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{{quote|''"There's just one problem... you're talking to ''the wrong Harvey''."''|'''Harvey Dent''', ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]''}}
In real life, Dissociative Identity Disorder (or DID) is a condition believed to be most common among survivors of sexual and/or physical abuse that occurs in their childhood/teenage years. There is [
But that's not entertaining, so television does it differently, and in several different ways. Two (or more) personalities may be sharing memory or not sharing memory or have access to each others' memory as external to their own in symmetric or asymmetric fashion, they can switch at will or involuntary and be in clear war or some form of pact. It even may be the very same personality (i.e. having the very same mind, memory and desires), but changing 'behavior mode' between several clearly distinctive states.
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See also [[Double Consciousness]], [[Identity Amnesia]], [[Jekyll and Hyde]], [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], [[Split Personality Merge]], [[Split Personality Makeover]], [[Split Personality Takeover]] and [[Talking to Themself]]. If the split personality is the antagonist, it's the [[Enemy Within]]. [[Shapeshifting]] is sometimes involved. If the personalities are flipping back and forth, [[Flip Personality]] often ensues.
Compare [[Trauma
If the two personalities are aware of each other, expect a [[Gollum Made Me Do It]] situation to develop. Resolving it may require the weaker of the two to say "[[I'm Not Afraid of You]]!" If the [[Split Personality]] gets its own body, it becomes either a [[Literal Split Personality]] or an [[Enemy Without]] (if said personality is antagonistic or [[Super-Powered Evil Side|evil]]).
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* On ''[[Dragonball]]'', the character Lunch (or Launch, [[Spell My Name With an "S"|depending on the translation]]) would go from a sweet, naive, blue-haired (or black-haired in the manga) girl to a hot-tempered, gunslinging, criminally-inclined blonde ([[Fan Nickname|dubbed]] "Kushami", Japanese for "sneeze", by fans) and back again [[Sneeze of Doom|whenever she sneezed]].
* Lady Une of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' developed split personalities out of her love for her boss Treize, one a [[The Baroness|cold-hearted]], calculating [[Colonel Badass]], the other a kind, soft-spoken peace advocate. She has a few moments of near breakdown before being shot roughly halfway through the series and remaining comatose until the final arc. The coma apparently gives her time to resolve her issues, and when she wakes up she has Iron Une's military and strategic skills and Saint Une's compassion and desire for peace.
** Her [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul|glasses]] act as a trigger. Once she puts them on, you're guaranteed to see her order somebody's death.
* The "Other Momoka" from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', as well as Private Tamama. Both appear sweet and harmless at first, but they hide an extremely jealous and possessive side that occasionally comes out when a perceived "rival" for the object of their affection appears.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel Saga]]'', in which a cute detective channels her late father whenever she puts on his hat.
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** Luna, too. {{spoiler|Ironically, her other personality is ''also'' Asuna.}}
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'''s favorite [[Creepy Twins]], Hansel and Gretel, crank their typical [[Nightmare Fuel]] on this trope and share split personalities with each other. They could decide themselves who wanted to be Hansel and who wanted to be Gretel at the time, to the point that there is [[Wild Mass Guessing]] as to which one was actually which at any given point during their story arc.
* ''[[Count Cain]]'' reveals in its [[Wham! Episode]] that {{spoiler|the Riff that all the characters knew was actually a fake personality, created by the Delilah Organization. The real Riffael was an awful, cruel man, and when he's reawakened he immediately betrays the protagonists.}}
** Many readers suspect that this was partly The Tower being duped like he was over the zombie thing, and that while 'the original' wasn't the greatest guy he was a more normal human being than either of his halves. {{spoiler|Thus, Riff cutting his wrists in guilt over surviving his family, even though he doesn't remember that he set the fire, is an enaction of Riffael Raffit's self-hatred that he was too proud to express and The Tower doesn't even feel anymore.}} Or, you know, loyalty made him a real boy. That also works.
** The [[Wild Mass Guessing]] above is ''slightly'' more realistic and has canon basis, but is definitely not confirmed. And given the character in question is dead all along anyway...
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* Insane robot and [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] villain Ultron. Every model has a new, different personality, culminating in one version which contained ''every'' previous personality constantly vying for supremacy, basically making him eight unstable megalomaniacs in one.
