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The most benign subtrope of [[Body Snatcher]]: two or more characters swap bodies (or, equally, swap minds) by some form of magic or [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. Typically, a deeper appreciation of the other's life is attained. Named for [[Freaky Friday|a novel and movie]] about a body swap between a mother and her daughter.
When this plot is done in animation, usually the ''voices'' [[Voices Are Mental|also switch]] as narrative cheat to help younger viewers keep track of who's who, though more serious/action-oriented shows might not do this. The Flip often involves characters of different ages, genders, races, or social classes. Another variation is a protagonist and antagonist switching, which usually involves each trying to undermine the other's organization while simultaneously trying to switch back. If one or both of the characters have [[Stock Super Powers|superpowers or other special abilities]], they'll [[How Do I Shot Web?|have a lot of trouble figuring their new powers out]].
A similar idea, with less learning and more evil, is [[Grand Theft Me]]. Compare [[Personality Swap]], when the characters' personalities are swapped but their minds stay where they are meant to be. It will often involve similar tropes to transformation stories (such as [[Gender Bender]]) as this is essentially two of these in one, with the addition of confusion resulting from the transformations being into other known characters.
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Sometimes is the mechanism by which a [[Folgers Crossover]] is accomplished.
== Anime & Manga ==▼
* The episode "Girlz, Tenshin!" ("Trading Faces" in the English dub) of ''[[Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z (Anime)|Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z]]'' has this happen to the three girls courtesy of Fuzzy Lumpkins, resulting in each girl having to pretend to be the other.▼
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* ''[[Kochikame]]'' has a rare [[Double Subversion]]. Ryotsu wishes he could swap his body with his rich, handsome and skillful underling [[Non-Idle Rich|Nakagawa]]. The next day there's an accident that involves Ryotsu and Nakagawa banging their heads. All seems set for a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] Episode...{{spoiler|except it's not. The [[Genre Savvy]] Ryotsu '''tried to make it look as if the [[Freaky Friday Flip]] had really happened, hid Nakagawa's body in a secret medical facility and assumed his identity, power and fortune''', knowing that everyone would automatically believe such a strange event. Then later the trope is played straight when the resident [[Mad Scientist]] tries to "restore" Ryotsu and Nakagawa to their original bodies, with a machine that explodes and produces a CHAIN FREAKY FRIDAY FLIP (Terai with Nakagawa, Nakagawa with the Chief, the Chief with Akimoto, Akimoto with Ryotsu, Ryotsu with a nearby cat, the cat with the [[Mad Scientist]] and the [[Mad Scientist]] with Terai)}}. Yeah. Ryotsu comments that Nakagawa's life is not easy, but the aesop is never really delivered.▼
▲* The episode "Girlz, Tenshin!" ("Trading Faces" in the English dub) of ''[[Demashita
▲* ''[[Kochikame]]'' has a rare [[Double Subversion]]. Ryotsu wishes he could swap his body with his rich, handsome and skillful underling [[Non-Idle Rich|Nakagawa]]. The next day there's an accident that involves Ryotsu and Nakagawa banging their heads. All seems set for a
** Another time, Ryotsu and Reiko had their bodies switched. It began with the mad scientist inventing a body switching machine shaped like a purikura photo booth. Reiko, unaware of its purpose, took a picture together with Ryotsu. By morning, their bodies switched. The whole episode deals with adjusting their lifestyle and playing their roles. Ryotsu has to attend Reiko's important meeting. And even worse, Reiko is a target of a few dangerous kidnappers who later kidnap Ryotsu in Reiko's body. Both of their bodies switch back during the police holdup, scaring the kidnappers when Ryotsu gets reverted back to himself.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Excel Saga (
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* An episode of ''[[
** It might be worth noting in this example, their voices don't switch, although their accents do.
*** In the American version, which doesn't include accents, the voices DO switch.
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[
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** It probably derives from that ''[[
* Episode 10 of ''[[
** After seeing the preview for the episode, many people thought she would have to transform while in his body. It turned out to be the reverse, him transforming in her body with her in his body assisting.
** A similar situation occurs in episode 8 of ''[[
* A weird example in ''[[
* An episode in the second season of ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* In a chapter of the manga ''[[Ogenki Clinic]]'', [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Doctor Ogekuri]] and [[Hello, Nurse!|Nurse Tatase]] switch minds as a result of ''very good sex''. This being [[Hentai]], they explore their new bodies quite thoroughly. {{spoiler|And later, Dr.-Ogekuri-in-Tatase's-body gets switched with... a horse. [[Squick|Don't ask.]]}}
* In a ''[[
* This forms the basis for the first episode in the ''[[
* Urashiman and Jitanda swap in episode 21 of ''[[
* A chapter of ''[[
* Done in one of the ''[[
* In the last episode of the anime of ''[[
* Happens in one of the visual novels for ''[[
* In Masakazu Katsura's short story "Woman in the man", the tomboyish Hazumi and the wussy Tsuyomaru switch bodies after an accident in the gym owned by Tsuyomaru's parents.
