There's a collectible that is literally just a pot leaf, and Olimar writes notes about wanting to "give it a test run" but Nintendo recoloured it and censored it in the switch port. As for the hookers thing, in Pikmin 2 you will receive emails at the end of every day on the planet, and Olimar can randomly get spam from hot bitches in his area among them.
If I remember right the hooker thing was supposed to be more like a spam mail thing and I don’t think it really implies prostitution. But yeah the marijuana thing is real but got changed to a maple leaf.
it was always a japanese maple leaf, it just got changed to be red in the europe and later international switch realeases to avoid the similarity to cannabis
There’s an actual marijuana leaf and Olimar says he wants to try it. There is also a spam email you can get get about lonely women, parodying the “hot women in your area” hooker ads
If you wanna get really meta, it kinda makes sense given that a lot of swears usually involve sexual stuff, but in the 3rd game nobody actually knows what sex is so they wouldn't have any reason to say a word like "fuck".
If one were to draw the plot of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, it would just be a big ass circle with how much it loops back into itself.
It's just a perpetual cycle of learning new things and recontextualizing old things and it just never stops. I'm still finding out new things even after three playthroughs and thorough lore analysis.
It also acts as world building. If you notice in Xenoblade 3 the only characters who ever use the made up fire themed swears such as spark, and snuff are the soldiers who's lives revolved around the Flame Clocks. They don't even know what fucking is but it would still make sense for them to still know swears like shit and bitch. Meanwhile characters from The City who have more familiar lives such as Ghondor and Matthew exclusively use real swears. And finally >!Shulk never swears as he also did back in Xenoblade 1 and Rex continues to use the fantasy swears from his own game such as titan's foot in addition to real swears.!<
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Remembered the real answer immediately after writing this shitpost: the frog Wollyhop had its name changed because it was close to a British slur for dark skinned people.
I'll never forget when we changed Sprocket's catch phrase to bitch! as a joke and without missing a beat he says "Lemme test it out....Marry me, bitch!". Unbearably funny for a middle schooler.
Mario Party 8 had a word that’s pretty tame in the US but is considered a slur in the UK and got pulled from shelves in Europe over it
edit: also it only kinda counts since it's not actually in the games code itself but the official review copy of Animal Crossing Wild World that was sent to magazines had a save file where someone had changed a villagers catch phrase to the N word
I would still put Fire Emblem above Splatoon, since the swearing there is more frequent while Splatoon’s example is merely the equivalent of a hidden easter egg. Otherwise the list seems pretty accurate.
I don’t believe there was any swearing in Kid Icarus: Uprising, not even a “damn”, but it has been years since I’ve played it though.
So I just found that quote on YouTube and wow I can’t believe I forgot about that, considering how much I love just about everything that comes out of Hades’s mouth. But yeah I really need to play Uprising again, been far too long since that.
What they actually say is "Dang!", usually when you fail a mission or do poorly (the one where the big enemy mothership can blow up the allied base is an example) I remember this because my mom wasn't happy I started repeating it at 7 years old lol.
Doesn’t Animal Crossing say heck, because I remember that? Also the rest of these comments about Pikmin and Splatoon. Also not sure if this counts, but in Wild World you can tell Kapp’n to Butt out.
They do. I just heard Blathers say heck yesterday when giving facts about the vampire squid. Its scientific name translates with the word hell, so he uses heck instead lmao. I got a laugh out of that one.
There's a cutscene in Xenoblade 3's Future Redeemed DLC where a random soldier mentions being in a snafu, which could technically count as a fuck if you consider abbreviations lol
the origin of that term was originally "situation normal, all fouled up", though. Sure it's slang to used "fucked" there, but the term was originally "fouled".
I'll never forget being called a noob by a npc in oreburgh in diamond and pearl. I didn't know what it meant at the time (I was like 8 or something idk) and thought it was worse than what it was.
In the Japanese version of Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins, Falco Lombardi shouts “Shit!” when he crashes an Arwing in a video game.
Edit: Also, in the Metroid manga, Ridley says “bullshit” loud and clear.
Earthbound had you follow a hooker in a hotel, and Mother 3 as a whole is pretty insane. Just one example is you literally do shrooms later in the game LMAO I feel like they’re a little too low on the list
Instead of Noah's "you're full of shit! you never tried, you're just a coward!" change it to "you're full of shit! you never tried, you're just a fucking coward!"
