Stranger Things

TV Show • 2016 • Drama  

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This tv show contains 101 potentially triggering events.
Season
Episode
25
MelissaJasper
No DOG dies, a cat does, and there is a different space for that on this list.
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12
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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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
Yes
577
No
11
40
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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28
Toxik
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.
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16
Amelia14
s2e4 around 41:25 there is a dead cat being eaten by a monster. it is graphic.
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Yes
1
No
4
Yes
13
No
3
Yes
755
No
56
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corinacarolrios
In episode 4 season 2 it shows a cat being eaten
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2
Valko
S2
Mews the cat died (Dustin's cat) he/she got eaten by "Dart"
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12
Anonymous
Not a dragon but a monster.
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16
Yeethaw12
Yes. When Axel is threatening Eleven, Kali makes him see spiders
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15
Ellie_red
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
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Yes
0
No
12
Yes
395
No
14
13
Toxik
Spiders and a butterfly in season 2 episode 7.
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Yes
0
No
5
3
SiRenfield
S3
 E6
Billy’s mother walked out of the family in order to escape her abusive situation
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4
SamanthaBattaglia
S3
one of the characters like really sucks and sucks even more when he gets possessed but he “sacrifices” himself after one of the main characters exposes his old memories. they kinda like gloss over how awful he was for the whole season and his sister who he abuses for a lot of the show like forgives him for like everything for whatever reason. even for literally trying to kill her boyfriend
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16
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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16
Gryffindorable
A character happens upon a pool party and takes some voyeuristic photos of other characters at the party.
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0
MasonEarl
Billeys dad is physically and mentally abusive
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13
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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17
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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4
thesco
Billy, Max's brother, abuses her, after being abused by his own father. This is shown in season 2, and then referenced in season 4 quite a bit
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12
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).
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15
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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8
AudreyBabb
A boys father is an alcoholic, and it’s hinted at that one of the characters is as well
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4
mistersandman
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.
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47
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
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0
atethatupp
Not quite by a person, but in season 4 when Steve finds the watergate one of the vines ties him up and when he tried to swim up to the surface it kept him down. He eventually got out into the upside down
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Yes
0
No
14
2
Ellie_red
The teenage lifeguard is 18 in season 3 when he is flirted with (although this has been established as canon outside of the show and I don't think is mentioned onscreen). So not pedophilia, but a big age gap.
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0
Fenris
S4
 E4
In Episode 4, at around 46:50, Joyce and Murray are drugged by the pilot, they pass out and wake up in the plane in the next episode
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0
thesco
Steve is beaten up trying to defend Lucas from Billy. Jonathan and Steve get into a fight, that is started by Steve, who had been bullying Jonathan at the time. Lucas is pinned against a wall by Billy, who looks as though he is about to beat him up. Mike is shoved to the ground by a bully in season 1/2
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Yes
3
No
1
1
liliko
S2
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.
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11
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
2
No
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20
Anonymous
Brains are exploded. The head(s) remains in tact.
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2
KnightWhoSaysNi
Season 4 Episode 9 a character gets kicked in the groin.
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13
Anonymous
A monster is burnt alive, but does not die.
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14
knhuff
Steve almost has his fingernail pulled out by a Russian doctor.
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Yes
6
No
2
4
KnightWhoSaysNi
In Season 4 Episode 2, a character hallucinates falling into and being trapped in a grave.
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Yes
0
No
1
1
ProfessorProcyon
There's no cannibalism in the sense of eating members of the same species, but some monsters eat people.
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25
pixiebb
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
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0
TinyWatermelon2
S3
 E4
Billy chokes eleven and vice versa in The Sauna Test
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4
Fenris
S4
If Body Horror is triggering for you, Season 4 might be very difficult to watch safely or even watch at all
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11
lolhii
season 4 ep one super gory at the end in eddies house
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Yes
0
No
1
3
therealduckk
There is some choking but people don’t die (very close)
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9
karkat
Billy holds Eleven into the air by the neck in S3E6, which causes her to choke
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0
Fenris
S4
 E4
In Season 4, Episode 4, at around 46:50, Joyce and Murray are drugged by the pilot, they pass out and wake up in the plane in the next episode
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17
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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13
Anonymous
Season 2 shows flashbacks of children and a girl's mom being tortured.
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Yes
0
No
1
4
A monsters arm is cut off
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14
djryde
broken teeth are seen when a villain's face is bashed in
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34
Anonymous
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
5
No
1
19
Anonymous
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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12
JJbean
No but in season 4, many characters levitate - if seeing bodies with feet off the ground is triggering for you, then do not watch.
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2
therealduckk
Yes, in Season Two, it is revealed that Jane (Eleven) was abducted as a child.
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2
Minors have sex with each other but they're not being sexualized by adults
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Yes
427
No
30
23
Holly May Marshall
Barbara is a teenager, who is killed and harvested by the Demogorgan
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Yes
0
No
4
2
Mike attempts to sacrifice himself to save Dustin but is saved
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0
TinyWatermelon2
All the time
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1
TinyWatermelon2
Major instances of this in all seasons
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0
AlexGggg
A cat and deer both die on screen and it is gruesome
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5
jdpamv
Surprisingly, it’s never used, no less as a slur.
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Yes
3
No
48
15
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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25
knhuff
She thinks about it, but backs out.
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17
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. Also, Joyce smashes a porcelain doll in season 4, but it didn't belong to anyone.
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Yes
14
No
0
13
Anonymous
the russian base sequence might be a bit much if you have trouble with kidnapping/being caught and trapped
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13
HayleyMosteller
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.
