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* The one time [[Heroic Mime|Artyom]] speaks in ''[[Metro 2033]]'' is when he yells "guhhh-'''fffFUCK'''" when he notices that a derailed train is about to crush him into the ground.
* The ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series is very low on swearing, so the one F-bomb in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'' is a laser guided Precision F Strike indeed. Delivered by what turns out to be {{spoiler|a [[Mind Rape|mind raped]] psychopathic teenage girl who never stopped her [[Laughing Mad|deranged laughing]] for years}}, ''"It's all so FUCKING HYSTERICAL!!!"'' manages to creep you ''like you wouldn't believe''.
** Especially considering the creepy nature of the boss fight, against an enemy who uses stealth against you. Cue the nightmares.
** In the Japanese released, the award goes to EVA in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'', who, when cornered by [[Big Bad]] Volgin, broke out the [[Gratuitous English]] to snarl 'fuck you' before trying to shoot at him with a concealed gun. In the English version, the line was changed to the more innocuous 'go to hell' - although it was saved by the voice actress's delivery.
* At the apex of the story in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'' (a ''Disney'' game), Axel rewards himself with one of these for [[Magnificent Bastard|a job well done]], although it was rewritten into a different, F Strike-less line in the [[PSPlay Station 2]] version.
{{quote| '''Axel:''' Now, Sora! Naminé! Riku! Marluxia! Larxene! [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|It's about time you gave me one hell of a show!]]}}
** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]'', [[Sleeping Beauty|Maleficent]] gets to reference her "powers of hell" line for the first time in [[Kingdom Hearts|the series]].
* In ''[[Mega Man 7 (Video Game)|Mega Man 7]]'', Bass throws in a rather unexpected "damn" in a dialogue toward the end of Shade Man's stage. Mild by the standards of a T-rated game, but it was quite surprising in a KA-rated SNES game. Too bad it was [[Bowdlerise|taken out]] in the [[Compilation Rerelease|Anniversary Collection]].
** ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]]'' had a couple "damn"s in the early games, which were kept in the [[Compilation Rerelease|X Collection]]. Although the fourth game missed its chance by having a late boss character shout, "See you in the underworld!" rather than the less unwieldy "[[See You in Hell]]!"
*** In the ''X Collection'', one "damn" (from X no less) was actually ''added'' for some reason.
** ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]] 2'' also has one, when, after you defeat MagnetMan, and expose {{spoiler|Gauss}} as the hijacker, he lets out a rather unexpected "Damn it to hell!"
*** MMBN2 had several other times incidences as well, unlike the rest of the series. Oh, and the guy wasn't hijacking the plane, he was trying to crash it.
* Example using mild swears: despite being rated T, ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'' almost always uses words like "blast" and "dastard". Ike only says "damn" if he dies (which is also [[Game Over]]).
* In ''[[Gradius]] V'', if you lose your last life after having gone through 6 stages on a single credit, the announcer exclaims, "What the hell?"
* In ''[[Half-Life]] 2'', Dr. Breen, ever the the classy and intelligent villain, never stating so much as a "darn," let's out a loud and clear "Oh, ''shit!''" when he sees Gordon and Alyx are close behind him during his conversation with an Advisor.
** The same game brings us Barney Calhoun, the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. "Hey! When you see Breen, tell him I said "'F[[Sound Effect Bleep|(* crash* )]] you!'"
*** Although the crash sound censors Barney's swearing, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pptUBPw-VQA it's still audible in the game files].
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'''s "Meet the Spy" the BLU spy drops a Yo Momma Joke, quickly followed by a (censored) F Strike. Since the Spy has always been the picture of sophistication, these two combine to be absolutely hilarious.
{{quote| '''BLU Scout:''' What are you, the President of his fan club?<br />
'''BLU Spy:''' ...No. That would be ''[[Your Mom|your mother]]''. *produces compromising pictures of the Scout's mother and the RED Spy*<br />
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'''BLU Spy:''' Indeed. And now he's here to f*ck ''us''! So listen up, ''boy'', or pornography starring your mother will be the ''second'' worst thing to happen to you today. }}
** Doubles at making the Spy [[Sophisticated As Hell]].
* In ''[[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia]]'', the third boss in the game consists of a [[Giant Enemy Crab|gigantic crab]] that the heroine Shanoa must fight all the way up a lighthouse. At the top, Shanoa gets into an elevator, tells the crab to "[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|go to Hell]]," rides the elevator all the way down, crushing the crab. This is made all the more awesome by the line appearing as a sound bite rather than as a text box.
** It bears mention that the original Japanese phrase ("Jigoku ni ochiro.") translates to [[Bond One-Liner|"Fall into Hell."]] and, when used in its entirety, is at least somewhat less offensive than its English equivalent.
** Also in ''[[Castlevania]]'': ''[[Castlevania Judgment]]'' has one of Grant's "damn"age grunts be a certain four-letter word. Can you guess what it is?
* ''[[Twelve Thirteen|1213]]'' has exactly one piece of profanity, and in the special edition commentary, [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] makes note of how it emphasises how absolutely pissed off the guy saying it is:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Westbury''': "How much these things cost? Is that all you have to say? You... You... '''YOU FUCKING BUREAUCRAT!'''" * BANG* }}}}
* The ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'' games don't shy away from milder curses like "damn" or "hell", but the harsher ones can still be surprising:
{{quote| '''Sylvanas Windrunner:''' (to Arthas in ''[[Warcraft III]]'') Give my regards to hell, you '''son of a bitch'''!<br />
(After being scolded by [[General Ripper|Garithos]] in ''Warcraft III'') '''Dwarf Rifleman:''' They did not pay us enough to put up with that '''[[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|arsehole]]'''<br />
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'''Garrosh Hellscream:''' (to Sylvanas in [[WoW]]): Watch your clever mouth, bitch. }}
* In the [[Adaptation Displacement|X68000 version]] of ''[[Thunder Force]] II'', losing your last life causes the player character to shout "Shit!"
