Creepy Child / Web Original

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• Amoridere
  • From Killerbunnies, we have Visceraline, who this also an Enfant Terrible. Going by her profile, she is a child with a fairly sadistic disposition and sees other people as "dollies" (Read: Toys for her do as she will) and is speculated to have had something to do with her parents' disappearance. There's also Jeanne and, while she is creepy, she's also unclear case in that we don't know if she is actually a child.
  • Violetta. At times, she can fall into this, but she's harmless, and what mostly gets to people (namely Sunflower) is that she is of Transylvanian decent (her ancestors can be traced back to ancient Transylvania) and looks similar to an archetypal vampire, coupled with the fact that Toki adopted her from an orphanage in said region. Aside from some strange interests and the looks, she is a fairly normal kid.
• ASDF Movie. "I like trains."
• Cameron in The Babysitter. He speaks seldomly, won't respond to the babysitter or his mother, watches the same YouTube video over and over again, and has a nasty habit of showing up behind people. Additionally, when he somehow summons the host of the show and his giant teddy bear sidekick, both dripping blood and sporting Slasher Smile's, he has no reaction; in fact, he seems happy, even after his babysitter is killed before his eyes and it is implied his mother is next.
• Ben Drowned: Ben thinks you shouldn't have put him here...
• In The Bloodletters (A Liveplay/Playtest Blades in the Dark campaign by game writer John Harper), one of the titular gang leaders is Oskarr Scurlock, a fourteen year old Whisper. He's described by his player as small and frail-looking, and is extremely scrawny from frequently forgetting to eat or care for himself in favor of his occult obsessions. One of his first goals was to to steal his vampire ancestor's personal demon away. When his gang takes over a tattoo parlor, he develops mystical tattoos and then covers himself with them. He's later seen working on magical masks made from human skin, nailed roughly to mannequins. He goes to underground nightclubs to relax where people are able to interact with, and be temporarily possessed by ghosts and eagerly joins in when someone develops a technique to temporarily separate a living person's spirit from their body. He also regularly sneaks around and does stuff on the sly, even during Scores, to the point where a running joke is that one of the other player characters doesn't actually think he does anything at all.
• Some of Brandon Farris' car vlogs involve him talking about his daughter Autumn and some of the strange things she does behind the scenes that scare him.
• In Bum Reviews, Chester A. Bum about a child actress Dakota Fanning: "I ALWAYS KNEW THAT SHE WAS A VAMPIRE! SHE ACTED LIKE SHE WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD WHEN SHE WAS FIVE!"
• Buzzfeed's "The Creepiest Things A Child Has Ever Said To A Parent".
• Katy Towell's Childrin R Skary IS this trope. One of the reasons she drew the art and made the animations was because she thought children were creepy.
• Parodied by CollegeHumor in "Horror Movie Daycare", which unites many of the creepy, satanic, possessed, ghost, and alien children of horror movies in the same daycare.
• MistBunny of Dark Dream Chronicle is a cute little girl who has tea parties and everything. She also just so happens to work for a certain tall, faceless gentleman. KarmA has stated that she really creeps him out.
• Defection: The roaming Fey, often seen outside school gates handing out lollipops to passing children.
• D from Entirely Presenting You is a young girl who knows how to drive, deals with drugs and gangs, and isn't above threatening others to get what she wants.
• The Fear Mythos gives us the Cold Boy, who sits around, singing nursery rhymes. He'll cut you off from those you love, or he could just freeze you to death. Yet he never seems evil. Just creepy. Then there's the Unnamed Child, a child whose victims break away from their family and friends to pursue it after it leaves them.
• Parodied in the Funny or Die sketch Scary Girl, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a child actress called Enid Krysinski who, no matter what the role, always plays a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl because that's what she's actually like. Her mother seems to find it adorable.
  Enid's Mom: Enid's always been very theatrical.
  Enid: [creepy whisper] I've been in almost EVERY...school play.
  [Cut to video of Enid's school production of Peter Pan]
  Peter Pan: Clap if you want Tinker Bell back. [sporadic clapping from audience] Tinker Bell...wherever you are...
  [Enid as Tinker Bell pops up behind him, apparently out of the ground. Screams from the audience.]
• How to Survive Camping:
  • The children with no wagon are described as having silent, creepy stares, which unnerve people enough that no one usually conducts business with them. While it is not quite clear what would happen if someone did, it does involve people getting skinned alive, liquids turning to blood, and the children getting "prey".
  • The little girl qualifies, although she's the polar opposite of the usual "unnervingly calm" examples of this trope, appearing at night to weep outside the owner's house all night long. She was arguably even more creepy when she still talked to Kate, either cheerfully singing about her brother being in danger or point-blank telling her that "nothing is safe, you just try to pretend otherwise". And let's not forget that time she was just calmly sitting in the bloody remains of Kate's mother...
