The NeverEnding Story

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While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
This movie contains 31 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
190 supporters
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23
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ZiggyQuinn
The villain (a puppet wolf) is stabbed 3/4 of the way through the film
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an animal abandoned?
51 supporters
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there blackface?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
14 supporters
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Is someone choked?
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Are there fat suits?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
12 supporters
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
22 supporters
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3
Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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1
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3
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Is someone stalked?
17 supporters
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13
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1
4
RatBaby
There is a wolf that follows one of the characters throughout the film
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Corellon
Not directly, but the protagonist does not have an emotionally safe environment at home. (see entry for child abuse)
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1
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5
Is someone gaslighted?
27 supporters
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11
Is a child abused?
69 supporters
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2
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7
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Corellon
The opening scene involves direct upsetting emotional abuse of a child. He expresses vulnerability to his father and is immediately taken aside and intensely criticized for this perceived weakness.
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Addiction
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11
Is there addiction?
10 supporters
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10
Does someone abuse alcohol?
7 supporters
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10
Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
68 supporters
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3
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2
Does a horse die?
55 supporters
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55
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2
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JWood
Seriously, Artax’s death was the saddest thing I had ever seen as a child. He comes back in the end, but it does not negate the death scene.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
98 supporters
Yes
27
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1
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PandemoniumGrey
Artax the horse drowns in a swamp around the 36 minute mark.
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Are animals abused?
113 supporters
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12
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12
Is there a dead animal?
63 supporters
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18
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Is an animal sad?
42 supporters
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5
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BigBeardedNerd
The best horse literally dies from sadness
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Are rabbits harmed?
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3
Does a cat die?
101 supporters
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20
Does a pet die?
85 supporters
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8
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Corellon
(see entry for horses)
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Does a dragon die?
17 supporters
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3
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11
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Corellon
Near the very end, a dragon succumbs to the Nothing but is soon brought back.
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Are there spiders?
26 supporters
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8
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2
Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
12 supporters
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5
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RatBaby
There is an amulet depicting snakes but they are inanimate and only jewelry
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
17 supporters
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8
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1
Assault
Is someone drugged?
17 supporters
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4
Is there pedophilia?
64 supporters
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4
Is someone held under water?
11 supporters
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4
Is rape mentioned?
43 supporters
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3
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MasonEarl
Bastion deals with several bullies throughout the film
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4
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0
1
Corellon
Bullies chase and catch the protagonist. There's a brief moment of restraint (they even pull his head back by the hair) but this situation resolves very soon, and in a way that is more cartoonish than uncomfortable.
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
108 supporters
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12
Yes
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4
Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
19 supporters
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8
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3
Does someone struggle to breathe?
16 supporters
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7
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1
Is there decapitation?
15 supporters
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Is there cannibalism?
24 supporters
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10
Is someone crushed to death?
17 supporters
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3
Yes
5
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8
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Corellon
A man is killed by laser beams and we see his charred face.
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Is someone buried alive?
15 supporters
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10
Is there body horror?
28 supporters
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4
Is there amputation?
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8
Does a head get squashed?
35 supporters
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1
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8
Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
12 supporters
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6
Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
16 supporters
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2
Are any teeth damaged?
25 supporters
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0
Atreyu becomes unconscious just after being picked up by Falkor in the swamps of sadness. He wakes up in Falkor’s care with his wounds tended to.
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Does someone break a bone?
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9
Does someone have a seizure?
4 supporters
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10
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
47 supporters
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7
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
29 supporters
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10
Is someone tortured?
57 supporters
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9
Does someone fall down stairs?
4 supporters
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6
Does someone fall to their death?
8 supporters
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9
Is there eye mutilation?
59 supporters
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9
Is someone stabbed?
6 supporters
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3
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0
Is there excessive gore?
51 supporters
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5
Children
Is an infant abducted?
12 supporters
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5
Does a kid die?
28 supporters
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1
No
10
1
Corellon
One of the children is unmade by the Nothing at the very very end but is eventually saved.
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Is a minor sexualized?
61 supporters
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6
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
7 supporters
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Yes
1
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2
Does a major character die?
11 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Does a non-human character die?
15 supporters
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Yes
6
No
1
Does someone die?
10 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Disability
Is the r-slur used?
22 supporters
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6
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
9 supporters
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6
Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
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0
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8
Does a parent die?
8 supporters
Yes
13
No
1
4
izkm
not on screen . it happened before the movie started
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
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10
Is a child's toy destroyed?
15 supporters
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0
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5
Yes
3
No
0
1
FleetwoodMacNCheez
Bastian's mother dies prior to the start of the film.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
30 supporters
Yes
11
No
3
3
RatBaby
There is one frightening scene with a wolf that may be startling but is not a jump scare
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Is someone possessed?
8 supporters
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10
Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
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1
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10
Are there clowns?
9 supporters
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0
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14
Are there natural bodies of water?
0 supporters
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4
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0
Are there razors?
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6 supporters
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3
Is there a shower scene?
7 supporters
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Are there mannequins?
