Willow

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Fearful of a prophecy stating that a girl child will be born to bring about her downfall, the evil Queen Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women within the formidable stronghold of Nockmaar. A child, Elora Danan, is born in the Nockmaar dungeons and identified as the prophesied child by a birthmark on her arm. However, before the black sorceress arrives to claim the child, Elora's mother convinces her reluctant midwife to escape with the baby. Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, is entrusted with delivering the royal infant from evil.
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Does the dog die?
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There are dog-like monsters that die, but not necessarily a dog.
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Evil queen mistreats her daughter and turns her into a pig.
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No. But there's a scene in which a woman holding a knife or sword says to a man who was previously disguised as a woman: "Come any closer, and you really WILL be a woman!", thus implying that being a woman equals having no penis/testicles.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there blackface?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Abandonment
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It's necessary abandonment. A mother gives her baby to a midwife to hide so it's not killed by an evil queen. The midwife then puts the baby on a floating bed of reeds? and pushes it down river to keep it safe from capture/death.
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HappyMom
Trolls are disposed of, however they look like monkeys.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Anonymous
The baby is being chased around for the entire movie. It's not a lot like modern stalking.
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MakeItWeird
A mother attacks her adult daughter during a battle.
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HappyMom
A soceress turns people into pigs, a rival soceress is the main target and her people are watching the spectacle from the castle walls. The process of turning someone into a pig seems torturous. The soceresses later seem to have fun throwing each other into walls for their personal enjoyment.
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HappyMom
We see people who grew up poorly (raised on bad food, exposed to tyranny) change their ways, so that's fine. The bigger concern however is the soceress who has been imprisoned as an animal seems to be having a little too much fun torturing the evil sorceress.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Nothing ever actually happens to the baby. She is periodically kidnapped, but always cared for by whoever has her. At the climax of the film there is a ritual which is supposed to eventually harm her, but it never gets that far.
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Addiction
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Anonymous
There's something called "black root" which could be interpreted as a drug, or it could just be a snack that's not very healthy. There's also a sort of powdered love potion. It's supposed to be magic but it could seem like a drug.
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Is there addiction?
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Anonymous
One of the Brownies gets very drunk. Getting drunk enough to be incapacitated when being chased by bad guys probably qualifies as abuse.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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HavenParks
Not that I saw, but there are horses in a war.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Anonymous
Dogs, trolls, and a weird two-headed creature which is probably not intended to be a dragon.
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Are animals abused?
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Anonymous
In one scene, an animal is roughly stuffed in a bag, but ultimately not hurt.
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There are dogs which fight, but they don't fight with other dogs. So it's not dog fighting. They're more like attack dogs.
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HappyMom
Sometimes when Elindra changes into another animal a dead carcass is left in it's wake. It looks spooky having a raven puncture through a mammal. Most animals that die though are not ones people see in real life and are more monsters.
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Does a cat die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There's a cat in one scene. No harm comes to it.
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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The closest thing to a dragon is this two-headed creature which breathes fire. It's never called a dragon and it doesn't look like a dragon. It does die.
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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More than one character is dosed with a love potion.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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HappyMom
A woman is killed by the evil queen at the beginning (probably not a beating, we don't see it). A woman casts another woman into a wall repeatedly. A woman who originally was going to kill a man, got captured by that man, and then uses violence to get away--that one might be more self-defense. War in general involves that kind of conflict, and it's shown in the final battle.
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Multiple characters are restrained in various ways throughout the movie: Several are tied up, one is physically held down by another character, several are locked in a cage, one is put in a bag when in animal form, and another is restrained by use of magic.
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Someone comes onto and ultimately grabs Val Kilmer’s chest while he’s in drag
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Bodily Harm
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A baby with an unusual amount of hair on its head has a lock of it cut off with a dagger by an evil sorceress during a ritual.
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There is a strangling, it doesn't sound very much like they are struggling to breathe, though.
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Is there cannibalism?
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HavenParks
No, but it looks for a moment that an old lady is. She isn’t crushed to death, though.
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Is someone choked?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Yes, and she passes out, seemingly dead, but a few moments later she comes to and is okay.
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Anonymous
It looks sort of like someone is on fire (the effect isn't that realistic) but when the fire disappears it's clear there was no actual burning. There's also a lightning strike, but again no actual burning.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The intermediate stages of people being turned into pigs.
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Is there amputation?
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HavenParks
No, but a dragon-y thing’s head (it has two) is shot and explodes, but I’ve been told that it looked like sparks. We do see the body afterwards, though.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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There is a strangling, and a character is found in a hanging cage. No person is hanged or strangled with a rope.
