...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Symbol Swearing
- 980 statements
- 189 feature instances
- 238 referencing feature instances
Symbol Swearing | type |
FeatureClass | |
Symbol Swearing | label |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing | page |
SymbolSwearing | |
Symbol Swearing | comment |
Over time, people have come up with various and pretty &@&#$^(# handy ways to insert swearing, or at least the recognition of swearing, without setting off the Censor Alarms. One of the oldest and easiest ways to do this — besides just slapping a black censor bar over the text and leaving the details to the reader's fertile imagination — is by inserting random %&$#?@! symbols. This method of censorship has been seen in newspaper comics from the beginning, making this trope Older Than Radio. Traditionally they include characters that don't exist on a keyboard — stars and other astronomical objects, clouds and lightning bolts, skulls and bombs are all classic parts of this symbology — but basic ASCII will do in a pinch. While a single bout of swearing may be represented by only one set of symbols, it's more common for a variety of different things to be mixed together in a single speech balloon. Alternatively, thick scribbles may be used instead to suggest hastily and forcefully scrawled writing — and consequently angry, fast speech — without actually resembling any specific words. The severity of a given bout of swearing may also be represented by the nature of the symbols. A few sequences of ASCII and simple shapes like stars or lightning bolts, perhaps interspersed with actual writing, may suggest language just beyond politeness. More inventive and mixed symbols hint at more vocal and profane yelling. If a speech bubble contains a vivid constellation of complex, large and detailed shapes, then it's assumed that a truly impressive bout of obscenities is being censored. Fun fact: The technical terms for such a stream of symbols is "grawlix", a term coined by the cartoonist Mort Walker in ''The Lexicon of Comicana", or "profanitype". Walker also identifies a number of distinct types of this based on specific symbols, such as "jarns" (curved or angled spirals), "quimps" (astronomical objects like moons and planets), "nittles" (stars and asterisks) and true grawlixes (nonsense scribbles). More common in recent times is the use of asterisks instead of random symbols, a case of T-Word Euphemism at work. See Sound-Effect Bleep for the audio version, Angrish for gibberish words used in place of swearing, and Narrative Profanity Filter for other ways of creatively conveying foul language. A subtrope of Pictorial Speech-Bubble. See also SelfDemonstrating.Symbol Swearing. |
|
Symbol Swearing | fetched |
2024-05-14T14:15:53Z | |
Symbol Swearing | parsed |
2024-05-14T14:15:53Z | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to AesopRock: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to BigGood: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to ClusterFBomb: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to CountryMusic: Not an Item - CAT | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to CrosswordPuzzle: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to FanDisservice: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to FlameWar: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to FlavorText: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to GoshDangItToHeck: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to HollywoodTourettes: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to HonestJohnsDealership: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to HotSpringsEpisode: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to InvertedTrope: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to ItMakesSenseInContext: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to JudgmentOfSolomon: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to LeetSpeak: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to NWordPrivileges: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to NeilYoung: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to OlderThanTheNES: Not an Item - CAT | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to OurElvesAreDifferent: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to RealLife: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to ScunthorpeProblem: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to SirSwearsalot: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to SoundEffectBleep: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to SymbolSwearing: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to TagLine: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to TotallyRadical: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | processingComment |
Dropped link to lampshadehanging: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Symbol Swearing | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
Symbol Swearing / int_136342f1 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_136342f1 | comment |
In Mort, the title character vanishes just before being stabbed. His attackers assume him a wizard, and one remarks: "I hate ——ing wizards", to which his companion replies, "Well, you shouldn't —— them then." | |
Symbol Swearing / int_136342f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_136342f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mort | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_136342f1 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_16de0eeb | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_16de0eeb | comment |
In Recursion, Kassians swear in Klingon. However, Kassians of the distant past swear with symbols instead. Jade finds it cute. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_16de0eeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_16de0eeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Recursion (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_16de0eeb | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1858fe06 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1858fe06 | comment |
In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Scourge the Hedgehog (formerly known as Anti-Sonic) tends to do this on occasion. Notable as he seems to be the only character who does this on a semi-regular basis. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1858fe06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1858fe06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_1858fe06 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19abbeb9 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19abbeb9 | comment |
You might be surprised but it happens all the time in the original The Smurfs comics by Peyo. Yep, the comic overall was much less childlike than its Animated Adaptation. It was even played with in one one-page gag story, where a random Smurf hits his foot with a hammer and begins Symbol Swearing up a storm until Papa Smurf tells him to wash his mouth out with soap. In the last panel, when the Smurf speaks again, his word balloon is completely clean, but now soap bubbles containing swear symbols are floating all around him. On the other hand, bad words were never "smurfed out", except on one notable occasion in King Smurf referencing General Cambronne's last stand. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19abbeb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19abbeb9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Smurfs (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_19abbeb9 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19ac551d | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19ac551d | comment |
Laura Kinney is decidedly more animated in All-New Wolverine, and decidedly more mouthy too, dropping a F-bomb at least once per story arc that's censored this way. Other characters get in on the act as well. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19ac551d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_19ac551d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
X-23 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_19ac551d | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1a262ab5 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1a262ab5 | comment |
A common occurrence in Get Fuzzy; in fact, one stretch of cartoons has Satchel actually pronounce his Symbol Swearing ("Did you leave this lightning bolt plus sign brick on the floor?"). | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1a262ab5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1a262ab5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Get Fuzzy (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_1a262ab5 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1adee40d | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1adee40d | comment |
In The World Ends with You, this occurs in the third week when Beat encounters a wall to the Station Underpass, his intended destination. This is the only instance of symbol swearing in the game, and the rest of the game's swears are uncensored. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1adee40d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1adee40d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The World Ends with You (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_1adee40d | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1b386512 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1b386512 | comment |
The English and French translations of the Ranma ½ manga uses grawlix to censor Hiroshi and Daisuke when they're grilling Ranma on how far he's gone with his fiancée Akane, leaving whatever naughty words they're saying to the reader's imagination. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1b386512 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1b386512 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ranma ½ (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_1b386512 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1fc7499e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1fc7499e | comment |
The most concrete example is in Reaper Man, where an excess of life force is causing all sorts of things to come to life — including wizards' swearwords being manifested as little creatures. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1fc7499e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_1fc7499e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Reaper Man | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_1fc7499e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_24542592 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_24542592 | comment |
Burning Secret: Downplayed – Luna calls the blackmailer a “lowlife piece of sh!t�. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_24542592 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_24542592 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Burning Secret (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_24542592 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_27b0262b | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_27b0262b | comment |
One MythBusters test requires on-camera swearing. Since digitally blurring out their lips (to counter lipreading) gets expensive, Adam builds a mouth shield with grawlix neatly lettered onto it. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_27b0262b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_27b0262b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
MythBusters | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_27b0262b | |
Symbol Swearing / int_283f4f74 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_283f4f74 | comment |
Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures has a character named Juntarra, who does this more or less every time she opens her mouth. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_283f4f74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_283f4f74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_283f4f74 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_289484d9 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_289484d9 | comment |
Bloons TD 5: The pre-round comment for Round 63 is "Next level will be @#$*% hard." The later versions and the mobile version would remove it and state that it's "really hard" instead. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_289484d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_289484d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bloons Tower Defense (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_289484d9 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2a640f8c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2a640f8c | comment |
This happens in Gunsmith Cats when Bean's extremely heavy (and heavily armored) jacket falls on — and breaks — Misty's foot. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2a640f8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2a640f8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gunsmith Cats (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_2a640f8c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bb4ae0f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bb4ae0f | comment |
In Heroes, Hiro's reaction to discovering that he's in medieval Japan is subtitled "@#$%!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bb4ae0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bb4ae0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Heroes | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bb4ae0f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bbcacd9 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bbcacd9 | comment |
Looney Tunes: The title of the short "(blooper) Bunny!" is originally given as "That ♣@†#⚡!* Bunny!" In A Corny Concerto, Porky Pig holds up a sign reading "I'm hunting that @@*!!@ rabbit!" |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_2bbcacd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bbcacd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Looney Tunes | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_2bbcacd9 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2cee002d | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2cee002d | comment |
In Meet the Robinsons, when Bowler Hat Guy realizes he needs Lewis' help to fix the brain scanner, he adds "Get that @!!*# boy" to his "Things to Do" list. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2cee002d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2cee002d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Meet the Robinsons | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_2cee002d | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2de034bd | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2de034bd | comment |
