Riverdale

TV Show • 2017 • Mystery  

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This tv show contains 91 potentially triggering events.
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Season
Episode
Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
9,238 supporters
Yes
17
No
77
2
dontkillanimals
This show contains every trigger. There’s just 24/7 coming new episodes and seasons, so the answers here are not up to date.
Yes. A dog die. Not on screen but mentioned.
Also mentioned a off-ground dog fight circle. (Where dogs die)
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there pedophilia?
225 supporters
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0
No
0
0
S1
 E1
In the first episode a sophmore student and teacher sleep together
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Is there body horror?
216 supporters
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0
0
S7
 E5
when betty is d*ad on the table, that’s when spiders will happen soon. skip about 30 seconds.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
166 supporters
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0
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
164 supporters
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0
No
0
Yes
0
No
0
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
148 supporters
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Yes
0
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0
Is there bisexual cheating?
140 supporters
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Yes
0
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0
Is there body dysphoria?
130 supporters
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Yes
0
No
0
Is there blackface?
125 supporters
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Yes
0
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0
Abandonment
Yes
6
No
0
0
S7
 E16
betty’s older sister, polly, is abandoned by their parents
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Abuse
Is someone gaslighted?
412 supporters
Yes
38
No
7
3
Blah
In Season 4 episode 4 a character makes their partner question their sanity by making them believe that their home is haunted.
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Is someone stalked?
270 supporters
Yes
47
No
1
2
Blah
In season 4 pretty much all of the houses in the neighbourhood have been sent a tape that shows a six hour long footage of the house.
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Is a child abused?
955 supporters
Yes
68
No
1
3
meganjohnstonn
Cheryl is verbally abused by her mother throughout the entirety of the show. Veronica’s father is extremely emotionally abusive and manipulative
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2
Hello
Its mentioned

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6od
*****SPOILER***** betty’s father who was abused as a kid ends up being a serial killer.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
226 supporters
Yes
58
No
5
3
HogwartsAvenger
Drug addictions
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4
ImnormalJustlikeyou
Jingle jangle it’s called, many kids in town take it but not much can be seen of kids taking it
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Yes
78
No
0
5
SilkyHearted
Jughead's father, was, at one point, a heavy alcoholic, and we see that early on in the series.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
641 supporters
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0
No
54
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
1,101 supporters
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Yes
74
No
6
Are animals abused?
1,529 supporters
Yes
60
No
14
5
Srimayaa
There are two replayed scenes in season four where Betty kills a cat as a child. You don't see the cat but it makes a sound
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Amanda2
On 5-13 it’s revealed that dog fighting is in riverdale, however nothing is shown and the ringleader is beaten up and the dogs are saved
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Yes
48
No
4
0
LaviniaTemple
Betty kills her cat as a child because she (the cat) has been hit by a car. It’s not super graphic but there is a noise as the cat is killed with a rock.
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Does a cat die?
1,206 supporters
Yes
66
No
28
5
Anonymous
season 4 episode 5 betty murders a cat that got hit by a car gets shown twice
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Does a pet die?
420 supporters
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Yes
7
No
1
Does a dragon die?
195 supporters
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Yes
0
No
60
Are there spiders?
444 supporters
Yes
12
No
39
1
Cheryl wears a golden spider broach throughout the show & black widow spiders are shown on or around Veronica as she develops her powers in s6.
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Are there snakes?
117 supporters
Yes
82
No
1
3
Tcktstcrckts
But only on the southside.~
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Are there bugs?
281 supporters
Yes
19
No
49
13
ImnormalJustlikeyou
Only bughead 😉
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Assault
Is someone restrained?
178 supporters
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Yes
9
No
1
Yes
59
No
4
3
Hello
Cheryl gets drugged at the beginning of season two but she is saved before she can get raped
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Is someone held under water?
127 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
Is rape mentioned?
141 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
Is someone drugged?
144 supporters
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Yes
7
No
0
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
104 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
Does a woman get slapped?
101 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
502 supporters
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Yes
46
No
3
Is someone crushed to death?
187 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Does a head get squashed?
573 supporters
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Yes
4
No
48
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
520 supporters
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Yes
2
No
12
Yes
40
No
15
2
Srimayaa
In season four Veronica burns someone alive in self-defence. It is not graphic you just see flames on their jacket
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Yes
39
No
13
2
emetophobiacheck
The janitor of the High School sends Betty his cut off finger in a little gift box.
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Yes
45
No
2
3
Srimayaa
In season 4 a character is placed in a coffin overnight, but they aren't buried
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Is there cannibalism?
317 supporters
Yes
5
No
17
1
ariya
No, but in episode 7 of season 4 a character lies to members of their family that they ate another member of the family in order to scare them away.
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Yes
15
No
23
2
JenNe
In season 5 ep. 2 someone is murdered and has their eyes gouged out by the killer, nothing is shown, only discussed in the morgue
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Is there excessive gore?
498 supporters
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Yes
12
No
1
Does someone asphyxiate?
148 supporters
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Yes
7
No
0
Does someone struggle to breathe?
