Hannibal

TV Show • 2013 • Drama  

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Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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Does the dog die?
356 supporters
Yes
20
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187
38
Anonymous
Throughout season 1 Will Grahm believes he hears a dog yelping in pain, but these are hallucinations. In Season 2 Episode 9 a dog is injured but survives.

Season 3, Episode 11 - Will's dogs are poisoned by The Red Dragon. They are taken to the vet and survive. They are not seen ill on screen.
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Abandonment
Yes
34
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4
Yes
44
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4
0
WaterloggedKazoo
Not exactly, but there is a case in season one where young boys who are the "black sheep" of their families are manipulated into running away, and the parents don't seem to care. One family even erases the missing son from the family photos, if I remember correctly. More abandonment-adjacent than anything
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Yes
9
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22
1
Anonymous
Unclear. Will collects stray dogs
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Abuse
Yes
47
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3
0
crbrsp
S1
A father is a serial killer to women who look like his daughter. In episode one he attempts to murder his daughter.
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10
oakbee
Throughout the show, Will Graham repeatedly forgives Hannibal.
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Is someone stalked?
26 supporters
Yes
133
No
5
5
WaterloggedKazoo
On many many occasions.
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8
cherry
more than one instance of violence between family members- a husband attacks his wife and daughter with a knife in season, an abusive older brother and his younger sister get into/have been in physical fights with each other
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2
Ellie_red
S1
 E1
The first/one of the first murders of the whole series, we see the body of a dead young woman arranged naked and impaled on dear antlers like a display. This first death is not gorey, but her being young and having been stripped felt weirdly sexual/emphasised that it was violence to a woman.

There are also many very graphic (and much more gorey) murders of both men and women throughout the series that are high in shock value and spectacle.
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7
Anonymous
S3
If you want to get technical with it then Margot's revenge on Mason can be “abuse” but he had it coming to him
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Yes
193
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4
29
Freezer7
Yes. A large premise to the show is the intense gaslighting of one of the characters. He loses his grip on reality, and others do not believe him.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
19 supporters
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0
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24
Is a child abused?
89 supporters
Yes
133
No
2
2
In one episode, a young boy is shown being psychologically abused by Mason Verger in a horse stable.
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Addiction
12
MissUtahraptor
S01E04 Abigail gets tea with shrooms
various people are drugged through the series (Will's flashbacks in S02, also Will in S03E06, people kept in coma in S01E02...)
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Is there addiction?
16 supporters
Yes
33
No
64
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ihatekenbranagh
There is one offhand comment made by character Jimmy Price (somewhere in the first two episodes I think?) alluding to his alcoholism. Also, somewhere in the beginning of season 2, a victim is found to be a recovering heroin addict.
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Yes
80
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13
3
Ljlj
A character has excessive amounts of alcohol but it is not discussed in the dialogue of the show

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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
117 supporters
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4
No
40
Does a horse die?
81 supporters
Yes
204
No
3
13
Anonymous
Season 2 - Episode 8
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
148 supporters
Yes
212
No
3
8
Anonymous
A live fish is filleted.
A bird is drowned in liquor.
A dead, hanging rabbit gets a nosebleed.
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Are animals abused?
171 supporters
Yes
152
No
23
11
Setton
There are pigs in seasons 2 and 3 that are experimented on to make them eat humans alive, and one pig has a uterus implanted to be surrogate to a human child.
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liskoihminen
Mention of dog fighting, in which one party died. Not on screen, only discussed.
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Yes
166
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0
10
bugbite
dead birds, pigs, and fish are depicted as livestock and food.
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Is an animal sad?
68 supporters
Yes
33
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1
2
Hannibalfan
S1
 E13
In Savoureux, Winston the dog is sad as Will gets taken away.
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Are rabbits harmed?
53 supporters
Yes
30
No
4
1
Hannibalfan
S3
 E1
We see a dead rabbit hanging when Bedelia goes to the market.
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Does a cat die?
146 supporters
Yes
116
No
17
12
Anonymous
Season 3, Episode 9.

