History Main / GoshDangItToHeck

Contrary to popular belief, the words "damn" and "hell" are permissible in a G-rated film. For example, the 1971 movie ''Film/{{Airport}}'' had both ("Where the hell are you?" and "You've always got some damn excuse!") and it still received a G rating, though movie-rating standards have changed since then. ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' received a G rating, despite famous lines like "You damn, dirty apes" and "Goddamn you all to hell!" Even some G-rated animated features, such as ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', have included mild swear words. However, it is worth noting that "Hell" can refer to [[{{Hell}} the place]] and "damn" can mean condemnation to said place, and thus are not swear words even if such concepts are a little heavy for children. "Bitch" (the official term for a female dog - from which the derogatory use is derived) and "ass" (an alternate name for a donkey) almost never get such passes, unless it is explicit and obvious that the non-swear meaning is intended.

The kid-friendly variant of {{Bowdlerise}}. A favorite tool of the {{Badbutt}}, a G-rated badass. Another character type known for this is the MinnesotaNice. If the setting forces everyone to swear like this, you are looking at a MagicalProfanityFilter.

While "damn" is normally permissible, "goddamn" is considered blasphemous in many Christian sects and so might be seen as being on par with "fuck", if not ''worse'', resulting in ''literal'' examples of BleepDammit. (This is particularly true in the US.) The ''Film/{{MASH}}'' movie when shown on television has had Sergeant Gorman's catchphrase, "Goddamn Army", {{bowdlerise}}d to "Damn Army".

While "damn" is normally permissible, "goddamn" is considered blasphemous amongst many Christian sects and so might be seen as on par with "fuck", if not ''worse'', resulting in ''literal'' examples of BleepDammit. (This is particularly true in the US.) The ''Film/{{MASH}}'' movie when shown on TV has had Sergeant Gorman's catchphrase, "Goddamn Army" {{bowdlerise}}d to "Damn Army".

The use of "[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]]" as an old-fashioned synonym for "{{Hell}}" is theologically correct, in the right context, but is commonly misused in any context in which "hell" would work. Using [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades as Satan]] is never correct though. See TheUnderworld article for other terms that may be substituted in this manner in works based on other theological settings.

Some words are considered acceptable in some cultures but not in others, and this may appear in G- or PG-rated contexts in one place, but generate complaint in others. For example, in the UK the word "bloody" is considered to be quite a strong swear word when used as an epithet; elsewhere it's not an issue. Also in the UK, the word "ass" is rarely used; instead, the word "arse" is used, and it's considered a mild swear. In North America, "arse" is sometimes considered a non-offensive variant of "ass" in the same context as using "heck" instead of "hell," though it depends upon the person.

In some family-oriented shows and movies, instead of using [[UnusualEuphemism completely made-up swear words]], real but relatively mild cuss words, such as "hell" [[labelnote:Note]] Most people disagree on this particular word even being an obscenity at all.[[/labelnote]] and "damn", will get promoted to the top of the swearing ladder. To make up for the situation, they may use a {{Bowdleris|e}}ation of it.

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While "damn" is normally permissible, "goddamn" is considered blasphemous amongst many Christian sects and so might be seen as on par with "fuck", if not ''worse'', resulting in ''literal'' examples of BleepDammit. (This is particularly true in the US.) The ''Film/{{MASH}}'' movie when shown on TV has had Sergeant Gorman's CatchPhrase, "Goddamn Army" {{bowdlerise}}d to "Damn Army".

