Babylon 5
TV Show • 1994 • Drama
ReportBabylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
This tv show contains 48 potentially triggering events.
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Are there abusive parents?
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pedanther
S1
E10
The episode revolves around a child whose parents' religious convictions lead them to place other priorities ahead of the child's physical wellbeing. Whether their behaviour is abusive is a judgement each viewer has to make, but at the least it may have uncomfortable associations.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
28 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E10
There is a disturbing scene of parents rejecting their child.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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pedanther
S1
E5
A character is targeted by an assassin who precedes the actual assassination attempt by stalking him and disrupting his life by doing things like leaving messages in his bedroom while he's sleeping in it.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Corellon
Probably more instances, but most notably late season 4 when a character is interrogated.
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Addiction
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Corellon
Most notably a character is addicted to perscription stimulants, and there's ever present references to the made up drug "dust." There are also numerous one off incidents too. Characters are drugged. Characters come across a drug and take it for plot reasons. Etc.
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Is there addiction?
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Corellon
Alcohol and prescription stimulants. Both portrayals are well written (but very realistic and immersive and show up frequently!)
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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pedanther
S1
E16
A character responds to an overwhelmingly stressful situation by getting drunk and starting a bar brawl.
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Animal
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Is there a dead animal?
92 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E5
There is a scene where a character is preparing a meal and the main meat ingredient is visibly a (prop) dead animal rather than an anonymous cut of meat.
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Are there spiders?
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Corellon
There's a ship that a character (accurately) describes as looking like "a cross between a spider and your worst nightmare."
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Are there bugs?
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S1
Every episode in this season has a brief shot in the title sequence of an alien that resembles an enormous preying mantis.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
24 supporters
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S1
E8
A character is given psychotropic drugs as part of an interrogation by the episode's antagonists.
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Is someone restrained?
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E8
A character is strapped to a chair as part of an interrogation by the episode's antagonists.
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Bodily Harm
Are any hands damaged?
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S2
E21
A character's hand is cut, and blood is seen dripping from it.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Corellon
Several instances of oxygen running low. Season 5, someone starts to panic.
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Is there cannibalism?
34 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E17
Discussion of cannibalism: A character's body goes missing, and one of the possibilities discussed is that it was eaten by an alien race. This turns out not to be the case.
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Is someone burned alive?
35 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E12
Two characters are trapped in a fire following an explosion, and one is killed. They are not depicted while they are trapped, only in the scene where search and rescue pulls them out.
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Is someone buried alive?
23 supporters
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pedanther
S3
E2
One subplot features two characters who are trapped under rubble following an explosion and will die if they're not found before the oxygen runs out. They are ultimately found and rescued just as they're on the point of passing out from lack of air.
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Is there a hanging?
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S2
E15
A character talks about a relative's death by hanging, but it is not depicted or described in detail.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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pedanther
S1
E5
There is a passing mention of someone dying in an "unfortunate airlock accident", but nothing depicted on screen.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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S1
E3
A character loses consciousness after being drugged.
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Does someone break a bone?
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S2
E3
A character's foot is broken in a fight, and she spends the rest of the episode on crutches. Nothing graphic is shown.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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S2
E19
A character appears to have a seizure (what it actually is is something else, but the visual appearance is the same).
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Corellon
Delenn breaks someone's finger in season 5. There's a close up.
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Is someone tortured?
72 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E5
The episode antagonist tortures his victim with electric shocks.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Corellon
Season 3, at the end with a major character. Season 5, second half when an enemy underling is thrown off a balcony
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Is there eye mutilation?
84 supporters
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Corellon
(1) Horrifically in season 4. A character gets their eye forcibly removed with a knife. It happens offscreen, but for many more episodes, it's brought up. In season 5, their prosthetic is switched out with tongs with a close up. (2) In the season 5 episode that starts at the PsiCorps headquarters, there's a character that (with slow advance warning) undergoes massive head pressure until his eyes go extremely red, and he dies.
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Is someone stabbed?
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pedanther
S1
E7
A character is attacked and stabbed in the scene leading into the opening titles.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Corellon
Two alien children in seperate episodes get very sick and then die. At least two places are bombed despite residents pleading that there are women and children.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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pedanther
S1
E8
Not fully: In one scene, a fighter pilot intends to ram his damaged fighter into an enemy ship in an attempt to take some of them with him, but events intervene and he lives to fight another day.
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Does a major character die?
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pedanther
S1
E22
No members of the regular cast die during the episode, but one is in critical condition for the last part of it including the end.
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Does someone die?
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E3
In the subplot, a character dies at the conclusion of a terminal illness.
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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pedanther
S1
E8
The episode plot revolves around a character being abducted and interrogated by the antagonists.
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Does a parent die?
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S1
E3
A character's father dies at the conclusion of a terminal illness.
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Does someone cheat?
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Corellon
Londo and Bester have wives they're not faithful to as a rule. The topic comes up here and there in minor ways.
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Does a family member die?
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S1
E3
A character's father dies at the conclusion of a terminal illness. The earlier deaths of her mother and brother also come up in conversation.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Corellon
(1) A character is talking on their commlink next to a dead body. The camera lingers for a LONG time on an angle where the dead body can be seen out of focus over the character's shoulder. Due the some unknown spooky phenomenon, the dead body briefly MOVES and growls. (2) Early season 5, the doctor is seen convincing an alien to ingest a liquid for the sake of medical research. He appears to be completely successful and moves to a different room of medlab and discusses the next thing when the liquid is VERY abruptly thrown against the window and splashes across most of the surface.
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Is someone possessed?
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Corellon
First appears earlier, but the season 5 Centauri plot involves posession
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Are there ghosts?
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pedanther
S1
E19
There is a ghost-like apparition, but it's a technological projection of a real person, not an actual ghost.
