I’m not sure if this counts but throughout season 4 victims of Vecna see things other people can’t. When Max shows her friends where she saw the clock, the clock is no longer there. While this is not rly gaslighting it could be upsetting to people that she is seeing things that other people cannot, and it is causing Max panic.
S3E6: a brief memory around minute 49 of a father being verbally abusive and pushing his son out of the way in order to hit his wife. These same memories are shown quickly in the middle of S3E8.
It might be implied that Max is physically abused by her brother (he says things like "you know what happens when you disobey me..") . His is also shown grabbing her wrist very hard and yelling at her/ threatening her.
Eleven seemingly forgives Dr. Brenner in their last scene together, and the whole thing is excessively sentimental and romanticized. Let’s not forget that he caged her like an animal and performed torturous experiments on her, like trying to get her to psionically kill a cat and punishing her for refusing.
Season 3 Episode 3 a character is implied to have had her drink spiked with some kind of substance. She is shown to be clumsy and eventually collapses.
No horses are seen, as far as I know. There is a deer that is seen injured, however, and it is grabbed by a creature. We later see the creature eating something, which is presumably the deer.
near the end of s1ep5 there's a dying deer crying out it seems it was hit by a car and left to agonize, they were gonna shoot it to put the poor thing out of its misery but something quickly snatches it away, it's obviously computerized but still realist and painful to watch. Highkey upset that no one mentioned this before and that I had to see it myself
In the first season, episode three Eleven has a flashback from when she was in a laboratory, where she is asked to kill a cat in a cage with her powers. The cat is obviously scared and Eleven can't bring herself to hurt it.
in 11's dreamscape, she sees heather in abathtub begging for help. when 11 reaches for her, heather is yanked into the floor and the tub dissapears, showing heather screaming as she sinks to the bottom
jonathan’s dad’s girlfriend makes a joke about getting with him. jonathan is 15/16 and the gf’s age isn’t revealed but she is over 18. a middle aged woman flirts with and almost has an affair with a guy who is freshly 18 and just out of high school
End of episode 3, a monster "enters" a character. While it may be a vivid portrayal of a mental thing, this scene may be unsettling. In episode 4, it's also described in a way that could be uncomfortable for victims.
an 18 year old tries to beat up a 13 year old and throws him against the wall, then beats up this other guy (18) who tries to stop it. a bully tries to fight this guy but just ends up getting his ass beat (deserved). a bully holds a knife to another persons face and threatens to shove it around their mouth
While no one is outright sexually assaulted, there is a scene near the end of episode 2 which greatly resembles sexual assault, using common stock phrases used in sexual assault scenes. People who are triggered by this may be just as bothered by this imagery
In the first few minutes Johnathan cuts Elevens leg open with a knife. He does this get a creature out of her leg, but it doesn’t work and she ends up doing it herself. This scene is very realistic so if you have a phobia of this type of stuff I’d recommend skipping until the intro at around 4:20ish
A man gets stabbed directly in the throat with a scissor blade, but this wouldn't be mutilation. Another man is grabbed by the throat and has it crushed, brutal but not graphic.
YES, in Season 4, Episode 7 - - - - Ep. 7 1:01:19 - 1:02:40 - A Demogorgon bites/squashes the heads of a few people and slams someone's head against concrete, killing him
A boy becomes possessed by a supernatural being. When a part of this supernatural being is burnt with a flamethrower, the boy is thrown onto the ground and starts to have a seizure.
A character also has a knife held to his mouth and he's threatened with "cutting his baby teeth out", although his teeth are not actually damaged in the encounter.
season 4 spoilers - when hopper is Russia his feet are trapped in shackles, he tries to remove the shackles by pushing them off of his feet. his feet are very bloody at this point and there is a lot of audio gore, especially bones cracking and blood slightly spouting which did scare me a bit
Season 4
A couple of teenagers are found dead with their missing and bloody
S4E4
The prisoner is seen with scars over his eyelids, his eyelids remain closed showing these scars
in season one, mike nearly falls to his death, but is saved by eleven. i feel this should still be mentioned, since it's a very scary, suspenseful scene.
