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Rocco: Fucking... what the fucking... fuck... who the fuck... fuck this... fucking... how did you two fucking fucks... FUCK! Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word. — The Boondock Saints
Elvira: Can't you stop saying "fuck" all the time? — Scarface
Swearing is cool as fuck! Right? Are we fucking right? Fuckin' A!
Fuck, people fucking swear. It's a fucking fact of fucking life. As a result, fucking authors who try to avoid the fuck out of having their fucking characters use harsh fucking language end up sounding pretty fucking silly.
Some of those fuckers, however, go to the fucking opposite extreme. (Or is it the opposite fucking extreme? That's probably a fucking distinction without a fucking difference.) They fucking try to make their fucking dialogue sound fucking "fresh" and fucking "real" by dropping fucking swear words into every other fuckity sentence, or more fucking often, until they use fucking foul fucking language every fucking phrase, whether or not they have the slightest fucking worth of use. This is the fucking Cluster F Bomb: fucking swearing for fuckity swearing's sake, where fucking realism and fucking self-restraint can go fuck themselves. Extreme fucking forms of this type of fucking dialogue can become blatantly fucking unrealistic and quickly de-fucking-sensitize motherfucking audiences, thereby fucking up the entire fucking purpose of fucking swearing.
This is a fucking subjective fuckstick of a trope. The fucking "realism" factor is very fucking context-dependent: fucking obscenities that sound fucking natural coming from a fucking drunken frat boy or a violent-as-fuck Glaswegian would fucking sound completely fucked up coming from a fucking Indiana housewife (although sometimes that's the fucking point). And every fucking fucker will have their own fucking standards for how much cussing is too fucking much.
If these fucking shows or movies get fucking rebroadcast on fucking network TV or even basic fucking cable, expect the offending fucking scenes to be fucking fucked up and fucking edited to within an inch of their fucking lives, mrifking ludicrously redubbed, or ***ing hilariously deafiningly bleeped the f*** out.
Some fucking writers will give a character fucking Tourettes Shitcock Syndrome to fucking justify this. Compare fucking Refuge In Vulgarity, and con-fucking- trast Foreign Cuss Word, fucking Pardon My Klingon, and especially Gosh fucking Dang It To Heck. Just for the fuck of it, see also that other fuckin' wiki .
Notice that if you take a fucking look at most fucking kinds of fucking pornographic fucking literature, you'll find that they also fuck the living fuck out of some of the same words as the Cluster F Bomb. The two fucking phenomena may seem pretty fucking similar, but there's a big fucking difference. Because if you're writing a pornographic fucking text, or in some kind of similar fucking circumstances, you're using "fuck" when you mean actual fucking. (Lady Chatterley's Fucking Lover is a fucking example of this, and not of the Cluster F Bomb version.) On the other fucking hand, some of even the most fucking excessive users of the fucking Cluster F Bomb will tend to use other, milder fucking choices of fucking words for when the fucking characters have actually begun to fucking talk about literal fucking. Some fuckers don't fucking see the fucking distinction, but there is a motherfucking one. The word "fuck" has been a fucking integral part of fucking dirty talk for many fucking centuries before the first fucked-up fucking fucker dropped a fucking Cluster F Bomb.
Fucking compare with Precision Fucking F Strike and fucking Angrish, motherfuckers. Fucking see also Obligatory Fucking Swearing, which sometimes fucking well takes the form of fucking Cluster F Bombs all over the fucking place. If you're looking for that one other word, see Country Matters.
WARNING: This fucking article gratuitously fucks the living fuck out of the fucking F word. Which we probably should have fucking warned you about approximately twenty fucking lines ago. So, uh... if you are offended by the fucking text above, please don't fucking read it, because if you do, we're fucked... Fuck.
Due to the nature of the trope, the following examples will contain swearing. Please do not be a Bluenose.
Even this fucking article has the fucking fuck word over 730 fucking times.
Fuck.
