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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Shades of '''[[The Devil|Satan]]'''!"''
{{quote|''"By Me!"''
|'''Jupiter''', ''The 12 Labors of [[Asterix]]''}}
Even though many churches really don't want us to use the Lord's name in vain, many people, especially in fiction, will end up saying "Goddammit" or "Oh My God" for one reason or another.<ref>(though technically, "God" isn't His name; even the words it's translated from ("El", "Eloah", and "Elohim") are more like describing what He is rather than a name)</ref> However, a writer can't invoke ''a'' god in a fantasy environment because [[Fantasy Pantheon|monotheism is rare]], so where we say "Oh My God", characters in the fantasy universe will say "Oh My Gods!"
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''. That is all.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* DC Comics loves doing this, especially in the Silver Age.
* [[Wonder Woman]]'s "Great Hera!"
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** [[Wonder Woman]]'s other comics [[Catch Phrase]] is "Suffering [[Sappho]]!" Not a God (although in the [[DC Universe]], she could be!), but classic nonetheless.
*** May have been a method of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], as the Sappho is often associated in the modern era with female homosexuality. Which makes her recent use of "Sappho's Hands!" ''incredibly dirty''.
**** "Getting past" a radar doesn't [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406225214/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=534%3Aand-again-the-very-next-issue-even mean] the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406225718/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=548%3Abind-me-as-tight-as-you-can-girls fleet] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406225030/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=560%3Awonder-woman-captured-by-the-assheaded-amazons worth] of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406225530/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=546%3Acaptain-wonder-and-the-silver-swan jets] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406230312/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=526%3Amore-wonder-woman-bondage blazing] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406232603/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=551%3Awar-of-the-wonder-women full] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406234654/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=1315%3Airony-thy-name-is-wonder-woman throttle] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406230730/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=555%3Athe-four-dooms toward] it [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406232813/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=618%3A-suffering-sappho-guest-starring-the-cheetah while] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406230855/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=554%3Athe-challenge-of-the-mask shooting], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406231654/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=527%3Abest-wonder-woman-bondage-yet launching] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406223430/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=532:wonder-woman-spanked-by-a-giant-doll dropping] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406231215/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=569%3Athree-way-bondage-queen-goodness every] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406221735/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=586%3Aa-good-mistress-could-do-wonders-with-them single] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406235248/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=588%3Athe-only-real-happiness-for-anybody-is-to-be-found-in-obedience-to-loving-authority scrap] of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406234246/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=572%3Adc-comics-arent-just-for-kids metal] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406224921/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=571%3Awonder-woman-goes-to-prison they] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140406231133/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=590%3Aits-not-fun-when-they-dont-even-try-to-hide-it can]. The comic is bi about as thoroughly as it's BDSM.
* [[Superman]]'s "Great Rao!" (a Kryptonian Sun God).
** Superman also used to swear by Krypton itself: "Great Krypton!"
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** ''The 12 Labors of [[Asterix]]'' movie cuts to the Olympian gods. Jupiter promptly ends a sentence with "By Me!"
* Slyly subverted in the ''[[Tintin]]'' comics featuring Borduria. There, the oath is "by the whiskers of Kûrvi-Tasch!", itself a parody of "Lenin's Beard!"
** Tintin himself used "Great snakes!" a lot and then there's [https://web.archive.org/web/20140528115105/http://www3.sympatico.ca/brooksdr/haddock/main.htm all of Captain Haddock's lusty but tame oaths]? "Billions of blistering blue barnacles", indeed!
** The astronomer in ''The Shooting Star'' would often exclaim, "By the rings of Saturn!"
* Wulf in ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' exclaims "By der Gotts!" on occasion.
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* ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'': Buck Godot and his friends express relief with "Thank Prime!"—which is also the name of a popular hangover cure because that's what you say when it kicks in. Whether this has anything to do with the character known as the Prime Mover has never been addressed.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
* In Sweden, the most common swearwords concern the Devil and Hell. So, in the Swedish newspaper comic strip ''Himlens Änglar'' (Angels of Heaven), the Devil shouts "MY SELF AT HOME!" when he hits his thumb with a hammer.▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* In general, many fans like to use [[Word of God|the name of the producers]] of the original show as epithets. [[Don't Explain the Joke|You know, Word of God and all that.]]
* Yami uses "Holy Ra" and "Mother of Osiris" et al. in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]''. You know...because he's (Ancient) Egyptian. Bakura also frequently invokes the name of Zorc.
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' uses this twice, with "Oh my wizard gods!" and later "Oh my [[Word of God|Rowling]]!".
