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So, you're writing a book, and one of your characters, for whatever reason, has to swear. Not a problem — unless your intended audience are children or people who are generally against swearing. Is the risk of offending them worth the artistic reward of using exactly the right word? What can you do? Easy: Just say that the character swore, without going into exactly what they said. There are several ways to go about this. One way is to use direct dialogue, with a note that the offensive word the character "really" used has been replaced with something tamer; e.g.: This has the advantage of capturing more of the character's content and phrasing, but only a Lemony Narrator or a fairly intrusive first-person storyteller can get away with it. Another way is to use indirect dialogue, more or less avoiding actual details; e.g.: It can also overlap easily with Expospeak Gag, like so: This trope shows up in Real Life, as well, as the source of common phrases like "Bob told Alice where to go",note In some English-speaking countries, anyway and "Alice told Bob where he could stick it." Note that both versions involve the character actually swearing, and the narrator substituting less offensive language. That is what separates this trope from Unusual Euphemism, Curse of The Ancients, and Gosh Dang It to Heck!, in which the characters themselves use less offensive words rather than swearing. A combination of the two is occasionally used in which a character paraphrases an insult in-universe, as in: Compare Mouthing the Profanity. See also Foreign Cuss Word and Pardon My Klingon, in which actual swearing is portrayed, but is incomprehensible and therefore inoffensive to the reader. Compare Symbol Swearing. Tactful Translation is when a translator invokes this to avoid offending someone. Also note that this is chiefly a Literature trope. Sound-Effect Bleep and Curse Cut Short are rough audiovisual media equivalents, whereas T-Word Euphemism is often used for print. Contrast Spice Up the Subtitles or Unusual Dysphemism, which are cases where swear words are used as substitution for something comparatively tame. Not to be confused with Bowdlerization, which is when the original work isn't censored like this, but the edited work is. |
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The Penguins of Madagascar fanfic Princess (Laburnum Steelfang) features Julien telling Skipper to "do something which, considering certain biological facts, was actually impossible". | |
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"Little Lost Robot": The physicist who told the titular robot to "go lose yourself" told Dr Calvin exactly what it was he said, "in one long succession of syllables." Dr Calvin, for her part also identifies the words obliquely, saying that she knew some of them as derogatory, and assumed the others were equally so. | |
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Nick Knatterton: "The ladies accuse each other of having un-ladylike jobs" (during a Cat Fight). | |
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In Michael Grant's Gone series, this happens quite a lot. (He's gotten praise for it, too.) Once, Drake Merwin (resident Ax-Crazy psycho) calls Diana (Smug Snake, Snark Knight, etc) a witch. Only the book says that wasn't the word he used. Also, in the fourth book Plague, when Sam and Astrid the Genius are having some relationship problems it says that Astrid told him he could go make out with someone else, only she used a phrase Sam was really surprised to hear coming from good Christian girl Astrid's lips. This isn't entirely surprising, given that he cowrote Animorphs with K.A. Applegate. Subverted in that curses actually are spelled out in the series, just rarely, such as when Diana refers to herself as a bitch. Possibly the most direct subversion was in Fear, the fifth book, when Penny said a phrase to Caine that wasn't very nice, and "ended in "you". This is immediately followed up by Caine's correcting her; she should have said, "Fuck you, your highness". Dashed out, but still. |
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Mort had this exchange between two thieves who tried to mug Mort, only to see him escape by walking through a wall: | |
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The Continental Op short story "The Girl with the Silver Eyes" uses this trope (as do some of his other stories). | |
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In the scene where Harry, Hermione, and Ron are attacked in a Muggle cafe in Deathly Hallows, Hermione "muttered a suggestion as to where Ron could stick his wand instead." | |
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Hawkeye: In Hawkeye (2012), it's quite obvious that "futz" is only around to keep the comic at PG-13 levels. | |
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An in-universe example occurs in Poltergeist when Steven remarks to Diane that boss didn't take him seriously when he told him where to go, so he gave his boss directions. | |
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In the Sheep in the Big City episode "Flock, Up in the Sky", Sheep gets fed up with his friend the X Agent being overly protective and beating up everyone who gets within ten feet of Sheep. The narrator translates the two sheep's bleating, but refuses to translate Sheep's rebuttal to his friend's claim that his excessive protection is a small price to pay, implying that it's because Sheep swore at the X Agent. | |
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In the Rose of the Prophet trilogy, the djinn often 'made aspersions that his parenthood included a goat' and such. | |
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Rocketship Voyager is ostensibly a 1950's Pulp Magazine story, so has to use this trope, e.g. "Cut us down, you b***ds!" or Janeway uttered a Martian word they had not taught her at the Scholarium or: | |
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One of the books in The Pigman series has the narrator explain that he will use #$%& for swears, and @#$%& for really bad swears. He then praises the usefulness of this scheme because the reader likely has a better imagination than he does. | |
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Lord of the Flies: Simon asks the question, "What is the dirtiest thing there is?". The narration follows, "As an answer Jack dropped into the uncomprehending silence that followed it the one crude expressive syllable." | |
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Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Seeker of Darkness, as a Running Gag, has a partially self-imposed one where people avoid swearing around Sora, including Kairi who's a regular Sir Swears-a-Lot when she appears in a story without him. The author describes it as a "Definitely Innocent, So No Expletives, Y'all" field. (Though as it happens, Sora himself is not above swearing when he stubs his toe and thinks no one else is around.) And while Vanitas seems to be immune to it, he's later caught up in another such filter when he visits the Hundred Acre Wood, called the Majorly Interfering Location Negating Expletives, which does affect him. A later story reveals that Vanitas was not immune to the presumably related field in Disney Town itself, and it took him a lot of effort to break through. |
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Marvel Boy: Noh-Varr carves "FUCK YOU" into New York using his space guns as a means of sending a message to Earth and his previous captors. The words themselves are never shown in full, however — instead, you see SHIELD agents looking at the damage and noticing that it spells something, with the word "YOU" being shown along with the comment, "There's more, sir..." | |
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In Reaper Man, Mustrum Ridcully uses a word "unfamiliar to those wizards who had not had his robust country upbringing and knew nothing of the finer points of animal husbandry" to cuss out the Dean for careless use of a fireball spell. | |
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The Queen's Thief books do contain some swearing, but the harsher words are taken out with this trope. A preview of A Conspiracy of Kings contains one example that actually does a good bit of characterizing the narrator, Sophos: | |
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In Goldfinger, the title character is trying to make Bond talk, and at one point Bond tells him to go and ____ himself. Goldfinger good-humoredly replies, "Even I am not capable of that, Mr. Bond." | |
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In the Bunk'd episode "Let's Bounce", when Destiny was being overly selfish regarding the suggestions for the cabin with Zuri pretending to write everything down, a frustrated Zuri gave up and left, giving the clipboard to Destiny. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: In the episode "Cold Station 12", when Arik Soong is using the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on Dr. Lucas. At one point, Lucas leans forward and whispers something into Soong's ear, to which he replies, "That language is very unbecoming for a man of science." In "Terra Prime", xenophobic humans were using language which ambassadors at the meeting to form the Coalition of Planets described as "language that is not programmed into the universal translator". |
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Grimm: Wu to Nick at murder scene quoting an employee of the deceased, "He said, and I quote, 'I'm surprised somebody didn't stick a tire iron in him before this.' Actually, that was a paraphrase. I left out the bad language because I couldn't write that fast." | |
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Redwall: Lord Brocktree features a searat using "very colourful language" when he breaks a key off in a lock. It's also mentioned a few times that characters are singing a Bawdy Song, but we never even get a hint of the actual lyrics (except for "Slaughter of the Crew of the Rusty Chain", which isn't so much too crude as too violent - at least the verses we see). The notoriously foul-mouthed squirrel Grood usually mumbles his curses too quietly for anyone except Jukka to hear, and when we finally see what he's actually saying, it's all in Unusual Euphemism: "Gorokkah! How'd that splitten flitten gurgletwip get up so high?" | |
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In Great Expectations, there is a scene in which a character's repeated uses of the word "damn" are printed as "bless". It's unclear whether this is censored or whether it's what he's actually saying. | |
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From The Homeward Bounders: | |
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From the first novel of the Honor Harrington series, On Basilisk Station, when Countess New Kiev tries to tell Dame Estelle Matsuko to stop enforcing local trade laws: | |
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In the The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special "Snowbound", Dawn's mother hits a mailbox while trying to drive in the snow. She says, in Dawn's words, "a word I have never heard her use before. In fact, I've heard it only in movies that Mom doesn't know I've seen." In "Sea City, Here We Come!" Stacey is about to recount what Mrs. Barrett said while driving, before trailing off and recovering with, "Actually, I won't repeat what she said." |
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The "describe the obscenities in non-obscene terms" use is done fantastically in The Shining when Stephen King describes the reactions of another driver to the Magical Negro accidentally swerving across his lane. | |
