Blackbeard and Stede both had abusive parents. Stede's was more emotionally abusive. Blackbeard's father was physically abusive toward him and his mother.
Stede’s father is verbally abusive to him as a kid. Stede was also physically and mentally bullied as a child by other kids. There is implied abuse by Blackbeard’s father. The character Jim is also raised to avenge their family, implying that their childhood is filled mostly with the training involved to do so. Jim also witnessed their family’s death, but has no memory of it most likely due to trauma.
Blackbeard was abused by his father. He goes on to kill his father and becomes a feared notorious pirate. He ends up doing some things that are not very nice to the people around him.
While it's never explicitly described as addiction, several character get drunk in the episode with Calico Jack and it is implied that it at least used to be a reoccurring habits
A turtle and crab are made to fight off screen but here is a brief sound, a snake is hit on the ground quite a few times in a wide shot, a seagull is accidently fatally hit with a whip
There is a dog-fight style joke in which the pirates stage a fight between a crab and a small turtle with a knife tied to it. It's not graphic and it occurs in S1E8 between 14:35-15:06.
There's the butchering of a dead goose in episode one. The goose is in shadow and the butcher just beheads it with a cleaver, with a spray of dramatic fake blood. And that's all you see really. It's framed as traumatic for the main character who is made to watch it, and a reason he's 'squeamish' about blood and violence in the episode's present.
One of the characters is friends with a wild seagull and is very upset when he dies. Another character cries when he remembers how he had to put his dog down
In episode 7 at 11m30s a snake falls from a tree onto a character and the character kills it. It's not graphic and the snake doesn't look real, but he does fight it a lot. At 12m5s, the characters eat the defeated snake over a fire.
Characters are frequently restrained in the context of being captured/held hostage. Notably in episodes 1-3, there are Englishmen who get tied up with rope and gagged with cloth by the crew. In episodes 8-9, we see the crew being taken prisoner by the English and most of them get their hands tied with rope.
There is some sexual harassment that I found a bit triggering. In episode 3, 15:44-15:57, Spanish Jackie pins a visibly uncomfortable Jim against a pillar and makes multiple sexual comments about them. They are interrupted before it progresses any further
In a flashback, Stede gets chased by a group of boys before his hands are tied to oars and he is forced to row a boat while the group throws rocks at him from the shore.
The title card in episode 5 is carved into a dead mans chest. It is not intensely gory, but it is realistic and was triggering for me as an image of cuts.
Though it is technically already dead, the corpse Stede uses to fake his death is first crushed by a carriage and then flattened by a piano dropped onto it
episode 6 there is an attempted amputation of an infected finger, but the character realizes whats about to happen and escapes and runs off. the same character cuts their own finger off later in the episode pretty graphically with a very large pair of scissors, spurting blood from it.
In a different, later episode (dont remember which one exactly) , a character mentions that their fingernails are falling off due to scurvy, but this is not really shown graphically.
(SPOILERS!) one of the main characters gets stabbed twice, stabbing a happen a few times but it’s not all that graphic the first time, some blood spurts but it’s not too bad, second time no blood is shown but he’s impaled there for a while, there is a scene where BlackBeard gets stabbed and you see the sword sticking out of his stomach but there isn’t really any visible blood, a characters father is shown being spabbed a few times and likely more I can’t remember at the moment.
A character is stabbed through the eye with a sword and dies, and then a 'ghost' of them is present in several scenes talking and walking around with the sword still in their head. You do not see the injury happen but they are shown a lot afterwards.
There’s definitely explicit and excessive gore throughout the series. However, it’s worth noting that the gore is purposefully over the top and (mostly) pretty fake looking.
in episode 3, A character is about to be hanged for piracy, but its interrupted, then the thing he is standing on is moved accidentally and he is hanged and struggling to breathe for pretty much the rest of that particular scene, but he gets the rope is cut before he dies from it. In the next episode he has a red mark on his neck around his throat/jawline from the incident. It goes away after that.
In a later episode, a flashback reveals that a character killed their own abusive father via strangling him with a rope.
Characters are sometimes put into situations that could be considered torture (one character is held captive in a chest for a long period of time), but this is all treated with a comedic and light tone so it’s never portrayed as overly gruesome or intense, (said character forgives the character who trapped him in the chest almost immediately)
episode 6 there is an attempted amputation of an infected finger, but the character realizes whats about to happen and escapes and runs off. the same character cuts their own finger off later in the episode pretty graphically with a very large pair of scissors, spurting blood from it.
Not to their death, but a character falls from a height and lands on the side of the ship before falling into the sea. Injuries from this are not seen, but the rest of the crew wince at the fall
In episode 3, a character is hanged after being stabbed and captured and is shown to be struggling from the rope for most of the scene. The character survives the hanging but has visible rope burns on their neck the following episode
blackbeard is said to be killing "man, women and children" but "it has to be a really bad child". Nothing is shown, the discussion is these two phrases.
Possibly at the end of season 1, but considering that the show is still a comedy and said character is a fan favorite, it's very likely that he survived.
Several crewmembers are in a polyamorous relationship but everyone involved is aware.
Edit: Two people in a loveless marriage both formed other relationships after initially parting ways. Neither is too broken up about it upon finding out and they "divorce" amicably to be with their lovers.
