Squid Game

TV Show • 2021 • Thriller  

Report
This tv show contains 75 potentially triggering events.
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Season
Episode
Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
171 supporters
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Yes
3
No
248
Unanswered Triggers
Is autism misrepresented?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
0
0
perfetc42
******Major spoiler******

The front man is someone who won the game in the past
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*****Major spoiler******
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Yes
0
No
0
Is trypophobic content shown?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Does someone have a mental illness?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is a minority is misrepresented?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is there aphobia?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is there ABA therapy?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is there BDSM?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
1
Is an animal abandoned?
45 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Abuse
Yes
0
No
3
4
TakeTwoPlease
No, but one character talks about abusive parents
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone stalked?
12 supporters
Yes
192
No
3
23
pinklemonade
The people who control the games have files with information about the players like their work experience, education, debt, illegal activities, etc
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
119
No
17
21
alienfriend
None shown but one character describes their childhood abuse including spousal domestic abuse and murder
8 comments | Add comment
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
37 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
1
Yes
150
No
21
32
Anonymous
An old man begins to lose his short term memory, and is completely unable to remember things that have just been said. When playing a game against another character, he asks for things to be repeated. This other character lies about how the game is going in order to win.

There are several times where a character is tricked/betrayed by someone they trust.
5 comments | Add comment
Is a child abused?
60 supporters
Yes
100
No
30
29
eggthew
A character implies that she was sexually assaulted by her father when she was a kid
11 comments | Add comment
Addiction
21
Syno
There’s use of sleeping gas on the players.
6 comments | Add comment
Is there addiction?
6 supporters
Yes
250
No
1
26
SilverSkylark
Addiction to smoking and gambling, possibly alcohol too
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
189
No
0
7
Smiliey
One person who fails sucide is shown drinking. Homless person passed out, implied drunk
3 comments | Add comment
Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
61 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Does a horse die?
49 supporters
Yes
1
No
181
7
violetlime
but horse racing (abuse) is depicted in episode 1.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
88 supporters
Yes
219
No
11
28
xxfreakiexx
A dead fish is cut at a market for food, nothing bad really and there's fish that have died in a bowl when he visits an apartment to look for his brother but nothing terrible. The series is brillant and coming from someone who's overly sensitive to animals dying most of you should be ok! I recommend
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Are animals abused?
102 supporters
Yes
54
No
147
32
Blitkun
Horse racing is depicted early in the first episode.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
4
No
190
Yes
257
No
9
21
koralik
1st episode, at 24:10 fish's head is cut off
6 comments | Add comment
Is an animal sad?
39 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are rabbits harmed?
35 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Does a cat die?
91 supporters
Yes
1
No
202
19
Golab
but in the first episode a cat is fed
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Does a pet die?
79 supporters
Yes
2
No
6
0
reddington
S1
goldfish dead in bowl
1 comment | Add comment
Does a dragon die?
16 supporters
Yes
3
No
196
2
Mindori
Don't know how there are yes votes on this, the show features no dragons to begin with as it is set largely in, at the time, contemporary South Korea.
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Are there spiders?
27 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
170
Are there alligators/crocodiles??
2 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Are there snakes?
10 supporters
Yes
1
No
166
25
LeiaPasquarelli
A guy has a tattoo of a snake.
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Are there sharks?
5 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Are there bugs?
16 supporters
Yes
63
No
105
9
Nylah_jp
In one short scene a lot of bugs were crawling over a dead persons body
3 comments | Add comment
Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
8 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
Is someone drugged?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
9
No
0
Is there pedophilia?
57 supporters
Yes
2
No
4
1
misto
S1
 E6
A character mentions being assaulted by an adult when she was a child. Nothing is shown.
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Is rape mentioned?
39 supporters
Add comment
Yes
8
No
1
Is someone restrained?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
12
No
0
Yes
190
No
1
46
pinklemonade
There's a mini side story where some "staff" members and a player who's a doctor traffick organs from deceased players, one mentions to an undercover cop that they took turns to rape a woman before taking her organs
8 comments | Add comment
1
arowana
S1
 E7
No assault occurs and the writing frames it as an uncomfortable scene but you do watch as onlookers jeer upon hearing that a man was coerced into performing sexual acts.
