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* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/ comic]], despite being having been made during UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}}, uses this trope. The closest it gets to a swear word is "sunova..."
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/ comic]], despite being having been made during UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}}, uses this trope. The closest it gets to a swear word is "sunova..."
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Beanstalked}}'', Jack is prone to using low-level swear words, such as substituting "flock" for "fuck".
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-->'''Daisy [=McGuire=]:''' Oh, man. I just had a character say, "crap." There go my chances of there ever being a ''Gastrophobia'' [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nicktoon]]?8222;¢.
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-->'''Daisy [=McGuire=]:''' Oh, man. I just had a character say, "crap." There go my chances of there ever being a ''Gastrophobia'' [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nicktoon]]?8222;¢.Nicktoon]].
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* ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia''. As the author wrote:
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* ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia''. As the author of ''Webcomic/PepsiaPhobia'' wrote:
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* While the bad guys favour SymbolSwearing, good guys in ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' swear like this:
** Alice when struggling with a tightly tied bag:
-->'''Alice''': Crumbs! Toast crumbs! Toast crumbs with butter and jam you stupid bag!
** Tin-Can Turtle when a plan derails:
-->'''Tin-Can Turtle''': Oh, crumbs.
** Paolo calls ''Snow'' "son of a salesman".
** Raven lets out a literal "What the heck?!" after a collision with an unexpected chair. He also gets the strongest actual words in the story, or at least he tries:
-->'''Raven''': Curse it, Snow! You soul thieving son of a b- *[[CurseCutShort baseball bat connects with his solar plexus]]* -UHK!
** Alice when struggling with a tightly tied bag:
-->'''Alice''': Crumbs! Toast crumbs! Toast crumbs with butter and jam you stupid bag!
** Tin-Can Turtle when a plan derails:
-->'''Tin-Can Turtle''': Oh, crumbs.
** Paolo calls ''Snow'' "son of a salesman".
** Raven lets out a literal "What the heck?!" after a collision with an unexpected chair. He also gets the strongest actual words in the story, or at least he tries:
-->'''Raven''': Curse it, Snow! You soul thieving son of a b- *[[CurseCutShort baseball bat connects with his solar plexus]]* -UHK!
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* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'': Nick the human-turned-helicopter had an auto-censor installed as part of his transformation - and much to his displeasure, it learns. When he discovered a pig animatronic found the word "pork" offensive, he started repeating it until the auto-censor replaced it with "mukluk".
** He later finds a way around it by cycling through foreign curse words.
** He later finds a way around it by cycling through foreign curse words.
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* ''Webcomic/WasteOfTime'' has Seth.
** This was actually later used as a plot device. When [[spoiler:Seth and Jon switch bodies, Jon (in Seth's body) says the F-bomb to make Anna believe that he's not actually Seth]].
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d with Grace and her NoSocialSkills nature. Once, when something went wrong, she let off a long string of "Crud"s before apologizing for her choice of language. In fact, when she used the word 'dammit', everybody was stunned.
** Elliot sheds his superhero form by changing into [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-22 a more "mild-mannered" one]].
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' flirts with this trope.
** Most of the time, the harshest cusses we hear are "damn" and "hell", even from characters who would presumably have a more colorful vocabulary. The characters react realistically (namely, not at all) to this mild swearing, while the author facetiously reproaches characters in [[TheRant the comment section below the comic]] for their language. The result of all this is that the few times that harsh language is used, it's genuinely startling.
** Kat is among those with the colorful language; amazingly, she's also the character to have used to strongest curse [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=329 to date]]. Even if it [[SoundEffectBleep bleeped out]].
** Eglamore ''probably'' uses stronger language [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1688 here]], but since it's all replaced by tamer substitutes by the time Parley tells it to Annie, the world may never know.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/ comic]], despite being having been made during UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}}, uses this trope. The closest it gets to a swear word is "sunova..."
-->'''Doomguy:''' Sweet Christmas! [[BuffySpeak Big-mouthed floating thingies]]!
%%* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' plays with the trope in [[http://xkcd.com/75/ this strip]].
* ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia''. As the author wrote:
-->'''Daisy [=McGuire=]:''' Oh, man. I just had a character say, "crap." There go my chances of there ever being a ''Gastrophobia'' [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nicktoon]]?8222;¢.
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Would it be surprising to find out Santa's elves [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010415 do that After his update, he started swearing for real ('' as well]]?
* ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' sees a bully with an [[http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20081013 interesting approach to swearing]]:
-->'''Gary''': I'm gonna funk his ship up. That melon farmer won't walk again...Now kiss off.
%%* [[http://community.livejournal.com/the_shelf_life Windows Vistaaaaa!]]
