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  • Agito from Air Gear has the F word as his catchphrase.
  • While precious few if any of the characters from the anime Angel Cop are exempt from Obligatory Swearing in the English dub, a majority of them are viciously delivered by Angel.
  • When Baccano! notes Victor Talbot's propensity to swearing in its Dramatis Personae, it is not kidding. If Victor is involved in a story, he is almost guaranteed to swear more than anyone else in it combined.
  • Guts from Berserk, which is part of his Anti-Hero personality.
  • Revy of Black Lagoon is by far the most foul-mouthed character in the series, and is the most frequent contributor to its high volume of F-Bombs. See for yourself.
  • Bleach.
    • Grimmjow speaks like a delinquent and swears a lot more than the protagonist. Fitting to that, he's flipping the bird to the readers on a cover page of a chapter.
    • Even more so, Nnoitra. Every other word he says is some form of "fuck," "shit," or "bitch."
    • Ichigo Kurosaki himself also swears quite a bit, tending to resort to it not only when he's mad, but when he's simply annoyed, confused, or trash-talking opponents as well. Additionally, in the English dub, he ends up swearing at least as much, if not more so, than Grimmjow and Nnoitora. This is due to them having their language noticeably toned down compared to the original Japanese translation, while his language, due to not being quite as coarse, to begin with, wasn't edited down much at all.
  • Ange, the main character of Cross Ange is this after accepting the fact that she’s a Norma, especially in the English dub.
  • Deadman Wonderland:
    • Minatsuki Takami is one, which is exaggerated in the English dub.
    • Ganta swears quite a lot, though not half as much as Minatsuki and only in certain situations…
  • Bando from Elfen Lied has the filthiest speech pattern in the entire series, due to him being a rough and tough guy with anger issues and being a Jerkass.
  • Hiruma and his charming nicknames in Eyeshield 21.
  • Fairy Tail has several people like this - Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, Jackal, and Ezel, to name a few (especially the latter two).
  • Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist sometimes has the tendency to do this, mostly when angered by mentions of his height.
  • Gushing Over Magical Girls: For the sake of good PR, Kaoruko Tenkawa keeps up a cool, refined manner in public. In private, however, she has a mouth like a sailor and is a vicious and belligerent Blood Knight, to the degree that her brutality terrifies demons.
  • Haikyuu!!: Kageyama calls his teammate and rival Hinata "boke" (dumbass, idiot) so much that the rest of his teammates have started to make fun of it. Also, his first reaction to Yamaguchi announcing he's going to the bathroom is to point out that he "probably has to take a shit", which Hinata calls him out on for being too vulgar.
  • Jan Valentine from Hellsing. He also enjoys bringing up embarrassing bodily functions rather often.
  • Several characters from Hetalia: Axis Powers:
    • Romano, especially when he's around Germany.
    • England claims to be a gentleman, but he becomes this when he's pissed off.
    • Tony, America's alien friend.
    • Molossia, at least when anyone who is not America is around.
    • Belarus does this on occasions.
    • Mochi America wasn't this at first, but he and his language got fouler as the series went on. He fits this trope so much that when this video was released, many fans had to be convinced that it was canon and not just a bizarrely obscene fanwork.
  • High School D×D: Issei Hyoudou is not really well known for having a clean mouth. Even moreso in the English Dub.
    Issei: No, it's not fucking awesome dammit!
  • We also have Inuyasha himself using such language when he is angry, annoyed, to call people names sometimes, confused, after getting a sit command from Kagome, and for no reason at all. Where's the soap when you need it? Inuyasha could be Hidan's twin for all we know…
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
    • Jotaro Kujo isn't exactly the cleanest-speaking person around.
    • Josuke Higashikata from Diamond is Unbreakable is also known for swearing a lot as well. Ironically, he's one of the kindest JoJos.
    • Echoes ACT3, Koichi's Stand, also has a tendency to swear a lot, in Gratuitous English.
      Echoes ACT3: Ok, master! Let's kill da ho! BEEETCH!
    • Secco from Golden Wind is one of the most foul-mouthed villains in the entire series.
    • Stone Ocean:
      • Jolyne Cujoh, Jotaro's daughter, not only swears like a sailor, but also knows how to give the finger in four different languages.
      • Ermes Costello is guilty of this trope in certain translations.
