Precision F-Strike

Watch your language, Superman! What would Martha say?^note WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!

"Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

— Mark Twain

A Precision F-Strike is when a character suddenly swears in an uncharacteristically strong manner, or when a swear is unexpectedly used in a work with mild language. It's usually intended to show that shit just got real serious.

Another variant is when a movie limits its swearing-in order to keep from getting an R rating, and so is forced to place it very strategically. If a movie uses the F word more than two or three times or in a sexual or aggressive way, it can easily get an R rating. If it's used up to two or three times, each in a non-sexual context, it usually stays PG-13 so long as it lacks any other content that would warrant an R rating. (Similarly, on television, a single F word guarantees at least a TV-14 L rating, and multiple uses are very likely to bump the rating up to TV-MA L.) As such, the writers will only have the characters curse when it actually means something.

Also, when Unusual Euphemism is normally in play in a work, having "real" oaths appear can have the same effect.

Due to the nature of language, this trope is prone to Values Dissonance about what words are appropriate. "Bloody", "cunt", "arse" and "twat", just to name a few words, have very different connotations on the two sides of the Atlantic — and that's just the differences within a single language. Although like many other English words, the word "fucking" exists with only a minor variation in German ("ficken"), it's only used as a verb and almost never as a curse word. The word "Scheiße" ("shit") and its variations are almost always used in exactly the same way as the word "fuck" in English. In many European countries, swearing is rarely considered an issue when it comes to film ratings — for example, Silver Linings Playbook, which has about seven dozen F words, was rated "tous publics" (equivalent to the MPAA's "G") in France, and children as young as six could watch it in the Netherlands.

The same can't be said about video games, however. In Europe, a single F-word can easily result in a PEGI 16 rating. In fact, the only words allowed in the PEGI 12 and lower categories are just mild swears like "hell" and "damn" (sometimes, however, the word "shit" can appear in 12-rated games). Similarly, in the United States, the F word is only known to have appeared in games with an M rating.

In some languages, however, expletives do not actually exist or are so uncommonly used and/or offensive that they are not allowed in the media. Seemingly equivalent words may be used similarly, but without the impact of an actual expletive (for example, although the Japanese word kuso is translated as "shit", its profanity level is more along the lines of "crud" and is often used in children's shows by child characters without raising alarm). These languages may have levels of politeness which serve the same purpose (again, Japanese), and translations often take advantage of the dub/sub language's expletives to give the same feeling. For subtitles, this crosses over into Spice Up the Subtitles, unless the expletive used by the translator actually is said in the original dialogue, as is known to happen.

Note that when using this trope in the context of the quote, DON'T attach it to every single time said quote contains "fuck", "shit", etc. This trope IS applicable if it's for a case of unusually strong swearing or of the party that uttered the quote isn't exactly known to be dirty-mouthed.

This trope is an intersection of Sophisticated as Hell and Conservation of Ninjutsu; related to O.O.C. Is Serious Business. May overlap with Atomic F-Bomb for extra emphasis. Compare Minor Insult Meltdown and This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!.

Contrast with the Cluster F-Bomb and Gosh Dang It to Heck!, although it can overlap with the latter if the work in question usually doesn't even contain mild profanity.

Due to the nature of the trope, the following examples will contain swearing. Please don't be a fucking Bluenose Bowdlerizer.

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Other examples:

Advertising

• Samuel L. Jackson did the first few days of the campaign for Capital One Bank's new credit card by saying that it offers 1 1/2% cash back "every damn day." They then changed it so later commercials said "every single day."
• A radio commercial for Samuel Adams beer back in the 90s had the founder of the company saying that the difference in carbs between a regular and a lite beer^note This was before Sam Adams made a lite beer is about "three tortilla chips worth. BFD." Though it's really only an example of this trope to people who realize that BFD stands for "Big Fucking Deal."
• One of the adverts for the Prime Computer featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana has the Doctor quietly saying "Damn" when the offscreen alien knows that he owns one of them.
• An A&W Root Beer commercial pulls a fast one on the audience, with a stupid prospective employee referring to the boss he's being interviewed by as "Dumbass"; uncensored, even. The boss' name is "Dumass", pronounced "Du-moss".