* In the ''[[Hellblazer|John Constantine]]''/''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' crossover ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110909070320/http://www.thekeep.org/~rpm/vertigo/direfates/df3.html Dire Fates]'' John uses the usually mild oath of "Friggin'" while touring a rather Nordic Heaven. Unfortunately he forgot that Frigga/Frigg was Odin's wife...
*
* ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series]]''
** Sokka says, "Oh, for the love of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Aang]]!"
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* Used mostly by the Fans in ''[[With Strings Attached]]''. The various C'hovites only occasionally refer to their gods, and always by way of example, not as an invocation (e.g., when Stal formally greets the four, he speaks of how even the god Dalns couldn't be more welcoming). The Hunter occasionally swears by the Great God Indle, which must give Jeft a hard-on.
* Douglas Sangnoir of ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' is prone to saying things like "gods know" and "for the gods' sakes", but in his case it's almost certainly as much literal as figurative, because in his home universe he ''works'' for a god, in another he spent a year or two as a houseguest of five other gods, and generally is ''very'' aware that the gods are real and possibly paying attention to him.
* [[Author Avatar|Christopher Angel]] of the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' fanfic ''[https://archive.yggdrasil.org/omg/index.html Oh! My Brother!]'' is a newly-apotheosized god, and gets some ribbing from his divine sisters for swearing by the names of other gods from multiple pantheons.
* In the [[Rankin/Bass
== Films -- Animation ==▼
▲* In the Rankin and Bass film ''[[The Flight of Dragons]]'', Carolinus, the green wizard, utters, "By the beards of antiquity!"
* ''[[Cars]]'' uses it a few times. "Sweet Chrysler", "Ford Almighty", [[Thank the Maker|"thank The Manufacturer"]], etc. The Ford one might just be a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'', see below. [[Epileptic Trees|Or not]].
* Lampy from ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' says "Holy mother of Edison!"
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* The microscopic cast of ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'' use "Frank" in place of "God", this being the name of the man whose body they inhabit/constitute.
* Characters of ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' have been known to say "Oh gods" and swear by Thor and Odin. Despite being either Scottish or [[Ambiguously Jewish]].
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* Jokingly used in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'': upon discovering a naval mine in a farmer's shed, Danny says "[[By the Power of Greyskull|By the power of Greyskull!]]" in this manner. Nick says the same line upon seeing Danny's extensive DVD collection.
* In ''[[Anchorman]]'', Ron Burgundy utters a number of mythology-themed oaths, including "By the Beard of Zeus!" and "Great Odin's Raven!", etc. etc. The outtakes reveal that many of these were ad-libbed by Will Ferrel.
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* The apes in the 2001 ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' movie do variants of this with Seimos, the gorilla from Leo's space station who originated their culture and became a god figure.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* The [[Star Trek Novel Verse]] has many:
** The Betazoid "Great Fire!" and "By the First/Third/appropriate number House!"
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* Apparently averted by the people of The Land in ''[[God Game (novel)|God Game]]'' by Andrew Greeley; they seem to have no strong oaths or swear words, and the narrator notes that "the Lord Our God condemn you" is strongest curse of which they seem capable -- and just about the only use of the name of their god in any non-reverent context.
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica'']] has "godsdammit" and "Oh my gods!". A lot. Though "Jesus!" has been inadvertently ad-libbed by the actors. Also in the mini-series as-yet-unrevealed Cylon agents would talk about God in the singular without the other characters thinking it was strange. There's an "Oh my God, they're Cylons!" heard on one occasion too. Monotheism existed in the Colonies so it is normal that ''some'' human characters utter it. We just don't know ''how'' common it was by the time of the holocaust (in ''[[Caprica]]'', its sheer existence is borderline offensive). The cases in the Miniseries were probably more the result of the human belief system not being fully shaped by the writers yet.
* HBO's ''[[Rome]]'' has the especially spicy "Juno's cunt", which apparently ''was'' a real Roman curse, although it is usually translated as "Juno's loins" by classicists.
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* Happened ''constantly'' in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', given that the Goua'ld (and later, the Ori) claim to be gods and their human (and Jaffa for the former) servants believe this to be true.
== [[Music]] ==
▲== Music ==
* [[Gorillaz]] bassist Murdoc Niccals swears in Satan's name a lot.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* There is an account of an early Christian martyr who was sentenced to death by drowning -- ''before'' she had been baptized. (At the time, Christians were unsure whether an unbaptized person could go to Heaven, no matter how faithful they were.) The legend goes that when she was thrown in the sea, Jesus appeared over her and said, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of Me, and of the Holy Spirit."
== [[New Media]] ==▼
▲== New Media ==
* In the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email (and perhaps others too) it's common to replace references to God with ${DEITY}, allowing the reader to fill in their own deity of choice. (This syntax is used in most *nix shells for variable substitution.) Makes sense since at least one long-time regular in that group is a Wiccan. (And many of them are geeks.)