T E T R I S ' D: The hero says "@!#$" in a speech bubble seeing they have to avoid Tetris blocks again in 3. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2de034bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2de034bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
T E T R I S ' D (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_2de034bd | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2f327ee3 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2f327ee3 | comment |
Kaine is particularly prone to this, being Spidey's self-described "evil clone", with the temper to match, and being a very Reluctant Hero. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2f327ee3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_2f327ee3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Scarlet Spider (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_2f327ee3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_30b255fb | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_30b255fb | comment |
In Supergirl stories: In Post-Crisis story arc Girl Power, Superboy does this with asterisks when his ex-team shows up: "Oh, @#$%!" Bizarrogirl: Supergirl as battling her Bizarro counterpart: |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_30b255fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_30b255fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Supergirl (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_30b255fb | |
Symbol Swearing / int_31313512 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_31313512 | comment |
In ANNO: Mutationem, Castor and Melissa are left stranded in the middle of a desert after the former's portal malfunctioned. Castor, outraged at realizing C's betrayal, rants angrily as his words are written in random symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_31313512 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_31313512 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_31313512 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_316ce2ea | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_316ce2ea | comment |
This trope is occasionally used in The Beano and The Dandy to express a character's anger and they can't show swear words because those two comics are for children. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_316ce2ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_316ce2ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Beano (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_316ce2ea | |
Symbol Swearing / int_32c541e6 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_32c541e6 | comment |
In a rare and rather strange manga example, in the second volume of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, when Hughes tells Edward about the message from Roy, the curse word Edward uses to describe Roy is replaced with symbol swearing. However, the later volumes tend to leave in the swearing. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_32c541e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_32c541e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_32c541e6 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_34411a6e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_34411a6e | comment |
Bad guys in Archipelago tend to swear with symbols (good guys lean more towards Gosh Dang It to Heck!, although Anansi, who's on the side of good, does have a symbol-swearing rant when her fortune-telling board isn't cooperating), whether it's Lucinda calling one of the heroes names or Steller confronted with a huge Robeast, or Han getting his just desserts. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_34411a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_34411a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Archipelago (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_34411a6e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_375da5af | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_375da5af | comment |
In the parody of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the main character's friends insult each other with typical insults like "butt-head," "armpit" and "nerd," and when the main character uses this kind of swearing, his mother tells him that there will not be any asterisks, dollar signs or ampersands spoken in their house. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_375da5af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_375da5af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_375da5af | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37f1c1bb | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37f1c1bb | comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): In issue #2, once the Mane Six have been set against each other, one panel shows them all shouting at each other, punctuated with a single fancy exclamation point with a dagger set in, which may or may not be this trope, depending on your interpretation. In Celestia's Micro Series issue, a ponified Gordon Ramsay appears in the background of three different panels, and he's brought his infamously foul mouth with him, symbol swearing in all three panels. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_37f1c1bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37f1c1bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_37f1c1bb | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37fbc761 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37fbc761 | comment |
EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist: In the casino minigame, you can gamble the money earned in-game playing High Low while Crown and Fool heckle you. Usually they'll egg you on and humiliate you if you lose. But if you win, one possible line is Crown being reduced to a verbal keyboard-mash of unpronounceable symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37fbc761 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37fbc761 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_37fbc761 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37ff8bb4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37ff8bb4 | comment |
In Deities God will sometimes swear like this. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37ff8bb4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_37ff8bb4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Deities / Web Comic | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_37ff8bb4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_388cf8f0 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_388cf8f0 | comment |
Batman: Black and White: The robbers in "The Heist". "Batsman: Swarming Scourge of the Underworld" ends with Batsman fleeing with a shout of "Get the #&(%@! away from me!!" after his latest attempt at solitary brooding gets interrupted once again. In "Greetings from... Gotham City", a thief shouts "Aw, fer [string of grawlixes]'s sake!" when Batman catches up to his getaway vehicle. In "Blackout", Catwoman shouts "@*#! %*!!" when Batman captures her. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_388cf8f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_388cf8f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: Black and White (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_388cf8f0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_38fa34eb | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_38fa34eb | comment |
Wonder Woman Vol 3: When facing down a Khund warrior, Lt. Etta Candy sarcastically muttered a more explicit version of her old catchphrase; "Woo &^%$ing woo!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_38fa34eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_38fa34eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wonder Woman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_38fa34eb | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3b34143f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3b34143f | comment |
The Harry Potter Dark Fic Dark Secrets has the Obligatory Swearing censored with hyphens for reasons unknown. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3b34143f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3b34143f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Harry Potter | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_3b34143f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3c4ddc1e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3c4ddc1e | comment |
For Better or for Worse uses symbol swearing from time to time. Michael, April uses swearing symbols from time to time. Elly Patterson disapproves swearing in her household. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3c4ddc1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3c4ddc1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
For Better or for Worse (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_3c4ddc1e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d88b6d2 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d88b6d2 | comment |
In Champions of Far'aus this is used in place of strong swears, but seem to have the same number of characters as the swear it's (presumably) replacing. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d88b6d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d88b6d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Champions of Far'aus (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d88b6d2 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d962ad5 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d962ad5 | comment |
The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: While dealing with a xenomorph who is attacking Homer, Marge paraphrases Ellen Ripley's iconic line ("Get away from her, you bitch!") by saying "Get away from my Homie, you $#@%*!!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d962ad5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d962ad5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_3d962ad5 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_400469e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_400469e | comment |
Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin is playing Scrabble with Hobbes when he says "2 points?! Is that @*#% all??" and Hobbes replies "My, this game does teach new words!" Another strip has Clavin's father using a series of symbols of increasing magnitude when he's trying to light a fire; they start as black scribbles, and culminate in a mushroom cloud, skull and crossbones, and a cloud with a lightning bolt coming out of it. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_400469e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_400469e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_400469e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_41c629e2 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_41c629e2 | comment |
In one Baby Blues strip, this happens when Hammie curses after breaking a toy plane. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_41c629e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_41c629e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Baby Blues (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_41c629e2 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_434c0d62 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_434c0d62 | comment |
In the Freaky Friday sequel A Billion for Boris, a character of Chinese heritage strikes right where this trope intersects with the Narrative Profanity Filter: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_434c0d62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_434c0d62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Freaky Friday | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_434c0d62 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4368553e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4368553e | comment |
In Post-Crisis story arc Girl Power, Superboy does this with asterisks when his ex-team shows up: "Oh, @#$%!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4368553e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4368553e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Supergirl (2005) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_4368553e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4407fa9a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4407fa9a | comment |
One of the most famous moments in the American dub of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is Matthew breaking out the grawlix for a Precision F-Strike in the final dungeon when Alex shows up. Presumably a Woolseyism, as it's absent in both the Japanese version and the European version. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4407fa9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4407fa9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_4407fa9a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_44715363 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_44715363 | comment |
Used in the English translation of Yu-Gi-Oh!, mostly for Bandit Keith and Joey. Hilarious with Keith, as most if not all of his sentences have at least one. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_44715363 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_44715363 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_44715363 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_44e0b783 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_44e0b783 | comment |
Garfield: One strip has Garfield watching an Uncle Roy episode where he goes to a factory. When Uncle Roy gets too close to a machine, he says "Turn this #%^$ thing off!" Guess what happens when Garfield's lips get stuck to popsicle. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_44e0b783 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_44e0b783 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garfield (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_44e0b783 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4522fd1 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4522fd1 | comment |
Whateley Universe: In "The Three Little Witches", when the Three Little Witches are being chased by the Whitman girls: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4522fd1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4522fd1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Whateley Universe | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_4522fd1 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_45cb329c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_45cb329c | comment |
The TV series $#!+ My Dad Says, based on a Twitter feed titled Shit My Dad Says. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_45cb329c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_45cb329c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
