- Avatar: The Abridged Series
- Sokka says, "Oh, for the love of Aang!"
- And in another video, Aang himself uses "Sweet me!"
- Embers (Vathara) uses "Tui and La" "Agni" and Spirits" as gods, plus the phrase "to Koh's lair in a handbasket" and "Guanyin's merciful veil."
- In The Amazing Spider-Luz in: Across the Owl-Verse!: Oddly enough, a number of characters from the Demon Realm have invoked the names and aliases of various entities from the Cthulhu Mythos in casual conversation as curse words. Meanwhile, Vee invokes the name of The One Above All after meeting Hooty for the first time and asking what he is.
- Ben 10: Reincario: Lucario swears by Arceus a few times.
- BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: Characters swear by multiple unnamed gods, often saying "Godsdammit" or "For the love of the gods" to name a couple examples.
- The Bridge: The Equestrians swear by the names of the creators of the MLP franchise, while the kaiju swear by the names of the creators of the Godzilla franchise. Non-Godzilla kaiju swear by their own creators instead ("Yuasa damn it", "By Tsuburaya!", etc.).
- Additionally, kaiju created by Toho Studios use "Daiei" as an equivalent to "Hell". The Daiei Studios kaiju use "Toho" instead, referencing the long history of Dueling Works between the two.
- Child of the Storm has Harry, who has recently discovered that his father was the mortal incarnation of The Mighty Thor, trying to figure who to swear by (or possibly at) as a Running Gag.
- Dire Fates
, a John Constantine/Ah! My Goddess crossover, has John use the usually mild oath of "Friggin'" while touring a rather Nordic Heaven. Unfortunately he forgot that Frigga/Frigg was Odin's wife... - Hunters of Justice: The people of Remnant swear by the Brother Gods, though the author does slip up a few times and have them swear by a singular god.
- The Infinite Loops
- The framing device involves Yggdrasil, the great world tree super computer, being broken for some reason. As such, characters tend to use tree-based swears: "Twigs and branches" as an emphasizing term, "Oh oak/ash/birch!" replacing Oh My God, "Chlorophyll" as a casual cuss... some of the more educated get inventive with phrases like "By the rotting eternities!" or "Yggdrasil's gnarled branches!" This trend started in the The MLP Loops and spread like wildfire; a minor joke is characters occasionally taking up deforestation.
- The setting also lends itself well to "Oh my <Insert Real-World Deity Here>" jokes, since real pantheons are used to to make up the Administrators in charge of fixing the place. Occasionally the infamous punishment loop known as Eiken will be used as a replacement for Hell, but only in the sense of being a location to be damned to.
- Discussed in the DDLC Loops, wherein Yuri suggests using "by Monika's tits" as a swear. It doesn't catch on.
- Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: Because the Two Brothers are the dominant religion on Remnant, some characters use "Brothers", "Dust", or "gods" as part of their expressions. Jaune in particular uses the phrase "Oh Dust and Grimm" twice in the story.
- Kedabory's Muppet Mania: During Seraphina's episode, she substitutes the phrase "Pray to God" in the song "How to Save a Life" for "Pray to Gwen", referring to the ruler of her kingdom, Queen Gwendolyn.
- My Huntsman Academia: The default exclamation of surprise is "Gods!" in reverence of the brother gods of Remnant's creation myth.
- The Night Unfurls: Occasionally used by the characters. Examples include "Goddess" (invoking Celestine's status as God-Emperor), "Gods above..." (because monotheism is not present) or simply "Gods...".
- The Prayer Warriors: Jerry once says "Oh my", when learning that Michael and his friends have been captured by Dirty Communists. Later on, Harry says "Oh my fucking Satan."
- Remnant Inferis: DOOM: The Brother gods are worshiped on Remnant, and many people refer to them in this manner when shit goes sideways.
- Roller Brawl: The Mega Cyborg: Roller Brawl, being a Skylander, often swears by the Ancients, The Maker beings of Skylands, saying things like "By the Ancients!" or "For the love of Ancients!".
