Supernatural

TV Show • 2005 • Drama  

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This tv show contains 136 potentially triggering events.
Season
Episode
19
Lauren Hunter
Season 4, episode 11 - a dog is heard being killed
Season 7, episode 15 - a very cute small dog is killed for its heart to be used in a ritual
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GinnyCook
Crowley's horse
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
Yes
172
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8
6
Anonymous
In season 3 episode 9 a dead and mutilated rabbit is shown. Multiple other animals die throughout the show.
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ijustsettheworldonfire
Several animals are killed/found dead in ritualistic sacrifice or as part of spells
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PrincexRaven
There is an episode where Crowley has his hell hound attack another hell hound, but they are both invisible. You can, however, hear the whimpers and see the blood.
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AlexandraAmaral
S9
 E5
In a taxidermist place
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Yes
1
No
5
0
S3
 E3
There is an episode where they have a rabbits foot. It's clearly fake, and is on a keychain
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Yes
158
No
16
10
Anonymous
Season 9 episode 5, some guy eats a live cat
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2
AlexandraAmaral
S9
 E5
A cat is seen and heard been eaten
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5
The "dragons" look like humans but their hands can glow red.
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8
timetoerase
"Bugs" (season 1, episode 8) and "Yellow Fever" (season 4, episode 6)
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6
Songbird
Yellow Fever has snakes. Also season 14 Jack gets a snake and Dean is afraid of it
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
195
No
13
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Ari7
*intense flashbacks to the episode called bugs*
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Yes
3
No
2
6
Solareclipse2014
Sam and Dean are left to fend for themselves for most of their childhood because John Winchester is an jerk
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BDSZ
Dean gaslights Sam consistently throughout season 9.
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2
PrincexRaven
A few one-off episodes; season 2 ep 17 stands out to me.
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Yes
8
No
2
15
hyperandrogenism
Sam and Dean were abused by John (some is shown in flashbacks, it's verbal/mental and heavily implied physical abuse as well as neglect), there are episodes where children have been/are being abused.
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Frostboom
In season 7 episode 10, it shows Bobby’s early family life. His father abused him and his mother emotionally and physically.

There are themes of domestic violence throughout the show. ( A kid literally whipping herself through emotional manipulation, multiple spouses killing eachother (though one is usually a monster) etc.
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EliseRasmussen
dean is kinda abusive towards literally everyone around him, especially sam. he hits people that he cares deeply about when he becomes upset
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10
JayEdwards
A major plot point of one of the seasons
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2
Anonymous
Dean drinks a lot of alcohol and Sam gets addicted to demon blood, which is pretty much like a drug, in season 4.
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15
Anonymous
The character Dean is an alcoholic. Alcohol is also frequently consumed by many characters.
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1
Vitya
Sam is restrained multiple times by main characters, Dean is restrained in s10, many other characters are restrained as well especially demons during exorcisms
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8
In season 7, there’s extremely strong alluding to Sam being raped/sexually assaulted by Lucifer when he was in the cage. He’s also plagued with ptsd and hallucinations of Lucifer which constantly make him feel unsafe, and cause him to be unable to eat and sleep
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AleE
S3
 E6
Several people drown while on land. One man is pulled into a sink.
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Hm202
Yes rape often happens, both to background characters and to the main characters multiple times. One example when Sam hallucinates Lucifer who frequently taunts him about raping him throughout season 7.
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Hm202
Yes, there are a lot of pedophiles in individual episodes but I don't think there's any in overarching plots.
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1
hm7733
Yes, people are drugged hundreds of times, thats a legitimate estimate not an exaggeration. People are also supernaturally "whammied" frequently which is akin to being drugged.
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AleE
S3
 E6
Sam is sexually harassed by an older woman. It's played for laughs.
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Yes
3
No
0
1
andyping24
There is one episode with a non-graphic birth scene that includes a woman who was possessed by a demon and raped. The rape is not depicted. Angel and demon characters sometimes have sex, and they are presumed to be possessing living humans who aren't asked consent to the act.
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memc
throughout all seasons of the show there are scenes of characters cutting their palms or firearms for rituals, spells, ad sigils. The cuts are not often shown explicitly on camera and I the later season are healed quickly by Castiel.

There are a few scenes of Castiel with larger cuts. One scene shows a sigil cut into his chest, and another shows a message carved into his chest by another character.