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Orbit gum has had a few:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEJJUGJZxpU This commercial]] for Orbit gum, guaranteeing clean mouths. The slogan "It cleans a dirty mouth!" applies to a scenario where a wife and her husband's mistress argue passionately using such insults as "you cootie queen" and "lint licker".
** There was an even older Orbit Commercial that used [[https://youtu.be/zPY9xptNnsk "Shut the front door!"]]. Orbit commercials in general are known for their {{Unusual Euphemism}}s, including [[https://youtu.be/Nfh92hKLO6c "Who are you calling a cootie queen? You LINT LICKER!", "What the French toast?"]], [[https://youtu.be/IK36TgbUSLQ "Well, kiss my- ASHTON!"]], and of course, [[https://youtu.be/psO4uKNSa0Y "I will pineapple slap your ASCOTS!"]] The whole purpose is to show that Orbit gum makes your mouth so clean that you won't say any dirty words.
** Speaking of Orbit, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVyGTSXGsY this ad with Sarah Silverman]]. "I've got your lipstick all over my rim" is quite the thing to hear in a business meeting.
* Travel site Booking.com loves copiously using "booking" as a sub for the F-bomb in their ads.
* The father turtle from one of the Comcast commercials says "fast" as a curse word, something his kid picked up. Stuff includes "Aw fast!", "What the fast?!", and "You're fasting kidding me!"
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrSECcj5V7w This]] infomercial for the UK's Independent Television Commission about time-appropriate language on TV lampshades with gems like "these nasty handcuffs are really chafing you know!"
* Nutra Nail Gel started airing [[http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7YZG/nutra-nail-gel-perfect-chipped-nail this spot]] on American television in fall 2013. It promotes the quick-drying nature of the product by depicting the ptifalls of standard nail polish. A woman looks down and disappointedly says "Oh, smudge"[[note]]Rhymes with "fudge", a common thing to say when you catch yourself about to say "fuck" in situations where you shouldn't[[/note]]. The last woman wakes up, looks down at her bed and says "Oh, sheet."
* Fresh And Easy grocery chain had a commercial that stated "Get your food the F and Easy way." However how it was said clearly sounds like it was saying "Get your food the Effing Easy way". The posters made it even more specific: "It's so F'in Easy!" Maybe that's why they closed down in 2015.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Mimimi never uses any profanity, no matter how mild.
* Saiai Kinuhata from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that while she was undergoing esper training, her mind was coded with Accelerator's thought patterns, who has a penchant for swearing. In her case, her mind automatically censors each swear, so instead of always cursing, she uses "super" or "ultra" as her default adjective.
* The ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' manga in the Viz translation.
** Mega Man Hub Style is about to die unless he can pick himself up off the ground and can only mutter "dang blang!" Bass who is simply incensed will preach about experiencing "Hell itself".
** This translation also uses vocabulary like "Pablum," "wanton"...
** The later game translations also had some odd euphemisms such as "Pit Hockey". Even "heck" at least would've been alliterative. [[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero]]: Curses! Dang! [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Rats!]]
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': In certain Internet versions they took out the line "What the fuck?", which they said at least seven times in a row, and put in various other lines. Natsuki Takaya doesn't usually do this, but the translators apparently wanted to make it cleaner.
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'':
** In the anime, "damn," "bastard" and "hell" are thrown around semi-liberally (a given, because "hell" is a part of the name of one BigBad, Hellmaster Fibrizo), but they never go beyond. The biggest blurb is when the word "bitch" has the opportunity to pop up, but it doesn't, leaving many instances of awkward uses of ''"you son-of-a..."''. It ''is'' mentioned in an episode of ''NEXT,'' but only once and not in the aforementioned context. It's pretty clear that they go far beyond that in the Japanese version, if one knows the local profanity.
** Even though the translated LightNovels series had some censorship, they avert this trope and throw "shit" around frequently.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': The Funimation dub and the Viz manga have used this trope.
** We hear a brutal tyrant like Frieza saying "Oh my gosh".
** Goku is watching something horrible happen and responds with "Guh...''Darn it!''" in Creator/SeanSchemmel's voice, no less.
** They even went so far as to change the writing on the T-shirts of demons in the afterlife so that instead of ''Hell'' (as in the place), they said ''HFIL'', stating it was an acronym for "Home For Infinite Losers."
** "Darn" is said in several places.
** The uncut dubs of ''DBZ'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' use both this trope and uncensored swears, often within the same episode. The dub of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' then turns this trope on its head by almost ''only'' using actual swears, with neutered neologisms ("darn", "heck", etc.) being very rare if used at all.
** All of the English Dubs of ''Manga/DragonBall'' omit any swearing whatsoever for the neologisms. It’s especially notable in the Funimation dub [=DVDs=] that themselves as Uncut and Unedited.
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'': Hiruma's [[ClusterFBomb charming nicknames]] for people and things get this treatment in the Viz editions.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' averts in the Hungarian dub. The teen heroes use a rich vocabulary of swears and profanity that would make even the creators themselves hide under the table, whenever they're seriously pissed. The fact that it's airing after ten PM may have something to do with it.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', after Al and Ed's [[spoiler:battle at the 5th Laboratory]], Winry comes to visit Ed at the hospital and tries to force him to drink his milk (which he hates). Al then tells Ed to "Shut up and drink the dumb milk." Entirely in-character, seeing as Al is a very polite young boy trapped inside a giant suit of AnimatedArmor.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Canada instead of swearing, squeaks "Maple hockey!"
* In the ClusterFBomb fest that is the dub of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', the Daemon sisters' dialogue is far more refined in comparison. Notably, Kneesocks is the only major character that doesn't swear. (Scanty normally doesn't, either, but seeing the Mayor go OneWingedAngel was a bit too much for her to bare.)
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': In a scene from the 4Kids Dub, we have Dracule Mihawk cut down Zoro in a very broad diagonal stroke to his chest. Then we cut to Luffy who, in turn, screams "DARN YOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!" at Mihawk.
* ''Manga/MolesterMan'': Downplayed, but Molester notices that Loli actually says "gosh", one of the only times he's heard a girl say that IRL.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* [[http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2010/07/27 This]] ''Comicstrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' strip:
-->'''Sarah Palin Doll:''' After all, we're not just the party of "No" - we're the party of "Hell, No!"\\
'''Franchise/MyLittlePony:''' <Gasp!> What did you say?\\
'''Sarah Palin Doll:''' Oops... Sorry, My Little Pony - I meant "Heck, No!"\\
'''My Little Pony:''' Shouldn't that be "Heavens, No"?\\
'''Mister Potato Head:''' Who the hell cares?
* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': [[PlayingWithATrope Playing with the trope]] through exaggeration, it features a demonic character, Phil, who is the "Prince of Insufficient Light" and "Supreme Ruler of Heck." Armed with a giant pitch-spoon, he is empowered not to damn people for eternity, but to "darn" them, usually for 15 minutes, or with an annoying, sometimes ironically appropriate, fate. Scott Adams claims he came up with the concept when the syndicate didn't allow him to use {{Satan}} as a character in the strip and that he is more pleased with the end result.
** Also, [[http://dilbert.com/fast/2012-04-06/ this]] strip.
** From Scott Adams' dilbertnewsletter: "I received an emotional letter of complaint after a strip in which Dilbert used the expression "jeepers cripes." The writer chastised me for using the Lord's name in vain. I can only pray that the almighty Gosh will not darn me to heck for offending his son, Jeepers."
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
** Calvin uses minced oaths, like "by golly" or "darn". He states that this is because he doesn't know any swear words.
** In a Christmas comic strip, Calvin's dad stubs his toe and yells, "Slippin'-rippin'-dang-fang-rotten-zarg-barg-a-ding-dong!"
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
** One cartoon has Satan declaring to his minions, "To heck with you! To heck with all of you!" {{Justified|Trope}}, they are presumably already ''in'' hell. The "joke" of that cartoon was, he had overheard them calling him a wimp. Since he wasn't willing to say "hell", he kind of proved them right.
** Subverted in another comic, where a jungle explorer cursing out his colleague manages "curse you to hell" and seems pleased with himself for it.
* ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' once had the King tell Sir Rodney to "go to heck."
* In ''Queen of the Universe'', Spaniel Man can't even do [[http://www.eyebeam.com/Queen1991/index.php?num=120 punctuation swearing.]]
* ''ComicStrip/DanDare'' and his friends liked to employ alliterative space-themed curses like "Jumpin' Jets" and "Great Galaxies".
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[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
* In ''Animation/KapitanBomba'', Torpedo sounds like this, especially in comparison to the titular character. This is yet another reason for Bomba to accuse him of being homosexual.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* A [[CharacterTics tell tell sign]] that Wrestling/{{Sting}} is talking, even if you can't see him, is that he doesn't cuss. The closest he comes are "hell" and "pissed off". This persisted even when "Asshole" became a common CrowdChant.
* Due to being on Creator/{{TBS}} in prime time on [[UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay Thanksgiving Night]], the worst threat Wrestling/RicFlair could throw at Wrestling/NikitaKoloff during their ''[=Starrcade=] '86'' match was "I'll kick your butt you son of a gun!"
* Wrestling/KurtAngle during his initial pro wrestling debut for the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]], during its "Attitude Era" no less, though it would later be averted in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]].
* [[Wrestling/EvanBourne Matt Sydal]] was known for his tirades of G-rated cursing, even in the explicitly "Adults F-N Only" shows of Gateway Championship Wrestling, where profanity otherwise flowed freely. His reasoning was he wanted to do as little as possible to offend anyone who might otherwise [[MerchandiseDriven buy his products]].
* Wrestling/StevieRichards wanted to enforce this and other forms of censorship during his "Wrestling/RightToCensor" run and succeed when he recruited former porn star Val Venis and former pimp The Godfather, who starting going by "The Good Father". Wrestling/{{Ivory}} had already talked in such a manner before and after Right To Censor though, while Venis and Godfather quickly reverted to their former ways after it was done.