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In The Vicar of Dibley, Hugo and Geraldine discuss Hugo's father's reaction to the news that he is dating Alice: | |
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In the classic Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", Marge writes a letter to the creators of The Itchy & Scratchy Show protesting its overly violent content. We get a scene of the show's creator, Roger Meyer, dictating the studio's response, and then Marge's reaction, with one key phrase omitted. | |
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One of the more memorable occasions is in his TL-191 series, when Jefferson Pinkard gets orders from Ferdinand Koenig: | |
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Thomas & Friends: In the episode "Mavis," an angry farmer tells the titular diesel "just what she can do with her train". Made even funnier by the fact that the American narrator is none other than George Carlin. In "James Goes Buzz Buzz", a swarm of bees break loose from their hive and warm themselves on James' boiler, and one bee who burns his foot stings James on the nose as retribution. After James tries unsuccessfully to shoo the bees off his boiler, this exchange occurs: |
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In Last Rights, Eleya drops "a particularly vile Kendran oath" when Senior Chief Athezra takes a chunk of shrapnel square in the chest. | |
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Young Justice: An early issue features Superboy being reminded to stop a plane crashing into a crowd. Superboy's response is "Oh, * !", with a text box reading "* Insert current popular but unprintable teen profanity here." | |
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A Diplomatic Visit: Chapter 2 of the sequel Diplomat at Large mixes this with Pardon My Klingon when Scolopidia "let out a word that didn't translate into Equestrian", a rather obvious swear that makes her guards give her a disapproving look. | |
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In Chapter 21 of Total Drama Comeback, the contestants have to compete in a prom-themed challenge in which they'll be paired up, and Gwen's boyfriend Trent ends up with her worst enemy, Heather. When Heather makes a few too many moves on her challenge partner, Gwen has to be physically held back from murdering her, while unleashing a torrent of profanity in her direction that isn't described in detail. | |
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Barry Cryer has appeared on Just a Minute quite frequently, and often claims people refer to him as "that noun off the television". | |
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The Flash: In The Flash (Rebirth) #64, Flash reminds Batman that he said ''No duh, Sherlock" to him. To which Batman replies "Those weren't my exact words". The kicker is that Flash asks him where he picked that up and Batman says he got it from his son, Damian. Meaning Batman is saying "No shit, Sherlock" because his kid says it. | |
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Vlad Taltos from Dragaera, Unreliable Narrator extraordinaire and Trope Namer for First-Person Smartass, occasionally falls into this. Given his vocabulary the rest of the time, it tends to be for Expospeak Gag-style humor, such as when he says in Iorich (after Norathar tries to get rid of him with some Blatant Lies) that he gave her "a brief dissertation on fertilizer." That's Vlad-speak for, "Bullshit." | |
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In Elliott & Win, Win listens to Donny swear in his sleep. "He used words Ma would have had a fit over, and I don't mean 'friggin' and 'craperoo.'" | |
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Used in Kirby Battle Royale of all places, where one of the Camera Crew Waddle Dees states that he hopes Meta Knight keeps his language clean in the arena, since he’s recording every word. | |
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A Doonesbury comic from June 1985 features Frank Sinatra standing off-panel shouting things like, "Get me your (obscene gerund) boss, you little (anatomically explicit epithet)!" | |
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In the 2015 Met Opera production of The Merry Widow, when Baron Zeta sends his assistant Njegus to find Danilo at the nightclub Chez Maxim and bring him to the more respectable party at the home of the protagonist, who they're trying to get him to marry. | |
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The Headhunt: Lore's head has just enough time to say "something uncomplimentary" before Eleya turns him off. | |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has two separate examples of this: | |
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City of Bones by Martha Wells: The narration often notes that many characters, Khat the Sir Swears-a-Lot in particular, curse all the time, but it's never shown in dialogue and the reader never sees any of the actual invective. The book is set a thousand years After the End, so the curses might not translate. | |
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Harry Potter: This appears about 50 times a book, usually with Ron doing it (indeed, "Ron swore", often "loudly", might be the catchphrase of the whole series), usually followed by Hermione or his mother berating him for it. It's quite effective—readers get the sense that Harry and company are normal teenagers who curse and make rude hand gestures, without it interfering with the story. There's more directly-reported swearing in the later books, reflecting both the Darker and Edgier subject matter and the increased age of the characters and readers. Sometimes Rowling makes it easy and just cuts off the dialogue (As in, "You—"). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire includes the line "Ron told Malfoy to do something that Harry knew he would never have dared say in front of Mrs. Weasley", giving us Narrative Profanity Filter and a Noodle Incident in one. Ironically, one of the few times an actual swear is uttered, it's by... Molly Weasley. Mind you, she had every reason to let loose, and of course O.O.C. Is Serious Business. In the scene where Harry, Hermione, and Ron are attacked in a Muggle cafe in Deathly Hallows, Hermione "muttered a suggestion as to where Ron could stick his wand instead." Fred and George's sparklers "write swear words in midair of their own accord" when they are released inside Hogwarts in Order of the Phoenix. "Snape let out a stream of mixed swear words and hexes" during his Worst Memory in book 5. Harry bangs his head and pauses to "employ a few of Uncle Vernon's choicest swear words." Half-Blood Prince: J. K. Rowling does it for obscene gestures as well as words, such as during the Quidditch World Cup final: There was possibly a method to this, as depending on what country you're from, the hand sign that comes to mind could be completely different. Though, the leprechauns were, of course, representing an Irish team, so there's also that to be taken into consideration. There is another instance where Harry initially thinks someone is making a rude gesture towards someone else, but that person was actually just showing off a ring that was on presumably his middle finger. Ron makes a rude hand gesture in front of his mother, who threatens to jinx his fingers together. Uncle Vernon, Mundungus, and Ron all use "effing" at least once. Not a swear word, but we know what they mean. "...[during Christmas], the suits of armor had all been bewitched to sing carols whenever anyone passed them. It was quite something to hear "O Come, All Ye Faithful" sung by an empty helmet that only knew half the words. Several times, Filch the caretaker had to extract Peeves from inside the armor, where he had taken to hiding, filling in the gaps in the songs with lyrics of his own invention, all of which were very rude." In his commentary of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Dumbledore mentions that Lucius Malfoy had a few choice things to say to him, "but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote." The third book has this instance with Ron: |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: During the first case when you play as Mia defending a young Phoenix Wright who wears a pink jumper with a large "P" on it, accused of murdering a fellow college student. Mia points out a contradiction in in his testimony, upset that he lied to her, and Phoenix bursts into tears causing this exchange: | |
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Smoke and Shadows: In Smoke and Mirrors, the headsets are staticky. Most of the fuzzy words are recognisable swears. There are also some other forms used, including the POV character being unable to translate a co-worker's speech properly because he didn't know many French swearwords. | |
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Moby-Dick: Ishmael mentions that he has censored out a lot of Ahab's dialogue because nobody "living under the light of the Evangelical land" needs to hear that. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Used in one strip when a board game between the title characters turns into an Escalating War. A different strip has Calvin writing words in the snow with boot prints. Cut to his dad at the window, reading: "'My... dad... is... a... big...' HEY!" Yet another strip involves the tail end of a Horrible Camping Trip, when the non-stop downpour finally ends just as Calvin's family is about to pack up and go home. The opening of a 1987 Sunday strip has Dad reading a home improvement guide before fixing the sink. |
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The Maltese Falcon: | |
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At least one time in Treasure Island, the narrator Hawkins says that he won't repeat a curse that a pirate makes. | |
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The Dresden Files: Bob the Skull's introduction in Storm Front has a bit where Bob grumbles something in Old French, "though I got lost when he got to the anatomical improbabilities of bullfrogs." Normally the series isn't afraid to use harsher curse words when appropriate. But they do this in one book where after hearing bad news the narration says "Hendricks said a bad word." "Sideways", Harry responds. |
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In The Amazing Digital Circus, the majority of the swearing is censored as the setting is a digital playground ment for all ages (according to Caine, one of the world's non-player characters). | |
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Mary Rodgers's A Billion for Boris (sequel to Freaky Friday) has a "Brooklyn-born Chinese Puerto Rican" character resorting to this: | |
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In a 1999 Garfield strip, Jon is looking for a date for New Year's Eve. | |
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Whateley Universe: Multiple: Fey (an ancient Sidhe) and Carmilla (descendant of Great Old Ones) have cursed in languages which have been dead for millennia. Ayla and the Birthday Brawl (Chap 6): Odds and Ends (Part 1): In Jade and Mule's combat final, has the scenario's fanatic "calling [Jade] things that the sims team should probably get in trouble for putting in a scenario for freshman girls." |
