History ClusterFBomb / Literature

* In ''Literature/DerMuenchnerImHimmel'', UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} citizen Alois Hingerl, a GrumpyBear to begin with, passes away on duty and ends up an angel in FluffyCloudHeaven where he's tasked with cheering and playing his harp along with it. After finding out that [[HellOfAHeaven there is no beer and no snuff in Heaven]], his cheers end up mostly [[UsefulNotes/GermanDialects Bavarian expletives]].

---> ''"Mother of [expletive deleted]!! What the [expletive deleted] is wrong with you?! How [expletive deleted] hard is it to [expletive deleted] pick up a [expletive deleted] set of [expletive deleted] keys?! Throw those [expletive deleted] keys across the room! Take that you [expletive deleted] car [expletive deleted] keys!! You can wipe down these stupid [expletive deleted] plates but you can't [expletive deleted] grab some car keys?! Look, all the [expletive deleted] dishes are getting smashed! You're smashing all the [expletive deleted] dishes because you don't [expletive deleted] get to have a [expletive deleted] set of [expletive deleted] dishes! Good! Take that you [expletive deleted] plates. Take that!!''

* ''Literature/InDeath'': A particularly impressive instance of this occurs in ''Treachery In Death'' [[BerserkButton Turns out its a very bad idea to threaten Eve Dallas in front of her fellow cops.]]:
--> '''Detective Jacobson''': Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your brains. Hands up! Hands up where I can fucking see them, you fucking cocksucker. You fucking breathe wrong, you fucking blink wrong, and I will fuck you up.

--> ''Jacobson''': Fucker. On your fucking face, you fucking shit coward. Stream my Lieutenant in the fucking back? Fuck you!

--> Detective Jacobson: Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your brains. Hands up! Hands up where I can fucking see them, you fucking cocksucker. You fucking breathe wrong, you fucking blink wrong, and I will fuck you up.
--> Eve: [[{{Understatement}} That was some very creative and varied use of the word ''fuck'', Detective.]]
--> Jacobson: Fucker. On your fucking face, you fucking shit coward. Stream my Lieutenant in the fucking back? Fuck you!

* Combined with a NarrativeProfanityFilter to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar get past the radar]] in ''Literature/HiddenTalents''. When Flinch breaks his arm, Martin thinks there are chickens clucking, then realizes Flinch is swearing at the pain. [[DontExplainTheJoke Which expletive rhymes with cluck]]?

** Near the end of ''Battle Ground'', Michael ([[OOCISSeriousBusiness of all people]]) expresses his rage at [[UngratefulBastard the White Council]] for [[spoiler: kicking Harry out of the organization]] by swearing in about a dozen languages over the course of several minutes.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' gives us this gem:
--> '''Harry:''' "Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells."
** This a combination of two of Harry's favorite curses, "Stars and Stones" and "Hells Bells".

* Spoofed in ''Discworld/TheTruth'' where Mr. Tulip is likely to drop "--ing" bombs. Yes, he actually pronounces the dashes. ("An --ing ''werewolf''? Are you --ing kidding me?!") Terry Pratchett has referred to what it sounds like as "the Englishman's version of the bushman 'click' language". Sacharissa later tries to curse the same way, but leaves out the dashes (she just yells "ing", and proclaims it to be very satisfying).
** Hilariously averted in ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'', when a mob of priests accuse Vimes of "gross profanity and the worship of idols" for hiring the golem Dorfl as a policeman. Vimes' reply rates as a Missed Moment of Awesome F Bombing:

* In ''Literature/MansfieldPark'', Mr. Price's habit of saying "By George" in every sentence is treated like this (as the book was written in the 1800s). The text studiously renders it "by G--" and it embarrasses his daughter Fanny to no end.

* Explicitly averted in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', where Tolkien explains that evil creatures talk like this all the time, but [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis he cleaned it up]]:

** Also "HOLY FUCKING SHIT: Man Walks on Fucking Moon".
** And multiple articles quoting UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.

* Going back about 2,000 years, ''{{Creator/Catullus}}'' is widely known for his 16th poem, which if you don't know Latin starts quite pleasantly:
--> 'Paedocabo ego vos, et irrumabo...'

* In Creator/KimNewman's "Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch", the Earl of Emsworth from the ''Literature/BlandingsCastle'' novels unleashes a ClusterFBomb (dashed out) when faced with someone who has no interest in pigs. Edwin Winthrop reflects on how much Creator/PGWodehouse must [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis tone down the language in his books]].

* In Creator/KimNewman's ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' story "Sorcerer, Conjurer, Wizard, Witch", the Earl of Emsworth from the ''Literature/BlandingsCastle'' novels unleashes a ClusterFBomb (dashed out) when faced with someone who has no interest in pigs. Edwin Winthrop reflects on how much Creator/PGWodehouse must [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis tone down the language in his books]].

* ''Literature/FindingSnowflakes'' has the usually shy, introverted main character who becomes and exceptional one when mad. Hilarity Ensues.

--> Jacobson: Fucker. On your fucking face, you fucking shit coward. Stream my Leutenant in the fucking back? Fuck you!
** He then proceeds break one of the man's fingers.

* ''Literature/TheMartian'': Mark Watney shows particular enthusiasm for these in moments of stress, as does [[BeleaguredBureaucrat beleagured NASA Media Relations director]] Annie Montrose.

** Lee Broglia has Rook beat; he really goes off once in literature, but it's a total doozy. The then-coach of the Cubs had taken the team from a crappy start to a struggling improvement, but the fans booed. He exploded into a scathing rebuttal with F and S bombs, an CS and a couple of MFs, all to a reporter, and he said "quote me" in advance. The cubs did much better after reading that, but Jay Johnstone, recapping it all in his autobiography on his baseball career, speculates that that rant pretty well torpedoed the coach's job. Maybe if he'd won the Series...

* The ancient Roman poet Catullus, in his poem "Carmen 16", began with the line "[[AltumVidetur Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo]]," which translates as, "I will fuck you in the ass and rape you in the face." It then gets '''''more''' obscene.''

* Used liberally in ''JohnDiesAtTheEnd''. In one memorable fuckin' moment, when Dave is being threatened by Robert North...

** And multiple articles quoting UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, who was this [[SirSwearsALot in real life]].

* One of the articles in ''OurDumbCentury'' is "Last Night's [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDelanoRoosevelt Fireside Chat]] Just a Stream of Cuss Words".

* Richard fucking Marcinko. The fucking ''RogueWarrior'' books fucking run on fucking cluster fucking F bombs.

* ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue'' by Creator/CharlesStross has a memorable example of how one can combine the ClusterFBomb with a NarrativeProfanityFilter, two tropes you wouldn't think you could mix.

** Of course, given Bob's [[OccultDetective profession]], he probably means BlackSpeech.

* ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Jennifer Morgue]]'' by Creator/CharlesStross has a memorable example of how one can combine the ClusterFBomb with a NarrativeProfanityFilter, two tropes you wouldn't think you could mix.

* Janet Evanovich's ''StephaniePlum'' books, anything said by Sally (Salvatore) Sweet. Example: