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A fuckin' good fucked-up demonstration.

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? Fuck yes, we are!

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 "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 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.

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