Almost every character ends up with a cut at some point, most often from violence from a monster or another character.
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Vitya
A main character is crushed to death in “Mystery Spot” (s3) but is brought back to life
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Yes
111
No
10
2
ProGenLock
Not sure why so many “No”, as there are very clearly multiple times this happens of characters, all men, getting kicked in the groin. Especially in season 2, 4, worst of all season 5, and season 10. The Japanese gameshow that the other person mentioned had a giant metal rod smash into Sam’s groin for “humor” in season 5, although it can be very distressing.
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memc
In the pilot episode Jessica, Sam's girlfriend, is also burned alive on the ceiling

Although they are technically dead the ghosts and spirits are burned when their bones are torched, they are dead but they scream while they burn a lot of the time
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7
SierraDooley
During the Christmas special there are teeth pulled and fingernails ripped off
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0
In almost every episode in every Season someone gets either Stabbestad or shot
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8
Anonymous
In the first episode of Season 4, Dean wakes up in a coffin and has to dig his way out.
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Yes
1
No
0
7
BDSZ
Not explicitly shown; more of a mention or two. For example: 1x2 "Wendigo", 1x15 "The Benders".
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Anonymous
Many characters have their eyes burnt out throughout the series.
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Yes
7
No
2
Yes
20
No
1
1
andyping24
Typically sticks to suggestive sprays of blood, shots of bodies that don't peer into injuries, blood on clothing. Most injuries are streaks of red on bodies with a few exceptions for pitted looking burns or magical wounds that don't look like normal gore. Some episodes show severed heads. Individual body parts such as bones or eyeballs. Sometimes graphic sound effects meant to gross the viewer out. Many characters die in horrible ways but the wound itself is off-screen, with sprays of blood and gross sound effects.
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0
In many of the seasons they slice heads off monsters

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Vitya
S3
Dean chokes in episode 11
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3
Nadine
Protagonists are frequently choked, mostly by demons.
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1
andyping24
Very frequently. It's not worth noting a particular episode because it's nearly every episode. Frequently more than once an episode.
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hyperandrogenism
Characters frequently are shown breaking bones on screen.
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10
hyperandrogenism
Ruby is shown being tortured on screen, Dean talks about being tortured/torturing other people.
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Yes
3
No
2
4
GinnyCook
Cutting off heads
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Marjo
The teeth aren't exactly pulled. There is an intention, but it doesn't happen.

There is however an episode where someone loses all of his teeth. They just fall out
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Vitya
S1
Meg falls and breaks her bones which technically causes the human she’s possessing to die later after she’s exorcised
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andyping24
S3
 E7
Protagonists behead vampires with machetes and once with a chainsaw.
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andyping24
S11
 E17
A protagonist empties many bottles in a hospital and ingests all the pills intending to die. Semi-graphic depiction of the overdose with seizing and foaming at the mouth. Another character is very distressed in the background. He dies, but is revived and goes back to normal instantly.
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BDSZ
In season six when the boys go back in time to the wild west, a man is hanged for murder.
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AleE
S3
 E2
Several children are taken and replaced by identical demons. The children survive and are returned.
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2
venom
dean repeatedly makes inappropriate comments about high schoolers throughout the series.
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memc
Teenagers die more often than young kids but both do die, often violently or on-screen at least, this I suppose also goes for ghost kids which are sometimes 'killed' to dispel their spirit.

Child death is also referenced

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Yes
0
No
3
3
Vitya
S6
This is Supernatural, someone always sacrifices themself
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1
andyping24
Every episode at least one character is killed.
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2
Pantalones
The three main characters die, are resurrected, and find some new way to die again. There is also a time loop episode where a character dies over and over in a multitude of ways.
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1
andyping24
The main premise is humans killing non-humans/monsters and it's the focus of nearly every episode.
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Yes
1
No
36
0
There are many times where the characters needs wheelchairs, and obviously the actor does not