* ''Webcomic/CwensQuest'':
** The heroes all have censored swear words like $%#& but the villains use stand-in words and phrases like "Frex!!!" and "Lords of Darkness!", though the word "ass" gets through unedited.
** It's lampshaded with this exchange
-->'''Ace:''' ...so Knives would like to know why the frex they are dead!
-->'''Sven:''' Frex?
-->'''Ace:''' It's a faerie word Sven. Figure out what it means yourself, asshat.
* Averted in ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES''.
** Captain SNES is supposed to be kind hearted and the [[AllLovingHero epitome of good]]. Alex swears so much that he ''uses it as an attack.'' It doesn't work due to [[MindScrew "slippage"]].
** It is played straight by Alex's captor, who at worst uses very mild cuss words and hates Alex for swearing so much.
* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' (with MultipleDemographicAppeal) uses this. On the rare occasions when cursing would appear, it's depicted as SymbolSwearing. Jean's catchphrase is "Egad," and Bob and Molly are deliberately corny enough to say "Gosh," [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle "Hokey Smoke!"]] or even "Jeepers!". The insectoid Nemesites say [[FutureSlang "Frass!"]] (bug poop) and the dragons say [[FutureSlang "fewmets"]] (dragon poop).
* In ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', when the devout and gentle Katy-Ann suspects her boyfriend has gone back to binge-drinking, she calls two of her friends for help. When Brandi says she's reluctant to get involved in others' relationship conflicts, Katy-Ann shouts, "Brandi, just get the heck over here!" A stunned Brandi thinks, "Holy [[SymbolSwearing f#$%]], she just cursed at me."
* ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'': "Golly, I'm sure in a pickle."
%%* A staple of Ralph E. Hayes comics (''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow''). ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' and its SpinOff ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' tend to use {{Unusual Euphemism}}s instead.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Equius Zahhak sticks to genteel curses like "fudgesicles" unless he's extremely flustered, and berates others for foul language, believing it to be a habit of the [[BlueBlood lower classes.]] He was [[DullSurprise once embarrassed]] for having used [[http://www.homestuck.com/index.php?s=6&p=005331 "shoot".]]
** Jane is similarly mild in her expletives, although, unlike Equius, she doesn't care about her friends swearing.
** Jake is an especially odd case where he both uses and averts this, constantly, often in the same sentence. This leads to some absolutely hilarious lines.
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' almost never uses swearing, the exception being an occasion utterance of "jackass". In one issue, a NASA employee shouted "[=AAAA=] what the flarking heck!?" when his printer shorted out.
* ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'':
** The page image comes from [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/swear/ this]] strip. [[Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} Joyce]] doesn't swear, but sometimes she really wants to.
** From a [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/harness/ later strip]], Joyce again lets Joe have it:
--> '''Joyce:''' It'd better be, or I will fudge you up so dang hard everyone'll call you 'poopieface' 'cuz your head'll be stuffed up your own a-hole!
--> '''Joyce:''' ...you all know what I meant.
** The previous comic ''It's Walky'' featured a scene where characters offer Joyce money to swear. The artist, David Willis, has said that this is autobiographical, as he had Joyce's mannerisms when he was young and his friends also offered him money to curse.
** Increasingly averted as Joyce has gone through CharacterDevelopment and her vocabulary has degraded as a result. She's still just about the only character in the comic to never drop an f-bomb, though.
%%* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' had Criminy [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-06-23 reporting from Sinfest]] headquarters on whether the cast and crew have gone soft.
* In ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'', Max makes frequent use of the exclamation "Applesauce!" such as in [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-22/ this montage]].
* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''. Most of the time the characters will use minced oaths or be censored outright, but every so often something will happen that one character (usually Roll) can only respond to with a hearty "fuck".
* ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom'' has the exasperated [[LovecraftLite Cthulhoo]] occasionally exclaim, [[PrecisionFStrike "Fthagn!"]].
* [[http://www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/ Super Doomed Planet]]:
-->'''Dr. Crane:''' Exploding Planets! Dr. Gregor ffinch!
-->'''Dr. Finch:''' Why, Maximilian Crane! I'd know your moronic expletives anywhere!
* From [[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309154732/http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/fantatoon/FTChapter5.html cartoon singles]] by [[ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}} Aaron Williams]] -- "Gates of Heck":
--> (one fiend to another): It's part of our new 'Family Friendly' policy.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'' - Piffany, whose language is so comically mild that you know it's serious when ''she'' says "darn" or "crud".
* In WebComic/OlympusOverdrive Hades never uses curse words, because it's Persephone's duty as the Queen of the Underworld to carry out any curses Hades makes and she doesn't like doing it, so he took an oath to never swear.
