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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Granddad: '''We don't use the "n-word" in this house!
'''Huey:''' Granddad, [[Hypocrite|you said the word "nigga"]] ''[[Hypocrite|46]]''[[Hypocrite| times yesterday.]]. I ''counted!''
'''Granddad:''' [[I Resemble That Remark|Nigga, hush!]]|''[[The Boondocks]]''}}
|''[[The Boondocks]]''}}
 
A character with a distinguishing characteristic of swearing noticeably more, or at least in [[Mother F-Bomb|harsher]] [[Country Matters|words]], than the rest of the cast.
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Keep in mind that this is relative; if ''everyone'' [[Cluster F-Bomb|swears a lot]], that's not this trope. Conversely, in works where swearing is otherwise nonexistent, a character can be this even if the worst that comes out of their mouths [[Badbutt|would look very tame in other contexts.]] Not all works have one of these: a lot of the time most or all of the major characters use about the same amount of profanity, or if some do swear more it is not by enough of a margin to make it a noticeable aspect of the character. What matters here is that a character is set apart by swearing more than everyone (or nearly everyone) else in the same work.
 
These characters are likely to drop [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]]s where they're allowed to. Otherwise they may be doomed to [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]. May also be subjected to [[The Swear Jar]]. This is often a trait of a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]], [[Da Chief]], or [[Da Editor]], assuming the work in question is R-rated or the equivalent.
 
Compare/Contrast [[The Snark Knight]] and [[Knight in Sour Armor]].
 
{{examples}}
== Anime &and Manga ==
* Jan Valentine from ''[[Hellsing]]''. [[Refuge in Vulgarity|He also enjoys bringing up embarrassing bodily functions rather often.]]
* Bando of ''[[Elfen Lied]]''.
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* Takamura from ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]''
* Vice from ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]''.
* King Dedede and Knuckle Joe from the [[Kirby: ofRight theBack Starsat Ya!|Kirby anime]]. [[Spice Up the Subtitles|The fansubbers take it]] [[Up to Eleven]].
** The English dub removes the use of profanity which is appropriate for Japanese children and inappropriate for American children. Needless to say, in the third-to-last episode, at one time it sounded like Dedede used a profane word at least once and ONLY ONCE, which was a simple, rare mistake left in the dub.
{{quote|'''King Dedede''': Hey. What is that damn thing?
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* Grimmjow from "[[Bleach]]."
** Even more so, Nnoitora. Every other word he says is some form of [[Cluster F-Bomb|"fuck," "shit," or "bitch."]]
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', both Pegasus and [[Little Miss Badass|Rebecca]] dropped a cuss-word occasionally in the anime, the character who ''really'' fits this Trope is Bandit Keith, who did it all the time in the manga, hos foul language there expressed with [[Symbol Swearing]].
 
 
== Comic Books ==
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* Oyuki-Chan from [[Empowered]] cusses every third word, no matter what she's talking about and even when she's completely calm.
* Zodon, in [[PS238]] is apparently a terrible pottymouth—which is especially bad given that he's an elementary school student. To keep him in line he's been fitted with a brain chip which replaces his swear words with random nouns and verbs, and turns entire rants of obscenity into showtunes.
* [[The Punisher]] tends to cuss a lot, mostly via [[Symbol Swearing]]. But then, Frank ''is'' a former Marine.
 
== FilmsFilm ==
 
== Films ==
* Jay from the [[View Askewniverse]].
* ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'': After he misses a putt, the censor-bleeps can't keep up with him.
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** Speaking of ''[[Magnolia]]'', on top of [[Tom Cruise]]'s character, Earl and Linda Partridge are also pretty good examples of this trope, ESPECIALLY Linda. This is already a movie where most of the cast is quite liberal when it comes to using [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]], but in just about every scene Linda's in, she takes the usage of the trope [[Up to Eleven]], not an easy thing to do in a movie like that.
* Also, any character played by [[Samuel L. Jackson]] will be interpreted as this, because people seem to like hearing him say "motherfucker."
** Except Frozone, of course, given the target audience of ''[[The Incredibles]]'' .
** Interestingly subverted in ''[[Jumper (novel)|Jumper]]''. A PG-13 movie, they gave that one, coveted f-bomb to Jamie Bell's character, Griffin, instead.
* [[Big Bad|Frank Booth]] from ''[[Blue Velvet]]'' who drops F bombs at least once per sentence. Made more apparent in that he is the only character in the film to use the word (besides a character who does it at Frank's request).
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* Charles and Cary from ''[[Super 8]]'', especially Charles. Being a PG-13 rated movie, it's not as noticeable as other examples, but the movie itself is heavy on profanity for one with that rating, and if you pay attention, somewhere between 80 to 90 percent of that language is from these two alone.
* Sheriff J.W. Pepper from the James Bond installments, ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]'' and ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun]]'' swears noticeably often for any character from a James Bond movie. Not only that, but in his first appearance, he even came close to being the only character to use the F word in the entire series!
 
