Smallville

TV Show • 2001 • Superhero  

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The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.
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Does the dog die?
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linaleto
S1
 E17
Pepper dies by "the reaper"
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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[28:10] Lionel's kidnapper is brutally killed by him. We can't see the body however the sound is very graphic and there's blood on his face.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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[23:20] Lois boss keeps looking at her back and smiling while she's wearing hospital clothes. It's a very disgusting scene.
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Abandonment
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Mazzo
S9
 E2
Clark has abandoned his dog Shelby (and probably a few horses that have previously seen) 😡
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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An audio recording of Lex slapping Lana's face is played in the middle of the episode
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Lionel Luthor and some minor characters
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Clark and Chloe tries to convince Lois she didn't see a spaceship, they tell her it's only her imagination or something else. They're doing it for her own safety, but it's uncomfortable.
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That's like Lex whole personality
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Is someone stalked?
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Obakasaur
S5
 E17
A character uses drugs to simulate death in order to visit the dead and soon becomes addicted to doing so.
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Is there addiction?
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Ollie2
S4
 E14
Two laboratory test dogs are given superpowers from the meteor rocks, then negatively trained to commit robberies and attack humans. We see one of the trainers using a large bite stick to hit the kennels, poke one of the dogs, and anger him. (Side note: this is also the style of training used to train fighting dogs in real life).
(Spoiler) Also, the villains set an armored truck on fire with the Rottweiler still inside, trying to destroy evidence and burn the dog alive. Fortunately, the Red Retriever saves him in time, then Clark saves the Retriever and keeps him as a pet.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there bugs?
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Obakasaur
S1
 E2
The meteor enhanced metahuman in this episode collects bugs and eventually takes on many insectoid characteristics. Another character is killed off screen in a fashion that reflects this.
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Are there snakes?
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Does a dragon die?
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Does a horse die?
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Olybug
does not die, but seriously ill, but was healed.
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Ollie2
S7
 E10
Dead rat shown up close
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Ollie2
S5
 E4
Lots of fish are shown floating to the surface of the lake, dead from loud sound wave pulses during underwater testing of military sonar equipment.
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Is an animal sad?
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Ollie2
S4
 E14
Clarkie/Krypto/Shelby the dog is definitely sad when he is briefly forced to return to his villainous owners. Both dogs are whining from being both sad and scared when they are about to be trapped in a burning truck, but no worries: they live to be happy again.
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Ollie2
S4
 E14
The two enhanced dogs growl at each other but they never physically fight at any point in the episode. The Rottweiler does attack two humans, but seems to be more behaved by the end of the episode.
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Assault
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Johnson1331
Yes. Usually vague or overlooked. In 2x02, a meteor powered woman can control lust and mind control, which leads to unconsenting actions and sex. In S8, a similar thing happens with a alien but most of her victims die afterwords. In S4, under the infuence of red kryptonite Clark has sexual relations with a gf and it is unclear if he would have consented without the red K. In S10 a magic-spiked bottle of champagne is consumed at a bachelor(ette) party where it is inferred that multiple characters made out and one or more couples had sex under the influence.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Anthony1211
Not sure if this counts but Lex marries someone he first knew when she was 15 and he was 23
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Obakasaur
S4
 E4
A character jokes that another character is faking amnesia about a crime he committed in order to avoid being sexually assaulted in prison; other characters laugh at the joke.
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Is someone drugged?
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(10:35 and 27:40) kidnapped Lionel

