Examples of this trope in Fan Works
Axis Powers Hetalia[]
- The Axis Powers Hetalia fanfic Power Shift has this example: Imagine being in Tino or Berwald's place, or even Francis'. Your child has seemingly disappeared into thin air. You feel as though something bad can and will happen to him. And in Tino and Berwald's case, it turns out you're right.
Detective Conan[]
- In Detective Conan fic When Pandora's Box Is Opened, when Conan was kidnapped by Vermouth and everyone panics. Those who know the kidnapper have even more reason to fear because the Black Organization has no problem indoctrinating young children into complete loyalty to the organization. Jodie has a brief vision of an older, ruthless Conan preparing to kill a victim and is appropriately horrified.
Digimon[]
- There is a scene during The Tamers Forever Series where the pregnant Mimi Tachigawa is kidnapped and taken to a laboratory where her unborn child is forcibly extracted from her. She is then left to wander the wilderness as her grief slowly drives her insane.
Harry Potter[]
- In Hunting the Unicorn, Blaine is Cerebus Retconned into a Lonely Rich Kid—with the twist that his father's used work as an excuse to avoid him ever since he came out. Not only does Blaine put up with it, the fear kicks in when David tells a counselor that Blaine has a stalker and no clue about it. The worst part is that Blaine's absurd obliviousness to love makes it perfectly in-character. The fear really kicks in when said stalker kidnaps him, Wes, and David, and Blaine gets a concussion. Being semi-coherent and prone to confusion, what's the first thing Blaine does when he's lucid again? Call his dad. But the readers know he's actually called his Parental Substitute Greg, who's been waiting by the phone ever since he found out what happened and is now heading out to look for him.
Kill la Kill[]
- Concerning a Drifter:
- For Satsuki, having your then long-lost younger sister go away on nomadic trip, something that she normally does, and expecting for her to come home, only to lose contact with her soon after, having to stop your search efforts, and then, later on, after four years, you find her mentally ill, traumatized, and the fact that had been kidnapped, held captive, and raped (along with being four times impregnated) during the four years she had been gone is this. To make it worse, if you know the canon, Satsuki herself was on the receiving of much the same that Ryuuko had experienced, which in itself would be Adult Fear but there is a factor of her being virtually powerless to stop it, double because Ryuuko's kidnapping is connected to illegal activities on the dark web [1]
- Then there's also the fact that Ryuuko wasn't the only victim, rather, she was one of many victims and she was only one so far that escaped being killed, as the others were found murdered, one of the girls' bodies being found in an alleyway about a couple of blocks from where Ryuuko was found wandering. As noted in a couple of chapters, there's also the fact that the suspected perpetrator might not face charges.
- In terms of Ryuuko and Satsuki, there's the fact that the former gave birth to not one but two girls, one of which she doesn't remember and one she doesn't know what happened to, as she only saw her eyes and her captors took her away, thus Ryuuko never got any closure, while Satsuki wonders if they're alright.
- As we find out in Chapter 16, for a bit, Ryuuko's captors gave her a companion in the form of a little girl (Ryuuko's writings mentioned her as "looking no older than about ten or twelve") but took her away, the former not knowing what happened to her. In the same chapter, Ryuuko's captors had intentions on using said little girl for the same purposes and that she was Forced To Watch Ryuuko being raped.
- Lost, Found:Ryuuko is kidnapped as a toddler and, like many other children, was taken to the "orphanage", where they are put through experiments.
The Lord of the Rings[]
- A Lord of the Rings fic Elladan's Trials For Estel deals with a young Aragorn (who was adopted and raised by Elrond) being kidnapped from Elrond's bedroom and Buried Alive. One chapter writes from the perspective of the kidnapper and it turns out the kidnapper worked and lived in Rivendell. It didn't help when the kidnapper mentioned there were some nights where he would stand over a sleeping Aragorn, thinking how easy it would be to kill the boy while no one would know.
- Delw Yomenie Deadly Encounter has Elrond and his warriors going to rescue the kidnapped Aragorn and during the ambush Elrond released an arrow to kill just as the kidnapper shoved Aragorn to the frontline. That split second when he realized his hand would kill his adopted son, Elrond was torn between denial and horror. Fortunately the arrow hit a non-lethal area.
My Little Pony[]
- In Progress, Sundance and every other pregnant mare in Equestria are worried for their unborn foals after the Discord incident.
- Past Sins has one marking the point where everything goes down the tubes...namely, a child being forcibly taken away from their guardian, who can do nothing to stop it. And then said child believing their guardian wanted to give them away.
Sherlock Holmes[]
- In the Sherlockian Deliver Us from Evil Series, Inspector Lestrade fears for the safety of the young Baker Street Irregulars. Considering that he's friends with at least one, has another among his constables, and has a nephew in their ranks, he's very close to them and has every right to feel a parental horror at the boys putting themselves In Harm's Way.
- Later on, Dr. Watson disbands the Irregulars when one of the very young ones is nearly killed.
Streets of Rage[]
- In Streets of Rage Saga, based on the Streets of Rage beat-em-up game series, two incidents are related in the back-story some twenty years before the story's modern-day timeline, both of them involving children: an infant was snatched when his parents looked away for just a moment and he was later murdered, and some time after that a girl wandered away from her parents along a beach and was attacked by the same perpetrator moments later. What makes it even more horrifying is the common nature of both incidents--both were committed by a feral child.
Supernatural[]
- In Final Section, a Supernatural fic, five-year-old Sam Winchester was taken by a man who preys upon children in a school's playground when John happened to be preoccupied, despite attentively watching Sam. The detail that the assailant had already kidnapped several other children by luring them away from their watchful parents (and being gleeful about his successes) was disturbing.
- Crossing the Line has John Winchester killing a human being for the first time because it was heavily implied that that person had molested/sexually assaulted a ten year old Sam.
- In Harvester Of Eyes, John Winchester is pitted against The Corinthian. The fact that he's hunting a possibly-human monster who preys on young boys, while having to keep track of his two young sons on the road, aside... Sam and Dean get lost in the Dreaming on their own. Dean obviously knows enough about pedophiles, creeps and "stranger danger" to be on high alert regarding anyone who might hurt Sam, he can't get it across to him that sometimes the really dangerous people can look perfectly normal. Even cool and fun to hang out with.
- ↑ For those who don't know, the dark web is infamous for many reasons, the largest of which is that people can and, more often than not, do commit crimes and not be caught because dark net servers keep anonymity.
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