Squid Game

TV Show • 2021 • Thriller  

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This tv show contains 83 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
386 supporters
Yes
5
No
250
0
Dog going to fall into a ocean because a guy and his dog goes to the beach but the dog goes to the ocean and dies.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is trypophobic content shown?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
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0
Are there demons or Hell?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
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0
Is there menstruation?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
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0
Abandonment
Yes
5
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0
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
30 supporters
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Yes
9
No
1
Is an animal abandoned?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
6
Abuse
Yes
0
No
4
4
TakeTwoPlease
No, but one character talks about abusive parents
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Yes
0
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5
Is someone stalked?
21 supporters
Yes
195
No
3
23
pinklemonade
The people who control the games have files with information about the players like their work experience, education, debt, illegal activities, etc
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21
alienfriend
None shown but one character describes their childhood abuse including spousal domestic abuse and murder
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
1 supporters
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3
No
1
-1
perfetc42
******Major spoiler******

The front man is someone who won the game in the past
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*****Major spoiler******
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151
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22
33
Anonymous
An old man begins to lose his short term memory, and is completely unable to remember things that have just been said. When playing a game against another character, he asks for things to be repeated. This other character lies about how the game is going in order to win.

There are several times where a character is tricked/betrayed by someone they trust.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
21 supporters
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0
No
3
Is a child abused?
1 supporters
Yes
100
No
30
29
eggthew
A character implies that she was sexually assaulted by her father when she was a kid
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Addiction
21
Syno
There’s use of sleeping gas on the players.
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Is there addiction?
1 supporters
Yes
252
No
2
26
SilverSkylark
Addiction to smoking and gambling, possibly alcohol too
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
190
No
0
7
Smiliey
One person who fails sucide is shown drinking. Homless person passed out, implied drunk
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
123 supporters
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0
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6
Does a horse die?
86 supporters
Yes
1
No
184
6
violetlime
but horse racing (abuse) is depicted in episode 1.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
155 supporters
Yes
219
No
13
27
xxfreakiexx
A dead fish is cut at a market for food, nothing bad really and there's fish that have died in a bowl when he visits an apartment to look for his brother but nothing terrible. The series is brillant and coming from someone who's overly sensitive to animals dying most of you should be ok! I recommend
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Are animals abused?
176 supporters
Yes
56
No
148
31
Blitkun
Horse racing is depicted early in the first episode.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
4
No
192
Yes
263
No
9
21
koralik
1st episode, at 24:10 fish's head is cut off
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Is an animal sad?
76 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Are rabbits harmed?
63 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Does a cat die?
156 supporters
Yes
1
No
206
19
Golab
but in the first episode a cat is fed
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Does a pet die?
142 supporters
Yes
2
No
8
-1
reddington
S1
goldfish dead in bowl
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Does a dragon die?
30 supporters
Yes
3
No
199
3
Mindori
Don't know how there are yes votes on this, the show features no dragons to begin with as it is set largely in, at the time, contemporary South Korea.
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Are there spiders?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
173
Are there alligators/crocodiles??
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Are there snakes?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
167
24
LeiaPasquarelli
A guy has a tattoo of a snake.
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Are there sharks?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Are there bugs?
1 supporters
Yes
63
No
107
8
Nylah_jp
In one short scene a lot of bugs were crawling over a dead persons body
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
1 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Is someone drugged?
1 supporters
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Yes
11
No
0
Yes
2
No
5
1
misto
S1
 E6
A character mentions being assaulted by an adult when she was a child. Nothing is shown.
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Is someone held under water?
1 supporters
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Yes
2
No
2
Is rape mentioned?
75 supporters
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Yes
9
No
1
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
22 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
Is someone restrained?
1 supporters
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Yes
13
No
0
Yes
191
No
1
46
pinklemonade
There's a mini side story where some "staff" members and a player who's a doctor traffick organs from deceased players, one mentions to an undercover cop that they took turns to rape a woman before taking her organs
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Is someone's mouth covered?
11 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
1
arowana
S1
 E7
No assault occurs and the writing frames it as an uncomfortable scene but you do watch as onlookers jeer upon hearing that a man was coerced into performing sexual acts.
