Does the dog die?
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Stranger Things
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Your Triggers
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No DOG dies, a cat does, and there is a different space for that on this list.
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
165 supporters
Yes
30
No
79
6
S5
E1
Dustin's snake is left with bullies and gets killed
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
50 supporters
Yes
139
No
13
6
S3
E6
Billy’s mother walked out of the family in order to escape her abusive situation
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
11 supporters
Yes
94
No
10
0
Eleven leaves to train to get her powers back and doesn't say goodbye.
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Abuse
Yes
423
No
28
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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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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
54 supporters
Yes
97
No
16
13
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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Is someone gaslighted?
44 supporters
Yes
384
No
68
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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
3
No
86
Yes
151
No
8
9
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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Is someone stalked?
31 supporters
Yes
402
No
12
18
A character happens upon a pool party and takes some voyeuristic photos of other characters at the party.
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Are there abusive parents?
1 supporters
Yes
131
No
9
7
Billeys dad is physically and mentally abusive
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
528
No
18
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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
3
No
85
Addiction
Is there addiction?
32 supporters
Yes
403
No
27
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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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Does someone abuse alcohol?
26 supporters
Yes
470
No
8
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A boys father is an alcoholic, and it’s hinted at that one of the characters is as well
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Yes
416
No
85
16
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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Animal
Are animals abused?
314 supporters
Yes
579
No
98
32
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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Does a cat die?
281 supporters
Yes
959
No
127
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This is the time it happens 41.16- 41.45.
This is the Season 2 episode 4.
This is the Season 2 episode 4.
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Yes
832
No
27
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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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Does a pet die?
268 supporters
Yes
240
No
24
6
S5
E1
Jake the snake is killed by bullies in front of eddies grave and his blood is used to vandalize it…
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Yes
14
No
454
2
do demodogs count?
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Is there a dead animal?
193 supporters
Yes
530
No
13
DDD Paid Staff
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S4
52 mins into episode 4 there is a dead rabbit (appears right after a girl goes down a slide, only on screen for a few seconds)
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Does a horse die?
165 supporters
Yes
12
No
571
14
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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Is an animal sad?
154 supporters
Yes
42
No
54
0
S1
Theres an ANGRY cat at some point, if that counts. Nothing actually happens to it, it's just mad and scared
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Are rabbits harmed?
125 supporters
Yes
89
No
19
6
S4
At Season 4 you can see a rabbit being killed by a kid using his telekinesis in a flashback.
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Are there spiders?
76 supporters
Yes
658
No
78
19
Yes. When Axel is threatening Eleven, Kali makes him see spiders
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Does a dragon die?
54 supporters
Yes
7
No
511
13
Not a dragon but a monster.
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Are there bugs?
53 supporters
Yes
556
No
21
11
Spiders and a butterfly in season 2 episode 7.
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Are there snakes?
28 supporters
Yes
119
No
340
15
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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Are there sharks?
14 supporters
Yes
6
No
81
1
S1
An illustration of one is seen in season 1 and sharks are discussed, but no actual live sharks.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
8 supporters
Yes
1
No
83
0
nope.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
6
No
108
Assault
Yes
20
No
127
2
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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Yes
2
No
97
Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
74 supporters
Yes
2
No
74
1
SA is not joked about.
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Is someone drugged?
44 supporters
Yes
119
No
4
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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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Is someone restrained?
41 supporters
Yes
193
No
1
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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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Is someone held under water?
40 supporters
Yes
74
No
16
2
S3
E3
in 11's dreamscape, she sees heather in abathtub begging for help. when 11 reaches for her, heather is yanked into the floor and the tub dissapears, showing heather screaming as she sinks to the bottom
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Yes
47
No
29
1
S4
Yes, Eleven gets thrown across a room by Vecna, same as Max.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
25 supporters
Yes
112
No
2
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S2
E8
There are racist implications to Billy's violence towards Lucas, too.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
20 supporters
Yes
73
No
4
0
S5
SPOILER
in a flashback, will is shown with a tentacle thing over his mouth pumping stuff into him as he struggles
in a flashback, will is shown with a tentacle thing over his mouth pumping stuff into him as he struggles
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Is there pedophilia?
