Arcane
TV Show Report
| Season | |
| Episode |
Yes
0
No
97
Yes
3
No
110
9
cherry
no dogs.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
140
No
1
16
cherry
animal experimentation involving violence late in episode one, more experimentation causing distress/pain to an animal in episode six
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
5
20
cherry
not exactly but animals are made to fight each other as part of an experiment
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
98
No
8
8
Risu
Butterflies and fireflies; and there's a firefly close-up in a music video for Imagine Dragons' "Enemy" which is related to the series
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
139
No
0
20
Minfilia
A cat gets killed in the final scene. The cat gets put into a locked terrarium with a mouse given a special potion which empowers it.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
94
Yes
129
No
1
12
Lucretia
In addition to the cat scene, a bird is shot in episode 5 around the 17-minute mark. Death is not shown, but gunshot and cawing are heard.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
78
Yes
0
No
77
Yes
148
No
2
18
CetiCeltic
In episode 1 they introduce the cat, then off it at the very last scene. TLDR of the last scene, Kid that started the street fight snitches on Vi and the gang. Head bad guy says plans have moved up and has Henchman 1 show him a potion that gives creatures super strength and demonizes them. Then they chuck the cat in with a rat that got fed the potion. Cat dies. If you're sensitive, I'd just read this summary and then skip the entire last scene.
7 comments | Add comment
-1
kind of, parental figures die
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
92
No
2
8
cherry
or at least heavily manipulated
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
69
No
14
10
cherry
characters are followed and observed without their knowledge a few times
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
77
No
0
13
cherry
siblings/those with a sibling-like bond physically fight multiple times.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
89
No
0
12
cherry
many adult antagonists in the show are willing to physically fight and even kill young children. it’s also mentioned that a young boy was left overnight with a foot stuck in a gutter after he fled police- they saw it and decided to leave him there with no attempt to help. children are manipulated. the character mentioned in the other comment is not intentionally abandoned.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
3
No
74
10
cherry
characters are shown drinking alcohol but there’s no indication of alcohol addiction/etc
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
103
No
1
11
cherry
most prominent in episode six- discussed, and people are shown to be desperate to obtain more of a fantasy drug equivalent
2 comments | Add comment
9
gobtooth
purple vials called the shimmer = fantasy steroids, make people hulk out and over time warps them physically (like huck, shown episode 6) or gives them brain damage (like is shown with decker in episode 6). also addictive.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
2
No
69
15
cherry
a young woman is approached by a stranger who gets uncomfortably close but that’s all, she ends up fine. wrt the second comment- i do believe the guy is a young adult and he never expresses discomfort but the age gap may still make some upset.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
23
No
0
2
r3bEL
There is a scene where multiple characters are tied to chairs at a dinner table.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
81
No
7
6
s0r0
One character spit a tooth after a fight
4 comments | Add comment
2
Ray957
Unlikely for there to ever be genitals in this series
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
81
11
beepixiedream
there is no actual cannibalism but (spoilers) there is a scene in episode 9 where jinx leads vi to believe that she killed caitlyn and turned her into a dinner dish but it is quickly revealed that caitlyn is alive and unharmed (somewhat)
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
2
No
1
0
someone’s arm is blown off, no blood just a silhouette; many times throughout the show people drink or inject a purple liquid called shimmer which gives them very abnormal functions; surgery is performed on someone and their veins are very pronounced while this happens
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
69
No
7
7
s0r0
Explicit decapitation scene at the beginning of ep8 from 2:38 to 2:54
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
17
No
0
3
cherry
falling debris kills people, in a very dramatic and emotional scene.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
67
No
4
7
cherry
body horror involving hands growing unnaturally, some minor injuries to hands/fingers
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
8
No
53
7
cherry
several violent blows to heads, and huge pieces of debris fall on people, but no crushed heads are shown.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
69
No
1
Yes
64
No
5
12
cherry
sort of- characters are crushed by debris
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
0
No
65
Yes
99
No
1
16
gobtooth
episode 4, jinx administers silco some kind of medication (possibly shimmer) via a needle to the eye. camera is very close up.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
91
No
1
10
keysmashing
A girl very briefly tortures her father figure in episode 7. Description of the scene, spoilers ahead: He needs to take a medication applied via syringe that she is shown to have helped him with before. Believing he has lied to her, she pokes him twice in the face with it, visibly causing pain. The scene only lasts a minute and the torture aspect is relatively mild, but it could still upset some viewers.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
26
4
cherry
some blood and injuries, but it's usually mild to moderate. no exposed organs, spurting blood, etc
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
73
No
0
6
cherry
a character’s face is cut by a shard blown towards him. it’s not a very serious wound, but there is blood. this happens i believe twice.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
5
No
1
10
cherry
people are choked on screen, once apparently fatally
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
2
No
0
Yes
78
No
1
6
CetiCeltic
Someone's nose is broken in a fight. No blood shown.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
67
8
beeistyping
no, but there are tons of flashing lights, so if you suffer from seizures, be aware of any scenes that may trigger one.