Comedy

• Played straight, then lampshaded into Cluster F-Bomb territory in Louis-José Houde's special Suivre la parade during an extended bit about his ex-girlfriend's abortion. He describes going home after the procedure and (after wishing his own father a happy birthday) listening to a new voicemail message from his agent: he's just won an award from a kids' TV station for "the performer that you'd would most like as a dad."
  Houde: (after a long pause, quietly) ...Tabarnac. (audience laughs) I'm sorry, there's one swear word in the show, there it is — tabarnac. It's a tabarnac case, I have to, I'm sorry. At that moment in your life, I swear, that's what comes out — tabarnac. Tabarnac, tabarnac, tabarnac.
  • Context for English speakers: Tabarnac is a very offensive swear word in Quebec French, equivalent to "Fuck" but without a sexual meaning. It refers to a tabernacle, the place in a Church where the Host (AKA Communion wafers) is stored in between masses. Most Quebecois curses are centered around Roman Catholicism.
• Bill Cosby, famous for working clean, drops one in Himself:
  Bill Cosby: So I asked, "What is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?" He said, "Well, it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"
  • It's secondhand, but: Eddie Murphy did a hilarious bit about Cosby chiding him for his use of foul language. It culminates with Murphy-imitating-Cosby saying "Yooooooooooou (Beat) cannot say (beat) FUCK. (beat) In front of people." In the mid-1980s, the mere suggestion that Bill Cosby actually said "fuck" is enough to bring the house down.
• Poetry-reading rather than stand-up, but Taylor Mali lampshades this brilliantly with his poem, I Could Be a Poet:
  "I am not afraid to use the one requisite swear word that lets you know I am fuckin' serious, man."
• Steve Martin in his album A Wild and Crazy Guy:
  "Now, this doesn't happen to me very often, but about three weeks ago, I met a girl and she was real nice and she invited me to her apartment. So I went over there, and she had the best pussy I have ever seen —" [Audience laughter, cheers and catcalls] "Oh, now come on! I'm talkin' about her cat! Now that makes me sick, right there! No! No, you can't say anything anymore that people don't take it dirty, and I'm sorry, that disgusts me!" [Pause] "That cat was the best fuck I ever had, too."
• Not sure if this qualifies as "stand up" but as there is no category for Sketch Comedy Record Albums... Monty Python's The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail has this in its "Introduction To The Executive Album Edition":
  "Everything on this record has been designed to meet the exacting standards which you have naturally come to expect....There is little or no offensive material, apart from four cunts, one clitoris, and a foreskin. And, as they only occur in this opening introduction, you're past them now."
• Steven Wright's act is generally devoid of any and all cursing. Given his tendencies towards literalism, though, it shouldn't come as any surprise that the one time his stage persona swore it was because he thought he was speaking French.
• George Carlin is the champion of dirty words.
• Used by Ron White in his act when discussing how he got kicked out of the debate team
  Ron: I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying, "Yeah? Well, fuck you!". The other guy was speechless. I thought I had won!
• British comedian Frank Skinner experimented with this trope while on tour, first by removing all swearing from his act and then by reintroducing only the most significant swearwords. He later started promoting the buzzword Intelligent Swearing.
• Ray Romano, long known for being the wishy-washy husband on Everybody Loves Raymond, performed stand-up comedy at Carnegie Hall. He began as follows.
  "Excuse me for a moment, ladies and gentlemen...Carnegie F<bleep>ing Hall. <wild applause> The only profanity of the night."
  • As part of an HBO special shortly after the last episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, he said "You have no idea how many times on that show I just wanted to shout 'Shut the fuck up, Debra! Shut the fuck up!'" He went on to say "This is Cable, I'm allowed to swear."
• Billy Connolly is known for his barrage of F-words (and in his most recent material, the C-word) but earlier in his career he tended to avoid stronger swear words, replacing them with childish ones ("Jobby" instead of "Shit" for instance). As his career progressed, he gradually started using stronger language, leading to a wonderful Precision F Strike in a story about a Cardinal visiting a Roman Catholic school in Glasgow, Scotland. After a child tells the Cardinal to "fuck off", the offended holyman goes on a long tirade about how he studied hard to be in the position he was in today, ascending the ranks of the clergy to eventually sitting on the jury who elected Pope John Paul II. The punchline:
  "....and you're telling ME to fuck off? YOU fuck off!!"
• David Mitchell could strike you as a rather shy, calm and introverted person, and even when making one of his long and rather angry rants he usually watches his language. If he does swear, it's really a remarkable moment, such as an appearance on Adam Hills' The Last Leg, where he goes on a rant about tax avoidance including an ice cream analogy and no swearing at all, until the very end:
  "So what we're doing is we're discouraging people from being nice and having a conscience... by taxing it. And that is the most fucking bonkers system that we could possibly have come across."
• Lenny Bruce was known for his flagrant use of vulgar and obscene comedy, but perhaps the hardest hitting obscenity he ever spewed was in the wake of the JFK assassination. He opened his show that night with a moment of silence for the late President, and the first thing he said afterwards was "Is Vaughn Meader fucked!"