$#*! My Dad Says | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_45cb329c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_468bebb0 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_468bebb0 | comment |
Discworld: Mentioned in Men at Arms, where we're told that Carrot's friendly greetings to everyone in Ankh-Morpork were reciprocated by people "whose normal response to 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." Carrot can also pronounce the asterisk in "d*mn," and "'!' said Rincewind" is, if not this trope, something close to it. Mr. Tulip in The Truth says "-ing". A -ing lot, like -ing nearly every other -ing word. Due to the prevalence of this trope, most readers will assume that's what's going on. Later in the book, another character hangs a lampshade on this: "Why does that man keep saying 'ing'?" In Mort, the title character vanishes just before being stabbed. His attackers assume him a wizard, and one remarks: "I hate ——ing wizards", to which his companion replies, "Well, you shouldn't —— them then." The most concrete example is in Reaper Man, where an excess of life force is causing all sorts of things to come to life — including wizards' swearwords being manifested as little creatures. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Discworld | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_468bebb0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_46a7fe88 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_46a7fe88 | comment |
Nextwave: The comic uses skull and crossbone symbols. This has spread across the Marvel Universe lately. One Nextwave character was named "Captain ☠☠☠☠", until Captain America washed his mouth out with soap. Even though Nextwave is a decade old, there's still a remarkable consistency in the use of ☠☠☠☠swearing. It pretty much only appears in comics that aspire to match Nextwave's particular strain of insane comedy or that are directly referencing the series. Nextwave starred Machine Man. When he became a supporting character in Tony Stark: Iron Man over a decade after Nextwave ended, his foul language was censored with "☠☠☠☠" whereas all the other characters would stick to the standard grawlix (#$%&). |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_46a7fe88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_46a7fe88 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nextwave (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_46a7fe88 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_46dacb10 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_46dacb10 | comment |
Also present in the Richie Rich comic books, particularly in the story where Mrs. Rich had set up a Swear Jar for her family. For the most part, only Mr. and Mrs. Rich did Symbol Swearing in that story. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_46dacb10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_46dacb10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Richie Rich (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_46dacb10 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_479e4faa | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_479e4faa | comment |
Parodied in The Bojeffries Saga, in which we hear about a minor punk character who has "*** OFF" tattooed on her forehead. Then we see her, and she literally has "*** OFF" tattooed on her forehead, with the asterisks. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_479e4faa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_479e4faa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Bojeffries Saga (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_479e4faa | |
Symbol Swearing / int_487743ee | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_487743ee | comment |
Charby the Vampirate uses this mixed with Gosh Dang It to Heck!, Narrative Profanity Filter and creative Unusual Euphemism in white text over blacked out bits of text. The side comic Here There be Monsters uses symbol swearing or just blacking out letters though, as seen here. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_487743ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_487743ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Charby the Vampirate (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_487743ee | |
Symbol Swearing / int_48961e27 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_48961e27 | comment |
Dinocorps has Dirk swearing at Carl after he says that the Saurons waking up is bad. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_48961e27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_48961e27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dinocorps (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_48961e27 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49a87cb3 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49a87cb3 | comment |
This is one of the things that a lot of people remember Final Fantasy VII for. Usually it's Cid unleashing the grawlixes, but Barret was also prone (and Cloud uses it in one instance). In one case (when confronting Don Corneo in Wutai), Barret announces a string of symbols longer than any actual swear words. This was not a game that was otherwise entirely clean - the word 'shit' is used several times uncensored. Although in the PC version, it's censored this way as well. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49a87cb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49a87cb3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Final Fantasy VII (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_49a87cb3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49ad83ee | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49ad83ee | comment |
The World of Warcraft games have a censor button; the #@$&ing thing got stuck on after a recent patch, so there were several mods to turn it off again. One of them was named something like '#@$& off #@$& filter' | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49ad83ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_49ad83ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
World of Warcraft (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_49ad83ee | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4aab1d60 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4aab1d60 | comment |
Used in 1927 silent film The Cat and the Canary, when aunt Susan finds Paul hiding under her bed. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4aab1d60 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4aab1d60 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Cat and the Canary (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_4aab1d60 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4b8acac6 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4b8acac6 | comment |
Moomin has played with this trope, though it takes things a little further than normal: Swear words are represented by physical, tangible and aggressive little creatures who run around and cause havoc. At one point, the Moomins find an entire box of them floating out at sea, mentioning that there must have been some sailor who decided to stop swearing and threw all his swear words overboard. After the swear words have been making nuisances of themselves for a while, the Moomins get rid of them by, as a practical joke, wrapping them up and sending them by mail to an old, prissy aunt. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4b8acac6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4b8acac6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Moomin (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_4b8acac6 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4cc06582 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4cc06582 | comment |
Subverted in Hot Fuzz, when we see the "swear box", it has a sign on it showing the price for each swear word. All the words have at least one letter changed to a symbol, except for "cunt", the highest priced word, which is left unaltered. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4cc06582 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4cc06582 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Fuzz | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_4cc06582 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4d8e5ec | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4d8e5ec | comment |
The Daily Show's "Ten F#@king Years" and "Clusterf#@k to the White House" (now "Poorhouse") graphics rotate the # and @ in such a way that they are briefly readable as the U and C they represent. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4d8e5ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_4d8e5ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Daily Show | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_4d8e5ec | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50a9ace1 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50a9ace1 | comment |
In the original newspaper strip version of Popeye, the sailor man himself can often be seen swearing like... well, like a sailor. But it's always shown in the talk balloons as Symbol Swearing. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50a9ace1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50a9ace1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Popeye (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_50a9ace1 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50bcf7a6 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50bcf7a6 | comment |
In Homestuck, Jane usually swears like this in pesterlogs. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50bcf7a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_50bcf7a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Homestuck (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_50bcf7a6 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5319ce6c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5319ce6c | comment |
Spy X Family: Becky thinks a stream of these at one point when she interacts with her Precocious Crush, Loid. Anya, who can read her mind, is confused, because she doesn't know what those symbols mean. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5319ce6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5319ce6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
SPY×FAMILY (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5319ce6c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_535818b5 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_535818b5 | comment |
Boys Run the Riot: When Itsuka comes back to Ryo and Jin to apologize for what he said to them, Ryo has more than a few choice words for him. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_535818b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_535818b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Boys Run the Riot (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_535818b5 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_538833a4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_538833a4 | comment |
Retail has made use of this as well when characters swear. The nadir of this would have to be in this strip, when Marla blows up at Stuart for accusing her of using her upcoming maternity leave as an excuse to get out of work. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_538833a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_538833a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Retail (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_538833a4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_53a0bd32 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_53a0bd32 | comment |
The Twilight Zone: In "Once Upon a Time", when Officer Flannagan chastises Woodrow Mulligan for walking in the street and nearly being hit by a horse and carriage, the first word in the intertitle is represented by a star, an exclamation mark, an asterisk and a lightning bolt. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_53a0bd32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_53a0bd32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Twilight Zone (1959) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_53a0bd32 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5558ddd6 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5558ddd6 | comment |
In Poison Ivy Gulch, Ace does this when Lotta forbids him from reading any more dime novels because of their bad language. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5558ddd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5558ddd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Poison Ivy Gulch (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5558ddd6 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5755b96a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5755b96a | comment |
Kazumi Kato unleashes a flood of these in The Order of the Stick, before which they had been used very sparingly. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5755b96a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5755b96a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5755b96a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_593bf058 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_593bf058 | comment |
In The Pirates! Band of Misfits, when The Pirate Captain decides to board the QV1 and save Polly, Mr. Bobo responds by running off and leaving behind a series of cards reading "Are you out of your [Symbol Wording] mind?!" The Captain reads them out loud as "Are you out of your... oh my!" — and an elephant sounds in the pause after "your", acting as a Sound-Effect Bleep. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_593bf058 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_593bf058 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
ThePiratesBandOfMisfits | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_593bf058 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5999b1ec | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5999b1ec | comment |
Also used in Xanth books. A set of repeated single symbols, such as #### is used and corresponds directly to a particular curse word in English, typically revealed by the reaction dialogue of the characters around them. This being Xanth, these words can literally start fires and peel paint. In The Color of Her Panties, an underage Goblin learns a bunch of the rude words. So he's taken by force to the River Lethe to force him to forget the words. After the treatment, all his attempts to shout obscenities are written literally as "____". |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_5999b1ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5999b1ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Xanth | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5999b1ec | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5b344855 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5b344855 | comment |