1 comment | Add comment
Bodily Harm
Yes
184
No
0
12
plateoffrogs
Lots of throats are slit, and people die from it.
7 comments | Add comment
Are any hands damaged?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Is there throat mutilation?
10 supporters
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Yes
2
No
1
Yes
133
No
0
15
Syno
People are drugged by a sleeping gas, which makes them cough. People choke each other as well.
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Is there decapitation?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Is there cannibalism?
21 supporters
Yes
109
No
48
17
Mayy
First episode some gangsta man sticks his finger in the main characters blood and sucks it off. Says he tastes good and will make a soup out of him but that's as far as it goes.
6 comments | Add comment
Is someone crushed to death?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Is someone choked?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
5
No
0
Yes
194
No
6
12
TaylorGriffin
Someone is near-death and is put into an incinerator. There is no screaming, or a sign of pain or struggle.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
131
No
13
21
eggthew
Someone is trapped in a coffin and then cremated alive
3 comments | Add comment
Is there body horror?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
5
No
0
Is there amputation?
11 supporters
Yes
144
No
17
17
pinklemonade
Ali is missing two fingers, it is not shown how he lost them just a close up of his hand

3 comments | Add comment
Yes
183
No
1
18
pinklemonade
Episode 9 - During the game many people fall from a very high type of bridge and a close up of a woman's skull/brain is shown for a few seconds
7 comments | Add comment
Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
7
Is there a hanging?
18 supporters
Yes
169
No
0
20
pinklemonade
A character commits suicide by hanging himself with bed sheets
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
0
1
TechDude99
If you count being choked by other person then yeah
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
10
No
129
11
xeobun
no teeth directly damaged but in the first episode there’s a threat and [slight spoiler] a knife held to his throat/mouth
4 comments | Add comment
Does someone become unconscious?
2 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
0
Yes
181
No
0
17
Syno
Someone has their hand get stuck in a press machine, which crushes it. People also fall off from a high place, and are shown on the ground afterwards.
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Does someone have a seizure?
2 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
144
Yes
147
No
10
19
Nobodytoseehere
It's not shown, but a character twist's a man's genitalia
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
237
No
1
29
jackkastiel
Episode two when theyre fighting in the factory. A hand gets stuck in a machine
8 comments | Add comment
Is someone tortured?
52 supporters
Yes
219
No
2
27
niomi
In the first episode the main character is hit in the face and his nose bled. the beater wiped blood away and licked the blood from his thumb, then intimidated him further by holding a shiv to the inside of his nostril. but does not cut him.
3 comments | Add comment
Does someone fall down stairs?
2 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
185
No
0
23
pinklemonade
Many times throughout the episodes
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
199
No
2
21
jackkastiel
An eye is removed from a dead man. (They show the eye, but not the removal in focus)
6 comments | Add comment
Is someone stabbed?
5 supporters
Yes
6
No
0
0
tardigrade
S1
 E5
In episode 5 you see someone being stabbed in the brain. There's quite a lot of blood.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
25
No
0
0
Very. It shows pools of blood and even shows organs/intestines
2 comments | Add comment
Children
Is an infant abducted?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Does a kid die?
25 supporters
Yes
70
No
90
27
fishtopherwalken
Two of the competitors and one of the red suits that die are confirmed as teenagers.
4 comments | Add comment
Is a minor sexualized?
56 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
7 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
14
No
0
Does a major character die?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
7
No
0
Does a non-human character die?
15 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
6
Does someone die?
9 supporters
Yes
8
No
0
0
roxymeowsic
people dying is basically the entire premise of this show.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
19 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
7 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Family
Yes
196
No
3
18
pinklemonade
Before been taken to the place were the games take place the players are drugged so they don't know where it is
4 comments | Add comment
Does a parent die?
6 supporters
Yes
195
No
0
24
pinklemonade
Many of the "players" that die were parents and at the end Gi-Hoon's mother dies from diabetes.
Sae-Byeok mentions that her dad died while scaping North Korea.
5 comments | Add comment
Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
Yes
8
No
139
33
pinklemonade
They cheat on the games, not on people
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
3
No
139
21
Moomin
No but if you don’t want upsetting imagery around children’s toys/games this is NOT the show for you. Twisted versions of various games and toys throughout.
