Venturian Battle

## Release Order

**Turian Battle** (Curiyan Saṭana in Sinhala) is a CGI-animated action drama series by 1001 Spears.

## Synopsis

Mass immigration of people from the third-world region of Rahat has left the first-world of Planet Venture in disarray. As a new millennium begins, terroristic attacks occur throughout the Divisions of Venture, the planet's leading nation. After many suicide bombings and the destruction of Venturian military personnel, a counter-terrorist team is formed and codenamed "Venturian Battle".

### Setting

The series is set shortly after Rhett Druidus and the Divine Treasure and in the same state, Awhyae. Venturian Battle is set in the urban areas and deserts of Ahwyae, as opposed to Rhett Druidus, which was set heavily in the suburbs and woods of the state.

## Characters

* Roger Jacobson: See page
* Robyn Jade: See page
* Clay Morgana
* Persephone Morgana: See page
* Xavier Peridot: A heavily scarred and grizzled Venturian Battler, Peridot believes that the homophobic lines of the Iumistic book were mistranslated and don't reflect what his god wants. Peridot fights those who act on perverted, bastardized versions of the Iumistic religion that he fears will lower the average Venturian's opinion on Iumisim, along with believing that evangelion is meant to carry out nonviolently. While serious and relentless when facing terrorists, Peridot is a peaceful and loving man in his free time.

## Episodes

1. Marie Maladies: Marie Kollard is 10-years-old, a lesbian, and suffers from dissociative identity disorder, the last of which strains her relationship with her girlfriend Lena Alba and particularly her classmates. The day goes horribly for Marie after she is verbally abused and bullied for her disorder, and things only get worse when she stumbles upon an even more violent gang of jerks, who target her for everything she is.
2. Interjection
3. Bacchanal
4. Discrimination Nation
5. Extricate: Tirian Battle raids an IETO-controlled private prison with ties to a corporate firm.
6. Fiesta Phantasm: Marana Fiesta, a multicultural holiday commemorating the dead, is threatened by demonic souls and those they posses.
7. Varsity: Cray University's annual school festival is threatened by a radical student body's attack. The events of this episode resemble many school shootings and are unsuitable for some viewers.
8. Lido Land: Tirian Battle takes the War on IETO to a foreign field; the tropical island of A'ii, where all is calm but the storm surely approaches. After being humiliated in a game of dodgeball, Robyn conks her head against a tree and wakes up in the arms of the beautiful Kugonana, who brings her to a native town with a dark secret.
9. Fact of Life: Bonding with Kugonana, Robyn Jacob must learn to pass their language gap if she's going to take things to the next level in a natural Onsen.
10. Bivouvac
11. Insurrection: The religious holiday of Nazangala is coming up, as is the increasing suspicion that IETO will bomb the Twain Towers on the day of.
12. Cessation: Tirian Battle does their best to save lives after the Twain Towers bombing, but can only do so much before their funding is put into question.

## Censorship

Venturian Battle was not officially released in Russia, Samoa, Singapore, Malaysia, or GGC countries on the grounds that content involving homosexuality would either face a ban or the highest possible rating in these regions. This was done to boycott censorship of LGBTQIA+ characters and activity, with official uncensored subs in Russian, Samoan, Singaporean, Malaysian, and Arabic being available online and on HBO Max in areas where the show was released. Additionally, the series wasn't released in China, as there have been many instances of LGBTQIA+ content being censored in the country and the narrative of the show is occasionally critical of the Chinese Communist Party; an official Chinese sub is also available on HBO Max and online. While the show likely could've released uncut in Poland, 1001 Spears refused localization because of rampant homophobia within the country; a Polish sub is available across all other HBO Max regions.

Themes and concepts were compromised by the pursuit of a 12 rating from the BBFC; themes and scenes of abuse, self-harm, sexual assault, school shootings, and suicide were initially planned but heavily cut if not dropped entirely. Likewise, there was initially a prevalence of neck and limb breaks within action sequences that were largely replaced with chokeholds and restraint of limbs. Some neck snaps are kept but shown in a very cartoonish art-style instead, while others involve the use of fantastical energies to snap necks in the vein of Darth Vader's Force choke, which was allowed in U and PG-rated *Star Wars* films. Censorship of vomiting scenes is expected for the Japanese television release and 1001 Spears initially considered replacing the texture with that of many Pride Flags, akin to the "rainbow vomit" seen in many anime, across all regions. This change was never made with the expectation that vomit could either be pixelated or blacked out if the need for censorship arose.

