Trigger Warnings: The Directory (Now Transmedium!)

[Virtual_Aardvark]

MAJOR trigger warning for the latest episode of Dollhouse. I can't remember what number we're on.

Abuses of power and some violence.

[Chai Kovsky]

Shit. Fuck you, Joss Whedon, I actually wanted to watch that shit!

Spoiler:

How bad are we talking? How is this relative to, say, "final episode of Firefly" with the Early/Kaylee scene?

[Virtual_Aardvark]

Its not overly violent, but does remain a theme for the entire episode. I think this depends more on whose watching and what sets them off.

[mochafairy]

thanks for the warning on the latest episode. I think there are 6 our now. I recently started watching it, and there should be a warning on the first episode for abuse.

Spoiler:

Echo is given the personality of a negotiator who was kidnapped and then abused (and it seems fairly obvious that it was sexual) as a child.

[michaelandjimi]

Yeah, don't read The Mayfair Witches trilogy by Anne Rice if you're triggered by rape. Probably shouldn't read the spoiler at all, either.

Spoiler:

Gorram incest and rape everywhere. The bit I'm currently reading has a serial rapist who's victims die not long after every time. And there's a character who raped his sister, had sex with the child that was the product of that rape at least twice, and had sex with one of the children who was the product of that intercourse, producing yet another child. So he is the last child's father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-uncle. Apparently it was part of a breeding program orchestrated by a spirit who, incidentally, raped the most recent in the line of witches.

I'm guessing that most of Anne Rice's other books probably contain rape triggers too, so tread lightly where she is concerned.

[Teapot]

I've just finished reading Rant by Chuck Palahniuk and I'm going to pt a big trigger warning on that one. There is a brief mention of it near the start, but the main trigger is nearer the end.

Spoiler:

Irene (the main character's mother), her mother and her grandmother were all raped when they turned 13 and all became pregnant after they were raped. There is a fairly graphic description of Irene's rape which takes place over a chapter or so (because of the way the book is written it is split into smaller sections, but I found that didn't make it much easier to read).

[eternal luna]

Bringing this thread up again, but a trigger warning for child rape in Towelhead. Eugh.

[mochafairy]

trigger warning for freakangels (episode 58 explicitly) for rape

[Teapot]

Trigger warning for Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk.

Spoiler:

It features the rape of a male character near the start of the book plus a lot about how the main character would like to rape one of the female characters as well as descriptions of how he would do it.

[Gentlelady]

I'm guessing that most of Anne Rice's other books probably contain rape triggers too, so tread lightly where she is concerned.

A lot of her books do contain rape. The vampire books that I've read of hers don't have rape scenes in them but a lot of her other novels do.

[Freiberg]

I want to just point out something I saw yesterday. If any of you have never seen As The World Turns, especially the Teenage Slasher story arc, don't watch it, as it is almost guaranteed to trigger flashbacks. It made my gut turn inside out just watching it, as one of the girl's story of rape was almost word for word with some of your stories. I won't repeat any of it here, obviously, but ughhhh. Don't watch it. I wish I hadn't.

[animeHrmIne]

Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier. Not horrible, but bad enough that I'm mentioning it.

Spoiler:

In the first book, Daughter of the Forest, Sorcha is semi-graphically raped. It's after the curse, the day before her brothers show up one time. I don't remember if there is any rape that occurs in the next two books, but I'm fairly sure it's probably mentioned, just because of the time period. ETA: Just remembered. Attempted rape in Child of the Prophesy.

Gods, I've read these books at least four times each, and I still can't remember the plots. I hate my brain sometimes. Basically, the first one is a definite potential trigger, but I can't remember the other two.

TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY by Jay Asher, for rape and suicide.

Spoiler:

The entire premise of the books is that Hannah records thirteen tapes about thirteen people that led her to commit suicide. The first rape is, I believe, in the second Justin (?) Tape, where a girl is unconscious at a party, and a guy rapes her, while Hannah is in the room, unnoticed. The second is dubious consent, in which Hannah allows a boy o have sex with her because she's depressed and not really present mentally and emotionally. She mentions this is the last tape, unsure whether she should/could press charges, or even if she wants to. It's a very dark book.