Pretty much the current record-holder for duration; Wolverine in Astonishing X-Men #6: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5b344855 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5b344855 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wolverine (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5b344855 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5c208620 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5c208620 | comment |
Superman: The Animated Series, in the episode "Mxyzpixilated", Mr. Mxyzptlk was thinking of cursing symbols in a thought bubble when he was getting frustrated about Superman refusing to get involved in Mxyzptlk's challenge anymore, only for Superman to trick Mxyzptlk so Superman can win the challenge and Mxyzptlk will never come back to Metropolis. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5c208620 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5c208620 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Superman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5c208620 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ce62699 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ce62699 | comment |
In Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, Goldilocks swears when she breaks the chair: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ce62699 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ce62699 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Revolting Rhymes | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ce62699 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5d2848bb | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5d2848bb | comment |
Sam & Fuzzy has sex, multiple beheadings, "damn"s and "hell"s, but always uses this in place of F-bombs or S-bombs. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5d2848bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5d2848bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sam & Fuzzy (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5d2848bb | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5e967287 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5e967287 | comment |
Nobody Dies has people swearing fairly often, but any instances of "fuck" get replaced with "f___". Unless that specific instance is meant to be a Precision F-Strike, in which case the word is written out fully. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5e967287 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5e967287 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nobody Dies / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5e967287 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ec299b4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ec299b4 | comment |
While Alias was a MAX imprint (meaning strong language was okay), The Pulse was not, and writer Brian Michael Bendis had to tone down the at-times foul-mouthed Jessica's dialogue accordingly. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ec299b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ec299b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Alias (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5ec299b4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5f89c8b8 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5f89c8b8 | comment |
Zodon in PS238 does this during his first appearance. At the end of it, he's stopped because he gets a microchip implanted in his brain that censors his swearing by replacing the swears with random, non-offensive, words. Especially intense swearing gets replaced with showtunes. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5f89c8b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5f89c8b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
PS238 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5f89c8b8 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5fb4b9bf | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5fb4b9bf | comment |
The Swedish comic 91:an Karlsson uses this all the time. However, it tends to get pretty colorful with the symbols with some almost coming off as more risque than most swears. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5fb4b9bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_5fb4b9bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
91:an Karlsson (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_5fb4b9bf | |
Symbol Swearing / int_607e920b | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_607e920b | comment |
Starlight Over Detrot: Lampshaded, with a dash of Foreign Cuss Word thrown in. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_607e920b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_607e920b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Starlight Over Detrot (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_607e920b | |
Symbol Swearing / int_60e46d26 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_60e46d26 | comment |
MAD: In the parody of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the main character's friends insult each other with typical insults like "butt-head," "armpit" and "nerd," and when the main character uses this kind of swearing, his mother tells him that there will not be any asterisks, dollar signs or ampersands spoken in their house. Their parody of Risky Business had the Tom Cruise line "Sometimes you gotta say 'What the Fuck'." with the last word hidden under symbols. Another character then complains that he can't take that philosophy because he can't speak in symbols. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_60e46d26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_60e46d26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
MAD (Magazine) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_60e46d26 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6149210f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6149210f | comment |
Used in the first Blue Avenger book for a comic-book feel, up until the English class where they discuss the word "shit". | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6149210f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6149210f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Blue Avenger | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_6149210f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_61d4e874 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_61d4e874 | comment |
Conker's Bad Fur Day uses comic-style speech balloons instead of subtitles, so fittingly they use these to represent the bleeped obscenities. Legend has it that they were color-coded as to the exact word being replaced, as well. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_61d4e874 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_61d4e874 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_61d4e874 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62570927 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62570927 | comment |
The comic uses skull and crossbone symbols. This has spread across the Marvel Universe lately. One Nextwave character was named "Captain ☠☠☠☠", until Captain America washed his mouth out with soap. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62570927 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62570927 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Marvel Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_62570927 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62894fec | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62894fec | comment |
Subverted during the Giffen/DeMatteis run on Justice League, when Guy Gardner, in a fit of pique after accidentally destroying an alien ship that the US government wanted retrieved in one piece, starts swearing. Instead of a bunch of symbols, his angry speech balloon contains a single asterisk, leading to a footnote at the bottom of the frame reading, "Expletives (lots of 'em) deleted." | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62894fec | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_62894fec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Justice League of America (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_62894fec | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6417bf47 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6417bf47 | comment |
One of Donna Barr's (Stinz, The Desert Peach) comics had a vigorous bout of swearing denoted by a speech balloon containing a devil Flipping the Bird with both hands. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6417bf47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6417bf47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Desert Peach (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_6417bf47 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6800dddc | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6800dddc | comment |
In Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, if you try to enter a swear word as the player's name, the game censors it with a bunch of "X" symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6800dddc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6800dddc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_6800dddc | |
Symbol Swearing / int_682eecb7 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_682eecb7 | comment |
What the #$*! Do We Know!?, a dramatized discussion of quantum physics and spirituality. Generally pronounced as "What the Bleep Do We Know". | |
Symbol Swearing / int_682eecb7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_682eecb7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
What the #$*! Do We Know!? | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_682eecb7 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_69fa7496 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_69fa7496 | comment |
Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Donald Duck tends to use this in his comics. It actually makes sense, when you realize in the cartoons you can't understand a thing he says in an angry rage. The image is from Don Rosa's comic The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros Ride Again. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_69fa7496 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_69fa7496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_69fa7496 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6a4bddd6 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6a4bddd6 | comment |
Nextwave starred Machine Man. When he became a supporting character in Tony Stark: Iron Man over a decade after Nextwave ended, his foul language was censored with "☠☠☠☠" whereas all the other characters would stick to the standard grawlix (#$%&). | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6a4bddd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6a4bddd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Iron Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_6a4bddd6 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6dd8677c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6dd8677c | comment |
Subverted in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun; a GDI soldier responds to approaching Nod forces by yelling "Oh $#!+". Hardly ambiguous what he was yelling. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6dd8677c | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_6dd8677c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_6dd8677c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_72680fc5 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_72680fc5 | comment |
In Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel, most of Ed's swearing is left in except for one instance where Armony falls on him. Ed demands an apology and when Armony decides to be a smartass about it, Ed is not amused. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_72680fc5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_72680fc5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_72680fc5 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_75a99717 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_75a99717 | comment |
Referenced in Sam & Max Hit the Road, in a conversation with a foul-mouthed psychic who gets his words bleeped out, which leads to the following exchange: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_75a99717 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_75a99717 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sam & Max Hit the Road / Videogame | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_75a99717 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_76e4f654 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_76e4f654 | comment |
Fresh Minty Adventure: Minty does this as the last line of the swearing conversation with Captain Bringdown. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_76e4f654 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_76e4f654 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fresh Minty Adventure (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_76e4f654 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_79a47f4b | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_79a47f4b | comment |
One of Sceb's mailbag cartoons on Fred the Monkey has a fan threatening to "@$%#^ THE #%^&!@ OUT OF YOU!!!!" Sceb pronounces this as "symbol the symbols out of you." | |
Symbol Swearing / int_79a47f4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_79a47f4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fred The Monkey (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_79a47f4b | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7bab45f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7bab45f | comment |
In one Philler Space arc, characters find some of their swearing is replaced by random symbols, and try to figure out which words get censored. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7bab45f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7bab45f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Philler Space (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7bab45f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7c60fb0f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7c60fb0f | comment |
