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• In Adventure Time, Goliad becomes this after spending time at a daycare and seeing displays of authority and power succeed where diplomacy fails. This is especially bad since she's an immortal with Psychic Powers up the wazoo.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: Anais is revealed to have been this as an infant in the episode "The Rival". Within minutes of being born, she shoved Gumball and Darwin out of a moving car, attempted to kill them on several occasions, and got them in trouble with their parents. She's a lot more mellow in the present day, however.
• Amphibia: Polly, who is 5 years old, loves fighting everyone and everything and has no patience or sense of politeness. Anne thinks it's because she was Raised by Dudes, but it isn't.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: A young princess Azula (as seen in flashbacks) skillfully combines an angelic smile with both Creepy Child and Enfant Terrible behaviour (read: smirking at her grandfather Azulon's funeral and telling Zuko that their father is going to kill him, the latter of which was sadly true).
  Azula: My own mother thought I was a monster. She was right, of course, but it still hurt.
• Barbie and the Secret Door has Malucia, who plans to take over the world at age 10 and uses a magic-draining scepter to scary effect.
• In Batman: The Animated Series, Baby-Doll is a washed-up actress with a bizarre debilitating condition that makes her look permanently like a child regardless of her age. The fact that no one takes her seriously as an adult ruins her life, and she becomes insanely fixated on the mannerisms and environment of her one successful role. Therapy can help, and she's actually pretty nice when she's not crazy, as in "Love is a Croc". She just has a big Berserk Button.
• Bébé's Kids: The titular kids, three young delinquents who cause trouble and eventually the whole amusement park to fall apart towards the end.
• Beetlejuice: Claire Brewster is a narcissist whose attempts to humiliate Lydia Deetz would work if not for the Ghost With The Most.
• Ben 10 has Ben's Evil Counterpart, eleven-year-old sociopath Kevin 11, who is willing to kill hundreds of innocent civilians as part of a heist attempt in his first appearance (all previous villains on the show have fairly standard Saturday Morning Supervillain plots, Kevin's was the first to really be over the line by Ben's standards) and just gets crazier from there. Unlike most examples of this trope, Kevin actually grows out of it in the sequel series. Kevin's also a Human/Osmosian hybrid, and the Osmosian tendency to go bonkers when absorbing energy doesn't help his sanity.
• Big Hero 6: The Series: Richardson Mole takes this to extremes. At the ripe old age of ELEVEN, he's already cut the power to Fred's house over a comic book, sexually harassed Go Go almost every time he's on screen, was perfectly willing to trap Alistair Krei inside Momokase's (who's been mutated, by the way) lair over a petty disagreement, abused Big Hero 6's power as Mayor for a Day, and joined forces with the Supersonics after Big Hero 6 finally ignored him. Yeah, no wonder Fred hates him.
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is shown to be an enfant terrible in "The Birth of Rock and Roll, or: Too Hip For The Womb". The boys are consigned to the young Mozart as he's needed for a school project on music.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • Louise Belcher is an adorable little nine-year-old girl with a bunny-ears hat on all the time... and has a dominating personality, precocious intelligence, the ability to be quite cold and calculating, and an occasional streak of meanness and greed that none of her family seem to have. She's not genuinely evil, just childishly, comically inconsiderate of other people's feelings with an inflated sense of self, like plenty of children her age. But when it's funny, she can get up to some really villainous hijinks, like bullying three of her peers into painting art which she then sells for absurd prices without paying them anything, while claiming to be operating a charity for "deformed orphans."
  • In "Ears-y Rider", a teenage bully stole her bunny-ears hat, so she convinced a biker gang to threaten to slice one of the guy's ears off. They weren't actually going to do it, to her great disappointment, just pretend to scare the kid straight... she didn't know that.
  • Kendra from "Sit Me Baby One More Time" seems sweet, but she turns out to have a lot of creepy habits, like talking through her teddy bear, Mr. Boom-Boom, and trying to kick people in the "tinkle-dink" when they make her mad.
• The Boondocks episode "Smokin' with Cigarettes" featured Lamilton Taeshawn, a psychotic young boy from a broken family who lived with his grandmother. He claimed he did terrible things, not for sympathetic reasons, but because he liked to cause people to crash in their cars, break people's arms, and assault elderly people including his grandmother. He killed a dog and later attempted to kill Riley when Riley told him he didn't want to be friends anymore.
