This troper is fond of "Oh dear lords", and or "by the pancake", depending on how silly she's feeling at the time.

Thanks to NTom64, this troper has become fond of saying - just 'cuz she can - "Christ on a bike", "Christ on the proverbial bike" and "Jesus tap-dancing H. Christ on a unicycle". (Yes, Tom actually says that last one. It's during the first Sonic 06 playthrough.)

TruthInTelevision, this editor knows many pagans who use this expression, and it is the title of a pagan webcomic Oh My Gods!

This editor uses "Oh gods," on occasion, but mainly picked it up from reading the above mentioned {{Discworld}} books.

This troper has always found that saying "Zombie Raptor Jesus onna Pogo Stick!" gets her point across rather well...

Wow. That is awesome...

This troper comes from a very Christian background and, in order to upset no one, both he and one of his friends say will restrain themselves to swearing by gods, as opposed to the one true God. Its a release when you've learned to censor "crap" and "screw" out of your dictionary.

This troper has no idea where she picked up "Oh gods," but it was probably from Dragonlance, Order of the Stick, and Discworld.

This troper picked it up from roleplaying too much - I also have a tendency to use variations on it involving my roleplay character's gods, many of whom I myself made up. D:

This troper has said "Oh ''Gods,''" "Oh, dear Gods," "by the Gods" and "I knew , but . . . gods, ." He has no idea where he got it.

This troper is a polytheist (don't call me a pagan if you value your life) and has the reflex so well trained into himself that he yells out "oh gods!" during sex. This tends to surprise the women the first time they hear it.

Polyamorist as well as polytheist, are we?

This troper is, likewise, a polytheist, but continues to use the Christian cosmology for the purposes of swearing, as their deities are the ones he's least afraid of upsetting...and you just can't beat 'by Lucifer's beard!'.

Lucifer's beard? Huh. I always pictuared him as clean-shaven...

Doesn't he have a goatee?

This troper has a tendency to moan "By all the ''gods''…" at the slightest provocation. Granted, she also uses "Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and every in-law from Nazareth to Bethlehem!" on a semi-regular basis.

This editor started using "Oh, gods" around the same time he took up atheism. It hasn't stopped him from the occasional ''"Madre de Dios"'', though.

Likewise on the atheism. A sideorder of "For the love of the gods, what in all the hells are you doing now?" creeps in every so often as well.

This troper is Wiccan and uses "Oh dear Gods" and "For the love of the good Goddess" frequently. She's also quite fond of "For the love of all things unholy" to get a few weird looks.

{{celticfang}} is also Wiccan and uses "Oh my Gods" or a variation thereof, or "Goddess above" (again, variations of). It's when he drops a {[Precision F-Strike}} that you'd best run.

This troper, being a massive D&D nerd, regularly uses "What in the Nine Hells?!"

This troper also regularly uses "oh gods", along with plenty of other variations.

This troper, though he's the antithesis of a believer in anything, picked up the habit of saying "oh gods" (and on occasion, "Oh, goddess") and so-on from his pagan ex-boyfriend. He hasn't been able to break the habit since.

This one says "Hell's bells!" when he's not saying "By the gods!"

"Oh, Goddesses!"

This Troper kinda likes the {{Discworld}} atheist's way of swearing: 'Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!' Or: 'Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!'

This Troper does this, despite self-identifying as agnostic rather than pagan these days.

This troper is a pagan, says "Oh my gods"... and her favorite random swear, "Holy zombie-humpin' Jeebus (or Buddha) on a pogo stick!". Monkeys also feature in her profanity.

This troper tends to swear by particular attributes of the Norse Gods, usually Odin. For more vulgarity "Freyja's Tits!" is always a fun one.

This troper occasionally uses "Of for the love of Cthulhu" And "For Sheogorath's sake!", along with "Oh my various gods" and "God fucking Dammit". Incidentally, this troper is an Atheist, and actually worships coca-cola.

This troper has used "ftaghn" as a substitute for other word PrecisionFStrike. Also, asdfjkl (or just asdf).

This troper is also Atheist (but doesn't worship Coca-Cola) and tends to say "Gods!" or "Oh my Gods!" Or even, "Mighty Dagda!" Of course, the standards like "crap", "shit", and "fuck" are also uttered.

This troper, yet another atheist (High fives all around! :P ) uses "Gods be damned." But he has no idea when or why he started using this. It will probably be a common phrase in his writing, though.

This troper loves this. "What in the fgsfds?" "What in the seven shades of hell!?" "Oh, for the love of Animus!" and her personal favorite, "Ra Almighty!"

This troper has a friend who does this ''all the time''. And every last one of his RP characters do, too, regardless of whether it makes any sense for them to either be polytheists or do it as a fan thing/to be different/for laughs.

This troper had a friend in Latin and Greek class who actually trained himself to exclaim "By Zeus!" among other things. He would even occasionally say "Ne ton Dia!" (the Greek expression --if my memories of Greek are correct), which makes a bigger geek than most of us.

It's actually "Ma ton Dia". Just saying.

As for me, I'm a non-Christian Francophone and I use profanities in English when I'm ''really'' pissed. When I say ''"Holy mother of Jesus!,"'' it means I'm either very upset or being very ironical.