Comic Books

• Alias: The series by Brian Michael Bendis was the first series of Marvel's mature readers Marvel MAX imprint, and indeed was part of why the imprint was formed. The word Fuck is the very first of the series, in the first panel, and is repeated twice again on page 1. The rest of the series is absolutely rife with swearing, but the early introduction of the word is quite effective.
• Bone: The comic is chemically free of swear words... with one exception. When discovering Phoney Bone's "Dragonslayer" bluff, Lucius Down asks him "What the hell do you think you're doing?" Made all the more notable in that he's uncharacteristically calm during the entire scene.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Obligatory example as the characters are faster and looser with the foul language. Examples include Willow going on about the trauma caused by, "That fucking Warren Meers," Buffy calling out The Dragon over putting her through all this, "fucking shit," a Slayer guessing what's happening between Buffy and Angel says, "I think they're fucking," which leads into the next story's title, Kennedy calling out Buffy on how badly she, "fucked up," Buffy daring the reader not to, "say a fucking word" about one particular storyline, and Buffy again on realizing what's happened to her that she's, "a fucking robot."
• Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!: During Captain Carrot and the Final Ark superheroic turtle Fastback uses a lot of Gosh Dang It to Heck! type expletives. When fellow superhero Pig Iron asks him what exactly "shoot a mile" means, Fastback is interrupted during an explanation of expletives by an appearance of the villain Frogzilla, causing him to shout out a (censored) example.
• Castle Waiting: The comic is very sparse with the swear words, though some characters occasionally make use of a bit of Symbol Swearing. There are, however, a couple of uncensored "Damn"s, the most noticeable coming from Lady Jain after a Freudian Slip has caused her to blow her secret.
• Cerebus the Aardvark: Jaka rejecting Cerebus in favor of her husband causes him to utter the word "shit" for the first time in the comic's run.
• Deathwish: From issue #3: "Fuck art, let's dance!"
• Doctor Strange: Doctor Strange drops one in Doctor Strange: The Oath:
  BY THE HOARY #%*-ing HOSTS!
• Doomsday Clock:
  • Though Funetik Aksent was used, John Constantine says "fucking".
  • Lex Luthor, who even notes he doesn't usually curse, throws the Comedian's own words to Ozymandias back at him, calling him a "goddamn asshole" before sending the Comedian back to the fall to his death.
• Gargoyles: In the SLG comics continuation, the normally sweet and polite Angela lets out a "YOU BASTARD!" When she sees Thailog standing over her father's limp body while brandishing a bloody blade. Underscored by the fact that she just happens to be dressed like Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz at the time.
• Green Lantern: In the origin of Blue Lantern Saint Walker, he appears first as the incredibly serene, religious and hopeful man readers are already familiar with, climbing up to the peak of a sacred mountain with his family. They're trying to find their dying world's messiah, but one by one Walker's loving family dies. When Walker reaches the mountain top and finds no messiah, he yells at his God, with possibly his first profanity and blasphemy ever.
  Walker: DAMN YOU!
• Invincible: In issue #108, Mark is left stranded in another dimension, after Robot betrays him by killing instead of capturing Angstrom Levy, as well as killing that dimension's Invincible. After recovering from the effects of Robot's sonic disruption, Invincible looks at the mess around him, and utters what is essentially the only instance of the F-bomb in the entire run of the comic:
  Invincible: Holy fuck.
• Justice League of America: At the climax of the Fernus storyline, the titular villain, aka the Superpowered Evil Side Martian Manhunter never knew he had, uses his vast Psychic Powers to launch nukes all over the world. While the League desperately tries to prevent a nuclear cataclysm, Fernus makes the following observation:
  "They'll try to destroy them all. The Justice League of America knows exactly how the missiles work. When they actually arm, they'll know which missiles one must coddle and which one can simply obliterate. But somewhere in the world Superman has just uttered his first real swear word in years. That has to count for something."
• Lucifer: The angel Duma manages to achieve all that a Precision F-Strike could hope for - a chilling dawning realization that the entire world has changed and it's never going to go back to the way it was - by saying the word No. It helps that he's at least ten thousand million years old and has never spoken before.
• The Powerpuff Girls: Issue #16 of the DC Comics run had a story with the demonic figure Him in a story with the malapropism title "Hell Toupee."
• Preacher: The Anti-Villain Hoover has been struggling with being a bluenose who can't bring himself to drop the f-bomb. When Starr kills Featherstone, he finally musters the rage to say the word.
  • Earlier in the series, a rather meek man (described as "the unluckiest cop in the world") is partnered with a badass Cowboy Cop. On discovering that his partner is a homosexual masochist, he undergoes "the first time in my life I ever swore":
    Are you sure you're not just fucked in the head?
• The Punisher: Frank Castle from The Punisher MAX, for all his grimness, rarely ever swears (or shows much emotion at all, really). However after having endured multiple knock-down, drag out fights with Barracuda, a massive, vicious, twisted man, who simply would not shut up, Frank's Pre-Mortem One-Liner response was suitably final:
  Frank: SHUT THE FUCK UP! [unloads an AK into his head]
• Rat-Man: Author Leo Ortolani gets a lot of mileage from his ability to curse without actually swearing (even having a character who explicitely curses by saying actual swearwords with a letter altered), so Valker shouting "MA VUOI MORIRE, UNA CAZZO DI BUONA VOLTA?!" (translating more or less as "Will you die, this fucking time?!". "Cazzo" translates as "dick", and is basically the Italian language's general-purpose swearword) as he killed Topin in the last issue had this effect. Immediately Lampshaded when Rat-Man chastizes him for cussing in front of a teen (that just happens to be Rat-Man's daughter, and thus Valker's granddaughter, to boot) and Valker replies to let him do it because it was the last issue.
• Reyn: Towards the end, a flashback reveals that Reyn once got impaled with a sword. This is his reaction:
  Reyn: "Well...fuck. Just how bad does this look?"
• Runaways: Given that they have two underage girls in their roster, the older Runaways try to avoid using bad language. But when Xavin's mentor Chrell nearly killed the whole team AND called her betrothed Karolina a "Majesdanian tramp", said Majesdanian tramp unleashed a powerful volley of cosmic energy... and apparently some wicked swearing. As Molly Hayes remarked, "I didn't know 'Lina KNEW words like that!"
  • Also, an earlier story arc saw the Runaways get stranded in 1907. After the team barely escaped from a vicious gang war and an attempted bombing, Molly swore for perhaps the first time, declaring that "Nineteen-oh-seven is ASS."
  • The last arc features at least two "fucks". The first is Chase telling a screaming Klara to shut the fuck up, but since this is Chase we're talking about, that's probably par for the course. Later, though, after Nico casts a spell that nearly exposes the entire team to gunfire, then casts another hasty spell to cover it up, Karolina demands to know what the fuck Nico was thinking.
• The Sandman (1989): Rose Walker.
• Scott Pilgrim: When someone swears, you know it's serious.
• Sin City: Oddly enough, with all of the taboos the comic deals with, swear words are usually PG-13 rated and sparse. There has only been one F-bomb in the entire series: "Make a missing person's case out of this fucker!" when The Colonel is killed.
• Superman:
  • The current trope picture is from The Supergirl from Krypton (2004). Superman of all people swears at Darkseid after the latter tries to murder his cousin Supergirl:
    Superman: Darkseid... SHUT THE HELL UP!
  • The Phantom Zone: When Zod smugly reminds Superman that he can't kill him, Superman angrily replies: "But my code does not say a damn thing— about not battering you to within an inch of it!!"
• Super Mario Bros.: Played for laughs in an issue of the Valiant series. No, really. Princess Toadstool finds herself on a magic carpet, rising higher, and higher. Her reaction? "Oh, %#@*!!!" And then she does it again upon being discovered by some Pidgits.
• X-Men:
  • In one story, Cyclops tells Agent Brand that he'd cut her head off and hide the fucking body if she didn't stay out of mutant affairs. Everyone acts shocked by this, and a Cluster F-Bomb is launched.
  • Also, Hank Pym◊ called Reed Richards a bitch.
  • Early on in God Loves, Man Kills, Kitty Pryde punches out a fellow student for coming down on the side of Reverend Stryker and his anti-mutant crusade. When Stevie Hunter, her black dance instructor, tells her his rhetoric was "just words", Kitty's response is an angry Armor-Piercing Question with a Precision N-Strike:
    Kitty: What if he'd called me a nigger-lover, Stevie? Would you have been so damn tolerant then?!
• Young Avengers: In the second volume, Miss America Chavez clamps Loki's mouth shut in order to prevent him from reciting an escape spell. Then her two moms show up and start reprimanding her. So America releases her hand from Loki's mouth with a "%!@# that", allowing Loki to teleport them away.

Comic Strips

• Doonesbury:
  • The author pushed to allow B.D. to swear ("SON OF A BITCH!") when he wakes up after losing a leg in Iraq. This is significant because newspaper comics have extremely strict clamps on their subject matter. A few papers dropped the strip. Most simply edited the line. A few kept it as-is, with the paper's editor stating it was justified.
  • Melissa saying "That's sergeant bitch to you", which seems to just be for the sake of the punchline.
• Milder example, but a New Yorker cartoon with the caption "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it" spawned a meme in 1930s America. (E.B. White, of all people, wrote the caption.)
• The 15th July 2010 strip of Pearls Before Swine features Pig's sole direct^note He previously swears at least twice when repeating things Rat has said use of Symbol Swearing as a Take That! against British Petroleum.^note The company indirectly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He even said that he's "never said a bad word in the strip before".
• Calvin and Hobbes:
  • The comic came close to it in a 1986 strip:
    [Calvin hands Hobbes a book]
    Calvin: What does this word mean?
    Hobbes: Which one?
    Calvin [pointing] That long one.
    [Hobbes sees the word — and his eyes bug out, he claps his paw over his mouth, he jumps into the air, and his fur goes all bristly. Finally, he relaxes]
    Hobbes: [lying] I don't know.
    Calvin: You do too!
  • The only time there is actually a curse spoken in the strip is also 1986, whereupon seeing that "Be" only got him two points in Scrabble, Calvin states "2 POINTS? IS THAT @#$% ALL?"^note possible if "_E", with the blank used for a B, gets played on a double word score space which was just done to have Hobbes say "My, this game does teach new words!".
• Garfield uses Symbol Swearing to cover curse words, but one strip has Garfield remarking that the Mondays in one year "sucked". Jim Davis mentions that he got a lot of fan mail for it.
• Dilbert: Fused with Unusual Euphemism once by the main character, having been asked to look after the (apparently unique) Black Box server:
  Dilbert: Frack.

