Sir Swears A Lot / Literature

• The Alice Network: Some characters are more vulgar than others.
  • In the later timeline, Charlie is shocked by how much Eve curses. Later, when they run into Violette and René (both of whom now hate Eve with a burning passion), they each curse about as much as Eve.
  • In the earlier timeline, Lili swears much more than the other characters (though mostly in French). Eve barely swore at all back then…
• In Ancillary Justice, Radchaai culture disdains the use of profanity, meaning that while Seivarden's profanity feels fairly natural by our standards, in Radchaai terms she's basically Karkat. Whether this is related to Seivarden being a Fish out of Temporal Water, Seivarden's extended period as a drug addict outside Radchaai space, or just one of those things isn't made entirely clear.
• Herah from Battle is an Art is a Lady Swears a Lot and so is her mother with one exchange between the two going as such:
  Herah: Fuck you!
  Rose: Well, you're the only one getting fucked right now!
• The hunchbacked sorcerer Beldin in The Belgariad has a hideous body, horrid manners, and an equally foul mouth. But underneath it all, he's just a big softie.
• Sharon/Shaz from the Bridget Jones books and movies likes to say 'fuck'. A lot.
• In A Brother's Price Jerin's sister Heria, having forgotten the password, confirms her identity by uttering swearwords that would have "made her grandfather blush and her grandmothers proud". Apparently, her grandmothers were even worse.
• Krystal, Terri, and pretty much all the rest of the Weedon family in The Casual Vacancy use the f-word in the same way a normal person would use a comma.
• Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, whose constant cussing was one of the main reasons the book created so much controversy on its first publication. Oddly enough, despite his knack for using other words all the time, he actually dislikes the F-word—mainly because he's tired of seeing it in graffiti in public places. Also, he never says "shit" or "bullshit" either, he instead says "shooting the bull."
• Corpies has Hexcellent, whose first words in the novel are "fucking bullshit horsecock dickgarglers", and it doesn't really get much better from there. At least she keeps the swearing down in front of cameras and her fans, as per her contract.
• In The Dinosaur Lords, it's not Lupa if she doesn't use at least two curses every time she speaks.
• Dogs Don't Talk: Philip, one of the boys in Johnny's autism classroom, used to swear constantly and say that everything was fucked up. The teacher, Ms. Smith, taught him to say that everything stinks instead, to his mother's great relief.
• The title character in Stephen King's novel Dolores Claiborne, who says she is a foul-mouthed woman which probably comes from having lived a foul life.
• Avasarala from The Expanse is known for excessive swearing and throwing Freudian threats upon Freudian threats, especially at her peers in male-dominated field of politics. In fact, when she stops swearing, it's a sign things have gotten really serious.
• Ron (it's implied he learned them from Fred and George) from the Harry Potter books and films doesn't get to drop any F-bombs, but most of the other characters aren't noted in the narrative to "swear loudly" or say "bloody hell" nearly as much as him. When discussing getting profanity past her editors, Rowling noted this caused the most trouble with Ron's dialogue, as he's definitely the kind of person who'd swear. He does get away with "effing" in the books, as does Uncle Vernon.
• Wild Rhona and one-scene character Sapphire Culpepper from A Harvest of War swear a lot more than the other characters and are the only ones who use Country Matters.
• In The Heroes of Olympus, Arion is apparently this. We never hear any of it, because it's a kids' novel, and Arion only speaks horse, but Percy (who can speak horse) said several times that he's going to have to wash Arion's mouth out with soap.
• Hive Mind (2016): The swears are never printed, but Amber comments that Adika frequently has a mental level that is nothing but repeated swearing.
• Hollow Kingdom (2019):
  • S.T. the crow's narration is full of cuss words due to being raised by a man with a rather colorful vocabulary. Thanks to initialisms and abbreviations, the swearing even extends to any time he refers to humans (his term for them is "MoFos") and his own name (S.T. being short for "Shit Turd").
  • Big Jim has quite the foul mouth, as he's the person who raised S.T. and consequently taught the crow to curse. Most references to things Big Jim would do involve some sort of profanity, and the last thing he utters is "What the fuck?"
• Colonel Sebastian "Basher" Moran, as presented (by himself) in The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, swears a lot, though in the text, its mostly dashed out, so he says "f—-ing c—t!" and things of that nature. There's also a lot of English slang for dirty words.
• In Hyperion Cantos, the poet Martin Silenus. At one point in his backstory, he could only use seven words, most of which were bodily functions, swear words, or both.
• The Interdependency series has Lady Kiva Lagos, who has picked up the habit from her mother Countess Huma Lagos. According to the family legend, Kiva's first word was "fuck", and she doesn't particularly doubt it.
• In Discworld:
  • Interesting Times features a Barbarian Hero called Truckle the Uncivil. He "used to be reckoned one of the biggest badasses in the world" and associates with men who are called things like Mad Hamish and Caleb the Ripper, but apparently his foul mouth was the most memorable thing about him. However, since the horde he's part of is infiltrating a civilized empire, their advisor insists that he use a selection of "civilized swearwords" instead.