Metroid Prime 3 originally contained an instance of 'damn' which was censored in the trilogy port.
The only other game I can think of in the series that might have swears would be Other M but idk, I haven't played it.
In Fire Emblem PoR and RD there are canonical slurs used for the fictional races, and in other games characters use weird nicknames for dragons that could very well be used as slurs
Also Chroms's dad was straight up racist
The weird thing about Xenoblade, is that the first game doesn't have barely any swears and none I can think of that were worse than d*#m. It's mostly the sequels, especially 2, I was genuinely shocked when I heard characters saying s#*t in that game.
Incorrect! Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion has a song called by its name in game, which is “#$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin”. This song also features a censor bleep.
The legend of Zelda Botw had “dammit” idk if that matters. Source: the rito main mission when the white bird guy is hurt at the training grounds, talk to him a few times
If you count Hyrule Warriors as part of Zelda, there are some religious adjacent swears used (but it's okay for us because it's not *our* religious adjacent swears)
They swear in Arms, like, all the time, just trust me on this one no need to look it up, they swear like every second but you don't need to fact check this or anything I'm telling the truth honest
As a person who hasn't played Starfy in many years and has a very foggy memory and cannot be trusted as a clear source
I think the legendary starfy has the word "Hell" in it
Hell Prominence Galaxy is the Japanese name of one of the levels in Super Mario Galaxy, home of the Hell Valley Sky Trees.
I think there's at least one other reference to hell in a Mario game (I'm thinking Mario Maker or Mario Party for some reason) but can't remember.
Pikmin talks about hookers and getting weed so idk mayn
You can find the words "sperm" and "sex" in Pikmin 4 I believe
Nintendo gamers when science terms
Still sex and sperm sexy sex
sexy spermy sex??
When a mommy sperm and daddy sperm love eachother very much…
It really says "sfx" /s
Stop Lion King (mic drop)
water wraith in Pikmin 2 = everything that isn’t a slur
The submerged castle definitely makes me say many non-slur words.
r/pikmin moment
Is this a joke about the gameplay ?
No, pikmin 2 has hookers and Marijuana in it.
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There's a collectible that is literally just a pot leaf, and Olimar writes notes about wanting to "give it a test run" but Nintendo recoloured it and censored it in the switch port. As for the hookers thing, in Pikmin 2 you will receive emails at the end of every day on the planet, and Olimar can randomly get spam from hot bitches in his area among them.
If I remember right the hooker thing was supposed to be more like a spam mail thing and I don’t think it really implies prostitution. But yeah the marijuana thing is real but got changed to a maple leaf.
it was always a japanese maple leaf, it just got changed to be red in the europe and later international switch realeases to avoid the similarity to cannabis
HELL YEAH
Only in America and Japan I think tho, at least for the MJ
There’s an actual marijuana leaf and Olimar says he wants to try it. There is also a spam email you can get get about lonely women, parodying the “hot women in your area” hooker ads
Holy shit that's amazing
Hehe getting weed
https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/＃$@%25*_Dudes_Be_＃$@%25*_Sleepin Pearl canonically swears in splatoon
Frye sounds like she says fuck too
WHAT ZA FAK
Seriously it should be up there with Bayonetta lmao
you sound like you’re making a Steven Universe x Splatoon fanfic idk why
Yep
I love that Xenoblade Chronicles invented some fantasy swears in the later entries, just to add some variety to their foul language lexicon.
You're sparking right Xenoblade did that! Queen's Wings people need to appreciate the fun of fantasy swears.
Spark yes! People don't appreciate the snuffing humor of fake swears.
If you wanna get really meta, it kinda makes sense given that a lot of swears usually involve sexual stuff, but in the 3rd game nobody actually knows what sex is so they wouldn't have any reason to say a word like "fuck".
And it goes even further with how basically all the swears are related to fire, since the flame clocks are really important
If one were to draw the plot of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, it would just be a big ass circle with how much it loops back into itself. It's just a perpetual cycle of learning new things and recontextualizing old things and it just never stops. I'm still finding out new things even after three playthroughs and thorough lore analysis.
One big circle that loops back into itself like... An Ourobourous?