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Anonymous
There is a strangling.
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HavenParks
Some henchman gets hit under the belt.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
One old lady loses consciousness when she's strangled.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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40thieves
General Kale is wearing a human skull mask and is bashed in the face and its breaks.
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AlexAlbk
Hands gets turned into pig hooves
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Is someone tortured?
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40thieves
Yes theres skeletons left in "crow cages" which is where Mad Mardigan is left to die and presumably pecked on by crows hence the name? Nothing is shown besides corpses though.
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40thieves
Yes theres a fight between Mad Mardigan and General Kale on a set of stone stairs.
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Anonymous
A villain falls, but was definitely dying anyway, so you decide if that counts.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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HavenParks
One scene is quite gore-y.
A troll gets turned into a furry-looking thing that then, for lack of a better word, “sheds” its skin, turning into some horrible, gruesome thing.
Soon after, a dragon-y two-headed thing bites hold of another troll, and the other head does as well. We don’t see the aftermath, but it looked like the troll was going to be torn apart between the two heads.
One of the heads is shot, and explodes, but I was told that it looked like sparks, and then we see the body afterwards.
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Children
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HavenParks
Multiple times, but she’s okay.
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Does a kid die?
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From the opening of the movie I thought that babies were being killed, but what we actually see happening is that babies who don't have the mark are left alone. There is a baby who is in danger, but it's fairly obvious that this is not the kind of movie where she is going to actually get hurt.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
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A midwife sacrifices herself to save a baby from being killed by an evil queen.
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pedanther
None of the main heroes dies, but there is a secondary-character death during the climactic battle.
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ChrisSunHwa
Some trolls are killed.
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Does someone die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Early on in the movie, a heroic elderly female character, whom we haven't gotten to know well at all, is mauled to death (seen from afar, not graphic) by dog-like creatures. A secondary male character is wounded in battle and has a brief, somewhat moving death scene. The extremely evil main antagonist dies rather spectacularly. The rest of the human deaths are extras in battle scenes, I believe.
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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HavenParks
No, but another word, presumedly used as a derogatory term for the people with dwarfism, for lack of a better word, are called “pecks” a lot. It reminds me of using other words similar enough that are derogatory.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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HappyMom
No, but the love potion resembles being drunk, and it's brought up too.
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Family
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pedanther
None that aren't covered by "Does a parent die?"
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
In the beginning, we're told that the baby's mother will be killed but we don't see it. One of the villains is the parent of an adult child.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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HavenParks
An infant multiple times, and a woman, but they’re both okay.
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Does someone cheat?
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Anonymous
It's implied that a woman is cheating on her husband. It's not actually shown and it's a minor point.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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HappyMom
Not unless you count the fairy who can change size and appear and disappear like a ghost--although it's sudden, her appearance is too lovely for most people to be bothered. Also the lightning strike seems supernatural.
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HavenParks
Not really a jumpscare, but when Willow is looking for Raziel, he thinks she’s not there, and then an old lady’s voice is heard, which isn’t very loud, but it might still scare some people.
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Is there a shower scene?
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HappyMom
A shallow river, not too fast. The river does get deep enough to transport a baby who is held up only by grasses (she's old enough to roll over). The people peer over very closely into the river, but no one falls in.
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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HappyMom
The baby looks over at the soceress kind of disturbed as she's chanting as if she's possessed or at least weird. When people turn into pigs they suffer bad--so I guess becoming an animal means you are possessed by it. People also are possessed by the fairies love powder in a sense.
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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nunyabiz
A baby spits up white milk on someone's face.
And during a chase scene, the horse carriage is going crazily fast and bumpy, and one of the small guys (I think they're called brownies) is bending over the side acting like he's going to be sick, puffing up his cheeks and kinda heaving ( no sound is heard because of the noisy chase going on) but it never shows him actually vomit. Just looks like he's going to, then cuts away.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is someone eaten?
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pedanther
At least one person gets snapped up and eaten by the eborsisk (a two-headed dragon-thing).
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pedanther
No human pooping, but in the final scene a bird poops on a character's head. (It's just a few seconds, after the bird appears flying overhead.)
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Does someone spit?
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Anonymous
Spitting is audible but mostly you don't see any spit.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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40thieves
No cops as its pre-cops medievel fantasy but the closest thing is the prison run by the evil queen but its a negative depiction.
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pedanther
The opening scene is set in a dungeon, but that's it for the rest of the movie.