* At the Wrestling/{{Chikara}} event ''From Zero to Hero (& Castagnoli)'', November 12, 2006, [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] ended Incoherence (himself and Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}})'s promo by parodying Wrestling/BookerT's infamous botched promo from ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Spring Stampede 97'', saying, "Wrestling/ChrisHero, Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli, we coming for you, n-word!". That is, Delirious actually ''said'' "n-word," not the actual word Booker T had mistakenly said nine years earlier.
** CHIKARA's commentators would call Delirious' top rope splash to his opponent's back, which was normally called Shadows Over Hell, "Shadows Over Heck" or "Shadows Over Hades."
* Mary Elizabeth Monroe (Wrestling/RingOfHonor's Wrestling/KellyKlein) was very reluctant to use any words considered swears and would never initiate them in conversation, in an effort to maintain a "rated G" image.
* The Peacock Party Boy Wrestling/DaltonCastle swears with long outdated swears like "deuce" and "dickens".
* A trait displayed by those who joined Drew Gulak's Campaign For A Better [[Wrestling/{{CZW}} Combat Zone]], including Wrestling/KimberLee, who around the same time was dropping {{cluster f bomb}}s in Wrestling/{{WSU}} (ItMakesSenseInContext, sort of).
* [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]] almost always stops her cussing at the word's first letter, even in front of what are supposed to be adult audiences because children could still be watching, d-word! Most commonly with the b-word, which when asked she insists is "broad". So you know it was a big deal when she started cussing at the referee to end a match in Absolute Intense Wrestling as Wrestling/ShaynaBaszler destroyed Annie Social.
* Similar goes for Lovelace's Buddy System TagTeam partner Wrestling/SoloDarling. "Cheese And Rice!"
* Pretty much enforced in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, since the fans will actually ''boo'' wrestlers who curse, as Wrestling/TommyDreamer found out at ''King of Trios 2010 Night III'', April 25, 2010. He cut a promo where he praised the CHIKARA wrestlers and said that he wanted to face Dragon Dragon since "that shit was awesome!" The crowd booed him for this and Dreamer apologized, saying, "that ''stuff'' was awesome!" The event was held at the former Wrestling/{{ECW}} Arena in Philadelphia, where Dreamer made his name, and which had seen its share of ClusterFBomb promos.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* Notably averted in ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' music video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ZYGCsgKrQ "Special"]], where Johnny Crawfish sings the line "You don't give me heaven, and I'll give you hell". This is downplayed a bit, as the song never appears in the actual show. [[note]] "Special" was made for a foreign investor in the show and was never meant to be shown to the public until someone who worked on the video uploaded it to [=YouTube=]. This explains the appearance of several Enid Blyton books in the video. Also, according to the video's description, it was written by someone other than Dennis Scott, who normally wrote the songs on the show.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Radio]]
* The very title of ''Radio/ThatGoshDarnHippieShow''. It came from an incident where a friend of the host called jokingly called her "the goddamn hippie", which was subsequently {{bowdlerise}}d for radio suitability before it was adopted as the title of the show.
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[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* Tim Hawkins' routine on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iltm9-aXC2Y "Christian Cuss Words"]] combines a crowd-sourced list of family-friendly swears with a bit of MotorMouth for extra chuckles.
* Lenny Bruce, while at a show where he was being watched by cops waiting to arrest him for obscenity, replaced the word "cocksucker" with "blahblah." He then proceeded to do the entire routine using this euphemism, somehow making his bowdlerisation seem even ruder (and funnier) than the thing it replaced. This included asking the entire audience "including you cops at the back... have you ever had your blah blahed?"
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/PaintYourWagon'', "They Call The Wind Maria" includes the line, "And now I'm lost, so goldurn lost." The same character (followed by others) sings "who gives a damn" in another number with less potential to become a song hit.
* ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'': Spoofed in the play and the movie version when Oscar complains about a cryptic note that Felix left for him, which was signed "F-U". "'F-U' meant 'Felix Ungar.'"
* Played for laughs in ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon''. Being Mormons, the missionaries can't swear at all; in [[IAmSong I Believe]], Elder Price belts "And dang it!" and "By Gosh!". (The Ugandans, by contrast, swear copiously.) Then at the end we have the payoff. Price announces "You know what, guys? ''[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck him]]''!"
* From ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', one gol-darned tough street gang:
-->''Here come the Jets, yeah, and we're gonna beat\\
Every last buggin' gang on the whole buggin' street,\\
On the whole ever-mother-lovin' street!''
* In "Without You" from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', Eliza tells Henry to "go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire!" (This is actually a CallBack to Henry's diction exercise about pronouncing aitches.)
* In the play ''Rain'', Sadie Thompson calls the Reverend a "psalm-singing son of a--", ending her sentence in an {{Angrish}} scream.
* In ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'', Aldonza tells the leering Muleteers, "I spit in the milk of your 'little bird.'" This is a minced rendering of a common Spanish insult for which "spit" is not the correct translation.
* In ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', Tommy Djilas frequently says "Jeely Kly." The movie version makes it "Great honk!"
* In ''Theatre/TheMikado'', Ko-Ko's sarcastic echo of Nanki-Poo's "The flowers that bloom in the spring" features the line: "Oh, bother the flowers that bloom in the spring." (The Captain's IAmSong in ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'' mentions "Bother it" as an acceptably mild form of cursing, in contrast to the "big, big D" which he does later use explicitly.)
* ''Theatre/AltarBoyz'': Matthew replaces the word hell with H-E double hockey sticks. It's important to note that Mark DOES use the word hell in Rhythm in Me, and the word hell is used many times during Number 918.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* In ''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'' at Ride/UniversalStudios, Doc's "Damn. Damn damn!" is changed to "Darn. Darn darn!" in the queue video when Biff cuts the power.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* In the ''WebAnimation/CartoonHooligans'' episode "What If Superman Got Sick?!", when the Justice League starts beating Superman up for peeking into the women's locker room of the JLA headquarters, Green Lantern says "What the frog, Superman!"
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The Chapman Brothers purposefully avoid harsh language in because they think "cute flash cartoons shouting obscenities" are a [[DeadHorseTrope tired cliché]]. However, they still make hidden references to profanities in some of their work:
** They attribute Strong Bad's [[EnsembleDarkhorse popularity]] to his trademark overuse of the word "crap". "Crap" was almost the site's trademark word for awhile before they got sick of it and stepped it down.
** There is liberal use of "freaking" and "hella" when appropriate.
** Strong Sad said "damn" in one Halloween episode, but it was used in the religious sense ("... and if you answer wrong, you get eternal damnation, but if you answer right you get a Twizzler?").
** One they forgot to remove is in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail53.html the SBEmail "comic"]]. In the Used 45's box is a copy of Mudhoney's "You Stupid Asshole", which got censored in the DVD release. This is the strongest swear word to appear on the site proper.
** At one point in the DVD commentary of the sbemail "Winter Pool", Strong Bad talks about liking a story about a woman who had a student named "Shithead".
** PlayedForLaughs in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UqUT_LQb8 Cheat Commandos - Commandos in the Classroom]]": The WebAnimation/CheatCommandos are getting ready to watch "Pony Fights 2", but Gunhaver is concerned that all the swearing will be too much for Reynold to handle. Reynold attempts to prove him wrong, and utterly fails:
---> '''Reynold:''' Oh, I can handle it. Why, I can even swear a cuss myself! Ahem. Diaper biscuits!
** The Brothers Chaps have been getting increasingly creative with this, inventing expressions like "Sweet genius!", "What the sense-make?" and Peacey P [[CatchPhrase habitually]] calling people "biscuitheads".
* [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]] is PlayingWithATrope in his ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' reviews. What he says is much dirtier than what appears on the screen. His comment on ''Franchise/{{Halo}} Wars'''s mission timers was written as "What arbitrary silliness", contrasting with "Bull fucking shit." A rebuttal to MoralGuardians decrying videogames is captioned "No, and I consider your argument misinformed," but he says "No, and go fuck yourself, you ignorant scaremongering cockbags."
** This is used to make a point in his review of [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9866-Bayonetta-2-Review Bayonetta 2]]: "I like my swearing, but in the wrong place it brings down the whole gosh-darn tone. You cunt."
* ''WebAnimation/PimpLando'' has its title character's catchphrase, "What the foo?!?"
* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'':
** [[RuleOfFunny Invoked for humor]] by Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} in his match against Characters/{{Deathstroke}}. "Now where is that son of a gun, I'm going to show him what-for, I swea-- ''*gets shot in the head*'' --OW!" ''Death Battle'' (and Deadpool) generally have no problems swearing elsewhere in the video.
** And again by Deadpool in his match against [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]]. When he notices a ''army'' of Pinkie Pie clones rushing towards him, goes "Oh, what the—", [[BreakingTheFourthWall then notices]] [[ThinkOfTheCensors the TV-Y7 logo]], before finishing off with "-heck".
* ''WebAnimation/GridironHeights'' has Philip Rivers constantly doing this while trying to act tough. He averts this with a PrecisionFStrike when attacking a vision of Eli Manning from 2004.
* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'': While the Emperor is certainly not shy about [[SirSwearsALot cursing up a storm under normal circumstances]], the vox-hailer equipment used for podcasts has a built-in censor that bleeps out anything rude with an [[SensoryAbuse excessively loud truck horn]]. Thus, to keep up his swearing streak and vent his anger he needs to resort to this instead, which amuses both his Custodians and [[spoiler:Rogal Dorn]].
* ''WebAnimation/SomethingAbout'': Parodied in "Something About Donkey Kong Country", where King K. Rool attempts to say "[[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 you damned dirty ape!]]", only for his "damned" to be replaced by a "darn" said by a text-to-speech device that doesn't match the voice from the rest of the sentence. A picture of Kirby shows up on the bottom with the text "Kirbo Says; There will be no swears in [[ReligiousBruiser my Christian channel]]!"
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In some family-oriented shows and movies, instead of using [[UnusualEuphemism completely made-up swear words]], real but relatively mild cuss words, such as "hell" [[labelnote:Note]] Most people disagree on this particular word even being an obscenity at all)[[/labelnote]] and "damn", will get promoted to the top of the swearing ladder. To make up for the situation, they may use a {{Bowdleris|e}}ation of it.