Films — Animation

• The Transformers: The Movie:
  • This gets pulled off by Spike Witwicky. After an attempt to destroy Unicron with a moon bomb fails, Spike makes explicit his surprise by exclaiming, "It isn't even dented! Oh SHIT, what are we gonna do now?!". The fact that this was based off a cartoon for all ages makes it all the more surprising. Some versions have the line removed. This became so prevalent that on one Transformers DVD, this particular moment is titled "Swear"!
  • Later on in the film, Ultra Magnus tries to open the Matrix to defeat Galvatron and his Decepticon army. He fails, letting off a growl of "Open! Damn it, OPEN!" Unlike the above, this one was retained on all video prints.
• In Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, after being betrayed by Amanda Waller, Lex Luthor simply turns to face her and says, "Bitch." It is rated PG-13, but the fact that the line is spoken by Clancy Brown after years of him playing Mr. Krabs on Spongebob makes it more surprising, awesome, and funny.
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: Alfred uses this to show us why he is the most awesome butler alive.
  Batman: You think you know everything about me, don't you?
  Alfred: I diapered your bottom. I bloody well ought to... sir.
• Sleeping Beauty: "Now you shall deal with me, o' prince, and all the powers of HELL!" For bonus points, it heralds one of the most famous One-Winged Angel scenes in all of cinema: Maleficent transforming into a dragon. This was made in The '50s, and it would be literally decades before a second invocation of "Hell" would appear in a Disney animated feature.
• Another classic Disney example, from Pinocchio: "Ha ha ha! Go on, laugh! Make a jackass out of yourself! I'm through!"
• Justin in The Secret of NIMH lets out a "Damn!" when Mrs. Brisby is captured by a human child.
• The Mind's Eye: Four videos, and only one "ass". Specifically, the singer in The Gate's "Nuvogue" can be heard mumbling about kicking Washington's ass in the second verse.
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run actually has SpongeBob saying the mild curse word "crappy" twice in a row, without any dolphin chirps. Squidward also says "freakin'" in one scene.
• After spending most of Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay not swearing, Professor Zoom's last line is, "Fuck my life."
• Near the end of Isle of Dogs Chief insults Spots by calling him a "son of a bitch", then jokingly calls Nutmeg a "bitch". He also says that cats have more balls than dogs. In addition, there are 2 uses of "damn it".
• Evelyn in Incredibles 2 gives us the first profane use of hell in a Pixar film^note Though Cars and Ratatouille use Hell to refer to the place: "Promote the hell out of it!", as well as the first damn, from Pixar, in any context: "I'll be damned." There are also 2 uses of "Crap".
• Justice League Dark: Apokolips War: Raven delivers one in response to hearing how long it’ll take John Constantine to teleport them to Damian’s location, probably making it the first time an animated Raven ever swore on screen.
  John Constantine: Ten hours, give or take. Oh and everyone has to stay still while I-
  Raven: Oh, for fuck’s sake. Azarath Metrion Zinthos!
• One of Kingpin's first lines in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is, "It's a helluva freakin' light show". Miles Morales utters, "Oh, crap," while talking to Gwen Stacy earlier in the film.
• Marge Simpson is one of the least profane characters in The Simpsons—and yet, one of her lines in the climax of The Simpsons Movie is "SOMEBODY THROW THE GODDAMN BOMB!" They even acknowledge this in commentaries, noting how the line seems to have more impact because Marge is the one saying it.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: When Miguel O'Hara gives the order to the entire Spider-Society to stop Spider-Man, his forgetting to specify that he meant Miles Morales leads to all of the Spider-Men pointing confusedly at one another, leading to him growning "Ay, coño"^note "Oh, for fuck's sake!" in Spanish.
• A promo for Family Guy has Sid the Sloth quote the theme song, complete with him saying "sex on TV".
• After two instances of interrupted swearing in Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two, Carmine Falcone demands Two Face to "Just pull the fucking trigger!" when he’s about to execute the former.
• A Bug's Life: There's a scene between Flik and Atta where, as she's struggling to articulate how her subjects look at her, he says, in a tone that implies he understands how she feels, "Waiting for you to screw up."
• In the film version of When the Wind Blows, Jim (who until that point hasn't said anything stronger than "blimey") calls Hilda a "stupid bitch" when she casually announces that she's going outside to get the washing in moments after a warning of an impending nuclear strike against Britain is broadcast over the radio. This shows how Jim is panicking because they have only three minutes to get into their improvised shelter and Hilda doesn't seem to be taking the warning seriously; he eventually has to physically drag her into the shelter. ^note In the comic, Jim calls Hilda a "stupid fool".
• Wizards: Near the end of the movie, Avatar tells his evil brother Blackwolf "I'm glad you changed your last name, you son-of-a-bitch!" right before whipping out a pistol and shooting Blackwolf dead.