A dead cat is seen briefly in a cardboard box.
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Does a pet die?
136 supporters
Yes
51
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4
3
Anonymous
In the last season the Red dragon targets animals before killing the families
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Does a dragon die?
1 supporters
Yes
17
No
141
32
zdy1994
There are no literal dragons in this show.
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Are there spiders?
43 supporters
Yes
18
No
101
16
river_night
I honestly have the biggest phobia of spiders (to the point where seeing a photo gives me a panic attack) and I was fine watching Hannibal. I don't actually ever remember seeing a spider on screen.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
5 supporters
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1
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31
Are there snakes?
16 supporters
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2
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110
5
bellagoth
S3E03: No real snakes but there is a drawing and a sculpture of a snake on some coat of arms. Snakes are also mentioned in conversation.
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Are there sharks?
5 supporters
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0
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33
Are there bugs?
28 supporters
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164
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2
15
tennjou
S1E4, there's a close up shot of maggots on spoilt meat from at 3:20 which is visible until 4:10
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
16 supporters
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1
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17
Is someone drugged?
28 supporters
Yes
43
No
1
0
maxemerson666
Will is drugged by Hannibal against his will, Mason is drugged by Hannibal against his will, Abigail is given drugs by Hannibal.
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Is there pedophilia?
101 supporters
Yes
31
No
4
1
Anonymous
The season 2B and season 3A antagonist is a pedophile. Its not spoken about in detail but is implied
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Yes
39
No
1
1
helpfulbug
a character is drowned on screen
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Is rape mentioned?
75 supporters
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Yes
28
No
3
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
19 supporters
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Yes
1
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19
Yes
56
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1
1
Anonymous
SPOILER

Will is put in a straight jacket when being transported to a crime scene
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102
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18
12
Amy17
Also, it's absurd that no one talks about it, but even if lots of people don't see it as it, the part where Margot and Will have sex is not consensual and CAN be considered rape (the act is shown explicitly tho the discovery of the lie is later in Hannibal's office I think) , since Margot lies about her birth control to get pregnant from him, without letting him know about it beforehand. Attention then to second season in general with the character of Margot and his brother and part of Red Dragon's story for mentions/depiction of sexual abuse.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
11 supporters
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Yes
25
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1
4
oakbee
S3
SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3

Technically, yes.

Freddie Lounds takes a picture of Will’s colostomy bag (and his genitals). She posts it online, but censors his genitals using a black box. When confronted, she jokes that she did him a favor by using a large black box instead of a smaller one.
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4
oakbee
S2
SEASON 2 SPOILERS

Technically, yes.

Margot lies to Will and tells him she’s on birth control in order to get pregnant. Therefore, Will does not consent.
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Bodily Harm
Yes
143
No
1
8
invadermac
Everything from preparing human meat, to surgery to filleting a woman. Some shown, some not-
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Are any hands damaged?
16 supporters
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Yes
22
No
1
Are there dislocations?
8 supporters
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Yes
5
No
15
Yes
29
No
0
0
janniejan
season 1 episode 1: a character attempts to slit his daughters throat and successfully slits his wife's.

season 1 episode 8: a persons vocal cords are turned into cello strings for the person to be played as a cello

season 2 episode 13: a characters throat is successfully slit by the main character
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Yes
114
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0
7
jellybean
the major ones are:
season two episode 1: a character has a flashback to getting force-fed via feeding tube
season two episode 5: a character is briefly hung before being rescued
season two episode 9: a character is seen tied up to a tree with a rope around his neck
there are other times were a character with lung cancer struggles to breathe, but it is brief.

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Yes
12
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12
0
TheD0ggyD13s
S1
In the last few episodes of season one, the killer starts giving their victims “joker like” smiles by cutting their mouths from the corners to their ears and often times further. It’s not often shown in great detail and is sometimes hard to see. One of them is cut so far he is considered decapitated from the jaw down.
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Is there cannibalism?
31 supporters
Yes
208
No
3
40
ElenaLucia
The main character is a cannibal. Others willingy or unwillingly take part in the act. However, no one ever eats raw meat — all plates are carefully constructed under the pretence of "real" food.
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Is someone crushed to death?
29 supporters
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22
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3
Is someone choked?
12 supporters
Yes
30
No
1
0
furrydisaster
spoilers for the whole series!!

some i remember are:
- mason grabs a child's neck very forcefully
- will has a tube shoved down his throat, which causes him to choke loudly
- hannibal is hung, and is audibly struggling to breathe
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Yes
157
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1
9
MissUtahraptor
fireplace S01E04, Georgia S01E11, fake Freddie S02E11, Frederick Chilton S03E12
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Yes
100
No
11
9
jellybean
season one episode two: very minor characters are buried alive while in an induced coma
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Is there body horror?
45 supporters
Yes
52
No
2
2
Pantalones
Several episodes feature grotesque abuses of the human body. Many of them are on corpses but not all. A woman's body is cut into segments. Someone is impaled on antlers. Human bodies are turned into beehives. A cannibal makes fancy food out of people.
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Is there amputation?
27 supporters
Yes
125
No
2
8
OrionWatson
1) amputation of the legs of a man who is being kept alive to slowly eat. pretty gruesome scenes with this one.
2) amputation of a girls arm. the actual act of amputation is not shown on screen but the severed arm is shown as well as the healed spot where her arm used to be. she is given a prosthetic arm and uses this for the rest of the show.
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Does a head get squashed?
49 supporters
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81
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4
Yes
25
No
7
1
Candycrystals
S3
 E6
S3 E6, between at the end of minute 36 when a character says, "He's under the table," another character's Achilles is slashed with a blade.
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Is there a hanging?
33 supporters
Yes
112
No
2
7
teethsoup
In season 2, episode 5, Hannibal is briefly hung but is rescued before any serious injury occurs
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Does someone asphyxiate?
24 supporters
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Yes
20
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0
6
Dock
S1E05, the Angel Maker performs an orchiectomy on himself, essentially removing both of his testicles and desplaying them next to a victim.
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WaterloggedKazoo
Lots of situations where characters are drugged or knocked unconscious
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Yes
107
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2
3
Dock
As far as I have watched, S1E8 (Fromage), someone's neck is snapped and a few moments later, another person's arm is broken after being forced against a ladder.
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Yes
153
No
1
13
Greenandsilver
One character suffers from at least one seizure during the show because he had untreated encephalitis
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Yes
93
No
16
6
mellttpa
A character, having survived a shot in the face, has to use fake teeth in Season 3.
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Yes
102
No
2
0
izkm
there's some hand stabbing
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Is someone tortured?
74 supporters
Yes
157
No
2
2
boilingpoint
characters are mentally/psychologically and physically tortured at several points in the show
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Yes
13
No
3
1
Anonymous
Someone is thrown down an elevator shaft
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Yes
92
No
12
10
zaidelles
Hannibal and Will's survival has since been confirmed.
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Yes
122
No
2
12
LGBTRex
Season 2, Episode 4, roughly 23 minutes in. Once the scene containing acupuncture begins, I recommend a skip if you can't handle eye trauma. It ends in a lobotomy, for the sake of understanding the following scene.
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Is someone stabbed?
14 supporters
Yes
29
No
0
0
Pantalones
Hannibal stabs another major character in the gut. It is shown with a large amount of blood. At the same time, another character gets their throat cut.
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Yes
70
No
2
3
mistersandman
Every episode is EXTREMELY graphic and contains copious amounts of blood, gore, and mutilation.
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Children
Yes
23
No
7
0
Anonymous
S1
 E4
Kids are abducted from parents in season 1 episode 4
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Does a kid die?
41 supporters
Yes
132
No
2
7
zdy1994
Happens several times throughout the series. Sometimes on screen, sometimes off.
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Is a minor sexualized?
94 supporters
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Yes
0
No
39
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Death
2
WaterloggedKazoo
No, but during a home invasion a mother is shown helping her son out of a small window and tells him to run away without her if she can't get outside within a couple minutes. The mother is shot by the invader, but both mother and son survive.
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Does a major character die?
20 supporters
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Yes
26
No
2
Yes
4
No
15
2
Anonymous
Everyone is a human
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Does someone die?
12 supporters
Yes
40
No
0
5
The entire show is about murder
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Disability
Yes
14
No
4
Is the r-slur used?
31 supporters
Yes
1
No
38
3
Okamidani
^ 'Asperger's' is not a slur it is a diagnosis for someone on an autistic spectrum. It is in no way related to the 'R' word, nor is it said with any malice, only as a term to describe someone's place on the spectrum by qualified therapists as well as the person in question.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
30
No
3
1
A female character intentionally overdoses on morphine.
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Family
Yes
24
No
1
1
brokke
Multiple instances of death of family members from the beginning.
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Does a parent die?
19 supporters
Yes
142
No
0
7
Greenandsilver
Yes a father attempting to kill his daughter is killed before he can succeed
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
52
Yes
106
No
3
5
ihatekenbranagh
At the beginning of Season One, a group of young boys is kidnapped by an adult woman.
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Does someone cheat?
17 supporters
Yes
38
No
58
20
eldritch
On screen physically? No.