 
== Literature ==
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* Uno from ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' gets called out on this by other characters, especially Nynaeve.
** Also Mat. Again, Nynaeve ain't happy. Wanders into serious [[Narm]] territory when you see that "Blood and ashes!" and "Mother's milk in a cup!" apparently constitutes heinous swearing in [[Fan Nickname|Randland]].
* Subverted with ''[[Discworld/]]'', ''[[The Truth|]]'': Subverted with Mr. Tulip]], who doesn't --ing swear. He just says "--ing" a --ing lot. Although we're never told how he pronounces "--"...
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has a few (who still stand out thanks to [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]). [[Complete Monster]]s Gregor Clegane and Rorge have never actually met but still seem to be competing to see who can swear more while committing horrific acts of rape and dismemberment, but there's an otherwise irrelevant [[Mook]] nicknamed "Shitmouth" who can out-swear them both. In ''A Dance With Dragons'', Asha interacts with Ser Clayton Suggs, a low born knight, and about 90% of those interactions consist of him calling her a cunt.
* Sharon/Shaz from the ''Bridget Jones'' books and movies, "Likes to say 'fuck'. A lot".
* "Sally" Sweet in the [[Stephanie Plum]] series. He can barely get through a sentence without at least one F-bomb.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
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* Inverted by Omar in ''[[The Wire]]''—in spite of being a major [[Badass]], he's the ''only'' character who refuses to curse and admonishes others for doing so constantly.
* Virtually ''every'' character in ''[[Misfits]]'' qualifies, but Nathan and Kelly are probably the worst.
 
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Rat of ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'', whose swearing is [[Symbol Swearing|censored with symbols]].
* It is implied in one strip of [[Beetle Bailey]] thathas Sergeant Snorkel, of all the soldiers at Camp Swampy,who was the absolute worst when it came to swearing. BasicallyIn one strip, the resident minister of the camp was complaining to one of the officers about the amount of swearing going on at the camp, and suggests Sarge teach them not to swear, to the officer's shock and exhasperationexasperation. It then cuts to Sarge accidentiallyaccidentally hurting himself with a tack thatand he[[Minor wasInjury going to place on a bulletin board, and uttersOverreaction|uttering a long list of profanities]] ([[Symbol Swearing|all censored]]), and- the officer, tellingas the minister, who is coveringcovers his ears, that the longofficer listimplies of profanitiesthat he is uttering is ''only'' for a tack prick, implying that the listd ishave even longer and far more profane outbursts with more serious injuries/more angering situations.
** In one 2013 strip, he proudly shows Beetle a diploma showing that he has a ''degree'' in cussing (specifically, a "Master's in Maledictation").
* Darryl MacPherson in ''[[Baby Blues]]'' has a swearing problem, (particularly when irritated or after injuring himself, with. himHe once somehow managingmanaged to write a swear word on a note identifying a coffee table that was intended to help one of the kids identify furniture after stubbing his leg on it).
* As noted with the trope quote, Grampa"Grandpa" Robert Freeman from ''[[The Boondocks]]'' is quite foul-mouthed, in particular with the N-word, having done so at least 46 times the day before.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* Nockers have this as their kith flaw in ''[[Changeling: The Dreaming]]''.
 