1 supporters
Yes
39
No
81
5
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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Yes
109
No
258
41
At the end of episode 2 in season 3 a guy kidnaps a girl and tie her up. He tells her to not be afraid, stay still and that it will be over soon, might be triggering for people having experienced assault
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
149 supporters
Yes
333
No
138
DDD Paid Staff
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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
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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Is there excessive gore?
143 supporters
Yes
334
No
21
11
season 4 ep one super gory at the end in eddies house
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Is someone tortured?
130 supporters
Yes
518
No
7
12
Season 2 shows flashbacks of children and a girl's mom being tortured.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
122 supporters
Yes
26
No
241
3
S5
E3
Mentioned but it’s not a legitimate threat, it’s a facetious comment at a heated moment.
7 comments | Add comment
Is there body horror?
110 supporters
Yes
121
No
7
9
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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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
85 supporters
Yes
353
No
66
15
Steve almost has his fingernail pulled out by a Russian doctor.
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Does a head get squashed?
82 supporters
Yes
134
No
227
DDD Paid Staff
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20
Brains are exploded. The head(s) remains in tact.
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Are any teeth damaged?
80 supporters
Yes
160
No
207
15
broken teeth are seen when a villain's face is bashed in
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Is someone burned alive?
72 supporters
Yes
255
No
202
DDD Paid Staff
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A monster is burnt alive, but does not die.
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Is there decapitation?
70 supporters
Yes
46
No
19
DDD Paid Staff
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S5
E8
SPOILER:
The crew brings Vecna down during the big fight. He's fatally injured and falls to the ground while sputtering blood. Joyce picks up an axe and there's a series of flashbacks. The decapitation is shown, as is the aftermath. The flashbacks make the scene powerful, but the only context you'll miss is that they successfully killed Vecna.
The crew brings Vecna down during the big fight. He's fatally injured and falls to the ground while sputtering blood. Joyce picks up an axe and there's a series of flashbacks. The decapitation is shown, as is the aftermath. The flashbacks make the scene powerful, but the only context you'll miss is that they successfully killed Vecna.
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Is there a hanging?
70 supporters
Yes
44
No
284
4
No actual hanging, but one of the journalists teases Nancy and Johnathan by miming hanging himself by his tie in Season 3, Episode 4
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Is there throat mutilation?
62 supporters
Yes
63
No
14
4
S5
BIG BIG SPOILER!!!!
Nancys mother is attacked by a demagorgan and it mutilates her throat.
Nancys mother is attacked by a demagorgan and it mutilates her throat.
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Is there cannibalism?
59 supporters
Yes
8
No
264
0
Theres visuals of people being eaten but not by other people - by monsters
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Yes
7
No
72
Is there shaving/cutting?
57 supporters
Yes
410
No
35
14
S3E8: There is a close-up shot of a character's leg being sliced open with a knife.
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Is someone buried alive?
55 supporters
Yes
29
No
240
5
In Season 4 Episode 2, a character hallucinates falling into and being trapped in a grave.
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Is there amputation?
53 supporters
Yes
74
No
171
4
S4
A disembodied hand is shown laying in the snow in episode 5
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Does someone asphyxiate?
47 supporters
Yes
11
No
45
2
There is some choking but people don’t die (very close)
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
46 supporters
Yes
303
No
5
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Billy holds Eleven into the air by the neck in S3E6, which causes her to choke
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
44 supporters
Yes
5
No
71
3
S4
although it’s not specifically an achilles tendon injury, one character in prison breaks his ankle on purpose to be able to escape his shackles. this is shown mostly off screen but heard clearly, as well as we see him take off the shackles while manipulating his broken ankle
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Does someone break a bone?
43 supporters
Yes
455
No
10
DDD Paid Staff
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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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Is someone choked?
34 supporters
Yes
77
No
3
DDD Paid Staff
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2
S3
E4
Billy chokes eleven and vice versa in The Sauna Test
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Are any hands damaged?
33 supporters
Yes
32
No
22
DDD Paid Staff
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3
S5
E6
Character is shot in the hand
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Are there dislocations?
30 supporters
Yes
43
No
12
-1
Season 4 episode 1
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Is someone stabbed?
30 supporters
Yes
57
No
5
DDD Paid Staff
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S5
E5
Around 30:39
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Does someone fall down stairs?
23 supporters
Yes
8
No
99
DDD Paid Staff
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1
S5
In season 5 a girl falls down a staircase
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Does someone fall to their death?