Emotionally? Yes, I’d say will does cheat on his wife with a cannibal serial killer. Nobody’s perfect I guess
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
Yes
76
No
28
15
Anonymous
There are no proper ghosts, but Will Grahm has many hallucinations that might appear to the viewer as, and serve a similar thematic purpose to, ghosts.
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117
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11
0
CookedOatmeal
S3
 E13
35:10 Hannibal is shot from behind
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Yes
112
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2
5
MissUtahraptor
S01E01, S03E01
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furrydisaster
will often hallucinates(?)/imagines fishing while standing in a river or lake and bodies are found in bodies of water.
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Are there clowns?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
112
Is someone possessed?
14 supporters
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Yes
2
No
93
Yes
22
No
3
3
pictorial
2 scenes in particular stood out as triggering to me. S1E09: a character's dead body is discovered with trypophobic patterns in his skin (only shown briefly); S2E04: a character is killed and turned into a "human beehive" of sorts, and this is a very trypophobic scene. both scenes are skippable and avoiding them won't affect your actual watching experience.
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Are there razors?
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12 supporters
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Yes
16
No
2
Yes
1
No
19
1
WaterloggedKazoo
Not that I can remember, but there is a symbolic "demon" form of Hannibal that pops up in Will's imagination/hallucinations that is very uncanny-looking.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
91 supporters
Yes
147
No
3
20
Anonymous
- S1:E5 in the first third of the episode nobody vomits on screen but you can see vomit in the crime scene.

- S1:E10 in the first half, someone vomits blood

- S1:E13 in the first few minutes, Will vomits into the sink

- S2:E1 nobody vomits but Will has flashbacks to an ear being shoved into his throat with a tube near the end of the episode