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3
Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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7
Does someone vomit?
58 supporters
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11
Is someone eaten?
18 supporters
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Yes
1
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2
Is there on-screen pooping?
20 supporters
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3
Does someone spit?
8 supporters
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11
Is there audio gore?
30 supporters
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0
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6
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
4 supporters
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0
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6
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
14 supporters
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0
No
10
Is there incarceration?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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3
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there transphobic slurs?
29 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
3
Is there bisexual cheating?
15 supporters
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0
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6
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
2 supporters
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0
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3
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
15 supporters
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0
No
9
Yes
13
No
1
2
ZiggyQuinn
A dragon is given some sort of injection by one of the characters
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Is there a mental institution scene?
16 supporters
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11
Is there a hospital scene?
7 supporters
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10
Is there menstruation?
5 supporters
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3
Does someone have cancer?
12 supporters
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9
Mental Health
Yes
1
No
5
1
Corellon
The central struggle of the movie involves the protagonist trying to heal from the trauma of losing his mother.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
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0
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3
Does someone self harm?
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41 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is autism misrepresented?
20 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Is a mentally ill person violent?
19 supporters
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0
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8
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
13 supporters
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1
No
3
Yes
0
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4
0
pedanther
The main character discovers that the characters in the book he's reading are aware of his presence, and they break the fourth wall to talk to him. Within the fiction, this is all something that's actually happening and not a delusion, but the situation may be uncomfortable for people who have similar delusions.
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Is there misophonia?
25 supporters
Yes
3
No
2
1
FleetwoodMacNCheez
Mud squelching, eating noises (especially because the food is described as disgusting)
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Is there ABA therapy?
13 supporters
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4
Is there body dysphoria?
9 supporters
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0
No
5
Is there body dysmorphia?
19 supporters
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0
No
11
Yes
0
No
7
Are there anxiety attacks?
19 supporters
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0
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12
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
14 supporters
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0
No
9
Does someone have an eating disorder?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Is there autism specific abuse?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
2
EllieAdkinson
The horse gives up its life in the swamp. It is so depressed it just… lets itself go.
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
17 supporters
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Yes
3
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0
Are there underwater scenes?
5 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
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0
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7
Is there shakey cam?
23 supporters
Yes
4
No
8
1
ZiggyQuinn
Briefly 3/4 of the way through the film during a confrontation the camera is shaking. Basically to depict an earthquake.
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Is there screaming?
7 supporters
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Yes
3
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0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
4 supporters
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0
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3
2
laelindstrom
There are lighting flashes in almost complete darkness in the confrontation with the antagonist.
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Paranoia
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
The childlike empress explains to Bastian that he has been watched just as he observed Atreyu.
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Yes
6
No
1
1
FleetwoodMacNCheez
This is one of the only times that breaking the fourth wall unnerved me. Watching this movie as a child and imagining the people the empress describes watching me really freaked me out.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
13 supporters
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5
Is there childbirth?
14 supporters
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10
Are there abortions?
12 supporters
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0
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13
Are there babies or unborn children?
10 supporters
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0
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4
Does someone miscarry?
13 supporters
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0
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8
Does a pregnant person die?
9 supporters
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0
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7
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
28 supporters
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0
No
11
Does the black guy die first?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
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9
Are there homophobic slurs?
30 supporters
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0
No
7
Yes
0
No
7
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
20 supporters
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0
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7
Is there hate speech?
20 supporters
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0
No
9
2
bananareen
no hate speech but there is a white actor playing a Native American character
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Does an LGBT person die?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Yes
0
No
6
Are there n-words?
18 supporters
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0
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8
Is there aphobia?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
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3
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
24 supporters
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0
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4
Sex
Is there sexual content?
35 supporters
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0
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12
Is someone sexually objectified?
26 supporters
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0
No
5
Yes
5
No
2
3
Corellon
Just stone statues with boobs.
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Is there bestiality?
46 supporters
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0
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5
Is there BDSM?
13 supporters
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0
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4
Does someone lose their virginity?
9 supporters
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0
No
4
Are there incestuous relationships?
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51 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Sexism
1
Corellon
In the first scene of the movie, a male character is taken aside and criticized for expressing feelings of grief instead of "getting over it."
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
1
Corellon
One of the main characters is dying from a mysterious illness.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
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5
Is someone terminally ill?
10 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
21 supporters
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0
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3
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
2 supporters
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9
Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
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0
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9
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
9 supporters
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0
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11
Does a plane crash?
5 supporters
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0
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10
Is someone hit by a car?
11 supporters
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0
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11
Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
2 supporters
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Yes
0
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11
Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
Yes
10
No
2
2
Corellon
MAJOR: A man is killed by laser beams, and we see his charred face. MINOR: A character is shown with bloody wounds on a few occasions, but these are mostly just the SFX "battle damage" variety with only one closeup of an especially bad scrape near his collarbone.
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Does someone drown?
10 supporters
Yes
12
No
0
4
Anonymous
Artax sinks in a swamp
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Is there gun violence?
12 supporters
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0
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10