## Tropes

* Animesque: The intro resembles an extremely high-quality anime. Downplayed with the show itself, which has Pixar-like visuals with anime/manga-inspired aesthetics and animation. This is also played straight by most of the in-universe illustrations, which are often Super Deformed or Moe.
* A.K.A.-47: With next to no exceptions, including the *actual AK-47*, weapons in the show are given fake names. Justified because it's set on a different planet, and a lot of the guns aren't exact copies of real ones.
	+ The names are occasionally based on their actual names...
		- The Desert Eagle is the "Badland Eagle".
		- The Micro Uzi is called a "Micro SMG".
	+ ...or on a different version of a similar gun...
		- The CAR-15 is known as an "M4".
		- The IMI ROMAT is known as a "FAL".
	+ ...or aren't based on anything.
		- The HK416 is the "M8 Battle Rifle".
		- The Ruger Mini-14 and Mini-30 are the "Mocassin Carbine" and "Castellana Carbine" respectively.
* All-CGI Cartoon
* Art Shift: The show was originally going to be done in a traditionally-animated style with no 3D animation or black outlines. At some point, black outlines were added to character designs for conveniences' sake. In 2018 - 2019, the plan was (mostly) 2D-animated characters with 3D backgrounds. In 2020, it was ultimately decided that the show would be completely CGI with Animesque character designs.
* Art Evolution: The first season's art style and animation make the characters look like Claymation figures, down to simulated fingerprints, cracks, and debris caught in the clay. The second season gives the show a more realistic style while keeping the clay-like imperfections from skin textures.
* Artistic License – Physics: See "Toon Physics," although these are rarely canon.
* Bittersweet Ending: The majority of the series' episodes end with these.
	+ The entire first season caps off with one. While thousands have died to IETO and the nation of Venturia is reduced to anarchy as a result of the Twain Towers bombing, IETO is defunded by the Rahatian government and has lost most of its key members.
* Bland-Name Product: Fitting in with the show being set on an alternate planet/reality, similar products with vastly different names feature.
* Bloodless Carnage: Downplayed in that, while there is blood, it's Alien Blood and only appears briefly in action scenes. This is played straighter in Season 2, with there being a smudge of blood at most when IETO members get shot in the head.
	+ Whenever animals are killed, there is a lot of Alien Blood around the bodies but no bullet holes or wounds are visible.
* Censored Child Death: Given that the show is relatively family-friendly, the killing of children is never depicted onscreen and no bodies are seen. The closest the show gets to showing a dead child is an ambiguously dead body in a still-frame.
* Darker and Edgier: Than Rhett Druidus and the Divine Treasure, and even that wasn't exactly sunshine and rainbows. Venturian Battle has both higher stakes and overall darker themes than Rhett, in addition to being Bloodier and Gorier.
	+ The show is this to almost **every** Adult Swim original cartoon, for that matter. There's much less Vulgar Humor than most other shows on the block, and mature thematic content is Played for Drama rather than utilized for Shock Value. In regards to what's actually depicted, though, the show is much Lighter and Softer.
* Disneyesque: The visuals are extremely reminiscent of Pixar, with some minor elements taken from other animated movies like *Into the Spiderverse*.
* Does this Remind You Of Anything: And **how**.