- A Song of Silk and Saplings: Quite common among Bugarian citizens, often in reference to the "Three Goddesses", one of whom is implied to be Venus. Being from Hallownest, Hornet is fond of saying "Void's Embrace" and "Oh My Wyrm", and in one particular example "father dammit".
- Thousand Shinji: Being followers of the Chaos Gods, Shinji, Asuka and Rei swear by them on several occasions. In chapter 14 Shinji moans "Oh, fucking Tzeentch" and in chapter 13 Asuka exclaims "Sweet Khorne!" as she and Shinji are making out.
- Transformers: MHA: The Cybertronians tend to use "Primus" instead of 'god', and use "Sweet Solus Prime!" or "Trion's beard!" as swearing.
- Wander over Foster's AU One-Shot (Wander over Yonder, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends): Wander uses the term "Oh my grop".
- In Power Girl fanfic A Force of Four, the Amazons are prone to swear by their own deities.Fury: What in Tartarus is that?
- Kara of Rokyn: Utterances such like "Oh, Rao" and "Father Sun and Mother Moon" are everyday Rokynian swears.
- In Superman and Man fic, Superman swaps bodies with a real world person. When he lets slip a Kryptonian’s swearword, it prompts him a bemused stare from his host's wife."Holy sun. Of Krypton," he sighed.
Dana looked at him. "Why'd you say that, Chris? Sure, he came from Krypton, but did you really think he was a Christ figure?"
"No," he said, with effort. "Sun. Star. On Krypton. Some saw. As God symbol."
"Was that in the comic books?"
Speaking as much as he did tired him. The machine inflated, deflated his lungs.
"Yes," he said. "In comic. Books." - In Superman story Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation, Alan Kent exclaims "Rao's flames!" at one point.
- In Holy Mavis, the titular First Master works to defy this common Fanon, annoyed that her name is being used as a swear like she is a deity and especially when people cry it out during sex. She tells her guild that the next person to use it as a swear will be cursed with diarrhea for a week, while anyone that cries it out in bed won't have sex for months on end.
- The Death Eaters' Disney World Trip: Expressions used by Voldemort and his Death Eaters (and their allies) include "Oh my Grinde[l]wald!" and "What the Order of the Phoenix".
- My Immortal: Pseudo-Satanist Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and her friend Willow often use "Oh my Satan" as an exclamation, usually followed by something along the lines of "geddit koz were goffik" put in an author's note. The very last chapter has Pr. Slutborn say "Oh my goth", also followed by a geddit and a reminder that the author is in fact gothic.
- A Very Potter Musical uses this twice, with "Oh my wizard gods!" and later "Oh my Rowling!".
- HZD Terraforming Base-001 Text Communications Network: References to the All-Mother are common in Nora culture; Varl often swears "All-Mother's mercy" or "All-Mother's eyes." In fact, the first coherent thing he says in the chat, after being exasperated with being unable to spell even the simplest of words, is "ALL-MOTHER'S TITS."Aloy: Sure, THAT got through fine.
- In For the Glory of Irk, Irkens worship a pantheon made up of Kaiju licensed to Toho. While Rodan and Ghidorah get name-dropped on occasion, the one whom they swear by most frequently is Mothra, who appears to be their Top Goddess.
- In Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion, Zim occasionally swears by someone or something called "the Broodmother".
- In Surface Tension, Zora swear to their god Jabu Jabu. At one point Ruto profanes with "Jabu Jabu's balls", which is the strongest oath she knows of.
- As he burns alive in the oneshot Burn, Link screams "Farore" in pain repeatedly. Before passing out from the shock he says "Farore will take me if I'm ready".
- In The Legend of the Princess, Hyruleans swear to the Three Goddesses and Hylia. "Blessed Nayru" gets repeated most often.
- The Legend of Zelda: Paradise Calling: Din, Nayru and Farore are all used this way several times each.
- When the Brush hits the Canvas: Link alternates between swearing on Din, Nayru, and Farore depending on the situation. He rarely ever swears on all three at once though.
- In The Female of the Species, characters refer to the past kings (rather than their God, the Great Spirit). For example, Uru says "Great Kings bless them" and at one point Sarafina uses "Oh Kings (...)".