In this troper's case, replace "God" with "truth".

This troper does this all the time, and sometimes (particularly when it'll get a rise out of someone) does it gratuitously. "Oh my various gods!" "By every god and his mother..." He's also fond of substituting 'Eris' for 'Jesus' and "Bob" for 'God'. "Sweet Eris!" "What in "Bob"'s name?"

This troper does the same with 'Grog', as in "Grog knows!" and "grogdamn annoying!". If this isn't enough for the reader to doubt his sanity, the original Grog in question was a caveman in some guy's avatar on a computer game forum.

This troper has taken up exclaiming, "Ye GODS!" He's not really sure when it started.

Are you a fan of Tuesday Morning Quarterback on ESPN?

This troper used to do that, and he got it from the webcomic ''User Friendly''. Does that help?

Never read it.

This troper does it too but she thinks she got it from Terry Pratchett. Perhaps you got it from there too?

This Troper uses "Ye Gods and little fishes!"- no clue where I got it. Also "Good Lord 'n butter!"- but I think that was BloomCounty

This troper has used "Ye Gods" as long as i can remember, having learned it off my mum.

I have been known to occasionally say "Ye flippin' gods...". Pretty sure it came from somewhere, but I don't know where. It's not meant as a loud exclamation, but rather a quiet statement of disbelief and/or resignation.

I'm pretty sure that's where I picked it up: "Ye Hairy Gods!" or some variation.

Nowhere near as awesome as the others, but I have been known to use 'by the countless evil gods of poorly-written pulp fantasy!'

Egads I need a shorter exclamation.

Trope almighty? By the Sue?

Oh yeah, and "Hugo ''freaking'' WEAVING" and occasionally (mentally due to self-censor) "Vincent fucking Price."

troper often uses "in the name of the Legion"/"in Legion's name" or "By the Legion", as in "What in the Legion's name?". The Legion refers to the Burning Legion from Warcraft games. He also often uses the phrace "in the name of all things unholy". He also sometimes uses "Great Gods of Chaos!" instead of "Oh my God!"

This troper occasionally uses "Oh, for the love of all that's good and holy and a couple things that aren't!"

This troper uses the exclamation "For Frank's sake!". If asked about this, he explains that it refers to "Frank Lowell, who lives in Detroit; I don't know this for a fact, but I figure there's got to be at least one Frank Lowell in Detroit".

This troper, for some reason, cultivated "gods above!" for a while when younger; now all her swearing comes from Discworld. "Buggrit, millenium hand and shrimp" gets some pretty odd looks when muttered furtively under the breath, but the winner is definetly "offspring of a dog of the female persuasion!" (Jingo).

This troper uses "Gods" quite a bit...by the gods, gods above, etc. He's also fond of using Crom (Conan, anyone?), though thats a conscious decision, usually for some over the top, hammed up exclamation. "May Crom and all of the thousand hells decend upon you if you do not give me the last slice of pie" is a good example.

This troper, being an atheist, switched god in "Oh my god!" with... that other guy. Which doesn't really make much sense, either.

This troper used to say "Dear sweet non-existent lord." Now her general exclamation is "SWEET ROBOT JESUS!"

This troper, being a [=SubGenius=], often uses "Dear 'Bob'!" A forum he used to frequent had an atheist C++ coder as a regular; said coder often used, "Dear [=SRand()=]!" And then, of course, there was a job he had which had a work study program with the local Baptist college, whose students often used "Oh my word!", as they were very serious about the whole "not taking God's name in vain" thing.

This troper posted this in a forum a few weeks ago: "That depends entirely on what is handy at the moment. If I have to gag him with a bunch of Fettuccini Alfredo, then by the gods, I will."

This troper is very fond of "Dear sweet Cthulhu!" Because TV Tropes has ruined her life, she has also been known to say "For the love of MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds ..."

Add to that ''Oh, for Cthulhu's sake!'' and ''Por el amor de Cthulhu'', for greater lulz.

... "For the love of Cthulhu?" O.o

This troper is fond of "Son of a Shoggoth!" and "By Cthulhu's tentacles!" She has also exclaimed and knows several others who like to exclaim "Oh Mylanta!"

This troper has used, at various points, "Oh sweet Merlin!", "Merlin's beard!" "Belar, Chaldan, and Mara!" and "Mithros, Mynoss, and Shakith!"

You forgot the best one, "Merlin's knickers!"

This troper finds himself using "Goddesses", "Emperor," and "Chaos" (probably from chaos ''theory'' rather than a fictional reference) as substitutes for "God."

This troper tends to swear by the emperor, along with shouting "by the black gods of the immaterium!"

This troper has used, depending on which has been more recently read, "Ye gods", "Emperor", "Kerensky", "Blake", and "Tester".

This (non-religious) Troper finds 'oh my gods' to be ''really irritating'' and isn't quite sure why.

This (religious) Troper does too, but generally hates anyone trying to be a unique snowflake anyway.

This (non-religious) Troper uses 'Holy space!' 'By space!' instead.

This Troper likes "By the stars!" seeing as how stars do most of the work of creation and all.