- S2:E8 near the end, someone vomits blood

- S3:E10 in the last third of the episode, someone chokes and vomits blood
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Yes
50
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3
6
Dock
S1E04, a boy wets his pants in a store.
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Is there farting?
10 supporters
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Yes
1
No
27
Is someone eaten?
29 supporters
Yes
44
No
0
15
It’s Hannibal. People get eaten. It’s very artful, but people definitely get eaten
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Is there on-screen pooping?
35 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Does someone spit?
10 supporters
Yes
24
No
50
5
Snezzpai
A minor character spits at another character.
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Is there audio gore?
40 supporters
Yes
75
No
1
7
cronus.ampora
multiple instances of murders taking place where you can hear gore,
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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Yes
1
No
36
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
27 supporters
Yes
18
No
41
12
haloblues
A lot of the main characters are FBI agents, but are all shown to be imperfect and in some cases corrupt/dishonest, so I don't believe there's anything that could be construed as propaganda.
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Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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Yes
27
No
1
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
42 supporters
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Yes
0
No
31
Yes
0
No
25
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
30 supporters
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Yes
1
No
29
Yes
5
No
21
3
Finn1234
Kind of? Not physical cheating though
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Yes
5
No
13
6
cosmicloveaffair
S3
I mean... Freddie Lounds did came up with Murder Husbands lol
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Loss
3
Anonymous
S3
A man eats a one of a kind painting
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Medical
Yes
110
No
3
2
Teamoon
In the second season there is a young woman who has Cotard syndrome and believes she is dead. Eventually gets treated and they mention electro-therapy a few times, that she will get it and that it's thought to be useful for this condition. Never seen done on scene in this episode.
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Yes
141
No
1
7
Crow75
Several times, lots of times in extreme close-ups
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11
MissUtahraptor
S01E06 and 11, S02E01-07, S03E08-13
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Yes
141
No
0
2
WaterloggedKazoo
Lots of scenes where characters are recovering in hospital beds, as well as a scene where a character undergoes an on-screen emergency surgery after having his stomach sliced open. There are also lots of morgue/autopsy scenes.
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Is there menstruation?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Yes
153
No
0
10
AlexKrueger
Jacks Wife Bella has stage 4 cancer and you see elements of her treatment. There's also a very rough line about her having stage 4 in Season 1 episode 5. It’s near the end and you can just skip over the conversation between Bella and Hannibal if you wish.
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Mental Health
1
hydromaniac
Who doesn’t in this show?
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Yes
93
No
6
6
jackkastiel
In S2 E5 someone's forearms are slashed (off screen by someone else) but the open wounds are shown. And then they are repeatedly shown over that season as stitched and then scarred.
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Yes
23
No
11
3
One of the main characters is autistic and he's an awful person. I personally as an autistic person like him but like y'know.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
76
No
0
8
Amy17
In the first season, a character suffers from Cotard syndrome and she's been thinking she's already dead since childhood. Now she's an adult and she becomes violent. She kills a woman (her old friend) in a very crude way, trying to understand if she's real or not.
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1
Riversoftarmac
this is a running theme throughout the show. it starts happening early in season 1 and gets worse / more frequent / more intense as the show progresses
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1
Anonymous
There are no characters with DID in the show
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Yes
95
No
28
34
Jack is incredibly rude in the first episode re: Will and his autism--forcing eye contact, etc. Freddy calls Will crazy and the like through season one. People consistently treat Will as a child. A lot of it isn't autism *specific* but treads the line
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caramelle
One character attempts to overdose on painkillers during her cancer treatments but is unsuccessful. Later, a major character attempts to commit a murder-suicide by jumping off a cliff, and it’s left ambiguous whether they were successful.
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Yes
30
No
1
2
Pantalones
There are multiple times where it is unclear if Will is having hallucinations, events are actually happening, or a combination of the two occurs. Will, as well as other characters, doubts his sanity throughout the show.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
21
No
1
Is there misophonia?
31 supporters
Yes
43
No
2
9
EzraG
Although I consider this show good about it, untensiles Can be heard clicking against plates but chewing is normally inaudible. Since Hannibal, a main character, is an avid cook, misophonia triggers are in most episodes.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
110
No
1
7
ducktoothcollection
I'm part-way into season 2 and Will has had an anxiety attack of some kind in the overwhelming majority of episodes. (*I've* also had a few anxiety attacks over this show, but that's not relevant.)
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Is there ABA therapy?
15 supporters
Yes
3
No
14
4
RoseColoredBullets
Not directly but if you have trauma from applied behavioural analysis or cognitive behavioural therapy, the show gets increasingly more triggering as you continue watching.
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7
Amy17
Not literally, but it's heavily implied and their intentions are quite certain. The same character later tries to commit suicide, but is "saved" against their will by one of the main characters
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Is there body dysphoria?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
21
Yes
97
No
4
9
izkm
in one episode a character is focused on who it is discussed feels he should be an animal physically
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
93
No
6
12
Anonymous
In season 1, Georgia Madchen is in an isolation chamber in a hospital. While she's in it, a spark caused by her combing her hair starts a fire, and she is unable to escape the chamber.
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Anonymous
There is no eating disorder, but someone is force-fed with a feeding tube
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18
Anonymous
In season 2 Bella attempts suicide by overdose. Hannibal revives her.
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Yes
51
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1
3
A character experiences regular flashbacks to a traumatic event in which he killed a man.
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
7 supporters
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Yes
16
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1
Are there sudden loud noises?
31 supporters
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Yes
20
No
2
Is there shakey cam?
36 supporters
Yes
62
No
15
5
Anonymous
Season 2 - Episode 12
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Does a baby cry?
13 supporters
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0
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32
Is there screaming?
12 supporters
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18
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0
2
WaterloggedKazoo
Mason Verger makes a lot of obscene, misogynistic, and occasionally homophobic comments to his sister and her girlfriend.
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12
ducktoothcollection
I don't have epilepsy so I might miss subtler triggers, but I started keeping a log when I noticed blatant strobing in s2e4, will update as I continue watching.