- In If I’m evil, and you’re evil, then who’s stopping Hawkmoth?, Plagg lets one out when he realized that both Adrien and Gabriel are Oblivious to Love. Though since Plagg is a God of Destruction, he says "Oh my me!"
Miscellaneous
- Aviva Rothschild
- Used mostly by the Fans in With Strings Attached. The various C'hovites only occasionally refer to their gods, and always by way of example, not as an invocation (e.g., when Stal formally greets the four, he speaks of how even the god Dalns couldn't be more welcoming). The Hunter occasionally swears by the Great God Indle, which must give Jeft a hard-on.
- In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, many outworlders swear this way, such as the Terrible Trio (whose gods are apparently the members and manager of Dethklok). Conversely, the G'heddi'onians don't mention gods but say such things as "By all that's good," or "by all that's evil.
- In Chasing the Rainbow, ponies worship rainbows and use sayings like "Thank the Rainbow".
- Dead or Alive 4: The Devil Factor: Ayane and Kasumi exclaim "Oh, Kami!" or "Thank Kami!" at various points. Of course, "Kami" is Japanese for "God." Ayane even explicitly exclaims "Oh, Gods!" during chapter 4.
- Empath: The Luckiest Smurf.
- "Great Ancestors" is a common Catchphrase of Empath and the Psyches.
- Empath's friend Tapper uses "Great Smurfiny Crickets" and "Blessed smurfs of Éire".
- And Papa Smurf's would be "Great Smurfness" or "Great Smurfs Of Fire" just like in the cartoon show.
- Farmer's is "Sweet mother of Smurf".
- Nat Smurfling's is "Holy hickory nuts", a variant of his usual insult to his fellow Smurflings in the cartoon show. He also swears by Mother Nature.
- Painter once used "Cre vingt schtroumpfs" ("Twenty sacred smurfs" in French), which is Farmer's Catchphrase in the original French comics.
- Fire Emblem Awakening: Invisible Ties: In chapter 3, Chrom remarks "Thank Naga" when he sees that the Risen haven't reached Ylisstol.
- A Growing Affection: Naruto says 'oh my gods' or 'thank the gods'. He actually meets one, who basically confirms there are multiple deities.
- In the Splatoon fic Her Fractured Spirit characters do say "oh my god" but they also use phrases like "thank the ancestors" and "oh my cod" (with the latter coming from the games).
- Magna Clades has the Crystal Gems cry out, "Oh my Goddess!"
- In Naruto Veangance Revelaitons, the author is so anti-religion that he once has his Author Avatar scold Sakura for saying "omg", adding that the brainwashing that turned her into a Christian has worn off, and prefers to use "Oh my Dawkins" instead.
- Single Parents Night: Amy asks Knuckles to pray over a newborn Cream. He prays to Chaos.
- Since Warriors of the World is Norse-influenced, many of the characters swear by Odin, Thor and Tyr if they're not swearing by the Catholic God. Morrocians appear to swear by Egyptian gods as well.
- One character in Winter War swears by the King of Heaven.
- She is not like this in canon, but in You Got HaruhiRolled!, Kyouko swears by Sasaki's name, even though she's one of Sasaki's friends. It's Played for Laughs to make fun of her canonical motivation of taking Haruhi's Reality Warper powers and giving them to Sasaki. Leading to this hilarious outburst:Kyouko: OH, MERCIFUL SASAKI, I'VE KILLED HIM! note
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Fanfics typically use Princess Celestia's name where real-life swearing would use "God", following the show's habit of doing the same. It's also common to use "Faust" for this purpose, after the show's original creator Lauren Faust.
- Chemistry: Twilight Sparkle uses "Faust" in place of "God".
- Clair de Lune: It's stated that ponies used to invoke Luna's name, as well as her sister Celestia's. After Luna was banished, people only began invoking Celestia's.
- Contraptionology!: The characters swear by the usual set of Equestrian aphorisms, such as "Celestiaspeed" and, on one occasion, "Celestia's flaming dugs!"
- Fallout: Equestria:
- Littlepip possesses a very extensive and inventive vocabulary of expletives involving various parts of the royal princesses' anatomies and their uses in specific sexual acts. This has been observed by many, including Celestia herself, who was very impressed.
