Riverdale

TV Show • 2017 • Mystery  

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Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
This tv show contains 121 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
378 supporters
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dontkillanimals
This show contains every trigger. There’s just 24/7 coming new episodes and seasons, so the answers here are not up to date.
Yes. A dog die. Not on screen but mentioned.
Also mentioned a off-ground dog fight circle. (Where dogs die)
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there ABA therapy?
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Are there dislocations?
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Abandonment
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S7
 E16
betty’s older sister, polly, is abandoned by their parents
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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S7
 E16
betty’s mother slaps her after abandoning her older sister
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emory
Reggie has a complicated relationship with his physically abusive father
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Is someone stalked?
22 supporters
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54
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Blah
In season 4 pretty much all of the houses in the neighbourhood have been sent a tape that shows a six hour long footage of the house.
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Hello
Its mentioned

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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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6od
*****SPOILER***** betty’s father who was abused as a kid ends up being a serial killer.
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Blah
In Season 4 episode 4 a character makes their partner question their sanity by making them believe that their home is haunted.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
93 supporters
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76
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meganjohnstonn
Cheryl is verbally abused by her mother throughout the entirety of the show. Veronica’s father is extremely emotionally abusive and manipulative
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Addiction
3
ImnormalJustlikeyou
Jingle jangle it’s called, many kids in town take it but not much can be seen of kids taking it
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Is there addiction?
16 supporters
Yes
64
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5
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HogwartsAvenger
Drug addictions
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Yes
83
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0
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SilkyHearted
Jughead's father, was, at one point, a heavy alcoholic, and we see that early on in the series.
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Animal
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S7
 E5
when betty is d*ad on the table, that’s when spiders will happen soon. skip about 30 seconds.
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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80
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6
Are animals abused?
177 supporters
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69
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14
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Srimayaa
There are two replayed scenes in season four where Betty kills a cat as a child. You don't see the cat but it makes a sound
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Amanda2
On 5-13 it’s revealed that dog fighting is in riverdale, however nothing is shown and the ringleader is beaten up and the dogs are saved
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LaviniaTemple
Betty kills her cat as a child because she (the cat) has been hit by a car. It’s not super graphic but there is a noise as the cat is killed with a rock.
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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4
Does a cat die?
152 supporters
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Anonymous
season 4 episode 5 betty murders a cat that got hit by a car gets shown twice
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Does a pet die?
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16
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Does a dragon die?
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64
Are there spiders?
42 supporters
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3
Cheryl wears a golden spider broach throughout the show & black widow spiders are shown on or around Veronica as she develops her powers in s6.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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6
Are there snakes?
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Tcktstcrckts
But only on the southside.~
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Are there sharks?
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6
Are there bugs?
28 supporters
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22
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50
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ImnormalJustlikeyou
Only bughead 😉
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
26 supporters
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14
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Is there pedophilia?
109 supporters
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10
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S1
 E1
In the first episode a sophmore student and teacher sleep together
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
20 supporters
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Is someone restrained?
22 supporters
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14
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1
Yes
68
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4
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Hello
Cheryl gets drugged at the beginning of season two but she is saved before she can get raped
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Yes
7
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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49
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Yes
8
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emory
S1
 E5
Archie hurts his hand playing football, and it's seen wearing a cast for the next few episodes
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
27 supporters
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Yes
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Is there decapitation?
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4
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1
Is there cannibalism?
31 supporters
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ariya
No, but in episode 7 of season 4 a character lies to members of their family that they ate another member of the family in order to scare them away.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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7
Is someone choked?
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6
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Yes
44
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15
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Srimayaa
In season four Veronica burns someone alive in self-defence. It is not graphic you just see flames on their jacket
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3
3
Srimayaa
In season 4 a character is placed in a coffin overnight, but they aren't buried
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Is there body horror?
48 supporters
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Is there amputation?
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emetophobiacheck
In season 3, Betty's father, Hal Cooper, Cuts off his own hand in order to fake his own death.
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Does a head get squashed?
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50
Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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7
Is there a hanging?
33 supporters
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1
Hello
Clifford hangs himself
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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15
Does someone become unconscious?
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7
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Yes
66
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1
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thatothergirl
A character breaks his hand/arm (?) punching through ice in an attempt to rescue another character
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Yes
83
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1
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Anonymous
season 3 episodes 1 and 3 ( or maybe 2) both have seizure scenes
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Yes
47
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14
2
charlotteanne_l
In season 3 a character’s teeth are pulled out
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45
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13
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emetophobiacheck
The janitor of the High School sends Betty his cut off finger in a little gift box.
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Is someone tortured?
