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A hilarious and offensive adult card game for 3+ players.

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A hilarious and offensive adult card game for 3+ players. Its official page can be found [https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/ here].

The concept is similar to ''[[Apples to Apples]]'': players draw a number of White Cards (containing words or phrases), while another player, named the Card Czar, draw a Black Card (containing a question or a phrase with at least one fill-in-the-blank space open for suggestions), and the players must submit their White Cards as answers. The difference is that here the answers must be the most ''in''appropriate ones for the question presented, and both sets of cards are full of bizarre, scatological, politically incorrect, and just plain weird suggestions, all of it played for [[Black Comedy]] and [[Refuge in Audacity]].

Extremely popular in fandom circles, due to the creators having released the game under a Creative Commons license, along with a blank PDFs version for customization purposes, making extremely easy to do themed decks running on fannish [[Self-Deprecation]] and [[Memetic Mutation|meme humor]]. Some of the official expansions and boxes have also blank cards for this purpose. Many custom sets can be found and download in [https://web.archive.org/web/20181012133413/https://www.cardcastgame.com/browse CardCast], but googling can bring you some.

'''ATT Notice:''' Those interested in arranging/playing private games on [https://web.archive.org/web/20140801034348/http://pyz.socialgamer.net/index.php Pretend You're Xyzzy], or [https://web.archive.org/web/20180722045055/https://www.decksagainstsociety.com/ Decks Against Society] post on this article's Discussion page.