328 supporters
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Yes
28
No
0
Does someone become unconscious?
95 supporters
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Yes
3
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0
Yes
62
No
1
3
thatothergirl
A character breaks his hand/arm (?) punching through ice in an attempt to rescue another character
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Is someone tortured?
760 supporters
Yes
68
No
3
7
Anonymous
season 2 at some point- someones serpent tattoo is carved off their skin
season 2 end- a character is beaten close to death
season 3 achie is used in prison to be part of an underground fight club run by warden
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Is there amputation?
310 supporters
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0
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emetophobiacheck
In season 3, Betty's father, Hal Cooper, Cuts off his own hand in order to fake his own death.
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Are any teeth damaged?
476 supporters
Yes
42
No
14
2
charlotteanne_l
In season 3 a character’s teeth are pulled out
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Yes
8
No
2
1
Scarecrow113
Penelope Blossom, Cheryl's mom, pushes her mother-in-law down the stairs, but it happens offscreen
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Yes
53
No
5
3
riah
season 3 someone jumps out of a window and falls to their death
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
203 supporters
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0
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5
Yes
76
No
1
4
Anonymous
season 3 episodes 1 and 3 ( or maybe 2) both have seizure scenes
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Is there a hanging?
489 supporters
Yes
62
No
2
1
Hello
Clifford hangs himself
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
156 supporters
Yes
4
No
1
0
Giizmo
There are mentions, but it never happens
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Is a minor sexualized?
444 supporters
Yes
11
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0
0
Scarecrow113
S1
We are introduced to Archie, who is 16, shirtless and with other characters admiring his abs. There are also scenes of Betty poledancing and wearing black lingerie, and Kevin talks about having anonymous sex with strangers in the woods.
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Does a kid die?
644 supporters
Yes
76
No
1
2
LaviniaTemple
In season one a seventeen year old is murdered by being shot in the head, and in season three several teenagers are murdered at a school dance.
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Death
Does someone die?
105 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
122 supporters
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Yes
3
No
1
Disability
Is the r-slur used?
275 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
192 supporters
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Yes
10
No
0
Family
Does a parent die?
326 supporters
Yes
72
No
2
3
thatothergirl
There are several parents who die
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Does someone cheat?
212 supporters
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Yes
47
No
0
Is a child's toy destroyed?
239 supporters
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Yes
1
No
15
Does a family member die?
107 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Is someone kidnapped?
171 supporters
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Yes
38
No
0
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
785 supporters
Yes
58
No
4
2
hanakoyugi
a lot
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Yes
66
No
1
2
Boiiiiiii
Shower seeexxxxx
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Are there natural bodies of water?
7 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Are there clowns?
202 supporters
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Yes
1
No
47
Are there razors?
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155 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Is someone possessed?
164 supporters
Yes
13
No
37
3
Briefly during a seance in season 6, episode 2.
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Are there ghosts?
107 supporters
Yes
54
No
4
4
Anonymous
One character sees a hallucination of her dead twin brother with his fatal injury present. He reaches toward her and she's frightened.
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Gross
Does someone spit?
198 supporters
Yes
36
No
9
1
Saranya0103
In an episode in Season 3 titled “The Midnight Club,” characters spit on their hands.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
133 supporters
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Yes
9
No
2
Does someone vomit?
1,194 supporters
Yes
74
No
4
13
emetophobiacheck
S2 E13 at 11:00. S3 E1 at 40:00. S3 E4 at 27:00. S3 E5 at 41:00. S3 E8 at 1:00.
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Is there audio gore?
387 supporters
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Yes
20
No
2
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
93 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
237 supporters
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Yes
10
No
1
Medical
Yes
7
No
36
4
HogwartsAvenger
No but a a woman from soqm threatens a girl with "The shock chair"
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Does someone have cancer?
231 supporters
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Yes
1
No
42
8
Anonymous
during season 2 cheryl is sent by her mother to a gay conversion therapy facility
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Yes
50
No
4
0
Hello
Not used but shown
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Yes
67
No
0
2
McKenzieWilkes
There are occasional hospital scenes with characters being shot or injured throughout the duration of the show.
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Mental Health
Yes
15
No
0
0
emmamarie.c_
multiple psychopaths and murderers
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Yes
0
No
29
0
ImNotOkay
but one character can be in the spectrum
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Is there misophonia?
238 supporters
Yes
3
No
7
0
Bozjudd
occasional eating scenes - all of the characters chew relatively softly and its not to triggering mostly but there are a few bad ones - usually not a concern
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Yes
51
No
1
0
undeadcoymolly
Cheryl had one the first game after her brother died where someone else wore his number. For a moment, he looked like her brother and she broke down and ran to the locker room.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
344 supporters
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Yes
4
No
30
0
Scarecrow113
S1
 E13
Cheryl tries to drown herself, but is rescued by Archie
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5
Anonymous
ending of season 1 a character attempts suicide by drowning.
in season 3 episodes 1 2 and 3 (all thats realeased so far) theres more kids trying to. in the ifrst 2 kids sacrifice themselves in a cult like fashion. one of them lives , only to jump out of his hospital room window. in the 3rd a girl assosiated with the 2 boys tries drinking poision but is taken to the hospital.