Francesca Lia Block is a brilliant author, but I'm pretty sure a few of her books deal with rape. I Was a Teenage Fairy is definitely a trigger, especially for child molestation and pedophilia. I'm pretty sure that Echo has some mentions, and I would hazard a guess to say that Psyche in a Dress and Girl Goddess #9 do, also. I'll re-read them, and post in here again.

[shimmoril]

Trigger warning on Sons of Anarchy (tv show).

Spoiler:

In the first season, Tara is stalked and nearly raped by an ex-boyfriend, who is also an ATF agent, so he's got a lot of power to mess with her. The first episode of the second season contains a pretty graphic gang-rape of Katey Sagal's character, and she remains traumatized in the 2 other episodes that have aired so far. The rape will probably be a plot point in the rest of the season.

[black rook in rainy weather]

Trigger warning on Roman Polanski's 'Repulsion'. Probably quite an obscure film, yes, but would be considered a classic by some, and so may appear on t.v or a friends movie collection or whatever. A psychological horror I guess.

Spoiler:

multiple rape scenes, and the whole movie is basically the psychological breakdown of the main character

[Gears]

From what I could tell Gamer had some in it. In that you control another person, and 4chanesque people made people have sex when.. they probably did not want to. You could see the look on their face. UGH I hate that movie.

[axilog14]

As noted before, trigger warning for The Duchess

Spoiler:

marital rape

Also, a big one for that Joan of Arc movie The Messenger

Spoiler:

protagonist's older sister gets killed and violated in the first 15 minutes

And though I haven't watched it yet, I've heard Irreversible should go without saying. Same goes for Kinatay (translation: "Butchered"), which won Best Director at Cannes this year.

Spoiler:

rape and sexual brutality in general for both of them. The former: a very painful extended rape scene. The latter: a woman literally gets butchered alive.

[Teapot]

I don't know if anybody here ever goes on I-am-bored.com, but major trigger warning for their latest "daddy didn't hug me" picture (124). Triggers for sexual abuse, incest and self harm.

Description of what's beneath the link.

Spoiler:

The pictures in this series are all titled "Daddy didn't hug me". This one is captioned "Or maybe he did too much and that's the problem." The picture itself is of an arm with various cuts, one set reading "Daddy fucked me and I loved it" and one set reading "kill me". There are also various cuts and scars.

I'm not even going to go into the comments.

[maycelestia]

Book: We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier

Spoiler:

Teenaged vandals break into a house, raping or attempting to rape (been a long time since I read it) a young teenaged girl who is at home alone.

Book: Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Spoiler:

Lots of drug abuse and a brief scene of drug-fuelled recreational SI... some of her novels deal directly with SI (such as Impulse) but this scene was the most troubling to me.

Short film: Try

Spoiler:

This can be found on youtube. Depictions of drug use, SI, suicide and miscarriage.

Music video: Try, Try, Try - Smashing Pumpkins

Spoiler:

Uses clips from the aforementioned short film.

Flash game: Red Remover

Spoiler:

One of my friends found this extremely triggering. You have to strategically remove sad-faced blocks in order to cause certain coloured blocks to fall from the screen. As they fall their sad faces turn into joyful smiles. Depressing stuff.

[Baldur]

Constantine, the film. I have not read the graphic novel it is based on, but I anticipate much of the same:

Spoiler:

Self-harm and suicide references, with a suicide shown at the end of the film. Constantine being on top of women (and only women), while exorcising them, made me nervous as it was forced physical contact, in sometimes intimate ways.

[Chai Kovsky]

Okay, so does anyone know what was going on with Avatar? I heard that maybe there ought to be trigger warnings over it. Anyone see to confirm?

[mochafairy]

I saw it.

Spoiler:

There's cripdrag, a fair emphasis at the beginning that disabled person's only goal is to no longer be disabled. There's a large amount of humans screwing over the native people and calling them savages, etc. There's also a fair amount of violence, in terms of war combat.

There might have been other stuff that I missed, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

[Virtual_Aardvark]

I'm going to reiterate the trigger for Heroes so that it extends to suicide, SI and addiction. Probably a lot of other stuff (I'm only in the first season).