	+ The series' main antagonistic force, IETO, is an extremist religious organization with a corrupted view of their faith, hailing from nations of mostly desert and attacking a first-world city (Al Qaeda). IETO believes they are purifying the world, frequently broadcasts their terrorist attacks, and has a knack for executing those they consider "sinners" by decapitation (ISIS). The show doesn't even try to hide the parallels, especially in the first season's finale where IETO crashes a plane into two buildings ala the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers.
* Downer Beginning: IETO has caused nationwide panic in Venturia and their sole defenders, the Venturian Battle, are branded by the media as anything but.
* Downer Ending: Working towards the light at the end of the tunnel is the show's main theme. Sadly, optimism has little point if the present isn't flawed, and some episodes end more ominous than others.
* Gainaxing: While the show's "physics" are mostly Jiggle Physics done in-engine, Robyn is "manually animated" for effect in a few scenes.
* Jiggle Physics: Since this is an Animesque All CGI Cartoon, they're inevitable, but mostly rendered with the show's physics engine and thus look pretty realistic. Some characters have them scaled up, however, namely Robyn Jade, and there are even scenes where the engine is disregarded in favor of just animating her Gainaxing for exaggerated effect.
* Meganekko: Robyn Jade and Lena Alba. Other girls in the show also have glasses and look rather cute, such as Persephone's mother and formerly Lena's (who needs them again by the second season). Ironically, Megané Kollard, whose name is a Pun of this, actually falls under Sexy Spectacles instead.
* Ms. Fanservice: Robyn Jade. Even her on-duty outfit accentuates her chest and legs.
* Neck Snap: More than a few instances, but dialed back from initial plans in fear of a higher rating; most of the neck snapping is done in an intentional Art Shift akin to the visuals of *Among Us*.
* No Flow in CGI: Many measures are made to avoid animating flowing bodies, which is particularly odd since there are pervasive Jiggle Physics:
	+ Characters almost always have short, tied back, or no hair to make rendering less likely to explode the computers used to make the show.
	+ Almost nobody wears dresses or even loose clothes in favor of having a Form Fitting Wardrobe, especially the Solid Snake (*Metal Gear Solid*) bodysuits that Tirians wear.
	+ Sometimes **inverted** for ease of animation, with plated armor never used (even on transforming Humongous Mecha) as it's harder to animate than tight clothes, especially with Motion Capture. This is also why the initial plan to use an action figure-inspired art style was scrapped; Claymation logically flows much better, which goes well with the use of fluid Motion Capture.
* Painted On-Pants: One of the Tirian outfits is a skintight bodysuit that apparently isn't impractical, a dead ringer for Snake's from *Metal Gear Solid*. Robyn Jade use of it is Justified, though, as flying a helicopter hardly requires her to use her legs.
* Politically Incorrect Villain: All of them.
	+ IETO is a Nazi terrorist group that does everything you'd expect Nazis to do.
	+ Clay is homophobic, transphobic, and racist, transpiring into him threatening his daughter after she comes out of the closet, which gets him imprisoned by Tirian.
	+ The Rahatian governments have legislation to execute gay people and people of other religions, and also greatly abuse women. Does This Remind You Of Anything?

