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* Dave from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''[='=]s dialogue consists almost entirely of creative and obscene metaphors.

* Roy Brown's "Butcher Pete" (featured in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'') is about Pete being a bold philanderer, but Roy Brown avoids singing about sex by using ''brutal murder and dismemberment'' as a dysphemism.

--> "It fucking sucks, it sucking fucks, it fucking blows, it's a pile of shit -- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and I didn't like it]]."

* Costello's mistress in ''TheDeparted'' lampshades the potential UnfortunateImplications of this kind of dialogue. After he makes several references in a phonecall to giving a detective "a whiff of my ass" so that he'll "crawl right in", he hangs up and turns to his girlfriend, who is reading a book on getting pregnant;

* On the website AlternateHistoryDotCom and the production based on its culture, ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'', {{Wikipedia}} is nicknamed "The Armenian Genocide" due to the fact that a lot of arguments have focused on the fact that it is often subject to vandalism by nationalist trolls on that issue. This has in turn led to further Unusual Dysphemisms such as "genocide" being used as a substitute for any and every other verb when describing a news story involving Armenians.

The opposite of UnusualEuphemism, a character replaces an ordinary phrase with an unnecessarily [[BlackComedy obscene]] or crude one. There are several examples in ordinary usage, see The Other Wiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism examples]], but this trope is for particularly imaginative ones.

The opposite of UnusualEuphemism, a character replaces an ordinary phrase with an unnecessarily [[BlackComedy obscene]] or [[RefugeInVulgarity crude]] one. There are several examples in ordinary usage, see The Other Wiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism examples]], but this trope is for particularly imaginative ones.

Related to BlackComedy and RefugeInVulgarity.

The opposite of UnusualEuphemism, a character replaces an ordinary phrase with an unnecessarily [[DeadBabyComedy obscene]] or [[RefugeInVulgarity crude]] one. There are several examples in ordinary usage, see The Other Wiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism examples]], but this trope is for particularly imaginative ones.

Related to DeadBabyComedy and RefugeInVulgarity.

-->'''Costello:''' Sweetheart, you're givin' me a hard-on...
-->'''Gwen:''' Are you sure it's me? Not all that talk about whiffin' and [[TransparentCloset crawlin' up asses]]?

* Near the beginning of ''JohnDiesAtTheEnd'', John calls Dave and says, "Bring the cocaine shipment to the place where we buried the Korean transvestite."

* Literature--and anything in printed form--is said by [[OldMediaAreEvil internet aficionados]] to be in "Dead Tree Format".

* The first episode of ''{{Coupling}}'' has Jeff [[DiggingYourselfDeeper (true to form)]] describing the girl Steve is struggling to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything dump]] as "unflushable".
* ''{{Scrubs}}'' has mentioned a few RealLife examples of doctors' acronyms, like "'''G'''et '''O'''ut of '''M'''y '''E'''mergency '''R'''oom", and ''{{QI}}'' described a few more creative ones.

* Roy Brown's "Butcher Pete" (featured in VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}) is about Pete being a bold philanderer, but Roy Brown avoids singing about sex by using ''brutal murder and dismemberment'' as a dysphemism.

* On the website AlternateHistoryDotCom and the production based on its culture, ''AHDotComTheSeries'', {{Wikipedia}} is nicknamed "The Armenian Genocide" due to the fact that a lot of arguments have focused on the fact that it is often subject to vandalism by nationalist trolls on that issue. This has in turn led to further Unusual Dysphemisms such as "genocide" being used as a substitute for any and every other verb when describing a news story involving Armenians.
* It isn't enough for WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd to simply call a game bad - he has to call it things like "a steaming pile of goat shit" or "a bunch of putrid anal shit coming out of a rhinoceros's asshole".
** "It fucking sucks, it sucking fucks, it fucking blows, it's a pile of shit -- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and I didn't like it.]]"

* The notorious ''[[{{FATAL}} F.A.T.A.L.]]'' would be bad enough without gems such as "fucksticks" and "cunt-pipes". The former appears to have been removed in most of the circulating versions, but the latter is present in all editions.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Teen Titans]]'':
-->'''Starfire:''' ''(pinning a flower on Robin's lapel)'' I believe on such occasions, it is customary to wear a dead plant?
* Appears occasionally in SouthPark.

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* Roy Brown's "Butcher Pete" (repopularized in recent years by Fallout3) is about a philandering man's amorous antics, but Roy Brown avoids singing about sex by using ''brutal murder and dismemberment'' as a dysphemism.

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* ''{{XKCD}}'' comes up with the idea of "reverse euphemisms", where "taking a shit" ''actually'' means "dropping the kids off at the pool".

* It isn't enough for WebOriginal/TheAngryVideoGameNerd to simply call a game bad - he has to call it things like "a steaming pile of goat shit" or "a bunch of putrid anal shit coming out of a rhinoceros's asshole".

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* It isn't enough for TheAngryVideoGameNerd to simply call a game bad - he has to call it things like "a steaming pile of goat shit" or "a bunch of putrid anal shit coming out of a rhinoceros's asshole".

* Costello's mistress in ''TheDeparted'' lampshades the potential UnfortunateImplications of this kind of dialogue. After he makes several references in a phonecall to giving a detective "a whiff of my ass" so that he'll "crawl right in", he hangs up and turns to his girlfriend;
-->'''Costello:''' C'mere, you're makin' me horny...
-->'''Gwen:''' You sure it's me? Not all that talk about whiffin' and [[TransparentCloset crawlin' up asses]]?

* Dave from ''{{Homestuck}}'''s dialogue consists almost entirely of creative and obscene metaphors.

* Costello's wife in ''TheDeparted'' lampshades the potential UnfortunateImplications of this kind of dialogue. After he makes several references in a phonecall to giving a detective "a whiff of my ass" so that he'll "crawl right in", he hangs up and turns to his wife;

-->'''Wife:''' You sure it's me? Not all that talk about whiffin' and [[TransparentCloset crawlin' up asses]]?

* Dave from ''{{Homestuck}}'' is the SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample of this trope, his dialogue consisting almost entirely of creative and obscene metaphors.

* Literature--and anything in printed form--is said to be in "Dead Tree Format".

* ''{{House}}'' is a one-man treasure trove of unusual dysphemisms. Too bad ThatTroper couldn't remember to write any of them down for us.

* The notoriously bad ''[[{{FATAL}} F.A.T.A.L.]]'' would be bad enough without gems such as "fucksticks" and "cunt-pipes". The former appears to have been removed in most of the circulating versions, but the latter is present in all editions.

* Dave from ''{{Homestuck}}'' is the MostTriumphantExample of this trope, his dialogue consisting almost entirely of creative and obscene metaphors.

* ''{{House}}'' is a one-man treasure trove of unusual dysphemisms.

** For a more comprehensive RealLife list, look [[http://www.messybeast.com/dragonqueen/medical-acronyms.htm here]]. No longer much used on charts due to legal concerns, but still quite alive in staff rooms and on medical fora.