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2
EliseRasmussen
dean knowingly overdoses at one point with pills
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9
SierraDooley
Parents die and the main characters mother dies early on same with their father later
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4
Frostboom
There is an episode where 2 witches are feuding because the husband cheated. There’s more cheating throughout the show, though not on the main characters behalf (It never explicitly shows them cheating)
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julesey
in at least one episode, 1x19, a doll is burned to dispel the spirit of a murderous child. Nursery rooms are also shown burning.
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Yes
11
No
1
0
Vitya
S3
People are kidnapped by various monsters
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4
LevitatingScot
But not that many or particularly scary.
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0
venom
there is an entire episode surrounding mannequins as a plot point.
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2
Alainya44
Season 10? Short scene of Dean in the shower rinsing his hair
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MyraBones
Yeah there's a full episode very early on (Season 2) that's just... just all clowns...
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0
venom
there is one episode where a guy eats candy and there’s a razor in it; it’s pretty graphic when he pulls it out of his mouth.
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Anonymous
All the time, major plot point, mostly demonic.
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andyping24
S5
The antagonist has round splotchy sores and burns across his face and body.
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10
SierraDooley
Hence the name *SUPERNATURAL*
Practically always ghost 😂
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hm7733
Something that happens often is they get holy water thrown at their face and they spit it out.
Also there's one scene with a whoopee cushion
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Yes
2
No
6
3
hotaruin0
Dean is said to have pissed himself when he was hit by a car.
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Yes
9
No
2
28
blahblabla
S2, E11 - Sam can be seen hanging over a toilet during a hangover, but no vomit (20 mins).
S3, E9 - Dean coughs up blood after being hexed by a witch (22 mins).
S4, E8 - Dean can be heard vomiting from inside the bathroom after getting food poisoning (20 mins).
S5, E21 - There's scenes where a doctor vomits, and patients and doctors have vomit around them. Castiel also coughs up blood in this scene (After recap - 7 mins and on).
S6, E5 - Dean vomits blood concoction (37:40).
S8, E12 - Henry Winchester can be seen vomiting after getting out of the Impala (10 mins).
S8, E14 - Kevin can be heard vomiting, no visuals (5:30).
S9, E23 - Dean vomits in corner of bunker cell (2:50).
S11, E10 - Dean vomits from smiting sickness (from around 8:30 to 11 mins).
S11, E17 - Dean vomits up pills from overdosing (30:45).
S14, E15 - An employee vomits after someones head explodes (3 mins).
S15 , E10 - Dean vomits after finding out he's lactose intolerant (24:30 - 25:30).
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Yes
0
No
3
1
andyping24
Arguably there is more audio gore than visual gore. Splatting, cracking, screaming, groaning, all sorts of gross out and wince worthy noises even when only blood is shown.
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andyping24
S1
 E4
A monster attempts to hijack and crash the plane the protagonists are in and is said to have succeeded several times before.
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Pantalones
Dean is jailed after attacking a short man he thought was a fairy. He is shown being arrested and put in a police car.
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spinalrust
while the main characters aren't always fans of law enforcement, cops are shown as heroes quite frequently, with quite a few being returning good guys 🙄
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Yes
0
No
10
0
JayR
No, however Crowley calls Sam "Samantha" several times in the series as a joke, which may cause similar feelings of discomfort when watching
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andyping24
Artifacts are frequently stolen, broken, or lost. A few times those that are expensive.
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JayEdwards
There's a scene in an abandoned asylum in which a ghost uses what is essentially electro therapy to harm a character

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hyperandrogenism
One episode has a woman who has brain cancer and a man who had brain cancer but was cured.
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11
hyperandrogenism
Sam and Dean go to an abandoned institution and patient abuse is discussed. For one episode Sam and Dean are in a psych ward. One character is shown being in a psych ward.
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5
hyperandrogenism
Including a very thick vintage style needle.
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Yes
0
No
2
0
Vitya
S2
Yes, episode 1 takes place in a hospital
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5
MildlyCondiment
in the episode "yellow fever" someone who is heavily implied to be autistic is killed violently
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starwalker84
S1
 E14
The kid in the episode is seen using a gun 2x. Once against Dean, and once against himself.
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andyping24
S2
 E20
The protagonist wakes up in an alternate reality and can't decide if it's real. Sensations from reality like dead bodies randomly appear and cause jumpscares. The characters in the other reality admit they aren't real. The protagonist kills himself hoping his death won't be real and it will bring him back to reality. The audience doesn't know which is reality during the episode or whether suicide will just kill the protagonist.
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MorganaTheFae
Season 4 "Metamorphosis" is particularly triggering. Damn.
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hyperandrogenism
Dean has flashbacks. Bobby has a panic attack in one episode.
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andyping24
S14
 E8
Antagonist mentions he preferred a male protagonist's past body, which is revealed to be female. The protagonist looks visibly uncomfortable.
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Yes
0
No
5
0
Vitya
S9
One character is very insecure about her weight in episode 13
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Vitya
S5
 E18
Dean and Bobby talk about wanting to commit suicide, Dean attempts it twice and is beat up by another character for it
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florist_star
Dean overdoses and dies momentarily (can’t remember the season). Crowley stabs himself with an angel blade to save the Winchesters (last episode of season 12). Boy shoots himself (season 1). Angel suicide bombers exist in season 9. (all I can think of off the top of my head, may be more x)
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Yes
0
No
9
3
Johnson1331
•In S5 Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, causes insatiable hunger similar to binge eating. We see this affect a main character [Castiel].

