In episode 4 season 2 it shows a cat being eaten

No DOG dies, a cat does, and there is a different space for that on this list.

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.

Spiders and a butterfly in season 2 episode 7.

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

s2e4 around 41:25 there is a dead cat being eaten by a monster. it is graphic.

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.

No actual snakes, but snake like things that are a cross between moving limbs and vines, in final episode of season one, one of these is pulled from someone's throat. More are seen in later seasons

SEASON 4 SPIDER WARNINGS - (tried to be as vague as possible but potential spoilers) time stamps are as close as I could get them and this is hopefully all of them but I apologize if I missed one! Episode 1- - 46:43- 46:53 character is in the woods and sees a grandfather clock and as they are walking towards it you see a swarm or spiders come out of the clock and through the glass. Once you hear them bump into another character and they ask if their okay you can look. - 1:10:48-1:10:59 character is running away and sees a table covered with flies and spiders, when you hear the buzzing of flies look away. Very brief but gross. Episode 2- - 1:09:17-1:09:30 character falls into open grave and spiders come out of a skull he sees when he turns his head; very brief only 5ish spiders - 1:11:40 you hear spider/bug sounds but don’t see any and it’s more just creepy crawly sounds not spider specific Episode 3- - Clear of spiders:) Episode 4- - 52:58- 53:12 character tries to turn on faucet for a bath and the water doesn’t come on, instead it pans over to the drain where a swarm or spiders come out of it. You see them once then it shows the character then you see them again, after the character runs down stairs you don’t see it again. They go back to the Tub and it’s just water. - 54:27-54:41 character walks up to attic and looks around, not until he looks up do you see a single spider from the ceiling. When you hear “it had cursed out town” you can look. - 1:09:38- 1:09:52 character is walking and you see all these small spider egg sacks and they step on one and as they lift their foot you hear and see a million baby spiders come out of it. It’s shows it twice. When you hear “come back to me” you can look. Though your can hear creepy crawly stuff through the scene but not spider specific sounds. Episode 5- - 49:40-50:11 no spiders but spider webs - 50:39- character reaches their hand into a air vent (with webs in it) and pulls out a glass jar with a dead spider in it and looks at it for a while. While doing so this character has a spider crawling up their arm which they don’t notice at first but when they do their scream and shake it off and drop the jar with the dead one in it which you see for a split second. Safe when you hear Nancy say “what’s wrong?” You see webs in the characters hair but no spiders Episode 6- - Spider free:) Episode 7- - 22:43-23:10 a character goes into a room and opens a floor vent and sticks their hand inside and a spider crawls up his arm and he looks at it for a while. When you hear “more than that” you’re good to look. - 1:23:28- 1:23:46 look away at “gods of our world” you see the character looking a spiders in a jar then you see them drawing a spider then it shows the jar spider again. When you hear “but the human world was disrupting this harmony” you can look. >>> hope this helps! See you all for volume 2!!

Not a dragon but a monster.

A character happens upon a pool party and takes some voyeuristic photos of other characters at the party.

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.

Season one a kid's mother keeps being told she is crazy by the community, and in season three, a woman is repeatedly told she's imagining things by the men at her workplace and her boyfriend

S3E6: a brief memory around minute 49. A husband is shown yelling at his wife accusing her of cheating. The wife throws plates, and a child tries to intervene. The husband is verbally abusive toward the wife, pushes the child out of the way, and punches his wife in the face. These same memories are shown quickly in the middle of S3E8.

Hopper is shown abusing alcohol and has a history of abusing the drug Tuinal (depicted in previous seasons but not this one).

There's an allusion to Hopper's former drug addiction. S3E6 involves two characters being injected with drugs while captured. They end up vomiting in a bathroom but are ultimately fine.

A boys father is an alcoholic, and it’s hinted at that one of the characters is as well

Will is restrained a few times in Season 2 in order to prevent the Mind Flayer from causing damage. In Season 3, Steve and Robin are tied back-to-back in chairs while being held captive by the Russians.

season 4 ep one super gory at the end in eddies house

S3E8: There is a close-up shot of a character's leg being sliced open with a knife.

broken teeth are seen when a villain's face is bashed in

No there is not

There's no cannibalism in the sense of eating members of the same species, but some monsters eat people.

A monster is burnt alive, but does not die.

A monsters arm is cut off

Brains are exploded. The head(s) remains in tact.

Nope. However many scenes of burning, torture attempts, shootouts, ect.

And the mayor almost has his finger cut off with a cigar cutter

No but in season 4, many characters levitate - if seeing bodies with feet off the ground is triggering for you, then do not watch.

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

Billy holds Eleven into the air by the neck in S3E6, which causes her to choke

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.

Season 2 shows flashbacks of children and a girl's mom being tortured.

Eleven breaks a kids arm in season one, because he was bullying Mike and Dustin. It is not that graphic, he just screams Ah! She broke my arm! Let's get out of here!"

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.

Barbara is a teenager, who is killed and harvested by the Demogorgan

Surprisingly, it’s never used, no less as a slur.

the russian base sequence might be a bit much if you have trouble with kidnapping/being caught and trapped

She thinks about it, but backs out.