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Discworld: In Reaper Man, Mustrum Ridcully uses a word "unfamiliar to those wizards who had not had his robust country upbringing and knew nothing of the finer points of animal husbandry" to cuss out the Dean for careless use of a fireball spell. Toyed with in The Truth; the brutal Mr. Tulip has a speaking habit punctuated with "—ing" (sic), used in ways that heavily suggest swearing. It's gradually revealed that the characters in the novel are actually hearing him saying "(pause)ing" or actually pronouncing the dash. When you reread it, knowing that he's not actually swearing this time, this bit of dialogue is much more funny. From Guards! Guards!: "They felt, in fact, thoroughly bucked up, which was likely how Lady Sybil would have put it and definitely several letters of the alphabet shy of how they normally felt." Additionally, two from Men at Arms. First, "...a remark from a Watchman would be genteelly paraphrased by a string of symbols generally found on the top row of a typewriter's keyboard..." Second: Mort had this exchange between two thieves who tried to mug Mort, only to see him escape by walking through a wall: |
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In 'Salem's Lot, Kid Hero Mark Petrie has pinned Barbaric Bully Richie Boddin with his arm bent back, and tells him to say "uncle." All we know of his response is "Richie's reply would have pleased a twenty year Navy man." Played for Laughs though, since there's plenty of cursing in the rest of the book. | |
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In The Martian, Mark's communications through the Rover link are usually shown with the profanities dashed out. On one occasion, when Mark is told that his crewmates hadn't been informed about his survival and responds with a Cluster F-Bomb, the audience gets to see and hear little more than the horrified reactions of Mission Control, aware that his words are being transmitted all over the world. | |
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Skin Horse has an in-universe example with Nick, whose Brain in a Jar "AI" is filtered, turning cusswords to horse-poking other words. And the filter learns; Nick gets away with Yiddish for a bit until the filter catches on. | |
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Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters, the kind-of prequel to Mad Monster Party?, has Modzoola get scolded by his wife for being unfaithful to her by pursuing the Monstress. Nothing she says is intelligible, but Baron Frankenstein's reaction implies she is swearing. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja covers profanities with black boxes reading things like "POTTY MOUTH", "OH MY", "FAMILY FRIENDLY COMIC", "FILTH", "FLARN"... and on one occasion, a pirate shouting, "HE SAID A BAD WORD!" | |
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Virtue's Last Reward, although more for the sake of realistic dialogue than censoring. | |
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Dream Park: When S.J. teases Mary-Em about her character's magic-induced pregnancy in The California Voodoo Game, her reply does have something to do with motherhood, but could hardly have been considered complimentary to S.J. (or to S.J.'s mother, one presumes). | |
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The Big Bang Theory: In one episode, Raj whispers something to Howard, which he translates as Raj comparing Sheldon to "a hygiene product used by women who are not feeling fresh as a summer's eve". Penny adds, "And the bag it came in." Why they did this is is unclear, as the term they're alluding to was used in a later episode. From a later episode: "Yeah, she's pushy, and yeah, he's whipped, but that's not the expression." From "The Robotic Manipulation": |
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In "How the Finch Stole Christmas" (sensing a pattern?) from Just Shoot Me!, the narrator explains that Finch "expressed his displeasure with color and flair, using words that our censors will not let us share". | |
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Archie Goodwin of the Nero Wolfe books does this frequently, including to himself. He claims to do it because he doesn't want to lose any readers (like this one grandma in Wichita). | |
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Fred and George's sparklers "write swear words in midair of their own accord" when they are released inside Hogwarts in Order of the Phoenix. | |
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In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, Jack gets one—it's a Cluster F-Bomb inside this trope as the description around it makes clear. The words are displayed in a minor aversion, but exactly how many times is left up to the reader's imagination (hence this trope): | |
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Warcraft: In Cycle of Hatred, an orc uses the foreign language variant when arguing with a human. It's actually mildly plot-relevant. The human doesn't speak Orcish, so he doesn't realize how bad the insult is, or how likely the orc will attack him. | |
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A close variant in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home when Dr. McCoy expresses his opinion of The Plan: | |
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Gerald Morris does this in his series The Squire's Tales. For instance, in The Squire's Quest, he writes, "Kai... uttered a series of short, very blunt words. Terence sympathized with him. He didn't use those particular words himself, but had to admit that sometimes they felt right." And another rather amusing example in the same book, when Acoriondes is translating Alexander's conversation with his uncle. The running commentary goes something like "Alexander is saying many very vulgar words... even more... I don't think that one is even possible..." From The Lioness and Her Knight: |
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Although With Strings Attached hardly shies away from good old Anglo-Saxon swear words, on occasion this trope is employed for variety, mostly in this context: "What's going on?" said John. Paul filled him in. John swore. | |
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And in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: | |
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In the fourth book of The Indian in the Cupboard series, while climbing up into the barn's hayloft to reach Kitsa and her kittens, Patrick falls through the weak boards and lands on top of his friend, breaking his ankle in the process. When he does, the friend cries out "Oh shoot!" Omri then notes, via the narrative, "except he didn't say 'shoot'." | |
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Everworld: Of particular note is the incident in the fifth book when the resident Emotionless Girl goes Unstoppable Rage. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Rocket translate's Groot's "I am Groot" as "Welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy!" but adds, "...Only he didn't use 'frickin'.'" He then admonishes Groot for language. | |
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Not Always Right: This post includes the beautiful line: | |
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In Danny, the Champion of the World: When Mr Hazell sees the doped pheasants all over the filling-station, the language he uses is so foul and filthy that it scorches Danny's earholes, and he cannot possibly repeat it. | |
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The Dick Van Dyke Show: In the episode "A Word a Day", Richie gets in trouble for innocently using a curse word in school. Thanks to whispering and judicious cutting, the word itself is never heard, but we can tell from Rob's horrified facial reaction that it's a whopper. | |
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The Mortal Instruments uses this. Examples include, in City of Bone, Alec said something that sounded like 'ducking glass mole' and in City of Ashes, has Jace suggest that the whole cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically impossible to themselves. | |
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In Speak, when Melinda is talking with the principal, her parents, and the guidance counselor, the counselor asks if her parents have a strained relationship, and Melinda explained that the father said something that wasn't nice and the mother told her to go to a not-so-nice-place. | |
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Stray doesn't censor out mild curses like "bitch", but it does censor more profane ones. In chapter 9, it's mentioned that "Bob shouted out a very rude, but as it happened a very apposite word". | |
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Ma'at: The protagonist is being prisoner, and is a Cunning Linguist, and from her captors' perspective, is "cursing in at least two languages the leader didn't know." | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Ennesby uses General Xinchub's detonator codes to send him a message demonstrating Ennesby's extensive obscenity collection, which is only vaguely described after the fact. | |
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Young Sherlock Holmes: From Red Leech: | |
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. has an amusing subversion. In her journal, which provides the narration for her plot line, Melisande Stokes always crosses out curse words and substitutes a euphemism, as if she's written the curse in the heat of the moment but immediately regretted it. The original curse is always still plainly visible. | |
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Don't Say Goodbye, Farewell: Colonel Janice Qua, commanding a Moab Confederacy bird-of-prey, listens in as Orion pirates demand that the freighter Wuddship, which is actually a Starfleet heavy cruiser flying a false IFF, surrender. "Captain Kanril said something rather un-captainy." |
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In It's Always The Quiet Ones, Snape shoots a bunch of spells unsuccessfully at an Eldritch Abomination that has him ensnared in its fishy tentacles, and then unleashes the Killing Curse, which is described as "two words that resulted in a virulent green streak of magic leaving his wand and passing through the alien creature". | |
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From The Infinite Monkey Cage: | |
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In A Map of Days, from the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children novels, Noor calls her foster-father what is initially said as "fart-face", though Jacob explains that she actually refers to him using another word starting with "f" that he can't use. | |
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Eye of the Storm (Kenya Starflight): Essentially all cursing is subjected to this. In the very first story, it happens when Austin has just hit his head: In Crystal Blizzard, during the Christmas Eve dinner preparations, Austin is subjected to one again when he accidentally drops a serving container: |
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In The X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space", Scully describes what she saw, and we see it, with Detective Manners saying "bleeping" over his profanity. Then, we cut back to Scully talking with Chung, and she explains that "he didn't actually say 'bleeping'". Chung replies that yes, he's familiar with the detective's speech style... Most of his curses are little gems: "Like blankety-blanking BLEEP I will!", and Scully's reported speeches as well: "Mulder, he says they found your bleeping UFO." | |
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Hive Mind (2016): Amber often comments that Adika swears, or that there's a level of his mind that is nothing but swears. The specific swears are never stated. | |