- Xenith doesn't swear much, but when she does, there are usually references to the stars, which zebras believe are evil.Xenith: By the ballsacks of a thousand star-devils! Who just dropped the moon on us?
- In "The Daily Unlife", one of the (many) spinoff stories written by other people in the Fallout Equestria setting, the main character consistently used Discord, the local Spirit of Chaos, as focus for several body-part related swears instead. According to the author, "because Littlepip already claimed Celestia"
- How the Tantabus Parses Sleep: Sunset takes back a "thank Celestia" to exchange it for a "thank Luna" because invoking her in dream-related business is more fitting.
- Jericho (MLP) both averts this trope and plays it straight.
- The aversion is justified by the fact the narrator is a foreigner. Jericho swears by numerous names for God —- such as the "Allfather", "Adonai", and the "Lord" -— but very often curses via Hell or just plain ol' God (which his fellow ponies note as being weird). However, because the religion of Jericho and that of his country, Confessionism is a weird mix of Islam, vague paternal ancestor worship, Christianity, technology worship, and Norse Mythology, he also subverts the aversion by swearing by strange terms, such as the "Maschinengeist" (Machine Spirit), the "Archangel Thor", "Gevatter Tod" (Godfather Death); the "face of my/his/your/thy father"; the Queen of Graves for the Devil; and he also swears by the e Jesus/Mohammad prophet figure of his faith, the "Mare Laurentia".
- Generally, the rest of the ponies in Jericho, who are Equestrians, play this trope straight. Although, they swear sometimes by other things, such as the Fiddler on the Green (often saying "Fiddler play thee" instead of "Go to hell"), who is a sort of semi-friendly Grim Reaper. Amusingly, somepony notes to Jericho that because of this, the exclamation "Fiddlesticks!" is actually a dangerous invocation of the Reaper of Souls. There was also a bit in which the term "Nightmare-Moon-may-care" was used instead of "Devil-may-care". At one point, when an Equestrian mentioned "to hell" and "a Deal with the Devil" and Jericho asked them about it, they expressed surprise that Jericho applied religious meanings to the terms; to Equestrians, such terms are merely Stock Phrases without any deeper meaning.
- Long Road to Friendship: Sunset, being from the pony world, swears by the name of Princess Celestia. Except she's stuck in the human world, where Celestia is a mortal principal.Sunset: Thank Celestia!
Twilight: That's still weird to me. - The MLP Loops:
- Celestia asks Twilight (and by extension everyone else) to stop this, since the mechanics of the setting means that she's not nearly as superior to everyone else as she seems. When asked what they should swear on instead, she suggests trees. It takes.
- Some of the others (most notably Rainbow Dash) swear "Oh, me" after they get a loop as one of the gods of Equestria.
- Since Cadance is the local Love Goddess and changelings feed on love, Chrysalis asks if she can start a religion and be the High Priest. After Cadance agrees, Chrysalis can often be heard swearing by her name.
- The Non-Bronyverse: Twilight at one point plays this a bit strangely, by instead pointing at Celestia (who's standing with them in the room) instead of invoking her name.
- The Palaververse: Over the stories, Gellert swears by the Simurgh (a mythical bird from east and central Asian folklore, and a griffon folk heroine in-universe), Fire Queen Talon by Stygia, and Alpha Rex of the diamond dogs by Vánagandr (an alternate name for Fenris).
- Pony POV Series:
- This is used, but has an interesting case with Celestia and Luna themselves. Being the deities that everypony else does this with, they use "by our mother and father!" instead.
- Similarly, the Draconequi (Discord and his siblings) swear by their own parents, usually their mother Entropy, who they also call Mother End-Of-All-Things.
- Filthy Rich/Onyx Tiara swears by Cadence, since he respects her for trying to cure his wife's insanity and hates Celestia and Luna for not doing the same.
- The Changelings swear by their great ancestor Rosedust.