74 supporters
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73
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3
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Anonymous
season 2 at some point- someones serpent tattoo is carved off their skin
season 2 end- a character is beaten close to death
season 3 achie is used in prison to be part of an underground fight club run by warden
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Scarecrow113
Penelope Blossom, Cheryl's mom, pushes her mother-in-law down the stairs, but it happens offscreen
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58
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5
3
riah
season 3 someone jumps out of a window and falls to their death
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Yes
17
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24
2
JenNe
In season 5 ep. 2 someone is murdered and has their eyes gouged out by the killer, nothing is shown, only discussed in the morgue
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Is someone stabbed?
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6
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0
Is there excessive gore?
83 supporters
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15
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1
Children
Yes
7
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1
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Giizmo
There are mentions, but it never happens
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Does a kid die?
46 supporters
Yes
81
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1
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LaviniaTemple
In season one a seventeen year old is murdered by being shot in the head, and in season three several teenagers are murdered at a school dance.
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CallstoCorrina
honestly all through seasons 1-4 but it gets excessive for like the first half of season 7 where there’s a redicuolous amount of sex talk and sexualisation of the characters who are juniors (i beleive) in season 7. the show is notorious for sexualising minor characters (but there like no sexualisation really when they are adults just when they’re teens)
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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1
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2
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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7
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1
Yes
6
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0
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S4
 E13
A main character fakes his own death
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Does a non-human character die?
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6
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0
Does someone die?
12 supporters
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Yes
10
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Disability
Yes
1
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3
Is the r-slur used?
28 supporters
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Yes
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No
12
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
14 supporters
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Yes
15
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Family
Does a family member die?
21 supporters
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9
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0
Does a parent die?
22 supporters
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79
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2
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thatothergirl
There are several parents who die
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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1
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18
Is someone kidnapped?
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45
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0
Does someone cheat?
1 supporters
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Yes
53
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0
Fear
Are there ghosts?
8 supporters
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59
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4
4
Anonymous
One character sees a hallucination of her dead twin brother with his fatal injury present. He reaches toward her and she's frightened.
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Yes
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4
2
hanakoyugi
a lot
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Yes
71
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1
3
Boiiiiiii
Shower seeexxxxx
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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0
Are there clowns?
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1
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49
Is someone possessed?
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3
Briefly during a seance in season 6, episode 2.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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3
Are there razors?
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5
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0
Yes
1
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4
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catnipp
there is a dead person that is shown often and they look very mannequin esque, there is also a creepy doll thing
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
92 supporters
Yes
83
No
5
21
emetophobiacheck
S2 E13 at 11:00. S3 E1 at 40:00. S3 E4 at 27:00. S3 E5 at 41:00. S3 E8 at 1:00.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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11
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2
Is there farting?
10 supporters
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0
No
4
Is someone eaten?
30 supporters
Yes
0
No
5
0
catnipp
Cheryl lies to her family that they are being served the remains of someone
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Is there on-screen pooping?
38 supporters
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0
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4
Does someone spit?
10 supporters
Yes
38
No
9
1
Saranya0103
In an episode in Season 3 titled “The Midnight Club,” characters spit on their hands.
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Is there audio gore?
39 supporters
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Yes
23
No
2
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
26 supporters
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Yes
14
No
1
Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
44 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
3
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Is there bisexual cheating?
20 supporters
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Yes
1
No
2
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
21 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
8 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Medical
Yes
8
No
38
4
HogwartsAvenger
No but a a woman from soqm threatens a girl with "The shock chair"
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Yes
54
No
4
0
Hello
Not used but shown
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9
Anonymous
during season 2 cheryl is sent by her mother to a gay conversion therapy facility
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Yes
71
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0
2
McKenzieWilkes
There are occasional hospital scenes with characters being shot or injured throughout the duration of the show.
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Is there menstruation?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Does someone have cancer?
17 supporters
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Yes
1
No
44
Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
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Yes
7
No
0
Yes
66
No
3
7
meganjohnstonn
A self harm joke is made in season 1. Something veronica says along the lines of, “that is so sad it makes you want to cut your wrists” refering to one of archie’s songs
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Is autism misrepresented?
29 supporters
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0
No
3
Yes
19
No
0
0
emmamarie.c_
multiple psychopaths and murderers
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
17 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Yes
0
No
31
0
ImNotOkay
but one character can be in the spectrum
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Scarecrow113
S1
 E13
Cheryl tries to drown herself, but is rescued by Archie
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
18 supporters
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Yes
5
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0
Does someone have a meltdown?
7 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Is there misophonia?
30 supporters
Yes
5
No
9
0
Bozjudd
occasional eating scenes - all of the characters chew relatively softly and its not to triggering mostly but there are a few bad ones - usually not a concern
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54
No
1
0
undeadcoymolly
Cheryl had one the first game after her brother died where someone else wore his number. For a moment, he looked like her brother and she broke down and ran to the locker room.
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No
2
Is there body dysphoria?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Is there body dysmorphia?
