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Contrast with [[Something Only They Would Say]]. See also [[Virus Victim Symptoms]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In [[Bleach]], the 9th Espada, {{spoiler|attempting to trick Rukia by posing as her former mentor Kaien Shiba, betrays himself by making a request that was blatantly uncharacteristic of Kaien; suggesting that she could earn his forgiveness by killing all her friends. Rukia, enraged, says Kaien would never say that even as a joke. (Kaien also died apologizing to Rukia for causing her pain and thanking her for freeing his heart by performing a [[Mercy Kill]] on him).}}
* In ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'', a compromised Vegeta calls Goku "Goku" rather than "Kakarot", thus giving himself away.
** Goku and Gohan both qualify, as their [[Super Mode|Super]] [[Super
*** Basic corollary: The more pacifistic a Saiyan is in their base form, the more sadistic (and dangerous) they are as they increase in power. Vegeta and Gotenks barely see any change in personality in their Super Saiyan forms, while Gohan, who'd rather go to school and [[I Just Want to Be Normal|be normal]], could give [[Naruto|the KYUUBI]] a run for its money on bloodthirst when he's SSJ2.
* Beware the [[Internet Backdraft]] when bringing this up with [[Mai-HiME]], particularly with reference to {{spoiler|Shizuru Fujino}}. The anime is ambiguous about how much (if indeed at all) {{spoiler|1=the HiME star is affecting the HiME as it gets closer to earth. Is it playing with their emotions to provoke them to fight each other (thus causing Shizuru to go completely mad when she's rejected by Natsuki), or is it all a result of their normal psyches, just put under a lot of stress?}}
** Interestingly enough, {{spoiler|immediately after being resurrected, Shizuru [[Tears of Remorse|starts crying]] and [[My God, What Have I Done?|apologizes to Natsuki]], which she had not done even in the moments before her death, after Natsuki kissed her and told her that she loved her, albeit in a different way. This suggests that she only came to her senses after being resurrected.}}.
* In an episode of ''[[Natsume Yuujinchou]] Shi'', Nyanko-sensei has to masquerade as Natsume after he's trapped in a bottle by a youkai. Nyanko-sensei then proceeds to act exactly as he usually does (read:a [[Jerkass]]), much to Natsume's dismay.
* In one [[To Love Ru]] story, Haruna suddenly became an evil sadist, which was hilarious. It became a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] when the artist's wife, who Haruna's design was based on, turned out to be a crazy psychopath who kidnapped their daughter, among other demented things.
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** Or you could say that almost the entire runs of ''Buffy'' and ''Angel'' are Angelus being [[Not Himself]].
*** Spike and Dru certainly thought so. Less clear what Darla thought.
** Say it with me now. [[I Just Want to Be Normal|B]][[Grand Theft Me|u]][[Came Back Wrong|f]][[Took a Level In Jerkass|f]][[What the Hell, Hero?|y]].
* ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' ended with a [[Not Himself]], presumably to have been the plot of the cancelled third season. "How's Annie? How's Annie? How's Annie?!"
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has several, mostly involving Kirk and Picard.
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