100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
This tv show contains 127 potentially triggering events.
NO. At the beginning of s7e10 it looks like Sheiheda is about to kill the golden retriever. However he doesn’t. The dog whimpers a bit but no harm comes to her. I don’t remember any other dog on the show.
Episode 2:1, it's revealed that one of the characters was emotionally abused by their drunk mother. Episode 5:12, a parent puts a shock collar on their child in order to control them.
Throughout the show there are several scenes where someone gets beaten with a belt or similar devices. Most prominent I can remember is in Season 1 when Murphy beats Bellamy while he is hanging from the ceiling.
During the entire first season, a majority of the 100 are under the age of 18. Episode 2:1, it's revealed that one of the characters was emotionally abused by their drunk mother. In 3:13, an adult character violently beats a young teenager as a punishment. It is graphic.
Throughout S5 abbey is addicted, she does things to get pills, frequent jokes about her being a 'junkie', shown having withdrawal and going cold turkey
Animals are hunted and killed. We also see the mutations of animals affected by nuclear fallout. This happens during the first 5 seasons, and is part of the atmosphere of the show.
Murphy is forced into sleeping with Ontari, who clearly states it's either that or she'll kill him. His girlfriend does some nice victim blaming later.
S1E11: clarke tries to perform surgery on a child and there's a close-up of her cutting into her skin with a scalpel
S2E1: clarke breaks a window and when she reaches through it the glass cuts her forearm in a way that could be triggering. Later in the season she reopens the wound on purpose S2E2: surgery is performed on Raven and the initial cut is shown
S1E10: end of the episode a character is smothered to death S1E11: girl has internal trauma from a bomb going off and struggles to breathe throught the episode S1E12: Teenager is smothered to death about halfway through the episode
Season 5 has a plotline about cannibalism (mostly just heavily implied and discussed throughout the season), and in S5Ep11 there are graphic and emotional flashbacks to on-screen cannibalism.
In 1x05, multiple people that live in space volunteer to be taken into a room where the air gets cut out. It shows a bit how they're struggling to breathe, then it cuts to their dead bodies as the others come to check if everyone died.
S5E13. teeth are painfully extracted from Shaw in a torture bribe attempt to have Raven fly the Eligius IV.
TIMESTAMPS (taken from the time remaining in episode, on the right side of the screen)!
GRAPHIC removal: 35:04 - 34:45.
be warned. his bloodied face can still be seen in scenes thereafter, and the torture continues.
S1E3 after getting stabbed in the neck a character's fingers get cut off, and in E4 they are shown lying in the dirt. S1E10: Character comes back to camp and their bloody fingers are shown. They had been tortured by grounders. It's said that their fingernails were ripped off.
Several children and many teenagers die throughout the show including main characters. SPOILERS: S1E3 Wells dies. S1E4 child jumps off a cliff at the end of the episode. S1E11: child dies when Clarke is unable to save them S1E12: Teenager is smothered to death about halfway through the episode. A child dies on the arc with an unsuccessful story. Finn dies in season 2. Jasper dies. An entire colony of people underground die including
There are a few family member deaths including the loss of a characters parents (at desperate times, a character’s brother dying (who is also a main character), a father losing his son, etc…
Clarke's dad, Raven's mom, and Octavia and Bellamy's mom died previous to the events in the show. S1E5: side character chooses to sacrifice himself and he's a dad S1E9: in an explosion on the arc Marcus Kane's mother dies SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT: Jaha dies. Abby dies in season 6. Monty and Harper have a son and they die in season 6.
There is a plotline in Season 1 about a teenage boy cheating on his girlfriend with another teenage girl who thought he was single. Both girls break up with him, and no one dates him after that.
season 1 theres an illness spreading through the camp, season 3 episode 1 murphy mentions it while talking to raven, also raven spits up some blood also in season 2 jasper gives maya blood theres alotta talk of puke around then, i cant rmbr if it's shown or not. season 5 is so bad theres so much, it was a minefield to get through
All of the characters have their moments of violence and lashing out, some stemming from repressed trauma, PTSD, and depression. For example, at the beginning of season 3, jasper is shown picking fights and being violent with others when he’s in a state of severe depression and grief. In 1x12 when Murphy returns back to camp after being publicly hung as instructed by Bellamy, he’s on a mission to avenge his trauma and locks himself and Bellamy in the drop ship and forces Bellamy to reenact his trauma onto himself (essentially forces Bellamy to hang himself)
They frequently tell eachother to “go float yourself”. “Floating” was a process of executing a criminal by throwing them out into space. They use that term instead of “kill yourself”. Jasper also talks about “killing himself” and mentions that phrase multiple times throughout.
Throughout the show, multiple characters have to hide in confined spaces alone or with others, on multiple occasions. There are multiple references and flashbacks to a main character having to hide under the floorboards multiple times as a child over the years.
No one actively has an eating disorder, however, characters are show not eating or having access to food for sometimes days at a time, which could also be triggering to some
I can't remember if there are more instances than what I will describe, but at one point in the first few seasons, a man, Jaha, is experiencing hallucinations of a baby crying, most likely caused by oxygen deficiency on the space station he is in.
Throughout the show there is a common theme of characters being stalked by different groups of people (grounders, mountain men, etc) through secret hiding spots, the woods, surveillance cameras, it is very predator/prey based.
In episode 1:2, a character makes fun of another for making a spelling error. In 3:5, a character's chronic pain and nerve damage is used to manipulate them into taking a mind control chip.
A few nameless white characters are the first to die in Season 1 Episode 1. The only named black character at the time (a main character) is among the next to die in the following episodes.
No. But in 6:13, two characters in a romantic relationship take on the identities of people who are siblings. They were not aware of the relationship of the identities they took on and are called out for holding hands.
Two character's exhibit brain damage and signs of a stroke. It is unclear if either of them had a stroke at one point, but they had seizures and symptoms before their brains were fixed.