Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
This tv show contains 64 potentially triggering events.
There is a kiss between an adult woman and a teen boy but it is not for any sexual or romantic means, it’s how she uses her powers to hypnotize people (so it might still be a trigger to see, but if the context matters to you, she’s not trying to do anything pedophilic towards him)
I *believe* it’s season 2 but it could be 3 - the concept of rape is murdered but it’s not about something that actually happened to anyone in the story. Essentially the word is used and that’s all.
There’s something implied to be happening with I believe an alligator at an underground sex club (some of these details could be slightly off), but nothing is seen or heard.
A married couple is crushed to death under a large weight, courtesy of Jervis Tetch. Jim Gordon is also put under the pressure of a large crusher, but he doesn't die.
Barbara seems to only be bisexual so that she can be straight enough to date Jim Gordon but gay enough to lend the male viewers eye candy, causing love triangles everywhere she goes.
Edward Nygma is depicted with some sort of “split personality”. It’s very confusing, this is my favorite show I’ve rewatched it countless times and I still don’t understand what the fuck they were trying to do with this. He has a ‘good’ and ‘evil’ side seemingly, it’s all very classically bad. Occasionally they seem to merge. They have memory gaps. Idk.
characters drink lots of alcohol throughout the show, mainly the character harvey bullock and there is a few episodes where bruce wayne is shown drinking and getting drunk in a club
Fish digs out her eyes in season one (disturbing and graphic, but brief). Oswald gets shrapnel in his eye at the end of season five (quick and not overly graphic, although we see a brief moment where he shows Ed his wound that is bloody). Jerome stabs his father in the eye and kills him (off-screen but we see the aftermath)
Bruce’s mother and father are murdered in front of him in the first episode (very upsetting). Ivy’s dad is murdered. Oswald’s mother is murdered (very upsetting). Jerome kills his mother and father. Barbara kills her parents. etc
A clown is shown in season 4 as one of a prison warden's greatest fears. Also, there are circus and other clown themes implied/shown during Jerome and Jeremiah's arcs
Tho the show depicts many corrupt officers, the system as a whole isn’t questioned and it’s seems the message is all we need is good cops and more recourses.
There are multiple scenes in season 3 where a needle is used to inject the "Tetch virus" into themselves or to another person. Also, in season 1, Gerald Crane uses needles filled with toxin on himself and his son
a few scenes show a hospital setting as the character mario falcone is a doctor. though she is not shown in an actual hospital there is also plenty of medical themes involving the character leslie thompkins as she is a doctor as well.
Victor Zsasz has a tally chart of who he’s killed cut into his skin with a razor, Ivys Mother is said to self harm, and Bruce self harms in season 1 as a way of ‘testing himself’.
lots of them. the character edward nygma is shown to see visions of himself and have multiple personalities, he is a serial killer known as the riddler and shown killing many people
edward nygma, described to be canonically autistic by both the writers and the actor who portrays him, is frequently harassed and told he "needs professional help" among other things in season one for displaying autistic-typical behavior and not recognizing social cues.
In 3x03 and 3x04, Tetch gains hypno-control over Jim and tries to make him commit suicide three times over the course of the episode, once by walking off a building, once by walking into traffic and once by making Jim hold a gun to his head. Jim is also drugged and encouraged to self-harm/commit suicide by slitting his wrist in 4x02, there are graphic shots of his wrist.
In Season 3, Jim's uncle Frank kills himself so that way Jim can frame himself for Frank's suicide. In 5x11, A general in the army shoots himself in the head to disrupt Jim's plans Also, in the final episode of the series, a guard at Arkham shoots himself to frame Harvey Bullock
Barbara gives birth at the end of season five. We see her in labour for most of the episode, but the birth is off-screen. Her baby is shown covered in gore for a few moments (although it’s not graphic)
To correct the other commenter, Detective Montoya is a lesbian, and Fish Mooney was confirmed via Word of God to be pansexual. Barbara (bisexual) has a temporary death and by the end of the series is alive; Tabitha (another bisexual character) is permanently killed, as is Fish after her first resurrection.
Not first, but I would say black characters are disproportionately killed on the show. If a non-main black character is introduced in an episode or scene, they are very frequently killed before the episode/scene is over. Two out of the only three major characters who perma-die are black women.
Barbara Kean and Ra's Al Ghul have a brief romantic relationship, Barbara being canonically in her 20s-30s while Ra's is over thousands of years old. Adult Ivy Pepper also kisses 17 year old Bruce Wayne in an episode at an attempt at manipulating him.
chemicals are poured into the water system in season 5, and at the end of season 4 bombs are detonated, blowing up the bridges that attach gotham to the “mainland” (the rest of america).