Precision F Strike / 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.

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