21 supporters
Yes
42
No
264
DDD Paid Staff
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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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Does someone become unconscious?
1 supporters
Yes
100
No
0
1
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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Does someone have a seizure?
1 supporters
Yes
385
No
48
19
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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Children
Is an infant abducted?
1 supporters
Yes
95
No
11
3
Yes, in Season Two, it is revealed that Jane (Eleven) was abducted as a child.
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Is a minor sexualized?
1 supporters
Yes
12
No
86
5
Dr. Brenner doesn't sexualize the children at the lab per se, but some of the language that he uses could be pretty unsettling for someone who's experienced that.
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Does a kid die?
1 supporters
Yes
583
No
44
DDD Paid Staff
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Barbara is a teenager, who is killed and harvested by the Demogorgan
40 comments | Add comment
Creepy Crawly
Yes
2
No
48
Death
Does a non-human character die?
60 supporters
Yes
85
No
5
1
Multiple monsters are shown to die, the ones i can think of is the first demogorgon in season 1, dart and multiple other demodogs in season 2, in season 3 meat monsters are destroyed, in season 4 a demogorgons head gets chopped off and a demodog gets electrocuted
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Does a major character die?
41 supporters
Yes
74
No
9
4
Major instances of this in all seasons
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Does someone die?
28 supporters
Yes
91
No
1
1
All the time
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
19 supporters
Yes
103
No
7
3
Mike attempts to sacrifice himself to save Dustin but is saved
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
42 supporters
Yes
4
No
134
10
Surprisingly, it’s never used, despite the 1980s setting and themes/undertones of autism-specific abuse.
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
33 supporters
Yes
3
No
46
4
Nope, Gaten Mattarazzo has the same disability as Dustin.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
27 supporters
Yes
3
No
93
0
Steve asks if Robin has OD'd, in return Robin asks the same question in a joking mannor
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Family
Does a parent die?
42 supporters
Yes
475
No
27
DDD Paid Staff
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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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Is a child's toy destroyed?
42 supporters
Yes
105
No
93
19
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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Does a family member die?
33 supporters
Yes
67
No
6
0
S5
Flashbacks to Hopper's daughter's death
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Does someone cheat?
30 supporters
Yes
245
No
62
24
She thinks about it, but backs out.
9 comments | Add comment
Is someone kidnapped?
1 supporters
Yes
311
No
8
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the russian base sequence might be a bit much if you have trouble with kidnapping/being caught and trapped
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
99 supporters
Yes
602
No
27
DDD Paid Staff
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15
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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Is trypophobic content shown?
40 supporters
Yes
34
No
11
2
S2
E8
At the second to last episode of Season two, Bob Newby, boyfriend to Joyce Byers gets eaten by the demogorgons and since the way the teeth on a demogorgon is, there is a scene where Bob's chest is covered in holes, but you can only see half his chest, but it is still incredibly disturbing for me.
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Yes
56
No
10
2
S4
Victor Creel tries to cut his eyeballs out with a razor blade
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Are there clowns?
18 supporters
Yes
201
No
250
19
season 3, at the fourth of july fair
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Is there a shower scene?
14 supporters
Yes
334
No
81
8
In season 1, Nancy is in the shower after her crawl though a slimy space; nothing violent happens. In season 2, three teenage boys are showering after basketball practice; there is verbal bullying but no violence.
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Are there ghosts?
10 supporters
Yes
29
No
316
5
No ghosts of the dead, but a kid is possessed by another living entity in season 2
5 comments | Add comment
Are there mannequins?
8 supporters
Yes
55
No
7
0
Yes, but only as decorations at a shopping mall, not used for any creepy purposes
2 comments | Add comment
Are there natural bodies of water?
4 supporters
Yes
60
No
7
0
S1
A quarry and a lake are shown
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Is someone possessed?
