History Main / ProfanityPolice

-->-- ''Film/TheAvengersAgeOfUltron''

'''Colossus:''' Language, please.\\

* Taken to its most literal extreme in LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}} where in a dystopian future, Japan passed laws banning anything obscene. This includes all forms of swearing, pornography and lewd gestures. Even the correct medical terms for certain... “obscene” anatomies are forbidden!

[[folder:Web Video]]

'''Super Mecha Death Christ:''' (shoots the Nerd) '''WATCH YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE!!'''

-->'''Officer:''' Uh, we object to the term "urine-soaked hellhole" when you could have said "peepee-soaked heckhole."\\

* ComicBook/''{{Runaways}}'' issue #1 has Alex Wilder playing an online game about the Hulk, Daredevil and other famous heroes. Playing as Captain America, Alex breaks character to voice his displeasure with the campaign, saying that it's "totally retarded."

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': [[{{ReligiousBruiser}} Michael]] does this a lot.
-->'''Harry''': Holy shit. Hellhounds.\\
'''Michael''': Harry, you know I don't like it when you swear.\\
'''Harry''': [[{{DeadpanSnarker}} Oh, sorry. Holy shit. Heckhounds.]]
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': PlayedForLaughs when Nynaeve travels with the SirSwearsALot OldSoldier Uno and tries to forbid him from cursing in her presence. Seeing how badly he's straining, she compromises on one profanity every other sentence, and he starts using ''exactly'' that.
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* In ''Film/DemolitionMan'' there's the verbal morality monitor, machines that give out a small citation for breaking the no swearing law in San Angeles. When he's first thawed out, John Spartan, [[RunningGag not knowing how to use the three shells]], [[ClusterFBomb curses out a storm]] near on to get a quick supply of toilet paper.

-->'''Deadpool:''' Finish f---ing her the f--- up!\\

'''Deadpool:''' Suck a c---!

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->'''ComicBook//IronMan:''' SHIT!\\

->''[[CasualDangerDialog ”Language.”]]''
-->-- '''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''', Film/TheAvengersAgeOfUltron

!!Examples

** First, Tony Stark says "Shit!" during the fight. Captain America simply says "Language!" This leads to a RunningGag where the rest of the team tease Cap about it.
** Later on, when Nick Fury and SHIELD show up to Sokovia in a helicarrier as BigDamnHeroes, Steve can only remark "Fury, you son of a bitch!" in amazed disbelief, to which Fury teases him with "You kiss your mother with that mouth, Cap?"

* ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'' has a hilarious ''and'' heartwarming moment where Batman cuts off a kid - whom he just rescued from gunpoint seconds ago - encouraging him to "kick [the Joker's] ass" with a "watch your language, son".
* ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Colossus does this to Deadpool during the former's climactic fight with Angel Dust. Deadpool is less than obliging.

* Website/SFDebris: In his review of "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok}} Darmok]]" from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Chuck jokingly reprimands Captain Picard for bad language. Picard is stranded on a planet with another alien captain and those two have a major LanguageBarrier between them. The phrase that sets him off is an '''sh''' word.
-->'''Alien captain''': Shaka, when the walls fell.
-->'''Picard''': Shaka indeed.
-->'''Chuck''': Language, Picard!
* WebVideo/HonestTrailers: [[Film/Deadpool2016 Deadpool]] (''Captain'' Deadpool) himself shows up in his own Honest Trailer. At one point, he starts discussing with Epic Voice Guy...
-->'''Deadpool:''' And what the [[SoundEffectBleep fu[BLEEP]]] is with these bleeps?
-->'''Epic Voice Guy:''' You know, kids watch these videos, Mr. Pool.
-->'''Deadpool:''' (''[ClusterBleepBomb]'')
* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'' took Captain America saying "Language!" in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and turned it into a running gag, with Cap saying that line while hurting anyone who is about to curse.

-->''[[CasualDangerDialog ”Language.”]]''

'''Colossus:''' Language please.\\

* A G-rated example in the ''Series/WimziesHouse'' episode, "Please Don't Say That!"; to teach Wimzie and her friends that calling people "stupid" hurts people's feelings, she institutes a [[SwearJar "charity cup", with one cent going into the cup every time somebody says "stupid"]]. Every time Wimzie says "stupid", Yaya makes her pay one cent into the cup. This results in Wimzie being unable to afford a red box she wants to buy from a GarageSale for fifty cents. The only time Yaya doesn't hear Wimzie say "stupid" is when Wimzie chooses to stay at home while her friends and Yaya go to the garage sale, though she does confess what she did to Yaya when her friends buy the red box for her. Only Wimzie's younger brother, Bo is exempt from the charity cup because he doesn't know any better due to being only one and a half, and he doesn't have any money.

* ''Film/{{Ted}}'': Donny's BerserkButton is other people swearing in front his kid, as Ted finds out when the former screams at him for doing so.

---> '''Deadpool:''' Finish f---ing her the f--- up!
---> '''Colossus:''' Language please.
---> '''Deadpool:''' Suck a c---!

[[folder: Anime & Manga]]

* ''ComicBook/AntMan'': In the 2020 miniseries Ant-Man (Scott Lang) and Stinger (his daughter Cassie)are stopping a drug operation by AIM. Stinger attacks them with SymbolSwearing, and Scott objects "Whoa! Language!".

* ''Ultimate Power'', a crossover between the ComicBook/SupremePower and ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universes. The Squadron Supreme appears at the top of the ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour building and start destroying everything, and speak in a confusing gibberish. Eventually, they manage to speak English again, with the problem being because of the interdimensional travel. Nighthawk blamed Arcanna for it, so she told him transport people across dimensions himself, followed by SymbolSwearing. ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan protested "Hey, whoa, language! I liked it better when you all sounded like Flipper!"

** First Tony Stark says "Shit!" during the fight. Captain America simply says "Language!" This leads to a RunningGag where the rest of the team tease Cap about it.

* ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'': Colossus does this to Deadpool during the former's climactic fight with Angel Dust. Deadpool is less than obliging.

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[[folder:Video games]]

* WebVideo/HonestTrailers: [[Film/Deadpool2016 Deadpool]] (''Captain'' Deadpool) himself shows up in his own Honest Trailer. At one point he starts discussing with the epic voice guy...

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Sailor Mouth", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick learn a word that sounds like a dolphin chirping. Mr. Krabs tells them both not to say it or they'll be in big trouble, as it's apparently a swear word, on a list of thirteen bad words (while there's generally thought to be SevenDirtyWords, Mr. Krabs says that technically there's thirteen, but only a sailor would know the words 8-13.)
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* Taken to a literal extreme in LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}} where in a dystopian future, Japan passed laws banning anything obscene. This includes all forms of swearing, pornography and lewd gestures. Even the correct medical terms for certain... “obscene” anatomies are forbidden!

* Taken to a literal extreme in LightNovel/Shimoenta where in a dystopian future, Japan passed laws banning anything obscene. This includes all forms of swearing, pornography and lewd gestures. Even the correct medical terms for certain... “obscene” anatomies are forbidden!