* Ultron gets it honest, apparently, as his/her creator and 'father' figure, Dr. Henry Pym, underwent a period of insanity where he not only believed himself to be an entirely different person, but claimed to have actually ''killed'' Pym. While this was eventually resolved, he's still not the most stable of people, {{spoiler|to the point that when he was Skrull-replaced, they went through multiple agents specifically because each one that imitated him eventually developed his mental problems and had to be eliminated to keep the cover from being blown.}}
* Another from the Avengers; [[The Sentry]] and Void. [[The Sentry]] is 'The Golden Guardian of Good', blonde haired, handsome and heroic, his powers being strongest during the day. Basically a fangirl's dream version of Legolas, wielding more power than [[Silver Age]] Superman with added psychological problems, and a broader power set to boot, which is officially unlimited, facing down beings like Galactus and Green Scar (the latter when extremely agoraphobic) and winning or drawing. The Void is a pure evil, manipulative [[Eldritch Abomination]] in semi human form, strongest at night or in the Negative Zone, and is often described as akin to the Angel of Death. Both wield planet busting power, and are immortal effectively by choice. Whenever the Void turns up or [[The Sentry]] looks like he's about to lose it, it's a [[Mass "Oh Crap"]] moment for the entire Marvel Universe.
* Shasti from Adam Warren's version of the ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]'' is an [[Artificial Human]] deliberately engineered with four personalities for different tasks.
* Copycat from ''[[Gen 13|DV8]]'', whose four personalities are each represented by different fonts and word balloons. Ivana actually points out the [[Hollywood Psych]] at work, saying that Gem's condition doesn't resemble any case of Dissociative Identity Disorder she's ever read about. She theorizes it has something to do with her Gen-Factor mutating an existing psychological disorder.
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* This is only the ''start'' of the trouble in Michael Slade's {{spoiler|''Ghoul''}}.
* Matt Ruff's novel ''[[Set This House in Order]]'' is about Andrew Gage, the "public face" of a multiple personality. And that's just the beginning.
* The [
* {{spoiler|This is the big twist}} of ''[[Fight Club]]''. About two-thirds through the book, the reader {{spoiler|and the narrator find out that Tyler is the Narrator.}}
* Severian in The ''[[Book of the New Sun]]'' who is both the original torturer Severian and also Chatelaine Thecla after eating the Albazo (and Thecla.)
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** Since DID patients generally aren't aware of their other personalities, but some schizophrenia manifests as ''hearing voices in your head'', maybe they ''did'' mean schizophrenia. The Tok'ra host and symbiote are conscious at the same time regardless of who is controlling the body, and communicate with each other mentally.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' used this twice: once in second season, when {{spoiler|Reid was kidnapped by a man with three personalities, one of whom tortured him, one of whom drugged him, and the last of whom played Russian roulette}}, and once in fourth season, when {{spoiler|the rapes and murders of young men in Florida over spring break turn out to be the work of a woman named Amanda in the body of a guy named Adam}}. In the first case, all of the personalities were aware of each other, although it's not clear that they knew they inhabited the same body. In the second, only the secondary personality is aware of the condition, which leads to a {{spoiler|[[Split Personality Takeover]]}}.
* The ''[[
* An episode of ''[[CSI]]'' had a woman faking multiple personalities to get an insanity plea.
* An episode of ''[[Lie to Me (TV)|Lie to Me]]'' has Cal take a client with this disorder. Cal has to figure out which of her several personalities witnessed a murder.
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* Played realistically (for once) in ''[[Mass Effect 1]]'' with the character of Talitha, who only shows up in certain branches of the [[Player Character]]'s [[Multiple Choice Past]]. She was kidnapped by batarian slavers as a child; after her release, she is a [[Third Person Person]] who perceives her abusive experiences as having happened to someone else. And it's [[Mass Effect (Franchise)/Tear Jerker|incredibly powerful]], making you wonder why more writers don't play it straight.
** It's hard, and [[Viewers are Morons]] and [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]; the result is a lot of work going in to something that no one is going to appreciate and will, in fact, pick apart because ''they'' have the wrong idea about how the disorder works.
* [[Inazuma Eleven]] 2's Fubuki Shirou has a special mention of a [[Split Personality]] aside from other characters with dual modes. His regular persona, a soft spoken and timid defender, and his alter persona, {{spoiler|created from a memory of his dead brother,}} a [[Hot
** ''GO'' has Kariya Masaki, who acts sweet generally except to Kirino; which is hinted to be his true nature.
* Gemini from ''[[Sakura Wars]]'' (''Sakura Taisen 5'') seems to be pulling a not-very-convincing masked vigilante act, until it's eventually revealed that she has a sister Geminine... living inside her.
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