Contrast ClusterFBomb which is the exact opposite. See also BigStupidDoodooHead, CurseOfTheAncients, MondegreenGag, NeverSayDie, TWordEuphemism, UnusualEuphemism, WitchWithACapitalB, and the ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath article on minced oaths.]]

-->''Here come the Jets, yeah, and we're gonna beat''
-->''Every last buggin' gang on the whole buggin' street,''
-->''On the whole ever-mother-lovin' street!''

** [[RuleOfFunny Invoked for humor]] by Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} in his match against Characters/{{Deathstroke}}. "Now where is that son of a gun, I'm going to show him what-for, I swea- ''*gets shot in the head*'' -OW!" ''Death Battle'' (and Deadpool) generally have no problems swearing elsewhere in the video.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEJJUGJZxpU This commercial]] for Orbit gum, guaranteeing clean mouths. The slogan "It cleans a dirty mouth!" applies to a scenario where a wife and her husband's mistress argue passionately using such insults as "you cootie queen" and "lint licker".

* There was an even older Orbit Commercial that used [[https://youtu.be/zPY9xptNnsk "Shut the front door!"]]. Orbit commercials in general are known for their {{Unusual Euphemism}}s, including [[https://youtu.be/Nfh92hKLO6c "Who are you calling a cootie queen? You LINT LICKER!", "What the French toast?"]], [[https://youtu.be/IK36TgbUSLQ "Well, kiss my- ASHTON!"]], and of course, [[https://youtu.be/psO4uKNSa0Y "I will pineapple slap your ASCOTS!"]] The whole purpose is to show that Orbit gum makes your mouth so clean that you won't say any dirty words.
** Speaking of Orbit, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVyGTSXGsY this ad with Sarah Silverman]]. "I've got your lipstick all over my rim" is quite the thing to hear in a business meeting.

The use of "[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]]" as an old-fashioned synonym for "{{Hell}}" is theologically correct, in the right context, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord but is commonly misused]] in any context in which "hell" would work. Using [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades as Satan]] is never correct though. See TheUnderworld article for other terms that may be substituted in this manner in works based on other theological settings.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The Chapman Brothers purposefully avoid harsh language in because they think "cute flash cartoons shouting obscenities" are a [[DeadHorseTrope tired cliché]].

** [[RuleOfFunny Invoked for humor]] by Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} in his match against [[Characters/BatmanDeathstroke Deathstroke]]. "Now where is that son of a gun, I'm going to show him what-for, I swea- ''*gets shot in the head*'' -OW!" ''Death Battle'' (and Deadpool) generally have no problems swearing elsewhere in the video.

** PlayedForLaughs in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UqUT_LQb8 Cheat Commandos - Commandos in the Classroom]]": The Cheat Commandos are getting ready to watch "Pony Fights 2", but Gunhaver is concerned that all the swearing will be too much for Reynold to handle. Reynold attempts to prove him wrong, and utterly fails:

The kid-friendly variant of {{Bowdlerise}}. A favorite tool of the {{Badbutt}}, a G-rated badass. Another character type known for this is the MinnesotaNice.

