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(2013–2020)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A female naked life model decoy is seen, no nudity is shown
  • Cleavage is seen occasionally.
  • Some episodes contain male characters shirtless and sometimes only in their underwear.
  • Season 6: Chloe Bennett wears a costume that shows a lot more cleavage than usual. This is done to show another character's fantasies of her.
  • It is mentioned a few times that two agents have a sexual relationship, but nothing is ever actually shown onscreen.
  • In one episode two characters are shown making out in a bedroom while taking off each others clothes. The scene ends there, but later it is shown they are together in the same room in their underwear. It is implied they had sex, and directly state in a later episode.
  • There are brief comedic references, nothing over-the-top. The word penis has been said once. A female character mentions the attractiveness of a mans built arms. A character jokingly implies she would repay a man who saved her.

Violence & Gore

  • A man crushes another man's skull while he's screaming for help. We can see his face getting crushed.
  • Season 5 contains more graphic violence than the previous seasons. Includes throats sliced, blood splattering, severed limbs, characters crushed to death, etc. One character's heart is ripped out of his chest.
  • Violent content increases as the series progresses: first seasons contain intense sci-fi type action and some deaths. Later seasons have more strong violence and scenes of torture, plus blood and some gore present. S4 to S6 are the most violent from my perception. S7 contains an EP that shows a lot of gore but it's mostly exaggerated.
  • There is a lot of torture. Graphic torture and screaming
  • After season 3, violence gets pretty bloody and graphic.
  • In season 8, there is almost no blood or strong violence up to episode 6. In episode 7 it gets really strong, with people being drilled, sawed, and brutally mauled. This contains very high amounts of blood like what you'd find in an R-rated movie.
  • During an autopsy scene, a man has the top of his head cut, revealing the skull. The surgeon then picks into and removes it, showing the dead man's brain.
  • During season 4, there are hyper-realistic robots that look like humans that attack the agents. Due to this, there is intense action with breaking their heads, power-drilling into their eyes, and dismemberment. There is blood in the robots to add realism to them. This makes for more violent scenes.
  • There is frequent hand-to-hand combat in the series, as well as gunfights and brutal action violence. Injuries are usually bloody, and characters beaten or bruised, but although the action is intense at times the main characters are generally good guys who win in the end. However, villains often die as well as side characters.
  • We see a severed hand on the floor of a train. Slightly graphic.
  • A woman is burnt to a crisp by a man with pyrokinetic powers. We see her body turn completely to ash.
  • A man tears through another man's chest and pulls out a rib, which is seen clearly. Both the rib and his hand are bloody.
  • A young man freezes another man with his cryokinetic powers and his body breaks when it is pushed to the ground.
  • A woman electrocutes another woman's face with a wire.
  • A man with alien markings all over his body uses a knife to make some cuts on another man's body and he screams.
  • A woman is vivisected by a HYDRA leader to obtain her regeneration powers to make himself younger. We see a sequence of disturbing images of her skin being sliced open during the operation and also see her insides, with some organs being removed.
  • Many random henchmen characters are shot down throughout the series.

Profanity

  • Very little language is present throughout the series.
  • Frequent use of very mild profanities such as "damn" and "hell", but some stronger words have been used occasionally such as "son of a bitch" or "bastard".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Occasionally drinking has been depicted.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Even after Coulson's revival arc, the series is still intense and violent.
  • There is some scary content, such as jump scares and paranormal content. This is very infrequent, though.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • In Season 6, Spikes grow out of people which causes Blood to spurt from their stomachs. In one scene, one spike goes through someone's neck. It's a little gory, but not too much.
  • In Season 3, Hive eats 5 people, and we later see the bodies decomposed and their flesh eaten off of them. Hive is covered in a yellow substance from the humans he has eaten. Not as bad as it sounds, but still disturbing.
  • In the beginning of the first episode of season 4, Ghost Rider crushes a man skull offscreen, but you hear a crunch sound, and you see blood splatter all over the guy next to him. Pretty blood and disturbing.
  • In Season 5, some characters are crushed to death by someone with gravitonium powers. It shows their limbs being twisted around and crushed, with blood and gore accompanied.
  • Two instances of someone getting shot in the head with blood spurting out the back of their head. The first one in Season 6 is has more blood than the second one in Season 7.
  • A main character is shown in a disturbing flashback with his brain exposed and being operated on by machines while conscious and yelling, "Let me die!" repeatedly. (in "The Magical Place")
  • May is forced to shoot an "Inhuman" little girl to death after she had killed the mother. (shooting happens offscreen, with only the sound of the gunshot heard) (in "Melinda")

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • S6 has an ep where a couple of women get high after eating a couple of "space cupcakes" that causes them allucinations (made for laughts)

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is a small section of the show that involves what appears to be a ghost that causes people to slowly go insane while seeing those around them having no eyes - slightly disturbing.
  • A character uses a power drill to drill someone's eye out (blood is shown)
  • In S6 E6, there are clones of Fitz and Simmons that are scary. Especially Simmons, she acts like a zombie, and in this episode pulls Fitz's heart out. This can be scary and is a little gory, later the Simmons clone bites Mack's neck multiple times which is not gory but a little scary.
  • The Hive story line might be frightening for some, since he feeds off humans, and the final episodes of season 2 is also very intense.
  • The season where the team is lost in space is extremely intense. There are also some scary creatures in the first few episodes of that season that resemble bugs. Later on, there is an episode where mutants act like gladiators, and can be scary to young viewers.
  • The two-part episode revealing the truth about Agent Coulson is a bit intense. He is kept beaten and bloodied in an abandoned town in the desert and routinely tortured for information. He is shown reliving physically painful memories while shouting "Let me die!" The flashback shows his brain being operated on against his will, while he is awake, although it is brief.
  • The HYDRA takeover storyline is rather intense at times.

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