History Main / WeaponsGradeVocabulary

* An issue of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' comic book had a plant-like alien race that, after copying nearby Earthlings, proceed to drone endlessly on and on about inane subjects until their victims quite literally die of boredom. Leela eventually figures out that the plants have to be defeated at their own game, and has ''Fry'' babble about his own trivial interests until the aliens themselves wither away.

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** One of the bosses, [[spoiler: Flowey]] also attacks you by literally throwing words at you. [[spoiler: Subverted when you ask for help and they turn into healing items.]]

-->"You fight like a dairy farmer!"\\
"How appropriate, you fight like a cow!"

* ''Webcomic/{{Fortuna}}'': Athena, which has one of requirements is control of creation of Captain of ship, created a character that could kill with puns. [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=3646&p=4441 here]].

* In ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsBattleForBikiniBottom'', The [[Main/MirrorBoss SpongeBot SteelPants]] boss literally sends the words "Kah-RAH-tae" at [=SpongeBob=] after three of its lights are destroyed.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': Alice has foul language that actually affects people. She then accidentally did it to her boss at meeting about it. [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-09 This]], then at [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-10 meeting]]. Perhaps she learned it from [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-11-02 one of her coworkers.]]

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* ''EightBitTheater'' had bad puns being just as lethal against Astos.

* In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', particularly clever counterpoints apparently have the ability to hit opposing attorneys like a gale-force wind, throwing them back, making them flinch, shattering their glasses, and, in one particularly devastating case, tearing all the hair off a person's head, leaving him mostly bald.

* Since {{Xanth}} runs on puns, curse words function as actual curses, most often of the concussive or pyrotechnic type. Part of the reason the Adult Conspiracy (To Keep Interesting Things From Children) exists is that children knowing these words [[FridgeBrilliance actually]] makes them ''dangerous''.

* For ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator'' and its sequel ''Oh... Sir! The Hollywood Roast'', this is the method of dueling. Both combatants are in a disagreement, and settle their argument with [[MadLibsDialogue a selection of nonsense that players have to string into]] [[VolleyingInsults a semi-coherent insult]]. It's possible to [[AttackItsWeakPoint hurt one's opponent deeper by hitting closer to home]]: [[FormerlyFit Nigel Hogg]], for example, is sensitive about the topic of weight and appearance ("'''[Your face] [is fat]''' [and] [your mother] '''[is dull and ugly]'''!]]"), while [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman John Shufflebottom]] doesn't like his fashion sense being mocked ("'''[Your hat]''' [looks like] [a dead parrot] [and] '''[your suit]''' [smells of] [your cousin's car], [you numpty!]")

* For ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator'' and its sequel ''Oh... Sir! The Hollywood Roast'', this is the method of dueling. Both combatants are in a disagreement, and settle their argument with a selection of nonsense that players have to string into a semi-coherent insult. It's possible to [[AttackItsWeakPoint hurt one's opponent deeper by hitting closer to home]]: [[FormerlyFit Nigel Hogg]], for example, is sensitive about the topic of weight and appearance ("[[MadLibsDialogue [Your face] [is fat] [and] [your mother] [is dull and ugly]!]]"), while [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman John Shufflebottom]] doesn't like his fashion sense being mocked ("[Your hat] [looks like] [a dead parrot] [and] [your suit] [smells of] [your cousin's car], [you numpty!]")

* For ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator,'' this is the method of duelling. Both combatants are in a disagreement, and settle their argument with a selection of nonsense that players have to string into a semi-coherent insult. It's possible to hurt one's opponent deeper by hitting closer to home: Nigel Hogg, for example, is sensitive about the topic of weight and appearance ("[[MadLibsDialogue [Your face] [is fat] [and] [your mother] [is dull and ugly]!]]"), while John Shufflebottom doesn't like his fashion sense being mocked ("[Your hat] [looks like] [a dead parrot], [you numpty!]")
* ''VideoGame/TheUrQuanMasters'': Eternal One's full name is this to Daktaklakpak. It caused extinction of that species, as name is full summary of what Eternal one is, starting with name, the genetic material, so on and on. There is no computing system that can calculate its full name.

* Since {{Xanth}} runs on puns, curse words function as actual curses. Part of the reason the Adult Conspiracy (To Keep Interesting Things From Children) exists is that children knowing these words actually makes them ''dangerous''.

* ''{{Vexxarr}}'': [[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=071906 Weapons grade pleading?]]
* ''{{Spacetrawler}}'': One guest comic depicts a "Grwfl-grwfl" joke so hilarious that it [[YourHeadASplode causes its hearer's head to explode]]. An entire [[PlanetOfHats joke-obsessed species]] is listening via radio, eagerly anticipating the funniest joke ever--and they're completely wiped out in seconds. (Fortunately for the rest of the galaxy, the punchline relies on terminology that died with that species, so it has no effect on anyone else.)

* For ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator,'' this is the method of duelling. Both combatants are in a disagreement, and settle their argument with a selection of nonsense that players have to string into a semi-coherent insult. It's possible to hurt one's opponent deeper by hitting closer to home: Nigel Hogg, for example, is sensitive about the topic of weight and appearance ("[[MadLibsDialogue Your face... is fat... and... your mother... is dull and ugly!]]"), while John Shufflebottom doesn't like his fashion sense being mocked ("Your hat... looks like... a dead parrot... you numpty!")

* For ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator,'' this is the method of duelling. Both combatants are in a disagreement, and settle their argument with a selection of nonsense that players have to string into a semi-coherent insult. It's possible to hurt one's opponent deeper by hitting closer to home: Nigel Hogg, for example, is sensitive about the topic of weight and appearance ("Your face is fat and your mother is dull and ugly!"), while John Shufflebottom doesn't like his fashion sense being mocked ("Your hat looks like a dead parrot, you numpty!")

* For ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator,'' this is the method of duelling. Both combatants are in a disagreement over what serves as plot, and settle their argument with a MadLibs selection of nonsense. It's possible to hurt one's opponent deeper by hitting closer to home, such as remarking on their sense of fashion, or any relatives if they're dead/in jail. You'll be told after a remark how effectively it hit, so you know whether to abandon a line of insult that doesn't impact them, or to pursue anything that would wound them personally.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': Alice has foul language that actually affects people. She then accidentally did it to her boss at meeting about it. [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-09 This]], then at [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-10 meeting]].

* The Deplorable Word in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is one of the most dangerous weapons in existence--the instant it is spoken, all life in a world, except that of the speaker, is instantly and irreversibly decimated. It's not known whether or not this was limited to Charn (Jadis's home world); thankfully, no one in the series ever tries it again.

* ''Literature/{{Orthogonal}}'': The poem, if written on body then pressed on other being body, would be deadly in short time was briefly discussed as myth. They are [[StarfishAliens very different]] so they form writing with their bodies, then dye skin and press paper on it. So, basically written weapons-grade poem.