{{tropelist|[[And Now For Something Completely Different]]. Instead of listing the tropes that appear in the work, we're going to list all the cards, and identify the tropes, works, and other notable subjects in each one.}}
<!-- If the trope or work is already present in the card text, pothole it. The redundancy looks ugly otherwise. -->
<!-- Also, special formatting will help visually represent where card text ends and trope listing begins. -->
== White Cards ==
* '''Advice from a wise, old black man.''' - [[Magical Negro]]
<!-- * '''African children.''' -->
* '''Agriculture.''' - [[Call to Agriculture]]
<!-- * All-you-can-eat shrimp for $4.99. -->
* '''All of this blood.''' - [[Bloody Hilarious]]
* '''[[Amish|The Amish.]]'''
<!-- * Amputees. -->
<!-- * An asymmetric boob job. -->
<!-- * The art of seduction. -->
* '''Auschwitz.''' - [[POW Camp]]
* '''A bag of magic beans.''' - [[Jack and the Beanstalk]]
* '''A ball of earwax, semen and toenail clippings.''' - [[Nausea Fuel]], [[Noodle Implements]]
<!-- * Balls. -->
* '''[[Barack Obama]].'''
<!-- * Being fabulous. -->
<!-- * Being on fire. -->
<!-- * Being marginalized. -->
<!-- * Bingeing and purging. -->
<!-- * Bio-engineered assault turtles with acid breath. -->
<!-- * Bitches. -->
<!-- * A bleached asshole. -->
* '''The Blood of Christ.''' - [[Christianity]]
* '''Boogers.''' - [[Inherently Funny Words]]
* '''A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.''' - A variation on [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]
<!-- * The Boy Scouts of America. -->
* '''The [[Care Bear Stare]].''' - ''[[Care Bears]]''
<!-- * Catapults. -->
<!-- * Children on leashes. -->
* '''The chronic.''' - Dr. Dre, possibly.
* '''Chunks of dead hitchhiker.''' - [[Chunky Salsa Rule]]
<!-- Civilian casualties. -->
<!-- * Classist undertones. -->
* '''Copping a feel.''' - [[Thanks for the Mammary]]
<!-- * Court-ordered rehab. -->
<!-- * Crippling debt. -->
<!-- * Crystal meth. -->
* '''Cybernetic enhancements.''' - [[Cyborg]]
* '''[[Daniel Radcliffe]]'s delicious asshole.''' - [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* '''Darth Vader.''' - ''[[Star Wars]]'', [[Cyborg]]
* '''Dead parents.''' - [[Parental Abandonment]]
* '''Destroying the evidence.''' - [[Destroy the Evidence]]<ref>possibly, there is nothing that implies it meets the 'good guy requiremenet'</ref>
* '''The Devil himself.''' - [[Satan]]
<!-- * Dick Cheney. -->
<!-- * A disappointing birthday party. -->
<!-- * Dry heaving. -->
* '''Dying.''' - [[:Category:Death Tropes|Death Tropes]]
* '''Dying of dysentery.''' - ''[[The Oregon Trail]]''
<!-- * Elderly Japanese men. -->
<!-- * Estrogen. -->
* '''Eugenics.''' - [[Genius Breeding Act]], [[World War II]]
* '''Explosions.''' - [[:Category:Stuff Blowing Up|Stuff Blowing Up]]
<!-- * Famine. -->
<!-- * Feeding Rosie O'Donnell. -->
<!-- * The female orgasm. -->
* '''Fiery poops.''' - [[Toilet Humor]]
<!-- * Figgy pudding. -->
<!-- * Finger painting. -->
<!-- * Fingering. -->
* '''Firing a rifle into the air while balls deep in a squealing hog.''' - [[Bestiality is Depraved]], [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* '''Five-Dollar Footlongs™.''' - [[Innocent Innuendo]]
* '''Flying sex snakes.''' - [[Naughty Tentacles]]
<!-- * Free samples. -->
* '''[[Friends with Benefits|Friends with benefits.]]'''
* '''Fucking a corpse back to life.''' - [[I Love the Dead]]
* '''Funky fresh rhymes.''' - [[Totally Radical]]
* '''The gays'''. - [[:Category:Queer As Tropes|Queer As Tropes]]
<!-- * A gentle caress of the inner thigh. -->
* '''German dungeon porn.''' - [[Europeans Are Kinky]]
<!-- * Getting naked and watching Nickelodeon. -->
* '''GoGurt®.''' - [[Product Placement]]
<!-- * A good sniff. -->
* '''[[Grave Robbing|Grave robbing.]]'''
<!-- * Growing a pair. -->
<!-- * The hardworking Mexican. -->
<!-- * Heartwarming orphans. -->
* '''Heteronormativity.''' - A staple of the [[Heteronormative Crusader]].
* '''Hip hop jewels.''' - [[Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry]]
* '''[[The Bible|The Holy Bible.]]'''
* '''The homosexual agenda.''' - [[Conspiracy Theory]]
* '''Horse meat.''' - [[Foreign Queasine]]
* '''Hot Pockets®.''' - [[Product Placement]]
* '''Inserting a mason jar into my anus.''' - [[Ass Shove]]
* '''Invading Poland.''' - [[Those Wacky Nazis]]
<!-- * The invisible hand. -->
* '''Italians.''' - [[Italy]]
* '''Jewish fraternities.''' - [[Judaism]]
* '''The Jews.''' - [[Judaism]]
<!-- * Jobs. -->
<!-- * '''[[Joe Biden]].''' -->
* '''[[Judge Judy]].'''
* '''[[Justin Bieber]].'''
<!-- * Kamikaze Pilots. -->
<!-- * Lance Armstrong's missing testicle. -->
<!-- * The light of a billion suns. -->
<!-- * Lockjaw. -->
* '''An [[M. Night Shyamalan]] plot twist.
* '''Magnets.''' - ''[[Insane Clown Posse]]''
<!-- * A man on the brink of orgasm. -->
* '''MechaHitler.''' - ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'', [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]
* '''Men.''' - [[Always Male]]
* '''[[Michael Jackson]].'''
* '''A micropenis.''' - [[Teeny Weenie]]
* '''The morbidly obese.''' -
<!-- * Mr. Clean, right behind you. -->
* '''Muhammad (Praise Be Unto Him).''' - [[Islam]]
<!-- * Multiple stab wounds. -->
* '''My humps.''' - [[Black Eyed Peas]]
<!-- * My inner demons. -->
<!-- * My relationship status. -->
* '''My soul.''' - [[Our Souls Are Different]]
* '''[[Natalie Portman]].'''
* '''Necrophilia.''' - [[I Love the Dead]]
<!-- * Not giving a shit about the Third World. -->
* '''Object permanence.''' - The inverse concept of [[No Ontological Inertia]] (but ''not'' the subject covered in [[Ontological Inertia]])
* '''An [[Oedipus Complex|Oedipus complex]].'''
<!-- * Old people smell. -->
<!-- * One trillion dollars. -->
* '''Overcompensation.''' - [[Compensating for Something]]
<!-- * An oversized lollipop. -->
* '''Panda sex.''' - [[Pandaing to the Audience]]
<!-- * The Patriarchy. -->
* '''Pedophiles.''' - [[Would Hurt a Child]]
* '''Peeing a little bit.''' - [[Potty Failure]]
* '''Penis envy.''' - [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]
<!-- * Pictures of boobs. -->
* '''[[Police Brutality|Police brutality.]]'''
* '''Pooping back and forth. Forever.''' - [[Memetic Mutation]], [[Toilet Humor]]
* '''[[The Pope]].'''
* '''Powerful thighs.''' - [[She's Got Legs]]
<!-- * Prancing. -->
* '''Praying the gay away.''' - [[Cure Your Gays]]
<!-- * Public ridicule. -->
<!-- * Racism. -->
* '''A really cool hat.''' - [[Nice Hat]]
<!-- * Repression. -->
* '''The rhythms of Africa.''' - [[Jungle Drums]]
* '''[[Robert Downey, Jr.]]'''
* '''[[RoboCop]].'''
<!-- * Sarah Palin. -->
* '''A sausage festival.''' - [[Double Entendre]]
* '''Scientology.''' - [[Church of Happyology]]
<!-- * Serfdom. -->
* '''Sexual tension.''' - [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]
* '''Sexy pillow fights.''' - [[Pillow Fight]]
* '''[[:Category:Shapeshifting|Shapeshifters.]]'''
<!-- * Silence. -->
* '''Skeletor.''' - ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]''
* '''[[Stephen Hawking]] talking dirty.'''
<!-- * A stray pube. -->
* '''Surprise sex!''' - [[Black Comedy Rape]]
* '''Synergistic management solutions.''' - An [[Unusual Euphemism]], possibly for getting fired/laid off.
* '''Teaching a robot to love.''' - [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]
* '''[[Teen Pregnancy|Teenage pregnancy.]]'''
* '''The Tempur-Pedic® Swedish Sleep System™.''' - [[Product Placement]], [[Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes]]
* '''Testicular torsion.''' - [[Groin Attack]]
* '''Throwing a virgin into a volcano.''' - [[Virgin Sacrifice]], [[Appease the Volcano God]].
* '''A tiny horse.''' - An inversion of [[Cool Horse]].
<!-- * '''The Trail of Tears.''' -->
* '''Wet dreams.''' - [[Nocturnal Emission]]
<!-- * White-man scalps. -->
<!-- * A windmill full of corpses. -->
* '''Women in yogurt commercials.''' - [[Men Buy From Mars, Women Buy From Venus]]
* The [[World of Warcraft]].
* '''YOU MUST [[Construct Additional Pylons|CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS]].''' - ''[[StarCraft]]''