* In ''[[The Whitewhite Chamberchamber]]'', though she uses other swear words throughout the game, {{spoiler|Sarah uses the F word only once, when she's being shocked in an electric chair and the laser gun beside her doesn't work.}}
* In the final moments of ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'', you, as {{spoiler|Soap}}, get stabbed in the chest by {{spoiler|General Shepherd}}, whom you've been chasing for the majority of the last mission. As you stir, he gives you his [[Motive Rant]], starting:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Shepherd:''' Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just '''fuckin'''' watched.}}}}
* From ''[[Don Pachi]]'': "'''WARNING:''' [[Gratuitous English|This is not similation. Get ready to destoroy the enemy. Target for the weak points of f**kin' machine. Do your best you have ever done.]]"
* In the Japanese version of ''[[Fatal Fury|Real Bout Fatal Fury Special]]'', good-natured [[Large Ham|Franco]] [[Papa Wolf|Bash]]'s win quote against [[Big Bad|Geese Howard]] is [[Foreign Cuss Word|"Fuckyou!]] Geese!"
* In the Japanese audio for ''[[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]]'', Sonic says "shit" once. Translated to something along the lines of "darn" in the American version.
* Though it's not as vulgar as the other examples on this page, there IS one moment from the normally G-rated language ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' that deserves a mention. When one minor character very NEARLY kills another by accident (by hanging him with a fishing line, no less), the almost-victim understandably berates his idiotic pal, finishing up by calling him "DUMBASS!" Complete with {{color|RED|red text}} and a slashing sound as the word as said, to drive home the point that yes, this is as foul as the language is going to get. Maybe they were trying to avoid [[Cluster F-Bomb|what happened]] with ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''.
** FFVIII has two other notable instances. One is when Zone, one of [[Those Two Guys]], lays into Squall for letting Rinoa get hurt: "YOU SON OF A BITCH!" the other is when Squall and party overhear fatherly and normally ineffectual Headmaster Cid arguing with Garden Master NORG:
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', Sazh's baby pet [[Killer Rabbit|Chocobo]] actually pulls one of these off when "{{spoiler|The Pulsian Chocobos are being attacked by your mission target}}", which Sazh can easily translate.
{{quote| '''Sazh:''' Hurry the ''what'' up?}}
* [[Banjo -Kazooie|"But you have told them my last code, damn you book, I'm ready to explode!"]]
* Fail at [[Item Crafting]] with Claude in the ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean the Second Story]]'' and you'll be treated to a nice, [[Large Ham|hammy]] "DAMNIT!!!"
* Some of the characters in Killer7 let these out after hitting a Heaven Smile's weak spot - young punk Con Smith jubilantly shouts "FUCK you!" and shady thief Coyote Smith snarls, "You're ''fucked.''" Depending on how good the player is at hitting the Smiles' weak points, this can quickly turn into a [[Cluster F-Bomb]].
* Henry Townshend of [[Silent Hill 4]] have a "What the hell?" which is used repeatly around the first part of the game.
* Heather from ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'', right when Claudia plan is about to come to fruition: "SHUT YOUR STINKING MOUTH, BITCH!".
** Earlier, when the amusement park changes into its nightmare version, "Oh hell!"
* From ''[[Braid (Video Game)|Braid]]'': "Now we are all sons of bitches."
* In ''[[Primal]]'', when Jen encounters her first [[Our Demons Are Different|demon]], she slowly looks up his body and to his face and summarizes her emotions with one heartfelt ''"Ohh... shit!"''
* Sam Fisher of [[Splinter Cell]] hardly ever curses, which is particularly noticable in Conviction, where he's pitted against Mooks who prefer [[Cluster F-Bomb|ClusterFBombs]] So, throughout the game he has a few that really stand out, particularly when he tells people to go fuck themselves.
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* In ''[[Persona 3]] Portable'', [[Stepford Smiler]] Saori casually uses an S-strike at one point, just to see what it feels like to say whatever she wishes. Given that her S-Link [[It Got Worse|keeps steadily rolling downhill]], the poor girl's probably due a few of these.
* ''[[Persona 4]]'' gives the main character a chance to say ''"Calm the hell down!"'' during a particularly... tense... moment {{spoiler|after his cousin/surrogate little sister seemingly dies and the main characters contemplate killing the man they think is responsible. The above line is used in order to calm down the protagonist's understandably furious friends and get them to think more rationally.}} The protagonist can curse several times throughout the game, but the delivery of this is what makes it especially poignant; He YELLS and gets ''visibly angry'' for the first, and only, time in the ''entire'' game.
* ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' delivers a perfect [[Precision F-Strike]] combined with a massive [[Mind Screw]] after {{spoiler|beating up Rodrigo Borgia and meeting Minerva.}} What. The. ''Fuck?!'' indeed...
** Ezio tells {{spoiler|Rodrigo Borgia}} "[[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|Go fuck yourself]]."
* In [[Rainbow Six]]: Vegas 2, when [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Gabriel Nowak}} taunts you about Joanna being shot.