History Main / UnusualDysphemism

* It's a RunningGag in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' that [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame all dwarves have]] an AbsurdPhobia regarding trees. As such, it's mentioned at one point that an important meeting between the dwarven clan elders must be held around a huge unbroken table "fashioned from the corpse of a tree" (meaning that the table must be made out of one single big piece of wood).

The opposite of UnusualEuphemism, a character replaces an ordinary phrase with an unnecessarily [[BlackComedy harsh]], obscene, or [[VulgarHumor crude]] one, either as an expression of disrespect or merely for the RuleOfFunny. There are several examples in ordinary usage (see The Other Wiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism examples]]), but this trope is for fictional examples.

The opposite of UnusualEuphemism, a character replaces an ordinary phrase with an unnecessarily [[BlackComedy harsh]], obscene, or [[VulgarHumor crude]] one, either as an expression of disrespect or merely for the RuleOfFunny. There are several examples in ordinary usage, see The Other Wiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism examples,]] but this trope is for particularly imaginative ones.

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* It isn't enough for WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd to simply call a game bad - he has to call it things like "a steaming pile of goat shit" or "a bunch of putrid anal shit coming out of a rhinoceros's asshole."
-->"It fucking sucks, it [[{{Spoonerism}} sucking fucks]], it fucking blows, it's a pile of shit -- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and I didn't like it]]."
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* In English, using the term "body count" as a way of discussing number of sexual partners relies on the listner knowing the other, more common meaning of number of people killed.

* Brazilian Portuguese is also very fond of this trope while associating it with football references. In example, "enrolling Pelé to swimming class" means to defecate, while "went to play on Vasco da Gama" means that someone just died. Of course, MemeticMutation ensues.

* In one of the ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' series books, Creator/RobertAntonWilson makes a RunningGag out of using the names of then-prominent feminists, religious censors and conservative Supreme Court justices as euphemisms for genitals, sex acts and swear words, arguing that they can hardly find their own ''names'' obscene and censorable. A phrase like ''I want to stick my Potter Stewart right up between your Brownmillers" takes on a whole new dfimension.

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-->'''Costello''': Sweetheart, you're givin' me a hard-on...
-->'''Gwen''': Are you sure it's me? Not all that talk about whiffin' and [[TransparentCloset crawlin' up asses]]?

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* Roy Brown's "Butcher Pete" (featured in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'') is about [[CheatingWithTheMilkman Pete being a bold philanderer]], but Brown avoids singing about sex by using ''brutal murder and dismemberment'' as a dysphemism.

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--> "It fucking sucks, it [[{{Spoonerism}} sucking fucks]], it fucking blows, it's a pile of shit -- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and I didn't like it]]."

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-->'''Starfire''': ''(pinning a flower on Robin's lapel)'' I believe on such occasions, it is customary to wear a dead plant?

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-->''[[RapeAsComedy I stuck my dick in the game like a rapist, just call me]] [[RippedFromTheHeadlines Slim Roethlisberger]] -- I go [[GoingPostal berserker than a fed-up post office worker]]!'' [[note]]"When I started rapping it made a huge impact, and I can rap really well!"

* In Japanese, to be "stripped of one's ass hairs" (ケツの穴の毛までむしり取る) means a person's been fleeced.[[note]]That is to say, a person has swindled so much from their mark that they could take everything of value on the poor sucker, right down to the body hair.

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* In Japanese, to be "stripped of one's ass hairs" (ケツの穴の毛までむしり取る) means a person's been fleeced.[[note]]That is to say, a person has swindled so much from their mark that they could take everything of value on the poor sucker, right down to the body hair.[[/note]]

-->''[[RapeAsComedy I stuck my dick in the game like a rapist, just call me]] [[RippedFromTheHeadlines Slim Roethlisberger]] -- I go [[GoingPostal berserker than a fed-up post office worker]]!''

* When Music/{{Eminem}} isn't just rapping full {{Horrorcore}} in character as Slim Shady, he tends to use Slim's typical murdering, drug-abusing and raping obsessions as elaborate dysphemisms for being really good at rapping. ''Music/{{Recovery}}'' in particular is full of this, being an album revolving more about BoastfulRap cuts from the Eminem persona than about Slim, but being no less vulgar or disgusting than his older output.

* In ''Literature/TheSpiralWars'', the way [[KillerRobot Hacksaws]] process information (preferring transmitted data to their actual senses) is compared to the way Autistic people used to think [[UnfortunateImplications before being genetically engineered out of existence.]] The characters then proceed to refer to any airgapped [[note]] not being able to transmit or receive signals)[[/note]]technology as Autistic, despite that being almost the exact opposite of the original sense they used it in.

The opposite of UnusualEuphemism, a character replaces an ordinary phrase with an unnecessarily [[BlackComedy harsh]], obscene, or [[VulgarHumor crude]] one, either as an expression of disrespect or merely for the RuleOfFunny. There are several examples in ordinary usage, see The Other Wiki for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism examples]], but this trope is for particularly imaginative ones.

* In one of the ''Literature/{{{Illuminatus}}'' series books, Creator/RobertAntonWilson makes a RunningGag out of using the names of then-prominent feminists, religious censors and conservative Supreme Court justices as euphemisms for genitals, sex acts and swear words, arguing that they can hardly find their own ''names'' obscene and censorable. A phrase like ''I want to stick my Potter Stewart right up between your Brownmillers" takes on a whole new dfimension.

* On the website Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom and the production based on its culture, ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'', Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} is nicknamed "The Armenian Genocide" due to the fact that a lot of arguments have focused on the fact that it is often subject to vandalism by ultranationalist trolls on that issue. This has in turn led to further Unusual Dysphemisms such as "genocide" being used as a substitute for any and every other verb when describing a news story involving Armenians.

TruthInTelevision for members of high-stress professions like emergency medicine, police work, fire fighting, and other first responders. Medical slang in particular is loaded with harsh terms that patients might find offensive and inappropriate, though doctors and staff claim that BlackComedy helps them to cope with the reality of their jobs.

* Roy Brown's "Butcher Pete" (featured in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'') is about [[CheatingWithTheMilkman Pete being a bold philanderer]], but Brown [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar avoids singing about sex]] by using ''brutal murder and dismemberment'' as a dysphemism.