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A Moon and World Apart: In Chapter 11, when Spike's dragged Sunset out of bed and says he warned her, Twilight thinks to herself that "Sunset's response was low enough that Twilight couldn't quite hear it, and very likely unprintable". | |
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Odd Thomas usually describes profanity rather than transcribing it, often in an amusingly formalized fashion: | |
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In one episode of NUMB3RS, when Charlie and Don are recalling how one of their friends (who ultimately grew up to become a professional surfer) had been afraid of the water when they were children. | |
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Galaxy of Fear: | |
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In Overwatch: Character Wrecking Ball is actually a hamster using a translator, and thus one of his voicelines: | |
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The same author's The Kane Chronicles has a character distinguish between "cursing" and "cussing" — amongst magic users, that's rather a significant difference. | |
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In And All the Stars Burned Bright, when Admiral Taylor informs Barbara Havers that Starfleet will not be launching a rescue for the missing black ops team that includes her captain-slash-lover: | |
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James White loves the second version of this trope, especially in his Sector General series. Phrases like "Conway told him exactly where to go and what to do when he got there" happen at least once a chapter, making the book simultaneously incredibly vulgar and suitable for kids. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Played for Laughs in the episode "Fail Safe" when Jack is explaining to General Hammond how a negotiation with the Asgard went south. Made even funnier once you remember that Asgard are all clones. In another episode, Vala mentions she got in some trouble in an alien village when she suggested that one of the locals "attempt procreation... with herself". |
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Sword Art Online Abridged has this in its games. In Sword Art Online, the player dialogue was bleeped out whenever someone swore. This lasted until the end of the first episode, where Kayaba disabled the profanity filter; the very first words said afterwards were "We're FUCKED!!" In Alfheim Online, the titular game was originally developed to be targeted towards a younger audience, and as such has an in-universe profanity filter whenever someone tries to swear, causing them to instead say a more innocuous word in its place, like "ash" instead of "ass" or "codfish" instead of "God". This in something Kirito deeply misses once he finds out about Alfheim's limitations. That said, the players have found ways around the filter to roleplay things like sexual predation and institutionalized slavery, and Asuna's violent threat to Sugou in Episode 15 is no less terrifying. |
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In The Mighty Chewbacca in the Forest of Fear, the narrator often translates the Shyriiwook of Chewbacca or the Oktarian of Mayv, but in certain cases simply refuses. | |
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Though the first Flora Segunda book didn't use this trope much, if at all, the second features it practically every other page. Although since Califan swearing seems to consist of things like "fike" and "scit", and Flora's willing to record those as-is, one wonders what exactly is being censored. | |
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Nintendo Wars: In Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, in the Green Earth campaign mission 'To the Rescue', a Green Earth soldier reports to CO Eagle that the Orange Star force bearing supplies for them had been besieged by the Black Hole army, and had rejected the latter's recommendation to surrender. The exact wording of the response provided by CO Sami was apparently less than civil... | |
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Nathaniel from Mindblind replaces swear words in other people's dialogue with "(R-rated word)." | |
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X-Wing: Solo Command: Big Bad Warlord Zsinj calls him up to mock him and demand his surrender, only for Han to have Chewie take the call so he can wander off to direct the rest of the fleet. Since Han is the only one present who understands Shyriwook, the novel's periodic cuts back to the ongoing call reproduce Chewie's lengthy rant indirectly. It's mentioned that Chewbacca lists up the various ingredients that make up Zsinj, none of them fit for polite company. Zsinj returns the favor at the end of the book, after he, being a reasonably good sport, calls Han to congratulate him on his victory, and Han, being Han, offers to let him kiss Chewie as a consolation prize. Zsinj launches into a similarly described five-minute long rant in 60 languages, with Han recording the whole thing so he can have it translated and watch it again later. |
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Holmes on the Range: The series isn't shy about swear words but uses the word "fudge" instead of fuck (it's even a running gag with Gus Bock) while noting that "fudge" isn't the actual word being used. | |
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The Palaververse: Mr Stripes Versus A Cthonic Horror: In the first chapter, Mr Stripes encounters a Diamond Dog that speaks Equish with Speech Impediment of a lot of "th", probably due to his "badly-crooked muzzle", and therefore "shit" is "thit": | |
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In The Seven Misfortunes of Lady Fortune, Chat Noir is eavesdropping on two villains arguing, and notes that he can't understand half the Chinese curses despite knowing the language. | |
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In the Wing Commander novel Fleet Action, when a Kilrathi baron demanded humanity's surrender, Admiral Tolwyn said, "Direct your inquiry to President Quinson. I'm sure he will tell you to go perform a certain impossible anatomical act." When the baron specified he wanted the fleet's surrender, Tolwyn "replied with what he assumed the President would have said." | |
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Batman: In All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, after the Goddamn Batman throws "Jocko-Boy" Vanzetti into Gotham Harbor and lies that the hallucinogenic substance in his blood will never fade away, a text box reads, "Standards of decency prevent us from printing Jocko-Boy's response." Later dialogue involves heavy use of 'fuck' and 'cunt', which raises the question of exactly what Jocko-Boy said that was so much worse. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court replaced what are implied to be swears with white words written in black boxes. | |
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Paranatural: On Chapter 8 Page 15, a character's swearing is depicted as Gosh Dang It to Heck!, with the narration indicating that the actual speech is more profane, describing it as "censored here for readers of faint temperament." | |
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The writers of With Pearl and Ruby Glowing lack N-Word Privileges, so racial slurs such as the N-word are censored. | |
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The reason that all of the orcs in The Lord of the Rings spoke like British cadets instead of degenerate monstrous pillagers is that, as the appendix put it, their actual speech was too offensive to bother writing. (As he said, it was "only printable in the higher and artistically more advanced forms of literature".) As proof of this, we have the one line of genuine orc speech Tolkien ever actually published. Even the approximate translation still doesn't sound very nice: | |
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In Richard Roberts's You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older, the main character Vanity Rose has an actual, built-in profanity filter which prevents her from swearing any time that she tries to in her narration, or in the actual story itself. | |
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In Casino Royale we have this a number of times, including the following: "No," he said flatly, "... you." "For a moment he looked out towards the quiet sea, then he cursed aloud, one harsh obscenity." |
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Fantastic Voyage: This Novelization has The Hero speculate that CMDF, the insigne of the paramilitary organization, might stand for "Consolidated Martian Dimwits and Fools", and adds, "I've got a better one than that but it's unprintable". | |
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A rather interesting version of this appears in All Quiet on the Western Front, where one of the main characters is, on a few occasions, described to be "using the most famous quote from Götz von Berlichingen". For those of you not acquainted with the more obscure works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the quote referenced is "But he, tell him, can lick me on in my ass". In German, that has the same connotations as "Go fuck yourself". More usually one says "lick me on my ass". | |
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Mellie from Small Persons with Wings isn't allowed to use religious swears until she's sixteen or biological swears until she's eighteen, so she replaces other people's swearing with Minced Oaths. | |
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Wuthering Heights averts this trope, which was so unusual at the time that an introduction written by Charlotte Brontë specifically praises Emily Brontë for not giving in to the common convention. | |
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Girl Genius gives us this, after a case of Agony of the Feet, though the filter is a bit more refined than what Agatha actually meant. | |
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In his commentary of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Dumbledore mentions that Lucius Malfoy had a few choice things to say to him, "but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote." | |
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Star Wars novels seem to like the "swearing in a different language" variation, likely because in a galaxy with so many languages, it's bound to come up often. An example from Outbound Flight: | |
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From #1note the graphic novel changes this to Curse Cut Short: | |
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Planet of Twilight has: | |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians does this quite a lot. Mostly in Ancient Greek. (Most of the swears used, however, were considered pretty bad during the time they were used.) Example with a modern day "bad word", Hera refers to Percy as "one of Poseidon's...children." Percy knows she's thinking of a much different word. The same author's The Kane Chronicles has a character distinguish between "cursing" and "cussing" — amongst magic users, that's rather a significant difference. |
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Invoked in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche, in describing how her family's wealth was squandered over several generations, refers to "fornications—to put it plainly" and "the four-letter word". | |
