A cat's death from the hands of one of the character's psychopaths is discussed and described, but not shown. The description is quite graphic, however.

YES. A lot of animals die on this show, from random animals to beloved pets.

A rat is placed into a pan against someones belly and heat is applied to the pan. Also, some dogs are left in starvation, but they later eat their owner, which is nice.

The costumes worn in Qarth are inspired by bugs. In season 4 episode 8, two main characters have a long conversation about a man who used to kill beetles for fun.

Several direwolves fight people or monsters in battles, but the direwolves don't fight each other.

Someone breaks a pigeon's neck with the intent of selling it as meat.

many.

Specifically, I think one gets beheaded. It's considered in poor taste by the onlookers, but it happens.

There are numerous snakes, but a statue of one is used as a jump scare in a box opened by Jaime and Cersei.

There are not.

A dragon is killed by the White Walkers.

Two characters chase young girls through forests with the goal to capture and kill them

Theon is gaslit (along with other psychological and physical torture) by Ramsay to the point of almost forgetting who he is.

King Robert slaps the Queen, then threatens to do it again

It is shown, actually. Season 5 episode 10 (SPOILERS) while Arya is training as a faceless man, she disguises herself as a young girl in a brothel knowing that Ser Meryn Trant is a pedophile and will choose her to use. He then beats her on screen, and she takes off the face she's wearing and stabs him to death.

Multiple alcoholics, for a start

mainly wine; almost every episode

Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, and Robert Baratheon all drink excessively.

One particular character is tortured, both physically and psychologically, to a point where they essentially become an entirely different person & end up entirely submissive to their captor.

Throats are cut.

Oberyn Martel has his teeth knocked out shortly before he dies in The Mountain and The Viper

Season 3, Episode 7: The Bear and the Maiden Fair

Most of an army is burned alive in the season 6 finale and episode four of season 7. A little girl is burned alive in season 5 episode 8. Dothraki are burned alive in some episode of season 6, I wanna say five. In episode two of season 9, wildfire (similar to historical Greek fire) was used to burn a whole fleet of ships and its inhabitants. It's a show with dragons and religions based around burning people alive. If you don't like fire, avoid.

Multiple scenes with the wildlings contain references to or imagery surrounding cannibalism. Also multiple characters discuss experiences during sieges/long winters where they’ve resorted to cannibalism, other characters are told they should be first, rumours are spread about certain races being cannibals.

Oberyn Martell's head is crushed by the Mountain.

Not exactly buried, but two characters get crushed under a falling building.

S3E3: Jaime Lannister, a main character, is led to a chopping block, where his dominant hand is amputated by a bandit. It is done cleanly, though gore is shown. Jaime then carries the hand with him on a rope around his neck. Later, he gets an artificial gold hand as replacement. A major part of his character arc is learning to live without his hand.

Yes. There are multiple scenes of vivid and gruesome torture depicted, including flaying, cutting off of fingers and genitalia, and a characters hand is cut off.

Multiple hangings throughout the series. In the later seasons (not sure about first few) you're even shown the facial expressions of the people that are hanged and you see them struggle

Multiple people are strangled, poisoned (causing choking/breathing issues), or partially/completely suffocated.

Jojen Reed has seizures whilst seeing visions. This happens multiple times several episodes. At one point he has a seizure whilst kidnapped.

There are very graphic scenes of characters screaming while their eyes are crushed, with blood gushing from their eye sockets.

A child dies by suicide in this manner

Small children are murdered for being the dead king's bastards, a little girl is burned alive, a little girl is poisoned, a boy jumps out of a window, a little boy is shot to death with arrows, another baby is murdered by his half-brother, a teenage boy is poisoned, a boy is killed by his cousins, and a little boy is hanged.

A main character cheats on her husband for their entire marriage with her brother as passes off the children borne from it as legitimate.

Someone is captured and tortured for several seasons

Not a toy. But a pet much beloved by a child is killed, which is pretty traumatic.

Ned Stark is beheaded in front of his daughters, Tywin Lannister is shot with a crossbow by his son, Catelyn Stark is killed leaving her living children orphans, Lyanna Stark dies in childbirth leaving her son Jon an orphan, Walder Frey is killed by Arya Stark, Roose Bolton is killed by his son.