* An [[Omake]] comic from ''[[
* It happens to Nina and Zero in episode 8 from ''[[
* In an episode of ''Tanoshii Moomin Ikka: Bouken Nikki'' Moomin and Stinky bonk their heads together and switch bodies. Over the episode, Moomin realizes how Stinky has no friends and Stinky has fun messing up Moomin's life.
* The premise of a major arc in ''[[
* In ''[[
* A rather odd version occurs in ''[[Sumire 16
* In ''[[
* Played out several times in ''[[
* Quite a few people try to swap their mechanical bodies with Tetsuro's human body in ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* The main premise of ''[[Quantum Mistake]]'' is the body switch of Woo-Soo Choi, a studious boy, and Kang Too-Jee, a delinquent who is a master fighter.
* ''[[
* In All Around Type Moon Kohaku uses a device for make Saber, Arcueid and Shiki swap bodies. Taken up to the eleven when more members of the Type Moon series appear and Kohaku "reverses" the body swap.
* In the Punk Hazard arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', this happens to {{spoiler|Sanji, Nami, Chopper and Franky}}, courtesy of {{spoiler|Trafalgar Law's Ope-Ope Fruiti powers.}}
** Soon after, this happens to {{spoiler|Tashigi and Smoker}}. Seeing {{spoiler|Tashigi look all innocent in Smoker's body and Smoker look all badass in Tashigi's body}} is nothing short of fucking hilarious.
* In ''[[To
* In ''[[Sket Dance]]'' on the school trip Bossun and Himeko accidentally drink some pills that switch their minds. What makes it hilarious is that Himeko (in Bossun's body) insists that Bossun ''must not touch any intimate part'' of her body (which he now possesses). Which means that all delicate operations on that original body of her (like wiping the ass or, what a horror, ''bathing'') should be done by Himeko herself (who is now in ''Bossun's'' body, remember!). This leads to some scenes which, taken out of context, would be considered very perverse.
* Episode 13 of [[Miracle Girls]] has a swap between ''identical twins''. The trope is played utterly straight, with each of them having to pretend to be the one whose body she's in, even though they could just pull a [[Twin Switch]] using a couple of wigs and look exactly like themselves anyway.
* The central conceit of ''[[Your Name]]'' is city boy Taki and country girl Mitsuha swapping bodies and having to contend with each others' lives, as well as what happens when they try to meet up.
== Comic Books ==
* The best-known [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] example would be the tragic flip of Psylocke and Chinese assassin Kwannon. The latter had been rendered braindead after a fall, and when Psylocke turned up amnesiac in China, Kwannon's lover Matsuo saw a chance to restore his girlfriend and turned to the villain Spiral for help. However,
** ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' character Emma Frost was rather fond of this one. While still a full-time villain she swapped bodies with [[Storm]] as part of an [[Grand Theft Me|evil plot]]; years later, just before her [[Heel Face Turn|switch to heroism]], she accidentally swapped bodies with Iceman, and then proceeded to fuel his (already significant) insecurities by using his powers far more effectively than he ever had. She also tried to commit suicide while in his body, but she never mentions
▲* The best-known [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] example would be the tragic flip of Psylocke and Chinese assassin Kwannon. The latter had been rendered braindead after a fall, and when Psylocke turned up amnesiac in China, Kwannon's lover Matsuo saw a chance to restore his girlfriend and turned to the villain Spiral for help. However, Spiral--being Spiral--decided that switching the women's minds would be far more entertaining, and gave both women certain aspects of the other. As a result, Psylocke got Kwannon's martial arts skills while Kwannon's mutant empathic power was given a boost by Psylocke's superior telepathy. This is one of the few examples of the flip being permanent, due to the extant of Spiral's tampering with the women's minds and genetic makeup. Kwannon later joined the X-Men herself as Revanche, but would later commit suicide after contracting the Legacy Virus (aka Mutant AIDS).
▲** ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' character Emma Frost was rather fond of this one. While still a full-time villain she swapped bodies with [[Storm]] as part of an [[Grand Theft Me|evil plot]]; years later, just before her [[Heel Face Turn|switch to heroism]], she accidentally swapped bodies with Iceman, and then proceeded to fuel his (already significant) insecurities by using his powers far more effectively than he ever had. She also tried to commit suicide while in his body, but she never mentions that -- and considering she's not above using her telepathic powers to make you vomit uncontrollably whenever you hear the word "broccoli", you probably shouldn't either.
