Content & Trigger Warnings for 12 Monkeys (2015)

Children are among the plague victims and time-travel consequences affect young characters

Parental loss and orphaned characters in the post-apocalyptic setting

Characters mourn the billions lost to the plague and personal losses drive motivation

Major character deaths compound the emotional weight on surviving characters

Devastating losses accumulate as the timeline fractures and characters face permanent death

Profound loss and grief as characters face the potential end of everything they love

Characters face hopelessness and contemplate sacrifice in the face of extinction

The central plague kills billions and infected individuals are shown suffering

Characters manipulated through time travel deception and memory alteration

Extensive manipulation through altered timelines causes characters to question reality

Final revelations expose the full extent of manipulation across the entire timeline

The plague is revealed as an intentional act of mass extermination on a global scale

The deliberate release of a plague to kill most of humanity is the central antagonist's plan

Characters are captured and held against their will across timelines

Abductions and forced captivity intensify as faction warfare escalates

Forced captivity and abduction remain central plot elements

Environmental catastrophes resulting from temporal anomalies

Military engagements and combat scenarios in the post-apocalyptic future

Larger-scale conflicts emerge between factions fighting over the timeline

Full-scale war across timelines with military-grade combat sequences

Apocalyptic-scale warfare across collapsing timelines

Frequent blood in combat scenes and plague-related deaths

Increased blood in more intense combat and experimentation sequences

Pervasive blood throughout increasingly violent confrontations

Heavy blood throughout the season's climactic violent sequences

Plague victims shown in various stages of horrific deterioration

Time travel paradoxes cause disturbing physical effects and mutations

Temporal paradoxes cause severe physical transformations and disturbing bodily effects

Extreme temporal distortions cause the most disturbing physical transformations of the series

Underground bunkers and confined post-apocalyptic living conditions

Medical experimentation and injection scenes related to the time travel process

More invasive medical procedures and experimentation on human subjects

Continued medical experimentation and injection-based time travel procedures

Medical procedures and injection scenes continue through the finale

Drug use and pharmaceutical experimentation in the storyline

Graphic violence including bloody aftermath of plague victims and combat injuries

Violence escalates with more graphic depictions of combat wounds and plague effects

Graphic violence intensifies as apocalyptic stakes rise toward the endgame

Peak graphic violence as the final battle for the timeline reaches its climax

Frequent gunfights between factions vying for control in the post-apocalyptic timeline

Continued gunfights with higher stakes and more frequent encounters

Heavy gunfight sequences across multiple timelines and locations

Intense gunfights throughout the final confrontations between all factions

A character's death has self-sacrificial elements tied to the mission

Self-sacrificial acts and suicidal missions become more prominent

Characters make self-sacrificial choices with fatal consequences for the greater mission

Ultimate self-sacrifice is central to the resolution of the timeline conflict

Interrogation and torture scenes used by multiple factions to extract information

Torture scenes continue as the Army of the 12 Monkeys pursues its goals ruthlessly

Brutal torture and interrogation methods depicted by antagonist factions

Desperate torture and cruelty as villains make final attempts to achieve their goals