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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HappyMom
A man doesn't realize that he is preparing to cheat on his wife for a man--Mad Martegan. Although Martegan is very heavily covered, he is big, and another person notices that he's a man right away. So it's possible that he's drawn to that in a sense, just not consciously.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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Anonymous
Nothing remotely like electrotherapy, though there is a lightning strike which seems to be magical in its effect rather than realistic.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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HavenParks
No, but I believe that there is brief mention of taking the baby to a doctor. She doesn’t need to go, though.
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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HavenParks
No, but someone is bitten so that their blood (only a few drops) can be used for something magical.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there misophonia?
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Anonymous
Characters are sometimes scared or anxious, but that's not the same thing as an anxiety attack.
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Anonymous
Uncomfortable magical transformations are not dysmorphia. But there are several.
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Anonymous
There are some tight spaces in the sledding sequence, and shortly after there's some hiding in a basement.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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40thieves
No none.
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Does a baby cry?
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HavenParks
The baby gets fussy a lot, including when she’s feeling ill or is in distress. She’s fine, though.
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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40thieves
There is magical lightning towards the end of the movie in the tower that flashes every so often.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Anonymous
Anyone voting no on this question probably just tapped the wrong button. The entire plot is about a baby. You see the baby constantly.
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Is there childbirth?
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ChrisSunHwa
A woman has just given birth at the beginning, but the delivery itself is not shown.
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Are there abortions?
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Anonymous
No pregnant women are shown dying. There is a woman who has given birth, we don't know exactly how recently, who is later ordered to be killed off screen. I think it's supposed to be the case that she just gave birth, but the baby is obviously not a newborn.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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ChrisSunHwa
The characters are not portrayed as disabled. They are intended to be a type of creature called Nelwins.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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RosaRouge
Worthy of note- a male character disguises himself as a woman to avoid a jealous husband. Said husband screams “he’s not a woman!” When he finds out.
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HappyMom
In addition to a purposeful desire to be misgendered to get out of a difficult situation (man dressed as a woman--outed because he's "very strong"), someone is determined that the baby girl will grow hair on her chest. Someone else in a parenting-style argument says that's the last thing she'll need. It might feel awkward for some people, and women with extra hair may not appreciate the reminder that most women don't have an excess of hair, so that's why I put it in there, but most people will just laugh.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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HappyMom
The black guy is dead to the story (not literally), as he abandons the quest. We never see another black person.
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Is there hate speech?
33 supporters
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40thieves
The movie includes many little people or people with dwarfism and they are often called the in cannon slur of "peck". It is mostly uplifting towards them though and I did read it was the largest gathering of little people ever (at the time at least) for filming the village scene.
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Relationships
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Yes, but between actors, not between characters (it's neither super-duper obvious nor addressed in-universe): Warwick Davis was around 17 when the movie was made, and the woman who played Willow's wife was around 30. The most intimate physical interaction between their characters is a quick kiss on the mouth, lips closed.
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Sex
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ChrisSunHwa
Yes, there is. The old sorceress, Riziel, is naked when she is transformed back into a human, but nothing "important " is visible.
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Is there bestiality?
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HappyMom
Mad Mortegan is cheating with a woman before her husband comes home. We only see him as he's stuffing his dress to disguise his affair. It's unlikely he's a virgin at this point if he ever was one recently.
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Anonymous
One of the male characters is constantly randomly losing clothes. It's not shot in a way that is terribly objectifying, especially not compared to modern movies. I'm not sure why people are down voting this, it's just a description of what happens, I'm not making any judgments.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No actual sex scenes. The most sexual content: An obnoxious man gropes another man's fake breast (the latter is disguised as a woman) while cornering him aggressively and says "Wanna BREED? HAHAHA!" It's pretty obvious that the disguised man is disguised because he and the other man's wife had extramarital sex shortly before the latter showed up.
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Sexism
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HappyMom
No but a man engages in fake crying to be manipulative. People feel bad for him and he nearly gets what he wants.
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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Please ignore and report the ignorant person who thinks dwarfism qualifies as an illness.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
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40thieves
No cars its medievel.
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Does a car crash?
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Anonymous
Carts crash. There are no cars.
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Does a plane crash?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
It's a medieval setting.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Medieval setting.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
I think a troll or two drown, but they're portrayed as beasts/animals (ape-like). I don't know if they count as "someone".
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Is there blood/gore?
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40thieves
Theres gore during the movie one of the more notable parts is Mad Mardigan having a fight with General Kale and both of their faces are smashed and bleeding.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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HavenParks
No, but lots of arrows, etc.
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