History Main / FloweryInsults

* Hungarian language is basically an excuse to pull off extremely flowery insults. "May the old devil fuck you with his meter-long blue-veined studded dick until you split in two on the back of your filthy whore of a mother" is an appropriate reaction for stubbing one's toe. A shorter one is "Go home and make yourself a little brother!". Or "May you give birth to / shit out a hedgehog!"

** "You live a liana past Tarzan."

** "May none of your children attend your funeral!"

* Everything Everything's "Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread" contains the lines:

* Creator/StephenColbert of ''Series/TheColbertReport'' enjoys using these, usually in the form of [person's job], and [flowery insult], [person's name], usually with an unflattering picture to illustrate.

* ''Literature/{{Domina}}'': Pops up on occasion. Several {{Catch Phrase}}s are implied to be shortened versions of a flowery insult. For example, a common demon curse is "Nine Hells." At one point Seena swears "by all Nine Hells and the Black Gates that guard them."

* ''Literature/{{AmeliaPeabody}}'s'' husband Emerson is widely known in Egypt by the nickname "Abu Shitaim" or "Father of Curses" for his flowing, creative Arabic invective. The nickname is a compliment, as his Egyptian workmen consider proper cursing to be an art form.

-->'''Kent''': A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a [[DirtyCoward lily-livered,]] [[ArmyOfLawyers action-taking knave;]] a whoreson, [[{{Narcissist}} glass-gazing,]] superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd in the way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and [[BastardBastard the son and heir of a mongrel bitch;]] one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

** Rogal Dorn, [[LiteralMinded of all]] [[DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm people]], gets in such a good insult back at the Emperor that even the Emperor is impressed.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Meatballs or Consequences," Yakko and Dot are speaking very formally in a parody of ''Film/TheSeventhSeal,'' but veer off-topic to lob a few of these at each other:

* Vice President Spiro Agnew was often a master of this, calling his opponents things like "an effete corps of impudent snobs", "hopeless, hysterical, hypochondriacs of history", and most famously "nattering nabobs of negativism." Interestingly, though Agnew did tend towards the flowery in his insults, the ones everyone remembers were really the product of his speechwriter, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire William Safire]], who was later hired by ''The New York Times'' to provide conservative commentary on weekdays and the snarky GrammarNazi column "On Language" on Sundays.

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' is living proof that this trope and ClusterFBomb are perfectly capable of living together and having lots of inventively sweary babies.

** Kent (disguised as Caius) delivers one to Oswald in ''Theatre/KingLear'':

** ''"May a bloated yak change the temperature of your jacuzzi"''

-->"Minority leader, and septuagenarian ninja turtle, Mitch [=McConnell=]"

* Creator/StephenColbert of ''Series/TheColbertReport'' enjoys using these, usually in the form of [person's job] and [flowery insult], [person's name]

* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'',''everything'' that [[FunnyForeigner Rolf]] says when insulting others is some bizarre amalgamation of words that somehow make some sense.

---> May you live in a hundred houses, and may each have a hundred rooms, and may each room have a hundred corners, and may you be thrown from corner to corner!

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'''s Captain Haddock is the best known user of this in the [[FrenchBelgianComicBooks Bande Dessinee]] genre. See [[http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html here]] for alphabetically-sorted examples. "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!" ("Mille millions de mille milliards de mille sabords!") is probably the most iconic one. Doubles as ParentheticalSwearing, as Hergé wrote Haddock like this to make him still seem like a salty sailor in a medium for kids, and many of the words he uses aren't even really insults (it's implied [[CallingMeALogarithm he uses them in such a way because he has no idea what they mean]]).

* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles4'' In Chapter 18, "The Final Battle", Doctor Belgar rages against Squad E for trying to prevent him from [[spoiler:detonating the [[FantasticNuke A2 bomb]] inside the [[CoolShip Centurion]]]], an atrocity he's committing so he can measure the results ForScience.

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* According to Murdoc Niccals of ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'', the school bully Tony Chopper ([[NamesTheSame no relation]] to ''Manga/OnePiece'''s Tony Chopper) who made his life a misery when he was ten was a "useless bloated backward waste of space who'd probably get a job holding up For Sale signs on street corners, only to then get himself fired and replaced by a bucket of soil. A pissed monkey would stand a better chance in life."

* Former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating is still revered as having possessed one of the sharpest tongues ever wielded in the halls of parliament. His insults weren't all flowery gems (he could regularly be openly coarse and was often downright ''savage''), but a number of them were practically works of art. A collection of some of his best can be found [[http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/ here.]]

* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson once called his political opponents "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies".

* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': Elaborate insults are used quite frequently.
** In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJsxB4N61I The Metaverse Nightmares - Does Reality Matter?]]'', when describing the art style of the Metaverse, Goblin Tyrant treats us to this gem.
-->'''Goblin Tyrant:''' Let's be real here. Absolutely no one would want to cuddle with an avatar that looks like a castrated Pinocchio made out of marshmallows soaked in soy.