• The Human Pet: Sam as a child, thanks to the poor treatment he received from his parents, leading for him to be quite messed up in the head. When met by a child psychologist, he is found in his room singing a children's song, and after killing him, the audience hears creepy child laughter.
• This little darling. Even if you don't read her (or should that be their?) backstory.
• In LISDEAD He appears to be one
• Tim from Marble Hornets when he was a kid. He would habitually go into bouts of panic and terror while he was being confined to the mental hospital, claiming that something was watching him even though his doctors could see nothing. He ran away from the hospital on multiple occasions in order to hide from it, ending up at Rosswood Park or in the maintenance tunnel from Entry #60. When the doctors locked him in his room after these escapes, he would scream and claw at the walls until he had to be sedated with his medication. In Entry #65, he appears to relapse briefly into this state.
• No Name Given, but the abused son in The Nostalgia Critic takes after his parents, burying Hyper alive, groping a Barbie doll and having fun at animal cruelty.
• A staple in Red Rover, in which the protagonist has to save the children of The Royce Institute For Exceptional Children — the ones still living. All of the children in question are peculiar in some manner, and deeply disturbed and/or disturbing.
• SCP Foundation
  • SCP-053 is a seemingly normal three-year-old girl. But there's a reason she's detained by the SCP Foundation. Something about her is deeply unsettling to adults and older children. Unsettling to the point that it induces violent rages, usually directed at her. Then, the moment they inflict any harm upon her, they die almost instantly and she regenerates rapidly from any injury they managed to inflict. Omnicidal Maniac SCP-682 seems to like her, though — and, as the label suggests, he holds a murderous hatred for all other living things.
  • SCP-899 is a spatial phenomenon that kidnaps regular children and turns them into this. And they will kill you.
  • All child SCP items are this trope. Strangely though very few of them are an outright Enfant Terrible, even 239, a Keter-class, isn't really evil, just naive and easily tricked into believing something is true/real and considering how her powers work.
• Slimecicle Cinematic Universe: In "We Spent 100 Days in a Hardcore Minecraft Apocalypse", Tommy probably qualifies as this. Even though he's a "child", or a teenager at most, he initially appears to be Seriously Scruffy^*To those of you that recognize it, he's using his Exile Stage 3 skin, is friends with some zombies and can speak to them, is weirdly interested in Charlie's brain and enjoys eating rotten flesh and blood over normal human food, and Charlie describes him as exuding a lot of red flags. It turns out Charlie's quite right about those red flags and Tommy's a lot more dangerous than he seems.
• Survival of the Fittest v2 has Brandon Cuthbert, a 12-year-old genius who skipped a few grades and is in highschool. Before getting sent to the island, he had a fascination with dissecting woodland creatures. And while on the island, he killed at least 3 different characters, including slicing one open after suffocating him to unconsciousness with an X-Box controller. It also happens in quite a few backstories for some characters.
• There Will Be Brawl: Ness and Lucas. And How!
• The Innocent: There are children waging war against adults, and they Take Over the World. In fact, this is the main story, so the title is basically a Non-Indicative Name.
• Twig has Sylvester, who's creepy in the sense that he enjoys picking out the psychological weaknesses of the adults around him and taking a sledgehammer to them, and Helen, who's creepy in that she doesn't actually have emotional reactions and is just faking them all the time with the skill of a Master Actor.
• Welcome to Night Vale has several, although people don't view all of them as creepy.
  • The City Council sends messages to Cecil through various mute, empty-eyed children. Cecil complains that he's never sure what to do with them once they've delivered the message by whatever means they're using this time, and asks if anyone wants one, before noticing he's disappeared.
  • When two boy scouts are going to receive the highest rank, Eternal Scout, hordes of creepy pale children appear and watch people silently. As the ceremony gets underway they attack and try to drag people away to whatever place they came from. Speaking of which, the boy scout ranks also include Blood Pact Scout, Dark Scout and Fear Scout, and include badges like Invisibility and Advanced Siege-Breaking Tactics.
  • Tamika Flynn is 12, and emerges from the Nightvale Summer Reading Program with a book well above a 12-year-old's reading level and the severed head of the Head Librarian — thus saving the children from whatever ghastly fate was in store for them at the hands of the librarians. She proceeds to read at a very high level while forming the children of the town into a resistance movement against Strexcrop while wearing the hand of a librarian around her neck to prove that she has already overcome the most fearsome of foes, and Cecil is completely on her side.
• Parodied in this fake advertisement for a casting company specializing in kids like this.

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