Gosh Dang It / Fan Works

• Downplayed in Amazing Fantasy. Peter often cusses when he's stressed or when he's speaking casually, but he tries not to. Clint mocks him for it.
  Peter: [after learning that Mjölnir is in New Mexico] Shut the front door.
  Clint: You kiss your mother with that mouth?
• In "Cheat Codename" Reynold says he hates his old team after apologizing for swearing.
• In the Harry Potter fanfic And I Swear, Ron casts a "Potty Mouth Reversal Spell" on himself to try and curb his swearing. It automatically translates everything he says into this trope (even when he's having sex with Hermione). He even says "Gosh darn it to heck!"
  Ron: You and your vagina are extremely slippery tonight. I hope you found my efforts satisfying.
  [...]
  Ron: Mother loving cheese on a biscuit!
• The Bolt Chronicles: No one swears in this fanfic series.
  • The animals in these stories routinely substitute the word "dog" for "God" in phrases such as "Oh, my dog," "Dog only knows," and "For dog's sake."
  • Even when the worst foul-ups happen, the human characters don't swear, either. An example from "The Cakes," when Penny's mom discovers the three pets have ruined her cakes in a food fight:
    Penny's Mom: WHAT IN THE RAGING BLUE BLAZES IS GOING ON HERE??
• Inverted in cool and new web comic, where the minced oaths are the swears. "Fuck" and the like have no harsh context among the corrupted characters, but "heck" and "darn" are considered so profane that only the baddest of Badbutts can use them uncensored.
• In Don't Say, "Dannit", a fanfiction of The Loud House, the phrase "dang it" is treated as profanity.
• Several flavors show up in Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • A last minute episode skit shows Vegeta sub a ton of words for an otherwise profusely bleeped out rant.
  • "HFIL" is used several times as a jab against the original translation's Bowdlerisation.
• Enter Ken Finlayson: features this such as using "freak" as an expletive. It is justified given the K+ rating of the story.
• In Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged series, Aerith replaced all swear words with "blank" when she quoted something she overheard Reno say.
• In The Feel of Feelings Harry comes out of an undeserved two-year stay in Azkaban a little loopy. When Hermione drags him by his foot after he exhibits extreme reluctance to go shopping with her he yells "Holy mother of sheep! What in the name of chickens are you doing? Cheese and crackers woman! Stop killing the brain cells that I have managed to preserve!"
• In Power Girl story A Force of Four, Jimmy Olsen reveals that he had some... creative curses when he was ten, such like "oh, yes, by golly gosh all hemlock" and "dad-blamed".
• Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse: The fifth segment of the Blooper reel: while Erika and Joker both say real curse words ("ass" and "shit"), the worst Minori can come up with is "buttcheek".
• Hivefled: Equius has become a little less repressed at the age of eight sweeps, to the point that he takes an obvious opening for a sexual insult towards Eridan, but still doesn't swear. The gang know something is horribly wrong when he utters the word "crud".
• From Maim de Maim: Both Mako and Satsuki clearly don't use as much profanity as their respective friends do. One notable exception for Mako is when she compared Ryuko's body to that of Satsuki over the phone. As for Satsuki, she is capable of using the big three, but only when rightfully deserved or prompt, such as when she thought she accidentally ripped Ragyo's face off prior to the curbstomp or while Satsuki was being "purified". She even elaborated on the subject herself after Ryuko told her rival that she suffered the same fate. She later curses a few more times in Chapter 22 during her confrontation with The Staple Eyed Gentleman.
• Invoked in My Name Is Molly. Part of The Operation involves a person's personality being remolded. The villagers are physically unable to curse and instead use minced oaths.
• Another Homestuck fic, Shock Collar, renders Eridan unable to even do this; Equius makes the eponymous device to prevent Eridan swearing. Eridan eventually resorts to "Goodness!", which freaks everyone out.
  cA: burn in hell
  cA: GOD DARN I
  cA: IT SETS OFF AT DARN
  cT: D —> Of course
  cA: im goin to find you and rip your intestines out through your a
  cT: D —> Oh dear
• The Secret Return of Alex Mack: With canon being a PG-rated Nickelodeon show, it's understandable that Alex swears this way. Other characters frequently have a Narrative Profanity Filter. (Note that the story itself is certainly not PG-rated, with all the B-movie horror crossovers and graphic violence and Willow's very raunchy relationship with Colonel O'Neill, but there's very little in the way of coarse language.)
• Sweary She-Ra: Every single character swears profusely...except Bow, who uses replacement words.
  "Oh, shih-tzu puppies!"
• Sword Art Online Abridged makes use of this trope in its games — and only in its games. All real-life dialogue is completely uncensored.
  • The first game bleeped out every profanity the characters said... in the first episode only. Kayaba explicitly states by the end of said first episode that he disabled the profanity filter; the very first thing someone says after he's gone? "We're fucked!!"
  • Alfheim Online was intended to be a children's Edutainment Game before it was taken over by older roleplayers, so it has a built-in profanity filter that forces players to say things like "gee willikers", "shoot," "fudge," "cheese and crackers," "oh my codfish," etc. It's enough to make Kirito break down bawling when he first finds out. Unfortunately, sexual innuendo can easily be invented that works around the filter, such as when Princess Leafa yells out that Recon "sucked me off one time!" And that is to say nothing of Sugou's "pillow talk" with Asuna...
• A Running Gag in the Miraculous Ladybug fic Tangled Up In You with Adrien: not only does he repeatedly scold Alya on her casual swearing, he resorts to euphemisms such as "Holy shoot", "Fudge", and "H-E-double hockey sticks". And when Alya and Nino try to push him to curse like a normal teenager, he says "Shit," only to amend it to "Shiitake mushrooms" after a moment.
  Alya: Adrien, repeat after me. Holy shit. Fuck.
  Adrien: Holy sh-shih tzu. Funk.
  Alya: You really are a hopeless case.
  Adrien: Hey, I don't need to curse to be cool!
• Sasha and the Frogs: Sasha says "heck" a lot.
  "'HECK' IS NOT A BAD WORD!"
• In The Day After You Saved the Multiverse, Clark's mother is very particular regarding swear swords.
  Naomi Kent: "I don't want the least bit of attitude out of you when we do it, either, young man."
  Clark Kent: "Oh, cripes."
  Naomi Kent: "Clark!"
  Clark Kent: "I said 'cripes', Mom."
• Opalescent:
  • "Crumpets" is one of Olive's catchphrases in canon, which can be a stand-in for either "fuck" or "shit" depending on mileage. This fanfic has Opal borrowing "crumpets" as a stand-in for "shit", and quickly corrects herself by thinking, "Whoops, that's Olive's curse phrase, but still."
  • Chapter 3 describes the exchange between Otto and Dr. O in "Invasion of the Body Switchers" regarding using lazy aliases "hecka awkward".
• In All Mixed Up!, Otto says "crud" four times in response to seeing Olive be Mariana Mag's latest anagrammed victim.

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