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{{trope}}
[[File:RapunzelMoodSwing 3762.jpg|link=Tangled|frame|All this takes place over the course of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvSykRdR4s 43 seconds].]]
{{quote|''"Last night was an A-1, tip top clubbing jam fair. It was a sandwich of fun on ecstasy bread, wrapped up in a big ball like disco fudge. It doesn't get much better than that, I just wish that sometimes I could control these FUCKING MOOD SWINGS! So what did youse two do last night?"''
|'''[[Motor Mouth|Tyres]]''', ''[[Spaced]]''}}
A character whose personality isn't marked by any set mood, but by their tendency to swing between moods drastically. Sometimes (if the characters around them are lucky) there's some sort of warning of an impending mood
Frequently this is combined with [[wikipedia:Emotional lability|emotional lability]], so they skip any emotion that isn't ''extreme''. They're never just happy, they're the cheeriest [[Genki Girl]] in the world. They're never just sad; they're [[Driven to Suicide|on the verge of suicide]]. They're never just angry; they're filled with [[Unstoppable Rage]]. And they can flip between any of them at a moment's notice.
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Though they may be referred to as "bipolar", their mood swings are generally much more abrupt and frequent than the periods of mania or depression associated with type I of real-life [[wikipedia:Bipolar disorder|bipolar disorder.]] This can, however, be a facet of type II bipolar disorder or [[wikipedia:Borderline personality disorder|borderline personality disorder]].
This is a stereotypical trait of women who are currently [[Menstrual Menace|menstruating or suffering from PMS]]. It is [[Truth in Television]], and fairly common at that, but not typically as extreme as fiction portrays it to be nor as universal. Also, not every woman whose mood is affected by menstrual hormones will be susceptible to every mood; some get stuck swinging into ''one'' mood and temporarily become a [[Fragile Flower]] or acquire a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]. Since the same hormones are involved, pregnant women are also known for being
The Mood Swinger as a [[Love Interest]] frequently fills the role of the [[Tsundere]]. This is also a common trait of [[The Caligula]].
For even more extreme cases, see [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], [[Split Personality]], [[Jekyll and Hyde]], and [[Yandere]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kagura from ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. She seems cute at first, but whenever Kyo's around she becomes a combination of a [[Yandere]] and a [[Tsundere]].
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* A good deal of the characters from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]''. Namely Kafuka who's somewhat similar to Rena, except she's even more overly optimistic.
* Rena from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. This and the fact that she's a [[Nightmare Fetishist]] seems innocent enough at first, but then you find out she's a [[Grotesque Cute]] [[Yandere]] antagonist best known as the "Cleaver Girl" for her [[Ax Crazy]] tendencies. {{spoiler|[[Groundhog Day Loop|Sometimes]]}}. The games hint she has a bipolar disorder, but it's exaggerated so it [[Rule of Scary|seems freakier]].
** Actually {{spoiler|she only is exaggerated two arcs and her backstory, in reality, due to the [[Hate Plague]]. The rest are [[Unreliable Narrator]] moments or Rena playing the intimidation.}}
* [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Haruhi Suzumiya]] comes close. Now she's a cheerful [[Genki Girl]], the next scene she's [[Jerkass|abrasive, confrontational]], dominant and almost narcissistic, after that she may become extremely [[The Eeyore|melancholic]]. There are reasons for her mood-changes, but sometimes it just appears randomly.
** You know, [[Truth in Television|just like a real teenager]].
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** She even uses it as a way to escape some guards in Konoha.
** Jugo has it even worse from a [[Gentle Giant]] to [[Ax Crazy]]. He even been named [[Red Baron|Jugo "of The Scales"]].
* [[The Caligula|King Hamdo]] from ''[[Now and Then, Here and There]]'' takes this trope to [[Nightmare Fuel]] extents. His moods usually switch from petty, to cruel, to violently moody, to pathetic, and back, usually over the course of a few minutes. Regardless of his mood, he is without a doubt, a [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Physical God|Misao Mikogami]] from ''Kami Kaze'' can be a [[Genki Girl|fairly cheerful and fun-loving]] teenage girl, [[The Paragon|nice to anyone who needs a hand]], and will stand up for someone when they need it. Of course, say the wrong thing around her and [[Hair-Trigger Temper|her mood will change so fast]] that you won't even have the time to mouth the words [[Oh Crap]] before you're standing under an ocean of water with your current surroundings gone so far beyond the [[Godzilla Threshold]] that you'll be glad you're not around [[Apocalypse How|to see the aftermath]]. [[It Got Worse|And that's not counting the times]] you've [[Unstoppable Rage|pissed her off enough]] that she decides [[Fate Worse Than Death|to play around with you for a little while]]. Did this troper mention that she's the ''nicest'' deity [[Crapsack World|in this series]]?.<ref>
* Alois Trancy of ''[[Black Butler]]''. Throughout the first episode he switches from cute and innocent to [[Ax Crazy]] so many times it could make someone dizzy.