Let's Plays

• Markiplier's "2020 - A Comprehensive Review," in the light of the year's problems, consists of only a single word, which is of course...
  Mark: Fuck.
• Chuggaaconroy usually keeps his commentary family-friendly outside of The Runaway Guys, which makes the few times he's swore on his solo channel since his early LPs stand out.
  • In episode 56 of Chugga's Ōkamiden playthrough, Kurow says there's "Lots of treasure in here," to which Chugga replies:
    Chugga: Pardon my English, but no shit, Kurow!
  • During the harp minigame in episode 30 of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
    Chugga: Freestyle, bitch!
  • In a more serious example, he drops two in rapid succession in Episode 131 of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, when going over story of Haze:
    Chugga: I hope you'll excuse me when I say... that. Is. Fucked up. (...) It's rare that I've ever heard anything more fucked up than that.
    • In that same playthrough in Episode 187 when talking about his Dad and how he relates to Lora he says this:
      Chugga: And scene spoke to me in such a level and made me feel such a connection with Lora because she fucking gets it.
  • From the Splatoon 2 LP, Emile enthusiastically reads Pearl's old song "#$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin" as "SHIT Dudes Be FUCKIN' Sleeping!" No Sound-Effect Bleep here.
  • In Episode 28 of the Paper Mario redux, when a Shy Guy steals Tayce T.'s frying pan:
    Chugga: YOU! You heartless bastard! You messed with the hero of the story!
  • In Episode 43 of the same LP, when using the Snowman Doll on Lava Piranha:
    Chugga: DECK THE HALLS, BITCH!
  • Chugga lets loose multiple uncensored f-bombs when tearing apart Paper Mario: Sticker Star in his multi-part video essay "Chugga Sticks It to Sticker Star".

Podcasts

• Find Us Alive's Dr. Lancaster swears fairly often, but seems to reserve "fuck" for particularly climactic moments; notably, he closes his interview with the D-Class who tried to strangle him with a blunt "Fuck you."
• In Gospels of the Flood, the narrator is usually extremely polite, which makes the two swear words of the whole story especially powerful.
• Mom Can't Cook!: After Andy introduces Stepsister from Planet Weird normally, Luke just declares "we're f***ed", due to how bizarre the film is. The background music also immediately cuts.

Professional Wrestling

• "Stone Cold" Steve Austin: "Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass!"
• "All these people talk about being students of the game. I AM the fucking game!! No one eats, sleeps or breathes this business more than me!!!"
• The Rock was cutting a promo about defending the World Title at WrestleMania. Chris Jericho was the champion at the time, he and Rock were scheduled to fight for it at the Royal Rumble, and Jericho, sick of Rock's repeated refusing to acknowledge him as a threat...
  "This is not a joke! I am not a joke! I am serious! And you will not look past me, YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!"
• While WWE is in the middle of its PG era, hearing Mae Young call the universally loathed LayCool "these sluts" cheered up everybody's day.
  • Similarly, John Cena once vowed to kick CM Punk's ass on an early January 2011 episode of WWE Raw.
• CM Punk tells John Laurinaitis that if he screws him out of the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble against Dolph Ziggler, Punk'll have to go to jail for animal cruelty because "I'm gonna beat you like a bitch." The crowd explodes.
  • Speaking of CM Punk, he also does this to Chris Jericho when Jericho exposes Punk's sister's history with drug addictions.
  "Jericho... YOU'RE BULLSHIT!!! You're bullshit... and that's exactly what I'm going to beat out of you."
• John Cena telling "evil Arabs" Muhammad Hassan and manager Daivari, "These people don't hate you because you're Arab-Americans. They hate you because you're [muted] Asshole Americans!"
• Bret Hart's speech on the March 17, 1997 episode of Raw featured him venting his frustrations to Vince McMahon over getting screwed over by everyone in the company after losing a cage match.
  Bret Hart: FRUSTRATED ISN'T THE GODDAMN WORD FOR IT! THIS IS BULLSHIT! You screwed me, everybody screwed me, and nobody does a goddamn thing about it! Nobody in the building cares, nobody in the dressing room cares! So much goddamn injustice around here, I have had it up to here! Everybody knows it, I know it, everybody knows that I should be the World Wrestling Federation champion! Everybody just keeps turning a blind eye! You [Vince] keep turning a blind eye to it! I've got that Gorilla Monsoon, he turns a blind eye to it! Everybody in that goddamn dressing room knows that I am the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be! If you don't like it, tough shit!
• From Black Dynamite's New Japan theme: "Double leg takedown, two points, ride you! Nothing you can do because I'm a motherfucking Kaiju."
• In Lucha Underground's second season, Sexy Star had a long, brutal match with Mariposa which could only be ended by one of them saying "No Mas". Near the end, the referee puts the microphone up to Sexy Star, who instead of saying 'No Mas', loudly screams "Fuck You! Fuck You Mariposa!!" This was surprising because the word hadn't been used on the show before, and Sexy Star hadn't spoken much English before then.
• Sting, even before becoming a Born-again Christian in 1998, rarely cursed on TV. One notable instance was during a promo with Kevin Nash where I said "I'm tired of you bitching about that stupid powerbomb!"^note The powerbomb was banned in-story at the time
• After Adam Copeland made his debut in All Elite Wrestling, upon confronting Christian Cage in his promo and asking Christian to partner up with him again as a tag team, the latter's response was a direct, uncensored "Go fuck yourself" that even the television censors were unable to initially bleep out. Ironic Echo ensued when Copeland used the same words against Cage weeks later when Christian failed at an attempt to appease Adam out of challenging for his TNT Championship that, again, the television censors weren't fast enough to cut out.
• On the 3/25/24 edition of RAW, after delivering a bloody, brutal beatdown to Cody Rhodes ahead of their scheduled WrestleMania 40 tag team match, The Rock drops the F-bomb for the first time on national television.
  "This is what happens when you FUCK WITH THE FINAL BOSS!"

