Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
This tv show contains 147 potentially triggering events.
Unintentionally, but yes, Arya and Sansa Stark are left by Ned stark's death. Also Craster abandons his sons in the woods to die or be taken by the White Walkers
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.
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.
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.
Two dragons die. Both very graphically. In episode 7x06 a dragon is killed by a spear and crashes through ice, sinking to the bottom. He is later resurrected as a zombie only to be finally die in 8x03. He explodes into pieces.
In episode 8x04 a dragon is shot three times with the final shot through the neck. Lots of blood. He falls into the ocean, sinking to the bottom.
SPOILERS
The final dragon survives the series but is left alone without his mother or brothers.
Daenerys is raped on the first two episodes. The first scene shows her being stripped against her will and cuts off right before the rape starts, but in the second scene it's explicitly shown.
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.
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 instances of gore but there’s one scene in particular where a man’s skull is crushed by the hands of another. Highly disturbing and visual. His eyes are gouged out.
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.
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
Several characters have been castrated prior to the start of the show. In s3ep7 there is a scene in which a character (who is fully conscious - at least to begin with) is violently castrated. The camera blurs and cuts away as he is pinned down. In s3ep10 the character is shown again as he regains consciousness, with bloodied trousers. He is mocked for this several times.
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.
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.
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.
The show is pretty infamous for killing off major characters. Many seasons see at least one MC killed, often brutally. Season 8 has multiple MC die, often in stupid ways like a building falls on them. One MC is killed but does come back to life via magic, but most of the dead stay dead.
Major and minor characters as well as background characters and extras (soldiers, knights, civilians, etc.) are killed off in frequently gruesome and horrific ways on-screen. Many of these deaths are violent in nature owing to the show's depiction of a mediaeval society in wartime.
Bran is able-bodied at the beginning of the show then looses the use of his legs. There are later scenes where he can walk but not in a physical reality.
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.
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
Game of Thrones Season 1 - 6 Warnings (NOT SPOILER FREE) This is a complete list of all v* scenes in Game of Thrones from season 1 through season 6. I watched the show on HBONow, so all the times will correspond to that. If you watch on other sites, I believe the scenes are two minutes earlier but I am not sure.
This list is not completely spoiler free, but I did my best to be vague about plot events. The scenes are not very central to the plot.
Every scene has video and audio, and to be completely safe you should mute and look away!
Season 1 Episode 6 (15:50 - 23:15) Daenerys is going through a ritual to make sure the baby is strong, and she has to eat a horse heart. Technically not v* but it’s gross and she gags a few times. She names the baby Rhaego and the Dothraki start whooping. Even if you are very sensitive, you will probably be ok, but better safe than sorry. :)
Season 2 Episode 1 (5:20 - 6:30) A knight shows up drunk, and Joffrey sentences him to drink an entire barrel of wine. Eventually Sansa gets Joffrey to stop, and the man’s life is saved. It’s a long, graphic scene. After 6:30 it is completely safe to keep watching.
Season 2 Episode 9 (4:05 - 4:30) While on the ship, it goes down a line of people and someone gets seasick. It takes a few seconds to get to it, so it’s best to just skip ahead. The scene is not central to the plot.
Season 3 Episode 1 (36:30 - 37:00) Daenerys and Jorah are talking, and one of the Dothraki gets sick. It was very triggering for me. When Jorah mentions the Iron Throne, that is when you should skip ahead. The conversation will continue with no more incidents.
Season 3 Episode 4 (3:00 - 3:30) Jaime Lannister collapses, and asks for water. Someone hands him a flask and he drinks it, then they tell him it’s actually horsepiss. He v* and they all laugh. It’s a short scene, and not central to the plot.
Season 4 Episode 2 (49:10 - end) Unfortunately, this scene is very central to the plot and also very triggering. I am not going to say spoilers, unfortunately. When Joffrey coughs after drinking, the triggering part starts.
Season 5 Episode 1 (15:00 - 15:48) Tyrion is talking to Varys and he is drinking. When he says, ‘The future is shit.’ It is about to happen. He v* and then continues drinking. Then the scene changes.
Season 5 Episode 8 (54:47 - 55:00) While in battle, Jon will be dragging himself away from a burning building. He will collapse, it will cut away, and at 54:50 exactly it will cut back to him spitting out blood. You only need to look away for 3 seconds. I found this scene mildly triggering, but others might not.
Season 6 Episode 3 (12:08 - 15:38) Sam and Gilly are on a ship and Sam tells her he’s taking her to his home where he grew up. He’s v* because he’s seasick. He v* multiple times as well. I did not watch any of this scene and I was not confused later in the show.
Season 6 Episode 5 (28:50 - 29:30) They will lie him on the shore. When it goes quiet, mute and look away for about 30 seconds. He wakes, v*, and is king. If he is standing when you look back, he will not v* again. He will cough a bit, but the scene will be safe.
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.
The character Hodor has autistic traits, although he is not autistic. He is very much autistic-coded with repetative behaviors, stress-induced meltdowns, and difficulties with verbal speech.* (MAJOR SPOILERS) If the “neurodiversity is supernatural” trope bothers you, Hodor’s neurodivergent traits turn out to have a supernatural cause in the canon.
*Just a friendly reminder that autism is a non-linear spectrum and many of us do have speech apraxia, expressive aphasia and other speech-language disorders as a comorbidity.
A severely traumatised and brainwashed character is violent in one scene in particular - when someone attempts to forcibly rescue him from where he has been held captive, he resists as much as possible, at first screaming and struggling and ultimately resorting to biting.
From S3 onward, a character experiences physical and psychological torture with brainwashing and mind-control type abuse. After this event they have PTSD and ongoing depersonalization/dissociative symptoms. This was one of the hardest parts of the show to watch for me apart from the violence & sexual stuff. They do slowly recover in the later seasons and there is a revenge arc that ties into main plot. I feel that those with very severe dissociation will find it difficult to even watch this show up until this point (I couldn't make it a couple episodes in, years ago)
Additionally, in S5 onward, one character has an identity crisis, faces personal tests and eventually does show some brief depersonalization-like stress. This later resolves
No but Tywin mentions that he forced Jaime to work on his reading for four hours every day as a child because of his dyslexia and that Jaime hated him for it for a long time.
No characters have an eating disorder as such, but at one point a major character refuses to eat out of grief and another character is held captive without food or water for the better part of season three.
A main character suffers from severe ptsd. It is triggered a few times, in relatively minor instances, but it appears majorly in s7ep2. He is later mocked for being a coward.
An important character has ptsd in relation to fire - this is mentioned a few times and appears most notably in s2ep9.
Another main character has ptsd but is not majorly triggered at any point.
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.
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.
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.
arya stark, in her time with the faceless gods and the house of black and white, punished with the loss of her sight, was thrown out of the house of black and white and was forced to fend for herself for about 6 episodes. (season 5 finale, the first couple episodes of season 6)
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...
No guns, just fists, swords, clubs, claws, axes, arrows, incendiaries, catapults, whips, tramples, pliers ... pretty much any way to hurt someone using medieval tools.
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