Now divided into fucking separate pages, fuckers:
Other Fucking Examples
Fucking Anime & fucking Manga
- A lot of dubbed anime from Manga UK in the 1990s, such as Cyber City Oedo 808, Angel Cop, and Genocyber did this to garner an R-rating so everyone knew that these animes were not for kids. Given the gorn of Angel Cop and Genocyber, this probably wasn't necessary.
- Episode 12 of Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai contains one of these from a hot dog vendor dressed as Elvis, for no reason other than that it was the "Hollywood" episode.
- Both the English dub and the subtitles for Gantz are filled with foul language.
- The refrain of the second opening song to Death Note "What's Up People" repeatedly uses the word "sucker" and "fucker" in English (though the singer is technically saying Japanese words pronounced oddly, they don't mean anything and the intention is quite obvious). Incomprehensible enough to air on Adult Swim and YTV entirely unedited.
- Creating the odd situation when Adult Swim adds english subtitles to the song. The viewer will clearly hear the lyrics as "Hey hey ningen (human) sucker! Ah ningen ningen fucker!", but the subtitles read "Hey hey subservient humanity!"
- The dub of Black Lagoon, as evident here. (For those playing along at home, they're averaging at over 10 fucks per episode, or 1 fuck every 2.2 minutes.) The original version was like this, as well. And by that I mean the swear words were in English. The other characters cuss their fair share, but Revy herself is by far the most foul-mouthed of all the characters on the show.
- Agito in Air Gear commonly uses the F bomb, even making it his catchphrase.
- Jan Valentine in Hellsing fits this trope perfectly. See here.
- It's also utterly hilarious.
- There's also that teenage vampire in the second episode of the TV series (the male one).
- Given that he's a ridiculously strait-laced military man, you'll probably never hear Sōsuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic! swear... unless, of course, he decides that he needs to go Gunnery Sergeant Hartman on your ass like he did in Fumoffu. If that happens, then prepare to endure every every curse, slur, and swear word ever uttered before he's through with you, you limp-dicked, motherfucking, cocksucking, shit-maggot!
- When asked, Sōsuke reveals that his diatribes come from a guidebook written by Sgt. Melissa Mao. Kaname later wonders if he even knows what the things he's saying actually mean.
- The scene is even funnier in Super Robot Wars W, as Sōsuke is doing it while in Bonta-Kun, with Kaname translating, cursing and all.
- For such a "gentleman", England from Axis Powers Hetalia certainly has one really filthy mouth... Of course, he also had a delinquent period as a pirate. BLOODY FUCKING SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, WHAT WHAT!
- Tony the alien says "FUCKING" in each one of his brief appearances. "FUCKING LIMEY! I'LL KILL YOU FUCKING LIMEY!" "YOUR FUCKING FAULT."
- Hiruma from Eyeshield 21, but only when directly addressing his Fucking Teammates, the Fucking Manager or the Fucking Opponents. Changed to Damn in the official english translation for obvious reasons.
- Kaiji. There's even one scene where all he says is fuck as he kicks the shit out of a table, blowing off steam after giving a manly speech.
- Detroit Metal City. Johan Krauser vs Jack Ill Dark in a Cluster F Bomb duel.
- In a similar vein, one of Krauser's "claims" to fame is the ability to yell "rape" 10 times a second. As a favor to a sick fan, he attempts to push this record Up To Eleven, literally.
- Tayuya from Naruto swears like a pirate with a hangover, as does Hidan of the Akatsuki. Tayuya's foul language was toned down somewhat for the dub. It remains to be seen if the same will apply to Hidan.
- For some reason, this is a general trait applied to American characters in anime. A key example is Commodore Joy Valentine from the Samurai Champloo episode "Baseball Blues". His second line, accompanied with the middle finger, is "Fuck them!", and it doesn't get much better. (In Surprisingly Good English.)