* Noted in [[http://fulltimeink.com/archives/8051 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/PhilLikesTacos'', with Phil calling ''Film/KickAss'' as "Kick A-Butt" and another employee calling ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' as "Inglourious Bees."
* Swearing in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is generally on the mild side - justified, as it's set in alternate universe Victorian-era Europe. "Darn" is probably the most-used 'swear word', as well as various science-related words used as expletives. Agatha's one outburst, after being hit on the foot with a hammer by one of her creations, is censored with various [[MadScientist mad science themed doodles]] and is helpfully 'translated' in a footnote.
--> '''Agatha:''' ''[in footnote]'' Ooh, what naughty little devices, to so turn upon your creator! Oh! Indeed, my foot is in such excruciating pain! I shall construct a device that will give you ''such a whack'', see if I don't!
* In ''Webcomic/PeterParkerForeignExchangeStudent'', Peter calls himself the [[Series/SpiderManJapan "emissary of heck"]] while playing SuperRobot with Eri. The panel even has a small note saying that he doesn't curse around Eri because [[HarmfulToMinors she's a child]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Silenziosa}}'': When Alissabetta pricks her finger she exclaims "Son of a misbegotten woman of ill repute!" She immediately apologises to the women present for her language.
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** This was actually later used as a plot device. When [[spoiler:Seth and Jon switch bodies, Jon (in Seth's body) says the F-bomb to make Anna believe that he's not actually Seth]].
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d with Grace and her NoSocialSkills nature. Once, when something went wrong, she let off a long string of "Crud"s before apologizing for her choice of language. In fact, when she used the word 'dammit', everybody was stunned.
** Elliot sheds his superhero form by changing into [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-22 a more "mild-mannered" one]].
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' flirts with this trope.
** Most of the time, the harshest cusses we hear are "damn" and "hell", even from characters who would presumably have a more colorful vocabulary. The characters react realistically (namely, not at all) to this mild swearing, while the author facetiously reproaches characters in [[TheRant the comment section below the comic]] for their language. The result of all this is that the few times that harsh language is used, it's genuinely startling.
** Kat is among those with the colorful language; amazingly, she's also the character to have used to strongest curse [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=329 to date]]. Even if it [[SoundEffectBleep bleeped out]].
** Eglamore ''probably'' uses stronger language [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1688 here]], but since it's all replaced by tamer substitutes by the time Parley tells it to Annie, the world may never know.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/ comic]], despite being having been made during UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}}, uses this trope. The closest it gets to a swear word is "sunova..."
-->'''Doomguy:''' Sweet Christmas! [[BuffySpeak Big-mouthed floating thingies]]!
%%* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' plays with the trope in [[http://xkcd.com/75/ this strip]].
* ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia''. As the author wrote:
-->'''Daisy [=McGuire=]:''' Oh, man. I just had a character say, "crap." There go my chances of there ever being a ''Gastrophobia'' [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nicktoon]]?8222;¢.
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Would it be surprising to find out Santa's elves [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010415 do that After his update, he started swearing for real ('' as well]]?
* ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' sees a bully with an [[http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20081013 interesting approach to swearing]]:
-->'''Gary''': I'm gonna funk his ship up. That melon farmer won't walk again...Now kiss off.
%%* [[http://community.livejournal.com/the_shelf_life Windows Vistaaaaa!]]
* ''Webcomic/CwensQuest'':
** The heroes all have censored swear words like $%#& but the villains use stand-in words and phrases like "Frex!!!" and "Lords of Darkness!", though the word "ass" gets through unedited.
** It's lampshaded with this exchange
-->'''Ace:''' ...so Knives would like to know why the frex they are dead!
-->'''Sven:''' Frex?
-->'''Ace:''' It's a faerie word Sven. Figure out what it means yourself, asshat.
* Averted in ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES''.
** Captain SNES is supposed to be kind hearted and the [[AllLovingHero epitome of good]]. Alex swears so much that he ''uses it as an attack.'' It doesn't work due to [[MindScrew "slippage"]].
** It is played straight by Alex's captor, who at worst uses very mild cuss words and hates Alex for swearing so much.
* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' (with MultipleDemographicAppeal) uses this. On the rare occasions when cursing would appear, it's depicted as SymbolSwearing. Jean's catchphrase is "Egad," and Bob and Molly are deliberately corny enough to say "Gosh," [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle "Hokey Smoke!"]] or even "Jeepers!". The insectoid Nemesites say [[FutureSlang "Frass!"]] (bug poop) and the dragons say [[FutureSlang "fewmets"]] (dragon poop).
