History FreakyFridayFlip / ComicBooks

* FreakyFridayFlip/TheDCU
* FreakyFridayFlip/MarvelUniverse

* Adam Warren's [[{{Animesque}} Amerimanga]] version of the ''ComicBook/DirtyPair'' did this to themselves on purpose during the "Run from the Future" miniseries.

* During the Eighth Doctor's tenure in ''Doctor Who Magazine'', companion Izzy Sinclair and alien princess Destrii swap places, which becomes a serious problem when Destrii gets herself killed, to Izzy's horror. After spending some time as Destrii, Izzy returns to the planet where the swap took place and gets captured by the people Destrii was running from. [[spoiler:The Doctor, not far behind, realizes Destrii isn't dead - she just got caught by the local species, and manages to fetch her and undo the swap.]]

!!!DC
* The Creator/DCComics ''Silver Age'' megaseries by Creator/MarkWaid involves a villain called Agamemno swapping the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica's minds with the LegionOfDoom. This means that all the powered heroes have lost their powers, and even the unpowered ones have lost some of their abilities (Batman is stuck in Penguin's unathletic body; Green Arrow complains that Felix Faust has lousy eyesight, spoiling his aim).
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** It happened a lot to Superman. He has on occasion switched bodies and minds with Franchise/{{Batman}}, [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]], ComicBook/JimmyOlsen (see for example ''[[http://mikegrost.com/superman.htm Superman (vol 1) #111: "The Non-Super Superman" (1957)]]''), and lots of other people along the years.
** In his case, a lot of these instances deviate from the norm of this trope in that the switch is deliberate on the part of the other involved party.
** The Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} had an issue where this happened with all the core members getting mixed up with each other. The big spoiler [[spoiler: was when it turned out that Superman didn't end up in Batman's body but in Kobra's and Kobra pretended to be Superman trapped in Batman's body.]]
** There was an interesting case in the ''Superman'' tie-ins to ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. During their titanic tussle on Earth-2, Superman and Kal-L end up reliving each other's lives, but start altering it. For Superman, revealing his identity to the Senate would end up leading to a future where Earth-2 was totally unprepared for [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths the Anti-Monitor]], leading to him being crushed like a bug. For Kal-L, calling out Batman's bluff during the ''ComicBook/ManOfSteel'' mini-series and snapping Doomsday's neck and just ''not dying'' leads to a world where a superhuman war destroys the planet. They both think that the other world is the one that can't exist.
** ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'': "Jimmy Olsen vs. Darkseid" has the IntrepidReporter and Superman trapped in each others' bodies as the result of Jimmy fouling up a villain's body-swapping scheme.
** In ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Superman switches bodies with his younger self ComicBook/{{Superboy}} due to time-travelling shenanigans.
** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} went through this in ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'', where [[MadScientist Lesla-Lar]] swapped bodies with her.
** ''Superman'' Vol 2, #181 deals with Superman and Bizarro's brains being swapped by Manchester Black.
** In a ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' story, villain Ultra-Humanite swaps bodies with Power Girl's friend Terra.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: When Zenna Persik realizes she's been captured by her old foe the Nazi Karl Schlagel she swaps her mind out with that of an unsuspecting ComicBook/BlackCanary who had been following their chase trying to figure out what was going on and apprehend them.