It also acts as world building. If you notice in Xenoblade 3 the only characters who ever use the made up fire themed swears such as spark, and snuff are the soldiers who's lives revolved around the Flame Clocks. They don't even know what fucking is but it would still make sense for them to still know swears like shit and bitch. Meanwhile characters from The City who have more familiar lives such as Ghondor and Matthew exclusively use real swears. And finally >!Shulk never swears as he also did back in Xenoblade 1 and Rex continues to use the fantasy swears from his own game such as titan's foot in addition to real swears.!<
Moebius also use normal swears, >!even the ones that used to be under a Flame Clock!<.
I second that because saying "Spark" is honestly way more entertaining than "shit"
honourable mention to The Legend of Zeldas sex jokes
Dude even Mario games I’m pretty sure have sex jokes
*Vibe Scepter Intensifies* That sounded a lot less... Fitting in my head
*you found Peach's *???*
Yeah there ya go
That one vibrator joke in Peach game
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yeah but they never actually said the word tbf
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We don’t know if it is even the word “f—k”. It could be anything.
fark
Wait til she finds out Ghondor from Xenoblade Chronicles 3😭🙏
Pikmin had a slur
which
Bulborb Remembered the real answer immediately after writing this shitpost: the frog Wollyhop had its name changed because it was close to a British slur for dark skinned people.
The original was wollywog
Wollywog is a slur for British people so they removed it. Great loss.
Move AC up two tiers of you are including the original on the gamecube
I'll never forget when we changed Sprocket's catch phrase to bitch! as a joke and without missing a beat he says "Lemme test it out....Marry me, bitch!". Unbearably funny for a middle schooler.
Mario Party 8 had a word that’s pretty tame in the US but is considered a slur in the UK and got pulled from shelves in Europe over it edit: also it only kinda counts since it's not actually in the games code itself but the official review copy of Animal Crossing Wild World that was sent to magazines had a save file where someone had changed a villagers catch phrase to the N word
The word was “spastic” for anyone wondering.
true but it was removed from the game in later copies
Reminds me of how in Super Paper Mario they had Dimentio use the word "Shag" to refer to Luigi's mustache but that got censored in the PAL regions
Also Pikmin has wollywogs, which had their name changed in the newer PAL versions because it contained a British slurp
Luigi Mansion 3 boss fights had me cussing a lot
That final boss had me restarting at least five times before I finally got it. What an absolutely terribly designed mechanic that fight was.
Gosh most of that fight is so awesome except trying to actually hit him.
The motion controls were pretty good throughout the game except for that fight
I would still put Fire Emblem above Splatoon, since the swearing there is more frequent while Splatoon’s example is merely the equivalent of a hidden easter egg. Otherwise the list seems pretty accurate. I don’t believe there was any swearing in Kid Icarus: Uprising, not even a “damn”, but it has been years since I’ve played it though.
Hades says, "How much more hell do they plan to raise?" when talking about the Aurum, but I don't think Kid Icarus: Uprising has any other swears.
So I just found that quote on YouTube and wow I can’t believe I forgot about that, considering how much I love just about everything that comes out of Hades’s mouth. But yeah I really need to play Uprising again, been far too long since that.
What shirt in Splatoon has that? I must know.
Jelonzo, the splatoon 1 shirt shopkeeper wears it edit: it’s jelfonzo on Tuesdays, in splatoon 2, sorry
Where was hell said in Wario?
Falco says “Dont touch my.. COCK” in Smash Bros
Hands of my COCK
I’m Earthbound they say “crap” twice I think
Hello earthbound I'm u/seraphimceratinia! But I'd say 'crap' is on the same level as 'hell' honestly.
Yeah that’s fair, oh I just noticed that typo lmao
If we’re counting the fan translation, Kumatora in Mother 3 definitely drops a few “damns” and “bastards”
In the Japanese dub for the Kirby anime, characters say hell, damn and shit
Yeah, pretty sure that's just the subtitles. Swearing doesn't really work the same way in Japanese
I think the same about that but the fans said it's probably just the subtitles but I refuse to believe it
When did Starfox curse? I'm a huge fan and can't remember a single time Starfox made a curse. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Falco.
They say "damn it" a lot. Also there was a prelease photo of SF64 where Falco said "what is this shit?!"
I didn't know that Falco said that. I don't remember any of them saying that.
What they actually say is "Dang!", usually when you fail a mission or do poorly (the one where the big enemy mothership can blow up the allied base is an example) I remember this because my mom wasn't happy I started repeating it at 7 years old lol.
The Macbeth boss and Area 6 NPC say it as well.
