Ratboy

English Etymology From en rat boy. Coined by fans as a humorous reference to the character's amoral and duplicitous nature.Brian Lowry, Chris Carter, & Sarah Stegall, The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files (1995), page 88 Popularized on alt.tv.x-files, the main Usenet newsgroup for the show,Paul Cornell, Martin Day, & Keith Topping, X-treme Possibilities: A Comprehensively Expanded Rummage through Five years of the X-files (1998), page 47 where it is first attested in 1994. Proper noun en The X-Files _ fandom slang The fictional character Alex Krycek from The X-Files. en 1996 David Lavery; Angela Hague; Marla Cartwright Susan J. Clerc DDEB, GATB, MPPB, and Ratboy Deny All knowledge: Reading the X-files 37 Do you know who Ratboy is? en 2014 Karen Hellekson; Kristina Busse Deborah Kaplan Construction of Fan Fiction Character Through Narrative Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fan_Fiction_and_Fan_Communities_in_the_A/UgZsi_DOKoQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=krycek+ratboy+origin&pg=PA143 143 But this Krycek—self-consciously multivoiced, focalizing as a fan reader through his obsession with Mulder, Ratboy yet sympathetically damaged—is carefully constructed as a recognizable source character interpreted in a new light. en 2016 Natalie Clubb The X-Files: The Official Collection - The Agents, The Bureau, and The Syndicate https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_X_Files_The_Official_Collection_The/9-o7CwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=krycek+ratboy&pg=PT115 144 Given his credentials, Ratboy seems like the perfect candidate for the job. en References en Fictional characters The X-Files en Usenet slang