The Simpsons: In "Homer Vs the Wallpaper," Homer's growing frustration at wallpapering Maggie's room makes him start swearing left and right, with his swears written as symbols. At one point, he "runs out" of swear words and starts reading Chinese curses out of a book Bart gives him, which are written with actual Chinese symbols. The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: While dealing with a xenomorph who is attacking Homer, Marge paraphrases Ellen Ripley's iconic line ("Get away from her, you bitch!") by saying "Get away from my Homie, you $#@%*!!" |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_7c60fb0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7c60fb0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Simpsons (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7c60fb0f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cd6850 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cd6850 | comment |
In Rogue Legacy characters "born" with Tourette's Syndrome let out a string of these whenever they get hurt and as their death message. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cd6850 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cd6850 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rogue Legacy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cd6850 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cf1b706 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cf1b706 | comment |
In Escape from Monkey Island, Guybrush asks Herman Toothrot, "How do I get off this [bleep] island?", as the swearing is bleeped in the dialogue and replaced by symbols in the in-game text. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cf1b706 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cf1b706 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Escape from Monkey Island (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7cf1b706 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7d20ef2c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7d20ef2c | comment |
Bloom County from its 2015 revival onward has Steve Dallas and cast doing Emoji Swearing. The original strip also featured this frequently. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7d20ef2c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7d20ef2c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bloom County (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7d20ef2c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7f640c5a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7f640c5a | comment |
In The Sims 4, Sims that "shout forbidden words" have symbols fly out of their head. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7f640c5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7f640c5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Sims 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7f640c5a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7febe32 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7febe32 | comment |
Godslave: Turner can be seen swearing with signs when he collides with something electric offscreen. Edith does the same when taunting her second enemy. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_7febe32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7febe32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Godslave (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7febe32 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7ff3216c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7ff3216c | comment |
The Garfield and Friends segment "The Guy of Her Dreams" had a comic book where Penelope does this shown during the last song she sings. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7ff3216c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_7ff3216c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Garfield and Friends | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_7ff3216c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8216457 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8216457 | comment |
The helicopter in Just Shapes & Beats swears this way when the corruption machine grabs the sad blue square, and again when your rescue of the sad blue square sets off the alarms. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8216457 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8216457 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Just Shapes & Beats (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_8216457 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8258e260 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8258e260 | comment |
Super Mario Bros.: Parodied in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Princess Peach (really Birdo dressed up) has her voice stolen at the start of the game by Fawful and Cackletta, and her words are replaced with symbols. However, the symbols actually fall from her speech bubbles and explode like bombs. She then proceeds to make a long speech and nearly blows up the entire castle. In Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Beep-0 turns red and swears this way when Toadette explains Toad got lost again. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_8258e260 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8258e260 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Mario Bros. (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_8258e260 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_839ac543 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_839ac543 | comment |
Thin Blue Line: Near the start of the comic, when Mayor Mulch takes the stage to speak to the protestors, one can be heard booing him. underneath the line "Piss off!" is a line reading "!#$!@#" "!@#%Z!". | |
Symbol Swearing / int_839ac543 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_839ac543 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Thin Blue Line (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_839ac543 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_84c6fd45 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_84c6fd45 | comment |
Iznogoud: A story has Iznogoud asking Wa'at Alahf for a rope, when he is down a cliff. Wa'at drops the entire length of rope. Iznogoud begins cursing, with bombs, bones, axes, etc. Then a lot of these items begin falling from above, seemingly dropped by Wa'at who thinks Iznogoud is asking for them. In "The Jigsaw Turk", Iznogoud inadvertently gives an entrepreneur the idea to set up a beach resort in the middle of the desert where he is trying to put together a 10,000 piece jigsaw, and soon the area is as packed as the beaches of the Côte d'Azur during peak holiday season. When one boy's wayward beach ball bounces off another man's stomach, the boy's father gets involved, and we get this gem: |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_84c6fd45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_84c6fd45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Iznogoud (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_84c6fd45 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_863f2e96 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_863f2e96 | comment |
Button's Adventures: After Button's mother grounds him, he swears in his invented language Humgonian, and the English subtitles provided just give us some random symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_863f2e96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_863f2e96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Button's Adventures (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_863f2e96 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_86814e56 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_86814e56 | comment |
In Final Fantasy VI a man in the town Narshe says "Narshe is a neutral city. We want no war here. But that #@%!* empire won't listen." | |
Symbol Swearing / int_86814e56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_86814e56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_86814e56 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_89a50d5f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_89a50d5f | comment |
PewDiePie's Pixelings: Floorgang, a Limited Time Pixeling, uses this during their regular attack, although it's not very strong. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_89a50d5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_89a50d5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pew Die Pies Pixelings (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_89a50d5f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8f6917f8 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8f6917f8 | comment |
Yuck Heads replaces all swearing with this to parody censorship. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8f6917f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_8f6917f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
YuckHeads | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_8f6917f8 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_945f2d42 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_945f2d42 | comment |
Wapsi Square: The webcomic managed to find a way to subvert this trope. What looks like just slightly unusual symbol swearing here is actually a language known by very few people that becomes a plot point later on. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_945f2d42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_945f2d42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wapsi Square (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_945f2d42 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_999e1a82 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_999e1a82 | comment |
In Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (2022), Ziggy Pig uses this when his language gets really foul. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_999e1a82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_999e1a82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (2022) (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_999e1a82 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9a29f3a4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9a29f3a4 | comment |
Top 10: An interesting example: Alan Moore has no trouble using actual curse words, but in Top 10, a scene has Smax asking permission to use lethal force on a suspect who just killed a fellow cop. The response from his captain is "Break her $#^&!(% neck, son", written with symbols. Even fans write it this way when they could write the curse out otherwise. It is also Painting the Medium: since Top 10 is a police procedural set in a comic book world, it would naturally have the characters curse in symbols. On one occasion, the Norse gods were involved in a case. Their drunken cursing was censored with runic symbols. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_9a29f3a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9a29f3a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Top 10 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9a29f3a4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9aac0273 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9aac0273 | comment |
Mentioned in Men at Arms, where we're told that Carrot's friendly greetings to everyone in Ankh-Morpork were reciprocated by people "whose normal response to 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." | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9aac0273 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9aac0273 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Men at Arms | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9aac0273 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9ac9d448 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9ac9d448 | comment |
Ultimate Spider-Man has the time a "Freaky Friday" Flip between Spidey and Wolverine turns out to be the result of Jean putting Wolverine's mind "where it least wanted to be" when she was pissed at him. Apparently, nothing in his Dark and Troubled Past compares to high school. After it's all over: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9ac9d448 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9ac9d448 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
UltimateSpiderMan | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9ac9d448 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b1b6065 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b1b6065 | comment |
In Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Beep-0 turns red and swears this way when Toadette explains Toad got lost again. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b1b6065 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b1b6065 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b1b6065 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b602c3f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b602c3f | comment |
Deltarune: Letting Susie pick the team name results in your team being named "The ?&!! Squad". Ralsei objects heavily, and Lancer refuses to say the name as he's not allowed to use tier 2 swears. It sticks, and later becomes "The Dark ?&!! Squad". Spamton from Chapter 2 sometimes spews these out, as his Electronic Speech Impediment simply won't let him swear properly. One of Queen's attacks is to start a Flame War on a social media feed, forcing you to dodge the swears the posters send at each other. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_9b602c3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b602c3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Deltarune (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9b602c3f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9c5013f0 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9c5013f0 | comment |
In Buster Wilde Weerwolf, there is still mild swearing, but explicit words are censored out. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9c5013f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9c5013f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Buster Wilde Weerwolf (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9c5013f0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e2f90f4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
In chapter 436 of One Piece, during the Post-Enies Lobby Arc, when Sanji is complaining about having been given a bounty poster featuring a very poorly-drawn sketch of him instead of a photo, Zoro remarks that the poster looks just like him. This upsets Sanji so much that he's reduced to symbol swearing. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e2f90f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e2f90f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
One Piece (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e2f90f4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e845561 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e845561 | comment |
