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Sex & Nudity

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• There's a female character who can grow giant and wears a skintight outfit, the lower part of which is flesh-colored. She draws attention to her butt in front of the paparazzi and, in the English dub, says (referring to the criminal she just defeated), "You won't have to worry about this bum anymore." She appears as an occasional side character throughout the show.
• One brief shot shows some of the female students bathing in a hot spring. Nothing is shown. (Non sexual)
• Some male characters are also shirtless in a few scenes.
• A character's power is to make things from her body. At one point she's turned around making something with her outfit opened implying that her breasts are exposed. We don't see anything but another character is clearly uncomfortable with it.
• One character's power is to turn invisible. However, to be completely invisible, she must take off all of her clothes. Other (mostly male) characters are shown to be uncomfortable while she is doing this, though this is mostly for comedic effect. In one episode, a male teacher bumps the girl's invisible chest with his arm completely by accident; we hear a bouncy sound effect, and the girl starts yelling at the teacher, and he starts apologizing like crazy
• The second half of season three has a teen female character who wears a tight catsuit. During an exam on hero work that involves fighting, she pins down a teen boy she's competing against -- he's on his stomach and she's half-lying on his back -- and whispers in his ear in a tone of voice that sounds rather seductive, even though what she's saying is not. The camera focuses on her butt and body for a bit. This scene goes on for maybe a minute or so.
• A teen girl with the power to shapeshift shifts back into a nude form with grayish slime clinging to her body in necessary places, all in front of a teen boy. In the original TV version, the nudity is visually censored to an extent by coloring most of her body a chalky white, suggesting that she's covered in her transformation slime, but in the Blu-Ray/Toonami release, this chalky color is not present, thus making the nudity far more obvious. One guy misunderstands the situation and quizzes the teen boy on "how far" he went with the nude girl. (Season 3 Episode 16)
• In the end of the third season and the fourth season, there is a character whose clothes fall off most of the times he uses his quirk. You can never see anything too explicit however his bare butt, and torso are clearly visible.
• Hatsume falls on to Deku, and her breasts are big on his chest. He looks at them and yells.
• Season 4 contains nudity scenes in fights
• As a girl holds a toddler boy, his face is in her breasts, and he is flustered by it. A young girl is jealous of the attention the girl gets from the boy, and pinches the older girl's butt.
• One of the male students is a complete pervert who makes lots of suggestive comments about female classmates and teachers. He tries to spy on girls in a hot spring and in a changing room (he fails), and generally makes a nuisance of himself.
• A young woman in season 4 wears a costume that reveals the entire bottom half of her breasts.
• There is a scene where two boys imagine what the girls in their class would look like in swimsuits. Their dream scene is shown, and all the girls are wearing overly revealing bikinis or tight one-peices.
• A reoccurring teenage female character wears a costume heavily revealing her breasts, however private parts are covered.
• A boy makes a comment about a girl's breasts being big.
• A boy wets his pants when a girls says that she likes him as a person.
• There is a close up on a characters breasts and butt (clothed)
• There is no explicit sexual relationship between any of the characters HOWEVER there are quite a few sexual situations, such as one part in the series one female character has a male character in between her breasts and say suggestively/seductively "I need to teach you how to treat a women"
• At points there are some visual suggestions that we see the out line of some of the female characters nipples
• Some characters are perverts like at one point in the series a boy sees there is a hole in the wall to a girls dressing station by a pool and he say " I'm going to go look in there " (added content to the violence section) in retaliation another character stabs the boy in the eye and tells him not to do it
• One of the female characters is wearing a low cut dress that shows quite a bit of cleavage (she is actually on the picture on this page, if you got to the right and go all the way down you will see her)
• In season 4, a 16 year old is fully nude. Breasts and but are shown but no nipples
• In season 2, the referee of an event wears a costume that emphasises the breasts.
• In season 1, a teenage girls skintight suit is torn apart (by her own quirk) and parts of her breasts are shown. Everyone seems very uncomfortable. Not a lot of her is seen as the camera cuts off the nude bit or is covered by smoke.
• Non-Consent, 15 year old girl is groped by a fellow "Hero"
• Mineta frequently makes perverted or suggestive remarks towards females. Often, the offended female character responds to this by physically or verbally attacking him.
• Near the end of season 2, there's an image of Midnight in her early heroine days in which she wears an outfit that completely exposes both of her breasts. No nipples shown.
• Some of the female heroes are shown in a bath and one of them is sitting naked on a rock with her back facing the viewers. You get to see a bit of bum crack and the side of one of her breasts.
• At one point, All Might is shown naked in his weakened form, but no genitals or buttocks is visible.
• A guy's bare butt is shown however this is only for around 10-20 seconds it is non sexual
• One female student has a costume that exposes the sides of her breasts.
• A female character is accidentally groped, this is very brief and not graphic and she responds by pushing the groper into the water.
• The top of a teen female character's superhero outfit is ripped in one scene towards the end of the first season, revealing practically all of her breasts for a few seconds (a thin wire in front of the 'camera' is the only thing preventing us from seeing complete toplessness).