1 comment | Add comment
9
cherry
explicitly in episode 8/9, unclear/potentially a few more times.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
14
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
2
No
13
4
Ray957
I assume the above comment refers to Jinx and her crop top. Thankfully, Jinx's character is portrayed as tragic rather than seductive in any way; it seems she just happened to choose clothing without a midriff.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
103
No
0
9
cherry
multiple times, shown most explicitly in three, eight, and nine. discussed throughout the series.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
11
No
0
Yes
0
No
21
Yes
5
No
8
1
MikeyRose
S1
E3
Vander is implied to have overdosed on Shimmer to fight Silco. He falls on top of several vials of it, and takes an unknown amount off-screen.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
68
Yes
104
No
0
10
keysmashing
At the very beginning of episode 1 two children see their biological parents die. While the deaths are not explicitly shown, we do see a body. SPOILERS AHEAD: The same children later see their adoptive parents die as well, at the end of episode 3 and episode 9.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
91
No
0
4
keysmashing
At the end of episode 3 a character kidnaps a young girl but suggests it is to protect her. At the end of episode 6 two main characters are knocked unconscious during a fight and kidnapped by their assailants. About halfway through episode 9 a main character wakes up to find that she and two other characters have been kidnapped and tied to chairs.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
89
No
0
15
cherry
sort of. a child talks about missing her favorite toy, which was taken and thrown within sight but unable to be retrieved. another child makes explosive weapons resembling toys, and at one point gets frustrated/upset and damages one.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
90
No
5
9
s0r0
Shower scene at the end of ep 8
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
9
No
59
15
cherry
not quite, but a character hallucinations deceased characters
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
23
No
45
6
Risu
The water sequence in episode 3 has sudden movement and sounds that could be considered a jumpscare
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
78
4
CherryB0mb
I mean Silco exists
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
1
there are life-sized dolls that portray people
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
1
0
blades and knives, but i don’t think razors specifically
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
7
No
57
14
cherry
not conventionally, but a character’s behavior is modified against his will
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
89
No
0
9
five
about 9 minutes into s1e2 a guy spits on an enforcer
5 comments | Add comment
9
cherry
no. this is different but perhaps relevant- in one scene, characters travel through an unsanitary sewage/trash (?) area.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
89
No
0
17
s0r0
Explicit scene of character vomiting around 5:50 in ep 8
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
74
No
0
Yes
0
No
13
4
cherry
fantasy setting, so no 9/11. spoilers //////////////// an important government building is attacked, though.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
22
No
58
30
cherry
the enforcers have been shown as aggressive and cruel, or often more passively enabling brutality and inequality. some attempt to change the system from the inside, but are met with intense resistance including violence from their superiors.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
68
4
chuumi
its not a mental institution but there is what looks like an electric chair where someone is being held, but not electrocuted
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
92
No
1
10
Charliedunham
Graphic scenes of a character administering medicine directly into his eyeball. The needle is shown piercing the eye close up
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
67
No
5
9
gobtooth
episode 5, just patient's tiny room and hospital bed. brief scene.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
11
No
53
18
cherry
unclear. a character has an illness of some kind that is believed to be terminal.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
95
No
0
5
CherryB0mb
The main character has breakdowns and hallucinations. Depending on how you perceive this some of these could be viewed as an anxiety attack
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
24
No
30
7
dogfruut
vi eats slop
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
12
No
1
3
cherry
S1
twice, characters seem about to jump from a high ledge, but they do not go through with it.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
34
No
0
8
cherry
no clear diagnoses, but multiple characters are deeply affected by trauma, and may be seen as having ptsd/c-ptsd
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
66
Yes
103
No
0
21
cherry
a character who struggles with likely ptsd and psychosis traits is violent sometimes. she is portrayed sympathetically. + honestly i’d say she isn’t the only character with mental health issues in the show. many of the characters are shown in fights at some point.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
3
No
68
23
cherry