- The Powers of Harmony: In addition to the usual swearing by Celestia, the residents of the Zhevra Flatlands tend to invoke their patron saint Hakumbele, while dragons swear by their progenitor Io.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse has the usual positive invocation of Princess Luna, but much more common (and noticeable) is the negative invocation of Corona's sun. Nearly every curse in this setting is something along the lines of "Gone to the sun", "Go burn in the sun", or "Sun blind you".
- It's implied in The Royal Sketchbook that Twilight called out "Celestia" during sex with her then-girlfriend and eventual wife Luna. Luna, being Celestia's sister, didn't take it lightly. It's mentioned that the fight almost wrecked their relationship.
- Six Brides For Two Sisters has one pony yell out '[B]y Celestia's perky nipples, don't stop!' to her girlfriend. While they were demonstrating marital techniques. To Celestia and Luna. Luna then just stares at Celestia until she realises what's going on. 'Don’t even ask, Luna. I don’t understand why our subjects invoke them, regardless of relative perkiness.'
- There is a fan of the show who posts parody reviews of the show on the RPGnet forums under the name sun_tzu, and frequently has Twilight refer to Celestia as "Her Momjesty" due to the apparent surrogate mother/daughter relationship between the two. Quite naturally this led to the reviewer having Twilight, upon getting upset with Spike, declare: "Momdamnit, Spike!". Not to mention once having Celestia go: "What in the name of me is going on here?"
- Triptych Continuum:
- Played for Drama. As in most pony fics, the ponies of Equestria swear by, and even pray to, the Princesses (including Twilight, within weeks of her ascension). But the Princesses are not gods. They are powerful, but they have no special ability to hear or answer prayers, and millennia of Unwanted False Faith has taken a serious toll on the Diarchs.
- At one particularly tense moment in Triptych, Twilight swears an oath upon Discord's antler. The person to whom she's swearing pauses to note that he has never heard of someone doing that before.
- Celestia and Princess Luna themselves swear by "Sun's flares" and "Moon's craters", respectively.
- Ultra Fast Pony:
- Rainbow Dash combines this trope with Valley Girl-speak: her default exclamation is "O.M.C.!" (standing for Oh My Celestia).
- In "Mob Wars", Applejack exclaims, "I swear to god... Do we even have gods in Equestria? But I swear..."
- Under the Northern Lights has Twilight swear by Celestia's socks. In another scene, Luna admonishes a swearing pony for "taking my name in vain" by swearing by the Mare in the Moon while she is standing right next to him. The temple-fawn Saga swears "oh my goddess" — the goddess in case being Luna.
- At least one fanfic has Rainbow Dash swearing by Celestia's left flank, shortly followed by Celestia, previously unseen, actually commenting that she's never heard that one before.
- Ships Ahoy!: Although "God" and "Lord" are seen a couple times in the story, swearing on a jackalope ("what in jackalope's name") or using "odd" as a Pun ("for odd's sake") are more commonly used by Odd Squad agents.
- The same applies for its sequel, Opalescent, which also contains both aforementioned instances of the trope.
- Coby's Choice: Goda, the Author of Fate (an obvious reference to One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda), is an In-Universe god, and when people feel the need, they invoke his name. The sole exception to this to date is the Klabautermann of the Flying Dutchman, who invokes the name of Calypso instead.
- Luz Clawthorne: Starting with the series' 101st chapter, Luz starts using the term, "Titan's crack", when things get hectic or spiral beyond her capabilities. Other characters take to saying later on, with King (an actual Titan) even saying "my dad's crack" once he learns what he really is.
- Guys Being Dudes: At one point, Blanche swears to "whatever is listening".
- SOSchip has the so-called "swear of AUF"- AUF standing for "Arceus' unholy flank". note With the exception of "Family Matters," every chapter featuring the Absent Coder has had him use the expression at one point or another. It's so pervasive that him using it after realizing he's been turned into a Pokemon in "A Coder on Board" almost causes oghond to recognize him. Almost, as him using his Catchphrase, "pride yourself", is what truly invokes Something Only They Would Say.
- The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon in Unova is a particularly egregious example, with a wide variety of often-alliterative curses relating (sort of) to various legendary pokemon being made, such as Palkia's Plectrum, Mew's Splaunch and Darkrai's saggy left-, among others. The author was informed that these often detracted from the drama of an otherwise-serious scene, leading to the use of more "normal" swears later on.