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221B: "Bowl" features Holmes and Watson implicitly swearing at each other after Watson finds out Holmes stored a (possibly poisonous) red leech in their sugar bowl for lack of a better place to put it. However, Watson only says that his response was rude and Holmes' was "even less sophisticated", and he cites this as one of the reasons he never intends the general public to hear this story. | |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire includes the line "Ron told Malfoy to do something that Harry knew he would never have dared say in front of Mrs. Weasley", giving us Narrative Profanity Filter and a Noodle Incident in one. | |
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During the M*A*S*H episode "Carry On, Hawkeye", Hawkeye has Radar call around asking for supplies and extra surgeons when most of the camp gets sick with the flu. Radar is on the phone with one officer, and is stopped cold by what the officer says to him; when Hawkeye asks him what it was, Radar says the officer told him to do something, but it was physically impossible. Hawkeye then grabs the phone and asks for supplies; he then listens for a minute, hangs up, and tells Radar, "You're right, Radar; he has no understanding of human anatomy." Presumably, the officer told both Radar and Hawkeye to go fuck themselves. Might've been to go screw themselves; at the time, even that comparitively mild term would probably have been seen as inappropriate for network television at the time the episode aired. Either way, while the exact wording may be up for debate, it's pretty clear what the officer was getting at. |
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In the first Wings of Fire book, Clay hears "Tsunami's voice shouting curses". | |
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Played with in the Known Space series, where "Bleep" and "Censor" have BECOME swear words due to language drift. Lucas Garner is extremely smug about actually remembering why. | |
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This isn't entirely surprising, given that he cowrote Animorphs with K.A. Applegate. | |
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The Wheel of Time alternates between this trope and Gosh Dang It to Heck!: for example, the Old Soldier Uno is frequently described by the narration and characters as Sir Swears-a-Lot, but his written dialogue doesn't have any invective more severe than "bloody". | |
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Joe Haldeman's The Forever War has this with the protagonist's far-future squad members. "He said a word whose vowel had changed over the years, but whose meaning hadn't." | |
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Foundation Series "The Mule": Ebling Mis frequently says "unprintable". This might be the narrator replacing his statements with another term, but some of his dialogue only makes sense if he's actually using "unprintable” as a curse word. He is described as being foulmouthed, using "Ga-LAX-y" as another explicative. | |
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The second installment of The Stalking Zuko Series, Not Stalking Zuko is rated T, so the author uses various ways to keep the rating down, including this trope; Katara points out that whenever she mentions that someone said "puck", she actually meant that they said "fuck". This trope is dropped in the third installment, Not Stalking Firelord Zuko, which is rated M. | |
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Used by Cody in Vampire High. | |
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Newshounds uses an interesting version of this trope: swearwords are "censored" by being blacked out with scribbling. | |
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Bluey: When the "Tradies" are at work, the girls report to Chilli on their activities, such as them saying "the word Dad used when the lawnmower wouldn't start" or "the word you said when the dishwasher broke". | |
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The Two Ronnies: Ronnie Barker's "Nell of the Yukon" contains this verse: | |
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Have I Got News for You had great fun mocking a BBC News broadcast which quoted a politician's scandalous remarks to a policeman as "Best you learn your [swearword] place. You don't run this [swearword] government. You're [swearword] plebs." Quoth Claire Balding: "What a bunch of [swearword] fuckwits." | |
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Additionally, two from Men at Arms. First, "...a remark from a Watchman would be genteelly paraphrased by a string of symbols generally found on the top row of a typewriter's keyboard..." Second: | |
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In Big & Rich's "Saved", the chorus's first and last lines states "Yeah, last night, I told the devil where to go." | |
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The Good Place has this as an in-universe trope. Because the characters are in the titular Good Place, their curse words are automatically replaced, Gosh Dang It to Heck! style, e.g. "shit" with "shirt", "bitch" with "bench", and "ass" with "ash". This allows the show to actually be pretty foul-mouthed despite remaining compliant to the PG-13 rating. In one episode, Eleanor tries to say "cock block", but it comes out as "cork blork", prompting her to mention how appreciative she is that the rhyming was preserved. When characters are in the Bad Place, this filter is not present. | |
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In-universe on one episode of NewsRadio, Bill goes on a short-lived crusade against the profanity in rap music. | |
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Self-inflicted in-universe in Toy Story when Woody tells Buzz why he cannot say what he truly thinks about him: | |
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A Christmas Story does this in two ways. Ralphie's "Old Man" is noted to be a champion of vulgarity, but all of his tirades are rendered into meaningless angrish. In another scene, Ralphie accidentally lets slip, "Oh... fudge!" The narrator clarifies that he didn't actually say "fudge", he said the real "eff-dash-dash-dash word". | |
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An in-universe example comes from Apollo 13, where, after receiving a reminder from Mission Control to avoid locking the gyroscope's gimbals, Jim tells Fred that he's "...well aware of the Goddamn gimbals!", which Fred relays to Houston with a simple "Roger that, Houston." Subverted because the lunar module's comm system was set to Voice Activated mode, so Houston heard the original version too. | |
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In one book of the Sword of Truth series, Annalina describes Zedd's reaction to one of Nathan's plans with, "Zedd has succumbed to a bout of loud cursing and arm flailing, he is swearing oaths about what he intends to do to Nathan, I am sure he will find most of his intentions physically impossible." | |
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In The Final Reflection, after a Human diplomat makes a proposal that Krenn finds horribly insulting, he relieves his feelings by using an alien language the Humans don't know "to curse the Humans and their riding animals".note "—and the horse you rode in on!" | |
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Both types are used in The Saint books, with people 'cursing or 'blaspheming' and the occasional phrase along the lines of 'gentlemen was not the phrase he used'. In one story a story a police detective starts to say "The city commissioners can go and..." before the narration informs the reader that he did not say jump in the lake, climb a tree or any of the standard options, and that it was highly unlikely that the city commissioners could actually perform the action he suggested. |
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Toyed with in The Truth; the brutal Mr. Tulip has a speaking habit punctuated with "—ing" (sic), used in ways that heavily suggest swearing. It's gradually revealed that the characters in the novel are actually hearing him saying "(pause)ing" or actually pronouncing the dash. When you reread it, knowing that he's not actually swearing this time, this bit of dialogue is much more funny. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: The episode "The Terrible Twosome" has Wanda and Foop chide Poof for using profanity, even though he only says "Poof, poof" like he usually does. In "A Sash and a Rash", Chloe wishes to become a slacker and ends up being so lazy that she relies on grunting to communicate. Cosmo interprets her grunts, but declines to translate one of her grunts due to it being salty language. |
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In Reluctant Hero, Aang freaks out after throwing a pirate off a cliff and asks him to wave his arms to show he's alive. The pirate does something else entirely. | |
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From the novelization of Revenge of the Sith: | |
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In Underverse, we have Fresh!Sans who can cause this with his mere presence as shown when he's near Fell!Sans as all of Fell's swears get replaced with "Fresh" substitutes much to the latter's chagrin. | |
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In the Junior Officers chapter "Margaret's Story", the narration cuts off Margaret's father calling her "the S-word".note "Slut". | |
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Mistake Sherlock Holmes: At one point, a doctor tries to evict Holmes from the room for exciting Watson too much. Holmes informs him what he can do with his medical advice, making Watson laugh. | |
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Deltora Quest features the line 'Barda cursed under his breath', usually in response to the book's villain, a lot. | |
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In Kingdom Keepers, Maybeck swears rather frequently. However, it is never stated what he says. For example, in book 2, he says "Close the freaking door!". The very next sentence is "Only he didn't say freaking." They do this frequently. Or they simply say "Maybeck said a word that would have gotten him kicked out of class if he had been in school." | |
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A quote from A Christmas Carol reads thus: | |
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Bequeathed from Pale Estates has Oberyn Martell losing his temper while conversing with his brother, so he "births a dramatic and rude gesture" in his sibling's direction. Doran is unimpressed. | |
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Apparently Wookiees have a thing for this—generally the writers are unwilling to write out "Arrn whooon urr" and such, and only a few will just translate, so just about anything they say is formatted like this trope. In Death Star, the viewpoint character, a doctor describing side effects for a treatment, doesn't understand the language and has to rely on a translator droid. | |
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In the novelization of The Force Awakens, when Rey gets into the argument with the Teedo, he "gives a reply that would have been unprintable on any of a hundred civilized worlds." | |
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Bull Durham: An In-Universe example when Teddy the radio announcer describes what Crash just called the umpire to get thrown out of the game—which we were watching in person moments earlier. | |