*thumbs her nose tauntingly at the above troper* This troper often says something along the lines of "Sweet Guardian" or "Good Guardian", even "Guardian bless!", as per her homebrewed not-exactly-serious religion. When she wants a little more punch, then she goes for gods.

This troper is an atheist, yet uses phrases like "oh my god" and "what the hell" frequently. When called out on it, I point out that blasphemy is next to heresy, so I'm still pissing off all the right people.

Not all churches consider those phrases blasphemy. There's plenty of religious people who go day in and day out using those phrases. On the other hand, your doing it in hopes of ''upsetting'' religious people just because ''you're'' an atheist is ''definitely'' a DudeNotFunny.

Speak for yourself.

Lie-Smith}} This troper uses "ye gods", "Hecate preserve us", "for Goddess' sake", "Eris Discordia", and "Gods of Paradox" (specifically invented just to swear by).

This troper deliberately drilled himself to exclaim "40000}} By the Emperor!", as well as "BEES!" so as not to risk insulting the priests of his school.

This (hmph, maybe moderately religious) troper will make 'Bees!' her new catchphrase. It's been used on and off for some time now (usually followed up by me doing a doubletake and proclaiming 'beauty is in the eye of the BEE-HOLDER!') but it's now thoroughly endorsed.

Not sure if it qualifies, but this troper has been using the phrase "what in the French hell?" ever since mishearing a line in ''AmericanDad'' as that.

This editor is a Communist. Replace God, Jesus, etc with Marx, Lenin, etc. Warhammer 40k has also become a subject of interest, so it's not uncommon to hear exclamations of "Sweet God-Emperor!" followed by "Marx's mustache wax!"

That...is beautiful. Thank you.

This Troper avoids using the word "God" in almost any language so he has a whole stock of phrases for almost any language he knows, he is rather fond of using ''Dioses!'' in Spanish ''Goddess!'' in English, ''Teos Vitae'' in Latin and is currently learning how to say Gods in French.

As a semi-unrepentant Latin geek, I feel it necessary to point out a couple things. First, as Romans used oaths of that sort mainly to appeal to the gods themselves, it would be better to go ahead with "o Dei," "Oh Gods," in the nominative, rather than 'the life's gods', which honestly makes no sense. Touching upon the last part of the preceding statement, the grammar seems to come from a small rock nestled amidst the rings of Saturn, as you put Gods as the indirect object, and, of course as is the case with 'ae' in the second declension, one must guess for life/lives. Thirdly, It is 'Deus' not 'Teus'. Next, in Latin, only names are capitalized, and even 'Dei' is stretching it. If you were to invoke the power of a specific god or goddess, for example 'o Iuno!' then that is an entirely separate matter. I believe I shall cut my rant short, as I have realized that my rant was entirely longer than the original post to which it replied.

This troper's Wiccan girlfriend uses "Oh my gods!". However, I (a atheist) tend to use funner expressions, like "Sweet Zombie Jesus!", "Sweet raptor Jesus!" and "Sweet Chocolate Jesus with a delicious cream center!"

This troper theorizes that practically any two syllable noun can be used in ''sweet _____ Jesus'' and it'll still sound great. Zombie, baby, monkey, raptor, werewolf, &c. Verbs in the present continuous tense are more welcome in ''Jesus _____ Christ'', e.g.: "Jesus tapdancing Christ!"

"Jesus H. Christ on a Ritz cracker!" is a favorite of this Troper, as is "Christ on a bike!"

This troper, in a moment of great stress, came out with "Sweet lolloping Christ!" The only rationalisation she can think of is that it might have something to do with the Easter Bunny.

This troper's favourite is currently "Sweet Raptor Jesus with a cherry on top!"

Oh come on! Jesus IS a zombie. Back from the dead, doncha know?

This troper's swear of choice: "Oh, Frith!"

After watching ''IClaudius'', this troper went through a phase of using the term, "Great merciful BLOODSTAINED GODS!", in his best BRIAN BLESSED voice.

I refer you to my previous statement. JABBA FUCKING HUTT!

This troper both exclaims with "gods", but more often putting "dear ''Satan''", "for the love of God, Satan, Buddha, and creamed squash" and "DEEP-FRIED JESUS ON A UNICYCLE!".

This troper has, at one point, equated Fred Morrison (a musician he quite likes) to god. To shove the point in, for a while, he used "Oh my Fred!" instead of "Oh my god!".

MoralGuardians like to point out the commandment about not taking the name of God in vain, saying that it's disrespectful. So I take the names of {{Satan}} in vain, with exclamations like "Dark Lord of Hell!" when I'm really annoyed or frustrated.

I just go with the Russian equivalent of "Oh, Lord" in Russian speech, despite being an atheist. In English speech, I use things like "bloody gosh", "for crying out loud", and "for sanity's sake". My ''Main/WorldOfWarcraft'' character goes with the plain old "By the Light".

This troper started using "Oh your god!" in response to the common exclamation, as well as "OH MY GAHH".

This troper's mother regularly uses the phrase "Lord love a duck", and he is determined to eventually integrate it into his own vocabulary.

This Troper is fond of invoking Arceus.

