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(2015–2018)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman dancing with bra on.
  • There is a scene where a man and women are shown getting intimate in a boxing ring. They are topless (no female frontal nudity), with plenty of kissing and moaning, but nothing too graphic is shown. Does go on for a few minutes.
  • A pawn shop owner offers a character child pornography, stating: "she's barely 12, guaranteed. For 100 bucks she's yours." Very disturbing, but nothing visual or audible, only the reference.
  • Not much sexual content whatsoever. Some references are about as explicit as it gets.
  • Three women are seen being kidnapped with the explicit intention of being sold for human trafficking. Later in the episode a woman removes her shirt and she is seen in her bra.
  • It is mentioned that a young boy is kidnapped with the intention of being sold into human trafficking.
  • Some sexual references such as "looking up girlies' skirts" and "burying stress between a model's thighs".
  • A man and woman are seen in a bed under covers.
  • A character says he had a one night stand with his ex. Sex is not shown.
  • A woman is shown in the shower. We then see her bare shoulders from a view in the shower.
  • Season 2 has some references.
  • Foggy mentions having a one night stand.
  • A man is seen in only his boxers for a scene.
  • Matt undresses in the car. No nudity shown.
  • Two women implied to be prostitutes walk out of a man's bedroom in scantily clad outfits. No nudity or sex at all.

Violence & Gore

  • A prisoner stabbed a guard a few times on the neck in an intense prison scene, blood can be seen.
  • Everything with Daredevil is extremely violent and brutal.
  • Season 2 is the most graphically violent season. Incredibly graphic violence and realistic grisly injuries and wounds are shown on camera throughout the season accompanied with lots of blood and gore.
  • Many brutal fights containing bone crunching, (sometimes we even see the bone) dismemberment, or full on decapitation.
  • This show is incredibly violent, containing very brutal fighting, beatings, stabbing, torture and death. Violent scenes often contain blood trickling, flowing, or flying, with some scenes containing gore. Fight scenes are incredibly realistic.
  • Season 2 contains a character who murders people without remorse or hesitation.

Profanity

  • In the entire series there is one use of "fuck" and even then it's easy to miss
  • Some casual profanity such as "ass", but also some stronger language is used such as "shit", one "fuck" (easy to miss, especially without subtitles), "bitch", "piss", "asshole", "dick", "nuts", and "pussy".
  • The middle finger is shot twice.
  • "Suck my dick", "Whore", and "Jerk-off" are all once used as insults.
  • Strong russian profanities also used by some characters.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Main characters often hang out at a local bar often shown drink and some times implied drunk but nothing bad
  • Season 1
  • Briefly heroin is seen being packaged for shipping.
  • A junkie is seen shooting up.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Season 3 is darker and more emotionally upsetting than seasons 1 and 2, but it is less graphically violent.
  • This show contains a huge amount of extreme violence and a very dark tone.
  • Kingpin is a very violent and intimidating villain. His presence is rather ominous and sinister. He has multiple violent outbursts throughout the series that mostly involve him brutally killing people.
  • Compared to the other MCU entries, this show is relentlessly dark and incredibly bleak.
  • Rated TV-MA for brutal violence including grisly bloody images, disturbing content and behavior, some drug material and brief language.
  • Human trafficking, including kidnapping of children, is a prominent subject matter. Innocents can be hurt and/or killed in these scenes.
  • A main characters family was gunned down while they had a picnic (sad and disturbing)
  • It contains mature themes such as human trafficking and drug trade.
  • One character kills people without remorse.

