Starship Troopers

Movie • 1997 • Action  

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Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
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Does the dog die?
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At around the 52:55 mark there is a dog under rubble
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Snowflake666
Even a brain bug has feelings. It's not a monster.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Are there razors?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
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Extincto
Regarding the Madagascan cockroaches stomped on in one scene, the makers state that the insects were fake.
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Blitkun
Cockroaches are stepped on, cow is killed by an alien and dead dog is seen under rubble in a scene
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Are animals abused?
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Extincto
Live Madagascan cockroaches are stomped to death in a propaganda scene.
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Blitkun
Dead insect-like alien (very fake) in class, also a cow is killed by an alien and later a dead dog is seen under rubble
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Is an animal sad?
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Snowflake666
The brain bug is very sad at the end.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Harlbior
There are presumably cats in Buenos Aires when it gets destroyed, but none are shown onscreen.
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Does a pet die?
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IndigoBlue14
A dead dog is shown.
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Does a dragon die?
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Snowflake666
What dragon???
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Are there spiders?
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Anonymous
The antagonists are insectoid aliens the size of large automobiles.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Snowflake666
Maybe in the sequel. Starship Troopers 2 - Sharks vs Bugs
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Are there bugs?
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WhitbeeDoe
There are many extremely oversized bugs.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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A man is tied and whipped
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Anonymous
a knife goes through someone’s hand
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Harlbior
In the first scene at boot camp, Drill Sergean Zim puts Dizzy in a chokehold until she passes out.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Extincto
In one scene a Captain is crushed by a sliding door.
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Is someone choked?
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Anonymous
Flamethrowers are used in battle.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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WhitbeeDoe
Several characters lose limbs in battle, however there is no medical amputation.
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ReiAlexandraYYC
Not squashed but major head trauma/damage resulting in death.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Anonymous
The bone break scene is pretty graphic. Shown approximately 25:10 to 25:36.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Anonymous
A man is stabbed through the hand
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Is someone tortured?
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morganyu
The main character gets whipped as part of a punishment.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Harlbior
A wounded Arachnid warrior is shot through the eye repeatedly with a machine gun by one of the soldiers following a battle while it is still alive.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Harlbior
This film has a significant amount of graphic onscreen violence, blood, and gore. Humans and aliens alike suffer graphic injuries throughout.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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morganyu
A teenager is accidentally shot in the head during a gun training exercise.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Extincto
Many, many people die and corpses are shown many times.
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Disability
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many amputees are played by able bodied people
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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LouisHolmes
Two of the thousands of people who die when Buenos Aires is destroyed are Rico’s mother and father.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Harlbior
Carmen and Zander are captured by the Bugs near the end of the movie.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Anonymous
it’s a Verhoeven so there is a coed shower scene
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Snowflake666
In the shower scene there are some soap bubbles
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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nunyabiz
It's during the scene that they want a woman to disect an alien bug in front of the class. So when that happens, know you're running out of time and skip to the next scene.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Snowflake666
Why should I poop on my screen?
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Does someone spit?
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Extincto
A soldier spits in the face of the 'brain bug' right before it violently kills him.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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ActuallyAshlee
It seems like it is very pro-military, but the message of the movie is actually the opposite.
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Harlbior
During the ending propaganda broadcast, a scientist stabs a Brain Bug in the side with a giant needle in order to study it.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there misophonia?
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Harlbior
There are some disgusting slurping sounds when a Brain Bug sucks out a character's brain as if through a straw.
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A commanding officer is in a constant state of panic during the besieged outpost portion of the film
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Harlbior
An officer says "I wish you'd just shoot me" while suffering a mental breakdown.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Tunnels are a main location of part of the film
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Harlbior
Of the "heroic sacrifice" variety - a wounded soldier voluntarily stays behind to protect a handheld nuke and buy time for his allies to escape, which explodes and kills him.
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Harlbior
A general who witnessed a bug attack offscreen is shell-shocked from the experience.
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Very little in portions of the film
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Kotadkota
SEVERE FLASHING!!! Computers flash as well as gun fire and electric rounds in training that flash. One of the computers flashes almost 10 times in what feels like a second. These scenes WILL cause seizures. Use caution.
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Paranoia
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Harlbior
This film has scenes where in-universe propaganda shorts address the viewers ("Would you like to know more? / We need YOU.")
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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imacenurMADhethey
kind of? the imagery (uniforms, propaganda film style) mimics that of n*zis and that era of film. the director isn't sympathizing with the n*zis but this imagery is very prevalent.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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Extincto
No, but all POC with speaking parts do apparently end up dead by the end.
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Is there hate speech?
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Snowflake666
Hate speech against bugs totally triggered me.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Sex
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Extincto
No genitals are shown but everybody's nipples are.
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Is there bestiality?
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Anonymous
discussed but not shown
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Coed showers
Sex scene in a tent
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Yes
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Snowflake666
Can't remember...
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Yes
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0
The protagonist is disowned by his parents when he enters the service. But he is welcomed back home later.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Yes
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GuyofMinimalImportance
At face value? No. If you think about it the way the filmmakers wanted you to? Yes.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Snowflake666
Spacecrafts aren't planes.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Gore throughout the film
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ReiAlexandraYYC
Not in the traditional sense but "nukes" are used while fighting the bugs.
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Is there gun violence?
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