History Main / RuderAndCruder

* ''Conker'' started out as a family-friendly franchise. Conker first appeared as a racer in ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'' and had a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor game called ''Conker's Pocket Tales'', both of these games being E-rated. Conker was also planned to have his own UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 game, ''VideoGame/TwelveTalesConker64''. However, when critics were accusing Rareware of making games for little children, Rareware scrapped the game and retooled it into ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', which was aimed at mature audiences. It uses tons of profanity to distance itself from ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. Its remake, ''VideoGame/ConkerLiveAndReloaded'' used even more profanity for the multiplayer maps, although it's censored until the player completes the campaign mode.

* ''ComicStrip/MigraineBoy'' is an Emo/Grunge comic strip that became famous worldwide thanks to a Creator/{{MTV}}-produced series of 30-second shorts that aired around the end of TheNineties. At the TurnOfTheMillennium, however, a Chilean DarkParody of ''Migraine Boy'' was made as an UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash web animation that had more swearing, {{Gorn}}, and SexComedy. Yet it was also ''funnier'' than the original shorts, which led it to become a CultClassic in its native Chile.

* Though ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' is generally aimed at younger children, the 1995 live-action movie ''Film/{{Casper}}'' is rated PG for including ToiletHumor and swearing such as "hell," "damn," "piss off" and even "bitch." You wouldn't be alone in thinking it worthy of a PG-13 rating.

* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' is a slightly DarkerAndEdgier version of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' - a show aimed at children, while the film is PG-13. Jason says "bullshit", Kimberly says "crap" and Trini says "shit" at one point.
* Downplayed in the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles''. The books were aimed at a younger audience, but the film was PG and contained uses of the words 'hell' and 'dammit'.

* While ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has always been a very vulgar show, harsher swears like "fuck" and "shit" were used less frequently in the first three seasons than they are now.

* While every ''Franchise/XMen'' film starting with ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' has at least one PrecisionFStrike, it is not the case with ''Film/{{Logan}}'', which is not only the [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest]] and [[BloodierAndGorier most violent]] ''X-Men'' film to date, but also the most profane (outside of the ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' [[Film/Deadpool2 movies]]), with about 55 usages of the F-word.

* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' started out devoid of profanity of any sort like most comics that originated in the 1960s and in most subsequent iterations didn't use any swears stronger than "crap", "damn", "hell" or "ass". This changed in Creator/GrantMorrison, Rachel Pollack and Gerard Way's runs, which were explicitly labeled as being for mature readers and in accordance featured frequent utterances of words like "fuck" and "shit".

** Just like in their original canon, the characters from ''ComicBook/{{Katmandu}}'' doesn't swear anything more offensive beyond "crap" or "damn", including changing [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness some incongruent earlier scenes from the comic]] when either Liska, Flint or Markree used "bitch" in a setting with no canines, anthropomorphic or otherwise, appears, being replaced with either "whore" or "harlot" instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' take place in the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'', but feature mild to moderate profanity (i.e. "ass", "damn", "hell", "crap", "shit", "goddamn", "dick") and sexual situations (Harley and Nightwing have sex), neither of which were present in the other films and animated series in the ''DCAU''.

* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' has Evelyn Deavor use mild profanity -- mostly "damn," "hell," "crap," and "sucked" -- when [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1 the original]] had none. In fact, at the time of its release, ''Incredibles 2'' was the ''only'' Creator/{{Pixar}} film to contain ''any'' profanity stronger than "hell." Mr. Incredible also gives a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' using a "crap" in the same film.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOnTheRun'': The movie stands out from the previous two, given that they get away with [=SpongeBob=] actually using the mild swear word "crappy" twice, and they did not bother to censor it with dolphin chirps. Squidward also says "freakin'" at one point.

* ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' has usage of mild profanity and sexual slang ranging from "whoopass", "crap" and "biatch". Mild as that is, it's still far more than the squeaky-clean cartoon that inspired it.