Not exactly a toy, and it's the owner of the item that chooses to destroy it, but early in season 3 Will destroys his "Castle Byers" fort. Also, Joyce smashes a porcelain doll in season 4, but it didn't belong to anyone.

A character named Bob who's introduced in the second season dies in episode 8 of the same season. He was dating Joyce, so he acted as a pseudo-father for Will and Jonathon. The death is graphically shown on screen.

This is a major theme in season two and even more in season three.

No ghosts of the dead, but a kid is possessed by another living entity in season 2

season 3, at the fourth of july fair

I don't quite remember what episode but there was a part where Billy and Steve were talking while taking a shower at the school.

There are MANY jumpscares ALL through the entire series. Sometimes mere scene-transitions are jumpscares simply because the 'from' scene is quiet and the 'to' scene is loud and abrupt.

At the end of season 1 in the basement Lucas sings a tune about how Dustin farted

SEASON FOUR WARNINGS!!! - ep1 - NOT SAFE! at 33 minutes, max is in the toilet 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 -

spoiler: in season 4 when the vecna kills people, you can hear their bones breaking. you can also see it. in my opinion, it’s not that bad because it looks and sounds fake but it could be triggering to some. also, there is a lot of squishing sounds bc of the demogorgon things in the upside down. but that’s it for season 4

In season one, Eleven uses her mind powers to make a boy wet himself.

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.

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.

El’s mother is shown to have been tortured with electro-therapy to the point of being permanently catatonic

Near the end of season 2 a needle is jammed into the neck of a character in self defense. The character is knocked out but does not die.

Not a mental institution, but a schizophrenic person is taken by ambulance and hospitalized

multiple times throughout the three seasons

A few characters in season one cut, but not for self harm. They are using blood to attract a creature

in s4, a character has a mother who constantly comments on her weight. this obviously discomforts her

in season 4 ep 4 nancy and robyn go to a mental hospital and you see many mentally ill patients but they are never violent

There is some disgusting chewing in season 4 episode 6.

You could somewhat argue that characters like Will are bullied for autism-related traits but other than that not really

Fake suicide - although the characters believe somebody killed themself, the audience knows it was murder

Eleven appears to be having anxiety attacks several times after she rips off her blindfold

In season 2 episode 2, while trick or treating, Lucas says “If I get another 3 Musketeers (chocolate bar) I’m gonna kill myself” though it is clearly in a joking manner.

Season 4: Episode 1- 33 minutes Chrissy vomits before being ridiculed by her "mother" for her weight, implied ED

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.

in s1 episode two eleven is show being put in a confined space and crying, and also in a closet. i feel like those count...

literally almost every episode

in episode 2 billy has a fairly lengthy scene with shakey cam

!!SPOILERS!! in s4 ep4 victor creel’s “vecna curse” includes a baby burned alive and crying, skip when you see him sat in his armchair 👍

In season 4 episode 4, there are two brief but gruesome scenes of a baby on fire in a crib.

She doesn't die, but does end up being permanently catatonic sometime after she has had her baby.

Season 4 has a mention of stillborn children, but it is never shown on screen.

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. It is not an abortion but a miscarriage.

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 childbirth in season 2

sorta, initially eleven is thought to be a boy by several people. it's never malicious though

they better not hurt my boy Lucas

One f-word in each of the first two seasons, the first one also has many uses of fairy and queer by the evil kids because they think Will is gay. Arguably the worst instance is in episode four or five when they talk about Will “going to fairyland with all the other fairies” when it’s believed he has died.

^ Lucas is also called 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.

there are multiple uses of the ableist slur "ps*cho", and ableism towards a woman alleged 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.

Even though she's not confirmed gay, Barb was a huge lesbian. Rest in peace queen. You're missed.

Episode 1 Season 3 around 19 minutes, the lifeguard yells and calls a kid lard ass

Many characters are ogled at in a sexual manner. Close up camera angle shots and slow motion of men and women for sexual purposes.

Kind of. There is kissing and undressing down to a girl's bra. Nothing further is shown, but implied.

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

I don't understand the 'yes' votes here.

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.

Eleven more or less becomes this after escaping Hawkins Labs, it’s not until Season 2 where she finds somewhat stable housing in the form of Hopper

S2:E1 Hopper claims a story is fake by comparing it to the story about 'the fat man with the beard who climbs down chimneys'

The ending is bittersweet - the characters are alright and happy, mostly, but sad about certain things that have happened / are happening. Also, certain plot elements are left open (a few bad-ending-like things), presumably because the series will continue.

Technically. Eleven uses her powers to lift a parked vehicle into the air and throw it at several enemies.

S4E2 there is a theme of a car accident throughout. You see a memory of the aftermath of a horrible car accident at the very end, while the group tells Eddie about Hawkins. Fred starts walking towards a car that is on fire. Very triggering for people with car accident trauma/ aversion

in season 2 episode 1 the police cars chasing the van crash

4 season episode 5

Throughout the show, Nancy Wheeler uses guns to defeat monsters. There's a scene in season one where she and Jonathan practice shooting to prepare for a fight against a monster.

The main monster of season 3 is almost literally made out of gore. Also, several rats and humans explode. It’s extremely nasty

S3E3: A character is shown gasping for air after her head shoots up from a bathtub. S3E6: The character in the bathtub is shown again. A character is thrown back onto the beach by a wave and coughs out water.