(29:15) The bad guys attacks Lana and restrains her so he can kidnap her
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Is someone held under water?
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Obakasaur
S6
 E22
A man slaps his wife when she tells him she is leaving him.
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Bodily Harm
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gonzogm
S6
 E17
There are bloody fights to the death including blood stains on the floor.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Taylor9
S4
 E15
Electro torture of three main characters
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there body horror?
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Olybug
hands.
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Is there a hanging?
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Chiara514
4x12
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Obakasaur
S5
 E14
A character harms her wrists off screen while possessed. The act is not shown but the wounds are.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Not exactly, but it can look like. Chloe is locked in a tiny space where bodies are kept in the hospital cos doctors thought she was dead.
She is saved seconds after waking up.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Obakasaur
S4
 E12
A character is choked from behind in a car with a scarf. Later, another character is shown after death, seemingly by hanging/strangulation.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Obakasaur
S1
 E19
A character's hand is damaged in a car accident off screen. Another character's hands are crushed by a falling elevator on screen.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Anonymous
Fight scene between Clark and the season's antagonist, involving a knife. This results in one of them being stabbed.
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Obakasaur
A character is pushed from a building and dies.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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gonzogm
Lana does, she wakes up in the hospital
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A kryptonian girl (Kara) knocks out Lois;
Lois touches Kara's ship and activate some sort of shield, she falls unconscious meters away
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Obakasaur
S1
 E3
A meteor enhanced metahuman uses fire to attempt to kill or harm several characters, and later dies through the use of his own power.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Obakasaur
S1
 E15
A character in an altered state strips down to her underwear, the camera focusing on her scantily clad torso (partially to obscure the actress' body double). The character in question is between 15-16 at the time.
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Does a kid die?
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**SPOILER**
S2/E8 - Episode Titled “Ryan” -
Ryan calls Clark to let him know his Aunt gave up guardianship to a doctor that is doing experiments on him to figure out why he has psychic abilities. Clark breaks him out of the research facility, only to find out that Ryan is dying from a brain tumor.
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Is an infant abducted?
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Death
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gonzogm
An alien dies
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Obakasaur
Almost every main character suffers temporary deaths; multiple main characters die and do not return.
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Does someone die?
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(19:07 min) The kidnapped girl. They don't show her body but make it very clear that is her.

(20:02 min) The guy who killed the girl got shot a few times, he falls to the floor and stay unconscious about 3 seconds. He doesn't actually die, turns out he is immortal.

(31:40) The bad guy's wife passes away, an accident during a fight.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Obakasaur
S6
 E5
A character suggests a justification for an action taken by another character. The other character in the scene responds by using the slur to deride the justification.
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a parent die?
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They mention both Clark and Kara's parents a few times
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Obakasaur
Many main characters lose at least one parent. One character kills her infant son while suffering from postpartum depression.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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In less than one minute (3:10 to 3:45), a girl is watched while she walks to her car, surprised by a sudden approaching from her doctor who makes her go unconscious and kidnapped.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Are there clowns?
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S3/E1 - Titled “Exile” - Bank robbers are all wearing clown masks. They’re very detailed/horror-themed
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Is someone possessed?
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There's an alien who can inhabit other people bodies, he does that a few times during the episode
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Tons and it's always women
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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scottiex
S1
 E8
Clark has a party at the farm and it gets out of hand. He sits down beside a kid who says he thinks he's going to be s*ck and then he runs and grabs him a bowl. No visual, barely any audio. It is not bad at all, I am a bad emetephobe and it didn't trigger me! Seasons 2-10 are safe!
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Is there audio gore?
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-1
See "blood/gore" for description
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Is someone eaten?
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gonzogm
Multiple people have their bone marrow eaten
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Large-scale Violence
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Obakasaur
S9
 E13
Not a direct depiction, but a pair of identical towers connected by a bridge in a major metropolitan area are intentionally destroyed by the main character without regard for the safety of any bystanders. A crowd of people is shown running from the destruction.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Obakasaur
S3
 E22
A character's bail is denied and the character is shown incarcerated.
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LGBTQ+
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Obakasaur
S3
 E18
While compelled to tell the truth, a character in the closet reveals that he would like to attend the prom with one of his teammates. The teammate in question is stunned at the revelation.
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Medical
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Anthony1211
S3
Lex is injected with a sedative
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There's a mental institution called Belle Reve, it's mentioned and shown in many scenes and episodes.
Patients are often stigmatized, abused, restrained and forced to electro-therapy, some put in straight jacket.
A lot of patients are violent.
Belle Reve is also some sort of prison for mentally ill meteor powered people, the "meteor freaks"
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Does someone have cancer?
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Olybug
Literally almost every episode.
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Anthony1211
Lex Luthor is subjected to extreme shock therapy in I wanna say episode 9 or 10 of season 3. It is very very graphic
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Mental Health
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VitaGlacia
S1
 E3
“Walt Arnold - Committed suicide by burning himself alive using pyrokinesis.”
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Obakasaur
S3
 E16
A character facing a terminal diagnosis plans to die by suicide via gunshot; the episode closes on the first-person view of the gun.
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Obakasaur
S5
 E14
A character in an altered state harms her wrists.
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Johnson1331
Not abuse towards a character but a character uses the R word
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thequietdarkness
S1
 E7
the focus of the episode is a teenage girl who is extremely insecure about her weight. she resolved to stop eating anything but green smoothies. she is depicted binging repeatedly, and feeling extremely ashamed. the rest of the episode involves her becoming a vampire like creature that eats body fat
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Is there misophonia?
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Johnson1331
Multiple meteor powered mentally ill are shown to be violent and sometimes end up as killers. There's an entire plot point for them in the Bell Reve mental institution. While mentally deteriorating, Lex is shown to be violent and self destructive and is placed in a straight jacket.
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Every single major character
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Johnson1331
Like the post below, in S1E7 the episode features a girl with an eating disorder based on her weight and dysmotphia. She body checks herself frequently and makes goal book/board of ideal bodies out of magazine cutouts.
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S6
 E12
That's the episode plot
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Anthony1211
S3
I cannot remember the episode number but Lex Luthor is shown having a (drug induced) psychotic break and a major part of that is him having several anxiety attacks and it's very distressing
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Lois, Chloe and a kid can't leave a drowning building. Chloe is unconscious all the time.
Lex is locked inside a police's vehicle underwater.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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gonzogm
I think Lex's mom had post partum depression or post partum psychosis or something and I think that Lex has PTSD about the death of his infant brother.
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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gonzogm
It seems like every few episodes there are flashing/strobe lights at a rave or club or there is flickering fluorescent light during a fight scene or some such thing. It probably feels like it's happening more often than it is (since it makes me feel ill) but from what I've seen so far (partway through season 3) there are at least a few episodes every season with flashing lights.
S6:ep8 has some harsh light scenes. When the alarm goes off at Lex's house there are strobe lights. Soon after that there are a lot of flashes of static. After the initial scenes there are still flashes where the screen goes to static but it happens less frequently. Then when they get Lex back there is a bright flash of light.
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S7
 E6
Lost of explosions during first minutes of the episode
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Does a baby cry?
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Paranoia
-1
For a few seconds, a girl watches Kara saves Jimmy from dying.
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Anonymous
In a later season , Lionel breaks the fourth wall at the very end of the episode
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Is there childbirth?
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Anthony1211
Martha Kent miscarries and it is very upsetting because she had been told she would never get pregnant
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GretchPancake
Zod chokes a pregnant Kandorian to death
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Are there abortions?
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gonzogm
Lana is pregnant in this episode and is injured a couple times but the baby is completely fine.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Johnson1331
Not slurs specifically that I can remember but many instances of homophobia: either from the writers or obscure character interactions. Ex: Clark and Lana laugh when she asks if he's having trouble with a boy (referring to romantic) at her parents grave in S1.

