Torchwood
TV Show • 2006
ReportThe exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
This tv show contains 89 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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Abandonment
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Yes
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7
Yes
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Abuse
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Yes
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
38 supporters
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S2 E5 Adam.
The entire plot of the episode focuses on an unknown entity gaslighting the team via memory manipulation.
The entire plot of the episode focuses on an unknown entity gaslighting the team via memory manipulation.
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5
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Gooseontheinternet
Season 1 episode 5, Small worlds
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
19 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Owen and frequently others
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Animal
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Are animals abused?
1 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsys
S2
E4
“Meat” is about animal abuse and meat farming
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cakeisamadeupdrug
S1
E11
Not with literal dogs, but men go into a ring with alien bestial creatures called weavils to fight.
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Does a dragon die?
34 supporters
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cakeisamadeupdrug
S1
E4
It's a pterodactyl technically
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Are there snakes?
16 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Snake or worm like aliens
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Are there bugs?
32 supporters
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Bugs feature in S2 E6 Reset
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Assault
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E8
When Jill tells Oswald what cat 0 is
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Is someone drugged?
31 supporters
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zhyza
S2
E12
Jack and Owen are both chloroformed until they become unconscious.
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Is there pedophilia?
1 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S3
E2
Mentioned
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Is rape mentioned?
83 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E1
A rapist is charged and put to death, he says “she should’ve run faster” he then rightfully suffers immense pain
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E9
Someone gets pregnant through a bite, no sex is had but random pregnancy from a non consetual bite may trigger some
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Is someone's mouth covered?
14 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Chloroforming happens a lot
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cha0ticnewtsys
Someone is SAed in s1e2 by an alien at a sperm bank and screams, nothing shown. A memory of Someone being SAed at knifepoint in s1e3. It cuts away before you see anything but you hear their screaming and there is a build up of tension
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
34 supporters
Yes
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ImNotOkay
some fighting scene but no one cutting self harm
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Are any hands damaged?
17 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S1
E12
Tosh cuts her hand on a sharp piece of metal
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Are there dislocations?
8 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E12
Yes
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Yes
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Is there cannibalism?
34 supporters
Yes
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ImNotOkay
Season 1 episode 7
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Is someone crushed to death?
33 supporters
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Gooseontheinternet
S2
E12
Toshiko is almost crushed by a rubble in an explosion. She breaks her arm and has bruised ribs, but lives.
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Is someone burned alive?
44 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Season 4 spoilers, they incinerate the category 1 people that cannot die in giant ovens similar to holocaust gas chambers
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Is someone buried alive?
28 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S3
E2
Jack is encased in cement
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Is there body horror?
55 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E1
Exploded person still alive, unable to die, you see close ups
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Does someone break a bone?
21 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Owen breaks his pinkie in the episode where he is revived, Tosh her arm in s2e12
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Does someone have a seizure?
7 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E2
Jack has convulsions
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Is someone tortured?
0 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Frequently
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Does someone fall to their death?
1 supporters
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Gooseontheinternet
Jack does several times, but comes back to life.
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Is there eye mutilation?
95 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E6
Esther uses her thumbs to push against her attackers eyes
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Is there excessive gore?
91 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticnewtsys
Especially in s1e6
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Children
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Does a kid die?
1 supporters
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zhyza
S1
E5
It is mentioned in passing that a child got run over and died.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Yes
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
23 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Many minor characters are. The one that stood out to me most was Paul Copley playing Clem McDonald/Tim White which character has tics similar to Tourette’s but doesn’t have the disorder himself
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
23 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Frequently
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Does someone cheat?
19 supporters
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Gwen spends a good chunk of S1 cheating on Rhys with Owen.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
7 supporters
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Gooseontheinternet
Yes, several throughout the series
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Are there clowns?
15 supporters
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Gooseontheinternet
S2
E10
There is an entire circus episode in season two, it includes two clowns
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Is someone possessed?
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Sex Ghost possesses a young woman in S1 E2
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Is trypophobic content shown?
23 supporters
Yes
3
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zhyza
S2
E6
Needle hole in eye
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Scalpels, blades, knives
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
99 supporters
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3
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Agent_Blaze
Season 1 Episode 6
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
21 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E7
Owen wets himself
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Is there farting?
9 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S7
E10
Yes
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Is there audio gore?
