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{{quote|''"The Goblin killed them! I had nothing to do with it! Don't let him take me again!"''|'''Norman Osborn''', ''[[Spider-Man (
{{quote|''"I am Pixy Misa, the evil magical girl. I've been cruel to everyone and fought against Sammy. That was me. It was I who was the bad girl. I was the one who caused so much trouble. It was me!"''|'''Misao Amano''', ''[[Pretty Sammy]]''}}
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Of course, even if the character doesn't ''really'' have a Split Personality, making people think they do is a common opening gambit if they're planning to make an [[Insanity Defense]] (or just to get the hero to let his guard down). And if you're looking at a guy pleading with you to save him from his evil other half, how are you gonna tell the difference?
You'll usually find such a character [[
In terms of personality types, expect the evil half to be a dominant, forceful, assertive type, and the good half to be more moral and reluctant to hurt people, which the evil half will see as weak. Getting the weak half to reassert control usually requires it face the evil half by saying something along the lines of "[[I'm Not Afraid of You]]!"
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== [[Anime]]/[[Manga]] ==
* Allelujah and Hallelujah Haptism from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''. The latter made the former {{spoiler|blow up a building full of children. Though to be fair, said children were being genetically modified to become [[Super Soldier
* [[Pretty Sammy|Misao]] gets this after finding out that she is [[Dark Magical Girl]] Pixy Misa.
* ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'' tries to pull this off, after she's caught lying about breaking the dishes. "There's a lying bug inside me. It tells lies on it's own. So I really am a good girl.."
* Bakura and the spirit of the ring from [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]. Said spirit has made his host lie, steal and commit murder, in a cruel fashion to boot. And Bakura is just [[Ignorance Is Bliss|blissfully oblivious]] to all this.
** Yugi and Yami Yugi have shades of this, as Yami Yugi uses magic to rather cruelly punish villains early on without Yugi really being aware of it. Marik starts as a villain, but his other personality is significantly more psycho. Marik is also the only one of these characters whose alternate personality is actually a split personality and not an ancient Egyptian spirit.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* As one could tell from the page quotes, Norman Osborn alias The Green Goblin is a huge user of this trope, though he is only like this in adaptation, mainly in the 1990s ''[[Spider-Man:
** The movie, taking some inspiration from the show, does something similar in having the Goblin convince Norman that what he's doing is right, though in this case, it's more of a collaboration than before, though there is a sense that Norman doesn't entirely go along with what the Goblin is doing, particularly one scene where Norman pleads on his knees to the Goblin mask.
** ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' uses the same idea, only {{spoiler|it's ''Harry'' under the mask.... or not}}.
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** Note that during the 2000's, Norman's and the Goblin's personality somewhat fused. For instance, he's seen in his office taking calls while in costume or partially in costume. Even when the Goblin persona isn't in control, Norman knows he's the Goblin and doesn't give two shits.
*** The end of Siege basically shows that the difference between Osborn and the Goblin is that while Norman is a bit of a [[Magnificent Bastard]], the Goblin just cares about being [[Chaotic Evil|as crazy and destructive as possible]]. This tends to mess up [[Lawful Evil|Norman's plans]].
* This is basically the relationship between Arnold Wesker/The Ventriloquist and Scarface of the ''[[
** Harvey Dent/Two-Face is a classic example as well, though the schism between his two personae isn't as pronounced as Wesker's.
*** Usually. In a climactic scene during the finale of 'No Man's Land', Two-Face had kidnapped James Gordon and put him on 'trial' -- and Jim escaped by asking ''Harvey Dent'' to be his defense counsel. Harvey/Two-Face then proceeded to argue with himself out loud for over a page's worth of dialogue, until he/they finally collapsed under the mental strain. It's pretty epic, check it out over in the quotes section.
* There's an ''[[
* Johnny Bates and Kid Miracleman in ''[[
* The first incarnation of ''[[Wonder Woman]]'''s most popular enemy Cheetah suffered from this. Priscilla Rich was a young socialite who was also [[Green-Eyed Monster|extremely jealous]] of Wonder Woman, and also suffered from a "[[Split Personality]]" that made her act out bizarre revenge schemes. And dress as a Cheetah.
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' is an unusual case. [[The Movie]] is the Trope Namer and considerably expands on the split personality idea.
* In ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde sometimes argue with each other. The dominant personality [usually Jekyll] can see the other personality's face in mirrors. Jason Flemyng's performance is one of the few good things in the film.
** The non-dominant personality (Hyde, at least) can also sense things normal humans can't - when the team are watching a recording sent by the [[Big Bad]], Jekyll sees Hyde in a mirror screaming in pain and ordering him to "TURN IT OFF!" He doesn't get it, {{spoiler|[[Team Fortress 2
* To some degree, ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]''.
* Francis Dolarhyde in ''[[Red Dragon]]'' and ''Manhunter''. See the "Literature" example below.
* ''[[Mr. Brooks]]''' imaginary friend Marshall, a manifestation of his id that encourages him to repeatedly murder.