No children's toys are destroyed. In the final episode of season 1, a character decides to throw away a very sentimental/important item from his childhood of his own volition, because of how sentimental the item is and what it represents to him.
There are two English hostages in the beginning episodes, but it’s mainly played for comedy as Stede refuses to actually harm them in any way. (SPOILERS) In the season one finale, two members of the Revenge crew are forced to join Blackbeard’s crew via force and intimidation.
It's not clowns per se, but in S1, E5, there's a fancy party where people are dressed in cartoonish 18th century fancy costumes, and almost all of them have on very pale white makeup with heavily drawn on features.
In ep 5 when the fancy people start fighting, one of them v* on someone else's skirt. There's a joke in there about a crew mate v* earlier as well, but nothing is shown.
Technically. Stede and his wife were in a loveless marriage when he left to become a pirate. He then falls in love with Blackbeard and they kiss. Stede then goes temporarily back to his wife. He and his wife then do completely separate and each of them goes to be with their new loves.
Slightly transphobic comments from characters who are confused about Jim being trans. They don't mean any harm and don't call Jim anything worse than "a woman'".
No one is explicitly said to be violent because of mental illness, but most character have suffered some level of abuse + lived as pirate and the violence it includes and have trauma so most character can be considered mentally ill and violent, and there's a general idea of everyone being brought up in this violent contexts and contributing to it
No, but as an autistic person it is worth mentioning that the episode “The Best Revenge Is Dressing Well” may be uncomfortable to watch as a character who struggles with passive aggression is ridiculed and mocked by a party.
One from Ed in “The Art Of Fuckery” during the scene recreating a Kraken attack. A few in the first two episodes from Stede after he (SPOILERS) kills someone.
Not exactly, but there are a few things to note: Stede is insulted about being fat several times in episodes 1-2. Jim is a nonbinary person who disguises themself as a man, including wearing a fake nose and beard, and we see them removed (by choice in episodes 1-2 and by force in episode 3). They also continue binding their chest after they stop presenting as a man, and a couple times their chest is nearly seen by another character (by accident, episodes 2 and 10), and is seen by choice (episode 10).
Maybe. Ed has a panic attack in episode 6, and Stede seems to have multiple anxiety attacks over an event from episode 1. It’s also likely that both of them have a degree of PTSD from their childhood traumas as well as from things witnessed while at sea.
They are pirates, their language is often coarse. Blackbeard in particular swears often. He calls his performances "fuckery" and shouts "fuck!" several times when fighting a snake.
Some cannon fire and in a scene where there’s some abuse shown there are glasses breaking as well as shouting and loud thudding/chopping noises in flashbacks- gunfire, stuff like that
FINALE SPOILERS! Lucius (a gay man) is pushed off the ship, his fate is never disclosed but there is a reasonable chance he is dead. He does not get pushed because of his sexuality and he is far from the only queer character in the show.
This intends to have realistic villains to the time period in the first episode, so the British do in fact engage in heavy racism. While this show is stylized, it doesn't pull punches.
Mildly. It is more written into the script/on the part of the writers than from other characters. A visibly disabled character is written to be very creepy, asking questions about dismembering a body (not graphic), and is then called a “freak” by another character who scares them off.
Stede's old school mates mock him, which he is shown to internalize a bit. Early on, he is also described as "a heavyset lady" by a British soldier. Otherwise, fat characters are treated respectfully.
Nothing extremely verbally "graphic", but I would argue that Yes there is homophobic language. The main character is regularly referred to in derogative ways, like "namby pamby", "ponce", etc. He's regularly mocked, to his face or behind his back, for being generally soft.
A nonbinary character is originally passing as a man. After the reveal there is a lot of confused discussion (but overall acceptance) and while the nonbinary character is uncomfortable at times, their discomfort seems to stem more from the attention than from any offense. Afterwards, different characters use different pronouns for this character.
None of the characters have specified ages and most look to be about the same age. Lucius who looks to be around 30 flirts with a lot of characters, some of whom look a couple decades older than him. But yeah, they're all adults and all that.
There is a scene in which two characters have just finished having sex. There is also a scene where one of the characters is drawing another character' penis and the drawing is shown on screen. There are also many references to sex, but nothing that graphic.
Spanish Jackie says about Jim 'What about your sexy little friend over there? You going to invite him over?" and in later scenes where they are alone in a room makes multiple sexual comments and pins Jim against a pillar while they seem uncomfortable (Episode 3, 15:44-15:57)
Yes, both Ed and Stede are made to feel badly for showing emotions at various times. However, alternative forms of masculinity is a major theme of the show, and it's not usually framed as something the audience should laugh it.
No one is homeless during the events of the show, but it is implied that most of the pirates were driven to piracy because of desperation and poverty. There are brief and pretty vague references to this throughout the show, such as one of the characters revealing he’s skilled at pickpocketing because of a dark time in his life that he vaguely describes as “not cute”
toward the end of episode 9, a character who is threatening another with a gun accidentally trips and shoots himself in the head/eye with his gun. it’s not overly graphic, but still graphic enough to note. it also does not cut away at any point, it plays continuously.