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0
Insert.clever.username
Yes, but only as decorations at a shopping mall, not used for any creepy purposes
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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.
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18
Anonymous
season 3, at the fourth of july fair
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0
Lzg
S4
Victor Creel tries to cut his eyeballs out with a razor blade
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8
BlueDragon
This is a major theme in season two and even more in season three.
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0
as someone with severe trypophobia this show is not bad at all with the trypophobic content just some of the stuff in the upside down that can be easily avoided by moving your eyes to somewhere else on the screen it's definitely there in the show but not too bad and won't stay in your mind
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6
AhoAko
No ghosts of the dead, but a kid is possessed by another living entity in season 2
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12
Anonymous
At the end of season 1 in the basement Lucas sings a tune about how Dustin farted
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0
S1
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
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7
Anonymous
In season one, Eleven uses her mind powers to make a boy wet himself.
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0
TinyWatermelon2
Demogorgon does this a lot
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112
Y0kale
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 -
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Yes
0
No
5
7
meredithgreyslover
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
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Yes
0
No
40
Yes
6
No
1
29
BizarrePenguin
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.
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Yes
0
No
18
Yes
0
No
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Anonymous
El’s mother is shown to have been tortured with electro-therapy to the point of being permanently catatonic
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21
Anonymous
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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15
Paxton
Not a mental institution, but a schizophrenic person is taken by ambulance and hospitalized
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18
Anonymous
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
0
No
4
11
FreyaRosheen
multiple times throughout the three seasons
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13
SiRenfield
You could somewhat argue that characters like Will are bullied for autism-related traits despite not being canonically on the spectrum but other than that not really
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8
sydneylewis
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
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11
quietpoem
There is some disgusting chewing in season 4 episode 6.
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17
series_of_unfortunate_events
Eleven appears to be having anxiety attacks several times after she rips off her blindfold
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Yes
0
No
17
Yes
0
No
10
15
lolzerslolzers
in s4, a character has a mother who constantly comments on her weight. this obviously discomforts her
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3
Anonymous24
In season 4 a character described how he tried to gouge out his eyes and that he wanted to die but was stopped
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17
Gryffindorable
Fake suicide - although the characters believe somebody killed themself, the audience knows it was murder
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Yes
0
No
10
1
onehorseopenslay
S2
eleven's mother
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25
Max87
Season 4:
Episode 1- 33 minutes Chrissy vomits before being ridiculed by her "mother" for her weight, implied ED
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8
wallflowers
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.
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20
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...
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27
AhoAko
A few characters in season one cut, but not for self harm. They are using blood to attract a creature
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17
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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11
BeckLiberatore
in episode 2 billy has a fairly lengthy scene with shakey cam
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Yes
4
No
0
34
Anonymous
literally almost every episode
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0
TinyWatermelon2
There is an abundance of swearing and a few middle fingers
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8
keiraell
!!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 👍
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0
thesco
Yes, Jonathan takes photos of Nancy in season 1 when she isn't looking, and the mindflayer/demodogs are often shown in a stalker-ish way
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0
atethatupp
Robin looks into the camera multiple times.
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14
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.
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7
NOTvoldemort
Season 4 has a mention of stillborn children, but it is never shown on screen.
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10
OzzyJones
In season 4 episode 4, there are two brief but gruesome scenes of a baby on fire in a crib.
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0
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.
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5
Anonymous
There is childbirth in season 2
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11
ProfessorProcyon
She doesn't die, but does end up being permanently catatonic sometime after she has had her baby.
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40
Anonymous
Even though she's not confirmed gay, Barb was a huge lesbian. Rest in peace queen. You're missed.
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18
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.
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Anonymous
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.
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CozmoGarden
there are multiple uses of the ableist slur "ps*cho", and ableism towards a woman alleged to be schizophrenic
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25
JulieRaven
Episode 1 Season 3 around 19 minutes, the lifeguard yells and calls a kid lard ass
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groobled
^ Lucas is also called midnight.
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jdpamv
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.
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five
sorta, initially eleven is thought to be a boy by several people. it's never malicious though
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27
RedCyro
they better not hurt my boy Lucas
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
0
No
12
7
officialhongseok
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.
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Yes
1
No
2
0
thesco
Nancy, season 1
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AhoAko
Kind of. There is kissing and undressing down to a girl's bra. Nothing further is shown, but implied.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
Yes
29
No
284
35
haloblues
I don't understand the 'yes' votes here.
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Yes
0
No
16
Is there BDSM?
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Yes
0
No
2
1
thesco
Billy and Steve in the showers in S2. Though not much is shown, you can tell that they are naked
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1
Anonymous
Many characters are ogled at in a sexual manner. Close up camera angle shots and slow motion of men and women for sexual purposes.
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jdpamv
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.
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Yes
1
No
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1
Ellie_red
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
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thesco
Hopper's daughter, shown in flashbacks, died from terminal cancer
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Insert.clever.username
Dustin has an illness that causes him to not have collarbones and certain teeth
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Lzg
S4
Yes but only when Hopper looses weight after being in Russian prison and they do a flashback.
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SiRenfield
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
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Yes
0
No
9
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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'
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electr1cFantasy
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.
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motherofhunnybunnies
4 season episode 5
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Technically. Eleven uses her powers to lift a parked vehicle into the air and throw it at several enemies.
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EliseYankah
in season 2 episode 1 the police cars chasing the van crash
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9
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
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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.
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Anonymous
The main monster of season 3 is almost literally made out of gore. Also, several rats and humans explode. It’s extremely nasty
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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.
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Yes
6
No
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