History UnusualEuphemism / Comicbooks

* During Creator/GeorgePerez's run of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', a reverend asks one of the Amazons how they deal with their libido in [[LadyLand an island without men]]. The Amazon said that some remain fully chaste, while others engage is lesbian activity. Between those groups, there are others who, according to her, "choose the way of Narcissus". Those who know Myth/ClassicalMythology are aware that, according to the Greek legends, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology) Narcissus]] was a young man cursed to fall in love with his own reflected image. Then, an Amazon who chooses his way is one who loves herself, or, using an unusual euphemism of this very wiki, engages in ADateWithRosiePalms.

* The phenomenon of female robots aside, a truly UnusualEuphemism shows up in ''GI Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War'', where [[KidAppealCharacter Bumblebee]] races against [[TheChick Arcee]].

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' often shouts "Stom!", "Grud" and "Drokk!".

** Now that ''2000AD'' (ComicBook/JudgeDredd's parent comic) isn't exclusively aimed at children, real swearing has started to creep in, though it's still peppered with the odd Drokk every now and then for good measure.

* The ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic had a variety of alternate swear words, including "Pain in the klordny", which an editor translated as "neck" when challenged on it. Why "pain in the neck" would need a euphemism was unanswered, and later usage included "get off your klordny"... There was also a completely unexplained "klordny week" holiday/festival... which is probably better not thought about much.
** Most of them are used inconsistently. "Sprock" usually means what it ends like, but "Sprock happens" once appeared. "Grife" appears to be the name of a deity - never used except as a curse. And on occasion, curses from other universes are used (Oh, frak.")

* Lobo's all-purpose curses are "frag" (a real term for killing with shrapnel) and "bastich".

** In a Peter David-penned Hulk series, "flark" was used as a FutureSlang f-bomb; later, Genis's own circle of friends began using it in the present as alien slang. Marvel's cosmic works, such as ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, have characters throw flark-bombs around with wild abandon. ''ComicBook/Rocket2017'' clarifies what "flark" means in the Marvel U - "annoying facial parasite", and that humans are seen as the ones using unusual euphemisms for swearing via things people usually enjoy.
* Averted in ''Comicbook/{{Madman}}'', in which the titular character is unable to curse due to an unknown issue.
* Captain Haddock from ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' used a variety of ''very'' creative oaths, mostly variations on "Blistering barnacles!" and "Thundering typhoons!" There's actually a list of them [[http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html here]]. ("Bashi-bazouks!" "Lubberscum!" "Coelacanth!" "Diplodocus!") The ultimate would probably be "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!"
** or: -in ten thousand thundering typhoons!'

--> '''Elsa:''' What was your superhero name?
--> '''Captain:''' Captain ☠☠☠☠.
--> '''Elsa:''' You're kidding me.
--> '''Captain:''' Nope. I was Captain ☠☠☠☠.
--> '''Elsa:''' Why, for God's sake?
--> '''Captain:''' Hey, I'm from Brooklyn. I'm gonna call myself Mr. Friendly? Hell no. Captain ☠☠☠☠. I met Captain America once. He asked my what my name was.
--> '''Elsa:''' And you said Captain ☠☠☠☠.
--> '''Captain:''' Man he beat seven shades of it out of me. Left me in a dumpster with a bar of soap shoved in my mouth.

-->'''Tramp''': For causing me all that trouble, you're going to sit in the corner while I nap!
-->'''Scamp''': Oh, cat!
* A [[TheFairFolk faerie]] in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' mutters "[[KryptoniteIsEverywhere Iron nails!]]" under his breath. (Which actually is a real life minced oath in Sweden.)
* Another ''2000 AD'' example, ''ComicBook/{{Shakara}}'', features 'frukk', as in "Oh, frukk!" and "Get that frukker!"
* ''ComicStrip/StrontiumDog'' initially used ''Dok'' for {{God}}. When is moved over to ''2000 AD'', it started using the same curses as ''Judge Dredd''. With one notable exception--''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' has "Sneck" as its "Fuck" Equivalent. For the inhabitants of Mega-City One it's "drokk".
* In ''ComicBook/OrcStain'' the eponymous race are rather proud of their gronches.

* During Creator/GeorgePerez run on Comicbook/WonderWoman, a reverend asks one of the Amazons how they deal with their libido in [[OneGenderRace an island without men]]. The Amazon said that some remain fully chaste, while others engage is lesbian activity. Between those groups, there are others who, according to her, "choose the way of Narcissus". Those who know Myth/ClassicalMythology are aware that, according to the Greek legends, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology) Narcissus]] was a young man cursed to fall in love with his own reflected image. Then, an Amazon who chooses his way is one who loves herself, or, using an unusual euphemism of this very wiki, engages in ADateWithRosiePalms.

* In ''ComicBook/OrcStain'' the eponymous race are rather proud of their [[BiggusDickus gronches]].

* Genis, the title character of Creator/PeterDavid's ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' series, used the expletive "grozit". This must be Peter David's personal favorite: it's also used by Catalina (who is from Saturn's moon Titan, just like Genis) in the kid's show ''Series/SpaceCases'', which David co created, and by Mackenzie Calhoun from his ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'' book series.

* One arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' sees the team sent back in time to the 1900's, where Victor falls for a local girl. When they discuss their relationship, and Victor points out that he's already in a relationship with Nico, the other girl demands to know if he thinks she's some "notch-house dove". Naturally, Victor has no idea what the hell that is.

* The ''Comicbook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'' comic had a variety of alternate swear words, including "Pain in the klordny", which an editor translated as "neck" when challenged on it. Why "pain in the neck" would need a euphemism was unanswered, and later usage included "get off your klordny"... There was also a completely unexplained "klordny week" holiday/festival... which is probably better not thought about much.

* A [[TheFairFolk faerie]] in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' mutters "[[KryptoniteIsEverywhere Iron]] [[OurElvesAreBetter nails!]]" under his breath. (Which actually is a real life minced oath in Sweden.)

** In a Peter David-penned Hulk series, "flark" was used as a FutureSlang f-bomb; later, Genis's own circle of friends began using it in the present as alien slang.

* During Creator/GeorgePerez run on Comicbook/WonderWoman, a reverend asks one of the Amazons how they deal with their libido in [[OneGenderRace an island without men]]. The Amazon said that some remain fully chaste, while others engage is lesbian activity. Between those groups, there are others who, according to her, "choose the way of Narcissus". Those who know Myth/ClassicalMythology are aware that, according to the Greek legends, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology) Narcissus]] was a young man cursed to fall in love with his own reflected image. Then, an Amazon who choses his way is one who loves herself, or, using an unusual euphemism of this very wiki, engages in ADateWithRosiePalms.

* In Spain, these are known as "Bruguera insults", a reference to the children's comic book publisher Bruguera, which essentially owned the Spanish market between 1940 and late 1980. The fact that they spent the majority of those years under Francoist rule meant that there always was a censor looking at every single word waiting to be printed, and for them, even GoshDangItToHeck was over the line. Since Spaniards are known for loving their profanities, the writers had to resort to making up words that would pass the filters but would kind of sound like actual insults and curses. "Que me aspen", "retruécanos", "merluzo", "percebe", "batracio", "botarate", "tontaina" and a ridiculously long list were used for those 40+ years, until the company filed for bankrupcy (and still are used in their two surviving series, ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' and ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'', as an homage to their roots, despite publishers nowadays being fine with anything short of a ClusterFBomb).