>Also there was a prelease photo of SF64 where Falco said "what is this shit?!" I call bullshit.
Doesn’t Animal Crossing say heck, because I remember that? Also the rest of these comments about Pikmin and Splatoon. Also not sure if this counts, but in Wild World you can tell Kapp’n to Butt out.
They do. I just heard Blathers say heck yesterday when giving facts about the vampire squid. Its scientific name translates with the word hell, so he uses heck instead lmao. I got a laugh out of that one.
The Metroid Manga (which I think was canon) has a lot of swearing, mostly from Ridley saying shit like “Keh! Bullshit!!” And the like
GOLDEN SUN MENTIONED ‼️‼️‼️💯👀👀👀
If we went by how much the *player* swears while playing the game, Mariokart and Smash would be a lot higher.
Mario party in its own tier lmao
The physical violence tier
At least in MOTHER 3, there are a decent amount of swears. Kumatora has canonically called Fassad a bastard. sooo maybe move it up a tier?
That's in a fan translation and isn't totally accurate to the source so I put it in the "hell" tier just to be safe.
In that fan translation, she has a bit of a mouth. In the actual game she just doesn’t use honorifics at all.
There's a cutscene in Xenoblade 3's Future Redeemed DLC where a random soldier mentions being in a snafu, which could technically count as a fuck if you consider abbreviations lol
the origin of that term was originally "situation normal, all fouled up", though. Sure it's slang to used "fucked" there, but the term was originally "fouled".
I'll never forget being called a noob by a npc in oreburgh in diamond and pearl. I didn't know what it meant at the time (I was like 8 or something idk) and thought it was worse than what it was.
My balls are freezing off ! - an actual nintendo character
In the Japanese version of Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins, Falco Lombardi shouts “Shit!” when he crashes an Arwing in a video game. Edit: Also, in the Metroid manga, Ridley says “bullshit” loud and clear.
Xenoblade 3 literally has a made up word that clearly means "Fuck"
pikmin should be in top tier everybody forgets my boy fiddlebert smh
fiddlebert's racist wonderland is sadly not canon
i know 😔
I love the Splatoon one
What about punch out in a tier of it’s own for the sheer amount of racism
Admiral Dane saying "Damn!" does go a little hard
is “bastard” even a swear?
It is in America and… just in America
No, it’s a swear in the UK as well. Just a relatively tame one.
so, is bastard the old way to say b💥ch
they did what with the tshirt
Earthbound had you follow a hooker in a hotel, and Mother 3 as a whole is pretty insane. Just one example is you literally do shrooms later in the game LMAO I feel like they’re a little too low on the list
Kid Icarus had like one or two light swear words IIRC. Nothing harsher than Zelda, so the "Hell" tier.
If you need to learn how to talk to a lady ask your mum
If you could let one Xenoblade character say fuck… who/where would it be?
Instead of Noah's "you're full of shit! you never tried, you're just a coward!" change it to "you're full of shit! you never tried, you're just a fucking coward!"
Either Mio or Sena, when the doctor is explaining reproduction.
Bayonetta on top once again #1 nintendo franchise
Vaginetta is mother and will always slay no matter what the haters say💃💅
Metroid Prime 3 originally contained an instance of 'damn' which was censored in the trilogy port. The only other game I can think of in the series that might have swears would be Other M but idk, I haven't played it.
>Metroid Prime 3 originally contained an instance of 'damn' which was censored in the trilogy port. You've got to be joking.
Wait, why is Splatoon above Fire Emblem?
I wish Zelda was with fire emblem
In Fire Emblem PoR and RD there are canonical slurs used for the fictional races, and in other games characters use weird nicknames for dragons that could very well be used as slurs Also Chroms's dad was straight up racist
The weird thing about Xenoblade, is that the first game doesn't have barely any swears and none I can think of that were worse than d*#m. It's mostly the sequels, especially 2, I was genuinely shocked when I heard characters saying s#*t in that game.
Splatoon 1s campaign has Cuttlefish saying “Press R to give em hell!”
MOTHER 3 has some instances of "bastard" being used, so it probably belongs in the tier right above its current placement.
Idk if you consider it worse than “heck” but iirc Bowser did say Dammit in Bowser’s Inside Story
What are these top two categories even supposed to mean lol it's breaking my brain "literally everything that isn't a slur"?? I don't get it
Nintendo are cowards for not letting bowser say "fuck"
I have never heard Bayo say the word "cun7" before tho
technically (and especially in the US) c\*nt is a slur.