  • The character of Lamilton was based on a boy named Latarian Milton, who stole his grandmother's car at the tender age of seven. When asked why, he responded "I want to do it because it's fun. It's fun to do bad things. I wanted to do hoodrat stuff with my friends," one of whom "smokes with cigarettes". The next month, young Latarian was back in the news — for beating up the same grandmother in Wal-Mart because she wouldn't buy him chicken wings. He was subsequently arrested.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: The Delightful Children from Down the Lane. Not only have they attempted to kill the main characters, but they also reached a whole new level of creepy in season four when they were going to eat a cake made from other children. Although in The Movie it turns out they were Brainwashed and Crazy.
• The Cuphead Show!: In "Baby Bottle", while the titular infant at first simply seems to act out of mischievousness, its mayhem soon becomes motivated by simple malice — especially if it's called a "bad baby" — and it's shown to be capable of easily tossing furniture around and beating up grown adults.
• Cybersix: José is the clone and "son" of the show's Big Bad, and carries out his father's plans in almost every episode. He's also a stuck up, ill-tempered, and bossy little boy.
• Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter's Dad when he and Dexter's Mom are turned into toddlers. During that time, Dad took pleasure at beating up Mom with Dexter's inventions.
• Donald Duck: Pete Jr. in "Bellboy Donald" mercilessly abuses Donald for no reason at all, including tricking him, exploiting the fact Donald is disallowed by his boss to do anything about it, trapping him in midair in an elevator even after he begs to be let down, and sending him electric shocks through tampered wiring. Donald gets to spank him in the end. Fifty years later, the concept of a Peter Jr. shows up again as a diffident, obedient underdog with a completely different appearance.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • Louie gladly admits to being the "evil triplet", but this is downplayed quite a bit, usually expressing as him being lazier and less scrupulous than his brothers.
  • Doofus Drake is introduced in "Day of the Only Child!" as a Spoiled Brat who spends the massive fortune he inherited from his beloved "Gumeemama" Frances indulging his every childish whim and treating other people (including his own parents) as either servants or playthings.
• Sarah from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Ed's little sister. She enjoys beating up the whole main trio, especially Eddy, who are all older than her and boys, for goodness' sake. Normally, she wears a facade that makes her looks sweet and nice, but she very often uses the argument of "telling mom" (and others, which include her attempting to suffocate herself) to manipulate Ed.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • Foop is a magical G-rated version of Stewie.
  • Remy, who mostly wanted to make Timmy miserable because he was not as happy as Timmy.
  • One of Cosmo's and Wanda's former godchildren, Maryann, was responsible for abusing their magic to cause the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which caused World War I.
• Stewie Griffin from Family Guy is a comedy example; he's a sarcastic, ranting evil genius with a homicidal grudge against his mother, and he's only one-year-old.
  • Maybe Eliza Pinchley. Vowed to viciously kill Lois and meant every single word... She hasn't actually attempted it, though, and her character will probably never return to Family Guy.
  • Also Bertram, who in his most recent appearance has become an Omnicidal Maniac.
  • And Penelope (voiced by Cate Blanchett), who is much like Stewie in the early days, except even more brutal, bloodthirsty, and sociopathic. She even managed to do something Stewie was unsuccessful at — killing her own mother.
• Li'l Gideon from Gravity Falls. In his debut episode, he is so attached to Mabel that he actually attempts to kill Dipper after the latter tells him that Mabel doesn't want to go on any more dates with him, thinking that Dipper has "come between" him and Mabel. He is also extremely crazy about obtaining the Mystery Shack, going as far as summoning a demon to enter Stan's mind and retrieve the combination to a safe containing the Mystery Shack deed in order to get it. He also attempts to kidnap Mabel in a giant robot in the season 1 finale.
• Mandy from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, despite having a Deadpan Snarker and Emotionless Girl personality, is young enough and psychopathic enough to qualify.
• Harvey Beaks has the titular character's baby sister, Michelle, who is quite the troublemaker for her age.
• The 2015 Inspector Gadget cartoon gives Dr. Claw a nephew named Talon, who is all too eager to follow in his uncle's footsteps.
• Gaz from Invader Zim is a little girl who is constantly glaring and scowling at others, bullies her brother, and torments other people for any perceived slight. Even Zim thinks she's scary.