•It is implied that Dean (main character) may have a binge eating disorder from childhood neglect (lack of food while Dad abandoned them on hunting trips). Most non-violent scenes with Dean feature him consuming food of some kind. He has an unhealthy relationships and attachments to food, sometimes putting it above other priorities.
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Vitya
S7
Sam and Dean both suffer from PTSD, Sam suffers from flashbacks, nightmares and hallucinations
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4
hyperandrogenism
Several scenes take place in a small concrete cell, in walls, in crawlspaces, and in the trunks of cars.
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Anonymous
Self-mutilation is very frequent as it is a common method to summon some supernatural entities in the series.
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tarotsprinkles
In one scene, Cas says "If I go back to Heaven, I'm afraid I might kill myself" (paraphrased) but it's brushed over very quickly. Not sure about any other instances
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SierraDooley
The GhostFacers do have the camcorder recording style
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Yes
3
No
0
7
hyperandrogenism
When Dean has flashbacks they are shown as flashes of light.
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Vitya
Only swear words allowed on SPN were ‘bitch’ ‘damn’ ‘jerk’ etc, nothing worse
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macyy
babies cry somwhat often, including in the first episode I'm pretty sure
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Vitya
In more meta episodes like “The Monster at the end of the book” (s4), “Fan fiction” (s9) and “The Real Ghostbusters” (s5)
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GotSoEmoIFellApart
Jack's mother does happen to die during childbirth though.
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Yes
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No
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10
Chekai
There is lots of talk of abortion for a couple episodes, with the main characters trying to convince Kelly Kline to abort her baby because the dad is Lucifer, but ultimately Kelly decided to keep the baby.
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Megan_leeann
Although nothing is explicitly shown, at the end of season 12 there is a childbirth scene.
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AllMightyTrayTable
Jacks mom dies as she gives birth
And shows dead pregnant people in one episode
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Anonymous
Charlie, a cannon lesbian, is stabbed and left dead in a bathtub. It's extremely sad
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nvyblue
Hitler is briefly risen from the dead, but is quickly killed. None of his ideals are appreciated or adopted by any protagonist characters. There is a Jewish character, Aaron if I remember correctly, but he is not portrayed in an antisemitic way. Crowley, when he was the king of hell, has a portrait of himself in Nazi uniform with an insignia of a pitchfork in place of the swastika. He does not hold antisemitic beliefs or values. Jewish folklore is mentioned several times throughout the show, but never in a derogatory way.
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hyperandrogenism
One early episode is based in a very racist man being killed by a black man, and his ghost runs over black people with his truck. Confederate flags are shown in a few episodes.
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Vitya
Dean is pretty ableist, makes fun of/dismisses mental illness, Bobby talks in an ableist way about himself when he is first put in a wheelchair after a fight in s5 I believe
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PrincexRaven
there are several in the later seasons, particularly when it comes to the Leviathan entering the scene
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No
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HelanaRekaeGravil
In earlier seasons, Dean makes comments to Sam of like "can you be any gayer?" And lots of homophobic jokes are thrown around but less frequently in later seasons
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jimmynovak
In s6 e23, Crowley makes a running gag out of misgendering Raphael for inhabiting a female vessel.