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In force through all of the Horatio Hornblower books, which are about sailors. They're usually denoted as cursing, or sometimes "forceful expressions". In Hornblower and the Atropos, an impressed ferryman expresses his admiration by swearing several "oaths". In The Happy Return, Hornblower is put in a situation where none of the fifty-five(!) oaths he has prepared are adequate to the occasion. (One of the only aversions to the trope comes in the latter book, when the Lydia is described as being a perfect bitch under tow.) | |
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An in-universe example on Game of Thrones happens when Jon reads Ramsay's very threatening letter requesting that he send Sansa back to Winterfell and what will happen if he doesn't. He reads the description of how Ramsay will murder every wildling and then abruptly stops reading, describing it as more of the same. Sansa snatches the letter and reads aloud the next part, which describes how Jon will watch as she is raped. | |
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The Little Painter: When the troll Pierre was to be fed to saw his ugly picture of Princess Creme Brule, he fell in love with the woman in the photo. He stated that when he found her... | |
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"C-Chute": Col Windham tries to inspire common ground with Stuart by citing national identity and Fantastic Racism. Stuart, however, disagrees with an "unprintable" response. | |
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Butcher Of The Wards: Taylor's ability to mute the Butcher voices apparently extends to bleeping out their profanity, although that doesn't stop her from internally swearing herself. | |
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The Big Sleep has this as Running Gag. After a young suspect gets caught, his only words from then on are shown as "Go —— yourself." Marlowe will occasionally narrate that the kid said "his three favorite words" and refers to him as "he of the limited vocabulary." When Marlowe asks a cop if the kid said anything while he was away, the cop quips, "He made a suggestion. I'm letting it ride." | |
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From Fargo, an upstanding citizen describing a conversation with a less savory fellow: | |
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In The Water-Babies, the Lemony Narrator refers to Tom's familiarity with "words which you have never heard, and which it would have been well if he had never heard". | |
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A surprising version in the profanity-laden Hamilton: early in "Rap Battle #1", Jefferson tells Hamilton that "if the shoe fits, wear it". The final line of Hamilton's response is "turn around, bend over—I'll show you where my shoe fits!". Presumably, this was done to make the rhyme work, as Hamilton has had no qualms cursing before or after that moment. | |
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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!: Nate tells Vivy, "I have my own life and it's kind of important. Not that anyone around here gives a flying Triceratops about that." Vivy adds that he didn't really say "Triceratops," but she changed it because she doesn't want to use a bad word. | |
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Maximum Ride has "holy (insert swear word of your choice here)." | |
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The in-universe version is used in Speed, when the main character is examining the bomb underneath the bus and one of the civilians on the bus is repeating what he says over a radio: the hero swears in shock at something he sees, and the meek-looking office worker instead translates it as "Oh darn." | |
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When The Star was made in 1952, cursing wasn't allowed in movies. So, for the scene where the streetwalker sharing a cell with movie star Margaret Elliot realizes that the drunk, disheveled person in front of her is who she says she is, the streetwalker says, "I'm a dirty name! It is Margaret Elliot!". | |
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Comes up a few times in the Danny Phantom/Beetlejuice crossover, Say It Thrice. Mostly from Betelgeuse. | |
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Bait and Switch (STO) changes between the various swear word tropes almost at random. Sometimes, as with the first time Eleya meets Admiral Marconi, it's "[character] swears" (this trope). Sometimes they swear in alien languages. In a couple cases, the author just uses a Precision F-Strike (although the second time, when Gaarra and Eleya talk about their one-night stand, it was technically Pardon My Klingon crossed with Translation Convention). | |
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Parodied in The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross. As protagonist Bob Howard narrates: | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Ciaphas Cain: The Traitor's Hand has a scene where a strike team from the 597th attacks a Slaaneshi-run brothel and are, for lack of a better term, inspecting the artwork. The porn is mostly left undescribed, other than one of the troopers wondering aloud if a scene depicted is even anatomically possible. Cain says it isn't and that even if it was, it would be against regulations. | |
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In Left Behind, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins use this with their non-Tribulation Force characters. Usually it's done with the characters that they want to show are bad people, but don't want to have the words written for the largely-Christian audience. | |
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In the Chaos Walking series, Todd does this a lot. Most notably, whenever he wants to narrate that someone said "fuck", he replaces it with "eff - except they didn't say 'eff'". | |
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Goblins in the Castle: In Goblins on the Prowl, when William and Fauna head into the library to find the book that was supposed to be for him, this happens a couple of times when he can't find it: | |
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The short story "A Bad Feeling: The Tale of EV-9D9" in the Tales from Jabba's Palace anthology has a bit where Artoo, who only speaks in beeps and whistles, apparently cusses out the title character with such a dense stream of machine language that EV-9D9 actually backs it up and slows it down in her head so she can catch all the nuances. | |
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This Bites!: In Chapter 14, after learning that Kureha gagged him with a vial of sugar rather than salt, Soundbite's reaction is not written coherently. The reactions to it are, however: In Chapter 34, Nami unleashes a Cluster F-Bomb while the SBS is running. For the sake of his auditors, Soundbite manages to censor her... more or less. |
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In Blackadder Goes Forth, Blackadder's memorable line "I believe the phrase rhymes with 'clucking bell'" is his eminently understated response to finally receiving orders to lead his troops over the top. | |
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The Outsiders has this at work in the whole book. It's usually in the second way, although there's a few lines that actually blank out a character's cussing. The fourteen year old protagonist refuses to curse and instead uses Gosh Dang It to Heck!. Whenever his older friends do curse, he only describes it. | |
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Herman Wouk, in the preface to The Caine Mutiny, assumes that readers will not want a more exact rendering of the sailors' habitual speech, and only notes that they use "horrible profanity". At one point, a CPO gives "vent to a string of profanities which meant roughly 'This is most unusual.'" | |
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The True Love Loophole: After finding out that Raven is Covered with Scars from abuse, it's said that all Apple of all people could do was mutter every curse she knows. | |
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Vatta's War: At one point a character is quoted to have told someone else to do something "Kylara was sure was anatomically impossible". | |
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Legacy of the Aldenata: In Gust Front, Captain April Weston, commanding the frigate Agincourt, is said to curse two minutes straight without repeating herself, in response to an official e-mail. | |
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In For Whom the Bell Tolls, which is full of Spanish-speaking characters, Ernest Hemingway rendered some words as "obscenity" or "unprintable" in dialogue, rather than either translating them or leaving them in Spanish. Hence the famous line: "I obscenity in the milk." Except for the expurgated word, this is a literal translation of the expression "me cago en la leche," which is not censored when the novel includes it in Spanish. | |
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Keeper of the Lost Cities: In Neverseen, "[Keefe] shouted a bunch of words that would earn him a month of detention". In Nightfall, after Keefe makes a risky move despite Sophie's protest: In Flashback: When Ro has to call Keefe "Lord Hunkyhair" after losing a bet: When Ro finds out who Sophie's ogre bodyguard will be: Tarina unleashes "a colorful array of Trollish words" the first time she teleports via free-falling. In Legacy: After Sophie reveals some bad news, Ro is mentioned to be "muttering a whole lot of creative words under her breath." When Stina has to wade into mud: |
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Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me: A "Not My Job" segment asking skier Mikaela Shiffrin about the Gloucestershire cheese race mentioned how the local authorities once tried to stop the race by telling the 86-year-old woman who makes the cheese every year that she'd be liable for any injuries sustained. One round of "Who's Bill This Time" had Bill censor a comment while quoting an analyst, and Peter makes it clear that wasn't exactly what was said: |
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In Wylder's Hand, any scene where Stanley Lake is moved to strong emotion is likely to have at least one moment where the narrator gracefully declines to report exactly what he said next. | |
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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: When Ledo wakes up on the eponymous fleet, his mecha needs to analyze the language of the natives. To do so, Ledo grabs the nearest girl, runs away with her on his shoulder, and, just to make her talk some more, touches her ass. What follows is this, using a Expospeak Gag-based Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness translation by Chamber, of "reproduction with one's mother, as well as sanctified excrement". | |
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The Twilight Saga: From Breaking Dawn, Leah manages to do this in werewolf form. There's also one with Alice: Also, in Midnight Sun Edward says a word he'd "never said before in the presence of a lady", prompting Cleolinda Jones to speculate: Daaaaang.◊ |
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Tarzan: In The Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs has one of his villains call Tarzan "Name of a name!" This could be a reference to the old-fashioned French expletive, nom d'un nom, or literally "the name of the name", a circumlocution for the blasphemous nom de Dieu. | |
