The Originals 
TV Show
Drama
Horror
Romance
TV Show
Drama
Horror
Romance
Updated: 5 May 2022
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied
Sexual harassment e.g non-consensual grabbing, touching, cat-calling)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sex abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape off-screen or strongly implied
Rape on-screen

Description

S1E2-10: on multiple occasions, a vampire hypnotises a woman into forgetting that he is a vampire so she will not be afraid of him. However, his motives are not sexual/romantic in nature, and after discovering what he is doing, she eventually forgives him and decides to spend time with him of her own free will. S1E1-2: a woman is being held captive so she cannot abort a baby that was the result of a one night stand. When the father of the baby finds out she attempted to escape and abort it, he chokes her in a rage. She eventually changes her mind about aborting the baby and returns to the vampire family of her own volition. In S1E22, the birth is very traumatic and violent, as she is kidnapped by witches who want to sacrifice the baby. The plot of season 2 revolves around the antagonists possessing stranger's bodies so they can interact with and spy on other characters without them knowing who they are. There are elements of seduction in two relationships, and some scenes may seem coercive or menacing. However nothing sexual occurs while the antagonist's true identities are unknown, and that is not their primary goal. Although there is no incest textually onscreen, it is implied between a villainous brother-sister pair in season 3. The main characters all have very unhealthy, co-dependent relationships with their siblings. A main character's possessiveness towards his younger sister could be seen as having incestuous undertones/subtext. One of the main relationships is between two people who are technically aunt and nephew by way of unofficial adoption. The male character became the ward of his love interest's brother when he was 11. Whilst he considers her brother a father to him, obviously they do not see their relationship as familial, and no character ever mentions it. They are never seen to interact in any flashback of him as a child. Other pseudo-incestuous relationships such as multiple love triangles involving two family members competing for a third party, and a main character whose main love interest is his niece's mother. When his memory is wiped, he even calls himself out on the possibility that his feelings for her are primarily because her being the mother of his brother's baby. Regarding age gaps in vampire/human relationships: it is stated that vampires do not mature past the age they were turned at, but it is not clear how exactly old that is for the majority of characters. Two main relationships could be considered teen/adult; in one the female character is 17, and the male character is approximately 18-20 in human years, and around 1000 in vampire years. In the other, the female character is approximately 17-19 in human years and around 1000 in vampire years, and the male character is 30 in human years and around 200 in vampire years. In season 5 a guest character appears who had a one night stand with one of the main characters (when she was 17 in human years and 20-21 in vampire years, and he approximately 20-22 in human years and 1000+ in vampire years). In season 2, a main female character enters an arranged marriage. Despite initially assuring that he understands that the marriage is for practical purposes, and respects that the woman does not have feelings for him and does have feelings for another man, he continually guilt trips her about not returning his love and becoming involved with someone else. His behaviour is creepy, but it seems unintentionally so. He does not appear to coerce her into sex and their encounters appear consensual. In general, some scenes of vampires feeding on/killing humans may contain imagery reminiscent of sexual assault. Additionnally, supernatural means of deception and mind invasion/control happen frequently and dysfunctional, borderline/pseudo-incestuous dynamics between all the main characters are a constant theme.


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