Many Spirits Inside of One: Difference between revisions

Line 6:

{{quote|''My name is Legion''<br />

''For we are [[Trope Namer|many spirits]]''<br />

''[[Trope Namer|Inside of one]].''|[[~~Hammer Fall~~]], "Legion"}}

''[[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.

Line 20:

== [[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.

* 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.

* In ''[[~~Bleach (Manga)|~~Bleach]]'' Ichigo Kurosaki shares his body with the spirit of his weapon, Zangetsu, and his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], Hollow Ichigo. Zangetsu and [[Fan Nickname|Hichigo]] seem to be representations of his powers, rather than his psyche, but still.

* In ''[[Bleach]]'' Ichigo Kurosaki shares his body with the spirit of his weapon, Zangetsu, and his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], Hollow Ichigo. Zangetsu and [[Fan Nickname|Hichigo]] seem to be representations of his powers, rather than his psyche, but still.

* Shinobu Sensui from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has ''seven'' personalities.

== [[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]].

* ''[[~~The~~ Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|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 [[Retcon|retconned]] to be a completely different personality altogether. Recently, the four of them have been joined by Green Scar — an intelligent, brutal warrior persona. There was a story revealing that Banner has a lot more Hulks in his mind, including such creatures as the lizard-like Guilt Hulk or the monstrous [[Complete Monster|Devil Hulk]], but the question of whether it's still in the continuity remains debatable.

* ''[[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|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 [[Retcon|retconned]] to be a completely different personality altogether. Recently, the four of them have been joined by Green Scar — an intelligent, brutal warrior persona. There was a story revealing that Banner has a lot more Hulks in his mind, including such creatures as the lizard-like Guilt Hulk or the monstrous [[Complete Monster|Devil Hulk]], but the question of whether it's still in the continuity remains debatable.

* Jill Presto from ''[[Lucifer (Comic Book)|Lucifer]]'' is host to 12 Basanos.

Line 34:

== [[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]]'s David Wong, gives us Shitload, who is the host body of a hive mind.

* The novel ''[[John Dies at the End]]'', by [[Cracked]]'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 (Literature)|~~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.

* 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 ''[[Discworld ~~(Literature)~~/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]'' who is possessed by a Hiver.

** There's also Tiffany Aching in ''[[Discworld/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]'' who is possessed by a Hiver.

** 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''.

Line 44:

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* 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.

* ''[[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.

* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Verse]], the Kurlan believed that a person was made up of a group of individuals, each with his own voice. A [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kurlan_naiskos Naiskos] was a sculpture representing a person, which could be opened to reveal several little people inside it.

* {{spoiler|Alpha and Echo}} on ''[[Dollhouse]]'', who don't forget their previous implants.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Den O]],'' the main Rider is possessed by an Imagin. ...then another, and another. When suited, each possessor makes a different Den-O with a different [[Weapon of Choice]]. Though they're not all in him at once, any can take over at will. [[Hilarity Ensues]] (literal, non-ironic hilarity, that is) often.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]],'' the main Rider is possessed by an Imagin. ...then another, and another. When suited, each possessor makes a different Den-O with a different [[Weapon of Choice]]. Though they're not all in him at once, any can take over at will. [[Hilarity Ensues]] (literal, non-ironic hilarity, that is) often.

** When he uses [[All Your Powers Combined|Climax Form]], Momotaros seems to remain the "default", but the other spirits are represented by pieces of armour. They can and do start arguing over how to go about things.

Line 57:

== [[Video Games]] ==

* [[~~Portal 2 (Video Game)|~~Portal 2]] reveals this of GlaDOS. From whom in the first game, you remove and destroy personality cores.

* [[Portal 2]] reveals this of GlaDOS. From whom in the first game, you remove and destroy personality cores.

* One of the DLC characters for ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' is a [[Magical Girl]] with a rather unpleasant female personality, a nicer male personality and one of the six heroes sharing the same body.

* 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".

Line 65:

* 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 ''[[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.

* ExDeath from ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' is {{spoiler|1=a living tree with many evil spirits sealed inside him. The release of these spirits combined with the power of the Void are what cause him to transform into Neo ExDeath at the games' end.}}

Line 74:

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Blitzwing from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has three personalities - a cool, calm tactician with [[An Ice Person|ice blasts]], or more awesomely, ice ''missiles;'' a rowdy, battle-loving hothead with [[Playing ~~With~~ Fire|fire blasts]]; and a cackling, non-sequitur spouting [[Talkative Loon]] who can use ''either'' of their powers. He's also got two vehicle modes: Icy uses jet, Hothead uses tank, Random uses either.

* Blitzwing from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has three personalities - a cool, calm tactician with [[An Ice Person|ice blasts]], or more awesomely, ice ''missiles;'' a rowdy, battle-loving hothead with [[Playing with Fire|fire blasts]]; and a cackling, non-sequitur spouting [[Talkative Loon]] who can use ''either'' of their powers. He's also got two vehicle modes: Icy uses jet, Hothead uses tank, Random uses either.

* In one episode of ''[[Batman ~~the~~ Animated Series]]'', Two-Face developed a third persona: Judge, a ruthless vigilante who was punishing criminals. Both the Harvey Dent and Two-Face personas were unaware of Judge's existence. It also seems that Judge didn't know he shared a body with them, since he was ruining Two-Face's plans and tried to kill him.

* In one episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', Two-Face developed a third persona: Judge, a ruthless vigilante who was punishing criminals. Both the Harvey Dent and Two-Face personas were unaware of Judge's existence. It also seems that Judge didn't know he shared a body with them, since he was ruining Two-Face's plans and tried to kill him.

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the titular Avatar is normally just one person with the ability to use all four elements. If that person accesses the Avatar State, usually through an [[Unstoppable Rage]], he contacts the spirits of every single Avatar before, channeling thousands of spirits through one mortal body. It's a little bit scary.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* A milder version (which may have been flanderized to this trope) is when people have inner conflicts and don't know what they should do. Like [[Faust]] by [[Johann Wolfgang ~~Von~~ Goethe]] said: "Two souls alas! dwell in my breast."

* A milder version (which may have been flanderized to this trope) is when people have inner conflicts and don't know what they should do. Like [[Faust]] by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] said: "Two souls alas! dwell in my breast."

* Modern neuroscience backs this up. As an experimental treatment for severe epilepsy, some people have had their corpus callosum severed, to prevent seizures from swamping the entire brain. This leaves the two halves of the brain, left and right, intact but unable to "talk" to each other. Result: the patients exhibit some fascinating behaviors that almost seem to indicate two different people living in their heads! (It is, however, limited to two.) The implication is that we ''all'' have two people in our heads, but they work in such close tandem that we rarely notice...