* One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon has Satan declaring to his minions, "To heck with you! To heck with all of you!" {{Justified|Trope}}, they are presumably already ''in'' hell. The "joke" of that cartoon was, he had overheard them calling him a wimp. Since he wasn't willing to say "hell", he kind of proved them right.

'''Note: This is a page for listing moments where swearing is deliberately censored or a replacement to a real world swear word is used. It is not a page to list moments where you personally think that swearing would have looked cool, or for moments where you believe swearing would have improved a line.'''

[[folder:Real Life]]
%% Please take into consideration when listing real life examples that there is nothing wrong with not swearing. On the same hand, there is nothing wrong ''with'' swearing. This page is not for pointing out how stupid you personally think censoring swearing is.
* Sometimes people who work around children try to temper other people's language. In the 1970s, one school district in the US dealt with a demand that the book ''Making It With Mademoiselle'' be removed from the shelves of the high-school library. An assiduous investigation, in the form of actually opening the book, revealed that it was a volume of sewing patterns from the editors of ''Mademoiselle'', a fashion magazine.
* English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers of adult learners are often split on the topic of just how clean your speech needs to be in class. On the one hand, teachers should be professional and this includes appropriate language. On the other, part of teaching your students about usage includes vulgarity (so they at least know just how bad ''other'' people's language is). Most teachers settle for keeping their own vocabulary G-rated but not censoring students.
** Making matters worse, textbooks written for ESL teachers in training are largely silent on the topic. One assumes that lessons on correct usage of vulgarity and profanity are not condoned, though.
** It's also hard to get the right range of what is acceptable in different situations in a foreign language.
* In the UK "sod" and "bugger" are mildly obscene ([[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch not that most people across the pond know this]]) but permissible pre-{{Watershed}} -- about as bad as "hell" or "damn". (Not realizing that "bugger" is a swearword in the UK is ''not'' this trope, but [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch something else entirely.]])[[note]]In fact, to "bugger" someone is to commit "buggery", that is, either sodomy or bestiality. "Sod" is derived from "sodomite", and dressing it up as "Son Of Devil" is another layer of the trope in action. Part of the ValuesDissonance over "bugger" is a case of convergent evolution: in the southern US "bugger" evolved as a Gosh Dang It To Heck for calling someone a "booger"- the two sound ''nearly'' identical in a Southern accent.[[/note]]
** In English (or the United States at least), 'fucking' is increasingly being replaced with 'freaking' and/or 'flipping'.
* Foreign languages have their own equivalents of this trope. In particular, oaths that refer to religious imagery were often "sanitized" into nonsense.
** In German, "Gottes Blitz" (God's Lightning) became "Potz Blitz". Otherwise, it is averted in general German media. Religious swearing is ''much'' less of a deal than in English-speaking countries, and can be uttered in elementary schools without consequences. Even "Scheisse", the German word for "shit", while not very sophisticated, is never censored, and is used in media regularly; even on ''KIKA'' (the public children's TV channel).
** The Dutch "godverdomme" ("God damn it/me," same root as "goddamn") often becomes "potverdomme" --or simply "verdomme" (which still means "damn" and is a Dutch equivalent of the "shit" expletive). More clean-mouthed Dutch change it further into "potverdorie" or "verdorie". As a word, it's meaningless, but sounds close to the original.
** The word "shit" in the Netherlands is a much milder word there than in English speaking countries and can be seen as the equivalent of "damn".
** A lot of old French swearwords tend to use bleu (blue) instead of Dieu (God). "Sacré Dieu" (Holy God) became "sacrebleu."[[note]]Still mildly "blasphemous", as blue is the color of the Virgin Mary.[[/note]] Similarly, "Par Dieu" ("By God") became "Parbleu". There are also "Mort Dieu" ("God's death") becoming "Morbleu", "Nom de Dieu" ("In God's name") becoming "Nom de bleu", "Vertu Dieu" ("God's virtue") becoming "Vertubleu", and so on.
** The (rather old-fashioned) French swearword "jarnicoton" comes from one of the French King Henri IV's Bishop advisers, Coton, asking the reportedly foul-mouthed King to use his own name instead of God when swearing - so instead of saying "Ja r'nie Dieu" (accented version of "Je renie Dieu", "I deny God"), it became "Ja r'nie Coton" ("I deny Coton").
** In Belgian French, "Nom de Dieu" (for God's sake) often becomes "nomdedjeu," "nomdidju", and other variants. ''Comicbook/GastonLagaffe'''s Prunelle is notorious for it("Rogntudjuuuuuuu!!!"). "Nom d'un chien" ("name of a dog") is another old-fashioned form.
** The Russian
*** "Blyad"(technically "Whore", but used more like "Fuck") becomes "Blin" (Pancake) in front of sensitive ears.
*** "Khuy" ("cock") becomes "Khren" ("horseradish", which is rather apropos. Have you ever seen a horseradish? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kren_Verkauf.jpg Now you have]]). "Yebat'" ("fuck") becomes "Yeteet'" or "Yedreet'" (nonsensical erratives, the latter probably derived from the word for "tough, healthy" or "kernel").
*** "Yobana mat'" / "Yob tvoyu mat" ("[[YourMom fucked (your) mother]]") becomes "Yo moyo" (Oh, me), "yedryona vosh" ("strong, healthy louse"), "yokarny babai" ("freaking boogeyman"), "yoperni teatr" ("yo-pera theater"), and "YOPRST" (letters in sequence).
*** Russian has quite a lot of inventive obscene cursing, and most of it has at least one "heck" form, sometimes many and often quite picturesque. In a nutshell, ''any'' word, I mean any, starting with "yo" (including loanwords and mispronounced "ya" words), can be a euphemism for "yobana mat'". But religious curses are never "hecked", they are considered very mild by themselves.
** Québecois is ripe with this.
*** Crisse de tabarnac de calisse! This is considered very obscene, for a more "Gosh Darn It To Heck" name, try "Crime de tabeurslak de caline!" It doesn't mean anything but it's still used. There's also "cinq six boîtes de tomates vertes" for "sainte ciboire de tabarnak".
*** A rather hilarious one is "château de marde", which translates into "shit castle". I shit you not.
** All Québecois swearing comes off as this or even BigStupidDoodooHead to French speakers, once they learn the words are deformed versions of ''church items'' (Christ, tabernacle, chalice etc.) and given how most French insults are scatological or sexual. A Canadian comedian made two versions of a song listing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQe-NPhJ1h0 French]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D92YAIL-BRw Québecois]] insults, the former is much more vulgar than the latter.
** The Polish swearword of choice is very often "kurwa" (meaning "whore", but contextually the same as "shit" or "fuck" in English), and is vulgar enough to be censored on TV. Poles wanting to avoid offending delicate sensibilities often use "kurczę" which means "chicken".
** In Argentina, the euphemism ''Me cache en dié'' was once commonly used as a euphemism for ''Me cago en Dios'' ("I shit on God"). The euphemistic form even made it to a tango's lyrics.
** The Spanish-speaking countries have a more contrived example of this: in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, albeit not universally, they have no problems with using the Spanish equivalents of ''damn'' (¡maldición!, ¡rayos!, etc), or ''hell'' (¡Diablos!), since they're considered at worst childish insults, despite those countries have a mostly conservative Catholic population, while more stronger profanities are censored in TV transmissions, albeit this is starting to change. On the other hand, Spaniard media, both originally-made and dubbed, have ''no problems'' with using even ''stronger profanities'' normally censored in Latin America, due to historical reasons since the death of Francisco Franco, who previously banned the use of profanity in Spaniard media during his rule. In the same way, invoking the name of God is not considered a bad thing there either.
*** In Spain "Me cago en la mar" (I shit in the sea) has "Me cachis en la mar". In some areas that is shortened to "cachi la mar". In Spain, many cuss words have similar euphemisms, though "joder" (fuck) probably is the word with the most substitutions: "joer", "jope", "jolín", "jolines", and more.
*** Also, "Te Jodiste", as in, "You're fucked", has been shortened to "Tejo" -- which is the first person present tense of knitting (equivalent to "I knit") and (in some places) a sport similar to Bocce Ball.
*** In Mexico many people tend to finish any phrase with Chihuahua, the name of a Mexican state, when not intending to use the real word: chingar, which is used as "fuck". Many Latin American dubs or subs used to replace every swear word with a family-friendly slur. This can range from saying "damn" to ludicrous painfully outdated words that sound weird even to 50-something adults.
** Italian has "cavolo" ("cabbage") and "cacchio" (sprout of some kind of plants) as an euphemistic form of "cazzo" ("cock"--no, not a rooster--but more like "fuck", as in "what the fuck" or as an interjection).
** The Finnish curse "perkele" (euphemism for Satan, originally the name of a pagan thunder god) often gets [[LastSecondWordSwap corrupted mid-sentence]] into "perjantai" ("Friday") if the speaker realizes there are sensitive ears present. This was parodied in the Finnish amateur film ''Film/StarWreckInThePirkinning'', where the main character Pirk uses "Oh, Thursday!" as a curse.
** Similarly in French, "Merde!" ("Shit!") will occasionally change to "Mercredi!" ("Wednesday!") mid-word and "putain!" (lit. "whore", meaning "fuck") to "purée" ("mash!") or "punaise!" ("drawing pin!")
*** In Spanish, as well, it's not uncommon to swap the word for "shit" with the word for "Wednesday" ("Mierda" and "Miércoles", respectively); be it mid-word or deliberately from the start.
** In Arabic subtitles/dub for any foreign movie, any ClusterFBomb gets invariably swapped with the generic "Tabban" ("[[TropeName Curse!]]"), which is a cause of great amusement for many Arabic-speakers (anyone with a middle-school education in the Arab world speaks either English or French, and often both). Oddly enough there are many insults with thinly-veiled sexual overtones which get spared by RuleOfFunny, in local productions.
** In most cases, Japanese swears ARE this trope already. Words often translated as "bastard/son of a bitch, etc" ("temee, omae, konoyaro, koitsu", etc.) literally just mean "you/him/her/that guy", etc. but with aggressive/hostile implications. Sometimes a "dirty mouth" in Japanese is defined by HOW something is said, not WHAT is said, (compare "nani o yatte ru no?" to "nani yattenn da?" Both lit. "what are you doing", but the latter implies an intent closer to "... the fuck you doin'?") These words and turns of phrase occupy the same position in the Japanese vernacular as harsh swear-words in English, but due to the lack of sexual and religious expletives, they lack the taboos cursing does in the West, and hearing them in manga and anime aimed at kids is pretty common. This creates a dilemma for translators, as these expletives are used very liberally in a media where their rough English equivalent would not be considered appropriate. Some words, such as "kuso" (lit. "shit, crap") do directly translate, but are not treated with the level of taboo seen in the West.
* Many Utahn members of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} LDS]] church use rather odd substitutions for curse words. It's justified by their use of the pamphlet For the Strength of Youth. All Mormon youth are given this to read and follow as a guideline, specifically admonishes readers against using swearwords, among other things.
** Examples include: "Oh my heck!", "Oh my gosh" or "holy heck". Stranger ones include "Biscuits", "Fridge it", and "[[Series/ThatsSoRaven Snap]]".
** They also commonly abbreviate the state of eternal punishment to "What the H?" (This is given a captioned "footnote" in the parody "The Work and the Story".)
* Survivor contestant Neleh Dennis was known for saying "oh my heck" all the time, clever editing made it look like a VerbalTic, which we can't really be sure it's not.
* When asked for his opinion of Ted Bundy, Charles Manson called him a "poopbutt".
* Preacher Tony Campolo was somewhat famous in religious circles for [[PrecisionFStrike pointedly averting this trope]]:
