# More children needed to get eaten up in monster movies (Godzilla 2014 spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441 "2016-02-18T13:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/21 "2016-02-19T04:11:23Z")
This is one of the points where the game industry has left Hollywood in the dust. Game writers understand how emotionally evocative children can be, and they’re generally not afraid to treat child-characters the same way they’d treat adults. Without getting too much into spoiler territory, _The Last of Us_ is pretty brutal in this regard. I’ve seen people put down the controller and cry. I think the crown probably goes to _The Secret World_, though, which has a nightmarish assortment of ways to play the child card. One particular story has you searching for two missing children. You talk to their little friends in a camp, who are afraid they got lost in the woods. No, it turns out they were kidnapped by an evil megacorp that wanted to experiment on them. So you trace the goons, only to find them dead. The kids escaped and are lost again, but they were implanted with tracking chips. You trace them through some horrible places then find…the chips. In a large pool of blood. To quote the game directly, “Trudging through the Transylvanian snow, they knew something would save them, just like in the stories. But alas, sweetling. These fairy tales are like the old kind. They all end in blood and the deep, deep dark.” Later on, you see the lab they were being taken to and could be forgiven for thinking they were probably better off getting eaten. For your Fridge Horror needs, it’s clear after reading the experimental records that some of the monsters you end up killing in the lab were children who had been experimented on. There’s also a little boy who sits alone in a playground in the middle of the most haunted, monster-infested district of Tokyo. (He’s alone because he _scares the shit out of the monsters_.) Then there’s the doomsday cult with cheerful anime characters on the walls, the underground clubhouse full of infected kids, and the little girls who have left a number of fans with a phobia of parking garages… ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/22 "2016-02-19T04:55:57Z")
> [@baker](#): > > in tom hank’s movie _turner and hooch_, the dog hooch dies, which surprised me. But hooch had got it on with the vet’s collie before he was killed, so he left pups. SPOILERS!!! (all caps) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/23 "2016-02-19T05:00:28Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > This is one of the points where the game industry has left Hollywood in the dust. Game writers understand how emotionally evocative children can be, and they’re generally not afraid to treat child-characters the same way they’d treat adults. Try to kill an annoying kid in Fallout 3-4. Can’t. Try to kill an annoying adult. Maybe can’t if they’re marked critical to the game, but probably can. Years earlier there were plenty of games that didn’t shy away from letting you do so (including the Fallout series), these days they’re too afraid the ESRB will give them and AO, and or that on a slow news day Nancy Grace will discover their “child massacre simulator”. Ever wonder why there aren’t any kids in GTA games? Even ones where you can find playground equipment? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/24 "2016-02-19T05:14:29Z")
I remember one of the Mothra movies where maybe 20% of the movie shows whole city blocks crumbling like a stack of playing cards. But they bothered to include a classic collapsing-bridge-with-a-helpless-human-somehow-stuck-in-the-middle (this time a baby in a bassinet.) The baby lived (at least at the end of that one scene.) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/25 "2016-02-19T05:50:35Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Try to kill an annoying kid in Fallout 3-4. Can’t. There are mods that can fix that. Skyrim, too. Just sayin’… That said, in non-modded Fallout 3, there’s a surprisingly effective scene where a house robot reads the bedtime poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” to a child – who’s been a skeleton for 200 years. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/26 "2016-02-19T15:16:13Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > SPOILERS!!! > > (all caps) Don’t worry about it. Don’t ever watch the movie. They get you emotionally invested in this goddamn dog and then BAM! I don’t wanna watch that shit. Didn’t I have enough of it with Old Yeller? ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/27 "2016-02-19T15:37:02Z")
Reviews that I’ve read for _The Witch_, opening this weekend let slip that there is at least one very unpleasant kid death. I don’t think I’ve ever heard “There Will Come Soft Rains” described as a bedtime poem before. Maybe if the goal is to keep the kid awake all night. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/28 "2016-02-19T22:22:15Z")
They totally stole that from Bradbury. But hey, it works. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/29 "2016-02-19T22:40:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > **Skald** , would it be a problem for you if the death is off-screen, and the children in question are ones we haven’t met in detail? I don’t want to watch any kids dying. I gave up on WALKING DEAD for a while when it seemed that baby Judith had been eaten by walkers. but at least that was offscreen. And when, in the 2016 midseason premiere, the annoying little boy was eaten alive, though he was really annoying and brought about his own death and his mother’s with his stubborn whining I had to turn away. But, again, that’s my issue. I wouldn’t call for a boycott of a movie or TV show depicting suchg a thing; I just won’t watch it. But I’m not unique in this. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/30 "2016-02-19T22:45:49Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I can’t wait for a sequel, hell, I’m excited to see Ultraman Um… ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/31 "2016-02-19T23:08:15Z")
Didn’t one or two kids bite it in Lord of the Flies? Honestly can’t remember If it all happened off-screen. Even Piggy. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/32 "2016-02-20T06:17:45Z")
You should watch **Ghost Shark**. Several kids, way younger than teen age, are eaten by the shark. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/33 "2016-02-20T11:43:33Z")
_Testament_ (1983) should fulfill you guys’ quota for a while. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441/34 "2016-02-20T15:49:58Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Um… 😕 Did the Ultraman movie get cancelled? I’m pretty sure it didn’t get released. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-children-needed-to-get-eaten-up-in-monster-movies-godzilla-2014-spoilers/746441.md?page=1)