History WouldHurtAChild / LiveActionFilms

* Unsurprisingly, as it is set during [[UsefulNotes/TheSalvadoranCivilWar one of the bloodiest civil conflicts]] of the ColdWar in ''Film/{{Salvador}}'' many children are gruesomely murdered, including the brother of the protagonist's love interest, who is executed by the government forces for petty reasons.

* In ''Film/{{Cleanskin}}'', Amin, the assassin Nabil sends with Ash and Yussif to murder Coglin, not only murders Coglin's sister as part of his LeaveNoWitnesses M.O., but also murders her infant son.

--> '''Vicky:''' Let's send her a get-weAmin, the assassin Nabil sends with Ash and Yussif to murder Coglin, not only murders Coglin's sister as part of his LeaveNoWitnesses M.O., but also murders her infant son.ll card from Seattle.
* In ''Film/{{Cleanskin}}'',

--> '''Vicky:''' Let's send her a get-well card from Seattle.

* Exeggerated in ''Film/ChinaStrikeForce'', when TheDragon (played by Creator/MarkDacascos) shoots a woman ''and'' a baby to LeaveNoWitnesses.

** ''Film/IronMan1'': Iron Monger[[spoiler:/Obadiah Stane]] tries to hurl a van with children in it at Iron Man during their fight. He had enough time to notice there were kids in the bus before he threw it; [[MoralEventHorizon he just didn't care.]]
*** From the same movie, there's Raza and Abu of the Ten Rings who have their men storm an innocent villages in Afghanistan such as Gulmira and shoot and blow up defenceless women and children in their homes. Thankfully, Tony rocks up in some PoweredArmour and [[BigDamnHeroes puts a stop to it]].
** From [[Film/IronMan3 the third movie]], [[TheDragon Eric Savin]] holds Harley--a 10-year-old kid who was helping Tony fix his PoweredArmour--hostage when Tony gets caught under debris in an attempt to force him to hand over the file he stole. This naturally invokes a ''huge'' PapaWolf moment for Tony as he blasts Savin with his repulsor to save the kid.

** Ronan the Accuser from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' personally killed Drax's wife and daughter in cold blood. And ''[[KickTheDog laughed]]''.

** ''Film/AntMan1'': After [[spoiler: Darren Cross'/]]Yellowjacket's plans have been foiled, he [[spoiler: flies to Scott Lang's house and attempts to take his daughter hostage to draw him out.]]
** [[Characters/MCUSpiderMan Peter Parker]], being in his mid-teens, naturally endures this trope from many bad guys. Notably in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', [[spoiler: Quentin Beck/Mysterio not only nearly kills Peter, but is willing to blow up an entire bus of Peter's high school classmates when only ''three'' of them found out he was [[FakeUltimateHero a murderous terrorist pretending to be a hero.]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses He wasn't taking any chances.]]]]
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': [[spoiler: Ego the Living Planet killed ''thousands'' of his own offspring when they failed to inherit his godlike powers, stopping only when it turns out that [[Characters/MCUStarLord Peter]] did. Buried deep inside the planet is a literal ''mountain'' of children's skeletons, which Gamora and Nebula discover.]] Nebula, who's described as one of the galaxy's biggest sadists, [[EvenEvilHasStandards is completely horrified by the sight.]]

** Thanos from ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' is completely unbiased in which half of the universe [[WellIntentionedExtremist has to die]] in order to stop the oncoming OverpopulationCrisis. This includes children.
*** Thanos makes for an interesting example, however, as he does genuinely like kids. This is shown in the scene where he adopts (read: abducts) little Gamora, treating her like any adult would treat a lost child looking for their mom. [[TykeBomb Well]], [[ChildSoldiers at first]].
** PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', where Rhodey nonchalantly suggests that the best solution to restore the universe by going back in time is to ''strangle Baby Thanos to death''. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Bruce is understandably horrified by this.]]

** ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' has Dreykov who's in charge of the Red Room (the Black Widow Program) which puts little girls ''as young as three'' through TrainingFromHell and even forces them to undergo surgery to make them infertile. Judging by Natasha's accounts and interaction with Dreykov, he abused her, her sister Yelena, and other little girls in a variety of horrible ways. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Yelena blows up him up in the climax.]]
*** Natasha herself is a rare sympathetic example as to assassinate Dreykov in Budapest, she planted explosives in his office which also blew up his young daughter Antonia who was visiting him. This action severely haunted Nat for decades, [[spoiler: but turns out Antonia survived albeit severely burned and ReforgedIntoAMinion by her father.]]
** In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', [[spoiler: Wanda, having been consumed with power from the Darkhold, is determined to hunt down the 14-year-old America Chavez and steal her powers to find her children, not caring that the ritual would kill America.]]
** In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Gorr the God Butcher kidnapped the children of New Asgard just to lure Thor into battle, caging them like animals.

* Duguay's ''Film/BootCamp'' is about one of the [[TruthInTelevision very real "Tough Love" camps]] that parents send their misbehaving kids to for rehabilitation. Over the course of the movie, the teens get abused and brainwashed, one boy [[spoiler: drowns]], a girl [[spoiler: gets raped]] and three kids almost [[spoiler: get shot]]. A message during the credits mentions that the real camps had about 40 kids dead and an unclear number abused and/or traumatized by the time they got outlawed.

