Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald - 17 WTF Moments

15. Grindelwald Murders A Baby

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them Johnny Depp Gellert Grindelwald
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If you needed any further proof that these movies aren't aimed at kids anymore, in one of this film's very first scenes, Grindelwald stumbles across an innocent baby while discussing plans to find Credence, and orders his acolyte Carrow (Maja Bloom) to needlessly perform a Killing Curse on the poor child.

Tonally the scene doesn't really fit with everything going on around it, and again it just feels like lazy writing to tell the audience "yeah, this guy is bad, like, really bad."

Does a franchise about magic, wizards and wonderful creatures really need some random child murder thrown in the mix as well? Nah.

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