FurikoMaru has a habit of saying, "Oh, sweet Anthy, no/yes (as the situation warrants)!"

John H. Conway, people, just pick something you think is awesome but not blasphemous and run with it!

When this troper was writing a drama for church, a pirate swore in surprise with 'by the power of greyskull!'. Intended as a direct HotFuzz rip off.

This Troper tries to be creative as well. I prefer to say, "Unholy Crap!" when things get bad, since it sounds more logical.

This troper, being a huge music nerd, has worked "Sweet child o' mine," "Jesus Christ deny your maker," and of course "Holy diver" into his speech patterns.

For this troper, it's usually "Oh, Zarquon!"

Holy Crepe! Also, Aw, nutbunnies.

This Troper has gone though quite a few of these over the years. Examples include "Oh lord and lady", "For cruk's sake" and "oh, for the love of anime". I'm currently toying with the idea of substituting "christ" with "Kid".

This Troper frequently invokes the name of Ceiling Cat.

This troper is fond of several, particularly "Jesus Christ in an Easter Parade!", "Holy Maple Syrup!", "Holy Apple Cider!" and "Jesus Crap!" (the latter being a misspeech from trying to say 'jesus christ' and 'holy crap' at the same time).

This troper has been known to invoke the Lords of Kobol on occasion. This troper is a devout Catholic.

This Troper has several habits. "Goddess" (Not common in Portuguese), "(By) Tymora", "Nimb" (God of luck in a Brazilian setting), "By all the gods", "Gods", etc. He never got laid.

A (nonreligious) friend of this troper has taken to using "By the unyielding gaze of SCIENCE!" as her primary exclamation. Her other choice phrase is "ByThePowerOfGreyskull!"

This troper frequently employs "CHRIST ON A BIKE!", and sometimes "By Jove".

This troper has an occasional habit of saying "Wrath. Of. Ye. Gods!", thanks to having read CollegeRoomiesFromHell.

Sweet merciful Rao this page has gotten long.

This troper tends to use "Oh my Shiva", "Oh my Wizeman", or "...oh gods."

This troper sometimes says "oh gods" or "oh Primus".

Oh, by the powers of darkness, not this trope...

This troper finds "Ye Gods" to be a wonderful phrase to mutter when someone does something particularly stupid. However, for top of you lungs swearing, you can't beat "BLOODY VERMILLION HELLS!". This irreversible scarring most likely came from reading The Wheel of Time and the Dune prequels in close succession.

This troper, when she doesn't say "oh, gods", she'll use various names of fictional deities... such as, "oh my Kira" or, "oh my Aizen."

I can't quite decide if that's clever, funny or slightly scary.

{{Magnezone}} sez.......... "Ohhhhhhhhhhdeararceus." Or, occasionally for moments of surprise, "ASDFGHJKL." (It's pronounced 'add-jis-fickle' said very, very fast.) When I really feel like saying a long private joke where nobody will understand, I go for, "Holy Shiny Robot Atomic-Bomb Wielding Arceus Piloted by an Ex-World-Exploding Insane Man With BLUE HAIR!!!!" No, seriously. I've done it.

This Troper has developed a habit of replacing 'Jesus' with 'Kamina', ex. "Dear sweet Kamina", "Kamina H. Christ on a pogo stick", and the especially rare substitution of 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!' into "Simon, Nia, and Kamina!" Yes, this agnostic troper has many, many issues.

This troper is quite fond of exclaiming " By the Nine Divines!"

Being a fan of Battlestar Galactica and a participant in various BSG forums, this troper has both used and seen being used the phrases "oh my Gods" or "godsdamnit" even outside direct discussions about the show. When a thread was made to discuss the usage of "gods", some posters admitted that these phrases had made their way into their daily vocabularly outside the internet despite not being pagans.

This troper watched four seasons of Battlestar Galactica in a month in order to watch the 5th season while it aired. She has been unable to shake "Gods" and "frak" from her vocabulary. That much exposure in such a short time apparently renders such vocabulary permanent.

This troper generally uses fictional dieties, such as "Emporer damn you!"

EddieVanHelsing tends to swear by Shabranigdo's balls or Lilith's heart-shaped ass when not in polite company. When ''in'' polite company, he swears by chaos.

This troper entirely blames this site for his use of "Sweet CrystalDragonJesus!" and other similar exclamations.

This troper is, despite his best efforts, stuck with "Oh my Goddess," in reference to his days as a Discordian. It is not that he worships Eris anymore, per se. It is simply that, regardless of to whom he prays, his prayers always seem to be answered by her, in the way she'd prefer to answer them. (Oh, by the way, contrary to what TheIlluminatusTrilogy and Principa Discordia would have you believe, she's ChaoticNeutral. And quite thoroughly {{Yandere}}.)

This troper's found herself blurting out "Saint Calucion's ''tits!''" when mildly angry, lately... it seems to be a milder form of her truly incensed cry of "SEKHMET'S BLOOD-SPATTERED TITS!" (usually followed by "WHAT THE HELL IS ''WRONG'' WITH YOU PEOPLE (or THE UNIVERSE or THE WORLD or SOCIETY or MY FAMILY)?!"). She's also in the past asked "What in seventy different hells...?" and wished "the wrath of twenty-three gods from seventeen pantheons" on people who pissed her off.

