Torchwood
TV Show • 2006
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The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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Your Triggers
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Needs More Answers
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Season 1 episode 5, Small worlds
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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S2 E5 Adam.
The entire plot of the episode focuses on an unknown entity gaslighting the team via memory manipulation.
The entire plot of the episode focuses on an unknown entity gaslighting the team via memory manipulation.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Owen and frequently others
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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S2
E4
“Meat” is about animal abuse and meat farming
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Does a cat die?
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S1
E5
there is a lovely fluffy black and white cat called Moses. there are some sounds of distress from him offscreen, but he is fine and unhurt.
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S1
E11
Not with literal dogs, but men go into a ring with alien b*****l creatures called weavils to fight.
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Are there bugs?
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Bugs feature in S2 E6 Reset
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Are there snakes?
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Snake or worm like aliens
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Does a dragon die?
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S1
E4
It's a pterodactyl technically
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Assault
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Someone is SAed in s1e2 by an alien at a sperm bank and screams, nothing shown. A memory of Someone being SAed at knifepoint in s1e3. It cuts away before you see anything but you hear their screaming and there is a build up of tension
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S2
E9
Someone gets pregnant through a bite, no sex is had but random pregnancy from a non consetual bite may trigger some
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Is there pedophilia?
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S3
E2
Mentioned
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Is rape mentioned?
125 supporters
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S4
E1
A rapist is charged and put to death, he says “she should’ve run faster” he then rightfully suffers immense pain
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Is someone drugged?
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S2
E12
Jack and Owen are both chloroformed until they become unconscious.
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S4
E8
When Jill tells Oswald what cat 0 is
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Chloroforming happens a lot
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Bodily Harm
Is there excessive gore?
143 supporters
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Especially in s1e6
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Is someone tortured?
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Frequently
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Is there body horror?
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S4
E1
Exploded person still alive, unable to die, you see close ups
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Is someone burned alive?
72 supporters
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Season 4 spoilers, they incinerate the category 1 people that cannot die in giant ovens similar to holocaust gas chambers
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Is there cannibalism?
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Season 1 episode 7
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Is someone crushed to death?
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S2
E12
Toshiko is almost crushed by a rubble in an explosion. She breaks her arm and has bruised ribs, but lives.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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some fighting scene but no one cutting self harm
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Is someone buried alive?
55 supporters
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S3
E2
Jack is encased in cement
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Does someone break a bone?
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Owen breaks his pinkie in the episode where he is revived, Tosh her arm in s2e12
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Are any hands damaged?
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S1
E12
Tosh cuts her hand on a sharp piece of metal
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Are there dislocations?
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S2
E12
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Does someone have a seizure?
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S4
E2
Jack has convulsions
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Jack does several times, but comes back to life.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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S4
E6
Esther uses her thumbs to push against her attackers eyes
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Children
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Does a kid die?
112 supporters
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S1
E5
It is mentioned in passing that a child got run over and died.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
33 supporters
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Many minor characters are. The one that stood out to me most was Paul Copley playing Clem McDonald/Tim White which character has tics similar to Tourette’s but doesn’t have the disorder himself
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a family member die?
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Frequently
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Does someone cheat?
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Gwen spends a good chunk of S1 cheating on Rhys with Owen.
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Fear
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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S2
E6
Needle hole in eye
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Scalpels, blades, knives
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Is someone possessed?
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Sex Ghost possesses a young woman in S1 E2
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Are there clowns?
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S2
E10
There is an entire circus episode in season two, it includes two clowns
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Are there ghosts?
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Yes, several throughout the series
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
176 supporters
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S2
E7
19:03 - 19:11 full visual and audio
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Is there audio gore?
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S2
E8
Sound of slowly breaking bone
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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S2
E7
Owen wets himself
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Is there farting?
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S7
E10
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
53 supporters
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Yes, and military propo. The main character is a police constable
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Is there incarceration?
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S2
E12
Tosh is kept in a UNIT prison cell with no bed and no legal rights
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LGBTQ+
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Lots of cheating from gay straight bi characters
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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The trans person named Victoria Jack briefly mentions to make a joke of her transition is outed. Some of Jack’s crushes live in times where gayness isn’t excepted and are outed or shamed for kissing him. S3e1 Ianto is found dating a man by his sister, his brother in law then comes and calls him “gay boy” and says he’s “taking it up the a**e after she says she won’t tell anyone and he doesn’t want people to know, so it’s clear they where talking about it to everyone in the family
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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S1
E7
Jack makes an offhanded joke in poor taste about a friend he used to know who requested to be called another name (and who was presumably transgender).
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Frequently. One example is s1e7 when Tosh destroys an alien mind reading pendant
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Giant one in s2e12
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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S3
E1
A man in a psychiatric ward is part of the plot
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Is electro-therapy used?
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S2
E12
Jack is tortured with an electric shock device
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Does someone have cancer?
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S2
E7
A kid mentions he’s gone through chemo twice and hasn’t worked to treat his Lukemia and wears a head wrap. Owen also mentions that believing you can beat death is the only way to beat cancer which is… weird
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Mental Health
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S1
E8
Susie's suicide from episode 1 is discussed and the clip is shown
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Is there misophonia?