* Propaganda Piece: Most blatantly anti-SWAT and anti-military but also propagates leftism.
* Rei Ayanami Expy: Most of them are unintentional but clearly fit the bill:
	+ Robyn Jacob is a young woman with fair skin, a bob cut in a light (albeit natural) color, a mysterious Dark and Troubled Past, a severe enough condition to need a crutch, a powerful link to her boss and implied trauma from a father figure, and is a Love Interest (of a minor character, but still). However, while Robyn is often an Endearingly Dorky Cloudcuckoolander, she's anything but an Emotionless Girl.
	+ Downplayed with Persephone Morgana, who has light-colored short hair, Icy Blue Eyes, has been through hell and back, is frequently injured, and initially loves her father before learning how horrible he is. However, the similarities are mostly skin-deep, as Persephone is a very emotional girl and immediately resents Clay after she learns of his bigotry.
	+ Parodied with Eva, from her Meaningful Name to every aspect of her personality and appearance (that we get to know of, anyways).
* Sexy Spectacles: Megané Kollard. Robyn Jade is at least as pretty and has an extreme case of the Buxom Beauty Standard but her character is more Moe and thus falls under Meganekko instead.
* Shout-Out:
	+ Barnett Felix says "welcome to the icecaps" as IETO's train approaches northern Awyhae, where snow is present (*Monsters Inc*). The reference is very subtle until Barnett jokes about Yellow Snow and shaved ice soon afterward.
	+ Many minor Venturian Battlers are Lawyer Friendly Cameos of other characters.
		- One of the minor Venturian Battlers is aliased as "Twilight" and has the same color scheme as Twilight Sparkle from *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*, down to a cutie mark decal on her pants.
		- Eva is a direct reference to Rei Ayanami from *Neon Genesis Evangelion*, down to having thick wrists on her gloves and wearing an outfit generally resembling a Plugsuit.
		- There's also Cora, who has a peculiar haircut (*Legend of Korra*).
	+ Gregory Griffin has a Cheeseburger Backpack from the Bland-Name Product version of *Steven Universe*, Alexander Dimension.
	+ Robyn's helicopter is kept in Hangar 18 of the Venturian Battle compound (*Megadeth*).
	+ The private bar that Roger owns is known as The Raven, which is the same name as Marion Ravenwood's tavern in *Raiders of the Lost Ark*.
	+ Bivouac has so many references to *Mad Max: Fury Road* that it's surprising that the episode is a genuine Tear Jerker.
		- The one-time characters as a whole are just Lawyer Friendly Cameos. Nick looks and acts exactly like Nux, while Iman Yusuf is Immortan Joe, even having a (slightly) similar name.
		- Iman Yusuf's death and his killer's Pre-Mortem One-Liner is the same in both *Mad Max* and Venturian Battle. Even his killer's name (Fleurus) is vaguely similar to Imperator Furiosa.
		- Nick also exclaims "Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!" at one point.
	+ It's easier to list the westerns that Butch hasn't referenced.
* Take That: The series is NOT easy on "Dizzy World".
* Traumatic Haircut: IETO cuts the hair of people they take captive, with Persephone, a girly girl with once long blonde hair (Long Hair is Feminine) is absolutely crushed after hers is cut. Chadd and Ian try to comfort Persephone at first by claiming that she looks great with shorter hair but she sees through this and they ultimately admit that she should grow it back.
* The Woobie: Almost every character, to some degree.
	+ Roger Jacobson witnessed his whole family getting murdered in a terrorist attack before learning that **they were corrupt enough to deserve it** (Asshole Victim), which is what ultimately motivated him to form Tirian Battle.
	+ It'd be sufficient to say that Robyn Jade has rarely had a joyful moment in her life. Robyn was born to greatly impoverished parents and faced child abuse, implicitly sexually, performed an abortion by **falling down a flight of stairs** after having an unwanted pregnancy, and becoming completely homeless after leaving her abusers, resorting to prostitution for money. Roger thankfully found Robyn and provides financial aid for her, but that's not to say her life is sunshine and rainbows. Robyn has to cope with anxiety, depression, homophobic and autism-specific abuse, body shaming, and overall being hated by most for little to no reason. Things get better from there, albeit slowly.
* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids? Subverted. The series is intentionally PG-13, with mostly Bloodless Carnage and Claymation-inspired animation with Animesque visuals, and it's probably **the** mildest TV-14/12 series on Adult Swim. The only country where it's rated higher than PG-13 level is in Germany (where it's 16), but that's only because violence is judged more harshly there. Although the series isn't for *very* young audiences (hence the swearing, sensuality, and adult themes), kids as young as 7 are widely allowed to watch it, especially the very mild first two episodes. That being said, whether or not it's a kids cartoon is questionable, but most fans agree that the violence is very mild compared to most original programming on the Adult Swim block.