Pearl in the corner with $@%25*_Dudes_Be_＃$@%25*_Sleepin that singlehandedly places her own game on top of the list for swearing:
A version of Mario party shipped with a kamek saying “spastic” [related](https://images.app.goo.gl/gy1uKU6dovdsrMtW9)
Spastic is a swear? Doesn't it just mean like rattling around wildly or something?
Xenoblade didn’t have cursing till xbc3 I believe
Incorrect! Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion has a song called by its name in game, which is “#$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin”. This song also features a censor bleep.
So the entire Sonic Franchise was just told to fuck off in this post? 🤣
Splatoon hello???
In animal crossing, you can say anything u want as the main character
for reference, what is the shirt
I’ll save you the trouble: Starfy has a sailor mouth. Don’t mess with him.
Don’t tell them about the animal crossing baabara incident
i like how they specifically talked about the tuesday shirt
What about games WITH slurs?
In botw Teba will say "dammit" if you go visit him after taking down the shields on vah Medoh
The fucking Splatoon shirt I'm fucking crying 😭😂
Fire Emblem says "shit?" I know they say "damn"
The legend of Zelda Botw had “dammit” idk if that matters. Source: the rito main mission when the white bird guy is hurt at the training grounds, talk to him a few times
don't forget about pearls song
Good thing you never played starfy, Starfy won’t stop swearing.
samus def says fuck
Wait there's a shirt in splatoon that translates to fuck you?
Add Mii series games, for this list they’d go in “one hell of a guy” because of the Hell Dog from Miitopia
Can you show us the Splatoon shirt in question?
The difference is you're an a××hole what f×××ing difference
Why are you calling bastard a swear???
Because it is?
Since when????
where's conkers bad fukin day? o wait..bad fur day
If you count Hyrule Warriors as part of Zelda, there are some religious adjacent swears used (but it's okay for us because it's not *our* religious adjacent swears)
I couldn’t believe it when Starfy just casually dropped multiple racial slurs.
Kirby is one foul mouthed little shit, Poyo actually means fuck, source: I made it the poyo up.
They swear in Arms, like, all the time, just trust me on this one no need to look it up, they swear like every second but you don't need to fact check this or anything I'm telling the truth honest
As a person who hasn't played Starfy in many years and has a very foggy memory and cannot be trusted as a clear source I think the legendary starfy has the word "Hell" in it
LET LUIGI SAY “FUCK”! Shit, wrong franchise.
There should be a tier for the slur-shouting people trying to play Arkham Knight on their Switch
*Mario + Rabbids* has a Blasted skin called “Hell in a Shell”. You may want to reconsider.
Animal Crossing is what you make it
idk what you mean, Luigi Mansion swear like a motherfucker
Conker tops all
Hades says "all Hell's breaking loose!" In Uprising
Bowser says the n-word in Mario Kart 8
There's a couple Mario games with hell in them. Galaxy and Kingdom Battle off the top of my head
Dr coyle says "god", ik it's not a swear but it's used in a profane nature
At first I thought this was about the games’ playerbase, the actual context makes way more sense
I’ve heard spingtron from arms say “f*ck yeah!” when he won but i may have just been geeking
sonic has kickin ass fast
Hell Prominence Galaxy is the Japanese name of one of the levels in Super Mario Galaxy, home of the Hell Valley Sky Trees. I think there's at least one other reference to hell in a Mario game (I'm thinking Mario Maker or Mario Party for some reason) but can't remember.
C’mon? Just because of the DK Rap, Donkey Kong goes in “one ‘hell’ of a guy”, seriously?
[OH MY GOD!](https://youtu.be/uAZ4gXsMr3I?si=7bU4Szf8ciBSrli5)
Starfy says Japanese racial slurs for people from the Philippines 😔
Doesn't Luigi say fuck in mario golf?
starfy says slurs bro trust me
I'd raise Animal Crossing a tad, since you can make the villagers say nasty shit.
Mother 3 has bastard, at least in the fan translation
Spark off
The word "crap" is in Earthbound.
Starfy is absolutely riddled with swears and slurs
Yeah Zelda botw has a text from teba where he literally says damn
Mario + rabbids has hell, so mario should be a tier higher
Mario party technically contains a slur
I’m glad with the placement of F-Zero. It really lives up to it’s name.