Fucking Comics
- John Constantine is generally fairly vulgar (in a British manner), but Brian Azzarello's run on Hellblazer took it to new heights: One issue had the "F-word" appearing 51 and a half times in a single issue, prompting the then-Director of Production to ask the Publisher, "Is this really necessary?" (For those who care, the one-half was someone screaming, across the top of a panel, "FUUUUUUUUU".)
- Transmetropolitan. Both displayed and referenced. For example, aside from the cuss-laden dialogue, the reader is informed that after the Beast won the last election, Spider Jerusalem attempted to submit an "8,000-word" column... of the word "fuck" written 8,000 times.
- Sam & Twitch, a spin off series of Spawn during the late 1990s had every single page of every single issue absolutely brimming with profanity. This troper remembers reading some fanmail at the back of each issue praising the writers for not swearing just to try to be cool, though I'm sure they were just trying to be ironic.
- Actually, the Cluster F Bomb is dropped in a lot of Bendis's work. The first word in his Marvel series Alias is "Fuck!" and it really sets the fucking tone for the entire fucking series, fuckfaces.
- This is how the fuck Bendis talks in real fucking life. That fuck says fuck all the fucking time.
- In the last (so far) book of Gorsky and Butch, they do a Matrix parody. When they appear in a "blank page", Gorsky launches into a Cluster F Bomb to prove that they are outside the "comix" and no longer bound by its rules.
- In the Nodwick story Krutz, two necromancers need a word of power ("krutz") said more times than they can hope to themselves in any reasonable amount of time. What do they do? Make it a swearword and popularize it overnight.
- Here's an uncencored version of Cyclops dropping the F Bomb... with Brand and Beast following the trend.
Fucking Fan Works
"You bastard! How dare you call me stupid!?" - said by Littlefoot
"You bastards! I hope when Littlefoot, Deimos and his friends rescue me, they kill you first! And I’ll have your fu…" - said by Chomper. Yes, he nearly drops the F-bomb before he gets kicked in the ribs
"You are all assholes! I hope Deimos finds you and rips out your internal organs! And you Ms. Maia, I hope that you get captured and taken to be sentenced by the Great Valley elders; I’ll enjoy seeing your carcass hanging from a tree or lying broken on the outskirts of the Great Valley." - Chomper, again.
Fucking New Media
- From Yahoo Answers:
Renesmee is a *** *** name.
EJ??What the *** is that???
Stupid *** name stupid *** whore.
Its just one *** big *** fan fic piece of ***!!!
- Tod Goldberg fucking seems to fucking write his fucking blog for this fucking purpose.
Pro fucking Wrestling
- Pick an Iron Sheik shoot interview. ANY Iron Sheik shoot interview.
- Professional Wrestler Scott Steiner in WCW regularly went off script and also frequently indulged in gratuitous profanity. On at least one occasion, the censors gave up on trying to bleep out the swear words, and just turned the bleeper on until Steiner stopped talking.
Fucking Theater
- The Firesign Theatre troupe has a very tongue-in-cheek skit on one of their albums describing the "F word" and its various grammatical uses in English. It includes a number of hilarious examples, including "Fuck the fucking fuckers" and "Why don't you go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself?".
- Jerry Springer The Opera, anyone?
- Fucking what? Fucking Jerry fucking Springer fucking opera? Fuck, that's fucked up.
- Most of David Mamet's plays are guaranteed to used the words "asshole," "jagoff," "faggot," "cunt," "shit," and, of course, "fuck" at least once.
- Indeed, Mamet uses this trope so frequently and gratuitously that Roger Ebert's Little Movie Glossary named it "Mamet Dammit."
- The end lines of Lucy's Aria from Threepenny Opera are generally translated quite liberally from the original German and end up being a long line of curses.
Lucy: Ich rette ihm das Leben, und diese Person soll den Rahm abschöpfen?'
Wenn ich dieses Mensch vergifte, dann kann die Welt aufatmen.''