Visual Novels

• Ace Attorney:
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney:
  Edgeworth, having seen the Blue Badger: What the hell was that wriggling piece of plywood?!?!
  • Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth::
  Lang: Quercus Alba! You BASTARD!
  Alba: Silence! Don't you ever address me with such a flithy word again.
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies:
  Apollo: THAT monster killed Clay?! He—! He had me completely fooled! Come to think of it, he's the one who brought that bloodstained lighter to court, too! The scumbag even made me turn on Athena! Damn it! How the hell did I fall for all that?!
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice:
  Trucy: Does your hatred run that deep? Deep enough to kill an innocent man?
  Retinz: You're damn right!
• Angels with Scaly Wings is a very rare instance of a T-Rated game that has not one, but TWO uncensored F-Bombs in it.
  • The first one happens during the confrontation with Reza after the Administrator appears:
  Reza: Who the fuck are you?! Freeze! I said freeze!
  • The second is in Lorem's Good Ending after the protagonist brings Reza with them through the portal, back to the first day of the game.
  Reza: What the fuck is going on here?
• Daughter for Dessert gives one from Amanda as a response to the protagonist saying that modern-day chivalry involves cursing:
  Amanda: Go through the fucking door, milord.
• In Double Homework, Johanna gives one to the protagonist (since he Does Not Know How to Say "Thanks") that makes him feel more alive than he has in months (because someone is expressing something other than pity to him):
  Johanna: You can be such an asshole. I just want you to know that.
• Juniper's Knot: When the tired boy falls asleep in front of the demon girl, she is suddenly struck by her bitterness and frustration on how she cannot sleep, escape, or in any way find respite. The emotional baggage makes her lose her composure and throw every profanity she can think of at the sleeping boy, even though he can't hear her.
• Hatoful Boyfriend: Yuuya typically goes for somewhat flowery romantic language and some Gratuitous French. If caught and trapped alone with the angry homicidal doctor, he just says "Shit."
• The Fruit of Grisaia: Has one instance in Irusu Makina's route where Sachi - a prim-and-proper, if OCD maid whose sole objective is to be a "good girl" - is pushed a bit far in a mock exercise regimen by the protagonist Yuuji and suddenly starts violently cursing at him. With anti-Japanese racial slurs. In English. Also counts as Cluster F-Bomb.
• Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors has a good number of uses of strong language, including "fuck", although most of them are said by the same character, Santa. However, when they're in the incinerator, Lotus, who's completely in the dark about the backstory to what's going on, drops one of her only strong swears.
  Lotus: "What the hell?! What! The! Hell?! What are you talking about?! It's "9 years" this, and "9 years" that, and when it's not 9 years something, then you're talking about some sort of fucking "experiments"! What in God's name are you talking about?!
  • When the surviving characters are running up the stairs to escape in the true ending, Junpei hurriedly explains to Seven and Lotus about hexadecimal, bases, and about what would happen if you go all the way to base-22. This leads to the two finally realizing the big twist revelation
  Junpei: That wasn't a [9] on the door!
  Seven: It was a Q! A fucking lower case Q!
• In Sickness, this occurs Upon Sara pulling a knife out on Violet, who is trying to seduce Suoh into leaving the organization:
  Violet: You fucking bitch! You weren't supposed to be here!
• Katawa Shoujo:
  • At one point in Emi's path, Hisao, when feeling particularly bitter about their relationship, thinks of them as "friends who happen to fuck."
  • A subdued one by the standards of this trope, but partway through Lilly's route she reacts to a slight inconvenience with "Dammit!" Everyone around her is stunned, as she's usually the most polite and proper of any of the characters. Hisao takes it as a sign that she's feeling very stressed out and trying to hide it from everyone else.
  • Late in Rin's route, Hisao, venting his frustrations with his girlfriend, responds to her with "Bullshit" before verbally tearing into her.
  • Another in Rin's route, Nomiya, angrily confronting Rin on her apparent apathy to her future, asks Rin what the point of all his work was if, "it amounted to nothing but a mosquito's shit."
• Danganronpa:
  • Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
    • In the official English translation, the Nice Guy protagonist gives one in the final Class Trial. His voice goes higher as he says it, proving how unaccustomed he is to the language.
      Makoto Naegi, to the mastermind: Give and take? You're so full of... shit!
    • Used heartbreakingly in Chapter Two when Mondo is executed, Kiyotaka Ishimaru (notable for his Gosh Dang It to Heck! verbal ticks) shouts, "You... bastard! Just shut up, you son of a bitch! Go ahead, say that again, I dare you!" at Monokuma.
    • Also utilized by Hifumi in Chapter 3, in response to, Celestia telling him Kiyotaka had stolen Alter Ego.
      Hifumi: I'm about to say something I've never said before in my life... I'm going to kill him! I'm going to f...f...f-fucking kill him!
  • In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Hajime Hinata, whose talent remains unknown for most of the game, does not take the revelation that he never had a real talent well at all.
    Hajime: My whole life... I've just wanted to feel confident about myself... And I thought getting into Hope's Peak Academy meant I had finally become someone I could be proud of. Not... some fucking backup student...!
• Your Turn to Die: In Chapter Two when the group is debating if the Reko currently with them is an impostor, when Keiji points out Ranger's particular word choice.

  Ranger: "..."

  Ranger: "...Bastard...!"

• Late in Highway Blossoms, when Amber contemplates buying Marina a bus ticket home, feeling guilty for using her as a Replacement Goldfish for Amber's late grandfather, Amber is unable to accept the decision, eventually getting so angry that she screams, "STOP TREATING ME LIKE A FUCKING CHILD!"

