⚠️ Trigun Maximum, Trigun Stampede, and Trigun Stargaze are mature works with explicit content.

TRIGUN MAXIMUM CONTENT WARNINGS

There's a character whose gimmick involves bugs (no spiders, mostly appearing like dragonflies); these bugs are often involved with body horror. There is animal death, including intentional murder of a puppy (blood and guts are shown for a single thin and small panel).

Characters can be cruel, manipulative, and abusive; they commit atrocities. They can be misogynistic, and often behave or speak as such; verbal harassment toward women happens as early as Milly and Meryl are introduced. People, usually women and sometimes children, are often taken hostage. They are often at the mercy of others and often in distress.

There are multiple instances of casual transphobia and transmisogyny being thrown toward a character as the main means to define her as transgender, including misogynistic slurs used by other characters to refer to her. I haven't fully read through the Dark Horse translation, but my friend tells me "they use outdated language at worst".

Without consent, a character has his repressed traumatic memories forcibly re-experienced by another character's volition. Without consent, some characters are made to experience others' traumatic memories of abuse.

A character intentionally overdoses on a drug and dies.

Religion, specifically that of Christian iconography, and religious trauma are central elements of the story. There are depictions of religious fanaticism, cult worship, and extremism. Partially related to that: child harm, abuse, and experimentation are also central to the story.

There are multiple instances of human trafficking, torture, slavery, and sexual assault. There is blatant visual imagery for sexual assault between blood-related family members; that of Knives assaulting Vash. At its extremes, there are pages depicting a child undergoing sexual slavery and being raped as punishment.

A racist comic-relief caricature of a black man shows up after a certain character's death, it's blatant minstrelsy that occurs twice.

Characters are made to starve to death. Characters are mentioned to suffer radiation poisoning. Characters are mentioned to resort to cannibalism. A character becomes an alcoholic; though this is quickly glossed over, attention is called to it.

TRIGUN STAMPEDE CONTENT WARNINGS

In Trigun Stampede, child harm, child abuse, and especially human experimentation on them is shown frequently, and to extremes. There is a major, constant thematic focus on women and children suffering and being abused all throughout the show.

The same warnings for Maximum apply here for religious trauma; Religion, specifically that of Christian iconography are central elements of the story. There are depictions of religious fanaticism, cult worship, and extremism.

There is blatant visual imagery for sexual assault between blood-related family members; that of Knives assaulting Vash. Knives, the main antagonist, is an ecofascist whose motivations and iconography are accordingly and blatantly fascist, although the depiction does not directly correlate to instances of real-world fascism.

TRIGUN STARGAZE CONTENT WARNINGS

⚠️ For more detailed warnings (as in, where and when any of the above occurs), ask people who've read/watched the according media and are willing to check for you. NOTE THAT THESE ARE NOT EXHAUSTIVE LISTS, although I sure did try. I've intentionally refrained from seeking out every instance and marking which volume/chapter/episode of each individual occurrence because I think it'd take away from the coherence of the warnings.

Value safety above spoilers, and please care for each other.

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even at a glance anyone can tell that the Vash from Maximum and the Vash from Stampede are not meant to be the same guy. by far, what they wield & how they wield it for the sake of peace is the biggest indicator of their differences.

fanart i made. pixel art based on unused concept art for the finale episode of Trigun Stampede, and a late panel of Trigun Maximum.