- ? That's no curse in German.
- Bottom Live, took profanity to every major British theatre:
Richie: Eddie, we are not saying "fuck" this year... oh, FUCK!
Eddie: Can we say "Cunt"?
Richie: Very much not...
Eddie: Right! CUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNT!
- And on two other occasions:
Richie: What the fuck happened there!? What the fuck happened there!? I mean, what the fuck happened there!? What the fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck happened there!? I'm not afraid to swear.
- Angels In America has plenty of this from Roy, especially in his first scene.
- "Original Musical" from [title of show]:
Blank Paper/Hunter: You might just be fucking crazy enough to fucking fuckity fuck fuck succeed fucking fucking motherfucker! Jeff: Augh! What's with all the foul language? Is that appropriate or even necessary?
- Niel Simon seems to have an arbitrary love of curse words. He uses them liberally, and, to give one example, in his play "Rumors" he actually used the variation "Fuck-a-diddly doo!"
Fucking Stand-up Comedy
Fucking Tabletop Games
- Changeling the Dreaming's Nockers. Their kithbook outright states that half of their profanity is just a verbal tic, and the other half is the result of frustration. Either way, it makes them the most foul-mouthed of all the kiths, and there isn't any method of permanently keeping them from swearing.
Fucking Toys
- Ever tried to restring a Mini Super Dollfie with tight elastic, minimal tools and no directions? This troper has seen the most angelic old woman ever break out in the kind of unrestrained profanity that would make a sailor blush. Oh, and she's tried to do the same thing, with similar results. ("Fuck fuck fuck fucking fuckity fuck FUCKER... ass!")
Web fucking Animation
- The Season 5 prep-video-thing for Red Vs Blue is a condensed version of all the episodes from Seasons 1 through 4... but only the vulgarity. It starts with 'Whoop-de-fucking-do', and goes downhills from there. Common phrases include- fuck, fucktard, shit, son of a bitch, crap, dick, shisno, bitch, and cockbite. It goes for about 2 and a half minutes.
Fucking Web Comics
Web fucking Original
- The Angry Video Game Nerd. The guy who plays and invented him, James Rolfe, says this was because the first game he reviewed (Castlevania 2) was really hard. He doesn't just swear a lot, he invents compound swears for games he really hates (which is even refenced in his extended theme song: "He's the angriest, most pissed off gaming nerd / The games suck so bad he makes up his own words"). He also tends to use them strangely, in coinages like "this game is ass", or this troper's personal favorite, "it sucks monkey fuck". In one episode, he apologizes for being excessively foul after coining the portmanteau "shizz" (think about it) to describe his hatred of a game.
- While somewhat outddone by his rival (the fuckin' Nerd) The Nostalgia Critic is no joke either. Case in point.
- In Survival of the Fittest version one, Adam Dodd is as famous for this as Jacob Starr is for having too much iron in his blood. There are others, but nobody has quite reached his level of profanity.
- Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation seems incapable of finishing a sentence without using some curse-language along with really complicated words.
- And most of his rants have some sort references female body parts as well.
- The Angry Marines on 4chan's /tg/ board. Most of the anonymous neckbeards posting in their name are apparently trying to outdo the proverbial American GI.
- From The Onion, we have "Sony Releases New Stupid Piece of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work".
- Pick any internet forum ever. This trope is bound to be found in atleast one thread. Hell, a forum this troper goes to has this as a form of humor.
- Hello? Fuck!
- Hotel Fucking Mario
- The classic Onxyia raid wipe
- This fucking page in the TV Tropes Wiki.
- IN CASE YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THE MOTHER FUCKING WEATHER IS LIKE
- Animals. Foodstuffs. Gratitious Profanity.
- Most of MonkeyandApple's humorous videos on Youtube.
- Also at Youtube, THIS "abridged" version of the documentary F*ck (that is it's name). It drops no less than eight hundred F-bombs in just four and a half minutes. Warning: NSFW.
