]]"[[ChildHater he feels about real-life children?]]"
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'''Basic Trope''': Children are cruel, callous bullies.

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'''Basic Trope''': Children are portrayed as cruel, callous bullies.
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let's not go there


** [[IJustWantToHaveFriends Alice only acts that way to fit in with the crowd]].

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is an 12-year-old who bullies the younger kids.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is an a 12-year-old who bullies the younger kids.



** Alice has approached preadolescence or adolescence, a phase in life in which puberty is commonplace to begin, thus the human body starts to mature into that of an adult and the brain undergoes many complicated psychological changes.
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since that trope is listed as as inverse of Adults Are Useless on the latter's page I'm not sure it would be a good example to use on this page, so I'll just remove it.


** TeensAreMonsters

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** Alice only acts that way to fit in with the crowd.

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** [[IJustWantToHaveFriends Alice only acts that way to fit in with the crowd.crowd]].
** Alice has approached preadolescence or adolescence, a phase in life in which puberty is commonplace to begin, thus the human body starts to mature into that of an adult and the brain undergoes many complicated psychological changes.
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** TeensAreMonsters


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** Alice only acts that way to fit in with the crowd.

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* '''Defied''': "Yes, children can be downright mean but not all children are total sociopaths, so we're going to have something [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Alice would cross]]."



* '''Defied''': "Yes, children can be downright mean but not all children are total sociopaths, so we're going to have something [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Alice would cross]]."
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is an 11-year-old who bullies the other kids.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is an 11-year-old 12-year-old who bullies the other younger kids.

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