* In ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', when the devout and gentle Katy-Ann suspects her boyfriend has gone back to binge-drinking, she calls two of her friends for help. When Brandi says she's reluctant to get involved in others' relationship conflicts, Katy-Ann shouts, "Brandi, just get the heck over here!" A stunned Brandi thinks, "Holy [[SymbolSwearing f#$%]], she just cursed at me."
* ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'': "Golly, I'm sure in a pickle."
%%* A staple of Ralph E. Hayes comics (''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow''). ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' and its SpinOff ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' tend to use {{Unusual Euphemism}}s instead.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Equius Zahhak sticks to genteel curses like "fudgesicles" unless he's extremely flustered, and berates others for foul language, believing it to be a habit of the [[BlueBlood lower classes.]] He was [[DullSurprise once embarrassed]] for having used [[http://www.homestuck.com/index.php?s=6&p=005331 "shoot".]]
** Jane is similarly mild in her expletives, although, unlike Equius, she doesn't care about her friends swearing.
** Jake is an especially odd case where he both uses and averts this, constantly, often in the same sentence. This leads to some absolutely hilarious lines.
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' almost never uses swearing, the exception being an occasion utterance of "jackass". In one issue, a NASA employee shouted "[=AAAA=] what the flarking heck!?" when his printer shorted out.
* ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'':
** The page image comes from [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/swear/ this]] strip. [[Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} Joyce]] doesn't swear, but sometimes she really wants to.
** From a [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/harness/ later strip]], Joyce again lets Joe have it:
--> '''Joyce:''' It'd better be, or I will fudge you up so dang hard everyone'll call you 'poopieface' 'cuz your head'll be stuffed up your own a-hole!
--> '''Joyce:''' ...you all know what I meant.
** The previous comic ''It's Walky'' featured a scene where characters offer Joyce money to swear. The artist, David Willis, has said that this is autobiographical, as he had Joyce's mannerisms when he was young and his friends also offered him money to curse.
** Increasingly averted as Joyce has gone through CharacterDevelopment and her vocabulary has degraded as a result. She's still just about the only character in the comic to never drop an f-bomb, though.
%%* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' had Criminy [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-06-23 reporting from Sinfest]] headquarters on whether the cast and crew have gone soft.
* In ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'', Max makes frequent use of the exclamation "Applesauce!" such as in [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-22/ this montage]].
* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''. Most of the time the characters will use minced oaths or be censored outright, but every so often something will happen that one character (usually Roll) can only respond to with a hearty "fuck".
* ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom'' has the exasperated [[LovecraftLite Cthulhoo]] occasionally exclaim, [[PrecisionFStrike "Fthagn!"]].
* [[http://www.superdoomedplanet.com/comic/ Super Doomed Planet]]:
-->'''Dr. Crane:''' Exploding Planets! Dr. Gregor ffinch!
-->'''Dr. Finch:''' Why, Maximilian Crane! I'd know your moronic expletives anywhere!
* From [[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309154732/http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/fantatoon/FTChapter5.html cartoon singles]] by [[ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}} Aaron Williams]] -- "Gates of Heck":
--> (one fiend to another): It's part of our new 'Family Friendly' policy.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'' - Piffany, whose language is so comically mild that you know it's serious when ''she'' says "darn" or "crud".
* In WebComic/OlympusOverdrive Hades never uses curse words, because it's Persephone's duty as the Queen of the Underworld to carry out any curses Hades makes and she doesn't like doing it, so he took an oath to never swear.
* Noted in [[http://fulltimeink.com/archives/8051 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/PhilLikesTacos'', with Phil calling ''Film/KickAss'' as "Kick A-Butt" and another employee calling ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' as "Inglourious Bees."
* Swearing in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is generally on the mild side - justified, as it's set in alternate universe Victorian-era Europe. "Darn" is probably the most-used 'swear word', as well as various science-related words used as expletives. Agatha's one outburst, after being hit on the foot with a hammer by one of her creations, is censored with various [[MadScientist mad science themed doodles]] and is helpfully 'translated' in a footnote.
--> '''Agatha:''' ''[in footnote]'' Ooh, what naughty little devices, to so turn upon your creator! Oh! Indeed, my foot is in such excruciating pain! I shall construct a device that will give you ''such a whack'', see if I don't!
* In ''Webcomic/PeterParkerForeignExchangeStudent'', Peter calls himself the [[Series/SpiderManJapan "emissary of heck"]] while playing SuperRobot with Eri. The panel even has a small note saying that he doesn't curse around Eri because [[HarmfulToMinors she's a child]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Silenziosa}}'': When Alissabetta pricks her finger she exclaims "Son of a misbegotten woman of ill repute!" She immediately apologises to the women present for her language.
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