Parents guide

Sexuality is a present theme throughout the series. Season One features some make-out scenes, but beginning in Season Two sexual relationships begin to be introduced. That being said, sex scenes are never explicit and do not include frontal nudity.

Sex between teenagers under the age of 18 are portrayed, albeit not explicitly.

A deleted scene shows Clark running and jumping off a dock and diving into the water. Includes full rear nudity and some frontal nudity.

Meteor-induced attraction is a regular feature, with many individuals throughout the show falling victim effectively to sexual assault. This includes married indiviuals and teens. Some are just outright assaulted over the course of the show.

Sometimes during the series there are "super powered" villains who use sexuality to lure in their victims. While they may not have sex with them, they get the person into a sexually vulnerable place, sometimes they are naked, and then they either kill or put the person into a coma using their weird powers. While they may not have sex, it still reads as sexual assault and could be disturbing and triggering.

Every section above describes the violence each season contains. It's quite evident that violence increases as the series progresses, and gets more graphic, bloody and intense. Some seasons have a body horror aproach, and some have more light violent content. All seasons include deaths: some by shooting, stabbings, choking, impalings, heart ripping, and more disturbing ways (depending on the season). There's a viable amount of blood and some gore as well.

Season 3: Gory deaths in episode 21 Forsaken where the villain is essentially able to stab people in the chest using only a rapidly moving hand. It's often a bit sudden in kind of a jump scare style.

Season One featured a "bad guy of the week" formula in which Clark would fight a 'meteor freak' in every episode. Most of these episodes feature moderate fantasy violence with little blood/gore.

The show gets darker and more graphic from Season 2 onwards. Some aftermaths of crimes are gory. A meteor freak gets impaled by a large piece of sharp metal from a wreckage during a fight with Clark. We see the structure sticking out from her back covered with her blood.

Season 4's episode "Forever" features some graphic horror violence. A man holds a severed head of a young woman before dropping it to the ground and it breaks to bloody pieces.

One episode in Season 5 has Brainiac suddenly stab a man with his hand that has transformed into a blade (we see the blade protrude from his back). In the episode "Mortal", a character vomits a lot of thick blood after getting shot.

Seasons 6 to 10 on the whole features more graphic violence than Seasons 1 to 5.

Season 6 features a scene where a man is graphically impaled by a falling sharp object and we see a lot of blood spill on the ground after that. A woman gets stabbed in the episode "Phantom" and we see her graphically pulling out the knife from her stomach with lots of blood pouring out. In the season premiere, Zod stabs Lana's hand to a wall brutally. We see her struggling to take it out as she screams in pain. Very disturbing. A creature tears out the spine of a man (seen from a distance) A man possessed by an alien being punches through an alien man's stomach and we see gory detail.

Season 7's episode "Bizarro" contains a scene where Bizarro is shown to be impaled after being punched hard into a telephone wire pole by Clark. We then see him graphically pull out the pole from his body. Another episode has Bizarro punch a hole through a black man and we see blood pouring from his wound. In "Apocalypse", a man shoots another man in the stomach and he touches the bloody wound and he gets shot again and we see blood spurt from his shoulder.

Season 8 features one gory scene in a dream sequence where a character is seen torn in half and hanging on a wall briefly. Clark is shot repeatedly with arrows by Green Arrow and we see a lot of blood. A creature slashes a man and blood spurts. A woman impales a man with a metal pole and we see him drop to the ground with lots of blood pooling around his body. In the episode "Doomsday", two man stab each other brutally to death.

There is some mild language throughout the series such as "ass", "hell", "damn", "crap", and occasionally the insults "bitch" and "bastard" are used.

S4 presents a nicotine addict Lois Lane. Alcohol is consumed throughout: socially, incidentally, and sometimes in partying.

Lex pours alcoholic beverages for himself in many episodes and in one or two episodes he does get drunk.

Some eps and seasons are horror themed, which can be scary for sensitive audiences. Including body horror, intense violence, deaths, blood and gore. Depending on the season: first seasons have light violent content, and next seasons have more strong violence.