▲* In Sweden, the most common swearwords concern the Devil and Hell. So, in the Swedish newspaper comic strip ''Himlens Änglar'' (Angels of Heaven), the Devil shouts "MY SELF AT HOME!" when he hits his thumb with a hammer.
== [[Radio]] ==
* Expressions like "Zarquon's knees" are used in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''. Subverted in one of the radio episodes, where Zaphod exclaims of "Holy Zarquon's singing fish," and Ford asks for an explanation of the phrase:
{{quote|'''Zaphod:''' There's no ground, Ford! We're miles up in the air!
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'''Zaphod:''' What?
'''Ford:''' Very specific. Not handy in general usage. }}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Similarly, humans in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]]'' use Sigmar in many curses and exclamations.
== [[Theatre]] ==
== Theater ==▼
* Creon actually says "Be Zeus my witness" at one point in ''[[Antigone]]'', making this [[Older Than Feudalism]].
* Hercules, Castor, and Pollux were such common objects of swearing that in the plays of [[Plautus]] and Terence (probably following colloquial usage) invocations of them appear (throughout dialogue) in the semi-degenerated forms "mehercle", "edepol", and "ecastor". "By Jupiter" is a more serious oath, but not at all uncommon.
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* Lampshaded in the ancient Greek ''[[The Clouds|Clouds]]'' by [[Aristophanes]]. A man who has been put into financial difficulty by horseracing suddenly breaks his introspection to ask his son if he loves him. "Yes, by Dionysus!" "Not the god of horses!"
* The Matoran in ''[[Bionicle]]'' talk about [[Physical God|Mata Nui]] and [[Thank the Maker|The Great Beings]] in this way.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' once cut off someone at "Oh my...". While that world is monotheistic, it actually has a ''goddess'', and wouldn't sound right.
** Oddly, ''Knight of Ratatosk'' has characters simply say "Oh my god!" a couple times.
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'''Xephos/[[Yogscast|Lewis]]:''' No, no [[Yogscast|Simon]], I worship at the Church of Notch, like everyone else. }}
* Khelgar Ironfist, ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'s'' resident [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarven fighter]], uses the phrase "By Tyr's right buttock!" for his swear emote.
* From ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'':
{{quote|'''Admiral Bobbery:''' By Blabberton's Beard!}}
== Web Animation ==▼
* In the Flash short ''Bad Guys 4: Go to Hell'', one of the Bad Guys leaves Hell to go to Heaven (which is apparently right next door to Hell) only to find that the Blue Shirted guy killed God last week and took over Heaven and now has everybody doing hard labor (To quote the Blue Shirt guy: "Life ain't fair kid. And neither is death.") When the Bad Guys figure that the treatment in Hell (getting hot pokers up your ass) is better and leave Heaven to go back to Hell, the Blue Shirt guy utters "Me Dammit!".
▲== Web Comics ==
* ''Ye Gods!'' is the title of a [[Furry Webcomic]] that seems very intent on running [[Rule of Funny]] and a little [[Rule of Cool]]
* In Megan Rose Gedris's ''[[I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space]]'', the lesbian pirates often are heard invoking [[Sappho]] in this way, such as "Sweet Sappho's underpants!" and "Sappho's tits, no!"—unlike [[Wonder Woman]] above there is nothing subtle about this being a [[N-Word Privileges|lesbian reference.]]
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{{quote|'''Sarah:''' '''''[[Joss Whedon|Whedon]]''''' grant me patience!}}
* The cast of ''[[User Friendly]]'' say "Ye gods!" with some regularity.
* ''[[Epiphany (web comic)|Epiphany]]'' features a world where the main religion is duality, which as the name suggests, follows two gods. This trope pops up word-for-word quite frequently.
* ''[[Gastrophobia]]'' being set in [[Ancient Greece]] (well, [[The Theme Park Version]]), this is naturally used. Like other webcomics example, Phobia often swears by the anatomy of said gods, with several examples on [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-11-08 this very same strip].
* ''[[Bob and George]]'': [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050417c "What in the name of all that is shadowy is going on here?"]
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* Tedd from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' once exclaimed "[[Shapeshifting|what the morph]]?!"
* In ''[[Turn Signals on a Land Raider]]'', a ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' webcomic, Kren and Frep take this to a ridiculous extent, with phrases like "Emperor's Life Insurance!" and "Emperor's Pointy Keyboard!"
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'':
** Layla uses [[Dracula]]'s name [https://pixietrixcomix.com/eerie-cuties/2009-06-08 like this] in the first arc.
** When Chloe has a growth spurt that takes her from an A-cup to a D-cup in seconds, Layla shouts, "What in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler the Impaler's] name just happened?"