This troper sometimes says "For somebody's sake!"

This troper has begun invoking the names of various CLAMP characters. She once said, quite loudly, "MOKONA DAMN IT!"

Similarly to the above, this troper occasionally shouts "CLOW DAMNIT". else is his fault anyway.

This Troper, because of an inside joke among him and a friend, uses "Oh Good GIR" and at one point has used "CrystalDragonJesus!"

This troper once heard someone in a particularly nerdy setting swear "by the Electric Throne of Doctor Hawking!"

This troper uses "A'isha" (that's eye-ee-sha) rather exclusively, though she only noticed she was doing it recently when a friend asked about it; the friend assumed it was a Jewish thing (this troper being the only Jewish teen in a very baptist town) when, in actuality, it was picked up from an episode of Scrubs. The most commonly used variations are 'I swear to a'isha' and 'for the love of a'isha'.

Jewish, my flaming fingertips. A'isha is a ''Muslim'' name.

And it's not really pronounced that way either, but let's not get into that.

No love for Raymond Feist? "By all the Gods of Midkemia!" Well, whenever I remember, anyways. I usually swear obscene rather than profane oaths, anyhow, or in GratuitousJapanese. Or Chinese, which I am, so I've got an excuse.

This troper is prone to swearing by gods, and was oddly proud when his little brother started too.

This troper falls somewhere near the atheist end of the spectrum but habitually says 'Gods below' (A {{Dune}} thing, he thinks) and phrases like 'God's teeth' and 'Mother of God,' usually in the context of 'O sweet Mother of God, why does this exist?'

This troper uses variations on "powers of dusk" and "dark gods!"

Reading through this page, this troper has decided to start using "By the great Ninni", and "(By) Anthy, Ninni and The White Prophet!", and variations thereof. Much more fun than "Oh, [my] god!" and various {{Satan}}-related curses, which are standard for my native Swedish.

This troper has a character he plays in a Marvel Comics setting. As the character is mystical based, his favorite exclamation is 'What in the various hells?!'. He also plays in an oWorld of Darkness room. His Garou usually exclaim 'Oh for the love Gaia!. His Changelings usually exclaim 'What in the name of the Dreaming?!'

This (Christian) troper's got a Discordian friend (as in, one of those who view it as a religion disguised as an elaborate joke rather than the other way around) who typically swears on Eris' name when he's not saying some form of "Gods."

This troper uses some form of "Gods", but has taken to using a line from a Miles Vorkosigan story: "What in God's Nine Green Hells ?"

This (French) Troper has picked up "Par tous les dieux et leurs putains!" from a (French) fantasy series. It translates as "By all the gods and their bitches!". In English, he is fond of stuff like "Holy shit!" and "Jesus Christ!".

Every time this troper says "Oh my god!" and a certain friend of his is around, said friend will reply: "mine too!". It is really getting on my nerves.

When I was a kid, I'd sometimes go with "Oh my gods!" or "By the left testicle of Choronzon!" More recently, I've adopted "For Haruhi's sake!" and "What in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?!" For extra fun, try "Vittu merdique na dhabhail!", which means "TheDevil's shitty cunt!" in Finnish, French, and Irish.

Sometimes if This Troper (Ilite) wants to exlaim something, she might make up anything after 'Holy...' Especially if she sees something in History class that stuns her, so she'll be muttering something like 'holy goats' or 'holy flippers' 'holy kitbags' or whatever comes to mind. Sometimes it might even be just a nonsense word with random phonetic sounds like 'jesoflub!'. Swearing in Simlish is just as fun too...that's what happens when you play The Sims 2 too much!

This troper substitutes "Bod" for god: "for Bod's sake, oh my Bod, etc." a recent variant is "For bod's sake, mankind", a sort of Nebulous/hitchikers mix, as in "for Bod's sake, mankind, you call it a healthfood shop and yet you have no elderflower cordial *grumbles* ". Also used are "Ye gods" (see above) and "by Complexity" (this troper is Atheist/Buddhist), for when I'm actually serious about something. I also sometimes call on the names of certain islands of Earthsea, including Roke, Esmer, Paln, and Osskil, sometimes in conjunction ("Roke and Esmer, what have you trodden in this time?")

This (Taoist) troper prefers cursing in Cantonese (otherwise known as 'speaking Cantonese in a normal tone of voice') but finds "in the Name of the Nameless/that which Has No Name...", the first few lines of LXVII ("The whole world calls my Way vast..."), and "BUTTERFLY!" to be useful in some circumstances.

Recently, this troper has been replacing any instance of "God" with "Haruhi". "Praise Haruhi!" or "Blessed be Haruhi's name!"

Wait... I say this ALL THE TIME. -brofist-

This troper tends to use "Oh, Goddess" or "By the gods" as expressions.

This (Irish Catholic) troper tends to say "For Dagda's/Eiru's sake" every now and again.

This Myst fan troper has been known to exclaim "Oh my Yahvo" and "Yahvo have mercy".

Kinell, started as an abreviation ('kin 'ell), over use turned it into a standard if meaningless word. When something stronger is needed typically it comes out as a somewhat warped InTheNameOfTheMoon speach.

