Child Stealers



"You're coming with me, boy."

- Percival McLeach kidnapping Cody.

One of the most notorious evildoers in fiction, Child Stealers are villains whose evil deeds involve kidnapping individuals between the ages of 0-12. In other words, they are usually notorious for stealing children and babies, as well as eggs and embryos.

Child Stealers are often featured in fairy tales, consisting of witches, trolls, pirates, ogres, and goblins. Bogeymen, military villains, slavers, and the like also fit this category. In extreme cases, some Child Stealers come off as pimps, rapists, and pedophiles.

No matter the genre, these are one of the worst of all villains, as kidnapping children can also involve the villain threatening and/or toying with their freedom, since it's an allegory for destroying innocence. Most Child Stealers have a severe hatred for children and/or treat them like slaves.

Child Stealers often kidnap children for these reasons:

Ranging from mildly annoying to pure evil, Child Stealers continue to be the bane of many a childhood.
 * To use as pawns.
 * To exploit for their own whims.
 * To hold for ransom.
 * To raise as their own, usually when it comes to training them the wrong way.
 * To lure people (usually the hero/heroine) into their hands.
 * In extreme cases, to murder.
 * In the case of man-eaters and cannibals, to devour.
 * To obtain their youth and vitality.
 * In the case of poachers, to kill and/or sell for profit.

Anime

 * Raditz (Dragon Ball Z).

Film

 * Randall Boggs and Henry J. Waternoose III (Monsters, Inc.).
 * Captain Vidal (Pan's Labyrinth).
 * Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmatians).
 * Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park).
 * Mother Gothel (Tangled).
 * Percival McLeach (The Rescuers Down Under).
 * Harry and Marv (Home Alone).
 * Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco).
 * Queen Gnorga (A Troll in Central Park).
 * Colonel Muska (Castle in the Sky).
 * Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective).
 * Peter Ludlow (The Lost World: Jurassic Park).
 * Mitch (Benji).
 * Chandler Dietrich (For the Love of Benji).

TV

 * Katja (Supernatural).
 * Darah and Khyber (Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince).

Books

 * IT (Stephen King's It).
 * Captain Hook (Peter Pan).
 * Luke Castellan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians).
 * Goblins (The Spiderwick Chronicles).
 * The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz).
 * The Witch (Hansel and Gretel).

Mythology

 * Kronos (Greek mythology).
 * Kamsa (Hindu mythology).

Quotes
"Stay where you are, or the girl dies!"

- Professor Ratigan kidnapping Olivia Flaversham.

"You're not going anywhere!"

- Ernesto de la Cruz capturing Miguel Rivera.