Basic Trope: An evil child.
- Straight: Bob is an evil ten-year-old.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is a two-year-old Complete Monster.
- Fetus Terrible
- All the children in the series are evil.
- Downplayed:
- Kids Are Cruel.
- Creepy Child.
- Bob is an evil teenager.
- Bratty Half-Pint.
- Bob is a ten-year-old Noble Demon.
- Justified:
- Bob doesn't know how evil his actions are, because he's just a kid.
- Bob is constantly abused.
- Bob is a Tyke Bomb and/or Child Soldier
- Bob is The Antichrist.
- Bob has a mental illness
- Bob is not human.
- Inverted:
- Subverted:
- Bob appears to be evil, but we learn he's only pretending so that he can infiltrate an organization consisting of actual evil children.
- Bob is actually an immortal creature who pretends to be a human child.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob performs a Face–Heel Turn so that he can defeat Alice, the leader of said organization, and stays evil.
- Bob is still quite young for his species standards.
- Parodied: Bob goes to a camp every summer where the counselors teach the campers how to be evil.
- Zig Zagged: Bob is your average villain until he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn. He goes to a measure of goodness that rivals that of the The Hero's. In order to defeat the Big Bad, Alice, Bob must perform a Face–Heel Turn. Eventually Bob crosses the Moral Event Horizon.
- Averted:
- Bob is a child, but he's not evil.
- Bob is an evil adult.
- Bob is an Anti-Hero.
- Enforced:
- One of the writers decided to make Bob a villain because there are too many Kid Heroes in the series.
- The writers decide that to make things fair, the Kid Hero should fight a kid villain.
- Lampshaded:
- "No matter what horrible thing I do, I will get away with it! You know why? Cuz I'm still a child and no one ever suspects children! Delicious!!"
- "You're going in time-out for fifteen to life once I get my hands on you, little boy!"
- Invoked: Alice decides to use a mind control device so that more kids can join her organization of evil children. Bob is one of these who is affected by the device.
- Defied: Before he was born, Bob's more heroic father Charles did everything in his power to make sure that Bob wouldn't be born evil.
- Exploited: Because he's a kid, people don't know he's evil when they look at Bob, since he's cute. Bob uses this to get away with his crimes.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "There aren't many evil kids in real life." "Yeah, keep telling yourself that, buddy!!"
- Deconstructed:
- Bob is caught because he does not have the intelligence or resources of an adult.
- No matter how cunning Bob is, he still has the mind of a young child and ended doing schemes that any adult Big Bad knows there’s more munndane solutions. As a result, he ended up in thin ice and avoided getting caught thanks to the police not believing a innocent child would do such deeds more than once.
- Reconstructed: Bob does not get caught because he has top level intelligence and the wisdom to back it up. He compensates for lack of resources with truly fearsome cunning .
- Played For Laughs: All of Bob's crimes fall in the territory of Felony Misdemeanor, like, for example, stealing cookies from the cookie jar.
- Played For Drama: When the government finds out Bob's evil, they send an entire team to find him, and they have to take Bob away from his parents.
- Implied: The fact that Bob has been committing crimes for decades despite not being very old, implies that he started doing them when he was a child.
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