The show kinda aged with the viewers, so if you were like 12 when you watched it first, they assumed by S4 that you would be "okay" with gore. S1 is the least gory, S2 is kinda "well here's a warning right now" and there are some iffy scenes but it's nothing compared S3 and S4, S3 has exploding rats and people(it is gross), and S4 is extremely graphic and I would look up when graphic scenes occur and avoid them if necessary.
Dr. Brenner doesn't sexualize the children at the lab per se, but some of the language that he uses could be pretty unsettling for someone who's experienced that.
At the second to last episode of Season two, Bob Newby, boyfriend to Joyce Byers gets eaten by the demogorgons and since the way the teeth on a demogorgon is, there is a scene where Bob's chest is covered in holes, but you can only see half his chest, but it is still incredibly disturbing for me.
SPOILERS: in season one, a deer is quickly dragged into a tree. Can be startling, especially the first time you watch it. Season 3, in the hospital, there is a shot of an empty hallway, the screen goes black, then the lights come back on and the monster is there “roaring” or just like screaming.
SEASON FOUR WARNINGS!!!
- ep1 - NOT SAFE! at 33 minutes, max is in the restroom and chrissy vomits, you can hear it and you see her over the toilet, no visual -
- ep2 - NOT SAFE! lucas vomits in the toilet at between 9 and 10 minutes, right after you see the benny's burgers sign, with visual -
- ep3 - SAFE! at 26 minutes, for a brief moment we see the same scene of chrissy from ep1, this time we only see her kneeling near a toilet, no audio or visual -
- ep4 - SAFE! -
- ep5 - SAFE! -
- ep6 - SAFE! -
- ep7 - SAFE! at 1 hour and 16 minutes, nancy gets closer to a body, which has slimy stuff coming out of her mouth -
- ep8 - SAFE! -
- ep9 - SAFE! steve spits quite a bit at 1 hour and 36 minutes -
11 makes a bully wet themselves in front of the whole school when he was having a confrontation with Mike about wills disappearance at a ceremony for will
i cant remember any more scenes but i know lucus makes farting noise when jonathen walks in when they are playing dnd its in the last episode of season one
While the show does not focus on it, there are some scenes where the chief of police is misusing its power and it is not clearly framed in a critical way and maybe even more for laughs.
[SPOILER WARNING] Season 3, a character destroys his childhood fort. It is shown throughout the seasons to have been one of his favorite places, and it was a sad scene to watch if you ask me. It wasn't priceless in money value, but was very much important emotionally. I guess it depends what you meant by that question.
I would add to the other comment that in the final episode, a child is shown, via flashbacks, in the final stages of cancer and going into cardiac arrest in the hospital.
S4E4 a character repeatedly scrapes his fingernails across a metal table. It's when Nancy and Robin are being taken to Victor's cell in Pennhurst asylum
Hopper, a vet, suffers from PTSD. Will and Eleven also seem to suffer from it after their involvement with the upside-down. In S4, the main villain, Vecna, uses teenagers’ trauma to kill them and open gates— primarily seen with Max.
after benny gets shot in s1, it’s made to look like a suicide and his body is shown with a gunshot to the head and the gun in his hand, but the audience knows it’s murder
Around the 22-23 min mark, a character tries to squeeze into an air vent. Around 35:00 another character crawls through the same air vent, farther this time.
eleven seems to be insecure about how she looks as people say she “doesn’t look like a girl” and call her names, and she asks mike if she’s “still pretty” when she took off her wig
It’s not confirmed or stated, but Robin is heavily implied to be autistic (she struggles with social cues, has “no filter”, is sensitive to loud noises and uncomfortable clothing, and took longer to learn to walk than average as a child), and I consider her to be good representation. It’s rare to see an adult autistic woman who’s funny, confident, and capable in a TV show.
