Stranger Things
TV Show • 2016 • Drama Report
Yes
397
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43
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corinacarolrios
In episode 4 season 2 it shows a cat being eaten
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Yes
143
No
286
13
MelissaJasper
No DOG dies, a cat does, and there is a different space for that on this list.
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Yes
120
No
66
15
JamesAnderson
Before the rats explode, they are seen and heard in extreme pain and writhing around.
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Yes
179
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6
6
Toxik
Spiders and a butterfly in season 2 episode 7.
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Yes
1
No
129
Yes
327
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4
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junk6i
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
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Yes
92
No
0
8
Amelia14
s2e4 around 41:25 there is a dead cat being eaten by a monster. it is graphic.
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Yes
4
No
258
4
ProfessorProcyon
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.
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Yes
6
No
161
1
RedCyro
There's snake-like vines in the upside-down, but no actual snakes
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Yes
220
No
56
10
Yeethaw12
Yes. When Axel is threatening Eleven, Kali makes him see spiders
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
210
3
AshleyNtheGang
Not a dragon but a monster.
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Yes
80
No
2
7
Gryffindorable
A character happens upon a pool party and takes some voyeuristic photos of other characters at the party.
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Yes
68
No
41
10
acetraightupmess
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
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Yes
121
No
5
11
series_of_unfortunate_events
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.
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Yes
153
No
10
5
series_of_unfortunate_events
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.
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Yes
125
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11
7
series_of_unfortunate_events
Hopper is shown abusing alcohol and has a history of abusing the drug Tuinal (depicted in previous seasons but not this one).
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
104
No
73
10
series_of_unfortunate_events
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.
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Yes
183
No
4
5
AudreyBabb
A boys father is an alcoholic, and it’s hinted at that one of the characters is as well
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Yes
196
No
3
8
calebneher065
Season 2 shows flashbacks of children and a girl's mom being tortured.
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Yes
7
No
1
1
linn1537
imo the monster in season 3 (the mind flayer) is extremely gorey. it’s made up of the insides of rats and humans (which are both shown dying VERY graphically). it’s by far the most gorey season and it made me feel uneasy at a lot of parts.
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Yes
169
No
18
7
series_of_unfortunate_events
S3E8: There is a close-up shot of a character's leg being sliced open with a knife.
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Yes
68
No
109
9
AudreyBabb
No, but Dustin has CCD and is missing some teeth.
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Yes
1
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26
Yes
78
No
123
9
calebneher065
A monster is burnt alive, but does not die.
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Yes
0
No
46
2
ProfessorProcyon
There's no cannibalism in the sense of eating members of the same species, but some monsters eat people.
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Yes
28
No
116
14
chafox0
Brains are exploded. The head(s) remains in tact.
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Yes
4
No
86
2
trustmeorspill
Nope. However many scenes of burning, torture attempts, shootouts, ect.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
53
Yes
147
No
45
8
JamesAnderson
And the mayor almost has his finger cut off with a cigar cutter
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Yes
4
No
97
2
ElevenHopper
In season 3, Billy grabs El by the neck and holds her up, but I wouldn't consider it a "hanging".
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5
karkat
Billy holds Eleven into the air by the neck in S3E6, which causes her to choke
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Yes
163
No
31
12
calebneher065
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.
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Yes
16
No
124
8
series_of_unfortunate_events
Steve is beaten and sustains some facial injuries. He develops a nasty black eye, and his eyeballs end up pretty bloodshot. His eyes are never stabbed, etc.
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Yes
165
No
4
12
webs230
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!"
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Yes
20
No
129
23
creepsarehere
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.
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Yes
261
No
28
22
Holly May Marshall
Barbara is a teenager, who is killed and harvested by the Demogorgan
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
103
No
16
21
knhuff
She thinks about it, but backs out.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
83
No
2
6
mileswernham
the russian base sequence might be a bit much if you have trouble with kidnapping/being caught and trapped
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
11
No
29
6
ProfessorProcyon
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.
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Yes
263
No
15
10
user15268
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.
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Yes
330
No
15
11
blahblahblah
The deer scene is definitely a jumpscare.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
100
No
158
10
Ommer
season 3, at the fourth of july fair
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Yes
6
No
169
4
AhoAko
No ghosts of the dead, but a kid is possessed by another living entity in season 2
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
164
No
46
7
morgansclark17
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.
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
170
No
5
7
BlueDragon
This is a major theme in season two and even more in season three.
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6
ComradeDeath
In season one, Eleven uses her mind powers to make a boy wet himself.
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Yes
42
No
2
4
ProfessorProcyon
The most notable instance of audio gore I can think of is when Eleven's leg is injured in Season 3.
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Yes
196
No
11
8
zisabel903
At the end of season 1 in the basement Lucas sings a tune about how Dustin farted
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
273
No
6
21
knhuff
In one of the last episodes, Steve and Robin throw up into movie theatre toilets after being drugged.
