Basic Trope: Swearing is added in an attempt to sound more mature, whether it's the work itself or a character attempting to do so.
- Straight:
- "The Troper's Tale" is trying to Avoid the Dreaded G Rating or otherwise appeal to older audiences, so they add some swearing.
- Chris is a 13 year old that is trying to use profanity to show that he's more mature now.
- Exaggerated:
- "The Troper's Tale" is trying to get rated R or NC-17 despite being an otherwise clean film, so they add tons of Cluster F-Bombs everywhere.
- Chris is only 8 and every other word he says is a swear word.
- Downplayed:
- "The Troper's Tale" adds some gratuitous uses of words like "hell" and "damn".
- Chris is 15 and drops a Precision F-Strike on occasion to show maturity.
- Justified: Chris is trying to sound mature.
- Inverted:
- A work is made Kinder and Cleaner to appeal to general audiences.
- Chris decides to stop swearing so much due to it making him sound immature.
- Subverted: All of Chris' friends swear obligatorily, but he avoids it to prevent looking immature.
- Double Subverted: Chris' friends make fun of him for being afraid to swear, and he's done putting up with their bullshit.
- Parodied: Chris' friends meet up to record everyone individually reciting a vulgar copypasta to prove that they can all swear.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No swearing is added in an attempt to sound mature.
- Enforced: To appeal to the mature demographic.
- Lampshaded: "You forgot the 'fucking' in that sentence. We're not goddamn kindergarteners anymore! Give that shit another go."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Obligatory Swearing, bitch!
