The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Difference between revisions

* The 1971 [[Hammer Horror]] ''Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde'' and the 1995 comedy ''Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde'' both add a [[Gender Bender]] twist to the story.

* ''Mary Reilly'' tells the story with a romance/horror twist: Hyde was Jekyll's attempt to become young and strong again.

* ''[[Jekyll]]'', a 2006 modern day TV miniseries involving a descendant of the pair, written by [[Steven Moffat]]. Also notable for an example of using the 'Jee-kyll' pronunciation.

* In ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' movie, Jekyll and Hyde are made into [[Expy|Expies]] of Bruce Banner and the [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]], who were in turn based off Jekyll and Hyde. The pair can communicate - Jekyll sees Hyde in mirrors, and omnipresent in his subconscious. Hyde's powers of perception are not usable by Jekyll except if the former advises the latter. The comic depicts Hyde as a huge, monstrously strong humanoid, which Hyde himself explains - separated into distinct individuals, Jekyll grows weak and frail without Hyde's passion, while Hyde grows in power without Jekyll's morals to limit him.

* [[Van Helsing]] had Hyde as the first monster the titular Van Helsing fights. Like the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" version, Hyde is an ape-like monster, though in this version no justification is given. Also Hyde turns back into Jekyll on his death, unlike the original story.

** He turns back into Jekyll because the potion wears off; the fact that he dies moments later is coincidence.

* [[Stan Lee]] notably subverted the concept in [[The Mighty Thor]] in the 1960s with a villain named Mr. Hyde. Unlike the original story, where Henry Jekyll was a generally upstanding and honest man, Lee's version of Jekyll (named Calvin Zabo) is actually a thieving, spiteful bastard who deliberately seeks to unleash his inner monster and willingly embraces his power, using it to indulge his grudges and sadistic urges.

* An infamous [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] game by [[Toho]], which routinely shows up on lists of the worst NES games of all time due to ugly graphics and sadistic [[Fake Difficulty]].

* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: The work is [[Mainstream Obscurity|well-known by name]], but all that most people have heard about it is [[Jekyll and Hyde|the twist ending]]. Many do not even know that the dual identity story was originally a twist at all, and most newer adaptations treat it as a foregone conclusion. Some even make Hyde himself some sort of ugly were-monster rather than just a really evil man, most notably in the infamous NES game released by Bandai.

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The means by which Hyde is created. This was a time when science, chemistry (alchemy was still trendy), and especially the workings of the human mind were [[Clarke's Third Law|still considered magic]].

* [[Bastard Bastard]]: Hyde is not only smaller but younger-looking than Jekyll, and Utterson briefly wonders if he's the by-blow of Jekyll's youthful indiscretions (though the story phrases it far less bluntly):

{{quote| "Poor Harry Jekyll," he thought, "my mind misgives me; he is in deep waters! He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, ''pede claudo'', years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault."}}

* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: It should be "JEEK-il", not "JECK-il".<ref> Not that THAT has stopped anybody from pronoucing it "JECK-il" for years.</ref>

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Hyde's appearance.

* [[Science Marches On]]: Utterson's and Guest's conclusions about Jekyll's and Hyde's handwriting (obviously the same person's but deliberately altered) have been used to contribute to [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Alternative Character Interpretations]] of whether Hyde is a clinical alternate personality or just a hypocritical Jeckyll.

** Jeckyll mentions he deliberately changed his handwriting when he was Hyde, because both their handwritings were normally identical.

* [[Split Personality Takeover]]

* [[Technicolor Science]]: The potion starts out red and then turns purple before settling on green.

* [[Twist Ending]]: Hard to believe these days because [[It Was His Sled]].

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: This is how the other characters describe Hyde and recognize that he's not quite right. They always describe him as looking "deformed" somehow, despite having no outwardly noticeable disfigurements. This is subtlety is lost on subsequent adaptations, but [[Justified Trope|mostly because it's hard to show on screen]].

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: During one of the hallucinatory montages when Jekyll transforms into Hyde, he has a vision of Ivy the barmaid's head as the cork in a champagne bottle--and the cork pops.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: A pretty startling example for 1941. During another transformation montage, we see Jekyll as a carriage driver whipping his horses. Then the horses transform into Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner, and Jekyll continues to whip them.

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