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Is there a shower scene?
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pedanther
S2
E20
Yes, but the viewpoint is external and the person having the shower is visible only as a silhouette behind the shower screen.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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niteingale
In early season 5 (5x07), an alien is fed a medicinal liquid and vomits over a glass screen; it is projectile, the alien vomiting is not visible during.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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S1
E19
A law enforcement officer, off duty but still in uniform, beats up someone he got in an argument with, and suffers no consequences for it; his superior officer and the narrative treat it as being okay because he was under emotional stress.
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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pedanther
S1
E11
A character is shown being injected with something while in hospital.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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ThatWGIgeek
There is an episode where a major character is tortured that is very reminiscent of a mental institution. It is mentioned that "unstable" telepaths (and those rendered "unstable" by telepaths) are kept in mental institutions.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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pedanther
S2
E1
Several scenes in Medlab revolving around a character in a coma after being shot.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Corellon
A minor character has a very painful terminal illness.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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pedanther
S1
E8
A character's trauma from his military service is a key part of the plot.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
11 supporters
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pedanther
S3
E2
It's unclear whether the episode antagonist has an outright mental illness, but at the least he is clearly in a very bad place mentally.
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Corellon
No but the Narn often ritually slice their palms with swords.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
28 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E8
A character experiences an induced flashback to his traumatic wartime experiences, during which he has a delusion that he's back in the war and in enemy territory, and attacks several people in the belief that they're enemy combatants.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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pedanther
S5
E13
The episode plot revolves around the trope of an evil murderous alter.
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pedanther
S2
E3
It doesn't go as far as an actual attempt, but there's a scene where a character is fiddling with a handgun in a way that can be read as implying that he's contemplating suicide.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
16 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E8
A character is interrogated by the antagonists using virtual reality and psychotropic drugs, making him experience reality as unhinged and leaving him for a while uncertain about what is real.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
27 supporters
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Corellon
A character goes through a mystical transformation that brings about certain unnatural changes to their body and is shaken and uncomfortable as they adjust.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
17 supporters
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niteingale
In early season 3 when two characters get trapped in an elevator.
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Corellon
(1) various enemy agents taking poison capsules (2) a minor recurring antagonist ritually sacrificing themself in place of a main character (3) a villain shooting themself to avoid capture (4) a main character sacrificing their life force to prevent the death of someone they care about (5) a main character immolating themself in a fuel explosion to avoid capture. (6) A character sees their friend go down a dark path and taunts him by offering him a handgun, saying it would be quicker that way.
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
34 supporters
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The shakey cam is fairly frequent in more action-oriented scenes
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Are there flashing lights or images?
42 supporters
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ThatWGIgeek
Many of the scenes with space battles have flashing lights, as well as scenes with the jumpgates opening.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
10 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E13
A kidnapper spends several scenes secretly observing his target before taking action.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
47 supporters
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Corellon
Londo calls Vir a "moon faced assassin of joy."
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Does the black guy die first?
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pedanther
S2
E4
Out of a group of people engaged in a dangerous task, the black guy is the one that dies. For what it's worth, he is not the only black guy in the episode.
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Is there hate speech?
23 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E8
The main antagonist expresses a xenophobic conspiracy theory about immigrants being part of a plot to corrupt society from within.
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Does an LGBT person die?
28 supporters
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pedanther
S2
E19
Due to the broadcast standards of the time, no human characters in this series are explicitly identified as LGBT+, but a character dies in this episode who is implied (intentionally, the showrunner has confirmed) to be in a same-sex romantic relationship.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
31 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E3
The ages of Londo and his love interest are not explicitly established, but there's clearly a gap and there's dialogue where he acknowledges being self-conscious about being significantly older than her. The ages of the actors has a 14-year gap: she was around 30 at the time of filming, and he was in his mid-40s.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
10 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E2
Briefly, in the context of differing opinions about the reality of souls and the afterlife.
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Are there demons or Hell?
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pedanther
S2
E3
No actual demons, but a character uses computer-generated illusions with an infernal motif, incorporating flames and demonic-looking creatures.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Corellon
Scenes where characters heavily make out before and after sex in various forms of undress. There are some tense scenes where a character is worried about needing to have sex for contrived diplomatic reasons, but bluffs their way through it by simply dressing suggestively, making up a goofy dance, chanting, and then making some sexual noises. One character completely undresses to make an advance on another character. A couple goes offscreen to engage in a sexual ritual while a number of people are in the other room. (It is later established that they were definitely overheard.)
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Are there nude scenes?
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pedanther
S1
E21
There is no human nudity. An alien character exposes a tentacle-like part of his anatomy which dialogue indicates is his genitalia, but it doesn't have the same impact as a human doing the same thing.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
15 supporters
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pedanther
S2
E9
A character who is old and ill has a sudden worsening of their health, spends much of the episode confined to a hospital bed, and dies near the end.
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Social
Is someone homeless?
6 supporters
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pedanther
S2
E5
A significant episode-only character is a homeless military veteran.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
44 supporters
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pedanther
S2
E18
The episode plot revolves around an epidemic with many casualties, and the ending is appropriately downbeat.
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
9 supporters
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pedanther
S2
E2
No planes, but two spacecraft collide, destroying both and killing their occupants.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
6 supporters
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pedanther
S1
E11
There is a large explosion, but it's not nuclear.
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Is there blood/gore?
50 supporters
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19
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pedanther
S2
E10
A disagreement comes to blows, leaving several of the combatants bloodied. At the end of the episode, there is a panning shot across a battlefield, showing the dead and injured.
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Is there gun violence?
24 supporters
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24
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0
0
pedanther
S1
E7
The climax of the episode involves a shoot-out between the heroes and villains.
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