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{{Useful Notes}}
These tags are concatenated and prepended to a character name, separated by exclamation marks: for example, ''Angry!Uber!Harry.''
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* ''Drunk'' or ''Drunken'': Self-explanatory.
* ''Emo'': Synonym for "Angsty".
* ''Fem'': (Sometimes "Female".)
** For Ranma of ''[[Ranma ½]]'', it usually indicates a story where he accepts and embraces his girl-side, often to the extent of abandoning being male altogether.
** In ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfiction, usually in stories written after the release of ''The Half-Blood Prince'', this is typically used to indicate a female Blaise Zabini.
** Multiple [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Bridgets]] were dropped on ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' fandom when the beautiful Tieria was revealed to have a masculine voice. Even now, people call for 'female!Tieria' or the more explicit 'Tiera-with-girl-parts'.
** This happens frequently with the ambiguous character Haku from ''[[Naruto]]'', but this tag also gets used all the time on ''Naruto himself''. Partially ''Justified'' in the fact that Naruto has been seen changing into a female form as part of a Henge (or disguise), based on himself if he were a well endowed female instead of a guy.
** Seen in video game fanfics in which a main character's gender can be chosen by the player, such as ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' (female!{{spoiler|Revan}}, female!Exile) and ''[[Mass Effect]]'' (female!Shepard, AKA fem!Shep) -- a corresponding "male" tag also exists.
** Seen in ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' fanfiction where a female version of Eli has become quite popular. Well, Girl Eli.
** Fem! versions of the [[Moe Anthropomorphism|nations]] in [[Axis Powers Hetalia]] denotes that they have been [[Gender Flip|gender bended]].
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[[Fanfic]] communities will often have tags specific to their fandoms that they use to describe tropes that occur with some regularity (Slytherin![[Harry Potter|Harry]], Future![[Heroes (TV series)|Hiro]], or Vamp![[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Willow]], for example).
▲It can identify a specific version of a character or work when it had been done by different people and/or in different media since [[Depending on the Writer|those can vary wildly from the source material]]. Sometimes this uses the name of the specific author or simply the form of the work ([[Fullmetal Alchemist|Manga!Pride, Anime!Greed]], [[The Phantom of the Opera|Leroux!Erik, or Movie!Phantom]])
Likewise, the title of a given [[Fanfic]] 'verse, or an abbreviation thereof, can also be used to indicate the version of a character from that setting, particularly when there have been major changes to them: [[Undocumented Features|UF]]![[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]], [[Sailor Moon Expanded|SME]]![[Sailor Moon|Jadeite]]. ▼
▲Likewise, the title of a given [[Fanfic]] 'verse, or an abbreviation thereof, can also be used to indicate the version of a character from that setting, particularly when there have been major changes to them: [[Undocumented Features|UF]]![[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]], [[Sailor Moon Expanded|SME]]![[Sailor Moon|Jadeite]]
Because this kind of tagging is ad hoc and in no way formalized, it's common to see unusual and/or idiosyncratic tags that indicate some truly wild variants, such as Cyborg![[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander]] or [[Book of Amber|Amberite]]![[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]].▼
▲Because this kind of tagging is ad hoc and in no way formalized, it's common to see unusual and/or idiosyncratic tags that indicate some truly wild variants, such as Cyborg![[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander]] or [[Book of Amber|Amberite]]![[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]].
And when many of these conditions are in play for a given character, particularly complex combinations can start to resemble bang paths from the ancient [[wikipedia:UUCP|UUCP]] protocol.
The practice is starting to seep out from fanfiction, though, and can also be used when talking about similar things in the source material, such as, for example, Future!Hiro, Vamp!Willow, or Brainwashed!Undead!Starscream (''[[Transformers Energon|Energon]]''!Starscream for short). It's also used in a more tongue-in-cheek manner to categorize examples of the [[Mary Sue]] in a quick, concise form.
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