[Teapot]

Just watched the BBC's adaptation of the Turn of the Screw (I'm assuming they'll show it again at some point or that there may be people interested in watching it on iplayer). Trigger warning for rape, abuse and also general horror/ghost stuff (triggers me when I'm feeling down, so I thought I'd throw that one in there). Never read the novel but I'm assuming the same goes for that.

Details spoilered.

Spoiler:

A women goes to be a governess in a house. She sees ghosts (who want to take the children) but nobody believes her except for one woman, who describes everything that the male ghost did when he was alive leading to flashbacks of a man hitting women, pushing a woman down some stairs and carrying women away, screaming (I didn't pay much attention to that scene past that point, so there may be more). There's also a scene where this man dunks a woman's head in a lake, with the children acting the same scene out (the brother dunking his sisters head in the lake whilst screaming at her).

That was what stood out to me but there may be more I've forgotten.

[black rook in rainy weather]

Some of the poems in Sharon Old's 'The Gold Cell'.

The first poem has an attempted suicide as the subject matter.

Second has a use of self-harm imagery.

Third is called 'The Abandoned Newborn'...

'The Girl' ; graphic depiction of rape.

Though I don't actually want to put people off her poetry entirely, as it otherwise has so much beauty and love in it, as well as her being an astonishingly, incredibly talented poet.

[gmalivuk]

I think there's a fair amount of stuff in this thread that isn't posted here in an attempt to put anyone off whatever work is being mentioned. Sometimes it's just a matter of saying something like, "This work is actually really good, but be warned that it could be rather triggering for [reason]."

[mochafairy]

As far as video games go, I'd like to put a trigger warning on Dragon Age: Origins (for rape, implied rape, harm to children)

Spoiler:

When you go to get the Dalish Elves on your side, you find out that the Keeper of the clan made a curse for what was done to his children.
Centuries ago, there was a group of humans who kidnapped the Keeper's son and daughter. They tortured the son and killed him. They raped the daughter. She later found out she was pregnant from being raped and killed herself.
There's also implied rape / sexual slavery when you talk to Lanaya about her past.

[Virtual_Aardvark]

HUGE trigger warning for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Three graphic rape scenes, rapists reminiscing about rape, victims remembering rape, torture, violent murders. There's probably more.

[Raeluna]

Massive, gigantic warning for the movie Precious. My god, I had a full on panic attack.

Spoiler:

There's several scenes in the movie showing Precious being raped by her father, or implying it by her mother. She also mentions it several times and it kind of revolves around the central plot point, being that she's pregnant. There's also lots of violence/domestic abuse. My god.

[felltir]

Trigger warning for Freakangels (webcomic) Episode 0107

Spoiler:

Very very graphicly depicted suicide.

[Zarq]

Couple of rape triggers for movies:

Hollow Man

Spoiler:

The main character becomes invisible and sneaks in a woman's appartment and watches her undress. Then he trows her on her bed. In the theatrical version, it stops here and the rape is only implied. In the DC however, it is supposedly rather graphic

Death Wish

Spoiler:

The main character's daughter is sexually abused by burglars in the beginning of the movie

I've heard there's also a similar scene in Death Wish 2, but I haven't seen that one

The Belgian movie Ex-Drummer also has 2 rape scenes. (both graphic and disturbing)

The first volume of Kill Bill has an attempted rape.

The impregnation scene of Rosemary's Baby can be pretty disturbing too.

Wild at Heart has a pretty disturbing scene too.

And then there's the original The Last House on the Left

Spoiler:

in which a couple of thieves force two girls to undress and do sexual acts with each other

[mochafairy]

Trigger warnings for rape/sexual assault for the newest episodes of South Park

"Insheeption"

Spoiler:

Mr. Mackey is a hoarder, and the "cause" of his hoarding is revealed to be that he was molested as a child.

"It's a Jersey Thing"

Spoiler:

Snookie goes around pulling down male's pants and humping them. Catman at one point screams about being raped.

"Poor and Stupid"

Spoiler:

In order to get onto the track, Cartman and Butters tell one of the driver's that his wife has been raped

In general, most South Park episodes deserve a trigger warning for something, but these three are the newest episodes and I thought someone like the heads up on them.