27 supporters
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Yes
4
No
32
Yes
43
No
8
6
Srimayaa
In season four a character is put into a coffin overnight
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Anonymous
In one episode Cheryl's mother mocks her anorexia in an attempt to belittle her.
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Anonymous
ending of season 1 a character attempts suicide by drowning.
in season 3 episodes 1 2 and 3 (all thats realeased so far) theres more kids trying to. in the ifrst 2 kids sacrifice themselves in a cult like fashion. one of them lives , only to jump out of his hospital room window. in the 3rd a girl assosiated with the 2 boys tries drinking poision but is taken to the hospital.

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15
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1
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NekoKitten
Several characters struggling with PTSD starting in season 4 or 5
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
7 supporters
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Yes
3
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0
Are there sudden loud noises?
30 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Is there shakey cam?
37 supporters
Yes
15
No
27
0
amanaplanacanalpanama
There are multiple episodes where there is a heavy amount of camera footage, a few documentary style episodes, and a lot of camera panning and quick movements.
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Does a baby cry?
13 supporters
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Yes
14
No
0
Is there screaming?
12 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
5 supporters
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Yes
7
No
2
Are there flashing lights or images?
44 supporters
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Yes
8
No
27
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
13 supporters
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Yes
8
No
0
Yes
9
No
3
1
Season 6, episode 5. It explains the previous 4 episodes of the season and the designation of Jughead as narrator. These first 5 episodes of season 6 are part of a special event/parallel universe to make the Sabrina crossover make sense. You can skip these episodes without missing canon plot.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Yes
8
No
37
1
devour
Loads of people are saying no do I'm assuming these answers aren't up to date; in season 6 someone gets pregnant but she loses her baby.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
12 supporters
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Yes
16
No
0
Is there childbirth?
18 supporters
Yes
7
No
30
0
Blah
Not on screen just mentioned.
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Are there abortions?
14 supporters
Yes
6
No
40
1
amanaplanacanalpanama
For two characters, they were both attempted to be forced to have an abortion, but it didn't happen. There is some other talk, but nothing on screen and nothing actually happens.
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Does a pregnant person die?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
38
Prejudice
Yes
38
No
2
3
emmaannealy
cheryl's mother does not accept her homesexuality, she has hurtful words against her daugter (season 2, ep 15)
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0
emory
Lots of calling people "crazy" etc.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
29
Yes
0
No
28
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
33 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Yes
63
No
12
10
Tilugerna
joaquin died bro he was gay
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Are there fat jokes?
52 supporters
Yes
46
No
3
4
thatothergirl
A character makes a comment about another's weight in the first episode
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Is there aphobia?
20 supporters
Yes
33
No
3
13
SiRenfield
A character that is asexual in the source material is straightwashed into an allosexual much to the backlash of fans and even their own actor
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jdpamv
Queer people and drag queens are misrepresented. Kevin’s only trait is being the “soft gay guy” stereotype. The show is known for queerbaiting with scenes of Betty and Veronica kissing but no acknowledgement of their feelings for each other. They also do the same thing with Joaquin and Archie. An asexual character is straightwashed.
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Does the black guy die first?
18 supporters
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Yes
0
No
42
Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
Yes
42
No
4
0
bellaswanemotiongenerator234
script
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Race
Is there blackface?
32 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Relationships
Yes
12
No
1
3
punkymuppet
S1
Student/teacher relationship for the first part of the season.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
11 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Yes
5
No
0
0
emory
S6
 E3
Lucifer is in 6:3
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
41 supporters
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Yes
3
No
7
Is there bestiality?
80 supporters
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Yes
1
No
5
Does someone lose their virginity?
12 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
Is someone sexually objectified?
41 supporters
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Yes
10
No
1
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
81 supporters
Yes
70
No
1
4
thatothergirl
A character gets pregnant with a boy she didn't know was her cousin
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Yes
72
No
1
9
Hello
Literally every episode
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Is there BDSM?
19 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Sexism
Yes
9
No
1
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
16 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Does someone have a stroke?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Does someone have a chronic illness?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
7
No
2
0
Giizmo
It’s heavily implied that nana rose has memory loss
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Social
Are there fat suits?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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Yes
13
No
0
Is existentialism debated?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
3
Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
4
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
4 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
35
Are there end credit scenes?
36 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Yes
28
No
6
3
Mallory10100
technically the show isn’t over yet
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
13 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
Does a car crash?
18 supporters
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Yes
55
No
0
Does a plane crash?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
44
Yes
36
No
14
6
thatothergirl
in season 4 a character is killed in a hit-and-run
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Violence
Does someone drown?
16 supporters
Yes
62
No
3
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Anonymous
A teenager is presumed to have drowned, but it is later revealed said character was murdered. Another teenager is held underwater in a hot tub until he sputters for air, but he survives.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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HogwartsAvenger
Guns are often used and many gunshots sound.
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