## Parents Guide

### **Sex & Nudity**

Mild

* A condom machine is briefly depicted in one scene; glow-in-the-dark and "studded" options are advertised.
* Some of the women wear revealing clothes with exposed midriffs and cleavage. A few women are seen in "absolute cleavage" dresses (they have a hole that reveals all of their cleavage but nothing more) and bikini/thong-like bottoms; most characters are almost always seen in skintight pants and shirts, as well.
* A handful of women in the show are super curvy, especially Robyn and Suu Auy Tin, while this is ultimately Male Gaze it's worth noting that the show depicts Robyn Jade as having many issues that are a direct result of her enormous breasts and thus, she is portrayed realistically in that regard.
* While most of the characters in revealing clothes are women, men are seen shirtless and wearing thongs, with a nondescript bulge in the latter's case.
* Without initial context, Robyn's breasts are fondled by a man who is feeling her for weapons, and he goes to her crotch soon after; the same thing is done to Roger, and he asks if the guy is enjoying himself in both cases.

### **Violence & Gore**

Moderate

* Many characters are shot to death, but there is usually no injury detail or gore. Large blood sprays are sometimes depicted, including slow-motion scenes and characters bleeding for a long period, although the blood is white rather than red.
* Hand-to-hand combat involves characters beating each other with fists and objects. Characters get their necks and limbs snapped, but this is done quickly and shown for a brief amount of time. A snapping sound tends to accompany bone fractures, and slow-motion effects are used to emphasize the carnage.
* Suicide bombings occur in some episodes, although no gore is depicted.
* One scene shows a freshly zombified character getting shot in the head from behind with blood briefly coming out (most of it is offscreen); the corpse is later shown with a small amount of blood on the forehead, although the wound can't be discerned.
* One "freeze-frame bonus" involves an IETO thug getting shot through the head (no injury is depicted), with a mist of white blood coming out and a tiny amount of it staining a window.
* Corpses are depicted in a few scenes and sometimes have visible bullet holes in their heads or torsos. Bodies and injured characters are seen with blood staining their clothes and/or skin.
* A character who fights in self-defense gets shot through the leg/gut; we see a bullet hole and blood staining his clothes. The man is later shot point-blank, although the camera cuts away before the actual shooting occurs. The man's corpse is shown a few times, but his forehead is blocked so that the gunshot wound can't be discerned.
* Innocent and defenseless characters are killed throughout the show, but almost never onscreen; there is a notable instance of survivors getting bloodily gunned down after a bombing, however.
* Violence begins relatively mild with dart guns but soon elevates to explosives and automatic weaponry.
* An IETO member is seen with some blood staining his shirt and hand after getting shot through the heart and he proceeds to attempt a murder-suicide by breaking a glass dome in hopes of drowning him and a Venturian Battler, the latter survive but the other drowns offscreen.
* A young adult tries to block a machete from hitting him and ultimately gets shoved offscreen with a brief spray of white blood, implying his decapitation.
* There are two suicides by gunshot, one of them is only heard and the other is the most brutal scene in the show, it's completely onscreen with brief blood.
* It is made clear that Robyn and her sister faced abuse at the hands of their biological father; he is depicted hitting and yelling at them with visible injuries.
* Two young girls die at different points; one is hanged in her room (all we see is her shadow) and the other is hit by a car off-screen, her corpse is seen with no blood.
* There are many children who get murdered by traps and child soldiers in stylized, profile-view black-and-white scenes, most of them in very violent and bloody ways (although the blood is white as always), including getting shot by crossbows and machine guns, decapitated by bear traps, impaled by tree branches, crushed by huge boulders, electrocuted, shredded by sawblades, and getting stabbed by huge bugs.

### **Profanity**

Mild/Moderate

* Frequent mild language. Many uses of "ass", "sh\*t", "damn", "bitch", "bastard", "hell", "p\*ssy", "d\*ck" (not in a sexual context), "prick", and "douche". Profanity is used in every episode of the show.
* The terms "d\*ke" and "f\*ggot" are used twice each uncensored.
* Some phrases in fictional languages sound like profanities, with one sounding rather close to "suck a d\*ck," which many viewers mishear as that as a result.
* There's an episode about the slur "d\*ke" and whether it has been fully reclaimed or not (Robyn is offended when called the slur and refuses to reclaim it). The slur is always censored when used but it is also used by non-lesbian characters in the episode, which leads to debate of who can and can't use the term.

### **Drinking/Drugs/Smoking**

Mild

* Alcoholic beverages are consumed, and tobacco is chewed and smoked.
* Blue crystals, packets of green leaves, and white powder are seen in a drug lab (none of these are consumed nor used).