- Team Rocket Roots:
- James has the line "Holy Moltres".
- Cassidy's mother exclaims "By Zapdos' flashes".
Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: Somebody makes a comment about Rule 1875, which bans making jokes capable of standing on their own under punishment of getting your arms cut off, that replaces "God" with "Steve Irwin" ("OH STEVE IRWIN MY ARMS"). The next rule bans swearing on Steve Irwin and threatens cutting off the arms of anyone who does it, only for (presumably) the same commentor to switch to Winston Churchill.OH WINSTON CHURCHILL MY OTHER ARMS.
- Who characters exclaim to in RWBY: Scars depends on their religious beliefs. Overall, characters either worship the Two Brothers or Dust, so they usually say "Brothers..." or "Dust...".
- Little Hands, Big Attitude: Silver outright exclaims "oh my gods!", and shortly afterwards asks Sonic "what in Pele's Crown" is going on.
- Pearl in I've Got Your Back frequently uses "Oh my cod" as a substitute for "Oh my God", and sometimes invokes the name of the Great Zapfish for these purposes, too.
- Bait and Switch (STO):
- The main character is Bajoran and uses "Prophets" where a human would say "God".
- In chapter nine Tess takes the name of "Phelha" in vain. The author's notes for the chapter explain her as an Andorian war goddess, but that Tess herself is actually agnostic so it really is the Andorian equivalent of "Oh my god".
- Played for Laughs in the Star Trek: Voyager Parody Fic Confessions of a Talking Pig."Oh Kahless!" [B'Elanna] screamed. "Oh Omega Molecule!" Seven screamed. "Oh Coffee Beans!" Janeway screamed.
- In the Atom Punk Parody Fic Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space, Captain Proton swears by the Great Calculator, the Master Computer that controls everything. An Action Girl swears "By the City-Devouring Demon of Nuclear Fire!", while Buster gives the curse "Crackling Geiger Counters!" The Martian TuMok exclaims, "Dust storms of Mars!" or "Ghosts of Mars!"—the latter "invoking the curse of the dreadful John Carpenter movie.''
- In Rocketship Voyager, the crew swear by L. Ron Hubbard as Scientology is the dominant religion on Earth, and say "Go to Manhattan" instead of "Go to Hell" as Manhattan Island is now a radioactive crater. On seeing Streaming Stars when they travel faster-than-light for the first time, Tom Paris exclaims: "By the Twelve Moons of Jupiter!"
- The original game has already the Yoba religion, so the Game Mod Stardew Valley Expanded expands upon this, with characters exclaiming "Oh Yoba!" or "In Yoba's name!".
- In Ridgeside Village Lenny claims that teasing Lewis is her "Yoba's given right as his older sister".
- In this fan-run Star Wars RPG (set about 155 years after the events of Return of the Jedi), one of the player characters is fond of using creative swears like this, even exclaiming, "Vader H. Sith'ari!" (Appropriately enough, given the backstory of the figure he's swearing by.)
- In Precipice, characters typically say "By the Force" when things go awry and Padme at one point says "Hells".
- In Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion Tarkin repeatedly uses "Bogan" (the Dark Side-associated moon of Tython) in place of "Hell", and an unnamed Imperial colonel uses "Grievous" in a similar context.
- A Raven Under the Starlight: The natives of the Far Side swear on a deity called the Strato-Elf. This is an irony-laden reference to the Storm Hawks episode "Stratosphere."
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
- It gives us the episode where Kaiba and Yugi duel in the semifinals. First, when Yami summons Slifer the Executive Producer...
Kaiba: Oh. My. Money.
Yami: Don't you mean "god?"
Kaiba: You worship your thing, I'll worship mine.- Yami uses "Holy Ra" and "Mother of Osiris" et al. You know... because he's (Ancient) Egyptian. Bakura also frequently invokes the name of Zorc.
- And then when Kaiba summons Obelisk the Tormentor...Yami: Oh my various gods.
- When Yami and Téa get attacked by a wolf...Yami: Egyptian Jesus!
