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These tags are concatenated and prepended to a character name, separated by exclamation marks: for example, ''Angry!Uber!Harry.''
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* ''Angsty'': Used to indicate the character will be excessively distraught during the fic.
* ''Canon'': Obviously used to denote that the author is trying to stick as close to the canon character as possible. (See [[Original Flavor]].)
* ''Dark'': A heroic character [[Ron the Death Eater|is made evil]] -- [[Anti-Hero|or at the least considerably more ruthless]]
* ''Drunk'' or ''Drunken'': Self-explanatory.
* ''Emo'': Synonym for "Angsty".
* ''Fem'': (Sometimes "Female".)
** For Ranma of ''[[Ranma
** 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 ''[[
** Fem! versions of the [[Moe Anthropomorphism|nations]] in [[
* ''Gay'': [[Everyone Is Gay|Self-explanatory.]] Sometimes used if a character is portrayed as gay without being [[Slash Fic|involved in the main pairing.]]
* ''God'': A character is vastly more powerful, intelligent, and occasionally morally pure than in the source material. Similar to the below Uber tag, but more frequently used in negative criticism of a story than in the author's own description, with the frequent implication that the author incorrectly believes this version is [[Canon]].
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** It can sometimes refer to everybody acting differently (sometimes with justified reasons, like mind control).
** Unfortunately some authors use this for "out of continuity", which causes some people to shun out-of-continuity fics unnecessarily.
* ''Past/Future'': In time-traveling stories, ''Past!'' and ''Future!'' may help with the [[Which Me?]] problem. More specific time periods may be used, for exmaple, [[Back to The Future|1955!Doc and 1985!Doc]].
* ''Psycho'': The character is insane, or acts like it. Specifically, he may behave like a psychopath or sociopath.
* ''Rational'': (Also ''Rationalist''). The character has a buff to common sense that would completely derail the canon of the series if it were brought into canon. Expect multiple characters to come along for the ride.
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** A subclass of this is the YAHF, or ''Yet Another Halloween Fic'', from the fact that it uses the gimmick of the second season episode "Halloween" to achieve the Uber effect.
[[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).
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]].▼
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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]].
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.▼
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.
▲It can also be used to 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]])
▲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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