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{{Useful Notes}}
An'''Characterization Tags''' are an informal, ad hoc system of taggingshorthand for describing the changes made by an author to the characters he has "borrowed" that has spontaneously evolved over the years within the greater [[Fanfic]] community.
 
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".) A fairly rare tag,Sometimes used to indicate that a character of uncertain or variable gender is female or predominantly so in the fic. Especially common in [[Anime]] fanfiction. It's also used with a character (or a group of characters) of non-ambiguous gender, in which case it indicates a [[Gender Flip]].
** 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]].