1 supporters
Yes
427
No
12
8
This is a major theme in season two and even more in season three.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
176 supporters
Yes
1021
No
149
DDD Paid Staff
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49
season 1
ep3: (:07)barbra is sick
ep8: (2:49-2:55) hopper tortured in lab
season 2
ep2: (0:16-21) eleven is sick
ep2: (41:21-41:27) someone runs onto driveway
ep5: (9:31-9:45) hopper is sick in upside down
ep6: (13:10-13:19) hopper is sick in bucket
season 3
ep4: (5:54-6:07) hopper in bucket
ep4: (45:10) billy in sauna; looks like water
ep7: (25:00-25:08) robin and steve after being drugged (flushes at 28:26-28:28)
season 4
ep1: (32:55-33:15)girl being sick on the toilet (just audio)
ep2: (9:54-10:04)skip twice after "benny's burger" (VERY GRAPHIC)
ep3: (:07)barbra is sick
ep8: (2:49-2:55) hopper tortured in lab
season 2
ep2: (0:16-21) eleven is sick
ep2: (41:21-41:27) someone runs onto driveway
ep5: (9:31-9:45) hopper is sick in upside down
ep6: (13:10-13:19) hopper is sick in bucket
season 3
ep4: (5:54-6:07) hopper in bucket
ep4: (45:10) billy in sauna; looks like water
ep7: (25:00-25:08) robin and steve after being drugged (flushes at 28:26-28:28)
season 4
ep1: (32:55-33:15)girl being sick on the toilet (just audio)
ep2: (9:54-10:04)skip twice after "benny's burger" (VERY GRAPHIC)
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Is there audio gore?
73 supporters
Yes
294
No
8
5
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
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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Is there defecation?
60 supporters
Yes
0
No
49
0
no..?
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Is someone eaten?
51 supporters
Yes
69
No
12
7
Demogorgon does this a lot
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
33 supporters
Yes
233
No
42
13
In season one, Eleven uses her mind powers to make a boy wet himself.
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Is there farting?
20 supporters
Yes
55
No
12
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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Does someone spit?
19 supporters
Yes
401
No
19
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10
At the end of season 1 in the basement Lucas sings a tune about how Dustin farted
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
Yes
2
No
95
1
Wrong decade
2 comments | Add comment
Law Enforcement
Yes
34
No
8
Is there copaganda?
1 supporters
Yes
143
No
85
34
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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LGBTQ+
Yes
0
No
51
Are there transphobic slurs?
75 supporters
Yes
4
No
66
1
not transphobic but Billy’s dad calls him the f slur
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
62
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
38 supporters
Yes
17
No
45
3
S5
will sees robin and Vickie but he doesn’t tell anyone else
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Is there bisexual cheating?
33 supporters
Yes
2
No
64
0
While the show fails to properly address it, a significantly large chunk of viewers consider one character as having emotionally cheated on his girlfriend multiple times with his male best friend. If this has happened to you, then you may very well pick up on the same subtext and be triggered by it.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
7 supporters
Yes
4
No
44
1
[SPOILER WARNING] Season 3, a character destroys his childhood fort. It is shown throughout the seasons to have been one of his favorite places, and it was a sad scene to watch if you ask me. It wasn't priceless in money value, but was very much important emotionally. I guess it depends what you meant by that question.
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
54 supporters
Yes
464
No
14
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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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Is there a mental institution scene?
43 supporters
Yes
341
No
39
17
Not a mental institution, but a schizophrenic person is taken by ambulance and hospitalized
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Is electro-therapy used?
35 supporters
Yes
368
No
38
21
El’s mother is shown to have been tortured with electro-therapy to the point of being permanently catatonic
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
24
Is there a hospital scene?
22 supporters
Yes
428
No
4
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multiple times throughout the three seasons
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Yes
1
No
48
Does someone have cancer?
1 supporters
Yes
338
No
75
21
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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Mental Health
Yes
88
No
322
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Fake suicide - although the characters believe somebody killed themself, the audience knows it was murder
20 comments | Add comment
Yes
67
No
36
2
In season 4 a character described how he tried to gouge out his eyes and that he wanted to die but was stopped
14 comments | Add comment
Yes
298
No
263
27
A few characters in season one cut, but not for self harm. They are using blood to attract a creature
12 comments | Add comment
Is autism misrepresented?
51 supporters
Yes
0
No
62
6
It’s not confirmed or stated, but Robin is heavily implied to be autistic (she struggles with social cues, has “no filter”, is sensitive to loud noises and uncomfortable clothing, and took longer to learn to walk than average as a child), and I consider her to be good representation. It’s rare to see an adult autistic woman who’s funny, confident, and capable in a TV show.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
51 supporters
Yes
270
No
176
25
Season 4:
Episode 1- 33 minutes Chrissy vomits before being ridiculed by her "mother" for her weight, implied ED
Episode 1- 33 minutes Chrissy vomits before being ridiculed by her "mother" for her weight, implied ED
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Is there misophonia?