Season 2 episode 4: Strong strobing lights starting around 14:00 (after a character is given an injection) and ending at around 15:50 (should be safe to look when you hear a character say "photosensitive epilepsy").

Season 2 episode 7: flashing lights starting a bit after 4:10 (dialogue: "I could hear his voice, but I couldn't see his face") and continues for a few seconds (should be safe to look when you hear "Why didn't he kill you"). And again a bit after 6:25 (no dialogue, Hannibal looks directly into the camera) for a few seconds (until you hear “It’s not him”). And again at about 22:20 (“And his voice, low and even, would pull me to him”) until about 22:43 (“You and I...are part of his design”). Again after 27:30 (“Would you like to try?”) until about 28:40 (“We found a fingerprint on a flower petal"). Again around 39:10 (“Until my lawyer arrives”) until about 39:35 (furious stammering/sobbing). And lastly, some mild flickering from a fireplace at the very end, around 42:20 (“...my therapy) until the credits roll (all sound cuts out, then is replaced by irregular percussion-dominated music).
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
13 supporters
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19
No
1
Yes
3
No
31
4
mistersandman
Characters look at the camera, but they are in no way communicating with or otherwise acknowledging the existence of an audience.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
23 supporters
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29
No
1
Yes
92
No
3
10
Xonauge
A horse, dead after childbirth, has a dead human and a love human put back inside it’s womb during the 2nd season.
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0
Teamoon
Yes and no. There is a scene in season 3 where an ultrasound of a dead baby is shown. Spoiler alert: really awful and kinda horrific because the baby was supposedly implanted in a pig as a 'surrogate', using a woman's reproductive organs.
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Is there childbirth?
20 supporters
Yes
17
No
50
11
Freezer7
A child is stillborn after a C-Section.
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Are there abortions?
15 supporters
Yes
103
No
2
20
Freezer7
One woman is forcibly given an abortion/hysterectomy.
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0
No
72
12
Freezer7
No, but a pregnant woman is forced to have an abortion and hysterectomy.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
39 supporters
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0
No
83
14
Rev
The show reflects the time of setting and of creation and uses terms like psychopath, sociopath, and psychotic. It is unclear if it is meant in an ableist way or not, but it is something to be aware of in that the demonization of mental illness and personality disorders is unfortunately a big part of the show
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Are there usages of the n-word?
30 supporters
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1
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73
Yes
1
No
74
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
33 supporters
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0
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38
Yes
90
No
17
32
zaidelles
Alana (bisexual) and Margot (a lesbian) survive; Will and Hannibal (confirmed by Fuller to be bisexual and omnisexual/pansexual respectively) appear to die in the final episode of Season Three, but their survival is implied in the post-credits scene and has since been confirmed by Bryan Fuller and the cast. However, Anthony Dimmond, who is shown to proposition Hannibal, and Francis Dolarhyde, who writes about Hannibal in a romantic/sexual context in his journal, are both killed.
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Are there fat jokes?
51 supporters
Yes
0
No
77
4
haloblues
I don't personally remember the remarks made in the other comment after rewatching it a few times, so take with a grain of salt.
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Is there aphobia?
19 supporters
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0
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19
Yes
4
No
17
3
WaterloggedKazoo
For the most part the show is surprisingly good when it comes to portraying characters with disabilities and severe mental illness in an empathetic light, like Will Graham, Georgia Madchen, and Peter Bernadone (at least in comparison to most of the horror genre). However, Francis Dolarhyde has a cleft lip and thinks of himself as hideous. While the cause of his self-hatred is likely the severe abuse he experienced as a child, its still a notable correlation.
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6
No
75
2
zdy1994
I think in at least one episode?
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Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
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Yes
7
No
76
Race
Is there blackface?
29 supporters
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0
No
20
Relationships
Yes
8
No
25
0
gayjarritos
I personally would not count the age gaps as “large,” but some people might be uncomfortable with it regardless.