### **Frightening/Intense Scenes**

Moderate

* The constant themes of terrorism, death, and bigotry might be disturbing to certain viewers.
* Stakes start off pretty low with just one terrorist, but they escalate pretty quickly. Many likable characters are killed off, and there are almost no members left in the Venturian Battle by the time the show ends.
* Many episodes involve perilous situations, such as Roger Jacobson getting chased by attack helicopters equipped with machine guns and missiles.
* The most disturbing images in the show are just corpses with small gunshot wounds in them and gory Halloween masks worn by the "Nightmare Corps". The context of the aforementioned corpses and the symbolism of the Nightmare Corps (i.e., child abuse/rape) is more disturbing, however.
* Several of the terrorist attacks that occur in the show may cause paranoia, such as a hijacked airplane flying through and destroying a whole airport terminal and the blatant 9/11 parallel.
* The scenes where Robyn and her sister get abused by their father are very disturbing, although most of it is implied; the most notable instances of this are Robyn getting punched, having swears shouted at her, and getting dragged into a room and raped off-screen (when we see her again, she has tattered clothes and bruises).
* Many jump-scares, usually accompanying car and plane crashes.
* The fact that many of the characters who die are defenseless children makes the show suspenseful and scary, the scenes of child murder being grim and sad albeit with very dark comedy in almost every instance.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, mature thematic content, language, and some disturbing images (Part 1), PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, mature thematic content, language, sensuality, some disturbing images, drug content, and smoking (Part 2).

## BBFC Rating

Rated 12 for violence, horror, discrimination, domestic abuse, sexual violence and self-harm references, suicide, language, sex, injury detail

### Violence (3/5)

Moderate action violence includes shootings, stabbings and hand-to-hand combat with crunchy punches, kicks, headbutts, neck and breaks, chokeholds, and blows with heavy weapons. There is brief sight of fantastical white blood squirts when characters are shot and cyborgs emit a red blood-like fluid when injured. Children are decapitated, dismembered, shot, and impaled in abstract black-and-white sequences with very minimal detail. A possessed character shoots himself in the head with minimal white-colored bloodshed. A teenage girl tries to self-induce abortion by striking her belly. A young woman's life is depicted as being controlled by her father, who turns to physical abuse in moments of anger or jealousy. The abuse is shown only briefly and without strong detail. There are other references to abusive relationships, including to physical abuse.

### Threat and horror (3/5)

Mythic demons and other monsters chase after characters. There are frequent intense action sequences, including fights and vehicles chases. Restrained people are threatened with torture. There is knife and gun threat, as well as sensitive portrayals of terrorism.

### Discrimination (3/5)

A hate group espouses discriminatory views including homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, and religious discrimination, although the religions depicted within the series aren't real. There with references to this group committing hate crimes on these minorities. The hate group is also depicted exposing members to absurd hateful propaganda including characterizations of these groups as monsters who eat women and children. Members repeatedly reinforce these prejudices and use discriminatory language such as 'n\*\*\*a,' 'k\*ke,' 'fairy,' 'tr\*nny,' 'f\*ggot,' ‘d\*ke,' 'r\*tard,' 'sissy,' 'pansy,' 'blacks,' and 'Nacho Taco.' There is a discriminatory bullying sequence with moderate threat and emotional upset. A young boy is teased in the school showers for being circumcised, but retorts before another student comes to his defense. A boy with a Jewish name calls out a teacher for calling him by a typically Catholic name, and the race of a black student is mocked by a classmate. There are other, occasional brief scenes of homophobic, transphobic, and sexist behavior. The series carries a clear anti-discrimination message and discriminatory behavior is strongly condemned and challenged.

### Sexual violence and sexual threat (3/5)

There are moderate references to a young woman having been raped by many men in the past. She also describes being sexually assaulted and crudely commented on by two men at an event. Other scenes feature testimony during and moderate references to a sexual assault hearing. We also see clips from a fictional film in which a woman is taunted and assaulted by a large group of men. There are other passing, undetailed verbal references to the rape of women. Sexual violence is negatively presented and strongly condemned.

### Language (3/5)

The show includes use of moderate language ('bitch', 'pussy,' 'whore,' slut,' 'prick,') and frequent used of milder terms such as 'pissed', 'arse', 'dick,' 'shit', 'asshole', 'crap', bastard', 'screw', ‘bloody' and 'son of a bitch'.

### Suicide (3/5)

There is brief audio of someone committing suicide by gunshot. There are brief scenes of a woman attempting suicide and provoking a gang into beating her, but she soon has a change of heart. A young girl with DID briefly hallucinates voices telling her to take her life. The series affirms positive messages of seeking help.