This is used in The Mask instead of actual cursing. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e845561 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e845561 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e845561 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e876c22 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e876c22 | comment |
In Good Omens, the Buggre Alle Thys Bible is a fictional "infamous Bible" in which Ezekiel 38:5 was replaced by an angry typesetter's rant about his job and his employers, followed by a string of random typographical symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e876c22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e876c22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Good Omens | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_9e876c22 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a029f2a1 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a029f2a1 | comment |
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches: Shobami swears like this when she wants to exemplify the anger of the students. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a029f2a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a029f2a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a029f2a1 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a04b0ca3 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a04b0ca3 | comment |
Tintin: Captain Haddock, who swears like... well, a sailor, is more of a subversion: While he does sometimes employ symbol swearing, he also has a very rich Gosh Dang It to Heck! vocabulary (which was compiled into a dictionary). | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a04b0ca3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a04b0ca3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tintin (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a04b0ca3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a15e269a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a15e269a | comment |
A Christmas Story: "Only I didn't say, 'fudge.' I said the word! The big one! The queen mother of dirty words: the 'F-dash-dash-dash' word!" Here. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a15e269a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a15e269a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Christmas Story | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a15e269a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a25325a5 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a25325a5 | comment |
In Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Pompy the Presumptous does this every time he Turns Red. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a25325a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a25325a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a25325a5 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a2add1d3 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a2add1d3 | comment |
Splatoon 2: In a chat log in the "Octo Expansion", Marina and Pearl talk about the latter's music career prior to the two meeting and forming Off the Hook. Marina reveals that she even has one of Pearl's old thrash-metal songs, which is called "#$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin'". The song itself even has a prolonged Sound-Effect Bleep when you play it. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a2add1d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a2add1d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Splatoon 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a2add1d3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a4a6b86a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a4a6b86a | comment |
Used in the Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion manga to represent Lelouch's infamous girly scream. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a4a6b86a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a4a6b86a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Code Geass | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a4a6b86a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a5410430 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a5410430 | comment |
Their parody of Risky Business had the Tom Cruise line "Sometimes you gotta say 'What the Fuck'." with the last word hidden under symbols. Another character then complains that he can't take that philosophy because he can't speak in symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a5410430 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a5410430 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Risky Business | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a5410430 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a63b1aad | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a63b1aad | comment |
Welcome to the Jungle: Harry's narration is rather displeased when he realizes that he's not only facing a hag, but a coven of them; | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a63b1aad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a63b1aad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Welcome to the Jungle (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a63b1aad | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a656a587 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a656a587 | comment |
Mr. Tulip in The Truth says "-ing". A -ing lot, like -ing nearly every other -ing word. Due to the prevalence of this trope, most readers will assume that's what's going on. Later in the book, another character hangs a lampshade on this: "Why does that man keep saying 'ing'?" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a656a587 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a656a587 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Truth | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a656a587 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7b231a4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7b231a4 | comment |
The Boondocks: Huey Freeman uses symbol swearing from time to time in one of the most controversial political comic strips. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7b231a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7b231a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Boondocks (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7b231a4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7cb7544 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7cb7544 | comment |
The author of Selkie uses this in a clever way — either the symbols spell out the cuss word using Fun with Acronyms, or the symbols themselves substitute for a full word (such as Cross = God, Fire = Damn, etc.). Word of God says he prefers this method to actually putting in the language because of Rule of Funny. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7cb7544 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7cb7544 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Selkie (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a7cb7544 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a81325d3 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a81325d3 | comment |
Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy VI a man in the town Narshe says "Narshe is a neutral city. We want no war here. But that #@%!* empire won't listen." This is one of the things that a lot of people remember Final Fantasy VII for. Usually it's Cid unleashing the grawlixes, but Barret was also prone (and Cloud uses it in one instance). In one case (when confronting Don Corneo in Wutai), Barret announces a string of symbols longer than any actual swear words. This was not a game that was otherwise entirely clean - the word 'shit' is used several times uncensored. Although in the PC version, it's censored this way as well. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_a81325d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_a81325d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Final Fantasy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_a81325d3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aca7b22d | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aca7b22d | comment |
Alluded to in The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Code" when Larry asks "What the hashtag, dollar sign, at-sign, asterisk is going on here?!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aca7b22d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aca7b22d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Amazing World of Gumball | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_aca7b22d | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aeba85e7 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aeba85e7 | comment |
Upin & Ipin: Captain Jarjit's attempt at speaking "Pulu Pulu" results in subtitles that is composed entirely of symbols and appalles those who understand it, although Jarjit doesn't actually know what he said. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aeba85e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_aeba85e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Upin & Ipin (Animation) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_aeba85e7 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_af2622cd | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_af2622cd | comment |
Ninja Clowns: Twisto engages in some at the end of the game after being locked up in prison. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_af2622cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_af2622cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ninja Clowns (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_af2622cd | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b0028436 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b0028436 | comment |
The Viz-translated JoJo's Bizarre Adventure uses this, primarily when Jotaro mutters his catchphrase. "Yare yare da ze" becomes "Gimme a $*&% break". | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b0028436 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b0028436 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b0028436 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b1d07ae2 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b1d07ae2 | comment |
Yamara: An episode has Drow leader Matron Stress say, "You just don't get it, do you, Elsa? Ogrek is beyond strategy. Better minds than mine have tried to undo him. Everything he does always @*!$ works out for him. *§%# his @*#¶>\&¿¢£¥!!!" Persephone the Affably Evil vampire asks Elsa what that last word meant and is told, "I'll tell you when you're older." In another strip, Persephone, insisting that vampires are the epitome of cool, claimed to have "the lowest body temperature and *!¥¢#ingest wardrobe of the lot of you!" A footnote pointed out that adding a superlative suffix to "*!¥¢#" was completely ungrammatical. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_b1d07ae2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b1d07ae2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Yamara (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b1d07ae2 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b3f687d1 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b3f687d1 | comment |
Parodied in FoxTrot, when Peter stubs his toe and starts ranting the words "Asterisk! Dollar sign! Ampersand" and so forth, later commenting, "Comic strip curse words leave something to be desired." | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b3f687d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b3f687d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FoxTrot (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b3f687d1 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b4996199 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b4996199 | comment |
Spider-Man: Kaine is particularly prone to this, being Spidey's self-described "evil clone", with the temper to match, and being a very Reluctant Hero. Spider-Gwen is very prone to this in her book. Ultimate Spider-Man has the time a "Freaky Friday" Flip between Spidey and Wolverine turns out to be the result of Jean putting Wolverine's mind "where it least wanted to be" when she was pissed at him. Apparently, nothing in his Dark and Troubled Past compares to high school. After it's all over: |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_b4996199 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b4996199 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Spider-Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b4996199 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b5101841 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b5101841 | comment |
Bizarrogirl: Supergirl as battling her Bizarro counterpart: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b5101841 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b5101841 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bizarrogirl (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b5101841 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8074566 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8074566 | comment |
The PETA parody Super Tanooki Skin 2D has this message pop up when you finally get your skin back from Mario: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8074566 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8074566 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Tanooki Skin 2D (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8074566 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8b584cf | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8b584cf | comment |
Zits: A Sunday strip involves Jeremy getting scolded for swearing (represented by grawlixes), and comments that he's the only guy he knows who has a less colorful vocabulary than Beetle Bailey. A daily strip has Jeremy saying "Star-Asterisk-Fishbone!" when he hurts himself, and when Hector comments on it (apparently it's the equivalent of Gosh Dang It to Heck!) he explains that his mother will kill him if he says [string of grawlixes]. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_b8b584cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8b584cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Zits (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8b584cf | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8c8f953 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8c8f953 | comment |
In PvP this was Jade's sister's reaction to a suggestion that she receive some sensitivity training and Francis' reaction to Max Powers roleplaying. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8c8f953 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8c8f953 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
PvP (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b8c8f953 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b98da5d2 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b98da5d2 | comment |