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Happens a couple of times in The Hunger Games and its sequel, as Katniss describes her fellow tributes Cato and Johanna "swearing like a fiend" and "scream[ing] a lot of really insulting things at me." Katniss later gets in on the action herself in the second and third books by screaming "terrible things" at people, usually Haymitch. | |
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In the Animorphs fanfic Ghost in the Shell, when CNN shows footage of Essa-in-Tom giving Jake a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, Tom remembers Jake saying "several words that our dad probably wasn't aware Jake even knew, and definitely would have grounded him for using." | |
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Nina Tanleven: Occurs at least once per story. In The Ghost in the Third Row, Nine tries finding Chris in the phone book, but there are over a dozen Gurleys listed. One is a cranky man who tells her he works nights and she’d woken him out of a sound sleep. As Nine puts it, “He also said several other things, but I had better not put them on paper.” Also in The Ghost in the Third Row, Nine and Chris are trapped in a very small, very dark room, and don't know what to do. Chris points out that "being picky won't get them anywhere." Nine tells the reader that "actually, that was the meaning of what she said. Her actual words would probably burn this page." The Ghost Wore Gray has Nine recall that Edgar Lonis, director of the play from the first book, once commented to her that one of the great secrets of acting was planting a seed in the audience's mind and then letting it grow. He then told her: "Your problem, Nine, is that once you plant the seed, you go overboard with the fertilizer." Except, as Nine also recalls, "He didn't say fertilizer". The Ghost Let Go includes the line "My father said a word I don't get to use." |
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Exile/Avernum III has a few sailors who constantly pepper their speech with gibberish-as-narrator-replaced-profanity. | |
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In Shatterpoint, being a Jedi, Mace Windu is more conservative in his language than most of those he meets, and is reluctant to quote them directly in his journal. (Which is somewhat ironic considering he's played by Samuel L. Jackson. | |
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In Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, after the titular character has again outwitted the farmers after his hide, Farmer Bunce is described as exclaiming in language that "could not be typed." | |
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Erfworld has one that's actually plot-relevant (maybe). Parson is the only character who ever tries to swear, but in his dialogue it's always replaced with "boop". It's also subverted at the very end of the first book: After that point, he gains the ability to swear at will for unclear reasons. (The actual reason was on the other side of the fourth wall: Erfworld the webcomic was now hosted on its own site.) There is also a brand of magic in Erfworld called shockmancy , which is mostly used for explosions, lightning and similar visually impressive displays but it also has different, shocked into silence meaning. Every time Parson swears, other characters feel like he is casting a weak shockamancy spell on them. It is implied that things were not always as cutesy or censored as they are now. And die and everything with death is also considered a swear word. |
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In the children's fantasy novel The Midnight Folk: Whenever the former sailor Roper Bilges uses a profane verb, which he does often, it's obscured by verbing the nearest relevant noun. | |
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A Wizard in Rhyme: Subverted in The Witch Doctor, when a holy knight in training gets entangled in some underbrush: | |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory gives us this gem: | |
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Excalibur: Leaning on the Fourth Wall example in an early issue, when Arcade captures Courtney Ross: | |
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It showed up now and again in the Narnia books also. From The Horse and His Boy: | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has a few examples: During a Bug-Catching Contest, Ash and Pikachu encounter a Shuckle who says something insulting to Pikachu, and the mouse answers back with an insult of his own. Ash only mentions the insult is something he would never say out loud in the same continent as his mother. Later when they're reunited with Primeape, he's revealed to be quite foul-mouthed, to the point he's constantly blurting out profanities during the battle against Blaine in Cinnabar. However, both Ash and the narration refuse to go into specifics. In the Melemele Grand Trial Interlude, Velvet Lono, of all people, says an expletive when she sees Hala's Bewear using Pain Split to alleviate Hariyama's use of Belly Drum. The word isn't explained, but given the other characters' reactions, it must have been strong. |
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In What Tomorrow Brings, the Dapsen Lumber guard screams obscenities that Elfangor is fairly certain park rangers aren't supposed to know. | |
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Fallen London: The game provides this excellent example, as a riposte to a woman making insinuations in regards to your heritage and relationships with certain kinds of farm animal: The failure message for that storylet is pretty excellent as well: And in another storylet: |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Princesses Don't Do Summer School: Shelby's swearing is only indicated by her being admolished with a "Shelby, language." | |
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Atlas Shrugged: | |
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A variant is used in Hidden Talents. The narrator mistakes the sound of swearing for chickens clucking at first, then realizes that a single swearword is being said over and over, implying a Cluster F-Bomb. | |
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An NPC in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes does this as a Shout-Out to Snakes on a Plane: | |
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The Flashpoint episode "Acceptable Risk" is told in Whole Episode Flashback form as various team members describe the incident to an investigator. At one point during the flashback sequence, Spike discovers that the security system is one he's not familiar with and he has to tell Ed that he's unable to unlock the door separating Ed and Wordy from the subject. | |
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Little House on the Prairie: Quite common in the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Characters are just said to have sworn, and nothing else. There are some instances where it appears that a character has sworn, but it's not clear to the modern audience if the word used was truly offensive or the character himself was just using a substitute for an actual curse. There is one instance where Laura overhears a confrontation between migrant railroad workers. The dialogue in the book is clean, but Laura notes in the narration with some shock (and, this being Laura, also some guilty fascination) that the railwaymen were using "rough language. She was hearing rough language." She also quotes Pa a few times as saying "blanked" in phrases where the most logical assumption is that he actually said "damned", but there is no disclaimer explaining that Pa actually used a different word. She simply quotes him as if "blanked" was actually the word he used. Can be confusing for some young children who don't realize that "blanked" wasn't what he actually said and aren't sure what it means to blank something. |
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The Railway Series: Humorously in The Island of Sodor source book, a censored expletive laden rant from Sir Topham Hatt is included in the text as he expresses his frustrations with receiving Henry and not the Atlantic locomotive he originally wanted. Albeit censored, it marks one of the few uses of profanity in the entire series. It's a railway after all (one that serves many mines and shipping docks too) there has to be many Sir Swears-a-Lot characters who are being censored for the audience! Peter Sam outright says that Duncan has "strong language" for his past factory; Stepney later says the same for Captain Baxter, who worked in a quarry. |
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In Prophecy of the Circle, it gets used in-universe at one point. When Shanka relates how he confronted his mother about cheating on his father, he only says "I called her what she is" (with a flashback panel showing the woman's clearly shocked expression). | |
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A variant from Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: | |
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In Over Sea, Under Stone, the first book of The Dark is Rising, the three Drew children encounter Bill Hoover down at the harbor, with Jane almost getting run over by him on his bicycle. After exchanging some heated words, he rides away: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the penultimate episode of Season 2, Buffy is on the phone with Willow, and they're talking about the argument they had with Xander. Season 9 has Spike tell some of his minions to go do something "anatomically impossible". |
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The Secret Return of Alex Mack: This happens a lot, in keeping with Alex's PG-rated Nickelodeon origins. | |
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Lensman: Kimball Kinnison in Gray Lensman: | |
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Star Wars Legends: Han Solo tends to curse in every language he knows. Naturally, we never get to actually hear any of these curses, unless they happen to be Unusual Euphemisms.... X-Wing: Solo Command: Big Bad Warlord Zsinj calls him up to mock him and demand his surrender, only for Han to have Chewie take the call so he can wander off to direct the rest of the fleet. Since Han is the only one present who understands Shyriwook, the novel's periodic cuts back to the ongoing call reproduce Chewie's lengthy rant indirectly. It's mentioned that Chewbacca lists up the various ingredients that make up Zsinj, none of them fit for polite company. Zsinj returns the favor at the end of the book, after he, being a reasonably good sport, calls Han to congratulate him on his victory, and Han, being Han, offers to let him kiss Chewie as a consolation prize. Zsinj launches into a similarly described five-minute long rant in 60 languages, with Han recording the whole thing so he can have it translated and watch it again later. Apparently Wookiees have a thing for this—generally the writers are unwilling to write out "Arrn whooon urr" and such, and only a few will just translate, so just about anything they say is formatted like this trope. In Death Star, the viewpoint character, a doctor describing side effects for a treatment, doesn't understand the language and has to rely on a translator droid. Star Wars novels seem to like the "swearing in a different language" variation, likely because in a galaxy with so many languages, it's bound to come up often. An example from Outbound Flight: Galaxy of Fear: Planet of Twilight has: The short story "A Bad Feeling: The Tale of EV-9D9" in the Tales from Jabba's Palace anthology has a bit where Artoo, who only speaks in beeps and whistles, apparently cusses out the title character with such a dense stream of machine language that EV-9D9 actually backs it up and slows it down in her head so she can catch all the nuances. In Shatterpoint, being a Jedi, Mace Windu is more conservative in his language than most of those he meets, and is reluctant to quote them directly in his journal. (Which is somewhat ironic considering he's played by Samuel L. Jackson. From the novelization of Revenge of the Sith: Also from that novel, one of General Grievous' bodyguard droids aboard the Invisible Hand screeches "some improbable threat regarding its staff and Kenobi's body cavities" while Obi-Wan is busy slicing it to pieces. |
