Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
It’s not shown but it gets brought up a lot. There is a scene where the main character calls his child, which he abadoned following the events of S1, and doesn’t say anything.
An old man begins to lose his short term memory, and is completely unable to remember things that have just been said. When playing a game against another character, he asks for things to be repeated. This other character lies about how the game is going in order to win.
There are several times where a character is tricked/betrayed by someone they trust.
A dead fish is cut at a market for food, nothing bad really and there's fish that have died in a bowl when he visits an apartment to look for his brother but nothing terrible. The series is brillant and coming from someone who's overly sensitive to animals dying most of you should be ok! I recommend
There's a mini side story where some "staff" members and a player who's a doctor traffick organs from deceased players, one mentions to an undercover cop that they took turns to rape a woman before taking her organs
No assault occurs and the writing frames it as an uncomfortable scene but you do watch as onlookers jeer upon hearing that a man was coerced into performing sexual acts.
Season 1 - Two characters are tied behind their backs (in their underwear) and left on the side of a road.
Season 3 - A character is handcuffed to their bed after attempting to commit suicide.
About halfway through the episode, Number 28 (a solider) confronts Number 29 (Jun-Ho in disguise) before their dive to deliver the harvested organs to the buyers about suspicions he is not who he says he is. After Jun-Ho demands answers about the previous night’s victim’s identity, Number 28 says that it was a girl. When Jun-Ho is not convinced, Number 28 says that all the soldiers “took turns having sex with her” beforehand. (It’s unclear if she would have been conscious or not since she was significantly injured in the day’s game.)
If you've seen the first season at all, this is a good comparison. It's less gory that S1, but there is way more violence and blood. Especially in last 2 episodes of S2
In the first episode the main character is hit in the face and his nose bled. the beater wiped blood away and licked the blood from his thumb, then intimidated him further by holding a shiv to the inside of his nostril. but does not cut him.
It’s pretty bad if you can’t handle these kinda stuff. There’s a scene at the end of the 6th episode (it continues in the beginning of the 7th too) where people start physically fighting in the men’s bathroom. One of the characters is on top of another, choking him, then we see his face freeze in a very up close shot and then it pans down to the fork being stuck into his throat/jaw. Then we see the other character’s face as blood is pouring down onto him. It’s very graphic.
First episode some gangsta man sticks his finger in the main characters blood and sucks it off. Says he tastes good and will make a soup out of him but that's as far as it goes.
Someone’s lower back of their calf gets cut in the fight scene on the stairs around 21 minutes in. I’m not sure if it’s specifically the tendon, but the person struggles to walk afterward.
Around half of the players get stabbed (mainly background characters). Three main characters get stabbed, one multiple times whilst trapped in a room, one in the leg then back and another one in the back.
(applies to eye damage too) but organ harvesting scene is EP4 and it’s Literally right after InHo talks about his wife with GiHun (the whole entire scene where he fake cries and he apologizes for voting ‘O’)
When Gi-hun and some others are trying to attack the people who control the games, some pink soldiers are seen falling off stairs and hallways. Gi-hun is also seen falling down the stairs after taking magazines from the dead soldier's pockets.
YES. It’s not a “traditional” kidnapping but (spoilers) in S3, a mother is forced to separate from her child. The gamemakers give her no other choice that allows her child to live. The choice to keep the child with her is taken from her. They then force the child “participate” in the games or die. This is abduction. (/spoilers)
Stop downvoting “spoilers”, the point of this site is to err on the side of caution and note ALL potential triggers.
No but if you don’t want upsetting imagery around children’s toys/games this is NOT the show for you. Twisted versions of various games and toys throughout.
Many of the "players" that die were parents and at the end Gi-Hoon's mother dies from diabetes.
Sae-Byeok mentions that her dad died while scaping North Korea.
Although they aren’t quite jump scares, there are several instances where a character is suddenly shot which can be alarming. The sound and visual cut to someone dying is often very abrupt with no warning.
The scenes that take place in the basement have scalpels, needles, and show stitches. The stitches are not too graphic and the scalpel does not cut skin. The needle scene may be worth skipping as it shows the transfusion tube (30:44-31:15)
The first episode has a giant creepy robotic doll resembling a young child used as part of the 'Red Light Green Light' round. If the doll depicts someone moving it sets off hidden guns at the contestant. The design plays heavily into the uncanny valley, and the doll's eyes are shown moving around in close-up.
on episode 1, at around the 46:35 mark, a man spits up blood. it's not vomit but it was very sudden and as someone with emetophobia it definitely shook me up a bit
No but there's a whole scene where a woman makes a lot of noise pretending to strain at a bowel movement (covering up sound for someone else sneaking around)
In the last episode of season 1, gi-hun takes a bite out of sang-woo's ankle to defend himself. A chunk of flesh comes off but he spits it out (but there is still blood in his mouth)
After the workers come back to the room with the players (after the alarms are sounded), they demand the old man to get up, and they pull his blanket off of him. It's revealed that he's wet himself.
No slurs. There is transphobia against a trans character like someone saying “men are men and women are women” and calling the trans person “unsightly” (at least in the English subtitles)
An old woman asks to her son “is that a man or a woman?” To her son referring to a trans woman. The son then explains how people can transition to another gender if they feel comfortable. This is not meant to be cruel and the old woman understands.
im not entirely sure if this counts? but in the second game they all start licking the candy, and theres a few close up shots of the tounges while they do.
I highly doubt that none of the characters have no mental illnesses or disorders, but none are mentioned or implied to be the reason why they're violent.
After one of the characters chews up a pill, his world slows down and he begins to act like he’s dissociated or experiencing something different from reality while he is playing the game.
Yes - many times people have meltdowns on screen. Once a person has a meltdown that causes them to completely freeze up and it results in the death of others
eating disorders arent mentioned or shown, but the characters frequently state disappointment with the amount they're eating, if underfeeding is triggering to anybody.
No, but the "depraved homosexual" trope is depicted in s01e07. (An older man with a decadent lifestyle tries to sexually assault a younger adult man and fails. )
We don’t actually know if a character is LGBTQ+ or not, but there are a couple of characters that many people who are LGBTQ+ deem to possibly not be straight, and they die.
A very old man with a brain tumor and health problems gets picked on, and is rarely picked for teams in the games. But some characters make sure he isn’t left out.
S1E4: Sex scene in a restroom. S1E7: Lot's of naked people, but with full body painting, so there's not much to see. In the same episode there's also a naked man to see from behind.
The one woman that almost gets raped is sexualized and called pretty and looked at in a predatory manner. Also another man says he will take another man ex and make her his woman after he is killed
Some character costumes are worn and shown to have people inside (mask off etc) but there’s a little girl that walks into the changing room and they intentionally put their costume heads back on for her before she notices, one of the costumers doesn’t realize the little girl is there and walks around without the head on and the girl cries
No explosions happen, but it is worth mentioning that a bomb is shown onscreen and talked about when two character descend a ladder. It does not explode.