* ''[[Primal Fear (
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* ''[[Fight Club]]'' isn't like this most of the time, until the confrontations toward the end between the two personalities. {{spoiler|Specifically, once the narrator realizes Tyler is his split personality, Tyler turns brutal in the name of self-preservation.}}
* Francis Dolarhyde in ''[[Red Dragon]]'' is bullied into his horrendous crimes by his "Dragon" side, which is essentially his retaining and absorption via memory and traumatic imprint of his deceased abusive grandmother in a Norman Bates-esque vein. His Francis-side is usually a very mild-mannered and often even nice (if shy and defensive) guy.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' beginner witch Agnes Nitt invented "cool and mysterious" Bad Girl part of
* [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden's]] subconscious likes to [[Evil Costume Switch|dress in black]] and is just as snarky as he is. {{spoiler|At least one [[Eldritch Abomination]] (Lasciel's shadow) has [[More Than Mind Control|taken advantage of him this way.]]}}
* CyFi of ''[[Unwind]]'' was brain-damaged in an accident, and to save his life, the missing portion was replaced with a bit of brain from a [[Delinquent]]. The authorities say the delinquent wasn't really executed, since most of his parts
* An Israeli children poem by Lea Goldberg has a first-grade boy who is generally very well-behaved, but on occasion the ‘bad boy who comes over [him]’ makes him go through fits of meanness.
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Niki and Jessica from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
* Roberta Leigh's 1960s TV puppet show ''Sarah and Hoppity'' was about a girl whose rag doll told her to do things that got her into trouble. When she told the grownups it was the doll's fault, they naturally never believed her. It was never clear whether the doll really did have a mind of its own or if it was all in Sarah's mind, but it was all pretty creepy for a pre-school show.
* ''[[
** "Revelations" had a basically pacifistic (if drug-addicted) man ruthlessly slaughter six people and kidnapped [[
** Another episode features a schizophrenic man who is talked into starting a hostage situation by his "friend", who is of course a hallucination. Who ''also'' took Reid hostage.
* In [[Jim Henson|Jim Henson's]] ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', [[The Eeyore|Boober]] has his alter-ego Sidebottom (the fun "side" of Boober, who is always kept tucked away at the "bottom" of Boober's mind). Sidebottom is not actually evil, but [[Keet|fun-loving, overactive, and irresponsible]], precisely the opposite of Boober.
* In ''[[
** To be fair, after a chunk of John's brain is removed and Harvey goes into hibernation mode, he becomes a lot more useful, sympathetic to Chrichton and otherwise benign. It's still hard to buy this part of him after his [[Kick the Dog]] moment of {{spoiler|killing Aeryn and indirectly causing Zhan's death and Aeryn's (temporary) distancing from John.}}
* Inverted in ''[[
* Chang on ''[[
* There's a scene in ''[[Jekyll]]'' where Mr.Hyde convinces Tom Jackman (the Dr.Jekyll of the series) to let him brutally beat a man who earlier kidnapped one of Jackman's sons and locked him in with some lions on the orders of his bosses. Hyde convinces Jackman that they have to send the organisation that's after them a warning not to do something like that again, that brutally beating the man is the best way to do this, and that Jackman should let Hyde out to do the beating when Jackman admits that he can't bring himself to do it, even though at that point he agrees with Hyde regarding the necessity.
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== [[Role Playing Games]] ==
* This is how the Shadows work in the role-playing game ''[[Wraith: The
** Even creepier, the Shadow is originally a part of your mind, your darker, nastier impulses and thoughts, which are wrapped up in the rest of your psyche while you're alive but takes a separate existence upon death. Oddly enough, the character's psyche remains oddly unchanged; there are no rules to reflect that it should be changed from not having the Shadow in it anymore...
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** Averted during the events of {{spoiler|The Demon Path, where it's more you and Gig in a friendly competition in which side can be the biggest evil while in possession of your body.}}
* In ''[[Remember 11]]'', Kokoro and Satoru bother end up in this situation, since the two of them can't control (or remember) what the other does while they are [[Freaky Friday Flip|in each other's bodies]]. Later in the story, their respective companions call them out on the fact that any bad things can "conveniently" be blamed on the other person. {{spoiler|Neither of the two is really guilty of anything, since almost all of the blame-worthy offenses were done by a third personality that nobody knew about}}
* In ''[[
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Mildly subverted with Blitzwing in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', in that while his Hothead and Icy personas may quarrel with each other (with Random usually mediating), the divide is between calm logic and passionate rage rather than good or evil. They're both still the bad guy.
** Also they aren't really at war with each
* Dr. Two-Brains from ''[[Word Girl]]''. The other personality just happens to be an angry mouse.
* The ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' Treehouse of Horror short "Hell Toupee". An executed Snake takes control of Homer from beyond the grave after the latter gets the former's hair transplanted onto his head and the roots burrow down into his brain. He uses Homer's body to take revenge on the witnesses who got him executed in the first place.
** Bart once said this about Lisa.
** Also, in Hit and Run, Homer may say this after kicking over, or crashing into people.
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