  • Subverted in The Truth with Mr. Tulip, who appears to swear constantly until it's revealed the text is not censoring him, he's literally saying "—ing".
• Griffin, The Invisible Man, does a lot of unspecified swearing in the early portion of the novel, and one of the witnesses whom he slips past only knows their encounter'd happened because he'd overheard someone cussing.
• In Geoph Essex's Jackrabbit Messiah: Indra. None of the cast is outright averse to swearing, and Pen Duffy probably does it more than most, but nobody in most books can hold a candle to Indra when it comes to sheer creativity and volume of swearing. He has very few lines where he doesn't say something completely revolting—it's just how he holds a conversation, and there's no Narrative Profanity Filter. He's also just a ten-year-old kid. (Though he's actually a god.)
• In Katalepsis, most of the main cast swears, but Twil, resident werewolf, swears far more often. Heather jokingly calls her a swearwolf.
• Unusual Euphemism and Narrative Profanity Filter protect the viewers' eyes, but Grood in Lord Brocktree appears to be this. "Gorokkah! How'd that splitten flitten gurgletwip get up so high?"
• Jacin and Scarlet from The Lunar Chronicles. The worst of their bombs are censored out, but they are allowed a few "damn's" and "hell's". They are in the middle of a war, after all.
• Mark Watney in The Martian, given that he's the only human being on an entire planet and it would take more than two years to mount any kind of rescue and the equipment keeping him alive keeps breaking.
• Minho from The Maze Runner Trilogy likes to throw around all of the made-up slang from the Glade at every opportunity.
• Mix Beer With Liquor And You Will Get Sicker has Corbin who cannot seem to say two sentences without swearing, in stark contrast to protagonist Lauchlan who has to be extremely upset to even so much as think a swearword.
• While everyone in No Beast So Fierce swears, Max outdoes them all. His every sentence generally contains at least one swear, and he generally uses harsher ones than the rest of the cast.
• Ronan Lynch from The Raven Cycle. Adam has compared his swearing to poetry and thinks he actually sounds harsher when he doesn't swear.
• Sevro from Red Rising swears the most out of any character in the series. Not that the other characters don't cuss, but Sevro is by far the foulest-mouthed person bar none. His favourite word seems to be 'shithead', followed by low-Color curses once he finds out that Darrow is a Red.
• In Shaman Blues, Vulture is a strange case. He curses noticeably more than the rest of the cast combined, sometimes several swear words in a single sentence, but at the same time his swears are much milder than what other characters use. It makes him oddly endearing.
• A Song of Ice and Fire has a quite a few, but there are some who stand out among the large cast for this trait. Gregor Clegane and Rorge have never actually met, yet somehow still seem to be competing to see who can swear more while committing horrific acts of rape and dismemberment. However, there's an otherwise irrelevant Mook nicknamed "Shitmouth" who can easily (and far more creatively) out-swear them both, for all he is otherwise mostly harmless. In A Dance With Dragons, Asha interacts with Ser Clayton Suggs, a low born knight, and about 90% of those interactions consist of him calling her the c-word. Having said this, Asha herself is distinctly unafraid of bringing out the heavy-duty language, particularly so for a lady in this series. Just, not to that baffling degree. Still notable, though.
• Watson from The Shining applies; in almost every sentence he says "fuck" at least once.
• In some Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels, it had become somewhat of a Running Gag that Chief O'Brien had a very colorful vocabulary, which he frequently employed fixing all of Deep Space Nine's technical problems.
• "Sally" Sweet in the Stephanie Plum series. He can barely get through a sentence without at least one F-bomb. This becomes a problem when he takes a job as a school bus driver.
• In Those That Wake, Mike has the record of the most profanity in the book. It's a YA novel.
• The Wheel of Time: The Old Soldier Uno gets called out on this by other characters; although the setting's invective is all Gosh Dang It to Heck! variants that come across as rather twee to the reader, it's distressing enough to the characters that Nynaeve eventually rations him to one curse per two sentences. Uno observes this restriction precisely, sweating from the effort.
• Isa from Why We Took the Car swears in almost every sentence until she becomes more comfortable around Maik and Tschick.
• Safi is by far the most foul-mouthed character in The Witchlands. Even her narration is littered with casual cursing.
• The Duke of Norfolk in Wolf Hall is a crass old bastard who can rather creative with his swearing, referring to the "thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus" in one scene, and rarely gets through a scene he's in without using some sort of crude language. If it's not swearing, it's probably a violent threat or coarse sexual references. It's indicated a couple of times that Henry VIII is a bit fussy about swearing, so Norfolk stands out.
• Skidmark from Worm is far from the only person in the story who swears, but he is heads and shoulders above the rest in terms of sheer creativity of vulgarity.
• In The Zone World War III novels by James Rouch, there's a US general nicknamed Old Foul Mouth because he insists that his officers use "earthy language the troops can understand." Captain Revell plays it safe and just repeats the general's swearwords whenever he's talking to him.

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