23 comments | Add comment
Yes
7
No
17
2
SiRenfield
The Hawkins Police Department are somewhat prominent, although the only notable character among them is Hopper who while a “good guy” is more of a grizzled anti-hero type. Not sure how to answer this one though since it’s a work that doesn’t really have strong opinions on police one way or the other.
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Yes
187
No
2
9
FreyaRosheen
multiple times throughout the three seasons
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Yes
151
No
30
15
kmspd1997
El’s mother is shown to have been tortured with electro-therapy to the point of being permanently catatonic
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Yes
216
No
5
10
chafox0
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.
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Yes
116
No
31
10
Paxton
Not a mental institution, but a schizophrenic person is taken by ambulance and hospitalized
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
139
No
40
13
Kelly Keltner
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.
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Yes
131
No
5
7
series_of_unfortunate_events
Eleven appears to be having anxiety attacks several times after she rips off her blindfold
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
69
No
141
17
AhoAko
A few characters in season one cut, but not for self harm. They are using blood to attract a creature
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
20
No
4
5
Novalunosis_
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.
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Yes
4
No
0
0
DrewPlaysGames
ms driscoll in season 3 acts violent when she is taken to the hospital S3EP4
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
11
No
113
5
OpenCasting
There isn’t specific body dysmorphia but the character eleven talks about not being pretty and wishing that she looked more like a girl. She goes through a transformation scene where she puts on a dress and wig.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
131
No
23
14
five
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...
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
47
1
SiRenfield
You could somewhat argue that characters like Will are bullied for autism-related traits but other than that not really
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
41
No
163
11
Gryffindorable
Fake suicide - although the characters believe somebody killed themself, the audience knows it was murder
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0
No but people do body shame barbe in the first few episodes of the first season
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
257
No
24
20
Ommer
literally almost every episode
10 comments | Add comment
Yes
63
No
80
7
BeckLiberatore
in episode 2 billy has a fairly lengthy scene with shakey cam
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Yes
11
No
1
0
Boundless
S2 Episode 5 at around 47:30 a newborn baby is heard and shown crying. It's shown for less than ten seconds but it occurs like 20 seconds after the first time. At 49:50, the scene is repeated a couple of times
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Yes
0
No
2
Yes
21
No
109
8
webs230
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.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
2
Yes
4
No
104
4
ProfessorProcyon
She doesn't die, but does end up being permanently catatonic sometime after she has had her baby.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
117
1
OpenCasting
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.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
70
No
36
5
calebneher065
There is childbirth in season 2
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
0
Yes
1
No
39
8
angelbff
There aren’t any n-words but there is racial conflict which results in a white character attacking a black character.
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21
five
sorta, initially eleven is thought to be a boy by several people. it's never malicious though
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
148
No
14
23
creepsarehere
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.
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
10
No
159
13
kmspd1997
While Robin, who is revealed late in season 3 to be a lesbian, is seriously imperiled and tortured/drugged, she survives and recovers.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
137
No
21
17
JulieRaven
Episode 1 Season 3 around 19 minutes, the lifeguard yells and calls a kid lard ass
4 comments | Add comment
4
CozmoGarden
there are multiple uses of the ableist slur "ps*cho", and ableism towards a woman alleged to be schizophrenic
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
16
Yes
73
No
4
5
tadyr
The f slur is used twice- once in S1E1 when a character is quoting someone else, and once in S2 when a boy's father is berating him.
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2
KnightWhoSaysNi
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.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
116
4
ProfessorProcyon
The only major deaths in the series so far have been white characters, as far as I know - Benny (the guy who owns the diner that took Eleven in) is the first known death.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
139
No
6
4
TaylorJa
Mild references to sexual content
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
17
No
148
7
haloblues
I don't understand the 'yes' votes here.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
29
No
95
31
TaylorJa
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
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
60
No
63
6
mileswernham
the ending had me crying even in the parts that were supposed to make you feel acceptance over what had happened so if you really cant deal with sad endings(i usually never cry at movies/tv) then id say it isnt for you
9 comments | Add comment
Yes
16
No
126
10
LexMusler
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'
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
195
No
23
5
CyanideSkull
First episode, Billy crashes his car while on his way to the motel. I believe seventh episode Eleven throws a car towards Russians about to attack the gang. Finally, the scoops troop slams into Billy’s car while he’s about to run into Nancy and the rest in the car.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
151
0
DrewPlaysGames
4th season teaser shows a plane crash but i know that wont happen for a while
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
32
No
89
9
series_of_unfortunate_events
Technically. Eleven uses her powers to lift a parked vehicle into the air and throw it at several enemies.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
116
No
7
3
vinylzombie
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.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
206
No
1
18
kmspd1997
The main monster of season 3 is almost literally made out of gore. Also, several rats and humans explode. It’s extremely nasty
9 comments | Add comment
Yes
106
No
48
8
series_of_unfortunate_events
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.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
2
No
102