50 supporters
Yes
159
No
16
11
There is some disgusting chewing in season 4 episode 6.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
48 supporters
Yes
91
No
95
7
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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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
44 supporters
Yes
192
No
26
17
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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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
38 supporters
Yes
62
No
2
1
S3
major plot in the entire series, any charecters travel too and from the upside down
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
38 supporters
Yes
252
No
2
8
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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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
35 supporters
Yes
304
No
30
19
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...
17 comments | Add comment
Is there body dysmorphia?
34 supporters
Yes
151
No
166
16
in s4, a character has a mother who constantly comments on her weight. this obviously discomforts her
9 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
57
Are there anxiety attacks?
30 supporters
Yes
324
No
11
17
Eleven appears to be having anxiety attacks several times after she rips off her blindfold
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
21
No
16
0
S5e6 someone says “disassociate” while referring to dissociation. They are not the same thing. DisASSociate is to stop associating with someone or something. To Dissociate is to zone out in a heavy, disordered way where you become detached from reality, identity, feelings, thoughts and/or your body. Everyone dissociates to some degree, aka zoning out, but it becomes a disorder when it impacts your ability to live life.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
37
Yes
0
No
46
Does someone have a mental illness?
15 supporters
Yes
59
No
4
4
S2
eleven's mother
7 comments | Add comment
Does someone have a meltdown?
13 supporters
Yes
20
No
22
-1
Will screamed at Joyce and cried quite a lot, also has some seizures or 'episodes' I don't know if they can be considered as meltdowns though.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
1 supporters
Yes
30
No
207
18
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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Natural Disasters
Yes
0
No
25
Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
64 supporters
Yes
231
No
85
11
in episode 2 billy has a fairly lengthy scene with shakey cam
6 comments | Add comment
Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
Yes
501
No
30
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40
literally almost every episode
19 comments | Add comment
Are there sudden loud noises?
56 supporters
Yes
60
No
0
2
ALL the time
3 comments | Add comment
Does a baby cry?
28 supporters
Yes
202
No
11
8
!!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 👍
9 comments | Add comment
Is there screaming?
22 supporters
Yes
67
No
0
-1
Pretty often, mostly by El
1 comment | Add comment
Are there underwater scenes?
15 supporters
Yes
49
No
7
0
S1
E2
Brief part where some of the characters are pushed in to and playing in a pool at a party
2 comments | Add comment
Is there obscene language/gestures?
14 supporters
Yes
66
No
2
1
A lot of “ass/asshole” and “shit/bullshit/dipshit”, and a couple of uses of b***h and f**k A homophobic slur is also used a few times.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
24 supporters
Yes
66
No
2
2
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
3 comments | Add comment
Is the fourth wall broken?
15 supporters
Yes
10
No
171
-1
Jonathan stares DIRECTLY at the camera and it's kind of creepy to me. I cant remember when it is
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
Yes
204
No
80
2
There is childbirth in season 2
7 comments | Add comment
Does someone miscarry?
1 supporters
Yes
45
No
235
13
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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Does a pregnant person die?
1 supporters
Yes
13
No
250
DDD Paid Staff
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She doesn't die, but does end up being permanently catatonic sometime after she has had her baby.
3 comments | Add comment
Is a baby stillborn?
1 supporters
Yes
13
No
131
5
S4
But there is brief talk about the subject in Episode 5, about 30 minutes in.
6 comments | Add comment
Are there abortions?
1 supporters
Yes
2
No
259
0
^ adding onto opencastings comment, i believe the baby was born but the doctors claimed she “wasn’t breathing”, which is false as she was crying so no i don’t think there was any abortion talk
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Are there babies or unborn children?
1 supporters
Yes
174
No
13
9
In season 4 episode 4, there are two brief but gruesome scenes of a baby on fire in a crib.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
66 supporters
Yes
276
No
30
12
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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Are there fat jokes?
66 supporters
Yes
320
No
39
26
Episode 1 Season 3 around 19 minutes, the lifeguard yells and calls a kid lard ass
21 comments | Add comment
Yes
122
No
173
39
sorta, initially eleven is thought to be a boy by several people. it's never malicious though
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
55 supporters
Yes
5
No
164
2
S3
E3
Not a man in a dress but there’s a joke where a guy mistaken for a Soviet spy is actually a feminine jazzercise instructor with a pink shirt under his coat. It felt adjacent but not particularly egregious.
