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Comic Books
"No, I wouldn't hurt children. I love them, they're my friends! Adults are the ones I hate."
— Toyman, Day of the Dollmaker
Wolverine: Bringing that thing back with us was a moment of weakness that Fantomex saved us from.
Deadpool: He murdered a kid.
Wolverine: He saved the world. We saved the world.
Deadpool: That doesn't help me.
Wolverine: Nothing can help you, Wade, because you're in this for all the wrong reasons. Let me save you a few years of psychotherapy and boil down your real dilemma: you're a tick, a bloodsucking mercenary with no heart, motivated solely by money.
Deadpool: [as he leaves] Yeah. But I never killed a kid.
Deadpool: He murdered a kid.
Wolverine: He saved the world. We saved the world.
Deadpool: That doesn't help me.
Wolverine: Nothing can help you, Wade, because you're in this for all the wrong reasons. Let me save you a few years of psychotherapy and boil down your real dilemma: you're a tick, a bloodsucking mercenary with no heart, motivated solely by money.
Deadpool: [as he leaves] Yeah. But I never killed a kid.
Films - Live Action
"Ken, if I had killed a little kid, - accidentally or otherwise - I wouldn't have thought twice; I'd have killed myself on the fucking spot. On the fucking spot. I'd have stuck the gun in my mouth on the fucking spot."
— Harry, In Bruges
The Master: Find them! They must not escape, find them!
Master's Wife: No! Leave them alone! We cannot kill a child!
Master's Wife: No! Leave them alone! We cannot kill a child!
Live Action TV
"Who are we killing? I won't do kids, that's a rule. But that rule is negotiable if the kid's a dick."
— Adrian Pimento, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Hitman: [looking at the photo of a kid] What's this?
Volker: It's the job.
Hitman: What do you want me to do with him?
Volker: What do you think?
Hitman: I can't do that.
Volker: What do you mean? Get up there now!
Hitman: No. Sorry. No kids. Never killed a kid. I'm not starting now.
Volker: I will bury you for this. You hear me?
Hitman: You do what you have to. But I'm not killing a little kid.
Volker: It's the job.
Hitman: What do you want me to do with him?
Volker: What do you think?
Hitman: I can't do that.
Volker: What do you mean? Get up there now!
Hitman: No. Sorry. No kids. Never killed a kid. I'm not starting now.
Volker: I will bury you for this. You hear me?
Hitman: You do what you have to. But I'm not killing a little kid.
— The Mentalist, "Little Red Corvette"
Steven: If Ammit judges people pre-evil, like, before the fact, then, isn't she judging an innocent person? I mean, a thought can't be evil, can it? I think about killing my boss all the time, but I wouldn't actually do it.
Arthur: Steven.
Steven: What about a child? Would she kill a child for something they might do in thirty years?
Arthur: I'm glad you mentioned that. Sometimes, the cure is a little taste of the disease. The difference between medicine and poison sometimes is only dosage. Consider a diseased limb. Amputation, horrific and grotesque, is necessary for the larger health.
Steven: But the child is not a diseased limb. Sorry, is that—is that what you're all into that, like, killing children and that? Maybe that's just me, but that's I kind of draw a line there at child murder.
Arthur: Steven.
Steven: What about a child? Would she kill a child for something they might do in thirty years?
Arthur: I'm glad you mentioned that. Sometimes, the cure is a little taste of the disease. The difference between medicine and poison sometimes is only dosage. Consider a diseased limb. Amputation, horrific and grotesque, is necessary for the larger health.
Steven: But the child is not a diseased limb. Sorry, is that—is that what you're all into that, like, killing children and that? Maybe that's just me, but that's I kind of draw a line there at child murder.
— Moon Knight (2022) episode 2 "Summon the Suit"
Tabletop Games
"Hatessss zircuz, zey srow sing atss you. Stay hidenz in dark placessss. Most of all you protectzez the childrenz from ze bad onez. Zey screemz when zey seez you, but you undrztanz, zey iz childrlez just zezame."
— Roleplaying notes for Tub Of Flesh, Midnight Circus
Video Games
Revolver Ocelot: This isn't over yet! (Turns around and runs)
Eva: (Raises gun)
Snake: Don't!
Eva: Why?
Snake: He's still young...
Eva: (Raises gun)
Snake: Don't!
Eva: Why?
Snake: He's still young...
Alejandro Sosa: I told you not to fuck me, and you did, Tony.
Tony Montana: There were kids in the fucking car, Alex! Innocent kids! What kind of animals you got working for you?
Sosa: I want to clear something up with you, Tony, before I kill you. When you move 400 kilos a month, it's imperative that you do kill children.
Tony Montana: There were kids in the fucking car, Alex! Innocent kids! What kind of animals you got working for you?
Sosa: I want to clear something up with you, Tony, before I kill you. When you move 400 kilos a month, it's imperative that you do kill children.
Black Manta: Heard you don't kill women or children.
Captain Cold: You could learn from the Rogues' code.
Black Manta: I don't leave witnesses.
Captain Cold: You could learn from the Rogues' code.
Black Manta: I don't leave witnesses.
Red Hood: Even I have limits.
Joker: Let's hear what you got.
Red Hood: No women and children. That's the rule.
Joker: Let's hear what you got.
Red Hood: No women and children. That's the rule.
Western Animation
Matt: What are you gonna do, Mister? Cut my heart out? Eat my liver?
Stalker: Don't be dramatic. You are merely bait.
Stalker: Don't be dramatic. You are merely bait.
"Oh, this is quite a predicament. On one hand I don't want to hurt you two, but in my other hand I HOLD A FLASH BOMB!!!" (throws flash bomb at Dewey and Webby, blinding them for the rest of the episode)
Father Bird: Today is the day I teach you how to poop on things.
Baby Bird: Over there papa? (points to a white car)
Father Bird: No, my son for that car is white and our poop would not show up well on it.
Baby Bird: Over there papa? (points to a bald man's head)
Father Bird: No, my son, that would be too obvious.
Baby Bird: Over there papa? (points to a baby in a stroller)
Father Bird: No, my son, for he is a child and children are innocent.
Baby Bird: Over there papa? (points to a white car)
Father Bird: No, my son for that car is white and our poop would not show up well on it.
Baby Bird: Over there papa? (points to a bald man's head)
Father Bird: No, my son, that would be too obvious.
Baby Bird: Over there papa? (points to a baby in a stroller)
Father Bird: No, my son, for he is a child and children are innocent.
Real Life
"Do not harm little children."
— The ninth rule of the Earth in the Church of LaVey
"This proclamation is to be read to the troops at roll-call, with the addition that the unit that catches a captain will also receive the appropriate reward, and that the shooting at women and children is to be understood as shooting above their heads, so as to force them to run [away]. I assume absolutely that this proclamation will result in taking no more male prisoners, but will not degenerate into atrocities against women and children. The latter will run away if one shoots at them a couple of times. The troops will remain conscious of the good reputation of the German soldier."
— Lothar von Trotha