** Lampshaded in ''X-treme X-Men'' once, when at a dinner party, various team members start teasing Ororo, until Kitty stands up and says, "What's everyone talking about? That isn't Storm, ''I'm'' Storm! Someone has switched our minds!" Everyone else suddenly glares at her in panicked silence. Then Ororo and Kitty shout, "GOTCHA!".
** During the X-Men's Australian run, there was an issue where [[Dazzler]] was accidentally switched with the criminal Diamondback. But unlike most hero/villain swaps, neither had any idea what was going on and Diamondback briefly joined the X-Men to get the matter sorted. Besides the clumsiness in getting used to each other's abilities (somehow Diamonback's [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] didn't work in Dazzler's body), Dazz was understandably quite pissed when Diamondback smoked cigars and slept with Wolverine in her body.
* Also happened in an ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]''/''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' crossover, when Jean Grey got so pissed at Wolverine's constant attempts to woo her that she sent his mind to the one place he wanted to be least. He ends up spending a day in Peter Parker's body, even attempting to "get busy" with MJ, while Peter, in Logan's body, went from one bad situation to another. He was understandably upset when Jean came to fix things.
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** And later, when Peter, thankfully back in his own body, reunites with MJ, she says to him,
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* ''[[Sleepwalker]]'' and his human host, Rick Sheridan, ended up switching bodies for several issues after a botched attempt to release Sleepwalker while Rick was awake. In Sleepwalker's body, Rick ended up battling supervillains and supernatural horrors of the Mindscape, while Sleepy had to fill in for Rick in his human life, ironically having more success with women than Rick himself. The body swap was, {{spoiler|in fact, a key part of the [[Evil Plan]] hatched by [[Big Bad]] Cobweb to invade the Earth and make Rick think Sleepwalker was the invasion's leader, hindering any attempt Sleepy might make to stop him.}}
* Adam Warren's [[Animesque|Amerimanga]] version of the ''[[
* Happened once in #37 of the ''[[
* Happened a lot to [[
** In his case, a lot of these instances deviate from the norm of this trope in that the switch is deliberate on the part of the other involved party.
** The [[Justice League of America]] had an issue where this happened with all the core members getting mixed up with each other. The big spoiler {{spoiler|was when it turned out that Superman didn't end up in Batman's body but in Kobra's and Kobra pretended to be Superman trapped in Batman's body.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Iznogoud]]'', a wizard invents a magic bowl: whenever two people drink consecutively from it, they exchange souls. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when this new invention gets tested by several patrons in an inn, just for fun. One of the catches is that it doesn't have to be actually ''people'' who drink: animals count too. (The wizard himself ends up in the body of a parrot.) Or even ''inanimate objects'', for that matter.
* There's an issue of ''[[
* Dixie accidentally had her mind swapped with that of the "Growf" dragon in ''[[Phil Foglio|What's New? with Phil and Dixie]]''.
== Fan Works ==
* This trope is common in [[Fanfic
* The unknown, yet ever-amusing ''[[Wicked (
* The ''[[
* In the (surprisingly good) ''[[The X-Files
* In the "has-an-iffy-first-chapter-but-overall-good-fic" ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3791056/1/The_Switch_Glitch The Switch Glitch]'', a magic e-mail chain letter causes an eccentric ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fangirl to swap bodies with Edward Elric himself (for the first quarter of the fic at least). [[Hilarity Ensues|Need I say it?]]
* Episode Nine of ''[[Demyx Time]]'', with the two leads. Done surprisingly well for a live-action fan production.
* The ''[[
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6800277/1/Sorta_Like_bFreaky_b_bFriday_b_But_bPervy_b This] ''[[Glee]]'' fanfic, hilariously named [[Exactly What It Says
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6883247/1/ Another Glee fic] in which Rachel and Kurt swap bodies and utter ''[[Hilarity Ensues]]''.
* Playing the "learning experience" part of this trope to the hilt is [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5844006/1/A_Mile_in_His_Shoes this] ''[[One Piece]]'' fic, "A Mile in His Shoes," where Zoro and Sanji's rather opposite approaches to romance are contrasted to the benefit of both.
* The [[Self Insert]] fanfics ''[[
* The ''[[
* A Fan Video was made of a ''[[D
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2667351/1/Trading_places Here's a Nick crossover] where Spongebob swaps with [[The Wild Thornberries|Eliza Thronberry's older sister Debbie]].
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* ''Like Father, Like Son'' has Dudley Moore (the father) and Kirk Cameron (the son) switching bodies through [[No Eye in Magic|a Native American magic potion that requires eye contact]] for the bodies to switch souls.
* ''[[Vice Versa]]'' is about an undersized preteen who swaps bodies with his workaholic father using a jewelled oriental skull. The boy has fun for a while but then the plot begins when he realizes he doesn't know how to change back....