== Video Games ==
 
== Videogames ==
* [[Shadow the Hedgehog]] was the first Sonic-franchise character to swear, most notably in his self-titled [[Gaiden Game]] where he swears repeatedly in cut-scenes and nearly every time he gets hit.
* Cid and Barret in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''.
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* Victor 'Goddamn' Sullivan from "[[Uncharted Drakes Fortune]]" and "[[Uncharted 2 Among Thieves]]". Naturally, he keeps it T-rated.
* Jr. in ''[[Xenosaga]]''?
* Ragna The Bloodedge and Kokonoe both tend to drop Cluster S.o.B. Bombs in ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]''.
{{quote|'''Ragna''': Take this, you son of a bitch!
'''Kokonoe''': You son of a bitch! Do you know how hard it was to find you?! }}
*:* Kokonoe takes her language much further than that, often getting creatively [[This Trope Is Bleep|censored]] as a result. Let's try this dialogue from Rachel's gag reel in ''Continuum Shift'':
{{quote|'''Noel''': Ms. Kokonoe. What were you going to do to Mr. Ragna the Bloodedge after you [[Instant Sedation|put him to sleep]]?
'''Kokonoe''': Well, no reason not to tell you. First I intended to take his <ref>(Inferno Divider!)</ref> and put it in a.<ref>(Carnage Scissors!)</ref> Maybe a little <ref>(Gauntlet Hades!)</ref> too? My goodness, I can only imagine what his <ref>(Hell's Fang!)</ref> will!<ref>(Dead Spike!)</ref>
'''Noel''': Wh-wh-WHAT?! How could you stoop so low? That's totally unfair!
'''Kokonoe''': Like I care. Keep dreaming, kid. I'm gonna make Ragna '''mine'''! }}
*:* [[Big Bad|Haz]] [[Troll|amaHazama]] is pretty bad for this as well.
{{quote|"OK, what makes ''you'' think I give two '''shits''' about a vampire tea-party?"
"Hey, shitty vampire? Who's laughing now?"
"Yeah, a huge failure. Real pain in the ass to keep the Cauldron under control. But hey, we learned all sorts of shit in the process, so, you know..." }}
*:* Makoto isn't as bad as the previous offenders, but she is still quite a potty mouth.
{{quote|"Meh. I should quit bitching. A job's a job. Can't help the family out just sitting on my tail."
"Sleepy? That baby's wide awake - and pissed!"
"What the [[Curse Cut Short|fuuu-?]]" }}
* Jack in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', {{spoiler|she has to continually cut her curses short whenever her students are listening}}.
** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', {{spoiler|she has to continually cut her curses short whenever her students are listening.}}
* ''[[Bulletstorm]]'' was called "Captain Swearword's Big Fuckin' Adventure" by [[Rock Paper Shotgun]] for good reason, but even the main character is surprised by the walking, talking swear factory called General Sarrano.
* Kaine from ''[[Nie RNieR]]''. The very first thing you hear when booting up the game is her delivering a [[Cluster F-Bomb]] to Weiss.
* Detective Isaac Washington from [[House of the Dead]] '''OVERKILL,''' where the game earns the title by dropping 189 F-bombs in a normal three-hour playthrough, enough for a Guinness World Record.
* Kumatora in ''[[Mother 3]]'', being the [[Tomboy]] that she is. Lighter as well, to a lesser extent.
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* [[Rance]] can weaponize it in some of his games.
* Enzo in ''[[Bayonetta]]'' swears even when it doesn't make sense to swear. It's likely that he swears the most out of everyone in the game, despite having the least screentime and the fact that the game has no shortage of F-bombs.
* The ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' series takes full advantage of being Rated M, and [[Cluster F-Bomb|drops more S bombs than you can shake a stick at]]. However, of all the characters, [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Coach]] stands out. Just try going a full sixty seconds without hearing him swear, - it will fail.
* Feinne's [[Let's Play]]Gig of ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' recordedis definitely this trope, to the numberpoint ofthat timesFeinne's Gig[[Let's swore.Play]] Oh,of andthe Giggame istracked definitelythe thisnumber tropeof swears.
{{quote|''Yeah, I said "shit" 33 times. Got a problem with it, numbnuts?''}}
* Cassie from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', ''X'' and ''XI''. Interesting factoid, in ''X'' she uses the F-word more than ''any'' other video game character in a single title. Not surprising, given she's a Marine and former [[Military Brat]].
 