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Bodily Harm
Yes
186
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0
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plateoffrogs
Lots of throats are slit, and people die from it.
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Are any hands damaged?
16 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
Are there dislocations?
1 supporters
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Yes
2
No
1
Is there throat mutilation?
37 supporters
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Yes
3
No
1
Yes
134
No
0
15
Syno
People are drugged by a sleeping gas, which makes them cough. People choke each other as well.
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Is there decapitation?
34 supporters
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Yes
1
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3
Is there cannibalism?
31 supporters
Yes
109
No
49
17
Mayy
First episode some gangsta man sticks his finger in the main characters blood and sucks it off. Says he tastes good and will make a soup out of him but that's as far as it goes.
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Is someone crushed to death?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Is someone choked?
1 supporters
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Yes
6
No
0
Yes
195
No
6
12
TaylorGriffin
Someone is near-death and is put into an incinerator. There is no screaming, or a sign of pain or struggle.
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Yes
131
No
14
21
eggthew
Someone is trapped in a coffin and then cremated alive
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
8
No
0
0
S1
 E7
There's a part where a rotting corpse has crabs over him (around 7:09-7:40)
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Is there amputation?
26 supporters
Yes
144
No
18
17
pinklemonade
Ali is missing two fingers, it is not shown how he lost them just a close up of his hand

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Yes
187
No
1
18
pinklemonade
Episode 9 - During the game many people fall from a very high type of bridge and a close up of a woman's skull/brain is shown for a few seconds
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
22 supporters
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Yes
1
No
8
Is there a hanging?
33 supporters
Yes
170
No
0
20
pinklemonade
A character commits suicide by hanging himself with bed sheets
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
9
No
0
1
TechDude99
If you count being choked by other person then yeah
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Yes
149
No
10
20
Nobodytoseehere
It's not shown, but a character twist's a man's genitalia
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Does someone become unconscious?
5 supporters
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Yes
7
No
0
Yes
181
No
1
17
Syno
Someone has their hand get stuck in a press machine, which crushes it. People also fall off from a high place, and are shown on the ground afterwards.
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Does someone have a seizure?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
145
Yes
10
No
130
11
xeobun
no teeth directly damaged but in the first episode there’s a threat and [slight spoiler] a knife held to his throat/mouth
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Yes
239
No
1
29
jackkastiel
Episode two when theyre fighting in the factory. A hand gets stuck in a machine
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Is someone tortured?
77 supporters
Yes
220
No
2
28
niomi
In the first episode the main character is hit in the face and his nose bled. the beater wiped blood away and licked the blood from his thumb, then intimidated him further by holding a shiv to the inside of his nostril. but does not cut him.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Yes
188
No
0
24
pinklemonade
Many times throughout the episodes
7 comments | Add comment
Yes
200
No
2
21
jackkastiel
An eye is removed from a dead man. (They show the eye, but not the removal in focus)
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Is someone stabbed?
1 supporters
Yes
8
No
0
0
tardigrade
S1
 E5
In episode 5 you see someone being stabbed in the brain. There's quite a lot of blood.
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Yes
26
No
0
0
Very. It shows pools of blood and even shows organs/intestines
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Does a kid die?
46 supporters
Yes
70
No
91
27
fishtopherwalken
Two of the competitors and one of the red suits that die are confirmed as teenagers.
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Is a minor sexualized?
98 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
15
No
0
Does a major character die?
23 supporters
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Yes
9
No
0
Does a non-human character die?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
8
Does someone die?
12 supporters
Yes
10
No
0
1
roxymeowsic
people dying is basically the entire premise of this show.
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Disability
Yes
0
No
4
Is the r-slur used?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Family
Does a family member die?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
5
No
1
Does a parent die?
24 supporters
Yes
196
No
0
24
pinklemonade
Many of the "players" that die were parents and at the end Gi-Hoon's mother dies from diabetes.
Sae-Byeok mentions that her dad died while scaping North Korea.
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Yes
3
No
141
21
Moomin
No but if you don’t want upsetting imagery around children’s toys/games this is NOT the show for you. Twisted versions of various games and toys throughout.
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Yes
197
No
3
18
pinklemonade
Before been taken to the place were the games take place the players are drugged so they don't know where it is
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Does someone cheat?