[SecondTalon]

Constantine, the film. I have not read the graphic novel it is based on, but I anticipate much of the same:

Spoiler:

Self-harm and suicide references, with a suicide shown at the end of the film. Constantine being on top of women (and only women), while exorcising them, made me nervous as it was forced physical contact, in sometimes intimate ways.

The comic.... yes, but John Constantine's not the perpetrator, more of an observer or antagonist towards. The whole thing is pretty much about how shitty people are and how even in trying to make things less shitty, shitty things need to be done.

Spoiler:

The bit about the Suicide was kinda sorta taken from the Comic. What John did was more of a gambit in that he sold his soul to the three different Devils that ruled Hell, then did the wrist-bit in order to force them to cure his cancer, as all three of them wanted his soul and his death would result in a civil war in Hell, which none of them wanted.

All in all, Constantine is pretty much a dick to his friends, and very few of them end up better for their association with him. Not that he ends up any better either.

[SummerGlauFan]

S.M. Sterling's "Nantucket" trilogy. I like the story, I really do, an alternate-history involuntary-time travel.

However,

Spoiler:

It has a number of rape scenes in each book. To be fair, it takes place in the Bronze Age, and a number of the scenes occur after battles, which is what would have happened, and others are used to show what an anus the main bad guy is, but for crying out loud, it creeps me the heck out, never mind what it might do to a rape victim. The level of graphic descriptions vary, but some are... very gruesome.

[Baldur]

Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail, for a rape trigger. Actually, it might be an idea to prepare yourself for any of Mr Banks' stuff. It is often dark and triggery, especially his New Culture works.

Also, Stephen Donaldson's Gap series, for another rape trigger.

[lanicita]

HUGE trigger warning for self-injury on the movie Black Swan. Basically the entire movie revolves around it. There is also sexual assault.

[BomanTheBear]

Do not watch A Serbian Film

I would not recommend this movie to anyone. At all. Triggers or none. In fact, if you're prone to triggers at all, I wouldn't even read the wikipedia page about it. No, I'm not going to link to anything involving it. The entire movie revolves around graphic sexual depravity. I can't stress this enough; it's the worst thing I've ever seen, and I'm a /b/tard.

[mochafairy]

I'd like to put another trigger warning for rape / sexual assault on the video game Dragon Age: Origins for when you start the game as a female city elf

Spoiler:

It's your wedding day. It's an arranged marriage.
A human, who happens to be the son of some super important dude (I wasn't paying attention to who he was) comes into your little village and basically wants to take the women for a party he's having.
You shoo him away. He comes back. He kidnaps some women with the implication (well, it's pretty flat out stated) that women are going to be raped.
One of the dialog options where it was along the lines of "We're all going to be raped and killed"

[Torvaun]

I'd like to put another trigger warning for rape / sexual assault on the video game Dragon Age: Origins for when you start the game as a female city elf

Spoiler:

It's your wedding day. It's an arranged marriage.
A human, who happens to be the son of some super important dude (I wasn't paying attention to who he was) comes into your little village and basically wants to take the women for a party he's having.
You shoo him away. He comes back. He kidnaps some women with the implication (well, it's pretty flat out stated) that women are going to be raped.
One of the dialog options where it was along the lines of "We're all going to be raped and killed"

Spoiler:

If you're a male city elf, then your sister is one of them, and it's stated flat out that that's exactly what happened, and some of them were indeed killed after. You can later throw that in King Cailan's face when he's giving you the greeting at Ostagar and asking how you got involved with the Wardens.

[gmalivuk]

Actually, speaking of video games, there's some pretty serious rape triggeriness in Fallout: New Vegas.

Spoiler:

The Fiends, a raider faction, buy entire families for slave labor and also, it's implied, prostitution. You also have a quest to help a soldier get counseling after she was raped and tortured by one of them.

The whole Gomorrah casino is pretty bad as well, including one particularly shitty character who makes snuff films.

[hanecter]

I'm giving the remake of The Hills Have Eyes a rape trigger warning.

Spoiler:

One of the mutants tries to rape a girl. He can't do it, so another one of the mutants finishes the job. I don't feel qualified to judge the 'severity' of rape scenes, as this is the only one I've seen. But it messed me up pretty bad for a half hour, and I'm not a survivor myself, just very close to several friends who are.