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{{quote|''My name is Legion''<br />
''For we are [[Trope Namer|many spirits]]''<br />
''[[Trope Namer|Inside of one]].''|[[
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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== [[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
* In ''[[
* 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]].
* ''[[
* Jill Presto from ''[[Lucifer (Comic Book)|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 of ''Children of [[Dune]]'', Alia is overcome with the personalities of the past lives within her and starts speaking with many voices.
* In the ''[[
** There's also Tiffany Aching in ''[[Discworld
** 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''.
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== [[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:
* 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
** 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.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[
* 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".
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* 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
* 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.}}
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== [[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
* In one episode of ''[[Batman:
* 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
* 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...
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