* WWE as a whole during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra of TheNineties. Wrestling had historically been family-friendly, and the early to mid 90s was even one of the lightest periods in the company's history. It's telling that the era is recognised as beginning with a PrecisionFStrike in a Stone Cold promo ("Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass"). Although in spite of this, really offensive curse words wouldn't be used too often; mostly 'bitch', 'ass', 'crap' etc. If proper F-bombs were used, they were normally bleeped out. Around the late 2000s, WWE went the opposite direction until eventually it switched to PG.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had "Rude Removal", in which Dexter and Dee-Dee are [[LiteralSplitPersonality split into their good and evil sides]], with the latter [[ClusterFBomb swearing roughly every five seconds]]. After being shown at the World Animation Celebration in 1998, it was {{banned|Episode}} until Creator/AdultSwim broadcast it in 2013. This is an [[InvertedTrope inverted]] case though, as "Rude Removal" was the pilot episode, and except for an utterance of "crap" in an early episode, the rest of the series has no swearing at all.

* The ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'' franchise: Not only did they not swear in ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'' and ''Series/DegrassiHigh'', but they invented epithets such as "narbo" and "broomhead" for characters to hurl at each other. In ''[[Film/DegrassiSchoolsOut School's Out]'', the post-high school graduation TVMovie finale for ''Degrassi High'', they say "shit" and "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]", [[MemeticMutation most notably]] when Caitlin finds out Joey cheated on her with Tessa: "You were fucking Tessa Campanelli?"

* ''Fanfic/LiberiFatalisTheTherianthropeChronicles'' features stronger profanities than those used in the three franchises that appear in the fic: '' ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'', ''ComicBook/{{Katmandu}}'' and ''VideoGame/AceCombat''. Still, how this is handled varies depending of the setting or the species of the characters:

* * ''Literature/TheShipWho'' is a short series where every entry is co-written with Creator/AnneMcCaffrey and a different author and is largely independent of the other entries, though callbacks abound. ''The City Who Fought'', written with Creator/SMStirling, is the longest, darkest, and most sexually explicit. Notably, while the book that preceded it, ''The Ship Who Searched'', had characters say "decom" for "damn" and a hard-bitten military character said "heck", ''The City Who Fought'' has people constantly call Channa a bitch or a slut, which she resents and resolutely tries to ignore. Much of the cast often says "Oh my Ghu!" for playful expressions of surprise, but they switch to "God" when things are more serious.

* In a case of DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch, both the Japanese version of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' and ''Manga/PokemonZensho'' anime have Lt. Surge saying "dammit" in English. To Japanese ears this is just an American stereotype, but the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series otherwise doesn't feature profanity until ''Film/DetectivePikachu''.

* Creator/BrianDePalma's ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' was one of, if not ''the'', most profanity-laced films of its time, and its popularity and acclaim [[TropeCodifier helped to normalize the use of frequent profanity in film]].
* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' has usage of mild profanity and sexual slang ranging from "whoopass", "crap" and "biatch". Mild as that is, it's still far more than the squeaky-clean cartoon that inspired it.

* The works of one WebVideo/DevilArtemis are quite possibly the raunchiest pieces of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' media ever produced, containing many overt drug references and CampGay stereotypes.

* In a case of DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch, both the Japanese version of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' and ''Manga/PokemonZensho'' anime have Lt. Surge saying "dammit" in English. To Japanese ears this is just an American stereotype, but the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series otherwise doesn't feature profanity until ''Detective Pikachu''.

->''"''Ruler's Reach 2 - ''now with more swears!"''

* ''[[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark Alone in the Dark (2008)]]'' is much more profane than to previous games in its franchise, as it transforms the protagonist from a [[BlatantLies quiet]], [[TheEveryman unassuming individual]] into a foul-mouthed and angry AmnesiacHero.

* ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' uses moderate to severe profanity compared to the first game, and the trend continued into ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' and ''VideoGame/JakX''.

* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', on top of being DarkerAndEdgier than the video game series, features lots of profanities including many f-words.

* Continuing the trend set by the ''Star Wars'' sequel trilogy, ''Series/{{Andor}}'' features the first use of the word "shit" in the franchise.

* Music/TaylorSwift started as a squeaky clean country artist but [https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F0nsioik8tcv91.png%3Fwidth%3D960%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D438ae905077c3d8ab6cfc5639166d53e04b21311[ has gradually included more profanities in her albums]].