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** Despite being the most well known example, he is also an abnormal one, because as Two-Face, both of his personas, good and evil, are "on" at the same time (Usually. Two-Face is a huge case of [[Depending on the Writer]]). Coincidentally, his symptoms sometimes imply actual Schizophrenia, which doesn't exactly help clear the confusion people have about the two conditions.

** A few comics have suggested that [[The Joker]] has multiple personality disorder, switching from harmless prankster to [[Complete Monster]] and everything inbetween.

** Even Batman himself has been accused of this. By day, he's [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job|Bruce Wayne]]. Put on the costume, and he's a completely different person. It's even [[The Dark Knight Saga|been argued]] that the Batman persona is his "true" personality, and Bruce Wayne is the mask he hides behind.

** Even Batman himself has been accused of this, sometimes even by his own account. By day, he's [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job|Bruce Wayne]]. Put on the costume, and he's a completely different person. It's even [[The Dark Knight Saga|been argued]] that the Batman persona is his "true" personality, and Bruce Wayne is the mask he hides behind.

*** Then there are those that argues that there are ''three'' personae: Bruce Wayne, the [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]], The Dark Knight, the avenger who '''Is The Night''', the shadow who shows up to beat the guilty into a pulp and who has no personal ties; and [[Batman]], the person who briefly shows up in-between, the guy who loves Alfred as a father and who consider Dick Grayson to be his son.

**** Sane people tend to agree that the real person is Batman, and that the other two personae are exaggerations of the original. Though this usually is just about who he is pretending to be, not about whether any of them are independant personalities.

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* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' examples:

** The Green Goblin, who sometimes suffers from this, though in an inversion the real persona Norman Osborn can be just as evil as his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. And of course The Lizard, who is basically Bruce Banner-lite.

** Doctor Octopus sometimes showed signs of this in his career. There were times when his original, timid, benevolent personality of Otto Octavius would resurface, but his evil Doctor Octopus persona would always return. In the movie ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man 2]]'' this Trope seemed to apply even more.)

** Doctor Octopus sometimes showed signs of this in his career. There were times when his original, timid, benevolent personality of Otto Octavius would resurface, but his evil Doctor Octopus persona would always return. In the movie ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man 2]]'' this Trope seemed to apply even more.

* Grant Morrison's run on ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' featured, among other characters, Kay Challis, also known as Crazy Jane, who had no less than sixty-four separate personalities, each with its own name and function, and after a "gene-bomb" was detonated during an alien invasion of Earth, [[Disability Superpower|each with its own superhuman ability]].

* Triplicate Girl/Triad from the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' tends to show signs of this trope when she [[Doppelganger Spin|splits apart]]. The version of her in the Post-''[[Zero Hour]] [[Crisis Crossover|Hour]]'' reboot was explicitly written as having [[The Three Faces of Eve|three distinct personalities]] when split—which was considered a mental illness on her [[Planet of Hats|homeworld]], although her grandmother insisted it was natural, and suppressing the different aspects was what was unhealthy.

** Then again, arguing with yourself is considered pretty nutty on this planet, too.

** The current version takes this a little ~~far~~; her entire civilisation consists of triplicates of the same person. The one/three who are members of the Legion, however, have had so many different experiences from the others that the rest won't let them rejoin.

** The current version takes this a little further; her entire civilisation consists of triplicates of the same person. The one/three who are members of the Legion, however, have had so many different experiences from the others that the rest won't let them rejoin.

* The DC Comics character [[Etrigan]] the Demon was bonded to a man named Jason Blood as punishment for being tempted by Morgaine Le Fay into betraying Camelot. Jason switches places and lets Etrigan take over when there's superheroing to be done. (He's a prime example of [[Cursed with Awesome]].)

* The DCU also has had two different ''Rose and Thorn'' characters over the years, one whose Thorn persona was a villain, and a later one whose Thorn is a hero.