* 1989's ''Dream a Little Dream'' exchanges the minds of a senior citizen (Jason Robards) and a teenager (Corey Feldman), which throws a little bit of both [[Overnight Age
** ''[[Dream A Little Dream]]'' was a bit more complicated. The mind of Coleman (the old man) entered the body of Bobby (the teenager) and took over. Coleman's body was nowhere to be found. Bobby's mind was suppressed, but showed up to talk to Coleman in his dreams. Coleman's wife, Gena, also vanished. Her consciousness showed up inside Lainie, Bobby's would-be girlfriend, but Lainie's mind remained dominant.
* At approximately the same time as ''Dream a Little Dream'' was released, three other body-swap movies with the same young/old theme hit theaters: ''Like Father, Like Son'' (1987), ''[[Eighteen Again]]'' (1988), and ''[[Vice Versa]]'' (1988). See [[Dueling Movies]].
* ''[[Face Off]]'' could be a twist on this trope; the mechanism is different, but it ''plays'' like a mind-switch. Especially considering (see more at [[Art Major Biology]]) the fact that [[Nicolas Cage]] and [[John Travolta
* In ''[[The Hot Chick]]'', the main character who is an [[Alpha Bitch]] is bodyswapped with a (male) criminal. In this case, the bodies change into the other person's body, so the main character goes to sleep and wakes up in her own bed with a man's body.
* The live-action ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movie had a scene featuring a 4-way body swapping between Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy. The bodies rotated a few times before everyone got back to normal.
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* The 1940 comedy ''Turnabout'' (later adapted as a short-lived TV sitcom) has a married couple inhabiting each other's bodies due to a spell from an enchanted statue. In the film (not the TV version), the voices go with the selves, so that the husband's body speaks with the wife's voice and the wife's with the husband's -- as in more-recent animated cartoons.
* 1996 [[Disney Channel]] television-movie ''[[Wish Upon a Star]]'' (starring Katherine Heigl and [[Danielle Harris]]) concerns two very different sisters who unintentionally switch bodies while wishing upon a shooting star. They learn to love each other, do some math tutoring, go to the [[High School Dance|Big Dance]], and get their bodies back.
* The 1999 made for TV [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132666/ Wonderful World of Disney] movie (boy, Disney sure likes to use this gimmick a lot) [
* ''[[The Change Up]]'' - family man switches bodies with bachelor.
* 1996's ''[[Dating the Enemy]]'' is an Australian romantic comedy that stars Guy Pearce and Claudia Karvan as a couple who wake up one morning to find that they have switched bodies. It was written and directed by Megan Simpson Huberman.
== Literature ==
* The basis of [[
* Used in F. Anstey's 1882 novel ''[[Vice Versa]]'' to swap a father and son, making it [[Older Than Radio]]. This may have inspired Mary Rodger's 1972 novel.
* In Marghanita Laski's novel ''[[The Victorian Chaise Longue]]'', a modern woman buys a Victorian couch at a bargain price because it has an old dried bloodstain that can't be removed. Falling asleep on the couch, she wakens on the same couch in Victorian times, inhabiting the body of the couch's original owner. The couch is now new and unstained, and the woman suspects (correctly) that her impending death will cause the bloodstain.
* Happened in the ''[[
* Happens to two of the protagonists of [[Esther Friesner]]'s ''[[Harpy High]]''; since one of them has a physically abusive father, the other one acquires a little more understanding than he wanted.
* In [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' book ''[[The Ogre Downstairs]]'', a mystical chemistry set leads (among other things) to two kids in a recently blended family switching bodies for a day. This is the first step towards the two sets of children actually getting along. The swap is discovered after two ''not himself'' situations
* Mary Rodgers' 1972 novel ''Freaky Friday'', on which the film adaptations are based and for which the trope is directly or indirectly named, switched a mother and a daughter. Unlike the films, the ending of the book makes it clear that the mother deliberately made the switch through means she would not explain to her daughter to teach her a lesson about growing up.
** The sequel, ''[[Summer Switch]]'', swaps the other members of that family, the father Bill and the son Ben (a.k.a. Ape Face).
* Anton and Olga switch minds in ''[[Night Watch|The Night Watch]]'' as part of a plan to draw out a plot by the Day Watch.
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* Occurs in Paul Collin's ''[[Jelindel Chronicles]]''. Zimak tricks Daretor into swapping bodies, after saving him from a prince who was trying to do just the same. Daretor by this point is getting truly frustrated, as already his sword skills were magically stripped from him, and now he had to deal with being in a much weaker body after being a tank. And in these books, changes tend to be permanent.
* In ''The Mirror'', by Marlys Millhiser, the titular family heirloom swaps Brandy McCabe (in 1900) and granddaughter Shay Garrett (in 1978) on the eve of each woman's wedding.