### Self-harm (3/5)

A woman copes with a heavily implied history of self-harm including sight of scars on her arms, wrists, legs, and throat. This subject is treated with subtlety and sensitivity.

### Sex (3/5)

There are infrequent scenes of implied sexual activity with thrusting under bedsheets and out of view.

### Drugs (3/5)

There are comic scenes of characters smoking marijuana from bongs. In one scene, a young girl exceeds her prescribed medication dosage and subsequently experiences a negative reaction. She becomes increasingly agitated, falls down stairs, and is injured. She is rapidly treated and recovers. Drug misuse is not condoned by the work as a whole.

### Injury detail (3/5)

There is sight of fantastical, white-colored bloodshed from characters after getting shot, stabbed, and beaten. There is sight of dead bodies with white blood splatters and injury detail. Cyborgs and human-like robots are shot and stabbed with red fluid briefly coming out. A man is shown missing an eye.

### Disturbing images

There are infrequent depictions of children hanging in an abstract silhouetted art style.

### Theme (3/5)

There are references to concentration camps and a religious, racial, and homophobic genocide based on the Holocaust within the show's universe. A young girl finds images of concentration camp prisoners which shocks her. A man is challenged and strongly condemned when he tries to play down the events of this genocide. There are references to minorities being killed by a fascist regime, and a woman's family hiding in an attic for years. A young girl is medically diagnosed with DID. The series has several scenes in which she experiences auditory hallucinations, some of which are prolonged and distressing. There are also scenes in which she is verbally bullied and another where a young girl is bullied by another girl after getting her period, and in which the bully waves a tampon in front of the upset girl. The series also has references to abortion, as well as scenes of emotional upset, including of death and bereavement. There are verbal references to executions by hanging, stoning, shooting, and being thrown from heights. Characters are ridiculed for being "fat" and mentally ill, but are reassured and supported by others, who encourage them to think positively about themselves. The series' overall treatment of these themes is sensitive and show how positive outcomes can be achieved from adversity.

### Alcohol and tobacco (2/5)

Adults drink and smoke cigarettes, and a child briefly drinks and smokes on separate occasions before spitting both out. There is a reference to a woman 'drinking herself to death'.

## Does the Dog Die?

* Does the Dog Die? See below.
* Is There a Dead Animal? A dead cat and dogs are seen.
* Does a Cat Die? See above.
* Is Someone Crushed to Death? Children are crushed to death in silhouette.
* Is Someone Burned Alive? Ghosts are depicted perpetually burning and silhouetted children are burned alive.
* Is There a Hanging? A few kids are depicted hanged in silhouette.
* Does Someone Struggle to Breathe? A kid drowns in silhouette, he isn't depicted struggling for long.
* Does Someone Fall to Their Death? Many characters fall to their death, including children falling in spiked pits (like most other child deaths, this is done in a black and white style).
* Is an Infant Abducted? A key plot point is IETO kidnapping many children and a baby before imprisoning and eventually murdering them offscreen.
* Does a Kid Die? While almost every kid death is depicted in a monochrome shadow puppet art-style, there are many scenes of them being murdered, all of which are very gory. Brief sight of a dead toddler in a still-image.
* Is the R-Slur Used? A few times but always discouraged.
* Is There Audio Gore? Whenever the children die in horrifying and very gruesome ways there is often nauseating and grotesque audio.
* Is a Child's Toy Destroyed? Robyn's cat plushie is shot through the head but repaired.
* Does Someone Die by Suicide? Onscreen suicide by headshot with discolored blood spray. Akbar tries to commit a murder suicide with a grenade but only ends up killing herself. Bloodless suicide bombings and silhouettes of hanging children in a few scenes.
* Is There Autism-Specific Abuse? Subaru Honda, an autistic-coded character, is mocked for his autistic-coded qualities and political stance. Persephone has hearing sensitivities that are triggered at many points, but she isn't autistic or otherwise autistic-coded. There's use of "autistic" as an insult and the R-slur by unsympathetic characters.
* Is There Sexual Content? There are many sexual jokes and references as well as a scene where a character straddles his love interest but little more than that.
* Does an LGBT Person Die? Many LGBT+ Venturian Battlers die. A lesbian girl is very close to getting murdered twice and the threat of being gay bashed is constant (but never happens onscreen).
* Is a Trans Person Depicted as Predatory: No, but the villains spread absurd propaganda that trans people are predatory to children and women by secretly eating them, it's called out but still involves characters portraying trans people as predatory.
* Is There Hate Speech? Throughout, but it's heavily discouraged and often satirical. Directed at LGBTQIA+ people, BIPOC, fictional religions coded as real ones (such as "Archians"), the disabled, and more.
* Is There Antisemitism? Archians are the equivalent of Jews in this universe and IETO (a Nazi group) is said to commit hate crimes against them, there's also frequent hate speech towards them including blood libel and the nose stereotype. Most of it is satirical and difficult to take seriously, like the lie that Archians lay eggs and are secretly reptilians, it's in line with the rhetoric of Nazis but is done in such a way as to mock them. It should be noted that the work is anti-bigotry and most of the characters who express antisemitic sentiment are killed or otherwise punished.
* Are There Homophobic Slurs? Two uses of the d-slur and f-slur. There's an episode about the d-slur but it's never said uncensored (however, it is used by characters who aren't lesbian a few times).
* Is There Gun Violence? Throughout.
* Is There Blood/Gore? If you count the white liquid that comes out of characters when they get killed than yes. Like the rest of the violence, the worst instances of blood and gore fall upon shadows of children.
* Does Someone Drown? A kid who can't swim drowns in silhouette.
* Is Someone Hit by a Car? Yes, but it's purposefully exaggerated and not gory.