There is also racial undertones and mentions as well. Like Cara's racial slur equivalent comment to the Martian Manhunter. And POC mistreatment or erased from narrative. There is an entire plotpoint for an indigenous group where one is vilified and many are mistreated by other characters.
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Obakasaur
Multiple characters refer to people as "delusional," "turned into a vegetable," or "crazy" with the implication of danger.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Johnson1331
Tina Greer (wlw) accidentally impaling herself. She is extremely vilified and portrayed as obsessive to the point she is willing to harm and kill others for Lana. Other implied LGBT+ characters are forgotten and disappear from the storyline and screen.
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Is there hate speech?
40 supporters
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Obakasaur
S7
 E4
A character uses an in-universe fantasy slur to refer to another character.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Johnson1331
Many black characters and indigenous are the first to die or get injured in various situations or are sacrificed (either by themselves or others).
POC characters are often discarded and disappear from the screen/storyline after the plotline is done.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
105 supporters
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6
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
100 supporters
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GretchPancake
In a parallel universe, Clark is adopted by the Luthors, and has a sexual relationship with his adoptive sister.
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gonzogm
S6
 E3
A little bit. The couple doesn't actually have sex, but things look like they're heading that way when the episode ends.
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Obakasaur
While many characters are naked at one point or another, the nudity is not visible on screen.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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2
Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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1
Is someone terminally ill?
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2
Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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7
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
29 supporters
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gonzogm
S6
 E17
It is mentioned in the episode that someone died in a car crash. This is not true. Nothing is shown on screen at all relating to a car accident.
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0
S1
 E1
Lex looses control of his car and hit Clark, both fall off a bridge
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(Minute 3:55) An actress loses control of sets car while filming a scene
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
68 supporters
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-1
[20:40] Lionel pulls his hand out of a bear trap. The scene is very disturbing
[28:12] After killing a woman, here's lots of blood on Lionel face and shirt
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VitaGlacia
S1
 E20
“Deputy Gary Watts - Shot by unknown police officers.“
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Does someone drown?
35 supporters
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8
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Lex was running with his car when looses control and falls into water, Clark saves him
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S7
 E2
Almost.
When people try to open Kara's ship, it triggers a self-destruct response just as bad as a nuclear explosion. Kara stops it.
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