In s8 e23, Castiel briefly makes an insensitive comment about a (presumably)trans woman’s biological sex.
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Chekai
Practically every single black character who served an important role is now dead. The ones that bothered me the most were Gordon, Rufus, and agent henrickson, as their deaths did not push the plot foreword at all
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JayR
S5
 E3
In "Free To Be You And Me" Dean finds out Castiel is a virgin and attempts to get him to have sex despite his visual discomfort in the situation. This scene is played for laughs. There are other cases where Castiel's lack of understanding about sex is laughed at (such as season 6 episode 3, the "pizza man" bit) but it is never directly stated in the show that Castiel is on the asexual spectrum.
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Yes
0
No
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0
S3
 E6
I personally found the one old woman who tries to have s*x with Sam very disturbing, as she is like 60 or something and he is about, idk, 25-ish
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The series is based off of almost all religious monster, being and there is a heaven and a hell
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Anonymous
S9
 E3
In season 5 episode 3 one character tries to get another character to lose his virginity, but fails. In season 9 episode 3 the same character loses his virginity.
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halojames
several sex scenes throughout the show. no genitalia is shown but there’s bare skin and not much is left to the imagination, specifically in the first couple of seasons.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Yes
71
No
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vincentdorian
In Season 4 Episode 11 “Family Remains”, it is said that a father raped his daughter, leaving her pregnant.
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rainyjay
S9
 E5
Not sexual acts, but because of a spell Dean becomes more “dog like” and there’s a joke shot of him checking out a dog.
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Is there BDSM?
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Yes
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No
0
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tarotsprinkles
Pretty much any possible nude scene scenario happens at least once. Showers, sex, in the morgue, you name it. There are also many partially nude scenes
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Vitya
Sam and Dean frequently objectify women, Sam is objectified and coerced by a fan girl in earlier seasons
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Yes
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No
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2
Anonymous
S12
 E11
Dean gets a memory curse cast on him. At one point he looks in the mirror and keeps saying who he is over and over again until he Can no longer remeber his own name. It is a brutal scene imo (season 12, episode 11)
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JayR
S3
While not an illness, a main character makes a deal with a demon in season 3 and only has a year to live until he is killed and taken to hell. Multiple episodes in this series touch upon the fear and grief this character and his loved ones experience while faced with this information, which may be upsetting to watch
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reading94
No, but Bobby uses a wheelchair for a while at one point and feels very negative about it.
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Yes
1
No
7
1
Castiel spends much of season 9 homeless
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JayR
Heaven, hell, and other forms of the afterlife are often spoken about and depicted in the show.
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andyping24
S12
The male protagonists actively try to convince one character to have an abortion multiple times. There is focus on the entire season around preventing the birth and catching the mother, who doesn't want to abort. The mother tries to kill herself in desperation but does not succeed. She doesn't want to abort but is being told if she doesn't she'll endanger the world. She dies from the birth.
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GotSoEmoIFellApart
Santa and Mrs. Claus are shown as their original beginnings as pagan gods, killing people for sacrafice.
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SeeWhatISaid
!SPOILERS!

God is defeated by Jack, who quickly fills the position. Cas is in The Empty (SuperMegaTurbo Hell), and stays there until being briefly mentioned by Bobby in the last scene. Dean dies while fighting "clown-vampires", getting impaled by a large screw sticking out from the wall (OSHA Violation). Sam lives on, without his brother and starts a family, but eventually dies of old age. They are reunited in heaven. Cas and Jack are absent for the finale. Not necessarily sad (more bittersweet), but extremely disappointing for long-time fans.
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Megan_leeann
An episode in season 1 revolves around a demon infiltrating planes and crashing them. One of the main characters is also terrified of flying.
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hyperandrogenism
Several characters are hit by cars. The Impala is hit while Sam and Dean are in it.
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Anonymous
One scene early in the series involves a serious car crash in which nearly all the occupants are killed.
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Anonymous
One of the early episodes of Season 1 shows several individuals drowning.
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florist_star
this is a very violence heavy show and minor characters and/or monsters die in almost every episode, generally in bloody ways.
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hyperandrogenism
Sam and Dean use guns in almost every episode and kill people with guns frequently, including shotguns.
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andyping24
S11
 E9
All of the angels in heaven attempt to smite the antagonist in one huge blast of power called grace, which is depicted on screen. The protagonist is later said to have grace poisoning from his proximity to the blast while showing symptoms similar to radiation poisoning from a nuclear explosion.
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