- Lampshaded in this example...
- Internet Radio has no censorship whatsoever. No Holds Barred Radio was one of the pioneers of it and the title is exactly what it is:
"I don't know what the fuck you're talking about; I have a great fucking vocabulary. Fuck just happens to be my favorite fucking word!"
"Fuck you, fuck you again and fuck you three more times just because I feel like it!"
"I'm gonna hang you out the fucking window, saw off your balls with a butter knife; sew them in your mouth and make you whistle dixie you FUCKING FAGGOT!"
- The web RP Insane Cafe 3: The Curse of the Haunted Hotel has Deimos, a Utahraptor with an incredibly foul mouth. Some of his more profanity laced quotes (almost every one of his quotes has one profanity in it):
"Don! If you don't shut the fuck up I am going to pistol whip your fucking ass back to the fucking ruins of the Insane Cafe! Do you fucking understand!?"
"What don't you fucking understand?! Get your fucking asses moving and get some fucking help! Do I fucking make myself clear!?" Deimos shouted.
Fucking Western Animation
- South Park does it purely for laughs, primarily because the characters doing the curses are third-graders. One episode left "the s word" uncensored and featured a counter for how many times it was said. It ended at 162. Oh, and don't forget the movie, which at the time set a record for number of swear words.
- Probably a great deal more if you count all the times it's shown on screen on T-shirts, hats, newspapers...
- Virtually every sentence uttered by Kenny contains the word fuck. Of course his speech is muffled so that the only word you don't have trouble understanding is fuck.
- "What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody! Fuck Fuckity Fuckfuckfuck!"
- And let's not forget Terrance and Phillip's song from the movie: "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle Fucker."
- Surprisingly enough, that was Getting Crap Past The Radar — it was originally "Shut your fucking face, mother fucker", but that would've pushed it over to NC-17. Luckily, Matt and Trey thought that "Uncle fucker" was funnier.
- Not to mention the magnificent Cluster Bitch Bomb that is "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch (In D Minor)".
- The movie is also that rarest of beasts in that there's actually a point to the cluster bombing (that the world's problems will never be solved by overzealous censoring).
- The animated Spawn movie rarely let a sentence go by without using the F-bomb, regardless of whether it made sense or not.
- Depending on who is talking on The Boondocks this can happen, ironically enough by the white people on the show more that the black people (even though the two white people who do so are voiced by Charlie Murphy and Sam Motherfuckin' Jackson himself).
- Also, the rare Cluster S Bomb was done by Tom Dubois, of all people.
- The Oblongs: "How could I have been such a fiddly faddly fool!? Excuse the string of F-words. Subverted, of course.
- A gag on Bromwell High had one of the main characters doing a piece on the sitar for the school's music night. The girl then goes to her friends for commentaries. One of them pulls out an S Bomb, so to speak.
Natella: Well? What did you think? Give me your honest opinion.
Keisha: You were shit. Shitter than shit. You were so shit that it made me want to block up my ears with shit, then eat some shit, and then do a shit.
Natella: Right. Latrina?
Latrina: ... Shit.
- On Drawn Together, the characters toast to freedom of speech ("Fuck yeah!" "It's the shit!"). Captain Hero then rips off his pants and says "I wanna to fuck the head off a fucking pig and then rip its fucking guts out and then fuck its fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck fucky fuck fuck fuck fuck..."
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force gives us pregnant Meatwad.
- There was an episode of Dexter's Laboratory in which Dexter accidentally made evil twins of himself and DeeDee. This episode was only released once, at a panel, because of the maturity of it. Most of the lines in the episode have curses in them.
- Rude Removal. It was shown at at least three panels.
- Animaniacs of all things had a moment where girly Dot burst into a string of (bleeped of course) profanities upon being interrupted one too many times. Yacko proudly says, "That's my sister."