* Harry of ''[[Outlaw Star]]''.
* Kamille in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' can go from personable and friendly to teenage angst-fest in the blink of an eye ([[Not Hyperbole]]). It's oftentimes difficult to tell what exactly set him off.
* Revy of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' normally displays a wide range of emotions, all the way from affection to psychotic rage to calm boredom.
== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* Boingo from ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' acts like this once he drops his [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] facade and starts acting like a supervillain. The commentary remarks that on one occasion they couldn't decide which take to use (maniacal, verge of tears, etc), so they just decided to string them all together to very good effect.
* After escaping from the tower in which she's lived her whole life
* Basil from ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' certainly swings from manically happy to crushingly depressed and back to manically happy again quickly. Of course, this is because he's based on [[Sherlock Holmes]], who was possibly bipolar, and definitely a massive cocaine addict. So either Basil could use a little lithium, or he's gotten into a bad, mouse-sized vial of seven per cent solution (an expected hazard of living under Holmes' floor).
* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': Jack Skellington, particularly during his [[BSOD Song]], "Poor Jack".
== [[Literature]] ==
* Tonker in ''[[Discworld|Monstrous Regiment]]'' has only two moods: calm and berserk. The description used in the book is "has no middle gears."
* ''[[Peter Pan]]'': This is Tinkerbell's original characterization. J.M. Barrie explains that fairies are 'so small they only have room for one feeling at a time.'
{{quote|"Now, Tinkerbell was not all bad. At least, she was not all bad all the time."}}
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* Less than halfway through the first novel, it's easy to see where theories of [[Sherlock Holmes]] being bipolar come from.
* Vlad Tepes in ''[[Count and Countess]]'', usually to scary degrees.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* [[Relient K]]: Whoever the song "Mood Rings" was about: "First she's Jekyll and then she's Hyde... at least she makes a lovely pair", indeed.▼
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[Sherlock]]'s'' Jim Moriarty has, to say the least, a habit of doing this.
{{quote|"{{spoiler|SORRY BOYS! I'M SOOOOOO CHANGEABLE!}}"}}
▲== [[Music]] ==
▲* [[Relient K]]: Whoever the song "Mood Rings" was about: "First she's Jekyll and then she's Hyde... at least she makes a lovely pair", indeed.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Lucy from ''[[13]]'' has this dialogue with her boyfriend:
{{quote|'''Lucy:''' ...And don't forget to change your facebook status to in a relationship. [[Clingy Jealous Girl|That way our profiles will be linked together like little love handcuffs]].
'''Brett:''' (To Cassie, who is walking by) Oh hi Cassie.
'''Lucy:''' Are you FLIRTING with her?!
'''Brett:''' No, I was just saying Hi.
'''Lucy:''' So you're saying [[Hollywood Pudgy|I'm fat]]?
'''Brett:''' No.
'''Lucy:''' Well, you never say anything about how amazing I look anymore.
'''Brett:''' Lucy, you are driving me crazy.
'''Lucy:''' See? Now that was sweet. And sweet makes me sweet. Got it?
'''Brett:''' No. }}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Malfeas in ''[[Exalted]]'' is known to be bipolar on a [[Malevolent Architecture|huge scale]], but the real
* One of possible monsters in Munchkin Card Game is a "bipolar bear" - he will attack you furiously or run away, depending on its current mood.
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** In her second appearance this [[Flanderization|escalated]] from Bipolar, to actual split personalities and her fighting style changes depending the current mood/personality
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' While not as extreme as some of the others on the list, Yukari Takeba frequently goes through random moodswings through the course of the game. {{spoiler|Said mood swings get worse in [[Playable Epilogue|The Answer]] thanks to her grieving over the main character's death.}}
** Perfectly understandable too, given the fact that, before the events of the game, she was (for the most part) a normal teenager.
* The ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' announcer, or at least the one from ''DDR Hottest Party''. He lavishes praise on you when you're doing well or even just ''okay'', but the second your dance meter falls into the red he'll angrily demand that you stop sucking. Also, when you idle on the song menu he demonstrates all the patience of a spoiled six-year-old ("BO-RING!").
* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'', you delve into the brain of a former actress to control her mood swings. Her mind is represented by a stage where can change the atmosphere from cheery to depressing with a switch.
* Arguably all characters in the Galactic Adventures expansion for ''[[Spore]]'', as players are only given 5 emotions to work with (happy, sad, angry, scared, and neutral which is just a different version of happy) when making dialogue portions for their user-created missions, and they're all expressed in the most exaggerated way possible without and transitions between them. This also makes certain character types such as the [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[The Stoic]] very difficult to portray believably.
* Due to programming, Cole Phelps from ''[[
* Wigglytuff in [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers]] has this reputation (along with [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]), though at first it seems like its an [[Informed Attribute]]. [[Failure Is the Only Option|After you fail to bring back a Perfect Apple however]], he ''literally'' almost blows up the guild. Besides that, the aftermath of his [[Curb Stomp Battle]] with Team Skull supports this.
* Anders of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' is stated in the Codex to suffer from manic and depressive phases as of Act III, due to the [[Sanity Slippage]] caused by his [[Demonic Possession]]. His dialogue throughout the game tends to reflect this, ranging from calm and caring, to snarky, to obsessively focused on his goals, to self-righteously grandiose, to self-loathing and miserable, to downright psycho, with alarming speed.
* Enforced in ''[[Super Princess Peach]]'' where the heroine can go from happy, to sad, to angry on a whim, seeing as each of her emotions triggers one of her [[Psychoactive Powers| "Vibes".]]
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* The 20 Questions-playing [[Akinator]] can switch between smug satisfaction and red-hot rage between one question and the next, if what he thought was a perfect guess is thrown off by an answer that doesn't fit the bill.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfaRPev8cbA Terry, the Bi Bi-polar Polar Bear].
{{quote|'''[[Camp Gay|Terry]]:''' I just want you all to know that I don't care if you're a boy penguin or a girl penguin, I just... Aw, heck, I'm just gonna come right out and say it: I love you all to pieces!
'''Penguin:''' Oh, thanks Terry. We all love yo--
'''Terry:''' '''GO TO HELL!!''' *Runs off crying* }}
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** Also Prince Zuko. One minute, he's calm, focused, and disciplined. The next, exploding in a flurry of grunts, growls, and fireballs. Even as a good guy, his mood doesn't improve much until the end.
* Made fun of in one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Homer takes sleeping pills to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|sleep well through the night]] and Lisa reads off the side-effects, one which is Mood Swings. Cue Homer repeatedly saying "Mood Swings" in various [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|moods]].
* Hexadecimal in ''[[
* Lunch Lady from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' who switches from kind, grandmotherly figure to full-blown "I'll '''KEEL''' you" mode at the drop of a hat. Her {{spoiler|alternate future daughter}} picked up the habit as well.
* ''[[Superjail]]'' - The Warden.
{{quote|(sees dead bunny) "You... sick... bastard." (squishes dead bunny, merrily sends the bunny's kidnapper off in a rocket ship, and holds dead bunny up) "Heeey, little guy! Underneath all that precious fur..." (cuddles dead bunny mournfully) "All scared and all alone..." (pets dead bunny contentedly, starts singing) "If only [[
* Doctor Drakken from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' seems to go from mood to mood like an acrobat does on swings.
** In the episode "Emotion Sickness", Kim and Shego become Mood Swingers thanks to the Moodulators attached to them. Ron and Drakken end up being on the receiving end of all of their emotions.
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* Blitzwing the Triple-Changer from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', who switches rapidly between three personalities/moods: [[An Ice Person|Icy]] ([[The Stoic|stoick]] and calculating), [[Playing with Fire|Hothead]] (enraged and [[Hot-Blooded]]), and [[Giggling Villain|Random]] (who is... well, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Random]]).
* The titular ''[[Invader Zim]]''.
* This is played for laughs in one ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' cartoon; Woody is playing "indoor golf", and his drive lands in the downstairs apartment bathroom of his landlord, Wally, who is taking a bath. Wally's reaction:
{{quote|'''Wally''' ''(calm voice)'': Hmm... a golf ball. You know, I should really overlook this unfortunate incident... ''(flies into utter rage)'' '''BUT I'M NOT GOING TO!!'''}}
:* And then he wraps a towel around himself and goes to give Woody a piece of his mind.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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