Love Hina: Shinobu, as part of a plan concocted by Su and Mitsune, pretends to have drowned to get Keitaro to perform CPR on her, also functioning as a Kiss of Life. Shinobu's nerves get the better of her, and she ends up flailing, her foot catching Keitaro right between the legs. Cue two speech balloons filled with this trope. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b98da5d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b98da5d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Love Hina (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b98da5d2 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9cbb636 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9cbb636 | comment |
BitLife: If someone attacks you with a weapon (or rarely, attacking you with a weapon but missed), sometimes, you'll encounter a box with the caption reading "Holy S#@!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9cbb636 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9cbb636 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bit Life (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9cbb636 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9d9facf | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9d9facf | comment |
One episode of The Misadventures of R2 and Miku uses this in the subtitles as R2 gets grievously injured. (Since he communicates solely in blips and bleeps, exactly like Star Wars, this is the only indication he's swearing at all.) | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9d9facf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9d9facf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Misadventures of R2 and Miku (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_b9d9facf | |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd310eaa | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd310eaa | comment |
El Goonish Shive: The comic once launched a Precision @#$&! Strike. And let loose a Cluster @#$% Bomb in an earlier comic. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_bd310eaa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd310eaa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
El Goonish Shive (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd310eaa | |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd960b7c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd960b7c | comment |
Basic Instructions uses this to such a degree that the first book was called "The Mummy's Curse", with said mummy saying "&*#$!" on the cover. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd960b7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd960b7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Basic Instructions (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_bd960b7c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c00034c2 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c00034c2 | comment |
A Sunday strip involves Jeremy getting scolded for swearing (represented by grawlixes), and comments that he's the only guy he knows who has a less colorful vocabulary than Beetle Bailey. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c00034c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c00034c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Beetle Bailey (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c00034c2 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c0d295c4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
The filters themselves may replace the words with these symbols. The Steam forums replace swears with rows of pink hearts. This has been parodied from time to time, such as a homemade Team Fortress 2 map that featured a sign reading "ATTACK THAT ♥♥♥♥ING FORT", and a forum post where "Meet the Demoman" was quoted thus: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c0d295c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c0d295c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c0d295c4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c1014736 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c1014736 | comment |
Gaz Dreams of Genie: Gaz curses at Azie when demanding that she release Gaz from being trapped in the bottle, with whatever swear word she's using being represented this way. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c1014736 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c1014736 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gaz Dreams of Genie (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c1014736 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c337026c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c337026c | comment |
Roys Bedoys: When Roys swears in “Don’t Say Bad Words, Roys Bedoys!�, his swearing is subtitled with grawlixes. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c337026c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c337026c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Roys Bedoys | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c337026c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c4282b71 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c4282b71 | comment |
Played with in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Daring Don't": one of Caballeron's mooks has grawlix as a cutie mark. The others, in the same vein, have different comic book effects for cutie marks. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c4282b71 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c511c682 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c511c682 | comment |
Asterix: The comic uses nasty-looking rebus symbols to represent "ancient Gaulish swear-words." It's in fact very common in old comedic Franco-Belgian comics. The letterers tend to get creative and include Chinese ideograms, swastikas and drawings of volcanoes, explosions and skulls, or even WWI-Germany helmeted skulls blowing nuclear explosion mushrooms out of their orbital fenestrae. Variant symbols are used for speakers of different nationalities, which is especially visible in one book where Asterix joins the Roman army (It Makes Sense in Context). Since this is a polyglot legion of barbarians, there is a translator. At one point, the centurion is hit by a flying breastplate (no, not that variety) and curses in pain. The interpreter explains to a Goth what the centurion has just said.◊ The centurion then asks what he just told the Goth, and the translator repeats the commander's cursing back to him. Specifically, the centurion says "skull-n-crossbones, spiral, heavy cross, ampersand". This gets "translated" into Gothic as "skull in a pickelhaube, squared-off spiral, swastika, Gothic-font ampersand". There's a moment where an Egyptian character in the background of a panel is swearing at another in hieroglyph-like drawings of an angry foot kicking someone in the behind, snakes and waving swords. Even earlier in Asterix and the Goths, when Getafix is captured and starts swearing this way (the footnote explains that these are ancient Gaulish swear words which they refuse to translate). The Goths runs into an Obstructive Bureaucrat and start swearing, and we get the vaguely Germanic font symbols, with the footnote giving their translation: the same still-untranslated Gaulish symbols. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_c511c682 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c511c682 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Asterix (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c511c682 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7aa39fa | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7aa39fa | comment |
Doom 64: Obtaining the Unmaker will display the message "What the !@#%* is this!" The game mocks the player if they do not reset after dying. One of the messages is "YOU LAZY @&$#!" |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_c7aa39fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7aa39fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Doom 64 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7aa39fa | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7c16cf9 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7c16cf9 | comment |
Hilariously discussed in Like a Red-Headed Stepchild. When the Weasleys try to convince Luna to teach their garden gnomes how to swear, as per family tradition, she proceeds to shout, "Exclamation mark! At! Pound! Dollars! Ampersand!" When the others ask her about this, she explains that that was how swearing is normally depicted in Muggle comic books. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7c16cf9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7c16cf9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Like a Red-Headed Stepchild (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_c7c16cf9 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ccf74585 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ccf74585 | comment |
In A Corny Concerto, Porky Pig holds up a sign reading "I'm hunting that @@*!!@ rabbit!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ccf74585 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ccf74585 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Corny Concerto | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_ccf74585 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_cf39ca4f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_cf39ca4f | comment |
Used frequently in Pearls Before Swine, sometimes straight, and sometimes as meta humor (Rat using the planet in the line of symbols to replace a missing Saturn from Pig's Solar System model). This strip takes it a step further and spells out the word "assholes" using symbols. The April 30, 2017 strip depicts Little Bo-Peep cursing repeatedly (via Symbol Swearing); then after she storms off after losing a sheet of paper she intended to use to keep track of the sheep Goat delivers this response. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_cf39ca4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_cf39ca4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pearls Before Swine (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_cf39ca4f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_cfb3439a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_cfb3439a | comment |
In Brütal Legend, if you have Closed Captions turned on and Swearing turned off all curse words in the Subtitles will be replaced with symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_cfb3439a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_cfb3439a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Brütal Legend (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_cfb3439a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d0fee07f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d0fee07f | comment |
An outtake from the Tough Magic trilogy includes a very long line of symbol swearing. Apparently the characters were getting it out of the system, as the Author had forbade swearing in the book itself. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d0fee07f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d0fee07f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tough Magic | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d0fee07f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d1449385 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d1449385 | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer uses this in the comics. A lot. There's even comics called "I think they're F#@%ing" and Them *&^%ing. It's Buffy and Angel. Guess what they do. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d1449385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d1449385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d1449385 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d26874b6 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d26874b6 | comment |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: When done in the series, characters have a speech bubble filled with random symbols. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d26874b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d26874b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d26874b6 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d4d8b76b | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d4d8b76b | comment |
In Jet Set Willy 2, when you complete the game, Willy finds himself back in Manic Miner in "Oh $#!+! The Central Cavern!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d4d8b76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d4d8b76b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jet Set Willy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d4d8b76b | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d5870da3 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d5870da3 | comment |
Q*bert's gibberish catchphrase "@!#?@!". Heck, it was originally going to be his game's name! In Wreck-It Ralph, it's portrayed as a language known as Q-Bertese that causes speech balloons to appear whenever you speak it. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d5870da3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d5870da3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Q*bert (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d5870da3 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d8520b74 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d8520b74 | comment |
Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Referenced in Sam & Max Hit the Road, in a conversation with a foul-mouthed psychic who gets his words bleeped out, which leads to the following exchange: Also in Sam and Max, but in the Season 2 finale, Timmy Two-Teeth, a character who is constantly bleeped out due to his "terminal Tourette's Syndrome", has personal writing lessons: For the moment, he knows how to write ampersands, number symbol and percents. |
|
Symbol Swearing / int_d8520b74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d8520b74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sam & Max: Freelance Police (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d8520b74 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9c602eb | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9c602eb | comment |
The closed captioning on South Park used to use grawlixes to represent any swearing that was beeped out. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9c602eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9c602eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
South Park | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9c602eb | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9f38557 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9f38557 | comment |