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* "Dios!" was a common invocation for Avelians in pre-v5 ''[[Open Blue]]''. It doesn't really help that 'Dios' is simply [[Gratuitous Spanish|Spanish]] for "God", but El Dios himself is actually [[King of All Cosmos|not that normal of a deity]]... As of v5, it's been replaced by "By Zod!"
* ''[[Tasakeru]]'': This is used frequently by the characters, as their whole society formed after the appearance of three Gods. Each species has their own unique mythology and names for the Gods, as well.
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* ''[[Mr. Deity]]'' has used OMS, presumably standing for "Oh my self".
* ''[[Justice League]]''
** [[Wonder Woman]] also says "Great Hera!" a lot in the [[Animated Adaptation]], to the point of it being her [[Catch Phrase]]. At some point, Hawkgirl lampshades by blurting "Do you ALWAYS have to say that?" during a fight.
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{{quote|'''Wonder Woman:''' Hera help us!
'''Green Lantern:''' She'd better. No-one else can, now. }}
{{quote|'''[[The Flash]]:''' Great Jumping Hera!}}
:* In another episode, when Green Lantern sees Hawkgirl in [[She Cleans Up Nicely| her beautiful evening dress]]:
{{quote|'''Green Lantern:''' Shayera, I wanted to... '''''Judas Priest!'''''}}
* Though the [[Transformers]]' "god", Primus (the one that doesn't involve Les Claypool), rarely appears in the animated media, in the [[Transformers: The Movie|'86 animated movie]] Kup exclaims, "Engage the boosters for Cybertron's sake!", and in ''[[Beast Wars]]'', Rattrap once swore "by my great aunt Arcee".
** Well, {{spoiler|"For Cybertron's sake" and "for Primus' sake" would eventually turn out to actually be synonymous in later series.}} It's also pretty common in some series for Transformers to say "By the Allspark!" [[Continuity Reboot|Depending on the series]], the Allspark is either the lifeforce of Primus, the place where all [[Our Souls Are Different|sparks]] originate from and return to after death, the mysterious artifact that gave life to all of Cybertron, or some combination thereof. Either way, it's [[Serious Business]]. Once, just once, we even get a "By the Allspark of Primus!"
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* The future civilization version is parodied in ''[[South Park]]'': the [[Hollywood Atheist|atheists]] mock Cartman for saying, "Jesus Christ!" ("Hahahaha, you believe in a supernatural being.") but say, "Science damn you" and "Oh my Science!" Richard Dawkins, among others, complained after the episode aired that this was reducing science to a religion (a common creationist attack).
{{quote|"Science H. Logic! What an asshole!"}}
* Done in Disney's ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'' syndicated series, like in the movie. [[Overused Running Gag|A lot]].
* In the stop-motion television series ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'', Toad frequently used "By Jove!" Once, when he was on a time-travel kick, he was conked asleep and dreamt he went back to the days of Julius Caesar, in the well-known play version, with his friends (and recurring enemies) in the important roles. When he says "By Jove!" here, the character his mind has caused Rat to portray says "Yes, and by all the gods of Rome!" I think it happens [[Rule of Three|three]] times before Toad cuts him off.
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** At one point, a [[Incredible Shrinking Man|magically shrunken]] and stranded Applejack exclaims "Thank Celestia!" upon being rescued (inadvertently) by Rainbow Dash.
** In a later episode, a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' is made with Rarity saying "As Celestia is my witness, I shall never be sisterless again!".
*** In "Putting Your Hoof Down, a similar [[Shout-Out]] is made with Fluttershy saying "As Celestia is my witness, I'm never gonna be a pushover again!"
** In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E14 The Last Roundup|The Last Roundup]]'':
{{quote|'''Rainbow Dash''': Nothing! In the name of Celestia, just sit there and do nothing!}}
:* One episode (Celestial Advice) shows how Celestia herself reacts to it:
{{quote|'''Twilight Sparkle:''' I just can't send her to Celestia-knows-where without thinking it through!
'''Celestia''' ''(who is standing right there)'': Hmm! I was not aware I was an expression!}}
* An episode of [[Robot Chicken]] has Jesus say "Daddamnit!".
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Quite common in India, although almost never heard in english; people have a tendency to revert to their mother tongues when frustrated-slash-excited-ly invoking Gods' names.
* "By Jove!", a real English expression (albeit one that has completely fallen into disuse). "Jove" is another name for Jupiter/Zeus, though the phrase was also used (by [[Shakespeare]], for instance) to refer to the Judeo-Christian God.
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