Web Animation

• Red vs. Blue:
  • It would normally not qualify for this, since cursing has almost always been one of the trademarks of the series. However, the last half of season 1 and the first half of season 2 were almost completely clean (Rooster Teeth had been trying to make the series more kid-and-work-safe). When the creators decided to reintroduce profanity into the dialogue, they did it with Caboose's "mental image" of Church, who spouted off more over-the-top vulgarity than had ever been heard on the show up to that point, a pretty major wake-up call to the audience.
  • Doc hardly curses in the show, being one of the more tame characters. However, he later starts to swear more often to show his character development, starting with Revelation when he's captured by Agent Washington and the Meta, after the red team left him.
    Doc: Hey, guys? A little help here? Hello? ...Assholes.
  • He also utters one F-bomb in Revelation when aliens show up at the desert to highlight the danger they are in.
    Doc: Well, this is just fucking great.
  • Played For Drama in season 12 with Washington. The first episode he's featured in since he was captured and possibly killed starts out with his P.O.V. during the attack from the season 11 finale. He's passing out after having been shot when he sees Locus (the guy who shot him) standing above him and talking. The first words out of Wash's mouth in almost ten episodes in what he knows could be his dying breaths?
    Washington to Locus: Fuck. You. Monster.
  • In Red vs. Blue: The Recollection, the new character Wash doesn't swear much. So in his final moment, when hearing a computer terminal use the word emp (when he had been repeatedly telling everyone is pronounced "E-M-P"), he basically goes out with his final line being:
    Wash: Emp? You have got to be fucking jo—
  • Sheila/FILSS is a soft-spoken, well-mannered A.I. whose voice never registers an emotion other than helpful politeness. When she does swear, it's always in the exact same tone of voice — and it is always hilarious.
    FILSS: Agent Tex is a bit of a badass.
• Winter's F***ed Up by Animated James is a parody of the "Winter Wrap Up" song from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The title says it all.
• Extra Credits has gotten worked up over subjects before, but has always kept it's language clean. But Call of Juarez: The Cartel's completely backwards depiction of human trafficking finally warranted a "That is f*bleep*ing disgraceful".
• The ending of Jimmy Neutron Happy Family Happy Hour: Hugh saying "Oh shit!" when a sentinent pizza decapitates him.
• Zero Punctuation has notable ones, which are hard to pin down when Yahtzee says the word at least ten times per review. However, two stand out with exceptional comedic timing:
  • At the tail end of his review of Child of Light, Yahtzee is talking about how annoying and poorly written the rhyming couplets that make up ALL of the narration and dialogue are. He ends by angrily yelling at the game: "You can't rhyme 'ravenous' and 'delicious'! Emphasis is on the wrong syllable! You FUCK!!"
  • In his review for Halo Wars, when he is recounting a particularly frustrating incident that made him stop playing the game all together, his explanation of his ire is like an F-word tactical carpet bombing (during a timed rescue mission, after he had completely cleared the map of hostile forces and the squadron he was rescuing were mere feet from the home base, the timer ran out and they disappeared, supposedly dying somehow):
  Yahtzee: "'We lost contact!' went a character. BULL! FUCKING! SHIT! All possible threats were dead! We didn't lose contact, I was looking at them! They were right fucking there! We were close enough to communicate by waggling our eyebrows at each other! What the fuck happens when the stupid arbitrary time limit runs out!? Do their Battle Royale collars explode!? They all lose honor and disembowel themselves!? WHAT!? And just to put the cherry on it, you know who they were? Absolutely bloody no one! Generic faceless pricks of the sort I'd vat-grown about 50 of that day alone! But we didn't make it in time, so they were gonna make me do the whole fucking mission again! As the exasperated Chinese zookeeper said to the last male panda in the world, 'Fuck that!'
• In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, this happens to both main characters who aren't Sir Swears-a-Lot like the Emperor:
  • Kitten's stoic qualities are put to test during episode 18 and lose.
    Kitten: ...the fuck?
  • Magnus prefers sharp wit to obscene language, but there's one person whose very mention pushes his Berserk Button.
    Magnus: Suck it, Leman, you furry fuck!
• In the Lobo (Webseries), an episode shows that Darlene used three precision f-strikes.

  "What an asshole."
  "Oh, for Christ's sake!"
  "Out of my way, piss-face!"

• Camp Camp: While most characters have no problem dropping swears on the regular, there are a few that keep their language clean, which makes the rare moment they do swear stand out.
  • In "The Order Of The Sparrow", after spending the episode trying to break David of his annoyingly optimistic personality and idealistic nature, especially towards the lousy titular camp, Max finally flat out asks David why he still cares enough to try to make things better, despite no one else caring in the least. David's response? "Because somebody fucking has to."
  • Space Kid swears for the first time in season three, after being told by Vera that America has a failing Space Program:
  Space Kid: What the fuck did you just say to me?
• Near the end of Beans, a crossover between Peach's Slutty Adventure, Brawlgasm, and Smashtasm, Super64 — a character from a series where nearly no one cusses at all — drops one of theses.
• RWBY has Tyrian call Ruby a bitch after she lops off his scorpion tail with Crescent Rose. It's notably the first time any strong language had been used in the show, on top of RWBY being a series that never used even lighter language such as "ass" beforehand, further cementing the series' Darker and Edgier turn following the events of Volume 3. Lampshaded for laughs by a commenter.
  Tyrian swore! I'm telling Salem! You can't do that on this show. Murder and dismemberment are fine, but swearing? Have some decency!
  • Yang drops equally harsh language when Ozpin retreats into Oscar's mind after revealing that Salem literally can't be destroyed, and he has no actual plans to stop her.
    Yang: That bastard! Tell him we're not done yet!
  • Generally speaking, in RWBY cursing is usually rare and limited to a single word per scene, so nearly every swear comes off as this. It took until volume 8 for a character (Emerald) to swear twice in the same scene.