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Does a family member die?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
1
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
28 supporters
Yes
33
No
112
31
Anonymous
Although they aren’t quite jump scares, there are several instances where a character is suddenly shot which can be alarming. The sound and visual cut to someone dying is often very abrupt with no warning.
3 comments | Add comment
Is someone possessed?
7 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
144
Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
144
Are there clowns?
8 supporters
Yes
1
No
159
5
Moomin
But creepy sing song children’s music of the kind that often is associated with clowns.
1 comment | Add comment
0
tardigrade
S1
In one of the early episodes, a person's corpse is shown floating in the sea.
1 comment | Add comment
Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
53
No
98
25
pinklemonade
There is a [long] sex scene that takes places in a bathroom stall
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
7
No
1
1
KamiSteele
S1
 E1
The first episode has a giant creepy robotic doll resembling a young child used as part of the 'Red Light Green Light' round. If the doll depicts someone moving it sets off hidden guns at the contestant. The design plays heavily into the uncanny valley, and the doll's eyes are shown moving around in close-up.
2 comments | Add comment
Gross
Yes
201
No
0
24
After the workers come back to the room with the players (after the alarms are sounded), they demand the old man to get up, and they pull his blanket off of him. It's revealed that he's wet himself.
5 comments | Add comment
Does someone vomit?
55 supporters
Yes
165
No
59
44
sydneylewis
on episode 1, at around the 46:35 mark, a man spits up blood. it's not vomit but it was very sudden and as someone with emetophobia it definitely shook me up a bit
23 comments | Add comment
Is someone eaten?
16 supporters
Yes
1
No
2
0
perfetc42
S1
In the last episode of season 1, gi-hun takes a bite out of sang-woo's ankle to defend himself. A chunk of flesh comes off but he spits it out (but there is still blood in his mouth)
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
3
0
perfetc42
S1
No but there's a whole scene where a woman makes a lot of noise pretending to strain at a bowel movement (covering up sound for someone else sneaking around)
1 comment | Add comment
Does someone spit?
7 supporters
Yes
170
No
0
24
pinklemonade
A lot of blood spitting
1 comment | Add comment
Is there audio gore?
27 supporters
Yes
186
No
0
22
Syno
Gunshots, blood splatter, stab wounds, etc.
4 comments | Add comment
Is there farting?
5 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
3 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
8 supporters
Yes
59
No
74
22
byakuyautistic
An important part of the story includes a cop being worried about lives and wanting to end the game.
9 comments | Add comment
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Are there transphobic slurs?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
4
Is there bisexual cheating?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
138
Yes
152
No
1
9
TaylorGriffin
Someone is stabbed in the face with a small sewing needle
6 comments | Add comment
Is there a mental institution scene?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
138
Yes
169
No
0
13
eggthew
A character is briefly in hospital due to diabetes
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
179
No
5
21
pinklemonade
Oh Il-Nam (001) has a brain tumor
3 comments | Add comment
Mental Health
Yes
13
No
1
1
reddington
main character has ptsd from watching his coworker be murdered by a police officer
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
130
No
22
19
WillowReymond
Player shoots himself. Another player hangs himself.
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
6
No
115
40
eggthew
I highly doubt that none of the characters have no mental illnesses or disorders, but none are mentioned or implied to be the reason why they're violent.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
11
No
0
Does someone have a meltdown?
3 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
0
Is there misophonia?
21 supporters
Yes
145
No
14
43
ratatat
im not entirely sure if this counts? but in the second game they all start licking the candy, and theres a few close up shots of the tounges while they do.
10 comments | Add comment
Is there body dysmorphia?
15 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
127
25
WillowReymond
Suicide does happen
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
146
No
8
16
eggthew
Several characters do panic and/or freeze up during the games
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
150
No
1
25
Syno
Someone crawls in a vent, someone is trapped under a bed for a moment, someone is alive but stuck in a coffin.
4 comments | Add comment
47
ghostlysekai
eating disorders arent mentioned or shown, but the characters frequently state disappointment with the amount they're eating, if underfeeding is triggering to anybody.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there autism specific abuse?