17 supporters
Yes
8
No
141
34
pinklemonade
They cheat on the games, not on people
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
No
145
Yes
34
No
113
31
Anonymous
Although they aren’t quite jump scares, there are several instances where a character is suddenly shot which can be alarming. The sound and visual cut to someone dying is often very abrupt with no warning.
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Yes
53
No
99
25
pinklemonade
There is a [long] sex scene that takes places in a bathroom stall
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1
tardigrade
S1
In one of the early episodes, a person's corpse is shown floating in the sea.
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Are there clowns?
11 supporters
Yes
1
No
160
5
Moomin
But creepy sing song children’s music of the kind that often is associated with clowns.
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Is someone possessed?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
146
Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Yes
8
No
1
1
KamiSteele
S1
 E1
The first episode has a giant creepy robotic doll resembling a young child used as part of the 'Red Light Green Light' round. If the doll depicts someone moving it sets off hidden guns at the contestant. The design plays heavily into the uncanny valley, and the doll's eyes are shown moving around in close-up.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
93 supporters
Yes
169
No
64
45
sydneylewis
on episode 1, at around the 46:35 mark, a man spits up blood. it's not vomit but it was very sudden and as someone with emetophobia it definitely shook me up a bit
23 comments | Add comment
Yes
204
No
0
24
After the workers come back to the room with the players (after the alarms are sounded), they demand the old man to get up, and they pull his blanket off of him. It's revealed that he's wet himself.
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Is there farting?
10 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Is someone eaten?
31 supporters
Yes
2
No
3
-1
perfetc42
S1
In the last episode of season 1, gi-hun takes a bite out of sang-woo's ankle to defend himself. A chunk of flesh comes off but he spits it out (but there is still blood in his mouth)
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Yes
2
No
4
1
S1
 E2
A woman is extremely descriptive about the size of her poop to distract the guards while in the bathroom.
2 comments | Add comment
Does someone spit?
9 supporters
Yes
171
No
0
24
pinklemonade
A lot of blood spitting
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Is there audio gore?
41 supporters
Yes
189
No
0
23
Syno
Gunshots, blood splatter, stab wounds, etc.
4 comments | Add comment
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
1 supporters
Yes
59
No
74
22
byakuyautistic
An important part of the story includes a cop being worried about lives and wanting to end the game.
9 comments | Add comment
Is there incarceration?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
3
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
0
No
5
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Is there bisexual cheating?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
21 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
139
Yes
153
No
1
9
TaylorGriffin
Someone is stabbed in the face with a small sewing needle
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Is there a mental institution scene?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
139
Yes
170
No
0
13
eggthew
A character is briefly in hospital due to diabetes
5 comments | Add comment
Yes
180
No
5
21
pinklemonade
Oh Il-Nam (001) has a brain tumor
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
10 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Yes
130
No
22
19
WillowReymond
Player shoots himself. Another player hangs himself.
5 comments | Add comment
Is autism misrepresented?
29 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Yes
7
No
116
40
eggthew
I highly doubt that none of the characters have no mental illnesses or disorders, but none are mentioned or implied to be the reason why they're violent.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
18 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Is there autism specific abuse?
40 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
152
0
S1
 E2
A man attempts to poison himself while burning coal in the bathroom.
1 comment | Add comment
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
18 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Does someone have a meltdown?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Is there misophonia?
32 supporters
Yes
147
No
14
44
ratatat
im not entirely sure if this counts? but in the second game they all start licking the candy, and theres a few close up shots of the tounges while they do.
10 comments | Add comment
Yes
147
No
8
16
eggthew
Several characters do panic and/or freeze up during the games
5 comments | Add comment
Is there ABA therapy?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
26
WillowReymond
Suicide does happen
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Is there body dysphoria?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Is there body dysmorphia?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
128
Yes
151
No
1
25
Syno
Someone crawls in a vent, someone is trapped under a bed for a moment, someone is alive but stuck in a coffin.
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47
ghostlysekai
eating disorders arent mentioned or shown, but the characters frequently state disappointment with the amount they're eating, if underfeeding is triggering to anybody.
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28
pinklemonade
A character hangs himself after losing his wife in the games.