* In the second book of the ''[[
* Sir [[
* Happens to the male heroes of ''[[Riddle Of The Seven Realms]]'' by [[Lyndon Hardy]], as a side effect of a time/space-warping magical weapon. Unusual in that it's done neither for social commentary ''nor'' comedy; rather, it gives the djinn hero a chance to experience life as a human, and vice versa.
* [[Jack Chalker]] uses this trope in so many books, a character in the round-robin novel ''[[The Red Tape War]]'' [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] to complain that he's overdone it and ask the other authors why they don't rein him in.
* In the ''[[Goosebumps]]'' book "Why I'm Afraid of Bees", Gary, the main character, stumble upon a ''service'' that switches you with whoever you want. however, he accidently ends up in the body of a bee. [[Hilarity Ensues|Horror ensues]].
* The entire premise of the kids' series ''Katie Kazoo Switcheroo'' is this trope. She switches bodies with other characters partway through each story, thanks to a magic wind.
* In [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Moon Singer'' series, the Thassa swap bodies with their telepathic animal companions as part of their training. Body-swaps with other humans are possible, but rare.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' in "Who's Who???" (subtitle: "Steed goes out of his mind. Emma is beside herself."). Steed and Emma's minds are switched with those of two enemy agents. They did not switch voices, if only because the plot demanded that the enemy use the heroes' hijacked bodies to infiltrate British security. In an amusing touch, after each commercial break, the episode also includes a "reminder" about the swap to the viewer, but the supposedly helpful voice-announcer merely gets progressively more confused.
* 2009 ITV comedy-drama ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225790/ Boy Meets Girl]'', where Martin Freeman's DIY store worker and Rachael Stirling's fashion journalist are swapped.
* The ''[[
** Another instance came much earlier with the introduction of Amy, whose witch mother swapped bodies with her to [[Grand Theft Me|relive her high school glory days]].
* In the ''[[
* Appears in the ''[[Dollhouse]]'' episode "Belle Chose." Echo is imprinted with a bubblehead college student a professor wants to seduce, while Victor has the mind of a comatose serial killer uploaded into him (to make an interrogation possible). Then their minds get swapped, and... it becomes hilarious and scary all at once.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[
* In the ''[[
** This episode is also notable for their solution to the problem of remembering who is in what
* Happens in an [[Out
* In the appropriately named ''[[Lizzie
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Out of
* The basis for the Japanese drama ''[[Papa To Musume No Nanokakan]]'', where the father and the ''daughter'' switch. It works surprisingly well.
* Used in a ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' episode. Curiously, after the Blue and Pink Rangers switch bodies, the normally glasses-bound Blue Ranger, logic not withstanding, still needs them in his new body. Much like the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' example below, the ramifications of [[Gender Bender|being stuck in a body of the opposite gender]] were barely touched. Nor was the fact that both characters should have been adjusting to temporarily having different powers.
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* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' did this once, with [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/prisoner/episodeguide/thirteen.shtml an episode] for which Patrick McGoohan was not available. So Number 6's mind was put into someone else's body (and tasked with finding the inventor of the mind-swap machine, or else he'd never get back to his own body...). Strictly speaking, this lacked most of the standard bits of the "swap" aspect, as Number 6's body was portrayed as lying sedated for the entire episode.
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' was just one huge Freaky Friday Flip combined with [[Body Surf]] in premise. Although it rarely played that way, since the actor playing the main character was always on screen rather than the character with which he was switched.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[Smallville]]'': Lionel Luthor switches bodies with Clark, leaving Clark in prison and Lionel with
* Played with a twist in ''[[Space Cases]]'' as the characters don't switch bodies, only races, after each character complains someone else on the ship has it easier. The swaps also swap most of the character's hair styles as well, for no understandable reason. In addition it proves that the really happy and really pessimistic ones are that way by genetics.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''
** The episode "Holiday" has Daniel Jackson and a dying old man named Machello swap bodies in a [[Grand Theft Me]], while Jack O'Neill and Teal'c exchange bodies by accident in a more traditional Freaky Friday Flip. Unlike most versions of this trope, the actors totally nailed the impression of the other character. Teal'c-in-O'Neill and O'Neill-in-Teal'c are so obviously who they're supposed to be that it works beautifully, and is utterly hysterical.
** The Ancients devised a communicator that operates on this trope. It's shown up in a few episodes throughout all three series, and is the Destiny team's only link to Earth in ''[[
* An episode of the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'' has the Red Ranger Sousuke switch bodies with the [[Monster of the Week]], leading to a particularly odd scene where Sousuke's ''soul'' is shot from the team's combined weapon to get him back in his proper body.