2 comments | Add comment
Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
Yes
210
No
37
15
there are multiple uses of the ableist slur "ps*cho", and ableism towards a woman alleged to be schizophrenic
8 comments | Add comment
Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
Yes
38
No
297
44
Even though she's not confirmed gay, Barb was a huge lesbian. Rest in peace queen. You're missed.
15 comments | Add comment
Is there hate speech?
42 supporters
Yes
333
No
21
39
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.
16 comments | Add comment
Are there usages of the n-word?
41 supporters
Yes
10
No
201
37
^ Lucas is also called midnight.
7 comments | Add comment
Is a minority is misrepresented?
41 supporters
Yes
9
No
40
2
Most Russians in the show are portrayed as evil, but not all of them.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
27
No
161
20
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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Does the black guy die first?
28 supporters
Yes
5
No
298
29
they better not hurt my boy Lucas
10 comments | Add comment
Is there aphobia?
26 supporters
Yes
2
No
37
0
Will, while not aromantic, does face aphobia for his lack of open interest in relationships.
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Race
Yes
0
No
50
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
1 supporters
Yes
80
No
29
11
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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Religious
Is religion discussed?
16 supporters
Yes
24
No
21
2
S4
Jason goes on a tangent about Christianity
5 comments | Add comment
Are there demons or Hell?
15 supporters
Yes
36
No
12
2
Kinda? The demogorgons/demodogs/demobats could be interpreted as demons, and the upside down is basically cold hell.
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Sex
Yes
1
No
69
Yes
43
No
373
39
I don't understand the 'yes' votes here.
7 comments | Add comment
Are there nude scenes?
68 supporters
Yes
11
No
77
0
Billy and Steve in the showers in S2. Though not much is shown, you can tell that they are naked
4 comments | Add comment
Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
Yes
70
No
17
2
Many women come to the pool just to see Billy in a rather stalkerish way
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
39
Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
Yes
49
No
11
1
Nancy, season 1
6 comments | Add comment
Is there sexual content?
1 supporters
Yes
297
No
50
12
Kind of. There is kissing and undressing down to a girl's bra. Nothing further is shown, but implied.
14 comments | Add comment
Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
28 supporters
Yes
108
No
25
13
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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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
43 supporters
Yes
4
No
53
3
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
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
64
Does someone have a chronic illness?
17 supporters
Yes
19
No
37
-2
Dustin has an illness that causes him to not have collarbones and certain teeth
1 comment | Add comment
Is someone terminally ill?
1 supporters
Yes
52
No
6
3
Hopper's daughter, shown in flashbacks, died from terminal cancer
2 comments | Add comment
Social
Are there fat suits?
36 supporters
Yes
34
No
15
-1
S4
Yes but only when Hopper looses weight after being in Russian prison and they do a flashback.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
37
Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
Yes
117
No
27
6
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
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
50
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
90 supporters
Yes
209
No
73
7
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
21 comments | Add comment
Are there end credit scenes?
73 supporters
Yes
13
No
32
1
S5
No post-credit scenes for the finale.
4 comments | Add comment
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
10 supporters
Yes
71
No
215
28
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'
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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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
33 supporters
Yes
383
No
34
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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
17 comments | Add comment
Is someone hit by a car?
33 supporters
Yes
103
No
150
18
Technically. Eleven uses her powers to lift a parked vehicle into the air and throw it at several enemies.
10 comments | Add comment
Does a car honk or tires screech?
15 supporters
Yes
139
No
1
0
S2
Tires screech all the time
3 comments | Add comment
Does a plane crash?
1 supporters
Yes
144
No
185
10
4 season episode 5
13 comments | Add comment
Violence
Is there blood/gore?
83 supporters
Yes
468
No
1
28
The main monster of season 3 is almost literally made out of gore. Also, several rats and humans explode. It’s extremely nasty
25 comments | Add comment
Does someone drown?
48 supporters
Yes
223
No
90
DDD Paid Staff
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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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Is there gun violence?
43 supporters
Yes
313
No
11
8
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.
15 comments | Add comment
Is there a nuclear explosion?
1 supporters
Yes
35
No
220
3
S4
In flashbacks and recaps it shows the explosion at the end of season 3
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