-->"I have three things to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases caused by malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. [dramatic pause] What's worse is that you're more upset about the fact that I said 'shit' than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night."
* In a similar vein to Campolo, Eliseo Soriano of ''Ang Dating Daan'' fame has no qualms about cussing during his "Bible expositions", although the local television ratings board in the Philippines do beg to differ.
* In the United States Air Force Basic Military Training program, the instructors aren't allowed to use profanity. So they develop a weird alternate vocabulary that lets them get the same ideas across without actually swearing. It's fairly common to hear an instructor screaming ''"WHAT THE PISS, CLOWN?! IS THAT HOW WE DO IT NOW IN THE AIR FORCE?!!"''
* UsefulNotes/JoeBiden [[CatchPhrase will often]] retort claims by saying "[[WithDueRespect With all due respect]], that's a bunch of [[CurseOfTheAncients malarkey]]". He said this most notably during the 2012 vice-presidential debate towards Republican opponent Paul Ryan. But Biden is also responsible for the most famous aversion of this trope by an American politician in recent memory, where he called the signing of the Affordable Care Act "[[http://www.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/23/joe-biden-obama-big-fucking-deal-overheard a big fucking deal]]."
** On a similar note for critics against Joe Biden, the use of "Let's Go Brandon" became exactly that as an alternative to "Fuck Joe Biden" after an NBC interview from Kelli Stavast tried to keep her interview with NASCAR driver Brandon Brown PG when the crowd was shouting Fuck Joe Biden throughout that particular interview after an October 2021 race at the Talladega Superspeedway. As for the main man's own response to it once he finally heard someone say that phrase to him, he pretty much played along with it by saying he agrees with the sentiment and didn't really care too much about it.
* On the commentary for the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode, [[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E1And2Twilight "Legends, Part 2"]], director Butch Lukic invokes this on himself as the crew was talking about Orion's voice actor, Creator/RonPerlman, to which, he refer to Perlman's role as Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}, then backtracks and says "Heckboy". A similar case happened when a local movie theater in the [[DeepSouth Bible Belt]] also labeled ''Film/Hellboy2019'' [[https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/04/21/censored-hellboy-sign-viral-tweet-heckboy/ as "Heckboy"]].
* Most video game Let's Players tend to curse a lot and make jokes utilizing said curse words to garner laughs, views and subscribers. However, there are a growing number of Let's Players who prefer to keep their videos family friendly and try hard not to curse and the rare times they do, they usually bleep it out, chocobo wark it out, or just omit it in favor of silence. Some examples would be {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}, LetsPlay/RoahmMythril, {{LetsPlay/Markiplier}}, LetsPlay/JoshJepson, LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab, and LetsPlay/RetroChallengeGamer.
* Financial adviser and radio personality Dave Ramsey seems especially fond of "dad gum".
* The Unix/Linux command "fsck" has become a substitute for the F-word, particularly in the geek community. Somewhat justified, since having to use the "fsck" command can indicate serious hardware issues.
* One origin story for the chimichanga (a deep-fried burrito popular in Tex-Mex cuisine) has the owner of a Mexican restaurant accidentally dropping a burrito into a deep fryer and preventing herself from saying "chingada" (Spanish for "fucked") because there were [[NotInFrontOfTheKid children nearby]].
* In the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague, where trash talking and cursing are commonplace on the field, there's quarterback Philip Rivers, who due to a very religious upbringing, never swears. This led to clips of him trash-talking with phrases like "Dag gum" and the like.
* This is enforced at UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}, as all communications are recorded and transcribed for public record. The first astronauts used very colorful language to describe the wonders and frustrations of spaceflight, which scandalized moral guardians. So, management had astronauts drilled to watch their language. This is why Jim Lovell yelled out: "I don't need to hear the obvious, I've got the frapping eight ball right in front of me!" rather than anything more obscene while struggling to get his craft under control.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* In the review for ''VideoGame/NoituLove'', WebVideo/{{Hadriex}} just can't say things like "that Darn army of robots" or "that darn creator" aloud with a straight face.
* From ''Website/ChannelAwesome'':
** WebVideo/ThatDudeInTheSuede doesn't use then because he is never angry enough (and possibly because of his [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} religious upbringing]]).
** Linkara of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''. Downplayed in that he ''does'' curse, he just doesn't use the "more colorful four letter words" to prove that he doesn't need them to be funny. You can hear him curse a few times in Behind The Scenes videos. This is saying something compared to nearly all of his colleagues. During a live charity drive, he offers to say "Fuck" if enough money is donated. The other reviewers point out that he just did.
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'':
** An aversion in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ZX_ToJHFk Lester the Unlikely]] review, but only at the cave stage in the game.
** In his crossover with ''Captain S'', the Nerd was forced to tone down the language due to ''WebVideo/TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS'' being a G-rated show. Needless to say, it's weird as hell hearing the normally foul-mouthed Nerd saying things like "What a buttload of crud."
** He does get to swear normally at the end of the episode, though it's bleeped out.
** He makes up for his lack of profanity in his next review, [[PrecisionFStrike within the first sentence]].
* [[WebVideo/StuartAshen Ashens]] does this as he stops himself swearing in his "Sonic Man" (a Robocop rip-off) toy review. This was [[EnforcedTrope due to YouTube becoming much harsher with their monetization-appropriate content rules]], although Ashens adds that he doesn't need to swear to make his videos funny. [[spoiler:Subverted. Ashens defies thus trope immediately afterwards by describing the toy as a "Mother-fucking piss-faced lump of wanky twat shit."]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovMpapeCJQ "Scarface School Play"]] demonstrates this trope to a hilarious extreme.
* Several LetsPlay members, particularly those not associated with Website/SomethingAwful, do this. Examples include the Linkara-esque LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab, the {{Badbutt}} {{Manchild}} LetsPlay/SirRonLionHeart, and AutoTune [=NBA2K=] fan LetsPlay/ChrisSmoove.
** LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} swore a lot more in some of his earlier videos, and still at times lets a swear past when stressed (usually [[BilingualBonus in French]]), but even when that happens, they're generally not that strong. Any other time, however...
-->'''Raocow:''' Oh, pumpernickel.
** LetsPlay/{{Kikoskia}} often says "Fiddlesticks" and the like. Out of ''hundreds'' of videos, he's sworn ''twice''.
* Lampshaded/directly quoted in Volume 8 of ''Blog/MyOpinionsOnEveryPokemonEver''.
* [[LetsPlay LPer]] LetsPlay/SuperSkarmory avoids cursing in his walkthroughs. As long as they're not Franchise/{{Castlevania}}.
-->'''Super Skarmory:''' Holy... pickles.
* ''WebVideo/StuffYouLike'''s Sursum Ursa, seeing as the show normally carries a PG rating.
--> Sursum Ursa: [[Series/{{Sherlock}} He's]] completely bat[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 frakked!]]
* LetsPlay/SlimKirby tends to avoid strong swear words. He drops a PrecisionFStrike from time to time, but it's a rare occurrence.
* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' parodies this trope. In the canon of the first musical (set in the "second year" for Hogwarts students), every character swears, our hero even dropping the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] once. However, in the sequel (or really the "prequel," seeing as it's set in the FIRST year of the students at Hogwarts), when Professor Lupin swears, the children cover their ears and gasp until he replaces it with something less obscene.
* Creator/OlanRogers never uses a more vulgar word than "crap", and his videos are much funnier for it.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdKAxdyz05Y This]] Website/CollegeHumor sketch makes fun of excessive TV re-editing.
* The language on WebVideo/EatYourKimchi is kept pretty clean ''most'' of the time.
* Creator/{{Egoraptor}} from ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' has a habit of combining this with genuine swearing.
-->'''Egoraptor''': What the fucking gosh dang!?
* WebVideo/{{PeanutButterGamer}} doesn't use swearing in his videos, he has said he doesn't swear because he doesn't feel he needs to.
* Bonesaw of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' speaks like this, and chides other characters for swearing, which is actually a plot point when [[spoiler:[[DramaticIrony she's impersonating Tattletale to an amnesiac Taylor]].]]
* Maggie Holt in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' is unable to swear, having traded the ability away to a goblin. She gets caught out by this several times during the Toronto arc, [[spoiler: which is a sign that [[GrandTheftMe all is not as it seems.]] When she later [[LossOfIdentity loses her name]] and regains the ability to swear, she uses it fairly often.]]
* LetsPlay/RoahmMythril has only gotten to "Bastard". Later videos never use the word, and even when the game swears, ''he will not.''
* ''WebVideo/PittsburghDad'''s {{Catchphrase}} "Ah, jeez!"
* Parodied in ''WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer''. In the ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' "review", he starts awkwardly shoehorning in G-rated curse words alongside the typical fare, in response to how the ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' suddenly started to inconsistently tone down the cursing in his videos.
* This is a mandate whenever ''[[WebVideo/PoohsAdventures Pooh's Adventures]]'' tackles a mature movie or TV show. They would censor the "inappropriate content" when it involves language. The other stuff is left alone.
* LetsPlay/{{Darkmindedsith}} tries to do this for his videos. He claims that he wants to be kid-friendly on his channel.
* In [[https://notalwaysright.com/doesnt-quite-swear-by-that-dvd-player/82310/ this]] submission to ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'', an irritated customer switches to saying "poo-poo caca" when he notices that [[NotInFrontOfTheKid there's a young child standing nearby]].
* Despite the team at Creator/RoosterTeeth being able to swear like sailors, there are a number of times where they have averted it.
** Geoff Ramsay will not swear around his daughter and the times where he's on camera with her or doing a Let's Play, he refrains from doing so.
** During their Extra Life '15 livestream, they got Lindsay Jones to read an excerpt from ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' as Ruby Rose from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. However, she doesn't like the idea of having her character cuss, thus invokes this trope by having Christian telling Anastasia "I don't make love. I truck. I truck hard."
** David from ''WebAnimation/{{Camp Camp}}'' plays this very straight.
--->'''David''': What the gosh-darn-heck happened here!?
* WebVideo/FightingLeaf does ''not'' swear at all in his reviews. He tries to be as kid-friendly as possible because of the types of movies he reviews.
* Creator/JoshScorcher is not very fond of swearing. When he DOES swear, it's usually censored.
* Zig-zagged on ''LetsPlay/TheBowlingOtterShow''. Both hosts are pretty good at keeping their own language within a clean range, even if the games they play have significantly harsher profanity. But on occasion they'll let a Precision F-Strike slip, usually when startled during a horror game.
* Timothy Mcgladden, [[DoNotCallMePaul who would rather go by the name PK]] (short for the nonsensical name [=PksparxxDathotneSS=]) will always exclaim "YOU SON OF A BISCUIT!" or just "SON OF A BISCUIT!!" rather than cuss. He will also say "You rooney-dooney!" from time to time. EnforcedTrope in that PK generally wants to keep things family-friendly (and was commented on positively for that in at least one of his videos for showing class), and if he accidentally curses, he will go back and edit it out (at least one time doing so rather humorously with the coin get sound effect from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'') However, his livestreams are not subject to this rule, as people he plays with can let curses fly because he has no control over what they say, and PK himself has been known to let his own tongue slip, especially when somebody really pissed him off by saying something so rude PK directly addressed them by explicitly saying "shut the fuck up".