This Troper, out of a general aversion to taking the Lord's name in vain, uses "Dog," because at one point it was the first thing to come to mind.

LEXicon712: For the love of Kira, all of you should praise Haruhi, Arceus, and Kamina

OMK! (for Kamina or Kira)

OMH!

OMA!

Good fun can be had in mass if you're not Christian (but still forced to go) and have a plethora of anime characters at your disposal. Especially during the Lord's Prayer. Not quite swearing, still quite entertaining.

I, a Muslim, have been known to use "Christ" (generally in a ridiculous fake-Irish accent, in imitation of a friend's fake-Irish accent), and "Oh, for Pete's sake."

This troper tends to use Gods or Goddess, but he also says the normal array. And 'Light', which is a habit he's trying to break, given that he hasn't touched a WheelOfTime book in ''years''. He has been known to mutter Empty Night or Stars and Stones while on an archive binge though.

This troper started with "Flaming Ammet!" and went through "Zarquon!" and "zarking fardwarks!" before fetching up at "Christ in a funnel!" After a brief stint in the land of "Jesus Allah Buddha Snack Fairy!" she now bounces around everything from "Jesu Christe!" (the influence of college choir, natch) to "Lordy Lou!" to "Oh mon Dieu." Weirdly enough, her expletives have gotten more Christian as she's gotten less so. (Meanwhile, her father has been known to say things like "doo-dah Dumbledore!", "cat piss and porcupines!" and "pig misery!")

This troper uses more syllables with increasing levels of anger - so "God" and "Christ" are minor, but Zoroaster help you if I ever swear use Huitzilopochtli...

This troper has recently considered invoking the Eddisian gods when upset. She already chants the invocation of the Great Goddess to calm herself, so perhaps it's not a great stretch.

This Troper has been known to use "Oh my CrystalDragonJesus!"

This Troper occasionally uses "oh ye gods" but depending on the situation may spout "By the seal of Abraxas!" or "Sweet ever-changing coil of Tzeentch!" She just now thought of another expression to use: By the hotness of Wao Youka!"

This troper (who is a somewhat-confusing-to-others type of all-polytheist with a somewhat more hypothetical hint of pantheism) tends to use "good ''gods''" for the general "grant me freedom from this frustration" phrase, "Oh God" for headaches and nausea, "''gods''" for "alright, ''who'' or ''what'' is responsible for this!? I am ''so'' annoyed by it!" He also uses various weirder phrases for showing mild (and especially somewhat amused) exasperation, both in his head and out loud (such as "By Hohenheim's beard!" [which has a bit of FridgeBrilliance to it], and "o, improperly capitalized unprintable grumble that sounds sort of like c'lhu-l* plhegm* " [which is easiest to say properly as a mostly-guttural grumble], and a silent, wordless ShoutOut to whatever Trickster first comes to mind when a humorously prankish ContrivedCoincidence happens).

This Troper has a little brother who frequently replaces "God" with the goddesses from Zelda. "Great Din" and "for the love of Farore" are two of his favorites.

This troper once saw a friend post "OME" on some website or other. When I expressed my confusion, she elaborated, "It stands for 'Oh My Edward'". I was reduced to incoherent sputtering for a good five minutes. And, if you want to know, my preferred oath is "sweet [verb]ing [noun]!" - a favourite is "sweet jumping bananas!"

This troper is rather fond of "Oh, for the love of peace!"

This troper has gone through a number of variants of this and currently uses "Sweet fucking Godkings!"

The wonderful troper that is I is rather prone to saying "frick-a-loo!" It came from the French dub in an episode of Scrubs.

This other troper does this too! I thought I was alone. But, no. With the power of the frickaloo, no one is alone!

This troper has recently taken to saying, "Almighty Saxton Hale."

This troper likes to say "What the pfargtl?".

This troper, because she flat-out refuses to say "God" for religious reasons (she's Catholic, and she can't use His name in vain) and tries not to offend everyone else, uses such quotes as "Hikaria/Arceus help me," "Dear Hikaria and Arceus," and so on. {{Magnezone}}, you're not the only one who uses Arceus. (Hikaria is a fictional character--a deity--of her own series. No, I am not going to make it like Sciento--I mean, Happyology. Again, Catholic.)

This troper's Latin teacher in high school just yelled "Jupiter!" when upset. She seemed to be Christian, though.

This troper uses Naga or The Three Nagas. Mock religions are fun to make. :D

This troper has, at one point, exclaimed "SWEET JESUS IN A CORNDOG!!" and "HOLY BUTTER BISCUITS!!" Oddly enough, I'm not especially fond of either food items.

This atheist troper will frequently utter "Oh My God!" or "Jesus Christ!" in moments of shock, but when using it on a message board will typically replace God with either "InvisiblePinkUnicorn" or "FlyingSpaghettiMonster"

"What in the name of Dagon's decomposing ballsack is going on!?!?!" and "(by) Nurgle's Rot!" for this troper.

