Marvel's Luke Cage: 44 Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

44. "I Don't Curse!"

Swearing in the early episodes of Luke Cage is a big deal: it's one of Pop's cardinal sins (as written on the walls of his barbershop), but it's also a principle that Luke Cage has built his crime-fighting career on. In the first episode he says he doesn't curse and has no need for Pop's curse jar.

He doesn't use profanity where possible, preferring the far more ridiculous "Sweet Christmas!" (though it doesn't happen as often as you might think in the series). And it's always been that way in the comics, where Power Man has traditionally gone with nonsense like "Fiddle-Faddle" or “Knick-Knack-Paddy-Whack" (if he's particularly irate).

It's actually also a riff on Marvel's no swearing rule, which they've actually relaxed here. This is Netflix and R-rated territory after all, even if the previous series have avoided more than a single F-bomb each (and Luke Cage edits out a lot of Mufuggers in a Wu-Tang Clan song). But they swear here a lot more than expected, so it's very tongue in cheek.