• Heloise in Jimmy Two-Shoes. She's a 14 year old girl who works in Misery Inc. as top inventor to create dangerous products for misery and she loves to destroy stuff. She is also easily angered and hates nearly everyone but the titular character.
• Mr. Cat from Kaeloo isn't actually an adult; according to the 34th episode, he's Younger Than He Looks and is less than 13-years-old. He's also a psycho who threatens people with weapons for petty reasons, bullies his own friends and displays several signs of Troubling Unchildlike Behavior.
• Fun Gus from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is essentially a small child (albeit one who happens to be a mass of mutant fungus), and just wants to play with anyone who comes by. Forever. He treats people as if they're toys rather than real, terrified individuals with lives, and is perfectly willing to kidnap them, getting very angry and violent when they try to escape.
• All of the main cast in Lil' Bush. Then again, they're Strawman Political Spinoff Babies based on real politicians.
• Cicero, Porky’s nephew from Looney Tunes Cartoons is a mean, sadistic, destructive little pig, who likes to inflict all kinds of torture, suffering, and pain on his uncle, and likes to vandalize and destroy property, getting Porky in trouble, all while feigning innocence.

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• Vendetta from Making Fiends isn't particularly cute, nor is she a Devil in Plain Sight, but BOY is she sociopathic. She lives up to her name, overuses the word "stupid", can make horrifying monsters out of everyday objects, shrunk her own parents down to rodent size while growing her hamster to human size, enjoys nothing more than to see others suffer, rules Clamburg with an iron fist, and couldn't be more than ten.
• In Miraculous Ladybug, Big Bad Hawk Moth has the ability to grant people superpowers by keying into and amplifying their negative emotions. He typically Akumatizes teenagers or adults, but on the occasions that he targets children, they're no less of a threat.
  • Manon was frustrated about losing a game against Marinette when Hawk Moth found her, and since it was Marinette playing as Ladybug and Cat Noir versus Manon playing as the villains, she was already more than willing to attack the actual heroes. He Akumatizes her again in "The Puppeteer 2", and this time it is implied to have been a willing Akumatization on her part.
  • Baby August maintained his childlike innocence and wouldn't take Hawk Moth's directions to attack Ladybug and Cat Noir, but a baby the size of a building can't really help but do some serious damage.
  • Alya's twin little sisters Ella and Etta were frustrated at being disciplined by their older sister, and Hawk Moth took the opportunity to Akumatize them into a pair of monsters called the Sapotis that multiply by eating.
  • Nino's little brother Chris is Akumatized into a villain armed with a Reality-Changing Miniature named Christmaster when he grows impatient for Christmas presents.
  • In "Kuro Neko", Shadow Moth (the new name that Hawk Moth goes by at this point in the series) creates the titular Sentimonster for a young girl named Rythm who was saddened at her cat going missing, and she has it wreak havoc across Paris and attack the show's titular heroes. A notable case in that Rythm was not Akumatized, meaning she was working with Shadow Moth willingly, although it's likely that Shadow Moth manipulated her into doing so in a more mundane sense.
  • As part of his plan to finally defeat the show's titular heroes once and for all in the first half of the season 4 finale, Shadow Moth Akumatizes a little boy called Froggy into a supervillain named Risk. Unlike most Akumatized villains, Risk doesn't confront the heroes directly until they catch on to the fact that he's Akumatized, but as befitting his supervillain moniker, his power removes peoples' sense of caution and influences them into taking potentially dangerous risks.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • There's Diamond Tiara, who regularly bullies Apple Bloom for not having her cutie mark. In a later episode, she forces the Cutie Mark Crusaders to continue their tabloid racket with the threat of leaking out embarrassing photos of them. In another, she bullies young pegasus Scootaloo for being unable to fly, which may or may not be a disability. She grows out of it in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark," when it's revealed her mother was the root of her bullying and she stands up to her, expressing her desire to have friends.
  • From the Season 8 finale, Cozy Glow actually has plans to take over Equestria and almost succeeds.
• An episode of Nightmare Ned had a doll-sized Ned being tormented by a pair of twin cousins in one of his nightmares which is no spoiler. They weren't half as bad in reality.
• The Collector from The Owl House has the appearance and personality of a playful, if somewhat malicious, child, though in reality they are an ageless entity of unimaginable power. All they seem to want to do is play, though their definition of “fun and games” can easily end up in mass desctuction and genocide. Though later is revealed that this is less because of evil and more in that he doesn't understand things like death, thinking that people are like toys that you can fix if they break.