      • Even considering the overall setting, Sports Maxx is pretty damn foul-mouthed, using many instances of the f-word as well as referring to women as "bitches". He gets even worse when he transforms into a zombie.
  • Yata Misaki of K tends to is turn into this in fansubs and the English dub made him one as well. Though, to be fair, he does have a rather crass manner of speaking which is easiest translated as vulgar.
  • Ryuko Matoi, the main character of Kill la Kill is this in spades, especially in the English dub. You see, she grew up as a Delinquent and has the appropriate vocabulary to match. Every time she trash-talks, you can expect a flurry of profanity, about the only word she never uses is a Precision F-Strike.
  • Lyrical Nanoha: This seems to be common with Fiery Red Head characters:
    • Vita is notorious for her bad speech pattern, addressing many people with temee when not using omae and she swears a lot, and she still retains it even after her Heel–Face Turn. The only time she uses keigo is in a video game.
    • Agito is similar to Vita in that regard but is not as bad as her.
    • Nove, prior to ViVid. Her speech pattern became much less filthy after rehabilitation, a big contrast to Vita, who both started out with similar personalities when they were introduced.
    • ViVid introduces Harry Tribeca, who has very crude and masculine speech patterns to the point of using the pronoun "ore".
    • While not a redhead like the three above, Veyron also swears a lot.
  • In Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi when the main characters reach the American themed world, the hot dog vendor is a prime example.
    "Hey! F*cking Cowboy, F*cking Cowgirl! How the F*ck are you doing!?"
  • My Hero Academia: Bakugou curses quite frequently when he's mad- which is almost always.
  • Naruto:
    • Tayuya is a Lady Swears-a-Lot.
    • Hidan is an even bigger example.
      Hidan: [after his head gets chopped off] You know what, Kakuzu? Go eat a dick.
  • One Piece: Sanji, who was raised by sailors and trumps all his crewmates in swears without even trying (his catchphrase is shit, usually as a prefix for someone male's nickname).
  • The title protagonists from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt swear so often and with such vulgarity (especially in the English dub, holy fuck) that they could practically be called the Trope Codifiers. Ironically, Panty and Stocking Anarchy, the two most foul-mouthed characters on the show, are angels. In contrast, the two Demon sisters, Scanty and Kneesock, are two posh, high-class villains who never swear, despite their roles as the antagonists (though they do sometimes indulge in occasional sister-on-sister fun times). This makes the one time they do swear up a storm in the final episode have that much more impact. In the English dub specifically, the swearing overall isn't that much less than The Wolf of Wall Street!
  • Kyouko from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. By Japanese standards, her vocabulary is quite filthy, and at best is inappropriately masculine.
  • One of Free's Catch Phrases in Soul Eater is yelling "GODDAMN SHIT" in Gratuitous English.
  • Karinka from Steel Angel Kurumi tends to do this when irritated or angered (especially in the English dub)...
  • Tokyo Ghoul has two primary offenders:
    • Nishiki Nishio's favorite descriptive term for anything seems to be "shitty". When he begins working at Anteiku, he's reprimanded for his foul mouth… and promptly goes back to cursing up a storm after a brief pause. In the sequel, his foul mouth is one of the first clues that the mysterious Orochi is Nishiki.
    • Ginshi Shirazu in the sequel, prone to Flipping the Bird and unleashing long strings of f-bombs when annoyed.
  • Watt in Vamp! drops the first Precision F-Strike, and continues to pepper his speech with swear words for the rest of his scene.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! swearing was pretty rare, even in the original version; Keith fit this trope to a T in the manga, where he rarely said a sentence without doing so. In the anime, two characters that did (at least occasionally) were Pegasus and Rebecca. (Both were American characters, and it may not have been a coincidence. Bandit Keith was also American, and was depicted as scum.)
  • Yusuke Urameshi, the main protagonist of YuYu Hakusho. While comparatively tame compared to a lot of other examples on this page, he swears way more than most of the other characters in the show, and is noticeably foul-mouthed by the standards of a shonen series, particularly in the uncut English dub, which itself, was noticeably salty by shonen standards at the time, and arguably still is. This is quite justified though since he is portrayed as a snarky and extremely Hot-Blooded delinquent and Anti-Hero with a rough background/childhood. He's a good person at heart, but he doesn't like to show it except to the few he's particularly close with or when he's put in situations that really allow his morals to shine.

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