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The films also typically show Hyde as looking monstrous, contrary to the book's description. Hyde is described as looking repugnant, but not because of any physical abnormality. His appearance is perfectly normal; it's just that people can somehow sense his great depravity. Adaptations also tend to portray Hyde as more physically formidable than Jekyll, even huge and super-human in some versions, while in the novel Jekyll is a large man and Hyde, representing Jekyll's "less developed" evil urges, is smaller than average. On the other hand, some recent adaptations have portrayed Hyde as more attractive than Jekyll in keeping with the [[Evil Is Sexy]] trope.
Further, in pretty much every later adaptation, Jekyll is unaware of Hyde's actions, suffering from [[Identity Amnesia|split personality amnesia]]. This is not in any way suggested by the book, in which Jekyll ''does'' remember everything he did as Hyde, but [[My God, What Have I Done?|begins to find his own depravity horrifying]] and tries to dissociate himself from it.
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* [[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]].
* [[Based On a Dream]]: Allegedly, the idea for the story came from a fever dream. Many rumours tie the origins of the story to Stevenson's cocaine addiction.
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** This troper's English class rather thought that line was more of a [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]], if only because of the juxtaposition of a popular children's game with the odd-sounding formal 19th century language.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifter]]
* [[Jekyll and Hyde]]: The [[Trope Namers]] -- oh, and this is now a byword of someone who is nice one minute, nasty the next. Remember what we said about [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]] and [[It Was His Sled]]?
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Miraculous Malfunction]]: An impurity of salt is what makes the transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde possible.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Jekyll after Hyde kills Danvers Carew.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Hyde is frequently described as being "small" and "shorter than average". This is explained as being because Jekyll never indulged in his evilness before, so his evil side is "underdeveloped".
* [[Never My Fault]]: Even when writing his final letter, Jekyll still insists that, even now, he doesn't consider Hyde's actions ''his'' actions. ([[Hypocrite|His choice of pronouns says otherwise]].)
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: This is an accident on Jekyll's part, as it turns out to be an unknown impurity that makes the stuff work.
* [[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.
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=== The 1941 movie provides examples of: ===
* [[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.
* [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: Tracy.
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