Webcomics

• El Goonish Shive
  • Grace swearing while playing Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS catches the rest of the characters off-guard:
    Grace: "DIE BY THE SHELLS OF YOUR FALLEN COMRADES YOU @#$! TURTLES!"
  • Considering Grace never swore, The first time she actually did was a bit of a shock to most of the present cast, even though it was merely a Precision D Strike.
  • When Rhoda discovered that both Diane and Lucy already knew about her relationship with Catalina, she was pissed. Even though the word itself is censored, it still has a fair bit of impact due to how shy and meek Rhoda usually is (warning: Link is fairly spoiler-heavy).
• Bob and George have made a running joke out of this with "Roll says the F word".
  • In fact, in the commentaries the author invokes the idea behind this trope, and only drops the F-Bomb (uncensored, at least) about once a year, in a dramatically appropriate context. Dave Anez abandoned this rule during the final year-and-a-half of the comic—which indicated/foreboded just how badly the crap was hitting the fan.
• Dominic Deegan:
  • Invoked in this strip, the one time where someone's cursing wasn't cut short or in untranslated Orcish.
  • And now they have done it a second time, here. Mookie, the author, comments that he didn't want to do it, but considering the character and the situation, it was the only word that would fit.
  • And the comic's first real F-bomb, here. As the author said, "I make no apologies and neither does [the character]."
  • Rocky doesn't speak, but he finds other ways to get his point across.
• In Erfworld, after being forced to replace all his curses with "boop" the entire time he's been Trapped in Another World, where reality itself is censored, Parson concludes his Screw Destiny speech (and the first book) with a very satisfying "Fuck... You!!"
• Gunnerkrigg Court:
  • Kat has a barely-censored Precision B Strike in this strip. This level of on-screen profanity is a rare instance for her.
  • In chapter 72, when Annie finds out that she's been inside an illusion, she curses, something she'd never been shown doing before.
• Harry Potter Comics: Downplayed in that it's censored. Rose has been getting crap from people off-and-on for being sorted into Hufflepuff. The final straw is when she pulls Helga Hufflepuff's 101 Soufflé Recipes out of the Sorting Hat and the hat says only a true Hufflepuff could have done that.
  Rose Weasley: Gryffindors get a sword. I get a cookbook. That is ***ing it. HUFFLEPUFF!
• Questionable Content only manages to pull this off because it's Hannelore.
• Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name example: Though the characters swear plenty of times in the comic, it's usually censored. Hanna delivers an uncensored F-strike when trying to bring Conrad back to life, meant to reflect the seriousness of the situation. It works.
• Throughout its over five-year run, Penny and Aggie has used swearwords sparingly, and has never printed them uncensored. (This was justified in its first two years, at any rate, when the creators were trying to get it syndicated.) However, in early 2010 there were two notable exceptions for dramatic purposes:
  • The bigoted, mentally disturbed Hubbard-follower Xena uses the N-word uncensored. (This results in her getting knocked unconscious in the very next strip.)
  • Social outcast Helen's bitter inner monologue, as she runs away, ends with the words "Fuck you, Penny. Fuck you, Belleville. Goodbye." Particularly unexpected as her monologue begins with the milder "Screw you."
  • A later example occurs when Sara, overwhelmed by the multiple stresses her reality show has placed on her, says "Shit" as she breaks down crying in Rich's arms.
• In Burning Stickman Presents... Something!, The Watcher utters one when one of the protagonists knocks the storyline off the rails by ensuring Colonel's, and therefore Iris's, survival during the events of Mega Man X4.
• Housepets!: New dog/human trapped in a dog's body King delivers a censored, Atomic strike in the 2009 Christmas arc.
• This page of The Gods of Arr-Kelaan, after the temple the dwarves had built suddenly collapsed.
• Jessie to Carrie on this strip of Loserz
• Sluggy Freelance manages to make it a Moral Event Horizon, Despair Event Horizon and the de facto moment of Cerebus Syndrome for the whole strip: [1]
• Lampshaded in this Goblins strip.
• This exchange from 8-Bit Theater is actually the first time in the entire lifespan of the work where the word fuck is actually used without any form of censorship:
  Dragon: Blarg! I'm a dragon! Or twelve!
  Red Mage: Impossible! Only a maximum of nine enemies may be onscreen!
  Dragon: Fuck you.
  Red Mage: Run.
  • Another one comes later.
  Sarda: I was going to give you the illusion of a fighting chance. But now I'd rather your final moments were ones of complete despair.
  Black Mage: Mission accomplished, Sarda.
  Sarda: I haven't done it yet.
  Black Mage: Oh. Fuck.
• In Homestuck, while most of the characters swear fairly liberally, there are also a few characters who have only done so a few times. However, whenever a server player starts the game for the first time, the first thing they do is usually tear out their client player's toilet, and let loose an "oh fuck". Rose and Jade demonstrate.
  • The memorable moment in which Rose lets loose the power of the Thorns Of Oglogoth
    "WELCOME TO THE PARTY MOTHERFUCKERS"
  • Rose has another one when talking to Dave about her plan.
  TT: I will be travelling to the sun
  TT: By which I do mean the GREEN MOTHERFUCKING SUN.
  • And Jade again here, although it's implied she's much less merciful when talking to Karkat...
  GG: I SAID PASSWORD FUCKASS!!!!!
  GA: Wow
  GG: whoops sorry
  GG: ive been having too many password arguments with karkat i guess :p
  • Kanaya gets one, too here.
  KANAYA: No
  KANAYA: See I'm Explaining This Badly
  KANAYA: All I'm Saying Is Basically
  KANAYA: Just
  KANAYA: Fuck That Guy
  • Of all people, Equius gets one as well.
  CT: D —> Where the fuck are all my fresh towels
  • After she finds out that her ex-boyfriend has turned (even more) evil and is trying to join the Big Bad, Feferi uses one.
  • Karkat Vantas, the most profane character to ever grace a comic, has a lot of throwaway insults. His first speech with John Egbert, however, is a Shakespearean experience.
• Done by someone less than ten (Cloud's sister Yuna) in Sandra and Woo, but immediately followed by an apology when she learns how rude it was to call the watchers "motherfuckers".
• In The Order of the Stick, this could be considered one, considering that it's right after Haley regains her voice. Also a This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!!
  • Also, this strip.
  • This one, as well, in the last panel.
  • A literal, albeit censored, one in the last panel, overlapping with Cluster F-Bomb.
• The Interstellar Tea House goes its first year without even a mild curse word (in English, anyway), then suddenly Pumpkin has an Oh, Crap! moment and drops an f-bomb. Made intentionally amusing by the fact that Pumpkin is a Sierk, a sentient but furry and adorable alien.
• A comedic example in High Class Homos: The normally soft and gentle prince August lets one loose when he realises he forgot to let his love interest, Percy in on his and Sapphia’s fake marriage plan, resulting in Percy thinking August genuinely loves Sapphia.
• In Off-White, Hati lets one loose after Sköll attacks him.
• In The Illustrated Guide to Law, the in-over-her-head Patty makes heavy use of self-censoring euphemisms ("cheese and crackers!") throughout her police encounter... until she's tossed in jail at the end, which warrants a sulky f-strike.
• Dragon Ball Multiverse: U13 Raditz makes one during his fight against U3 Bardock, when Bardock becomes a Super Saiyan:
  U13 Raditz: Oh fuck... that's so unfair!
• Consolers has a Precision S Strike from Atari in her Oh, Crap! moment right before she goes through The Crash.
• The Draw Play gives us a Precision S Strike when JJ Watt meets a bear in the woods
• In Buster Wilde Weerwolf, a comic that normally uses Symbol Swearing, while Buster and his friends◊ are walking around at night, a car passes by them and someone yells out "FAGS! FAGS! GO HOME, FAGS! HAW HAW!"
• Sorcery 101: The first instance of the word "fuck" is about three-quarters of the way through the story, and is used when Danny finds out that if Seth dies, so does he.
• In Awful Hospital, the normally uptight Millie only speaks in raspy breathings, represented as strings of "hhhhhh" - which Willis then translates. However, upon learning that her "sister" has been busy creating tiny versions of herself, she lets out a "hhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH".
  Willis: ....I'm not a'sposda say that word.
• Steven of all people shouts "Oh. My. Fucking god!" in Ask White Pearl and Steven (almost!) anything when he sees the Tongue Monster at the Beta Kindergarten. Since we hear his foster parents cussing up a storm when he was running away from them, it's safe to say that this Steven grew up around a lot more crude language than his canon counterpart from Steven Universe did.
• Poppy O'Possum: The word "fucking" has appeared exactly once in the comic's 8 chapters. It appeared at all because the Poppyverse equivalent ("chucking") wouldn't have had the right amount of gravitas and impact. The author implied that this would be the only time it would be used in the comic, precisely because of this trope. It was all the more shocking because it came from Queen Kit Darling, who normally acts like an innocent and naïve Princess Classic.

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