<!-- NEXT: A monkey smoking a cigar. -->

== Black Cards ==
* '''Alternative medicine is now embracing the curative powers of _____.''' - [[Snake Oil Salesman]]
* '''And the [[:Category:Academy Award|Academy Award]] for _____ goes to _____.'''
<!-- * Here is the church / Here is the steeple / Open the doors / And there is _____. -->
<!-- * How did I lose my virginity? -->
* '''I drink to forget _____.''' - [[Drowning My Sorrows]]
* '''I got 99 problems but _____ ain't one.''' - [[Jay Z]]
* '''I'm sorry, Professor, but I couldn't complete my homework because of _____.''' - [[A Dog Ate My Homework]]
* '''It's a pity that kids these days are all getting involved with _____.''' - [[The New Rock and Roll]]
* '''Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's _____.''' - [[Notable Commercial Campaigns]]
* '''[[MTV]]'s new [[Reality Show|reality show]] features eight washed-up celebrities living with _____.''' - [[Network Decay]]
* '''This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but with _____.''' - [[T. S. Eliot]]
* '''Today on [[Maury]]: "Help! My son is _____."'''
* '''TSA guidelines now prohibit _____ on airplanes.''' - [[Overreacting Airport Security]]
<!-- * What ended my last relationship? -->
* '''What is [[Batman]]'s [[Guilty Pleasures|guilty pleasure]]?'''
<!-- * What's a girl's best friend? -->
<!-- * What's that smell? -->
<!-- * What's that sound? -->
* '''What's the next Happy Meal® toy?''' - [[McDonald's]]
<!-- * Why can't I sleep at night? -->

<!-- NEXT: _____. That's how I want to die. -->

==Tropes and stuff from places other than White and Black Cards==
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: despite some kerfuffles about sanitizing the game by removing some controversial cards, the general aim of the game is this trope
* [[Fan Translation]]: the official site host some them for 20 languages (some language have more than one translation for [[Separated by a Common Language|regional differences]])
* [[Our Product Sucks]]: The website that sells the game shows reviews of the game, and it doesn't cherry pick the good ones and use only those. However it does use the good ones first.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]], the game.
* [[Take That, Audience!]]: On their [http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/ official website]:
{{quote|"Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends."}}
* [[Toilet Humour]]: the suggested method to select the first Card Czar is to choose the one who most recently pooped.

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Latest revision as of 21:42, 16 May 2021

A hilarious and offensive adult card game for 3+ players. Its official page can be found here.

The concept is similar to Apples to Apples: players draw a number of White Cards (containing words or phrases), while another player, named the Card Czar, draw a Black Card (containing a question or a phrase with at least one fill-in-the-blank space open for suggestions), and the players must submit their White Cards as answers. The difference is that here the answers must be the most inappropriate ones for the question presented, and both sets of cards are full of bizarre, scatological, politically incorrect, and just plain weird suggestions, all of it played for Black Comedy and Refuge in Audacity.

Extremely popular in fandom circles, due to the creators having released the game under a Creative Commons license, along with a blank PDFs version for customization purposes, making extremely easy to do themed decks running on fannish Self-Deprecation and meme humor. Some of the official expansions and boxes have also blank cards for this purpose. Many custom sets can be found and download in CardCast, but googling can bring you some.

ATT Notice: Those interested in arranging/playing private games on Pretend You're Xyzzy, or Decks Against Society post on this article's Discussion page.

And Now For Something Completely Different. Instead of listing the tropes that appear in the work, we're going to list all the cards, and identify the tropes, works, and other notable subjects in each one.

White Cards


Black Cards


Tropes and stuff from places other than White and Black Cards

"Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends."

  • Toilet Humour: the suggested method to select the first Card Czar is to choose the one who most recently pooped.
  1. ↑ possibly, there is nothing that implies it meets the 'good guy requiremenet'
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