Spoilers

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

Violence & Gore

  • Season 3 features a mentally deranged assassin named Benjamin Poindexter who has trained himself to kill people with literally any type of object. He has several violent and disturbing outbursts when he's confused and lonely. We see a flashback of him killing his foster father when he was a kid. He is shown brutally killing a lot of people. In many ways this character is a psychopath who has no morals.
  • Several fight scenes of heavy hand-to-hand combat. A woman wakes up next to a bloody dead man with a bloody knife in her hands. Later she is attacked by a man who attempts to strangle her, but she survives. Even later, the same woman is attacked in her apartment by a man with a knife, who throws her around the room, but doesn't attack her with the knife. Daredevil saves her. Some blood is visible.
  • Several fight scenes involving hand-to-hand combat, complete with injuries. Several shots of injury detail in the episode, although the most violent scene involves Daredevil torturing a man with a knife tip being shoved into a nerve above his eye. This is shown in moderately graphic detail. The man is then thrown off a building but lives. There is a flashback where a young boy stitches up his father's injured face, and you see the needle going in and the man flinch. Daredevil's lung begins collapsing, and a nurse stabs him in the chest with a needle to relieve the pressure.
  • Several fight scenes involving heavy hand-to-hand combat, although the opening scene is the most violent in which a mans skull is crushed (only blood is shown and some pretty gross sound effects are heard). Daredevil tortures a man. The end of the episode features a man impaling his own head on a spike.
  • An intense alleyway brawl happens, in which a man is shot. Daredevil breaks a man's wrist during an interrogation of a crooked cop. Several explosions occur caused by a suicide bomber triggering them, leaving some people bloodied. Daredevil beats a man up.
  • An unarmed man is shot pointblank in the head. A man impaled in rubble after an explosion is seen bloodied and also coughing up blood. An injured bloodied man is seen bleeding out and is stabilized, although stabilizing him involved cauterizing his wound (with injury detail). Several people are seen in a hospital with bloody injuries due to the aforementioned explosions. In order to frame Daredevil, Fisk has a sniper shoot several innocent people from a rooftop. A cop stabs another cop in order to frame Daredevil.
  • A man looks at himself in the mirror and literally sees himself as a boy, covered in blood. A man scuffles with and then instructs his son to beat up another boy who was mouthing off. Later this same man strikes and then beats his wife with a belt with his son in the room (although the actual violence is off screen, the focus of the scene is on the boy's face, yet the woman screaming/crying and the sounds of the belt smacking can be heard). While the man is beating his wife, the boy brutally kills his father with a sledgehammer. We later hear he was dismembered and then disposed of in a river.
  • Daredevil is seen fighting several guys in an alleyway. He breaks one man's arm and twists it for information. Later in the episode, Daredevil interrogates a junkie and throws him into a stack of bottles, injury detail on his hands and arms from the broken glass are shown. Daredevil is seen fighting a Nobu, whom is wielding a kusarigama. The blades slash Daredevil several times and one eventually hooks him in his side and Daredevil is dragged. Nobu is defeated by being fully immolated (no injury detail). Wilson Fisk beats Daredevil near death, leaving him severely wounded a bloodied.
  • Daredevil has a brief fight with a man, although the fight is a draw and neither is actually badly injured. Later in the episode, a man is shot in the chest several times and killed (bloody gunshot wounds are shown).
  • A man throws another man down an elevator shaft. There are two shootouts in which several men die. The season ends with a fight between Daredevil and Kingpin.
  • A violent shootout shows many people getting shot and killed; later we see the aftermath as the police look at a man who is wounded. Daredevil interrogates a man by twisting the man's hand (he screams) until he talks. Daredevil goes into a room that has various meat hung up on hooks. Daredevil and the Punisher have a fistfight which ends in the Punisher pulling out a gun and shooting Daredevil. He falls off the building but survives due to his armour.
  • A man gets bashed in the head with a baseball bat (offscreen). A man is shot and falls towards a truck before he dies (more people are shot offscreen). A dead body is taped to a truck. Daredevil and the Punisher fight, the Punisher gets shot in the arm, and they both fall through a skylight (blood is visible)..
  • A bloody towel is seen being washed (blood runs down a table). A man is seen stitching up his wound. There are many people with bloody wounds. A man is shot in the chest He dies. Pictures of crime scenes are shown (very bloody). There is a lot of fighting. One character's x-ray shows he has a bullet in his skull.
  • A man stabs another man with an ice pick. A man stitches up his wounds. A man is stabbed with a syringe. Many people are shot. the Punisher is shot by multiple tasers. A man is seen bloody and trying to escape (Daredevil twists his arm for information). the Punisher is seen being beaten. A man says he will torture a dog (he doesn't). An explosion kills two people.the Punisher stabs a man with a razor and then shoots him. The punisher shootsca man in the face with a shotgun. A lot of blood and chunks of flesh are shown. more people are shot. One man is about to bash another mans head in with a hammer when he is stopped by Daredevil.
  • A man is punched repeatedly in the face(he is bruised and bloody). Elektra tells Matt to kill Roscoe Sweeney, he doesn't.
  • Daredevil almost pushes a man through a window at Elektra's command. lots of hand to hand combat, one character is stabbed.
  • Lots of fighting. Elektra gets sliced by a poisoned sword. A man stabs some ninjas. Matt gets shot by an arrow (it is seen sticking out of him for most of the fight. Elektra slices a ninjas neck.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Main character's depression is addressed throughout the series; world-weariness and suicidal intentions in season 3.

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