This agnostic troper who has yet to make a contributor page has taken to inserting characters, gods, and famous people in place of God as well as using "Oh my possible God" and "Oh your God". Some of the more common variants of the former include "For Ra's sake" and "For the love of Freeman". Allah has been popping up quite a bit recently, especially whenever I feel the need to play Islam's advocate (I apologize to any Muslim tropers offended by this).

This troper has a Hindu friend who is prone to saying "Oh my gods." Logical. She has a (lapsed) Catholic friend who is prone to saying "By the middle taint of Thor!" Slightly less logical.

This troper uses "Oh, gods," "For the love of Nyx," and substitutes Arceus into the pledge of allegience. And has recently added "Sweet merciful Hanyuu!"

This Troper, like the above Troper, uses Arceus. I also say, with great amusement, "What in the name of Raikou, Suicune and Entei is going on here?" and "For the love of Snorlax!" Both my sister and I use 'for the love of the gods' and 'I swear to the gods' despite not being of any particular faith.

I've been known to come up with some rather creative oaths -- "Merciless Haruhi!" and others involving Yukari and Oyashiro-sama spring to mind, but I've also used the names of various deities from my own writings.

This troper is polytheistic, preferring " By all gods" or " Oh my gods"...if things go really downhill, he tends to run with " Morrigan's Blood!" or, as a phrase that would not go unstuck from the first time playing Baldur's Gate, " Blood and Ashes!"

Due to six months of writing a Pokemon Let's Play, this atheist Troper has gotten in the habit of swearing to legendaries. In real life, I'm often prone to saying "Sweet zombie Batman."

Due to this Troper being a pagan with a born-again Christian for a mother, phrases like "Oh my God" and "dear god", have been replaced with "Oh my gods" and "dear goddess", so as not to offend. However, when feeling especially aggravated around my children , I do tend to drop in an occasional "O Dios mio", the Spanish version of "oh my God" picked up from my mother-in-law. For some reason its actually more satisfying than swearing in English, although very Caucasian Amazon swearing in Spanish does get funny looks.

Mon dieu!

Once, this Troper, when startled, exclaimed "Jubjub Birds and Jabberwockies!"

This Troper is Jewish, and went to a mostly Christian high school. When one of her Christian friends said "Oh my God", she got in the habit of saying "Yours and mine" (and when her Hindu friend was around, "Yours, mine, and all of his!")

But they're the same god.

This Troper is a VG geek and uses the names of various Final Fantasy summons instead of 'God'. Kinda fitting when you think about it, as most of the ones she swears by are Gods in their own right. 'Sweet Shiva' and 'Odindamnit' are her favorites.

After watching AVeryPotterMusical, this troper and his friends have begun exclaiming "Oh my Wizard God!"

In a sort of inversion, this Hindu troper uses typical christian curses, mostly regional British and Irish ones E.G. "Jesus, Mary, n' Joseph!" or "bloody hell!" which doesn't even make sense considering this troper lives on the other side of ThePond. Slightly explicable in that I'm half-Irish and obviously am more hesitant to take my own gods in vain.

This (atheist) Troper occasionally says "oh my gods" or "oh my ever-beloved deities" when in more polite company. I also occasionally curse in German or Finnish. And despite not having seen Battlestar Galactica (yet!) I use Frack a lot.

This Troper frequently uses Mandarin curses; since she introduced her family to the joys of the 'Verse, they increasingly know what she's saying. She has never been prouder than when she exclaimed, "Go se!" and her mother told her to watch her language.

This Troper kindly reminds you that he seriously doubts you are pronouncing them correctly, since nobody in {{Firefly}} does either.

After spending some time in the ''{{Homestuck}}'' fandom, this troper has grown fond of "Gog!" and "Jegus!", which, in {{Fanon}}, are main figures of the Troll religion.

This Christian Troper simply says "Fuck."

This user tends to say By the user What in the name of unholy algorithm, and, May the Hexs have mercy on your soul...

This troper has a habit of asking people what in the nine eternally damned circles of Heck they're talking about.

This Troper, a Christian who likes to invoke the Greek Pantheon (EG "Hercules, Zeus, and Hera!" or "Hades on a bike!"), thinks it's very interesting that the majority of the people on this page who ''don't'' invoke The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are ''not'' Christians. Not because of any religious reasons, I really couldn't care less what everyone else says, but it's statistically interesting. The people who really don't care what the Ten Commandments say are the ones ''complying'' with one. It makes sense, yes, but it still seems generally inconsistent. Oh, and I also like to throw in a "Great Shades Of Elvis!" once in a while.

This troper uses "Oh my SCIENCE!" when trying to be sarcastic. When truly angered, he slips into Angrish and rather disturbing cuss-phrases, like "Bloody fuck!"

This troper invokes WillWright, SidMeier, TetsuyaNomura and/or ShigeruMiyamoto.

This Buddhist (and NERD) troper uses "oh for the love of Kira," for Sheogorath's sake, by Cthulhu, "Sweet Sephiroth," "ye gods," or simply "Frak."

This semi-Christian troper says "Oh Cripes", and even "Oh Goss". The latter mainly because it sounds like Gordon Ramsey.

This Troper Uses the plural form of any expression (Oh my gods, Oh for god's sakes). He's an athiest, and therefore doesn't want to pick sides.