In Venom (Donny Cates), Eddie's younger half-brother, Dylan, has a habit of cursing when surprised or feeling daring. Of course, it gets censored like this. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9f38557 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9f38557 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Venom (Donny Cates) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_d9f38557 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_de90693a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_de90693a | comment |
Spider-Gwen is very prone to this in her book. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_de90693a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_de90693a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Spider-Gwen (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_de90693a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e081af79 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e081af79 | comment |
Used periodically in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, usually by Jean, sometimes in a comedic triple such as "Egads... Holy Hackensack... !?$&!!!^&!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e081af79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e081af79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e081af79 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e15fb05b | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e15fb05b | comment |
In Crystal Castles, Bentley the bear followed in Q*Bert's footsteps by uttering "#?!" when his last life was lost. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e15fb05b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e15fb05b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Crystal Castles 1983 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e15fb05b | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e25322af | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e25322af | comment |
In the Homestar Runner game Kid Speedy, the hero, is slowed down by a variety of junk foods... and swears, shown as "@!?#!". The King of Town, who is a reverse of the hero, gains speed from these items. Yes, even the swears. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e25322af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e25322af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e25322af | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e293455a | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e293455a | comment |
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, Kara forces Zol-Am into a personal duel. He doesn't take it well: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e293455a | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e3f0daf4 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e3f0daf4 | comment |
Although A Growing Affection contains a few Precision F Strikes, Tayuya's speech is peppered with this. Word of God says it was both to avoid stretching the Teen rating, and because he didn't think he could do her foul mouth justice. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e3f0daf4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e3f0daf4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Growing Affection / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e3f0daf4 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e5da461b | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e5da461b | comment |
NieR: In the original Japanese version, Kainé's constant bleeped-out swearing is transcribed in the subtitles with random symbols. In the interantional versions, this was readapted into her simply swearing constantly without any kind of censorship, although remnants of the original symbol swearing were left in her abilities' names during the Updated Re-release's Ending E. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e5da461b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e5da461b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
NieR | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e5da461b | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e67a7d6c | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e67a7d6c | comment |
Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Chachamaru uses a form of Wingding font during her Immodest Orgasm the first time she is wound up by Negi. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e67a7d6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e67a7d6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e67a7d6c | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6c206b1 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6c206b1 | comment |
Huckleberry's eponymous protagonist takes it literally, and utters things like "Skull and percents!". | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6c206b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6c206b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Huckleberry (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6c206b1 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6e72f96 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6e72f96 | comment |
Played with in In the Loop. "You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing, so I'll sort that out. You are a boring F star star cunt!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6e72f96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6e72f96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
In the Loop | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e6e72f96 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e7410020 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e7410020 | comment |
A major secondary character in Empowered is the telepath superheroine Mind████, whose name is always rendered that way. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e7410020 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_e7410020 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Empowered (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_e7410020 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea0e378f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea0e378f | comment |
From chapter 35 of Paper Mario X 2: | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea0e378f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea0e378f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Paper Mario X / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea0e378f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea1a786f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea1a786f | comment |
Monica's Gang used to do this frequently since its inception. But it wasn't enough for Moral Guardians that the profanity was censored, so everybody stopped swearing altogether in the New Millenium. All in the name of being "good role models". | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea1a786f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea1a786f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Monica's Gang (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_ea1a786f | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eaa08c0e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eaa08c0e | comment |
In the first Overcooked!, you have a "swear button" that causes a stream of symbols to come from your mouth while angry-sounding Simlish plays. In the second game, however, it's replaced with an "emote" button, with the swearing absent. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eaa08c0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eaa08c0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Overcooked! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_eaa08c0e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eb0d248e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eb0d248e | comment |
In the Sierra PC game of Laura Bow, if Laura Bow eavesdrops on Clarence Sparrow and Dr. Wilbur. Clarence says to Wilbur "It would've worked out Wilbur. It wasn't our fault that {$#@** horse broke his leg!" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eb0d248e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_eb0d248e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Laura Bow (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_eb0d248e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ee25e7e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ee25e7e | comment |
Cledus T. Judd has "What the *$@# Did You Say", a parody of Martina McBride's "Whatever You Say" that deals with poor cell phone reception. The offending word is censored by a burst of static. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ee25e7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_ee25e7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Cledus T. Judd (Music) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_ee25e7e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0a58235 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0a58235 | comment |
Batman: Urban Legends: The drug dealer Jason shoots on the first page responds to the injury with "#$@%" before getting back to his feet and running. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0a58235 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0a58235 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: Urban Legends (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0a58235 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0f2af75 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0f2af75 | comment |
In Kukuburi, swearing is rendered by Speech Bubbles with skull symbol(s) in them. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0f2af75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0f2af75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kukuburi (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_f0f2af75 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f5892ae | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f5892ae | comment |
From the Gamecube iteration of Custom Robo, at one point early in the game, while Harry is training the protagonist, their boss tries to call him, but is unable to get through because Harry has his phone off, so he calls the protagonist and yells at him to tell Harry to call him back. After Harry is told this and does so, the boss' text box consists nothing of symbols, with the texting's volume turned up to show how angry he is. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f5892ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f5892ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Custom Robo (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_f5892ae | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f6da9a18 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f6da9a18 | comment |
Sgt. Frog: In one chapter, a drunken Angol Mois offers herself to Keroro, though what she plans to do is replaced by random symbols and a caption reading "Not appropriate for those under 18". | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f6da9a18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f6da9a18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sgt. Frog (Manga) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_f6da9a18 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f919529e | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f919529e | comment |
The Dead Mines: At one point the player character finds a ***-filled note about somebody setting off a mining charge in the middle of a (now-collapsed) tunnel. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f919529e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f919529e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Dead Mines (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_f919529e | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f9f23633 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f9f23633 | comment |
In Knight and Squire, when the Squire has a blazing row with her boyfriend, it's represented by them both saying the words "<Captain Haddock style swearword icons.>" | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f9f23633 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_f9f23633 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Knight and Squire (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_f9f23633 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fa5e90fd | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fa5e90fd | comment |
In the City of Heroes MMORPG, there is a "Profanity Filter" setting that can be turned on or off as the player chooses. When it's on, swear words in chat windows appear either as <bleep> or a short string of grawlix. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fa5e90fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fa5e90fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
City of Heroes (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_fa5e90fd | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fd3487b9 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fd3487b9 | comment |
Parodied in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Princess Peach (really Birdo dressed up) has her voice stolen at the start of the game by Fawful and Cackletta, and her words are replaced with symbols. However, the symbols actually fall from her speech bubbles and explode like bombs. She then proceeds to make a long speech and nearly blows up the entire castle. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fd3487b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fd3487b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_fd3487b9 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fdbace96 | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fdbace96 | comment |
Used in the Gravity Falls episode "Society of the Blind Eye", when translating Old Man McGucket's reaction (in hamboning) to discovering the eponymous society's sinister purpose. | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fdbace96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fdbace96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gravity Falls | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_fdbace96 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fe94578f | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fe94578f | comment |
In Alex Rider: Scorpia Rising, Alex tells Lewinsky, his accidental abductor, to "go and ——- yourself". (The audiobook uses a Sound-Effect Bleep.) | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fe94578f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Symbol Swearing / int_fe94578f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Alex Rider | hasFeature |
Symbol Swearing / int_fe94578f |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.