** Some episodes later, the team's [[Combining Mecha]] [[Non-Human Sidekick|Non Human Sidekicks]] (who need to have their Soul placed in a diecast version of
** In the earlier series of ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger|Dekaranger]]'' there was an episode where Hoji's mind is swapped with that of an alien criminal and must somehow tell the team they've been swapped. The plot was later carried over into an episode of ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]''
** In an episode of ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'', Kai and Houka have swapped bodies due to the [[Monster of the Week]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]], but then they find out [[Oh Crap|they can't morph]].
** An episode of ''[[
* In the miniseries ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', the evil queen makes her pet dog switch places with the country's prince, who starts to go "doggy" after being in that form for too long.
* On ''[[3rd Rock
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''
** In "Ten Little Warlords"/"Intimate Stranger", Xena and Callisto switched bodies (due to a [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] incident, with Lucy Lawless breaking her pelvis in an equestrian stunt).
** Xena also shared bodies with at least two other characters over the course of the series: Autolycus, in a spirit possession (also cross-referenced with [[Not Quite Dead]] and Almost Kiss), and a young noble girl in the requisite "fairy-tale"/Aesop episode.
* ''[[
* Arguably the darkest example in television, the ''[[Fear Itself (TV series)|Fear Itself]]'' episode "Family Man" features a loving, church-going husband and father who swaps bodies with a sadistic serial killer after a car accident. Jailed for the other man's crimes (which include torturing, raping, and killing at least 26 people), he watches helplessly as a monster takes over his life and family. Our protagonist finally {{spoiler|escapes from jail and manages to return to his own body... only to learn that the killer has butchered his wife and son, leaving only his young daughter (who was presumably raped) alive -- and fingering him for the crime.}} [[Cruel Twist Ending|It's a finish so depressing that it rivals anything]] on the ''[[Outer Limits]]'' [[Revival]].
* ''[[Gilligan's Island
* Main plot of the Argentine telecomedy ''[[Lalola]]'' (and the several foreign remakes of it, mostly called ''Lola''). A man switches bodies with a woman and has to adapt to the female life. S/he only actually meets the other person at the very ending of the series, so s/he is under the impression that s/he simply switched gender. {{spoiler|Gradually, she becomes more and more female in mind and falls in love with a man. In the end, she is offered the chance to switch back, but she chooses to keep living her new life.}}
* ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' pulled a variation on this when a visit to a psychic somehow causes the spirit of Wataru's late father Otoya to possess him. While in the present, Otoya helps [[Action Girl|Megumi]] resolve a crisis, learns of the joys of the Internet and maid cafes, helps complete a violin Wataru was working on, and provides subtle [[Foreshadowing]].
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', "Swap Meat", in which a geeky seventeen-year old with a flair for dark magic swaps bodies with Sam so he can enjoy the perks of being a "stunning-looking man" and {{spoiler|get close enough to Dean to kill him.}}
* Played with on ''[[The Young Ones]]'', in a scene where the lads' ''actors'' are switched, trading costumes and personas. No reason is given for why each of the four characters looks
* [[
* A live-action segment of ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' had Mario's "pizza transformer" switching his brain with that of [[
* Happens in ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'' when Barbara is accidentally absorbed into Alex's puddle form and switches minds with her when she reforms. It turns out to be [[All Just a Dream]].
* "[[Star Trek
* Main plot of episode number six of the Japanese drama ''Anna-san no Omame'' (a.k.a. ''The Best Friend of Beautiful Anna'').
* In the ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' episode "Quinceañera", Alex switches bodies with her mom to avoid her titular 15th birthday party. Which is okay with Theresa, who never got a Quinceañera and always wanted one.
* Subverted in ''[[Pair of Kings]]'' where this was planned for Boomer and Brady with 2 of the strongest guards but instead Lanny and Mikayla end up [[Sharing a Body
== Music ==
* In [[
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
** Before this, 2nd edition had the "Switch Personality" telepathic science from ''The Complete Psionic Handbook''. It allows the psionicist to switch mind with another creature, but any prolonged use is dangerous, as both bodies tend to degrade when inhabited by the wrong mind.
** ''The Complete Book of Necromancers'' also introduced the "Life Force Exchange" spell, which is permanent and can be used on any two creatures (including or not the caster). It is one of two powerful spells allowing aged necromancers to [[Grand Theft Me|abandon their old body for a new, younger and stronger one]].
* ''[[Magic:
== Video Games ==
* When the ''[[Pokémon]]'' Manaphy appears from a Pokéball in ''[[Super Smash Bros
* In Junk Man's miniquest in ''[[
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* One of the TV shows in ''[[
* ''[[
* The [[Hentai|ero]] game ''[[X-Change|X-Change Alternative 2]]'' centers on this trope, a departure from the series' [[Gender Bender|usual theme]]. Ordinary high-school 2nd year Yuki Sakura is invited to watch a demonstration of his [[Mad Scientist|friend's]] new invention, an experimental teleporter device. [[Bungling Inventor|Naturally,]] the machine fails ([[Phlebotinum Breakdown|explosively]]) to transport matter but succeeds in swapping his mind into the body of one of his 4 female friends. The remainder of the game is spent dealing with various [[Dating Sim|romance issues]] and [[Multiple Endings|hoping]] that the rebuilt teleporter will actually restore things to normal after spending two weeks as each other.