== Web OriginalsComics ==
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730130721/http://thedugs.com/?p=873 Bob the Crab] from [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20170516173252/http://thedugs.com/ The Dugs - Baseball Comics] tends to be the only cussing character in The Las Vegas Tsunami. His speech is usually bleeped out by black boxes with alternative wording.
== Webcomics ==
* Gamzee Makara in ''[[Homestuck]]'', on the verge of being a [[Verbal Tic]], true to his [[Insane Clown Posse|primary inspiration.]].
* [http://thedugs.com/?p=873 Bob the Crab] from [http://www.thedugs.com The Dugs - Baseball Comics] tends to be the only cussing character in The Las Vegas Tsunami. His speech is usually bleeped out by black boxes with alternative wording.
** [[Jerkass|Karkat Vantas and Eridan Ampora]] as well, to a lesser extent. Eridan seems to use harsh language as a [[Verbal Tic]] resulting from his generally poor linguistic skills, but Karkat's just [[StealthGrumpy PunBear|always]] [[GrumpyStealth BearPun|crabby.]].
* Gamzee Makara in ''[[Homestuck]]'', on the verge of being a [[Verbal Tic]], true to his [[Insane Clown Posse|primary inspiration.]]
** [[Jerkass|Karkat Vantas and Eridan Ampora]] as well, to a lesser extent. Eridan seems to use harsh language as a [[Verbal Tic]] resulting from his generally poor linguistic skills, but Karkat's just [[Stealth Pun|always]] [[Grumpy Bear|crabby.]]
** Dave Strider as well. Amusingly, both Dave and Karkat [[Character Class System|are Knights]] in Sburb, taking this trope name quite literally.
* The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|aptly-named]] Swearing Friend in ''[[Sexy Losers]]''.
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* [[Ansem Retort|Andrew Jackson, motherfucker!]]
* Alex Williams, the titular ''[[Captain SNES]]''. The author of the comic was once asked why he swears so much, and replied "Some people just have a potty mouth. Alex is one of those people."
* Coyote from ''[[Drugs and Kisses|Drugsand Kisses]]'' not only swears the most, but is the only character in the comic to drop the occasional [[Country Matters|C-Bomb]].
 
== Web Original ==
 
== Web Originals ==
* While many characters swear in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', there are a few that are... particularly notable. Adam Dodd, Kris Hartmann (in multiple languages!), Dorian Sanders, and Jimmy Brennan are such examples.
* Deimos from the [[Insane Cafe Series]] swears ''far'' more than anyone else.
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** Further Inverted in that, when he does swear, he typically uses 'lighter' profanities as opposed to F bombs and such. Perhaps the only reviewer on the site who swears less than Linkara is [[That Dude in the Suede]].
* The Engineer in ''[[True Capitalist]]'' wouldn't count under most circumstances, except F-bombs are [[The Unintelligible|the only understandable ones he ever speaks]].
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* [[Punny Name|Fowlmouth/Foulmouth]] from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'';: bleeps in the show, "Dad Gum" in [[The Movie]]. It's noted, however, that Fowlmouth cleans up his language when there are little kids nearby.
* Krueger from ''[[Undergrads]]''.
* Though almost everyone in ''[[South Park]]'' swears except for Butters (usually) most of it comes from Eric Cartman. Kenny also has a particularly foul mouth.
* Parodied onin ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' with Pottymouth, a rarely seen villain who uses child-caliber profanity in literally every sentence he utters.
{{quote|"Oh, go flush yourself down a pee-pee-hole, you toilet paper covered doody head!"}}
* Palpatine in the ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' Star Wars specials was probably the worst offender in regards to swearing. In particular, he uttered exactly nine usages of the F-word, six of which were in a chain, in the skit where Vader calls him at his office when telling him about the destruction of the Death Star. He later gives four usages of the F-word in a later skit detailing his bad day on the Death Star, two of which were, again, in a chain. In fact, with the exception of two Stormtroopers in Episode II and Lando Calrissian, a large majority of the more profane language (ie, the ones that are required to be bleeped out when in syndication) are from Palpatine's mouth.
* Similar to the ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' example above, the Potty Mouth Monster from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. Appearing in "Curses", he serves as a [[Monster of the Aesop]] - the Girls picked up cussing after hearing a bad word from the Professor. Hilariously, Blossom defeats the huge monster by washing its mouth out with an ''entire truck's'' worth of soap, then making it sit in a corner-shaped building.
 
 
== Real Life ==
* [[National Hockey League|New York Rangers]] coach John Tortorella is quite given to expletives, in contrast to his basketball counterparts. In January 2012, he called his boss's early Stanley Cup prediction "a bunch of bullshit".
* Former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating was infamous for his barnyard vocabulary ''while still in office'' (probably he still drops the odd [[Cluster F-Bomb]]), being very much the guttermouth by Australian political standards - link:https://web.archive.org/web/20070829103719/http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/
* [[Ramsays KitchenGordon NightmaresRamsay||Gordon]] [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] [[Ramsays KitchenGordon NightmaresRamsay|Ramsay]]
* [[Pamela Segal]], according to fellow voice actress April Winchell.
* In an interview with ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'', somebody associated with him said that in day-to-day life, every sentence [[John Madden]] says contains the F-word, and they find it remarkable that he's able to turn that off when he's on the air.
 
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