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Occasionally used in The Red Vixen Adventures depending on whose point of view the scene is focusing on. When Rolas and the Red Vixen encounter one of her enemies, she's noted as using "A short, very human, curse word." Scenes from Alinadar's perspective just have Ali letting out a "Fuck". | |
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When Lord Doom steals Armsmaster's tinkertech motorcycle, promptly crashes it, and then flies away into the sky while laughing, "Armsmaster said some things that were probably not PR approved." Unfortunately for Armsmaster, he was caught on camera, and became a PHO meme. | |
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In Bill Cosby: Himself, Bill Cosby relates the tale of his eldest daughter's birth. He describes his wife's response to a contraction as, "She informed everyone in the room that my parents were never married." | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator briefly mentions that the Invisible President at one point utters a very rude word. Unfortunately, he's live on national radio, meaning that kids everywhere hear it, repeat it, and get smacked by their parents. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda has an in-universe discussion board for the crew of the Tempest. One message on it: | |
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Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee plays with this trope: while he does swear uncensored all the time, the visuals accompanying his swearing are sometimes remade into something more polite and/or silly. One example in his review of the game Manhunt, where he gives his opinion on whether over-the-top fictional violence has any correlation with real-life violence: | |
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In Scaramouche, almost every sentence uttered by Danton features at least one (blank.) | |
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Done a few times in The Amulet of Samarkand usually for a Babylonian swear word. But one instance takes the cake when both language and violence make a censor when an imp is about to say something very inappropriate we get a line of asterisk and the footnote. | |
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Universe Falls: In "The Stanchurian Candidate", after Stan's disastrous phone interview at the start of his campaign for mayor, Steven describes an angry email Stan got as having "just about every word Pearl's told me I should never say." | |
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From the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Solitary Cyclist": "He had a fine flow of language and his adjectives were very vigorous". Appears again in "The Abbey Grange", used by the supposed culprit. "...I was standing with her just inside the window, in all innocence as God is my judge, when he rushed like a madman into the room, called her the vilest name that a man could use to a woman, and welted her across the face with the stick he had in his hand." |
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In Transpecial, Warren uses "a word he hoped Iterk didn't know." | |
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Often used on How I Met Your Mother, since the show's Framing Device is that Ted is telling these stories to his kids. This is used most notably in "How Lily Stole Christmas", in which "Grinch" is used to substitute for a much stronger word. Although there is one point where she takes all the Christmas decorations, leading Ted to say "What a Grinch!", which the voiceover informing the kids that "That time, [he] actually did say 'Grinch'." Extended to calling a joint a sandwich and going as far as to making the characters eat a (very large) sandwich and giggling like stoners, and carrying around smaller sandwiches in rolled-up plastic baggies. And, in a later episode, they made... sandwich brownies. Another episode begins with Ted describing how he and Robin had some new neighbors upstairs, who liked to "play the bagpipes" frequently, and loudly. The scene ends with Ted finally shouting "shut the bagpipes up!" at the ceiling. Another visual one: the thumbs-up sign was used as a substitute for the middle finger in one episode. In "The Wedding Bride": In the episode "The Murtaugh List": When Ted's mom remarries and her husband presents Ted with a painting of himself and Ted's mother, both naked with a strategically-placed guitar. "But I didn't say fudge." An implied one in "Nannies". To help get over a recent breakup, Barney begins a festival he calls "Bangtoberfest". Except, what synonym for "bang" would work better in a portmanteau with Oktoberfest? A later episode has as its conflict, Marshall's son making more "confetti" while his diaper is changed. It's obviously not supposed to be confetti, given how everyone treats it as disgusting. It's not very subtle. |
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Mitsumi in Close (But No Coffee) gets angry at Ghetsis' abuse of his son N and "[says] a few words she had never uttered in front of the impressionable Hareta" before punching Ghetsis. | |
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The Kingdom of Loathing Item-of-the-Month "My Own Pen Pal kit" finds you an (NPC) penpal, who sends you a rather Mad Libs-like letter with an item attached to it each day. One of the sentences that might be generated is about a teacher who told him that if you ignore a bully, he'll leave you alone, and that his dad says it's "a crock of bullcrap (except he didn't say bullcrap, he said a bad word)". | |
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In the Mobile Fighter G Gundam Dead Fic The Revenge of Rutger Verhoven, which is told from the title character's point of view, he talks about his sole crew member Billy Jack's tendency to use obscenities. Billy Jack's censored assessment of the Nether Gundam is this: "The bleeping piece of bleep looks like the bleeping bleeps took a bleeping outhouse, put a bleeping fan on the front and put a bleeping robot inside." Rutger adds, "For the record, he didn't say bleep." | |
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In Dragon Pearl, Min notes that space-farers say a lot of words her mother wouldn't want to hear. | |
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Britanick: Played with in the episode "Fudge", where it starts with "fudge"/That's not what I really said, and advances to this for "Chickenfaggot", antisemitic thoughts, and covering Nick with mustard. | |
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In Cheaper by the Dozen (or at least the book version), one of the kids calls a neighbor's kid a "son of an unprintable word". Most readers know what this means. Later there's "you unprintable son of a ruptured deleted." | |
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Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code: At one point during the infiltration of the Spiro Needle, Holly grunts "something unprintable" in response to Artemis impatiently urging her on. | |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: In the sequel Picking up the Pieces, the griffon Doctor Gregory finds out about Wind Breaker's forced alcoholism from his childhood and, in response, is said to have "uttered something so harsh that every set of ears in the room flattened at it" to refer to the ones responsible. | |
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In one Friends episode, Joey gets Phoebe a job as an extra on Days of Our Lives, where she annoys the director with her incompetence. Relaying the director's frustration, Joey tells Phoebe: | |
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Used frequently in The Saga of Darren Shan the word bull is used to replace bullshit and when characters swear it usually says he cursed or he swore. | |
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One episode of Babylon 5 features Bester and Garibaldi both in C&C at the same time. Bester enters, then picks up on a mental thread related to Garibaldi's conversation with Sinclair. As he's about to leave, Bester stops, turns around to face Garibaldi (he'd been facing Sinclair up until that point), and says, "Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try." | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Used for comedy in issue #18, where Rodimus recounts his encounter with Chief Justice Tyrest to some of the other Autobots after the latter asked if Rodimus had any questions regarding his "crimes against the universe." | |
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Half-Blood Prince: | |
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Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom: When she gets caught in a thunderstorm after already having had a terrible night, Gaz stands there for a few seconds in Stunned Silence before "screaming out a long string of obscenities someone her age really had no business knowing." | |
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In The Prayer Warriors, a variant is used, when Michael, infiltrating Hogwarts to learn about whether it's connected with the British government and planning an attack on Christians, attends a magic lesson. The author says that he will not mention the name of the spell Michael learned because "I don't want to teach you atheistic satanic scum how to do magic". | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox replaces all profanity with the word "cuss". This is best exemplified by Fox declaring a "clustercuss of a situation". There's also a scene where some graffiti that simply reads "cuss" can be seen in the background. | |
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Through a Diamond Sky: "[Tron]...grumbled a few hexadecimal strings unfit for polite company". | |
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Galaxy Rangers fanfic will usually use the good, old-fashioned English (or German) swearing...unless Niko's delivering a Precision F-Strike. It'll usually be something "no one could translate." | |
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Unleashing of a Dark Night: Done in spectacular fashion after Atari makes a failed attempt to fight the Metal Were as the latter walks off, not interested in the slightest, after effortlessly taking down Tomo for the first time. | |
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In The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny, Corwin visits a long-abandoned house and notes in the narration that "There was an obscenity scrawled on the wall in the foyer." | |
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From Guards! Guards!: "They felt, in fact, thoroughly bucked up, which was likely how Lady Sybil would have put it and definitely several letters of the alphabet shy of how they normally felt." | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Captain Picard of all people, describing his youthful encounter with Naussicans: | |
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