* Cryssi of ''Website/DivaDirt'' got in a fantastic one in one editorial (and note that the website doesn't have a policy against swearing):
--> "What the H-E-double hockeysticks?"
* This is the reason behind the "Let [That Guy] Say Fuck" meme. When a fandom finds out that a character frequently never swears or uses minced oaths, they usually make jokes about the giving that character the chance to launch a PrecisionFStrike.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-swBG9Ne0Vh4OuoJ2bjbA?&ab_channel=rSlash rSlash]] had to start censoring himself with euphemisms in an attempt to keep his videos from being demonetized. It's easy enough with standard swear words, as most of them have a family-friendly substitute. However, more explicit content requires him to get creative. The most common is using "hugging passionately" or variants thereof in place of "sex".
* LetsPlay/{{Dream}} and his collaborators generally try to keep his main videos clean of profanity, though streams have been known to involve some spicier language. Bad in particular likes to use "muffin" as a curse substitute. Once when [[https://youtu.be/eDZ-JOqewlA?t=521 killing George in a Manhunt]], Dream very clearly ''almost'' drops an f-bomb, but [[LastSecondWordSwap manages to morph it into "flipping"]].
** Meanwhile, over on the LetsPlay/DreamSMP, while Dream, Techno, and especially Bad tend to not swear often, Tommy very much ''[[SirSwearsALot does]]'', which has led to several comedic moments such as Tommy and the rest of Pogtopia trying to scare away Bad by swearing at him.
* [[WebVideo/The8BitDrummer The 8-Bit Drummer]] explicitly avoids cursing on his Twitch streams. This is parodied in a bumper where he explains "alternative swearing", in which any word can sound like a swear with the right inflection.
-->'''[[FirstNameBasis Jerod]]:''' Oh '''[[UnusualEuphemism EGGS]]'''!
** However, he used to use the word "shite", believing it to be a euphemism when it was actually a different swear entirely. He dropped this word when his chat pointed it out.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''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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* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' Series.
** Played Straight with Angel from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''. Despite being in her late teens/early adulthood, she is reluctant to swear and is quick to correct herself if she lets a cuss word slip. This is mostly because [[spoiler: her father, [[BigBad Handsome Jack,]] doesn't really like it.]]]] She later proceeds to defy this trope as [[spoiler: just before she dies, she calls him an asshole]].
** Enforced with [[LargeHam Mr Torgue]] as he ''can'' swear. But whenever he does, [[ClusterBleepBomb it's constantly bleeped out]]
--->''THE TORGUE SHAREHOLDERS WIRED MY VOICEBOX WITH A DIGITAL CENSOR SO I CAN'T SAY STUFF LIKE SH*T, C*CK, OR P*SSY-F*CKIN' D*CKBALLS!! THAT'S LIKE HALF MY F*CKIN' VOCABULARY!! IT'S GODDAMN BULLSH*T!!''
* The ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' games, which is aimed at children, have some generic lines of dialogue for fail scenarios (such as letting in an opponent goal) where players use minced oaths. Commonly they are variations on things such as, "Blast it!", "They're making it heck for us!", and "Darn you!". This is despite a lot of the games being given the same rating as video games like ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', a lot of the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' entries, and even some ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' entries by [[UsefulNotes/PanEuropeanGameInformation PEGI]]. '''''Yes, really.'''''
** Notably subverted within the narrative dialogue for ''Inazuma Eleven 3'', and strikingly so for a franchise that is supposedly aimed at children:
--> ''Jude:'' Dark...Damn you!
* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', at the end of the Callie vs Marie Splatfest Marie won and she sprouts "Holy Carp" as her reaction.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', Annie Girl of The Stars says in one Beowulf's Story Mode scenes "God dam- dang it!"
* In ''VideoGame/NoituLove'', the evil robot hordes are called "Grinning Darns". PlayedForLaughs in that members of the Darn Army have no problem using slightly more severe curse words, the army itself is created by Dr. Darnicus Damnation, and one enemy type is a zombie enemy called "Darn Piece Of Crap."
* In ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission''
** X yells "Ooooooh Shoot!" when he's critically hit.
** Massimo's [[CurseCutShort curse is cut short]] in a cut scene:
--->'''Massimo:''' Feeble Massimo? Grrrrrrrrrrrr! You sunnova-- (That's how it was spelled in the subtitles)
* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' villain Evil the Cat lived on [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Planet Heck]], where he unleashed CoolAndUnusualPunishment (like banging your shins on table corners and going to the DMV office) upon The Darned.
* The ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series:
** There's a spoofing of this tendency by referring to the once-again-resurrected [=LeChuck=] as a "Zombie Demon Ghost Pirate From Heck" in the third and fourth games. This is purely for the RuleOfFunny because they're clearly allowed to use the word ("Alright then, 'ROLL! ROLL through the gates of hell.' Must you take the fun of out everything?").
** You can also make Guybrush do this in ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' if you have him examine a "No Cursing" sign in a school.
-->"Fiddle-faddle!"
-->"Watch your mouth, young man!"
-->"Monkey knuckles!"
-->"Watch your mouth, young man!"
** Averted in Act III when Guybrush tells Herman Toothrot, "How do I get off this [[SymbolSwearing [bleep]]] island?"
* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'':
** In one of the "neutral zones", talking to a certain enemy agent would result in him telling you to "Get the heck out of here, you nerd!"
** It's also averted where Master D mentions the word "damn", and since this is followed by a gory animation of you shooting him in the face, it gives the impression that the creators of this scene don't care about censors.
* ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' - The original English SNES version translated hellhounds as "heck hounds" even though 'hell' wasn't being used as a swear word. ''Sword of Mana'' for the GBA set its tolerance for swears several levels ''below'' "darn." This leads to a certain character's death [[{{Narm}} resulting in the hero screaming "Blaaaast iiittt!!!" at the top of his lungs]].
* In the first ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' title, Dante tells a boss to "flock off". It sure sounds like a tame version of a certain other expletive that starts with "f" and ends with "ck". On the other hand, he just could have been punny, since said boss is a giant bird.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' uses "Flock off, feather-face!" line. It's a rare occurrence considering the number of times the F-bomb has been dropped by that point, and throughout the rest of the game.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', a family-friendly MascotFighter series, uses this trope quite a bit, mostly in trophy descriptions. In terms of in-game dialogue, two M-rated characters - [[VideoGame/MetalGear Colonel Roy Campbell]] and VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} - were hit with minor instances of this trope, due to their swearing in their home series; the Colonel uses the word "heck" in a codec conversation, and Bayonetta's "Don't [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with a witch" line is censored as "Don't ''mess'' with a witch". Ironically, downloading Bayonetta also adds a notable aversion of this trope to the game, with Rodin's trophy mentioning his bar/shop, "Gates of Hell". Also, the remix of the DK Rap from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' changes the line "this Kong's one hell of a guy" to "one heck of a guy."
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' - Seeing as the game's plot involved [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking genocide, racism, and a touch of implied homosexual lust]], it seems odd that characters would use "dang" and "crud", when the line was very clearly written to use "damn" and "crap". It is particularly jarring when the commander, in danger of being slaughtered along with his friends and family at the hands of the villain, growls "dang it!". However, the word "damned" is actually used in one instance, and if Ike dies on the last chapter, he also says "damn". The character Marcia, who under most circumstances would probably be a [[SirSwearsALot Madam Swears A Lot]], pretty much runs with this idea as if the translators were aware and making fun of this fact, with the {{Unusual Euphemism}}s she has used as expletives including, but not being limited to: "crackers", "chestnuts", "mutton chops", "horsemeat", "sponge-head", "jerky", and "barnacles". This is also parodied in one line completely original to the localization, in which a random NPC soldier shouts "Eat rock!", only to start giggling and ask if his joke was clever.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' averts much of its predecessor's use of this trope by using "damn" instead of "dang". However, the game still uses [[UnusualEuphemism Unusual Euphemisms]] from time to time, e.g. the guard after the second mission that shouts "Moldy onions! Where'd they go?!".
** On a fan-translation note, [[TheHero Sigurd]]'s [[spoiler:final words]] in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War/Seisen no Keifu]]'' have (in)famously been translated as "[[spoiler:Arvis!]] You dastard!". Naturally, this line has enjoyed abundant circulation as MemeticMutation, to the point that starting from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', 'dastard' has officially became the go-to word to replace 'bastard'.
** Many of the games in the series overall somewhat famously make common usage of archaic words in their English releases, including slurs, like "cur", "blamed", "dastard", and "mooncalf", which almost always induce some degree of MemeticMutation due to how utterly [[{{Narm}} silly]] or strange and unfamiliar they sound in modern times. Some of the more famous examples include the aforementioned "You dastard!", and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Eliwood]] [[NiceGuy of all people]] shouting "Craven cur!" at a boss. Considering the fantasy medieval sitting, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools they're actually]] [[{{Woolseyism}} rather appropriate]], and most fans find it quite charming.
** In ''Blazing Blade'', Hector, one of the three main characters of the game, uses "blast!" quite noticeably often; considering [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his]] [[HotBlooded character]], it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that if this weren't an E-rated game, he would be throwing out swears liberally.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' it's not uncommon to see strange half-vulgarities uttered by characters, such as Sumia's "pegasus poop" (or, as uttered by Frederik not even a few lines into the first chapter, "pegasus dung"), and the return of the infamous "dastard". However, minor swears such as "damn", "hell" and "crap" are not uncommon. [[SirSwearsALot Sully]] in particular, unlike Marcia before her, constantly uses as many actual swears at the highest intensity the T rating will allow her to, outright saying "bastard" quite a few times; including her voiced love confession cutscene if [[PlayerCharacter Robin]] S-supports her.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has Kiragi, Takumi's (possible) son. While all his critical hit lines are childish and funny, this one takes the cake.
--> '''Kiragi:''' [[WarIsHell War is]] ''[[WarIsHell heck!]]''
* In ''VideoGame/GodHand'', demonic guitarist Ravel yells "Rock off!" after getting trashed.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'':
** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers'', Roger is held captive by the Latex Babes of Estros.
-->'''Roger:''' "Let me go, [[WitchWithACapitalB b-buh-wuh... witch]]!"
** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVIRogerWilcoInTheSpinalFrontier'', the Narrator complains that the censors [[LampshadeHanging made him say]] a line this way:
-->"You were supposed to see Quazar Live in Concrete with Beatrice. Of course, that was before you got busted back down to Janitor and assigned to this dad-blasted heckhole of a mother-talking spaceship!"