* ''[[The Adventures of Sam
* Occurs in ''[[
* At the end of the World Builder game ''Psychotic!'', you use a mind transfer machine to swap bodies with The Teacher.
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* ''[[The Wotch]]'' [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-05-22 uses this] as an alternative to its usually more direct sort of [[Gender Bender|genderbending]], by (repeatedly) swapping the characters of Irene and James. [[Running Gag|Happens so often that it doesn't even bother them anymore.]] {{spoiler|Irene even ''liked'' being swapped, and has agonized about asking to be intentionally switched.}}
** In "What's my age again?", this gets a little more complicated. When Anne uses the amulet that turns her older brother Evan into Lilly, she sneezes during the spell, causing Evan's mind in Lilly's body and vice versa. Like in ''Birdy the Mighty'', Lilly and Evan are in the same body, but they are completely different people.
* A recent ''[[
* In ''[[Sidekick Girl]]'', the eponymous character gets switched with her useless but decorative boss and immediately complains about the cliché.
* The [[Gender Bender]] version shows up in ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' when Mori's Spell Gun explodes.
* ''[[
* This was a central element in a ''[[Mountain Time]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527190747/http://mountaincomics.com/2009/04/13/five-part-special-part-1/ story arc].
* In ''[[Girly]]'', there is an arc where many primary and secondary characters get switched around due to a "fist-powered" ray.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** Tedd and Grace [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-05-14 emulated this] via [[Shapeshifting|transformation]] into each other's forms. After all, Grace ''studied'' Tedd...
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* ''[[Wright As Rayne]]'' has a one-sided version of this. Vigilante Alex Rayne is forced to inhabit the body of teenage girl Dorothy Wright, but Wright's mind is in some kind of stasis.
* Joked about in ''[[Questionable Content]]'', where Hannelore thinks this is happening because she dreamed about it.
* One of Lamerix's inventions in [[
* In ''[[Off White]],'' the humans want to transfer the [[It Makes Sense in Context|white spirit wolf's spirit into a human body to bring back the balance that was lost when the human white spirit disappeared.]] It must be a wolf because the only thing they have to go by is an old legend that pairs wolves and man together as being created at the same time.
* In [[Tales Of Gnosis College]], Willie and the lady professor he does work study for achieve a temporary and apparently accidental
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** Also implements [[How Do I Shot Web?]]; Starfire has to bare her emotions to the world in order to use her powers, while Raven has to suppress her emotions just to keep her powers under control. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as they struggle to adjust.
* [[
* ''[[American Dragon
** Played for laughs at the end of "Dragon Breath"; when the soul-stealing nix returns everyone's souls to their bodies, Trixie and Spud get switched. The final scene of the episode is them sitting in the now-deserted dance hall, trying to figure out what happened, which leads to this hilarious exchange:
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'''Spud *in Trixie's body*:''' Dude, I could have sworn I was a dude! }}
* A multiple body swap is the plotline of ''[[
** ''[[Demashita
* An episode of ''[[Justice League (
** This is a particularly interesting example, in that a hero and villain switch brains, which lends itself to certain tactical advantages and makes it all the more important to "set things right". Luthor attempts to use this opportunity to discover Flash's secret identity, but he is thwarted upon looking in the mirror and realizing that he has "no idea who this is".
** Another reason for this episode's notable status regarding the trope is that this is a rare example of the filmmakers going out of their way to accurately portray the switch in the characters' behaviors. In this case, what stands out is that Michael Rosenbaum (Flash) and [[Clancy Brown]] ([[Lex Luthor]]) recorded their parts together. Each actor providing the line readings for their original characters, and the opposite actor would mimic the line reading. This allowed Clancy Brown's Luthor to have the exact timing and delivery of Rosenbaum's Flash, and vice versa.
** Clancy Brown's show-stealing performance as Flash-in-Lex also led to some of the funniest moments in the series.
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'''Flash-in-Lex:''' ''No.'' 'Cause I'm ''[[Evil Is Petty]]''. }}
** Plus, Lex-in-Flash is so dangerous that it's scary. Trapped in the Watchtower and hunted by the entire Justice League, Lex-in-Flash is nearly unstoppable, figuring out how to use all of the powers that The Flash intentionally ''doesn't'' use, due to how dangerous they are (namely explosive phasing and minimally controllable [[Not Quite Flight]]).
