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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''My name is Legion, for we are many.''
|[[The Bible|Mark 5:9]]}}
{{quote|''My name is Legion''
''For we are [[Trope Namer|many spirits]]''
''[[Trope Namer|Inside of one]].''
|[[Hammerfall]], "Legion"}}
Some people are victims of [[Demonic Possession]] or [[Grand Theft Me]]. Others suffer from [[Split Personality]], or even outright [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], and have to struggle with [[Enemy Within]]. All those things are terrible in their own way, but don't worry, [[It Got Worse|they can always be even worse]]. It's one thing when your body is taken by the [[Satan|lord of all evil himself]], but when he invites his twelve best drinking buddies to join the ride, that's something else entirely.
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{{examples}}
▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Battle B-daman]]'' has Bull, a boy with three personalities: calm one, confident one and aggressive one.
* Although for the most part, she actually only has one personality (the other one almost never comes up), in one ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' chapter, this is done with Kaere. She's the [[Fauxreigner]] [[Foreign Fanservice]] character and she splits into an entire United Nations' worth of personalities.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] Charles Xavier's son, Legion, once had multiple personalities with different superpowers. [[Split Personality Merge|Then he went better]], but as a whole was so powerful that he caused the [[Age of Apocalypse]]. He later came back, now having hundreds of personalities, each with its own unique power. Some of them are minds of dead people he drained, making him a combination of this trope and [[Mind Hive]].
* ''[[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'': At the beginning it was only Bruce Banner and the ruthless Gray Hulk, who turned green and then started getting constantly dumber until we get the most well-known version of the character, the Savage Hulk. Later a new Gray Hulk, a mischievous and selfish version of the first gray Hulk, joined them. Then [[Split Personality Merge|the Hulks and Banner merged]] into Professor Hulk, who was later [[
* Jill Presto from ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'' is host to 12 Basanos.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Matthew Swift]] shares his mind with the numerous entities known as The Electric Blue Angels to the point that the first person narration is constantly switching between "I" and "We"
* The novel ''[[John Dies at the End]]'', by ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s David Wong, gives us Shitload, who is the host body of a hive mind.
* At the end of ''Children of [[Dune]]'', Alia is overcome with the personalities of the past lives within her and starts speaking with many voices.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' books there's Altogether Andrews, a man with about eight personalities, of whom none are named Andrews. It's theorized that he was a medium who was too accommodating to lost spirits, and ended up getting pushed out of his body.
** There's also Tiffany Aching in ''[[
** Subverted in Myria [[Le Jean]]. The Auditors possessing her named this body expecting continued collectivism, but the form bestowed individuality upon whatever Auditor force(s) operated it, and at the end she changes her name to Unity.
* Shades from the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' are sorcerers whose bodies have been taken over by the spirits they command. The first one we meet (Durza) only has three spirits controlling him, but in the third book, we meet one who has ''twelve''.
* It's indicated this may be the case with Randall Flagg in [[The Stand]]. After Tom is put into his trance, he talks of the New Testament references-Flagg's name being Legion and Jesus driving him into a herd of pigs once.
== [[Live
* In a ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode, Doctor Jackson has been possessed by personalities of multiple members of a spaceship's crew. Surprisingly, it was one of the rare examples when possession in this show wasn't evil.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode ''Masks'': Data is possessed by an alien probe, and takes on the personalities of various figures from the mythology of an extinct civilization. Mainly an excuse to let Brent Spiner act his nuts off.
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== Religion ==
* There's another New Testament reference — St. Matthew <small>XII</small>, xliii.–xlv.:
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** Of the little the Bible says for sure of Mary Magdalene, one thing is that Jesus drove seven demons out of her.
* Possession by multiple spirits is a core element in Korean shamanism, which is claimed to be a close descendant from Siberian shamanism, arguably the first religion of Homo sapiens. In a ritual, the shamans invoke multiple spirits to possess them one after another, so that they can borrow multiple powers to accomplish a goal. Somewhat frightening to see in real life.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Portal 2]] reveals this of GlaDOS. From whom in the first game, you remove and destroy personality cores.
* One of the DLC characters for ''[[
* The [[Neverwinter Nights 2|Mask of the Betrayer]] expansion pack for ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' gave us One-of-Many - an amalgamation of several hundred spirits. He is governed by the worst of these - and as a result he is a twisted monster that keeps tempting you to do evil and add additional spirits to "the many".
* Legion from ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is a single body inhabited by numerous operating systems. Despite seeming very similar, they were split evenly when {{spoiler|you must decide whether to kill or convert the Geth heretics.}}
* Ermac from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' is this, especially later in the series.
* In ''[[Live a Live]]'', [[Big Bad|O. Dio]] from the Western Chapter. {{spoiler|He's actually a horse possessed by the vengeful spirits of a regiment that got wiped out, taking out their hatred for humanity on an old west town. The horse returns to being a horse after O. Dio is defeated.}}
* Sora from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' habitually invites other people in, although he usually isn't consciously aware of doing so. At this point he's renting out space to {{spoiler|Ventus, Xion, Roxas, and probably Vanitas}}, and {{spoiler|Kairi}} was also in there for most of the first game. Most of his tenants are fairly nice people, but all but two of 'em ''were'' trying to kill or suppress him at one point or another, intentionally or not.
** The villain of the series, Xehanort, is this as well, notable in that, for most of the series, {{spoiler|he's the hijacker, with the proper owner body being Terra}}. It counts as this trope because {{spoiler|Terra}} took in {{spoiler|Master Eraqus}} as a passenger shortly before Xehanort did his thing.
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', by the end of the series, you can count at least three and possibly four different personas that are within {{spoiler|Shannon}}'s body. Besides her, there's also {{spoiler|Kanon and Beatrice, who is kinda also Yasu}}. However, if you count all of her imaginary friends who don't actually take control of her body, the number of people in there easily jumps into the double-digits. It's a stinking party in her head.
* In the Playstation 2 title [[Guilty Gear]] XX there's Zappa; A polite and friendly Aussie who's perfectly normal on the surface (Save an eccentric taste in wardrobe) except for the fact that he's the unknowing host to a grab bag of crazy ghosts including a spectral sword, a few dozen wisps, a hellhound, and an armor-clad lightning spirit. The most powerful and malevolent of his "guests" is S-Ko who [[Clingy Jealous Girl|readily takes control of him whenever he attempts to interact with other people]]. Unlike S-Ko, the weaker spirits are loyal to Zappa, often comforting him whenever he is depressed or sad.
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