45 supporters
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zhyza
S2
E8
Sound of slowly breaking bone
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
33 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Yes, and military propo. The main character is a police constable
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Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E12
Tosh is kept in a UNIT prison cell with no bed and no legal rights
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LGBTQ+
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Yes
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
41 supporters
Yes
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zhyza
S1
E7
Jack makes an offhanded joke in poor taste about a friend he used to know who requested to be called another name (and who was presumably transgender).
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Is there bisexual cheating?
23 supporters
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cha0ticnewtsys
Lots of cheating from gay straight bi characters
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
27 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
The trans person named Victoria Jack briefly mentions to make a joke of her transition is outed. Some of Jack’s crushes live in times where gayness isn’t excepted and are outed or shamed for kissing him. S3e1 Ianto is found dating a man by his sister, his brother in law then comes and calls him “gay boy” and says he’s “taking it up the arse” after she says she won’t tell anyone and he doesn’t want people to know, so it’s clear they where talking about it to everyone in the family
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
7 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Frequently. One example is s1e7 when Tosh destroys an alien mind reading pendant
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
21 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E12
Jack is tortured with an electric shock device
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Are needles/syringes used?
33 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Giant one in s2e12
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Is there a mental institution scene?
28 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S3
E1
A man in a psychiatric ward is part of the plot
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Yes
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Does someone have cancer?
18 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E7
A kid mentions he’s gone through chemo twice and hasn’t worked to treat his Lukemia and wears a head wrap. Owen also mentions that believing you can beat death is the only way to beat cancer which is… weird
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Mental Health
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Yes
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No
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zhyza
S2
E8
Owen intentionally breaks his own finger.
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Yes
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10
Is a mentally ill person violent?
35 supporters
Yes
6
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3
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CharlieRiley
Aliens, but in human form.
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Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E8
Especially in the scene when Tosh comes over
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
20 supporters
Yes
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E2
There’s a woman with a fake personality, life and memories, hiding her real sleeper agent alien self who is a murderer and has to be tortured to get the other conciouness to come out. The fake personality learns she is fake and freaks out, reliving her traumatic experiences. Pretty hard to watch especially for RAMCOA systems and heavily leans on DID misrepresentation tropes
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Yes
19
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S1
E10
A man dies by CO2 inhalation in a car, someone stops him but then he says he will just kill himself anyways, he then resumes and is accompanied by the person who stopped him, they hold eachother’s hands as one of them passes away peacefully
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
23 supporters
Yes
6
No
4
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Time and dimension hopping, paradoxes, aliens, reality bending etc
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Does someone have a meltdown?
10 supporters
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0
No
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cha0ticnewtsys
No but Tosh experiences sensory overload when wearing a thought-reading pendant and the overlapping voice effect might trigger some with sensory processing issues.
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Is there misophonia?
36 supporters
Yes
1
No
6
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Kissing noises often, whispering voices often and the theme song has a reverberating whisper
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Are there anxiety attacks?
23 supporters
Yes
3
No
3
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
Frequently
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
34 supporters
Yes
1
No
5
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S1e10 “out of time”
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No
6
Yes
0
No
8
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
19 supporters
Yes
3
No
3
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
S1
E10
People trapped in a basement
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Yes
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No
11
Yes
17
No
3
0
zhyza
S1
E8
Susie's suicide from episode 1 is discussed and the clip is shown
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
1 supporters
Yes
8
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3
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cha0ticneutralsys
War vets as well as the main cast
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
8 supporters
Yes
4
No
3
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E8
Owen jumps into a lake
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Yes
8
No
2
Is there shakey cam?
46 supporters
Yes
3
No
6
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
During fight scenes and action scenes, yes
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Yes
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No
3
Yes
9
No
0
Yes
9
No
0
Are there flashing lights or images?
49 supporters
Yes
10
No
2
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
Yes, ranging from flickering to strobing
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Paranoia
Yes
11
No
0
Yes
0
No
7
Pregnancy
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0
No
7
Yes
0
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10
Yes
5
No
3
Yes
3
No
7
Are there abortions?
16 supporters
Yes
2
No
7
2
Gooseontheinternet
S2
E9
Gwen terminates her alien pregnancy in 2x9
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Yes
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No
8
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
48 supporters
Yes
1
No
10
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cha0ticneutralsystem
“Fag” is used to mean cigarette often. S3e3 an older man calls someone a “queer” in a derogatory way. S4e7 a gay couple is called “finocchio”, a negative term for gay men in Italian
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
43 supporters
Yes
5
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9
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cha0ticneutralsystem
“Special needs” used as an insult. Freak shows (that often enslaved and made a display of anyone out of the norm, including disabled people) are shown in s2e10. Jack calls the rest of the world delusional for not believing in aliens. “Crippled”. In s3e3 they discuss sacrificing those “less socially or societally useful” including specifically mentioning disabled children and those on government benefits. A convicted r@pist and pedo speaks with a stutter which I cannot tell if it’s intentionally ableist or something they did to make him seem “creepy” or what
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Yes
0
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10
Yes
1
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Yes
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10
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zhyza
S1
E7
Jack makes an offhanded joke in poor taste about a friend he used to know who requested to be called another name (and who was presumably transgender).