Only one or 2 throughout the series, not a jump scare aimed series though

There are some dwarf clowns at the wedding of Joffrey and Margaery.

Yes, there‘s a shadowy ghostlike figure killing a king in season 2 (?)

Not in the strictest sense (showers don't exist yet in Westeros) but definitely a lot of baths and the pouring of water over heads.

Not sure if this counts, but some characters (called wargs) are able to possess the mind of animals, and when they do so, their eyes rolled back into their head

Hot pie wets himself in Harrenhal Jaime Lannister talks about soiling himself when he is held captive by the Starks

Season 1: safe Season 2, episode 1: Joffrey forces a man to drink a barrel of wine towards the beginning of episode, and he doubles over puking on screen (very brief). Season 2, episode 9: a man on Stannis’s ship vomits on screen into a barrel near the beginning of episode(very brief) Season 3, episode 1: While Dany and Jorah are talking on a ship, a man vomits off-screen (audible) and in the next shot, he is hunched over next to where he puked (vomit visible on ground). Season 3, episode 4: Jaime pukes onscreen after drinking from a bottle. Happens right after his captors tell him it’s horse piss. Season 4, episode 2: To avoid spoilers, I will simply just put a timestamp for this one: *49:30* Happens at Joffreys wedding(very brief). *Someone already made a list for the rest of the seasons (1-6), but for season 7-8, there is no vomit in any. Season 7 and 8 are safe!!

Not cops per se, but there are several main characters whose jobs are upholding the law

There is some battle side medicine without adequate pain relief.

In Season 5, Qyburn uses what is basically the GoT-universe equalivent of syringes and IV-tubes on Gregor Clegane.

Lord Hoster Tully dies from cancer. The death is not shown, but his funeral is. The disease is not specifically identified as cancer on the show but is heavily implied to be cancer in the books.

A previously heroic character, whose family has a history of mental illness and who has recently suffered a string of traumatic losses, "goes mad" and begins slaughtering civilians en-masse. In the next episode, her lover kills her; it's framed as him putting her down for her own good.

Jaime's hand was cut off and he had a lot of issues with that

Battle of the Bastards has a claustrophobic scene.

The character Hodor has autistic traits and he is mistreated occasionally because of those traits.

A teenager dies after allowing himself to fall from a window. The collision with the ground is not shown.

At least for me--though I think this varies from person to person.

Not intentional but the cam is a bit off in the style of the early 2010s....

Craster's baby sons cry, two are abandoned to die

A pregnant woman is stabbed in the gut, resulting in her and the unborn childs death

In S03E09 a pregnant woman is repeatedly stabbed in the stomach and dies as a result.

It’s not shown on screen but it is heavily implied the a character is asking for and consuming potions or medicines with the intention of causing miscarriages.

A woman is shown in the early stages of labor while fully clothed. Neither the actual birth or (stillborn) child is shown. A woman gives birth to a shadow.

Only because it hadn't been invented/anachronistic. Literally every offensive term conceivable is used.

Someone has to pretend to be a boy, someone isn't comfortable acting like a girl, someone gets castrated. A lot of people are already castrated.

I can think of at least 3 LGBT characters who are killed in the show. All of their deaths are graphic, which is in keeping with the graphic nature of the show.

Samwell Tarly is often insulted

Lots of dwarf jokes for one

Probably at some point with the theatre troupe.

No, but in Season 8, a Black side character is fridged to push a white main character towards turning evil.

At least once an episode.

Yes, right from episode 1.

Many characters, many times, sometimes on-screen.

There is a bittersweet "Yay, I'm alive!" ending for a handful of characters. At least 10 times that many named characters died, and who knows how many thousands of extras and CGI characters! As someone else said, it depends on who (and what) you rooted for.

Anyone who's young enough to believe in Santa shouldn't even be watching this show.

There are literally no cars whatsoever in the entire show.

Does a dragon crash count?

There are no cars at all in this series Horses? yes Dragons? yes Cars? No

No guns, just fists, swords, clubs, claws, axes, arrows, incendiaries, catapults, whips, tramples, pliers ... pretty much any way to hurt someone using medieval tools.

The series has lots and lots of graphic violence: dismemberment, disfigurement, beheading, gruesome dead bodies, stabbing, flaying, throat slashing, burning alive, eye gouging, physical torture...

It's not nuclear but it's a big boom