Adjective!noun

In fanfiction, canon characters acting out of character often take on several strange and disturbing traits that stick out like a sore thumb. When this happens, the character appears so unlike him/herself that a renaming is often in order. For instance, a trope of the South Park fanon is that Stuart McCormick is cruel and abusive to his son, Kenny. This warped characterization is then rechristened "Evil!Stuart". Other examples of adjective!nouns are Nice!Cartman or Badass!Stan.
The adjective!noun construction originates in object oriented programming, is pronounced [adjective]bang[noun], and means "the instantation of [noun] that has the property of being [adjective]." It is used to emphasize that the canon version of the character does not have the property being described, only the version in the fanfic being referenced. An alcoholic Randy Marsh, for example, would not be banged because canon Randy is an alcoholic. A version of Randy who did not drink would be teetotaller!Randy.
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