I use this statement "Oh My Gods" as a replacement for "Oh My God" mainly because he despises monotheism. Why one God when there's the possibility of ''all Gods''?

Hinduism can be interpreted as monotheistic ''and'' polytheistic simultaneously: that all the Hindu gods are, in fact, a manifestation of one god, aka Brahman. There, you happy now?

This Troper, who is an atheist, finds phrases like "oh my gods" profoundly annoying and uses the cursing he grew up with. It's not like using an expression makes you a monotheist.

This troper tends to invoke Phrike (her -ahem- patron goddess, for lack of a better term, seeing as she doesn't actually worship Phrike [rather, she worships Yahweh, and retains a belief in just about everything else. They just aren't to be worshipped. Feared, maybe.]). ... And MapQuest.

This tropette is trying to get into the habit of saying --ing, Empty Night and What the Ri'leyh

Ever since a near disastrous incident involving seventh graders and open flame fiery problems have always gotten This Troper responding with "Holy Mary, tap-dancing mother of Christ!!"

This troper's friend is a shintoist and frequently says, "Dear gods."

This troper is partial to "Dear sweet Cthulu!," "In the name of David Bowie's sainted package," and her personal favorite, "In the name of Slender Man's wanking arm!"

This atheistic troper says:

Oh my Haruhi!

Oh my Kira!

Oh my Cthulu!

Oh their/your god(s)!

This troper has once seen a ''{{Touhou}}'' fancomic where Reimu yelled an epic "SHIKIEKI DAMNIT!" those who do not know, Shikieki is the judge of the dead of Gensokyo.

This troper has seen one where Alice Margatroid uses Shinki in an expletive. :Shinki being the creator of Makai, where Alice may or may not be from.

This troper likes to use "Sweet Zombie Darkrai" for ''{{Pokemon}}'' fic, and read one fic where characters got into an argument over which Legendary Pokémon they chose to swear by.

As a kind-sorta Hindu (minus the caste system) I always preferred Ganesha. Hence, "oh for the love of Ganesha!" More often though, I just throw words together. "For the love of bloody bollocks!" which sounds ''incredibly'' painful, come to think of it...

Also, "Hynedamnit!"

This troper, being both a Catholic and a huge nerd, loves to use the phrase "Madre de Ciencia!" or "Madre de Diodes!" (the latter coming from the awesome webcomic GirlGenius . Poor Professor Diaz...) "Sweet Mother of Pain!" is also a nice one, though I'm not sure where that one comes from, other than it sounds neat.

This troper's mother, a Catholic, will often exclaim "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!". This troper's pagan friend exclaims, without exception, "By the gods and goddesses!". This troper (a pagan) uses "Oh my gods" (often around those who don't know she's a pagan) as well as "My Goddess!" but 16 years of Catholicism keep the basic "Oh my God" in the mix as well.

From a TabletopGame: #QUOTE#'''This Troper:'''Tell me what you know or by Anything and Everything I'll throw you back in there!

This she-Troper is fond of saying "Maiden, Mother and Crone!" or "Goddess and Consort!" but her favorites are "Sweet Tendrils!" and "Oh, Murphy!"

"For Slenderman's sake!"

Thanks to ASongOfIceAndFire, this troper has been saying "seven hells" consistently for a few years now. During my Oblivion days, "by the Nine!" showed up a lot. And, now that all of my friends play DragonAge together, "Maker's breath, you're beautiful" shows up a lot too.

This troper is part of the {{Pokemon}} fandom. He throws around "Mother of Arceus" sometimes.

This troper is a loyal, though not strict, Roman Catholic but I enjoy mixing up my exclamations I say "Oh my God!" normal but I'll also say "Oh Gods!" "Jesus Motherfucking Christ!" "By the Allfather!" "Ollathair Almighty!" "Holy Hell!" "In the name of Pants!" "Fucking Sky Gods!"(when it's raining) so on and so forth.

Due to having spent too much time hanging around Spacebattles.com, this troper has taken to using 'ROB' as a subsitute for 'god', although only in writing and even then only on sites where the other posters will get the reference.

@/{{Night}} regrets to inform you he just now swore by the Sankt Kaiser while trying to write. He blames his characters doing so.

This troper uses 'omg' a lot. Being a devout Catholic, and having a lot of friends with very strict rules about language, it's always short for one of three things: 'gosh', 'gods' or 'Gandalf'. Depends on what I've been reading lately...

This Troper ends up using "Christ on a cracker" randomly, though I'm trying to break that habbit. I also picked up "sweet googly moogly" and"sweet caramelized Sephiroth on a stick!" from a friend, "for the love of all that's holy", and variations on "what in the nine hells?". And then there're the two rather... ''imaginative'' classics: "Fucking royal shit!" and "Fucking bugger-sticks!"

Yours truly says "Oh my Chaos!" and "Oh my Light Gaia!" with the occasional use of those three or four goddesses.

This Troper used to be fond of replacing "God" with "Frith" in his expressions (e.g. "Oh my Frith, what's with all these rabbits?"). These days, it's more like "Oh my Castiel". And if he's ''really'' upset, he'll bust out "Christ on a crapstick!"