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Does someone have a mental illness?
95 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
9
Anonymous
In one episode Cheryl's mother mocks her anorexia in an attempt to belittle her.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
11
No
1
0
NekoKitten
Several characters struggling with PTSD starting in season 4 or 5
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Yes
39
No
8
6
Srimayaa
In season four a character is put into a coffin overnight
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Does someone self harm?
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1,213 supporters
Yes
61
No
3
6
meganjohnstonn
A self harm joke is made in season 1. Something veronica says along the lines of, “that is so sad it makes you want to cut your wrists” refering to one of archie’s songs
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Yes
12
No
2
Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
272 supporters
Yes
14
No
26
0
amanaplanacanalpanama
There are multiple episodes where there is a heavy amount of camera footage, a few documentary style episodes, and a lot of camera panning and quick movements.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
353 supporters
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Yes
8
No
25
Is there obscene language/gestures?
108 supporters
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Yes
5
No
2
Does a baby cry?
120 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
111 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
Yes
6
No
3
1
Season 6, episode 5. It explains the previous 4 episodes of the season and the designation of Jughead as narrator. These first 5 episodes of season 6 are part of a special event/parallel universe to make the Sabrina crossover make sense. You can skip these episodes without missing canon plot.
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
281 supporters
Yes
5
No
36
1
In s6, a character's pregnancy is terminated against her will by a supernatural force, but there's no blood or hospitalization. She confirms later in the episode that she is no longer pregnant.
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Is a baby stillborn?
137 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Are there babies or unborn children?
166 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
Are there abortions?
186 supporters
Yes
6
No
38
1
amanaplanacanalpanama
For two characters, they were both attempted to be forced to have an abortion, but it didn't happen. There is some other talk, but nothing on screen and nothing actually happens.
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Is there childbirth?
276 supporters
Yes
6
No
28
0
Blah
Not on screen just mentioned.
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Does a pregnant person die?
257 supporters
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Yes
0
No
36
Prejudice
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
337 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
58
No
12
10
Tilugerna
joaquin died bro he was gay
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Yes
2
No
1
0
jdpamv
Queer people and drag queens are misrepresented. Kevin’s only trait is being the “soft gay guy” stereotype. The show is known for queerbaiting with scenes of Betty and Veronica kissing but no acknowledgement of their feelings for each other. They also do the same thing with Joaquin and Archie. An asexual character is straightwashed.
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Yes
0
No
26
Is there hate speech?
417 supporters
Yes
38
No
4
0
bellaswanemotiongenerator234
script
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
521 supporters
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Yes
20
No
4
Are there fat jokes?
449 supporters
Yes
43
No
3
4
thatothergirl
A character makes a comment about another's weight in the first episode
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Are there n-words?
310 supporters
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Yes
0
No
27
Yes
33
No
2
3
emmaannealy
cheryl's mother does not accept her homesexuality, she has hurtful words against her daugter (season 2, ep 15)
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Does the black guy die first?
273 supporters
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Yes
0
No
39
Is there aphobia?
139 supporters
Yes
20
No
3
6
SiRenfield
A character that is asexual in the source material is straightwashed into an allosexual much to the backlash of fans and even their own actor
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Relationships
Yes
7
No
1
3
punkymuppet
S1
Student/teacher relationship for the first part of the season.
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Sex
Does someone lose their virginity?
109 supporters
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Yes
6
No
0
Yes
67
No
1
9
Hello
Literally every episode
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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736 supporters
Yes
65
No
1
4
thatothergirl
A character gets pregnant with a boy she didn't know was her cousin
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Is there bestiality?
218 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Are there nude scenes?
263 supporters
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Yes
2
No
4
Is someone sexually objectified?
256 supporters
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Yes
5
No
1
Sexism
Yes
6
No
1
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
111 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
4
No
2
0
Giizmo
It’s heavily implied that nana rose has memory loss
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
119 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Social
Is someone homeless?
99 supporters
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Yes
11
No
0
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
71 supporters
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Yes
0
No
33
Yes
27
No
5
3
Mallory10100
technically the show isn’t over yet
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
126 supporters
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Yes
0
No
42
Yes
32
No
14
6
thatothergirl
in season 4 a character is killed in a hit-and-run
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
126 supporters
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Yes
9
No
0
Does a car crash?
189 supporters
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Yes
51
No
0
Violence
Does someone drown?
272 supporters
Yes
58
No
3
6
Anonymous
A teenager is presumed to have drowned, but it is later revealed said character was murdered. Another teenager is held underwater in a hot tub until he sputters for air, but he survives.
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Is there blood/gore?
546 supporters
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Yes
57
No
0
Is there gun violence?
232 supporters
Yes
48
No
1
2
HogwartsAvenger
Guns are often used and many gunshots sound.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
110 supporters
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Yes
0
No
40