• Harold, the nephew of Mayor Humdinger from the PAW Patrol special "Mighty Pups" counts, being willing to help out his uncle with his plan to steal a meteor from a museum. He also trapped Ryder inside The Lookout to stop him from interfering, and later betrayed his uncle and stole the meteor for himself, using the power he got from it to create a Humongous Mecha for himself and using it to round up the PAW Patrol pups. At the end, he and his uncle are forced to clean up the mess Harold made around Adventure Bay with the mecha as punishment for their actions.
• Flick Duck of PB&J Otter is a mild example. He generally behaves very sweetly and nicely around adults, with "Yes, sir" and "No, ma'am" and all of that, but often gets up to mischief the second he's out of their sight, or at least he thinks he is. He's not without a conscience, though, and can also sometimes be genuinely friendly and nice.
• Emperor Breet from the Pet Alien episode "Evil Emperor" is a small alien who resembles a six-year-old child. He's also a vicious tyrant who wants to enslave the Earth and has apparently fought the aliens numerous times before the series, to the point where they consider him their Arch-Enemy. Discussed by Tommy and Dinko:
  Tommy: You're afraid of a little kid?
  Dinko: Oh, that's no kid, Tommy of Earth. That's Emperor Breet, the vilest, meaniest, stinkiest alien in the whole galaxy! You can tell by the horns! The horns hidden in... his... head!
  Tommy: Oh, puh-lease! He's six years old!
  Dinko: Evil comes in many colors, shapes and sizes, Tommy of Earth.
• Phineas and Ferb: Little Suzy Johnson, Jeremy's little sister, acts sweet and innocent in the eyes of her brother, but when she crosses paths with his girlfriend, Candace, she shows what's Beneath the Mask, when Jeremy isn't looking. She is also apparently the most horrible thing in the world to Buford, the local bully, who all the other kids fear.
• Diesel Oyl, the niece of Olive Oyl on the Al Brodax Popeye cartoons. She acts innocent around her aunt, but she likes to cause mischief and inflicts a lot of pain and torture on Popeye when he babysits her.
• Princess Morbucks from The Powerpuff Girls. A wealthy and spoiled bully.
• Presumably, Evil Julian from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. He's an Evil Counterpart to Julian, a 9th-grader, which would mean that Evil Julian would be as old as him. That aside, he becomes the Big Bad of Season 2, and he's really unsettling in general.
• In The Real Ghostbusters Fritz actually complains about how often creepy kids show up, right before an attack by three more evil ghost kids.
• Ren Hoek of The Ren & Stimpy Show was portrayed as one of these in the Adult Party Cartoon episode "Ren Seeks Help". As a child, he was playing innocent to his parents, but without supervision, he is shown torturing and killing animals. He gets away with it until one of his victims (a frog) tells his parents about what he's been doing. After some lecturing on the horrible things he's done, they tell him the only thing he can do for the frog is put it out of its misery - rather than do this, he chooses to let the frog go and suffer more, leading to its eventual suicide.
• Rick and Morty:
  • Evil Morty, the 14-year-old alternate reality version of Morty from "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", is revealed to be the one responsible for the deaths of dozens of Ricks and the enslavement and torture of dozens of Mortys across multiple universes. He also presumably murdered his own Rick and replaced him with a robot.
  • "The ABC's of Beth" reveal that Beth was this as a child, which she's in denial about in the present. She pushed a neighborhood kid into a pool of honey and left him for dead in a Pocket Dimension created by Rick, apparently just because she was jealous that he had a father who paid attention to him. When Rick says the point of the place was to keep the other kids safe from Beth, she doesn't believe him, causing Rick to go on a rant showing her some toys he made for her in her youth.
    Rick: Look at some of the shit you asked me to make you as a kid: ray-guns, a whip that forces people to like you, invisibility cuffs, a parent trap, a lightning gun, a teddy bear with anatomically correct innards, night vision googly eye glasses, sound erasing sneakers, false fingerprints, fall asleep darts, a lie detecting doll, an indestructible baseball bat, a taser shaped like a ladybug, a fake police badge, location tracking stickers, rainbow colored duct tape, mind control hair clips, poison gum, a pink sentient switchblade.