2 comments | Add comment
Does an LGBT person die?
35 supporters
Yes
11
No
5
0
JocyChick
S1
E1
[SPOILERS] Jack is shot and dies for a few seconds, but later comes back to life.
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Are there fat jokes?
55 supporters
Yes
5
No
9
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E1
Gwen’s mum calls Gwen’s infant “huge” and jokes they feed her lard
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Yes
0
No
5
Is a minority is misrepresented?
27 supporters
Yes
2
No
4
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
Trans people, mental illness. The “nerdy Asian” trope is used as well. Owen also tells a suicidal woman “you think you’ve got problems, I’m dead” which is not the way to deal with suicidal people. Main pedo villain is Asocial, never dated, twitchy and speaks in a stutter (a bunch of tropes wrapped up into one)
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
11
Is there hate speech?
34 supporters
Yes
12
No
8
1
zhyza
S1
E12
Toshiko is called a slur against Japanese people.
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Race
Yes
0
No
8
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
0 supporters
Yes
4
No
6
0
CCat04
One character is technically immortal and dates people who are not but he appears to be in his 30s so the relationships are not creepy.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
14 supporters
Yes
5
No
5
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cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E4
Catholic stuff, the gay characters often deal with homophobia externally or internalized
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Are there demons or Hell?
10 supporters
Yes
3
No
3
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
Jack talks about afterlife and how there is nothingness when you die. There are aliens and creatures similar to the devil an a physical representation of death, hell and heaven are talked about often
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
42 supporters
Yes
11
No
4
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
And sex scenes, Jack is sometimes naked but I don’t think you can see anything detailed
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Is there bestiality?
80 supporters
Yes
1
No
10
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E8
A joke about it
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
6
Is someone sexually objectified?
44 supporters
Yes
13
No
3
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
In s1e12 Tosh (Japanese woman), when going back to the 40’s is exoticised and sexualised by most men she comes into contact with. Lesbians and sapphics are also objectified throughout the series
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
87 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
11
Yes
14
No
4
Yes
0
No
6
Sexism
Yes
0
No
8
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
19 supporters
Yes
5
No
5
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
S2
E8
Terminally ill elderly person. Owen also makes a comment about being hooked up to machines that keep him alive being worse than death, which comes off ableist
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Does someone have a chronic illness?
12 supporters
Yes
3
No
3
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
Multiple minor characters. Jack is also unable to die and Owen becomes physically dead but still able to function which are treated like chronic conditions with complications
1 comment | Add comment
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
27 supporters
Yes
9
No
2
0
Gooseontheinternet
Yes, one of the most prominent times being in Out of Time
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Social
Yes
0
No
9
Is someone homeless?
6 supporters
Yes
4
No
5
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
S3
E1
Guy mentioned to be homeless since 11, later all of Torchwood is made homeless
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Is existentialism debated?
1 supporters
Yes
5
No
2
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
The right to exist for many alien species is debated
1 comment | Add comment
Are there anti-abortion themes?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
9
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
People can no longer die so abortions are discussed
1 comment | Add comment
Spoiler
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
1
No
4
Yes
11
No
3
Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
12 supporters
Yes
5
No
2
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
Frequently
1 comment | Add comment
Does a car crash?
22 supporters
Yes
8
No
3
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
S4
E1
Man impaled by improperly secured beams
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
5
Yes
6
No
4
Violence
Yes
3
No
6
Is there blood/gore?
58 supporters
Yes
27
No
2
0
Blood/Gore in many episodes. Very graphic body mutilation in S1 E4 Cyberwoman.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there a nuclear explosion?
8 supporters
Yes
3
No
5
0
cha0ticneutralsystem
MAJOR SPOILERS
Not bombs but there is a bomb that explodes taking Jack out and a nuclear plant that melts down killing Owen
Not bombs but there is a bomb that explodes taking Jack out and a nuclear plant that melts down killing Owen
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Yes
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No
2