* ''[[
** Then after they switch back at the end of the episode, two of Don Karnage's lackeys have ended up switching.
* ''[[Gravity Falls]]'': Dipper and Mabel are victims of this in "Carpet Diem", and their reaction [[Reality Ensues| seems far more realistic]] than most who are afflicted with it in fiction: puking, screaming, panicking, and being driven to the brink of insanity.
* ''[[Darkwing Duck (
** This one does deal with the voice issue; at one point to help fool J. Gander Hooter (Darkwing's occasional [[Da Chief]]), Darkwing (in Gosalyn's body) sits in Gosalyn's lap (from Darkwing's body) and uses his voice to talk to him. Earlier, they pass it off as Darkwing imitating a little girl's voice.
* An episode of the original ''[[
** It at least averts [[Voices Are Mental]], which is rare for a cartoon show. Their respective voice actors stayed the same. (James Avery for Shredder and Peter Reneday for Splinter) did a pretty good job switching roles.
** Don't forget the episode where Raphael switches with a ''taxi driver''.
* ''[[
* In one ''[[
* This happens with Jackie and Jade in ''[[
* An episode of ''[[The Fairly
* Happens in one episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[Captain Simian
* In the ''[[
* This happens to Lily and Mitsuki, the two heroines of the Nicktoon ''[[
* An episode of ''[[The Tick (
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* In the episode "The Unbearable Blightness of Being" from ''[[Captain Planet and
** This is possibly one of the most [[Fridge Logic]] heavy examples of this trope: how do you switch ''bodies'' with ''the spirit'' of the Earth?
*** Do not even ''try'' to come up with some sort of internal consistency on that show about how spirits work, including whether or not Gaia floats around Hope Island like a sparkly ghost or walks around like a flesh-and-blood human.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron:
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' a benevolent professor makes the swap himself with a Hibagon (giant, gorilla-like monster), only to have the method of swapping back destroyed in the resulting hubbub. That fate of the Professor's ''body'' is not touched upon.
* ''Ruby-Spears [[Mega Man (
* Kind of done in ''[[
* ''[[Lilo
* An episode of ''[[
** Here [[Voices Are Mental]] is justified at least with Garfield. What we hear is actually Garfield's thoughts, not his voice, so it makes sense that Garfield in Odie would sound the same. No excuse for the others, though.
** An episode of ''[[
* ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[
* Agent K and Dick accidentally swap bodies in an episode of ''[[The Replacements (
* Parodied wonderfully on ''[[
** Klaus later says that "if that had been a real wish-granting bowl, it would be in the back seat of a Ferrari driven by a 600-year-old Incan on his way to his job as [[Jessica Alba]]'s G-string."
* In an episode of ''[[Jimmy Two
* One episode of ''[[
* A british animated series called ''[[Bounty Hamster]]'' has an entire episode full of body-swaps. A criminal steals a body-swapping device and uses it to go joy riding in other people's bodies. Highlights of the ep are a human, teenage girl stuck in the body of a humanoid rhino, a body-swap conga line with over half a dozen body-swaps in a row and the criminal, teenage girl and a hamster, bounty hunter all being stuck together in the same body, where they try to beat each other up. The insanity ends with the criminal's mind trapped inside of a cactus.
* Happens in the ''[[Potatoes and Dragons]]'' episode "It Wasn't Me", between King Hugo and the Dragon. Interestingly, whilst the Dragon is in King Hugo, the Dragon retains his ability to breathe fire, leading to King Hugo running around spouting flames.
* In one of the new episodes of ''[[
** The voices switch, even though it's an adult program. A reviewer implicitly thought the swapping in the episode was confusing to adults as well.
** One of the writers proved a mathematical theorem stating that bodies can be returned to their original owners with at most two extra people. The theorem is explained in the episode, and it is possibly the geekiest case of [[Shown Their Work]] ever.
* An episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' does this.
* ''[[
* On ''[[
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[
* Happens in an episode of ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water]]'', where the main hero and villain switch places so that the villain could steal all the treasures. To make things slightly more interesting their reflections also switch and they don't switch voices.
* This occurs in the ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
** And then at the end, Muttley swaps with FREAKIN GODZILLA!
* ''[[Fantastic Four (
** More straightforward example in ''[[Fantastic Four:
* The original ''[[
* ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[
* This is the plot of season 1, episode 8 ''Once Upon a Swap'' of ''[[The Owl House]]'', involving a three-way swap where King inherits Luz's body, Luz inherits Eda's boy, and Eda inherits King's as a result of a spell cast by Eda. The episode centres around each other learning the difficulties in each other's life: Eda is a powerful witch, but is wanted and arrested, King is cute and loveable, but powerless, and Luz has to deal with the teen drama in her life. At the end of the episode, the three understands the struggle of others, and are changed back. The spell used to do this is never used again.
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