Alana Bloom is in her early-mid 30s when she has a tryst with Hannibal, who is in his late 40s. Similarly, Will Graham is in his early 30s and Hannibal in his late 40s.
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Religious
Yes
22
No
1
1
oakbee
Religion, specifically Christianity, is alluded to several times throughout the entire show.
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Are there demons or Hell?
14 supporters
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3
No
12
Sex
Yes
27
No
4
2
Lizzzie
Several sex scenes and hospital scenes but genitals and breasts are covered up.
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Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
Yes
4
No
20
3
Finn1234
No one has sex with any animals, but Mason Verger uses human genetic material to impregnate a pig
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Does someone lose their virginity?
12 supporters
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2
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17
Yes
24
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4
1
Ellie_red
One of the first murders (season 1, episode 1), the victim is a dead young woman whose body is arranged and displayed naked and impaled on dear antlers.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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87 supporters
Yes
88
No
10
13
Greenandsilver
The relationship between the verger siblings is implied to have existed in the past and been nonconsensual on the sister's part.
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117
No
2
14
Anonymous
There are some s*x scenes. But they are mostly contorted and/or shown in a way that nothing graphic is shown.
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Is there BDSM?
19 supporters
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0
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12
Sexism
Yes
1
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22
Sickness
Yes
20
No
1
2
Pantalones
Jack's wife Bella has terminal cancer.
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Yes
4
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19
0
S1
 E11
will graham has a seizure, not sure if it counts
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3
A female character has terminal lung cancer.
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Yes
4
No
13
3
Finn1234
No, but a character suffering from encephalitis has memory problems and repeatedly forgets portions of time
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Social
Are there fat suits?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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Yes
1
No
23
Is existentialism debated?
12 supporters
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Yes
22
No
1
Are there anti-abortion themes?
32 supporters
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Yes
1
No
21
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
3 supporters
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0
No
83
Yes
20
No
3
2
oakbee
S3
 E13
Specifically one end credit scene in the finale.
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75
No
24
15
zaidelles
Hannibal and Will's survival has since been confirmed.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
13 supporters
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22
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0
Does a car crash?
19 supporters
Yes
79
No
0
7
MissUtahraptor
S02E11
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Does a plane crash?
11 supporters
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0
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86
Yes
31
No
46
9
harleenivy
In season 2 a henchman intentionally crashes a car into one of the supporting character's car while she's driving it.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
Yes
78
No
9
1
Teamoon
Mason Verger dies in a water tank that contains a live eel. Season 3 episode 7.
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Is there blood/gore?
54 supporters
Yes
145
No
0
20
Greenandsilver
Dear god yes. It appears in many episodes
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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0
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100
Yes
104
No
2
8
Xonauge
In nearly every episode. The main characters are FBI and there are murders with guns.
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