Watchmen

Comic Book • 1986 • Superhero  

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Does the dog die?
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Rorschach butchers two German Shepherds following a mental breakdown. We don't see the act itself, but we do see the dog's bloody corpses.

Later on Hollis Mason's dog is implied to be physically assaulted or killed, but it isn't explicit.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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Rorschach is abused as a child.
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Rorschach's mother is shown physically and verbally abusing him as a small child.
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Is someone stalked?
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One of the central plot points involves Dr Manhattan being gaslit into abandoning Earth.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Laurie struggles with nicotine addiction.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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garlicking
two dogs are killed and their bodies are shown
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Multiple references to and depictions of dead dogs, one of which is in the opening dialogue.
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Are there spiders?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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owlship
nothing directly shown or graphic, but there were many animals (frogs, birds) in Veidt's greenhouse area that he let snow into, which would have 100% killed them.
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Does a horse die?
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Assault
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obengjaden719
In chapter 2, a character is *almost* raped, but isn’t. Still very intense and uncomfortable.
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Is someone restrained?
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RussellOreo
A sexual assault is stopped before clothing is removed, but the scene is violent and very dark.
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Bodily Harm
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JasperJune24
=Spoiler=

During the last chapter, we are shown New York after an explosion created by Ozymandias. There is a lot of corpses/blood/general grossness.
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Is someone tortured?
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Rorschach breaks a man's fingers and violently crushes a glass while a man is holding it.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Rorschach burns a child murderer alive.
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is someone buried alive?
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JasperJune24
When Dr Manhattan takes Laurie to Mars, there is a brief scene where she struggles to breathe due to the lack of atmosphere on the planet. Manhattan quickly fixes that however.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Happens within the opening scene.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a kid die?
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We the aftermath of a father killing his children, but not much is seen. Later a child is implied to have been butchered, we don't see it happen.
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Death
Does a major character die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Implied child abduction.
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Fear
Is someone possessed?
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Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Does someone spit?
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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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The police aren't portrayed particularly favorably
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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garlicking
Rorschatz has C-PTSD and is not coping well. he's also paranoid-schizophrenic-coded, but the symptoms he shows could be caused by many things.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Noxious
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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A pregnant woman is fatally shot.
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Prejudice
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A woman calls Nite Owl and The Comedian "faggots" during a riot. Later, a cop calls Rorschach a g*******d queer".
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Are there fat jokes?
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Malcolm Long briefly mentions another black man yelling that word at him. Also "negro" is used a few times.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Is there hate speech?
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watchmen
it is mentioned that silhouette is murdered in a hate crime, meanwhile captain metropolis dies in a car accident.
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Does the black guy die first?
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The Newfrontiersman newspaper prints offensive stories like "addressed to the United States of jewmerica"
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Relationships
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garlicking
Manhattan dates young women and breaks up with them when they age.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
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watchmen
it is pretty up to the reader, not quite sad per se but it is bleak.
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KiwiPunk
Children who are young enough to believe in Santa should not read this book, regardless lol
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Does someone drown?
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Is there gun violence?
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Frank123
More like a giant squid but yeah
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