* ''VideoGame/StarFox64'': Only characters like the brash Falco ever went as far as "heck". ''Assault'' had more swearing, but just as minced.
-->'''Fox [=McCloud=]:''' ''[after Pigma escapes with the Aparoid Core Memory they've been trying to get]'' Stop! Pigma! [{{beat}}] Dang! ''[kicks the ground]''
%%* This happens a lot in ''VideoGame/OverBlood''
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' - Zidane is prone to using 'heck' a lot in the English translation.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has a wonderful example. Rikku has just had her hometown blown up and TheTeam is flying away in an airship. Wakka tries to comfort her by saying 'Boom! Like happy festival fireworks, ya?'. Rikku says 'You can cram your happy festival, ya big meanie!'
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' has its share of swearing; "ass", "damn", "bastard", from everyone except Yuna. The closest she gets to swearing is, "Oh, poopie". Rikku scolds her for saying something so vulgar. Yuna was copying Rikku! In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Yuna gets even more polite: "Oh, foofie".
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' - Mostly averted, since it's the only M-rated game in the franchise. There are plenty of "damns" and "hells" from various characters. But in a few jarring scenes, the word "frick" is used to replace all instances that "fuck" could be used.
--->'''[=Aria=]: ''' ''You frickers just got done telling me that I could 'speak freely'? Why don't you try keeping your damn word, frickin' cadets!''
* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' community uses "funkin' " as the f-word in situations that call for it.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', after your first (and only) mission with Larxene, when you talk to Demyx, he says "Man, why's Larxene gotta be such a ''[[WitchWithACapitalB witch]]'' all the time?" We ''all'' know what he meant at that point, but apparently Demyx is so lazy, he can't even bother to swear.
** It's averted in the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' where Axel says "It's about time you gave me one hell of a show!"
* The ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' series has these expressions. Such as Moneybags's gem after you chase him down: "Drat! *pant pant* Double drat! *pant pant* Drat drat drat drat drat drat!"
* Initially, most of the classes in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' did not swear very much in-game, at most using "damn" and "hell" [[note]]Which is quite appropriate, [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode given that the game is both set in the '60s]][[/note]] and utilizes several '60s media tropes (such as FilmNoir for the Spy). The Pyro ([[TheUnintelligible as far as we know]]) and Medic still do not swear. Class updates have provided at one line for the other classes in which they swear, usually some form of "ass" or "son of a bitch." Some class-specific examples:
** The Engineer used to be notable for going on G-rated blue streaks involving words like "damn it", "dagnabit" or other similarly mild phrases in keeping with his [[SouthernFriedGenius educated]] SouthernGentleman personality. In ''Meet the Engineer'', he comes up with euphemisms like "[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness structurally superfluous new behind]]" and "motherhubbard." After his update, he started swearing for real (''"I'm wolverine mean, you son of a bitch!" "I just beat on your sneaky ass like a mule, boy!''").
** In contrast, the Scout has always been foul-mouthed, making liberal use of "ass" and "dumbass" even before the class updates. Even though he usually says "freakin'" or "frickin'" in-game, he uses "fucking'" in ''Meet the Scout'' and ''Meet the Pyro'' (although censored).
** The Spy, generally, didn't swear except for one instance of "shit" (in French). He's become more foulmouthed after his update, and also uses "fuck" in ''Meet the Spy'' (censored like in ''Meet the Scout'').
** The only class who has used curse words from the beginning is the Sniper who, in keeping with his [[NationalStereotypes stereotypical, vulgar, impolite, knife-wielding behaviour]], frequently used swear words such as 'wanker' and 'piss' even pre-update.
** The worst the Medic has called anyone is "Dumpkoff", which translates to "Stupid Head".
* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' has Probst Wyatt III, the NewMeat soldier who joins B.J. in his raid on Deathshead's compound. Throughout the entire game [[VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus and the sequel]], he goes out of his way to avoid cussing. In his appearances in the series, he only ever swears ''[[PrecisionFStrike once]]''.
--> ''"Leave him alone, you damn ugly fuck!"''
* In ''VideoGame/DarkestOfDays'', your CO/buddy Dexter breaks out the following whilst you flee from a German Prison:
--> ''"Time to make like shepherds and get the flock outta here!"''
* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', a few of the Happy-Happy Cultists do this when engaged. One of them gives you the curse "Don't go to heaven!"
* ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' is an inversion. He uses "damn" and "hell" in every other sentence.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect's'': Depending on how you've role-played Commander Shepard, s/he can be a hard-bitten ruthless mass-murderer, but will keep their dialogue PG. Squadmembers, on the other hand, have no restrictions whatsoever. Shepard is a Commander after all. In the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 sequel]] s/he and everyone else got more liberal with their language they were dealing with a lot of criminal scumbags, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Udina]]. Guys like [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Anderson]] were still quite clean about their language.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[SirSwearsALot Jack]] (provided she survived the previous game) becomes an instructor at Grissom Academy. In order to maintain a visage of professionalism, she's had to tone down her cussing quite a bit. Even she has her limits, though.
-->'''Joker''': What, does she have a swear jar? I bet we could empty that out and have enough to buy a new cruiser!\\
'''Jack''': ...hey, kids, cover your ears. Hey, Joker! F[[CurseCutShort [loading screen]]]
* ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar'' measured your popularity. One was, "When a plebeian greets you on the street, the second word is usually 'off'."
* In many Creator/{{SNK}} games, the English translators tend to use "Hades" instead of "Hell" even in the ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' series with Far Eastern warriors. They should not have any knowledge of Greek mythology whatsoever. By the same token, they shouldn't have any knowledge of Abrahamic religions either.
-->''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Rugal says, "Even with my new power, I lost. What? My body...????? No... to meet such a fate! But I'll be back... '''you jerks!'''"
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': Kidd uses "bugger" liberally and in place of "ass" as in "I'll kick your ass so hard you'll hit the moon!" she uses "arse" instead.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' is almost completely swear-free but in ''Red Alert 2'', the occasional "[[{{Eagleland}} Sam-hill]]" slips in courtesy of [[MissionControl Carville]].
* ''VideoGame/InThe1stDegree'' presents Inspector Looper, who tries ''very'' hard not to swear. When Ruby put a LampshadeHanging on it, Looper had to explain that her tyrant of a mother told her to stop swearing. Then she says "And I don't want any crap this time" to Tobin when she was interviewing Tobin. Does "crap" count as a minced oath or not?
* ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Call of Duty: United Offensive]]'' is an odd example of taking an already mild instance and further "G-rating" it.
-->'''Sgt. Moody:''' "Ender, I'd find that funny if I wasn't freezing my [[UnusualEuphemism can]] off!"
* The XBLA re-release of ''VideoGame/GuardianHeroes'' features such gems as "Holy schnitzel", "Mother bucket", and "Son of a cyclops".
* ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' has [[NiceGuy P.J.]] shout "''DANG IT!!''" just before he gets shot down. Unusually for this trope, he sounds genuinely furious, and this is the ''only'' time P.J. really loses his cool.
* Drippy in ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'' has quite the obsession with the word "flipping," which he uses extensively in the same ways [[ClusterFBomb one would vigorously use that other word that starts with F.]] "[[{{Badbutt}} En flipping garde!]]"
* One of the courses in ''{{VideoGame/SSX}} On Tour'' is called ''Son of a '''Birch''''' (although it can be argued that for snowboarders birch trees are just as bad, especially running into them in game and real life).
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' apparently wasn't allowed to use the F-word, despite the game being rated M, and tries to work around it by having a sign reading "FECK OFF CROWS" and a Terminator-like killer robot choosing to say "buff you, asshole" over "f*** you, scum" (asterisks sic).
* Used in the chapter 28 of ''VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay'' where one of the murder suspects call the victim a "gosh darn motherfudger" in place of "goddamn motherfucker".
* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis 3'' contains a hilarious instance where your partner says "F--!" One might think it's a CurseCutShort from reading it here, but no; she really does yell out the letter ''F''. There's also numerous grunts in part 2 who holler "Shucks!" when hit by gunfire and not in a pained way, either, making it sound as though they're embarrassed to have been shot.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic'' had "screw" in place of "fuck". A cheat code allowed for the dialogue to be replaced with [[ClusterFBomb more traditional swearing]].
* Lampshaded in ''[[VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame Lego Marvel Superheroes]]'': one sidequest involves [[ShoutOut some snakes on the helicarrier.]] The agent who gives it to you says that Director Fury wants the snakes off this ''goshdarn'' helicarrier. He then says, "[[NarrativeProfanityFilter I'm paraphrasing]]".
* [=MacCready=] in ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has a habit of avoiding swearwords or substituting them for another word ("Those assho--those idiots...") due to a promise he made to his son. This is in stark contrast to the foul-mouthed brat that he was in ''Videogame/{{Fallout 3}}''.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/MegaManAndBass'', in which Bass refers to Proto Man as a "prick".
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'': Guards will occasionally say "What in the fargly HE double hockey sticks is that doing there?" when they encounter a suspicious object.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', at the beginning the protagonist gets attacked by Pokémon. When Professor Kukui questions them on it, one of the replies is "Scared spitless".
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Ryuji will often substitute "fuck" with "eff". This is hilariously jarring since he's a SirSwearsALot who says curse words like "asshole", "shit", or "goddamn" a lot. To make it worse, he does say "fuck", but only in unvoiced dialogues. And not to mention, Kaneshiro has one of his goons in the car actually say "fuck" fully voiced.
* ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'': In the {{Telethon}} level, what sounded like mild profanity in today's modern times such as "fart", "crap", "pervert", "baloney", and "fudge" is strictly taboo as it was in TheFifties, and you have to make it enact the "CensoredForComedy" with the censor button.
* Clementine in ''Videogame/TheWalkingDead'':
** If Lee reins in his language around Clementine in the first season, she talks like this in the second.
** Averted in Season 2 Episode 2. No matter what you do, Clementine will cuss at least once. Given that she's now spent years surrounded by adults who tend to cuss like sailors around her, this shouldn't be that surprising.
** Back to using substitute swear words in Season 2 Episode 3. (She says "Dang it!" If Troy knocked her out with his rifle.) It's possible the previous unavoidable instance merely "slipped out" on accident due to being surprised by a zombie coming up on her.
** Averted in Season Three, where Clementine, now more mature and hardened, cusses like a sailor.
** Season 4 can have her pass this trait on to AJ.
* ''Videogame/Wizard101'': King Thermidor complains about being trapped by "the dratted eels."
* ''VideoGame/BabaIsYou'': The character BADBAD is "allowed to say darn three times a day".
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