Because of this Sheppard wanted to highlight in the book is that “there is joy in being a teen girl”. Also parodied once, when every character in the scene cites a different god... ending with " Amora, Goddess of Mustard".

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness takes a brief divergence to discuss a small cult started around an insane Seer called Meshe, which excuses various characters to spout "Meshe's milk!" or "By the tits of Meshe!" whenever surprised or confounded. Both of which remind us that Meshe, although referred to as "he", is really a hermaphrodite like everyone else on the planet (except Genly Ai, who comes from Earth). Gods!" and variations thereof are common in the Heralds of Valdemar series. Characters with mentioned faiths sometimes invoke specific deities; examples include the Windborn, the Star-Eyed Goddess, and Vkandis Sunlord, the latter two having manifested as real characters on various occasions.Similarly to the books, Game of Thrones will occasionally use this trope. For example, in one episode Jon Snow says "Seven Hells!".

In Fiona Patton's Tales of the Branion Realm series, many characters worship a fire god, and use expressions such as "scorch it," or "that blazing bastard." In another Ringworld book, Louis Wu was trying to get a catatonic Puppeteer to wake up, and in frustration shouted "By Kdapt, Allah and Finagle, I summon thee!" She has deliberately intertwined race relations into the spellbinding fiction with powerful effect. The Greek Gods have a choice as to what they look like, including their skin – and most have preferred to be white.

The kingdom in which NIMONA (2023) takes place reveres their founder Gloreth, said to have vanquished a hideous monster and set up the system of knighthood. As such, her name is commonly used in phrases such as "Good Gloreth!" or "What in the name of Gloreth...?" Oddly enough, one side character does say "oh my God" early in the film.

SOKA GAKKAI INTERNATIONAL. A wealthy form of this-worldly Buddhism, based in Japan and rooted in the teachings of the thirteenth-century Buddhist monk Nichiren, Soka Gakkai has some 18 million members in 115 countries. It was founded in 1930 by Makiguchi Tsunesaburo and Toda Josei and then re-established after World War II, at which point it began to grow dramatically. " Soka gakkai" means "value-creating society," and the movement's members believe that true Buddhists should work not to escape earthly experience but, rather, to embrace and transform it into enlightened wisdom. Early members were criticized for their goal of worldwide conversion and their aggressive approach to evangelism, a strategy referred to as shakubuku, or "break through and overcome." In recent years the intensity has diminished. The movement is strongly but unofficially linked to New Komeito ("Clean Government Party"), currently the third most powerful group in the Japanese parliament. It is also registered as an NGO with the United Nations, and recently opened a major new liberal-arts university in southern California. At the climax of Oh God! You Devil, when the Devil lost his nerve in a poker showdown with God, God commented, "I put the fear of Me into you." In the Dragaera novels, the hero, Vlad, will sometimes swear by his patron goddess, Verra, or use curses like "Verra-be-damned", which makes sense as she is called the "Demon Goddess." He's particularly fond of the exclamation "Verra's tits!" After realizing both that she hears this and that he can't turn it off even when the pair of them is physically present... he seems to step it up. In Bizarrogirl, a Kryptonian woman exclaims: "Cythonna's teeth!", invoking an ancient Kryptonian goddess. Belgariad: Characters will often have swear phrases linked to the god of the people they belong to. Tolnedrans might exclaim "Great Nedra!", Angaraks use various body parts of Torak, such as "Torak's teeth!" or "By the beard of Torak!", Alorns swear on Belar, and Sendars might curse on multiple gods, such as "Belar, Mara and Nedra!" A Melcene once exclaims "Oh, my God!" only for Belgarath to retort "You don't even know who your god is" is because none of the gods chose the Melcene people as followers.

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In Gold in the Sky, a 1958 sci-fi thriller by Alan E. Nourse, Major Briarton has a habit of exclaiming "By the ten moons of Saturn!" apparently unaware there are actually eighty-two moons around that planet. The microscopic cast of Osmosis Jones use "Frank" in place of "God", this being the name of the man whose body they inhabit/constitute. Captain Britain: When Mad Jim Jaspers fought a destructive battle with The Fury, Saturnyne's only reaction is "Mithras wept!" The Roman Mysteries has "By Castor and Pollux" or simply "Pollux!", the latter of which sounds a lot like a more modern word. There are also "Great Neptune's beard!" or "Great Jupiter's eyebrows!". In the comic sci-fi novel Mallworld, people regularly swear by "the Pope's tits", evidently just so the author can toss the incongruity of a female Pope in on top of all the other weirdness.