27 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
151
28
pinklemonade
A character hangs himself after losing his wife in the games.
Sang-Woo stabs himself in the neck last minute.
11 comments | Add comment
Noxious
Yes
5
No
0
0
tardigrade
Yes, often - eg gunshots and alarms
1 comment | Add comment
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
129
Is there shakey cam?
22 supporters
Yes
121
No
2
14
Syno
Many moments have shakey camera movement to induce stress in the viewer that the characters are feeling. But it’s not too extreme.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there screaming?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
0
catzrcoool
ppl cuss a lot so yeah
1 comment | Add comment
40
jackkastiel
Episode 4 after the black masked man says "Do it." The following fight scenes are entirely strobe
6 comments | Add comment
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
0 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Is the fourth wall broken?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
8
Is there childbirth?
13 supporters
Yes
2
No
125
11
plateoffrogs
There is mention of someone giving birth and their child nearly not making it in episode 2
1 comment | Add comment
Are there abortions?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
128
Are there babies or unborn children?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Does someone miscarry?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
125
Yes
1
No
110
10
plateoffrogs
there is a conversation in episode 2 about how a pregnant woman almost didn't make it to hospital and almost lost her baby because of it, if that counts
1 comment | Add comment
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
24 supporters
Yes
27
No
84
21
pinklemonade
Not jokes but it is used as an insult
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
136
20
byakuyautistic
There are no black characters, and the first one to die is a lightskinned east asian.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
124
11
b3ll4g0th
No, but the "depraved homosexual" trope is depicted in s01e07. (An older man with a decadent lifestyle tries to sexually assault a younger adult man and fails. )
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
119
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
15 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
134
Is there hate speech?
14 supporters
Yes
162
No
0
38
eggthew
Racist remarks are made towards a Pakistani character
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
32
No
89
23
Syno
We don’t actually know if a character is LGBTQ+ or not, but there are a couple of characters that many people who are LGBTQ+ deem to possibly not be straight, and they die.
8 comments | Add comment
30
Syno
A very old man with a brain tumor and health problems gets picked on, and is rarely picked for teams in the games. But some characters make sure he isn’t left out.
3 comments | Add comment
Are there n-words?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
133
Race
Is there blackface?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
21 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Sex
Yes
182
No
0
26
Herdo
S1E4: Sex scene in a restroom.
S1E7: Lot's of naked people, but with full body painting, so there's not much to see. In the same episode there's also a naked man to see from behind.
6 comments | Add comment
Is someone sexually objectified?
21 supporters
Add comment
Yes
11
No
0
Are there nude scenes?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
7
No
1
Is there bestiality?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Does someone lose their virginity?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
44 supporters
Yes
52
No
68
41
eggthew
None that are shown, but a character implies that she was sexually assaulted by her father when she was a child
2 comments | Add comment
Sexism
Yes
0
No
6
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Does someone have a chronic illness?
5 supporters
Add comment
Yes
7
No
0
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
0
Is someone terminally ill?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Social
Yes
10
No
1
1
Crockist
During the season finale, someone who appears to be homeless is unconscious on the sidewalk in the snow, and two characters bet on whether or not someone will come help the man. Someone ends up bringing the police over as a means to help the person.
1 comment | Add comment
Are there anti-abortion themes?
19 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Are there fat suits?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Is existentialism debated?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
127
Are there end credit scenes?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
152
No
4
25
pinklemonade
Bittersweet
5 comments | Add comment
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
3 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
108
Does a car honk or tires screech?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Does a plane crash?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
113
Is someone hit by a car?
6 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
114
Violence
Yes
1
No
112
9
Engelsoft
No explosions happen, but it is worth mentioning that a bomb is shown onscreen and talked about when two character descend a ladder. It does not explode.
2 comments | Add comment
Is there blood/gore?
27 supporters
Yes
185
No
0
21
Syno
Pretty much the entire show has blood, gore, bruises, etc.
6 comments | Add comment
Does someone drown?
10 supporters
Yes
12
No
94
18
eggthew
No one drowns, but several people are dumped into the ocean after being killed, and there's a scene where they pull a corpse out of the ocean
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
160
No
1
23
Syno
People are threatened with guns, and killed by execution with guns.
7 comments | Add comment