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173 entries across 97 franchises.
By Medium
See all →Writers who needed authenticity without network clearance built their own vocabulary.
66 entries
Fictional profanity in film earns its place by making a world feel real.
28 entries
Without an actor's delivery, the invented word has to earn its power on the page alone.
38 entries
The vocabulary tends toward the punchy, typographically distinctive, and memorably brief.
11 entries
An invented curse in a game world is a flag that says this civilization has history.
22 entries
Safe for the room, loaded with meaning for anyone paying closer attention.
8 entries
By Category
See all →Pure emotional discharge — lands before a reader even knows what it signifies.
85 entries
Reveals social hierarchies: who can be degraded, and in what terms.
62 entries
Shows what a society acknowledges but can't bring itself to say directly.
0 entries
Carries structure, weight, and usually a mythology. Tells you what a world fears.
0 entries
What characters swear by — a shortcut to a fiction's cosmology.
26 entries
Signals in-group membership. Ages fastest. Most likely to escape into real life.
0 entries
By Severity
See all →The words you can say in front of your parents.
47 entries
Strong enough to carry weight, acceptable enough to air before the watershed.
69 entries
Words with genuine edge — they land hard on characters and audiences both.
0 entries
Reserved for the worst moments. Reveals what a society considers truly unspeakable.
57 entries