  • The Lucky Charms/Trix parody commercial from "Rixty Minutes" features a cheerful leprechaun being pinned down and disemboweled by completely emotionless evil children who rip out his intestines and eat the cereal out of his runny innards while he screams in agony and begs to die. Even Morty is left horrified by it. Just what kind of fucking universe is this level of extreme torture on a sapient being considered lighthearted children's entertainment!?
• Robot Chicken: A sketch has a Faux Affably Evil little girl who kidnaps a Pegasus, cuts off his wings, and whips him until he answers to the name "Sunny Muffins". She also did the same thing to a griffin.
• Three-year-old Angelica Pickles, of Rugrats, is mean to the babies but sweetness and light to the adults. By the time of All Grown Up!, set 10 years later, she is less able to get away with this.
  • Then there's her dreamed up baby brother of horror, that for the sake of identification will be called Drewie. Be glad that that hell baby wasn't a real Rugrats character.
  • Speaking of real Rugrats characters, there's Josh, the title character in the episode "New Kid in Town" who picks on the babies and at one point almost kills them, only to get stood up by, of all people, Angelica.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Princess Frosta, starting from her second appearance, acts like a normal 11-year-old, enjoying fighting and not caring the least about authority, but has ice powers and is perfectly willing to punch anyone with them.
• Maggie from The Simpsons has exhibited increasingly severe cases of Troubling Unchildlike Behavior.
  • "Treehouse of Horror VII" has Bart's Evil Twin Hugo: "A routine soul smear revealed the presence of pure evil." But since Bart does pranks on a regular basis, it then turns out that Bart was the evil twin and the results had been mixed up.
  • Speaking of Bart, "I Married Marge" shows that he mooned Doctor Hibbert and Marge on the ultrasound. When he was ten minutes old, he set Homer's tie on fire with a lighter.
  • Sideshow Bob's infant son Gino not only inherited his father's palm tree hair but also his murderous hatred of the Simpsons and love of knives.
• 6teen has Stanley, a young boy who attacks people with a ball launcher, embarrasses and insults anyone he doesn’t like, and destroys mall property. The worst part? His mom knows what he’s doing, and lets him get away with it.
• Scruple in The Smurfs (1981); Gargamel's apprentice was put under Gargamel's custody because of his bad behavior even for witches' standards.
• Many of the younger South Park characters have moments of this:
  • Cartman, the racist, bigoted, murderous, self-centered Villain Protagonist. While his attempts at being cute aren't always very successful, he is still without a doubt, the most manipulative character in the show and is quite sociopathic, no doubt.
  • Wendy Testaburger in the episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty", in which she gets hot substitute teacher Ms. Ellen shot into the sun by Iraqis in a fit of jealousy.
  • Professor Chaos! Bringer of destruction and doom! Although he isn't that threatening and is more likely to Poke the Poodle than Kick the Dog.
  • Possibly Ike, who helped pull off a jewel heist by pretending to be an innocent boy with an injury.
• Onion of Steven Universe is mostly just a Creepy Child, but can be outright dangerous, having threatened Mayor Dewey with a baseball bat, stolen numerous things, and attempted to commit arson. Steven expresses concern that Onion could eventually end up in prison. The characters are so used to his behavior that they have been known to treat it extremely casually, to the point that that Amethyst outright uses his attempt to set a rollercoaster on fire as a distraction in "Too Short To Ride".
• Charles aka Brainchild from The Tick, a ludicrously intelligent kid (he mastered quantum physics before he could walk, among other things) whose desire to become a Card-Carrying Villain is met with benign acceptance by his hippie family.
• Professor Princess from Transformers: Animated dresses and acts like a young girl, but has a psychotic obsession with destroying "violent" toys, in one instance deactivating Angry Archer's explosive arrows because they were too destructive. However, she uses a wand-like item that destroys things in a blast of sparkles and flowers. Apparently, if there are flowers it's okay.
• Velma: Apparently, Velma was so awful as a child that her dad thought that she drove her mom away from them alongside him being a bad spouse. Her behavior ran from bullying her mother regularly to pushing Daphne away from her party (and stealing her cake) just because she wasn't paying attention only to her.
• WordGirl has the Birthday Girl, a girl who's greed is so strong, that she thinks everyday is her birthday. She grows when things don't go her away, shouting "MINE!" constantly. She had to be reasoned with if to do generous things she were to shrink back to her original size.

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