Real fucking Life
- This trope is the reason why you don't, uh, fuck with Christian Bale. Here's some audio proof. This Troper lost count at 35 f-bombs.
- David Jaffe essentially knows no social context, and will sprinkle these into his speech, whether it be on his personal blog, while doing interviews, or appaering on a panel of guests. Most of the time he's not even upset when he says it.
- After the infamous "tuck rule game" (an American Football playoff game decided by a particularly obscure rule), the losing Oakland Raiders were understandably put out. Analysts described the Oakland press conference afterwords as "the Raiders sounded like a truck backing up" (in the US at least, large trucks make loud beeping noises when in reverse).
- Frequently used by comedians, especially Louis CK who is practically a god of obscenity.
- The founder of the Parti Quebecois, Rene Levesque, is famed among other things for being the first person to utter the word "fuck" on television in Canada, as noted by Bowser and Blue in their aforementioned song. "C'était foké."
- Please note that "fuck" in Quebec French is a mild Expletive and an Anglicism. The direct equivalent is... Just pick any of them.
- EGM once noted that, in person, John Madden seems to say "fuck" every other word, and his most impressive power is the ability to stop doing this when he goes on-air. This make explain his sometimes redundant speaking style; he's concentrating too hard on not cussing to say anything informative.
- An amusing now-PG version is recorded in a letter to Abraham Lincoln from a slavery proponent:
God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and good damnation god damn them and god damn your god damned friends to hell.
- Not used by Richard Nixon. Contrary to popular belief, most of the "expletives deleted" were apparently "hell" and "damn", and at the worst "shit".
- Former US Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is notorious for this.
Actual quote to PA Congressman Joe Sestak on the phone: If you fuck this up I will fuck you, I will kill you. All right, I love you. Bye.
- Lampooned by none other than his boss, Barack Obama, [paraphrased] "Rahm is having trouble with this holiday, he's not used to saying the word 'Day' after 'Mother'".
- A bit of controversy erupted when he was chosen to be Obama's Chief of Staff. One reporter on NPR described him in Lewis Black's terms (below) as "using the F word like a comma." Another reporter described a plaque in Emanuel's office as having the text, "The Secretary of ____ Off." (Of course they had to bowdlerize for broadcast, as this was Morning Edition.)
- Eastern New England. The Departed and Stephen King didn't pull it out of their asses, just fucking trust me here.
- Fuck Yeah! For all their vaunted vulgarity, Long Island ain't got fuckin' nuthin' on Rhode Island!
- A bill was recently introduced in the South Carolina legislature to ban profanity. Several blogs have commented on it, and the fucking comments tend to contain quite a fucking variety of fucking dirty words. This Troper is fucking pissed off and thinks the sponsor is a stupid cocksucking son of a bitch who needs to read the motherfucking Constitution, then move to Belgium and silflay hraka. Pardon My Klingon.
- According to comedian Lewis Black, the city of New York uses "fuck" not as a swear word but, in his words, a comma.
- He seems to be very fond of it himself.
- Lee Elia, then-manager of baseball's Chicago Cubs, delivered this tirade at a postgame press conference in 1983, serving up his opinion of the Cub fans who had been booing his woebegotten team. This troper counts 38 F-word iterations along with various other choice profanities.
- The legendary Troggs Tapes. Definitely NSFW)
- Let's be honest with ourselves here, The Aristocrats joke is pretty much built around this trope in about half of its renditions.
- He's here, he's der, he's swearing everywhere, Joe Kin-near, Joe Kin-near! Interim Newcastle United boss Joe Kinnear didn't get on well with the press, to say the least.
- George Carlin had a bit in the seventies about the word itself, where at one point, he launches into a hilariously hostile Cluster F Bomb: "Don't fuck with me you'll get fucked I'm the fucker don't fuck with the fucker!"
- Gordan Ramsey's ingrediants for omlette: 2 fucking eggs, some fucking chives, 1 fucking knob of fucking butter.
Fuckity-bye-bye!
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