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Kissing noises often, whispering voices often and the theme song has a reverberating whisper
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Aliens, but in human form.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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S1e10 “out of time”
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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War vets as well as the main cast
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
38 supporters
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Time and dimension hopping, paradoxes, aliens, reality bending etc
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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S1
E10
People trapped in a basement
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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E2
There’s a woman with a fake personality, life and memories, hiding her real sleeper agent alien self who is a murderer and has to be tortured to get the other conciouness to come out. The fake personality learns she is fake and freaks out, reliving her traumatic experiences. Pretty hard to watch especially for RAMCOA systems and heavily leans on DID misrepresentation tropes
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S2
E8
Especially in the scene when Tosh comes over
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Are there anxiety attacks?
30 supporters
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Frequently
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No
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Does someone have a meltdown?
1 supporters
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No but Tosh experiences sensory overload when wearing a thought-reading pendant and the overlapping voice effect might trigger some with sensory processing issues.
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S1
E10
A man dies by CO2 inhalation in a car, someone stops him but then he says he will just kill himself anyways, he then resumes and is accompanied by the person who stopped him, they hold eachother’s hands as one of them passes away peacefully
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S2
E8
Owen intentionally breaks his own finger.
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Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
63 supporters
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Yes, ranging from flickering to strobing
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Yes
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Are there underwater scenes?
15 supporters
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S2
E8
Owen jumps into a lake
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Is there shakey cam?
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During fight scenes and action scenes, yes
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Are there abortions?
27 supporters
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No
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S2
E9
Gwen terminates her alien pregnancy in 2x9
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
66 supporters
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“Fag” is used to mean cigarette often. S3e3 an older man calls someone a “queer” in a derogatory way. S4e7 a gay couple is called “finocchio”, a negative term for gay men in Italian
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Are there fat jokes?
65 supporters
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S4
E1
Gwen’s mum calls Gwen’s infant “huge” and jokes they feed her lard
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
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“Special needs” used as an insult. Freak shows (that often enslaved and made a display of anyone out of the norm, including disabled people) are shown in s2e10. Jack calls the rest of the world delusional for not believing in aliens. “Crippled”. In s3e3 they discuss sacrificing those “less socially or societally useful” including specifically mentioning disabled children and those on government benefits. A convicted r@pist and pedo speaks with a stutter which I cannot tell if it’s intentionally ableist or something they did to make him seem “creepy” or what
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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
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S1
E1
[SPOILERS] Jack is shot and dies for a few seconds, but later comes back to life.
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Is there hate speech?
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S1
E12
Toshiko is called a slur against Japanese people.
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S1
E7
Jack makes an offhanded joke in poor taste about a friend he used to know who requested to be called another name (and who was presumably transgender).
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
1 supporters
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Trans people, mental illness. The “nerdy Asian” trope is used as well. Owen also tells a suicidal woman “you think you’ve got problems, I’m dead” which is not the way to deal with suicidal people. Main pedo villain is Asocial, never dated, twitchy and speaks in a stutter (a bunch of tropes wrapped up into one)
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
45 supporters
Yes
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One character is technically immortal and dates people who are not but he appears to be in his 30s so the relationships are not creepy.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Yes
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S4
E4
Catholic stuff, the gay characters often deal with homophobia externally or internalized
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Are there demons or Hell?
15 supporters
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Jack talks about afterlife and how there is nothingness when you die. There are aliens and creatures similar to the devil an a physical representation of death, hell and heaven are talked about often
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
119 supporters
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-1
S2
E8
A joke about it
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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No
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Yes
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No
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Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
Yes
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In s1e12 Tosh (Japanese woman), when going back to the 40’s is exoticised and sexualised by most men she comes into contact with. Lesbians and sapphics are also objectified throughout the series
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Are there nude scenes?
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And sex scenes, Jack is sometimes naked but I don’t think you can see anything detailed
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Yes
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Sexism
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No
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
43 supporters
Yes
11
No
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Yes, one of the most prominent times being in Out of Time
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
16 supporters
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Multiple minor characters. Jack is also unable to die and Owen becomes physically dead but still able to function which are treated like chronic conditions with complications
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Yes
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S2
E8
Terminally ill elderly person. Owen also makes a comment about being hooked up to machines that keep him alive being worse than death, which comes off ableist
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
44 supporters
Yes
1
No
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S4
People can no longer die so abortions are discussed
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Is existentialism debated?
16 supporters
Yes
6
No
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The right to exist for many alien species is debated
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Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
Yes
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No
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S3
E1
Guy mentioned to be homeless since 11, later all of Torchwood is made homeless
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No
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Spoiler
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Yes
11
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
34 supporters
Yes
9
No
3
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S4
E1
Man impaled by improperly secured beams
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
16 supporters
Yes
5
No
2
0
Frequently
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
82 supporters
Yes
28
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Blood/Gore in many episodes. Very graphic body mutilation in S1 E4 Cyberwoman.
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
17 supporters
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MAJOR SPOILERS
Not bombs but there is a bomb that explodes taking Jack out and a nuclear plant that melts down killing Owen
Not bombs but there is a bomb that explodes taking Jack out and a nuclear plant that melts down killing Owen
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