## Parallels

### Avatar

Both are visual-heavy works about an army of predominantly marginalized people fighting back against a bigoted private military that has committed direct attacks against them. The most obvious parallels are in the Alkaline I arc, where IETO and the Tative colonize the land of peaceful blue-skinned natives with greater strength than a human, mirroring the Na'vi conflict with RDA. Even the Tative forces are comparable to the film's Avatars (more specifically the RDA ones in Avatar: The Way of Water), being humans who have used a science to become nigh-identical to the native faction and cheat death, with Avatars being able to survive after their hosts' death and both the Tative and the indigenous being able to live for 200 years. Robyn's relationship with Kugosana is based on Jake Sully's relationship with Neytiri, one coming from a newly-arrived military faction (Robyn and Jake) and the other being the main lead on the natives' side. Accusations of White Savior Syndrome in the writing of Avatar were a prime motivation to include the Tative (racists with lighter skin than the native people) and to have Tirian Battle's foreign aid be unsuccessful, with Robyn being very inefficient in combat as opposed to Kugosana. The native group is armed with guns in their last stand against IETO and the Tative; while a common criticism of Avatar is that the Na'vi are technologically outmatched by RDA and thus shouldn't win, Avatars like Jake's and Norm's use guns in the final battle. Other inspiration from Avatar includes the vehicle designs, with IETO's mechs used in the conflict being based on the AMP Suits and Crab Suits and helicopters inspired by the RDA Samson being used throughout the film. Kugosana bonding with a large feline species and a towering, glowing tree held sacred by the native people that the villain faction destroys to get resources from it are also borrowed concepts. Given its aesthetic inspiration from late 2000s to early 2010s Hollywood, there is an HBO Max exclusive 3D release of the series, inspired by the influx in 3D film releases around the time of Avatar's release and the introduction of 3D televisions.

### Legends of Chima

Both are CGI-animated series airing on Cartoon Network about two different alliances going to war over blue, steroid-like orbs in a jungle that make their consumer stronger and physically transform them in some cases. One culture in this conflict wears gorilla suits and at least one uses mechs, some animal-themed; there is also a large, sacred cat that relates to the blue resources in some form.

### Bayformers

Both have many action scenes involving cars and explosions, with the aesthetic, such as the yellowish color filter, use of sunsets, and slow-motion destruction, being the biggest inspiration. Slapstick and off-color humor, a heavy emphasis on attractive visuals, "male gaze" fanservice, and Linkin Park-inspired music are also present, although Trigger choose to outwardly avoid Americentric and pro-military imagery despite the series' focus on an American-coded military.