Sang-Woo stabs himself in the neck last minute.
11 comments | Add comment
Yes
14
No
1
1
reddington
main character has ptsd from watching his coworker be murdered by a police officer
2 comments | Add comment
Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
1
Yes
6
No
0
0
tardigrade
Yes, often - eg gunshots and alarms
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
122
No
2
14
Syno
Many moments have shakey camera movement to induce stress in the viewer that the characters are feeling. But it’s not too extreme.
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Does a baby cry?
15 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
130
Is there screaming?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
5
No
0
0
catzrcoool
ppl cuss a lot so yeah
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40
jackkastiel
Episode 4 after the black masked man says "Do it." The following fight scenes are entirely strobe
6 comments | Add comment
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
5
No
0
Is the fourth wall broken?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
9
Does someone miscarry?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
126
Are there babies or unborn children?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Is there childbirth?
19 supporters
Yes
2
No
126
11
plateoffrogs
There is mention of someone giving birth and their child nearly not making it in episode 2
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Are there abortions?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
129
Yes
1
No
112
10
plateoffrogs
there is a conversation in episode 2 about how a pregnant woman almost didn't make it to hospital and almost lost her baby because of it, if that counts
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Prejudice
Yes
1
No
125
13
b3ll4g0th
No, but the "depraved homosexual" trope is depicted in s01e07. (An older man with a decadent lifestyle tries to sexually assault a younger adult man and fails. )
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32
Syno
A very old man with a brain tumor and health problems gets picked on, and is rarely picked for teams in the games. But some characters make sure he isn’t left out.
4 comments | Add comment
Are there usages of the n-word?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
134
Yes
1
No
120
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
135
Yes
32
No
89
23
Syno
We don’t actually know if a character is LGBTQ+ or not, but there are a couple of characters that many people who are LGBTQ+ deem to possibly not be straight, and they die.
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
27
No
85
21
pinklemonade
Not jokes but it is used as an insult
1 comment | Add comment
Is there aphobia?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
1
jdpamv
“Predatory gay” trope
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
137
20
byakuyautistic
There are no black characters, and the first one to die is a lightskinned east asian.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
163
No
0
39
eggthew
Racist remarks are made towards a Pakistani character
8 comments | Add comment
Race
Is there blackface?
32 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
37 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Religious
Yes
6
No
0
1
S1
 E7
In EP1, the main character thinks another character is an evangelist. There is a player that prays a lot, and an evangelist preaches during EP9.
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
39 supporters
Add comment
Yes
8
No
1
Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Does someone lose their virginity?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Is someone sexually objectified?
42 supporters
Add comment
Yes
12
No
0
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
80 supporters
Yes
52
No
70
41
eggthew
None that are shown, but a character implies that she was sexually assaulted by her father when she was a child
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
183
No
0
26
Herdo
S1E4: Sex scene in a restroom.
S1E7: Lot's of naked people, but with full body painting, so there's not much to see. In the same episode there's also a naked man to see from behind.
6 comments | Add comment
Is there BDSM?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Sexism
Yes
0
No
7
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
19 supporters
Add comment
Yes
6
No
0
Does someone have a stroke?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
7
Does someone have a chronic illness?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
9
No
0
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
8
No
0
Social
Are there fat suits?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
11
No
1
1
Crockist
During the season finale, someone who appears to be homeless is unconscious on the sidewalk in the snow, and two characters bet on whether or not someone will come help the man. Someone ends up bringing the police over as a means to help the person.
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Is existentialism debated?
11 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
2
Are there anti-abortion themes?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
5
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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128
Are there end credit scenes?
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4
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153
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4
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pinklemonade
Bittersweet
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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9
Does a car crash?
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109
Does a plane crash?
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114
Is someone hit by a car?
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115
Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
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12
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18
eggthew
No one drowns, but several people are dumped into the ocean after being killed, and there's a scene where they pull a corpse out of the ocean
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Is there blood/gore?
52 supporters
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189
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Syno
Pretty much the entire show has blood, gore, bruises, etc.
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113
9
Engelsoft
No explosions happen, but it is worth mentioning that a bomb is shown onscreen and talked about when two character descend a ladder. It does not explode.
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Syno
People are threatened with guns, and killed by execution with guns.
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