In season 4 when Eddie, Robin, Steve and Nancy go on the boat characters can be seen swimming into deep bodies of water, one of them gets quickly pulled back under by a vine and struggles to swim back up
^ adding onto opencastings comment, i believe the baby was born but the doctors claimed she “wasn’t breathing”, which is false as she was crying so no i don’t think there was any abortion talk
Elevens mother's backstory is explained in S2 and in episode 5 she is shown giving birth but its mostly just to show her experience giving birth and how she ended up like she is now
YES, in Season 4, Episode 4 and Episode 7 - - - - Ep. 4 53:44 - 53:55 - A crib is on fire and a baby is heard screaming/crying but now shown, however, the scene might be very distressing - - 55:55 - 56:16 - A baby is heard crying in a memory described by a character - - - - Ep. 7 1:26:31 - 1:26:51 - The burning cradle is once again shown but the baby is still not visible
Terry Ives (A.K.A Eleven's mother), introduced mostly in season 2, is told to have had a miscarriage, when really they stole Eleven/Jane from her because of Eleven's mind powers.
There is use of the term "Mouth Breather" as an ongoing joke throughout the series, and there is ableism towards a woman who is thought to be schizophrenic
billy's dad calls him a f*ggot. there are also racist implications in his actions; he tries to keep max away from lucas, and no reason is given other than the implication that it's because he's dark-skinned. (props to the brothers for making a realistic central indiana from the 80's, i guess.) not to mention that in the very first episode, the bullies make fun of lucas's race by calling him midnight.
There isn't antisemitism, but a character who is experimented on has a shaved head and a tattoo of a number on her arm, which are very likely allusions to Josef Mengele's experiments during the Holocaust.
Karen Wheeler and other women who look to be late 30s(maybe early 40s) have an interest towards Billy, who I believe is 19, in season 3. Billy asks out Karen for "swimming lessons" which she at first accepts but then changes her mind. Sure he is above 18 but still a pretty big maturity difference.
A teenage girl is photographed without her consent or knowledge while she's taking off her shirt by a guy who has a crush on her. The guy who takes the photographs is hiding in bushes outside the house she's undressing in.
sex scene between a 15 year old and 16 year old, she is wearing a bra and he is shirtless but other than that you don’t really see anything. the scene is not supposed to be positive (but there is no assault). two characters are shown kissing before going into a bedroom together, you don’t see anything but a joke is made about it later. there is a mention of an orgy and a character jokingly talks about two characters sleeping with each other since middle school. two characters have a semi brief discussion about boobs in season 4. you see a man and a woman laying together after having sex. this character starts moaning in the middle of the cafeteria (in a teasing way)
Billy had toxic masculinity forced on him after his parents divorced and his father verbally abuses him for crying. Jonathan details a time where he cried after his dad shot a rabbit, it’s not confirmed if he was ridiculed over it but it’s an easy inference to make and there’s talk of the dad being insensitive to Will’s emotions. El is ridiculed for crying but she's a girl and eventually kicks the ass of the main bully anyways.
No dementia, but I don't know if this could be triggering: In season 2 a woman (who does not have dementia) is stuck for years in a continuous cycle of flashbacks where she sees the same memories repeated. She only says the same few words over and over. Her flashback cycle is shown in S2 Ep 5 and again at the very start of episode 7, but it's an important part of the plot
S04E05 shows the leadup to a plane crash, with the passengers' panicked reactions. It's a single scene, so it could be fast-forwarded through as soon as the plane starts dropping. All of the occupants are shown alive and uninjured shortly afterward.
Someone crashes his car in season 3. In season 4, someone has trauma because of a car crash he caused and the antagonist uses his memories of it against him.
S4 Episode 4 from 40:25-42:01 there is a LOT of gunfire. Automatic gunfire so it's really intense. Would recommend skipping ahead, all you need to know is the main characters in this particular scene are under attack. Won't miss anything huge by skipping.
S4 Episode 4 between 29:42-31:10 there is a lot of gunfire and a big explosion. You can also skip this part but it is a bit more essential to the plot.