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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. <ref> [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]] is sometimes used to reveal the switch.</ref>
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== 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.
* ''[[Kochikame]]'' has a rare [[Double Subversion]]. Ryotsu wishes he could swap his body with his rich, handsome and skillful underling [[Non
** 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 ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena (Anime)|Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', the body swap is the result of a rather explosive curry cooked by a [[Lethal Chef|girl with truly dangerous cooking skills]].
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* ''[[Asatte no Houkou (Manga)|Asatte no Houkou]]'' does this with a twist. The characters switch ages rather than bodies, and they do it in order to learn more about themselves, rather than to learn about each other.
** It probably derives from that ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' Dream Arc part where Usagi and Chibi-Usa switch ages.
* Episode 10 of ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure (Anime)|Fresh Pretty Cure]]'' has Inori switching bodies with Tart the ferret (because of a [[Monster of the Week]]'s trick), much to her chagrin (as she [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|fears ferrets with all her heart]]). You know what happens next, right? If not, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** 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 ''[[Smile Pretty Cure (Anime)|Smile Pretty Cure]]'', with Miyuki and Candy switching places. Unlike Inori and Tart, though, Miyuki ''does'' transform while in Candy's body. And it is HILARIOUS.
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* In ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]] Z'', Captain Ginyu has the power to switch bodies with anyone, which he does with Goku. Eventually however, it backfires on him when he tries to take Vegeta's body and ends up in a frog's instead, rendering him harmless as his power requires the use of his voice.
* A rather odd version occurs in ''[[Sumire 16 Sai (Manga)|Sumire 16 Sai]]'' owing to the fact that the characters in question were literal puppets. While this would normally be incredibly easy to reverse, one of the puppeteers ran with the trope, much to the dismay of the other (and [[Rule of Funny|amusement of the audience]], of course).
* In ''[[Jo
* Played out several times in ''[[Doraemon (Anime)|Doraemon]]'', usually with Nobita trading places with Shizuka. Needless to say, it turns out that Nobi is [[Loser Archetype|just as big a loser]] no matter whose body he's wearing. Worse still, Shizuka decides she actually ''likes'' being a boy and refuses to give Nobita his body back. She only relents around bathtime, when she suddenly realizes exactly what Nobi will see whenever "he" removes "her" clothing.
* Quite a few people try to swap their mechanical bodies with Tetsuro's human body in ''[[Galaxy Express 999 (Manga)|Galaxy Express 999]]''. At least one of them succeeds, even if only for a short while.
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** 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 ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]] Ongoing'' in which the Eleventh Doctor and Amy [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3457520.html swap bodies]. [[Single Target Sexuality|Rory doesn't]] ''care'' [[If
* Dixie accidentally had her mind swapped with that of the "Growf" dragon in ''[[Phil Foglio|What's New? with Phil and Dixie]]''.
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** [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 ''[[Spellbinding Radiance (Fanfic)|Spellbinding Radiance]]'' and ''[[Mass Vexations (Fanfic)|Mass Vexations]]'' engaged in a flip in which the two author avatars switch bodies ''across fanfics''. It was mostly played for laughs, and within the continuity of both fics it's treated as a [[BLAM Episode]] given that it was an [[April Fools' Day]] prank.
* The ''[[Beyblade (Anime)|Beyblade]]'' fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3742152/1/10_Miles_In_Your_Shoes 10 Miles In Your Shoes]'' brilliantly pulls this off, where Kai and Tyson explores each others life, in a very in-character way.
* A Fan Video was made of a [[D Gray Man]] version of a Body Swap. It can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXNFI06chLA here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIPvCV7Su7I&feature=related here].
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** ''[[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 (Creator)]] have vastly different physiques....
* 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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* In the ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' episode "Enter the Demon", a spell causes Paige and Phoebe to switch bodies. Also another story "Lost Picture Show" has Leo and Piper constantly arguing about their marital life which causes them to see a soothsayer who swap their bodies.
* ''[[Eight Simple Rules]]'': Cate watches the film, then next morning awakes to find she and daughter Bridget have swapped bodies. However, son Rory has swapped with his hamster, and Jim and CJ have also swapped -- leaving Kerry, still in her own body, feeling ''very'' left out.
* In the ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' episode titled "Out of Their Minds," everyone on the ship switched bodies twice. This episode was somewhat atypical in that they actually mentioned (and showed) the characters taking the totally logical step of [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman|getting acquainted]] with their new ''equipment''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fD7Uah_QUY Oh momma!]
** This episode is also notable for their solution to the problem of remembering who is in what body -- printing name tags with their real faces and wearing them around their necks.
* Happens in an [[Out of Genre Experience]] promo for Series 3 of ''[[Father Ted]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Al107Xebw\]
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* 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.
** ''[[Power Rangers]]'' did this plot at least two other times; ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'' switching a couple of Rangers in turn with [[The Obi
** ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' has continued it with Switchbeast, who inflicts this on people via his [[Combat Tentacles]]. Unusually, he switches people with objects (specifically, objects likely to be thrown in compactors or recycling smelters) instead of with each other. However, {{spoiler|this is used against him by Mike and Emily. Emily grabs his second tentacle after he's shot the first into Mike, and jabs it into ''him''. Then Mike (in Switchbeast's body) temporarily switches him into a soccer ball to rough him up and force him to attack his body's weak spot (with Mike's body) and switch everyone back.}}
* ''[[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 ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Body Swap", the voices also swap with Chris Barrie doing a Liverpool accent during the scenes where he's playing Lister. Leads to a [[Grand Theft Me]] when Rimmer refuses to leave Lister and later hijacks the Cat's body.
* ''[[Smallville]]'': Lionel Luthor switches bodies with Clark, leaving Clark in prison and Lionel with superpowers -- and knowing about Clark's power and weakness from then on. {{spoiler|Or not, thanks to [[Easy Amnesia|convenient amnesia]].}} Among other things there's a scene where Lionel, who has a huge crush on Martha Kent, persuades her that her 'son' needs a hug, and gets aroused enough to find out that, hey, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|he has laser eye powers as well.]]
* 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]]''
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** 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 ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]''.
* 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
** 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]].
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* ''[[The X-Files (TV)|The X-Files]]'' two-parter "Dreamland", where Mulder swaps with the sort of shadowy agent he's usually trying to find, played by Michael McKean. In this case the actors also switched places. The viewer sees Mulder, everybody else sees the other guy, including the mirror.
* Arguably the darkest example in television, the ''[[Fear Itself (TV)|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]].
* ''[[
* 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]].
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* ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' switches Starfire and Raven. The voices switch in this version too, but the reason is apparently not due to appeasing children; [[Hynden Walch]] and [[Tara Strong]] were apparently able to duplicate one another's voices for their respective characters so well, the producers thought it would be pointless to continue having them voice one another's characters.
** 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.
* [[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]] and her sidekick Ron are the subject of this evil-experiment-gone-wrong (though for the villain it did in fact work, allowing him to get control of the [[Wave Motion Gun]]) in one of their funnier episodes. The prospect of a teenage [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman|boy being stuck in a girl's body]] is explored as far as Disney would allow: only a throwaway comment about Ron liking a skirt. (Also, "Your hair is so...flippy!"). It also featured Anne Possible, as a brain surgeon, complaining that mind swapping is totally impossible.
* ''[[American Dragon Jake Long (Animation)|American Dragon Jake Long]]'' also used this to give Jake and his little, ballet-dancing sister a different point of view.
** 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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