*** It's barely hinted at in the movie, but in the official {{novelization}}, [[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah Alan Jonah]] twice threatens Madison himself. First, when she snaps at him ("Bite me, dickhead!"), he puts his hand on his gun holster and tells her to be careful what she wishes for; then later, to cement Emma into obeying him, Jonah casually instructs one of his men to slit Madison's throat if Emma takes one step out of line.

** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': A renegade and sociopathic Russian general, [[GeneralRipper General Orlov]] plans to invade Western Europe by nuking a US military base in West Germany by using Octopussy's circus as a cover. He [[LackOfEmpathy isn't bothered]] by the fact that thousands of civilians, including children, would die as a result.

** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', BigBad Lyustifer Safin, in the very first scene of the movie, tried to kill a young Madeleine Swann after he broke into her house to kill her father; however, being the daughter of [=SPECTRE=]'s infamous assassin Mr. White, Madeleine [[LittleMissBadass was able to fight him back with a gun and escaped.]] Years later, Safin kidnaps Madeleine and [[spoiler: her infant daughter Mathilde]] and brings them to his IslandBase to draw out Bond. [[spoiler: It gets even worse in the climax when Safin injects Bond with {{nanomachines}} coded to Madeleine and Mathilde's [=DNA=], ensuring that Bond would [[OffingTheOffspring kill them]] if he ever went back to be with his love and child.]]

* ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': Jadis in the Battle of Beruna. [[spoiler: She stabs Edmund when he smashes her wand]] and duels with Peter with the full intent of killing him. Overall Jadis's whole plan involves killing the children.

** ''Film/IronMan'': Iron Monger[[spoiler:/Obadiah Stane]] tries to hurl a van with children in it at Iron Man during their fight. He had enough time to notice there were kids in the bus before he threw it; [[MoralEventHorizon he just didn't care.]]
*** From the same movie there’s Raza and Abu of the Ten Rings who have their men storm an innocent villages in Afghanistan such as Gulmira and shoot and blow up defenceless women and children in their homes. Thankfully Tony rocks up in some PoweredArmour and puts a stop to it.
** From [[Film/IronMan3 the third movie]], [[TheDragon Eric Savin]] holds Harley—a kid who was helping Tont fix his PoweredArmour—hostage when Tony gets caught under debris in an attempt to force Tony to hand over the file he stole. This naturally invokes a ''huge'' PapaWolf moment for Tony as he blasts Savin with his repulsor to save the kid.
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': When interrogating the church keeper during the beginning of the film, Red Skull threatens to kill everyone in his village if he doesn't tell him where the Tesseract is, including his potential grandchildren.
** Ronan the Accuser from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' personally killed Drax's wife and daughter in cold blood. And ''[[KickTheDog laughed.]]''

** [[Characters/MCUSpiderMan Peter Parker,]] being in his mid-teens, naturally endures this trope from many bad guys.

** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': Ghost decides to kidnap Scott's daughter to force him to comply. Subverted when her only ally puts his foot down and says in no uncertain terms that she is ''not'' allowed to do that. Ghost ends up finding another way.

*** Thanos makes for an interesting example however, as he does genuinely like kids. This is shown in the scene where he adopts (read: abducts) little Gamora, treating her like any adult would treat a lost child looking for their mom. [[TykeBomb Well]], [[ChildSoldiers at first]].

** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': [[spoiler: Quentin Beck/Mysterio is willing to blow up an entire bus of high school kids when only ''three'' of them found out he was [[FakeUltimateHero a murderous terrorist pretending to be a hero.]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses He wasn't taking any chances.]]]]
** ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' has Dreykov who’s in charge of the Red Room (the Black Widow Program) which puts little girls ''as young as three!'' through TrainingFromHell and even puts under surgery to make them infertile. Judging by Natasha’s accounts and interaction with Dreykov he abused her, her sister Yelena and other little girls in a variety of horrible ways. [[spoiler: Thankfully Yelena blows up him up in the climax.]]

** In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', [[spoiler: Wanda, having been consumed with power from the Darkhold, is determined to hunt down America Chavez and steal her powers to find her kids, not caring that the ritual would kill America despite the latter being a child.]]

** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', a group of Jedi younglings turn to Anakin Skywalker for aid during the raid on the Jedi Temple, unaware that [[FallenHero Anakin is the one leading the raid]]. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Cue the ignition of Anakin's lightsaber.]] That wasn't Anakin's first time, either; in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' he slaughtered a tribe of [[DesertBandits Sand People]] ("Not just the men, but the women and children too!") in revenge for his mother's death. In the ContinuityReboot SpinOff ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', he does it ''again'' when he [[NeckSnap snaps a child's neck]] while mass-murdering civilians in an attempt to draw out Obi-Wan.

* ''Film/JonahHex'': Several of the villains. Quentin Turnbull ''deliberately'' waits until some unsuspecting families come up to his bombs before detonating them.

** ''Film/ManOfSteel'': During his final rampage, General Zod ends up in an arm lock by Superman and starts using his EyeBeams to try frying a human family, including children. Superman has no choice but to NeckSnap him to stop him.

* In ''Film/SupermanII'', Zod’s crossing of the MoralEventHorizon (at least on-screen) was murdering a young boy for simply disobeying his order not to leave town, furiously hurling a police car siren he had torn free at the youth, who was fleeing on horseback. (The death wasn’t shown, but given the great distance the impact could be seen and heard from, it likely wasn’t pretty.)