Violence & Gore

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• A boy gets his eye jabbed into by a headphone jack (played for laughs)
• There are characters which have the top of their head exposed (Brain) throughout the series, although there is no blood.
• The main villain has the power to completely disintegrate whatever he touches. He has been seen using this power to disintegrate living humans, which can be quite terrifying.
• Not a very violent show, however as the seasons continue it gets more intense and exciting. Also, the most bloodiest part is Season 4.
• Some violence (some in a cartoon way, but some is pretty intense)
• Throughout the series a character is shown to scratch their neck a lot when they seem to be stressed, and in some scenes you can see red scars. These scenes slowly become less frequent the farther you go into the series
• One of the villains, Toga, is a psychopathic serial killer with a severe blood fetish. Her modus operandi involves brutally murdering in several extremely graphic and gruesome ways and then drain them of their blood using a blood pumping machine, so that she can assume their identity. As such, any scene involving her can be scary and violent.
• A yakuza is brutally tortured by Shigaraki and then has both his hands cut off by the latter with the help of Mr. Compress while strapped to a gurney and completely immobile. Shigaraki then taunts the yakuza before leaving with Mr. Compress and Dabi as the yakuza screams in horrible agony. Very disturbing.
• The Shie Hassaikai and Pro Hero arcs are the most violent, as they contain some rather graphic moments.
• Can be graphic at times (mostly because of stains quirk in the first season) other then that, nothing a 10 yo can't handle
• All Might sometimes coughs up blood when he uses his power too much. His real appearance is very frail and bony.
• Two different teen boys are choked to near death by the same monster, both are saved at the last second.
• Two teen boys get into a fight, with one being beaten, though not too badly.
• The majority of the violence in the first season is mild/mostly bloodless, until the last two episodes.
• A teen girl gets nauseous if she uses her power too much (not extreme).
• Whenever the main character uses his power, he breaks whatever body part he uses, he's shown in varying degrees of pain and the body part looks like it was burnt.
• A teen boy apparently gets severe (but only temporary) brain damage when he uses his power too much. This is only meant for comedic purposes.
• A man threatens to kill a helpless teen boy unless two teen girls allow themselves to be killed. However, he ends up getting shot in both shoulders before he can do anything, and all three survive. Some blood is seen.
• A man is shot in the hand, then both arms and both legs. Some blood is seen, though it's very brief and isn't too graphic. It should be noted that this man was a teenager. This may be disturbing.

Profanity

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• The soundtrack in the second season includes a song in English with the line, "We are f*cking superstars." This part of the song is heard clearly in one episode. It also appears in a few other episodes, including in season three, but less clearly.
• A use of "screw you". Contains mild profanity. Many uses of "crap", "bastard", "hell", "damn". In some episodes, Bakugo calls Todoroki "Icy-Hot bastard".
• Cuss words are used occasionally, however it is not severe, moderate would be a good assumption.
• Bakugou has some rude nicknames for his classmates. (Round Face, Shitty Hair, Damn Nerd, Half 'n' Half Bastard, Dunce Face)
• In episode 1 sub it says the a word by Mount Lady from 5:58 - 6:02 and the s word All Might from 20: 42 - 20: 45. IN episode 8 All Might says the s word from 12: 23 - 12: 27. In Episode 13 All Might says Jeez, holy s*** from 7:38 - 7:42.
• English dub: Occasional use of 'damn', 'hell', 'bastard', 'ass', and 'crap'. 'Shit' is used three times over the course of the series. Same in the subbed.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

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• A man seen smoking.
• In Season 4, there is frequent references to fictional drugs.
• Twice is often seen smoking.
• At one point, two men walk by a few characters, clearly drunk.
• A villain's Quirk is becoming stronger when he gets very drunk.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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• Some episodes focus on the origin of a character. These flashbacks can be seen as intense, emotional or disturbing.
• A mean jock character tells the protagonist to kill himself. He does not, but he does (understandably) take this emotionally.
• In season 4 a girl is held captive and might even be abused, also there are a LOT of emotionally intense scenes.
• Season 3 and Season 4 are very intense and bloody
• Season 4 has jumpscares, lots of wounds, a death, and it is the most bloodiest part of the show.
• A villain who is a giant raven quite brutally injures a U.A teacher, he then surv
• Some of the villains are extremely scary.
• One character is constantly bullied by another character for little reason, he is seen in emotional as well as physical pain from this sometimes.
• The last four episodes of the first season are pretty intense as all the main characters are kidnapped by villains with intent to kill, but they all survive and the intensity is lightened somewhat by it's inspirational tone.
• A man threatens to kill a teen boy unless two teen girls allow themselves to be killed. However, they all get saved when another man shoots him in the shoulders before he can do anything.
• The first few episodes are pretty emotional.
• Unlike other hero shows like One Punch Man, this one emphasises teamwork, bravery, friendship, and persistence above all else, therefore the violence (though it's already pretty scarce) and intensity are toned down quite a bit, but it can get intense.

Spoilers

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