minor spoilers — in episode 2 a character seems about to step off a high ledge, but doesn’t
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
71
12
TheCassandraComplex
It’s difficult to unravel Powder/Jinx’s psychology, there are solid arguments to be made for a range of neurological conditions, some innate (like autism) and some acquired from trauma. Suffice it to say, she is almost definitely neurodivergent and she is, at times, shamed and mistreated for traits and/or behaviors that are often associated with autism.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
87
No
1
15
cherry
mildly early on- a child having a breakdown hits her own face a few times and a character under the influence of a dangerous substance crushes a glass vial in his bare hands, drawing blood quite possibly accidentally. see other comments for other more intense instances.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
60
Yes
3
No
64
21
cabinboy
nobody outright says it, but it may be relevant to know that in episodes 2 and 9 two characters stand on high ledges with suicidal intent. however, before they can jump, both characters are interrupted and neither are hurt.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
66
No
0
12
cherry
characters are forcibly restrained and pinned under debris
3 comments | Add comment
18
cherry
fairly often, especially in scenes about hextech
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
3
No
46
11
cherry
young children, but iirc no babies.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Yes
64
No
0
Yes
0
No
20
Yes
0
No
63
Yes
0
No
68
Yes
0
No
66
Yes
0
No
65
7
Zahraabed
I’m the episode “boy savior” there is a brief shot over the area and it shows a mother protectively holding her baby, none others are shown
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
20
Yes
19
No
51
12
wotur
There's 1 shot of what looks like a caricature of a crossdresser or trans sex worker during the "welcome to the playground" song number
3 comments | Add comment
21
cherry
“cr-pple” is used in self reference by a physically disabled character, and he alludes to facing prejudice.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
66
Yes
0
No
68
Yes
1
No
59
Yes
2
No
61
Yes
0
No
64
12
tobioiisms
id just like to add to the comment above: during the situations where jinx is upset by their relationship, it is quite obvious that shes upset because she is an enforcer / feels as if shes being replaced. it is thankfully not misleading
3 comments | Add comment
2
i don’t think so; very good poc and lgbtq representation
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
5
No
54
20
cherry
a character with a physical disability describes himself as a “cr-pple”; it may be seen as a reclaimed use of the term
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
16
No
52
17
Cinderlad
The one fat kid in the group is shown stuffing a cupcake into his mouth during a heist. Aside from this, fat jokes are scarce.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
66
2
CherryB0mb
A black woman dies in a deal gone wrong in one of the first episodes. Her death is on screen and there’s blood.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
8
No
5
2
cherry
S1
in act three, a young (?) adult man is romantically involved with an older woman. there isn't a big focus on their relationship.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
74
No
0
12
Jay02
There is a sex scene in episode 5, relatively discreet. No frontal nudity shown, all that is clearly revealed is a man's bare back, but sexual activity is clearly displayed. No view below torso, and scene is interrupted repeatedly as the show switches between two story segments in bursts. Doesn't last very long and as of yet it isn't referenced more than once.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
3
No
8
Yes
1
No
73
2
Not explicitly, but a lot of YouTube reactors get creepy vibes from the relationship between an older man and his quasi adopted daughter, so it could ping a sensitive viewer as incestuous.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
9
No
2
1
cherry
not a lot is shown, but in one scene characters do have sex, and there’s one more scene involving nudity later in the show
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
16
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
8
1
One of the prominent characters has a physical disability and an unnamed chronic illness. This is discussed fairly frequently in relation to his character.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
22
No
1
5
jellis
No main characters, but Undercity scenes show background characters living on the streets.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
83
No
1
19
cherry
series has not ended, but first season ends very tragically
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
61
Yes
0
No
16
Yes
0
No
60
Yes
0
No
56
Yes
0
No
64
7
cherry
no cars in focus
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
79
No
1
5
Birdlover
Frequently in multiple episodes
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
15
No
47
22
cherry
not nuclear, but multiple large scale explosions
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
84
No
0
14
cherry
animated blood, sometimes rather intense. some shots of injuries.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
79
No
1
19
cherry
in episode 3 there are flashbacks and general imagery involving drowning, though the character survives it.
2 comments | Add comment