!!!Marvel
* In the run up to ''Amazing Franchise/SpiderMan'' 700, Doctor Octopus inflicts this on Spidey - with the added problems that Ock's body is a) in prison and b) on its last legs after years of punishment, only barely kept alive by life support. How does Peter get out of it? [[spoiler: Well, he kind of... doesn't. He manages to get himself out of prison, but eventually dies inside Doc Ock's body, but not before making Ock make a HeelFaceTurn, and after Peter dies, Ock vows to be a better Spider-Man than Peter ever was. A ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan, if you will.]]
** [[spoiler: It was later revealed that Peter's mind was still in his own body while Ock was in control of it, combining this trope with GrandTheftMe. Ultimately, after Green Goblin set out to destroy everything Ock accomplished as Spider-Man, Ock conceded that Peter was the true Superior Spider-Man and erased himself from Peter's mind, allowing Peter to get his life back.]]
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom learned the trick of switching bodies from a benign alien race called the Ovoids. He first used it quite successfully on Mr. Fantastic in ''Fantastic Four'' #10 (1963) but not that often afterwards.
** Though it did save his life in the 1980s, when [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Doom's body was disintegrated]] in a battle between Terrax and the Fantastic Four. He switched bodies with a bystander at the last second.
** In a hilarious case of DidntThinkThisThrough, Doom once switched body with Daredevil and threw him in a prison cell, but didn't tell his men about this plan beforehand. As a result, Daredevil is released from prison by Doom's men, and declares war on all of Latveria's neighbours, forcing Doom to switch his body back in order to avoid an international incident.
** In a ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' story, "What If Tony Stark Became Doctor Doom?", Victor Von Doom and Tony Stark were college roommates, until Doom trapped Tony in a mind-transfer device, taking the precaution of wiping Tony's memory before swapping minds with him. Doom, in Tony's body, took over Stark International([[SelfMadeOrphan possibly killing Howard Stark to achieve that end]]) and became a hugely successful CorruptCorporateExecutive. Stark, meanwhile, in a neat subversion of EasyAmnesia, never regained his memories but retained his intellect and achieved several doctorates under the name Victor Von Doom. As Von Doom, he started his own company in Latveria, and developed his own powered armor, which he used to counter "Stark" when he tried to destroy Von Doom Industries with his own powered armor. On the verge of defeat, Doom offered to restore Stark's mind to his body in exchange for amnesty, saying, "I can give you your family name back." Stark refused, saying, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "You have made the name Stark synonymous with corruption and corporate avarice. Why would I covet that?"]]
* In one ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'' story, the ''whole team'' (well, mostly) was flipped with their enemies the Crazy Gang, using a device invented by Tweedledope, a member of the villain team: Captain Britain with Tweedledope, Meggan with the Knave, Nightcrawler with the Jester, and Phoenix with the Executioner. Presumably, the villains intended to flip shadowcat with the Red Queen, but Shadowcat escaped. Captain Britain was able to somehow access Tweedledope's skills to use the device and reverse the effect (after the usual hero-villain-free-for-all, naturally).
* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'' and his human host, Rick Sheridan, ended up switching bodies for several issues after a botched attempt to release Sleepwalker while Rick was awake. In Sleepwalker's body, Rick ended up battling supervillains and supernatural horrors of the Mindscape, while Sleepy had to fill in for Rick in his human life, ironically having more success with women than Rick himself. The body swap was, [[spoiler: in fact, a key part of the EvilPlan hatched by BigBad Cobweb to invade the Earth and make Rick think Sleepwalker was the invasion's leader, hindering any attempt Sleepy might make to stop him.]]
* Happened in ComicBook/AllNewWolverine's first Annual, when Laura swaps bodies with ComicBook/SpiderGwen. The two go on an adventure to fix it, leading to the hilariously painful moment when Gwen-in-Laura's-body tried to make use of the claws, only to stab herself in the head and pass out from the pain.
* Happens to Spider-Man yet again, this time with [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] in an issue of ''Marvel Team-Up''. While the switches temporarily reverse due to an implant within Spidey's body -- [[CrazyPrepared a precaution in case this would ever happen again]], it doesn't change the fact that they're forced to spend a lot more time as each other. This leads to the usual hijinks with regards to adjusting to new powers and living different civilian lives with mixed results. Both sort of appreciate being older/younger, but have some difficulties getting around the other areas; Kamala horribly fails at impressing for a job interview due to her lack of Peter's smarts and learns about the various bills and loans he has to pay off to stay afloat, while Peter in turn not only has to deal with being a different gender, age and ethnicity (being on the receiving end of racist jokes poking at Kamala's Pakistani heritage, understanding Urdu, going through her period in the middle of class, etc.) but botches her biology presentation -- ironically enough, by plagiarizing from ''himself''.
* Also happened in an ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''/''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' crossover, when Jean Grey got so pissed at Wolverine's constant attempts to woo her that she sent his mind to the one place he wanted to be least... High School. He ends up spending a day in Peter Parker's body, even attempting to "get busy" with MJ, while Peter, in Logan's body, went from one bad situation to another. He was understandably upset when Jean came to fix things. Then, just when it's finally over, MJ asks him if they can wait until they're older to do what "he" tried earlier.
-->'''Peter:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments You #* + !! @$$%&^%#! You know why people hate you? It's not because you're mutants! It's because you're all a bunch of ^&$# @* |$%&!@!!!]]\\
'''Colossus:''' Why am I an #$@#$@? I was just standing here.
** This issue was loosely adapted as "Freaky" in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' cartoon, with the main difference being that Mesmero was the cause of it.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', [[spoiler:Doctor Doom blackmails Reed into switching bodies with him during the "Frightful" arc. Reed turns it around by attempting to pull a HeroicSacrifice, and revealing the truth just before doing so: Doom reverses the switch rather than let Reed take the credit]].
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** The best-known example would be the tragic flip of ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} and Chinese assassin Kwannon. The latter had been rendered braindead after a fall, and when Psylocke turned up amnesiac in China, Kwannon's lover Matsuo saw a chance to restore his girlfriend and turned to the villain Spiral for help. However, Spiral -- being Spiral -- decided that switching the women's minds would be far more entertaining, and gave both women certain aspects of the other. As a result, Psylocke got Kwannon's martial arts skills while Kwannon's mutant empathic power was given a boost by Psylocke's superior telepathy. Kwannon later joined the X-Men herself as Revanche, but would later commit suicide after contracting the Legacy Virus (aka Mutant AIDS). This used to be one of the few examples of the flip being permanent due to the extent of Spiral's tampering with the women's minds and genetic makeup, only being undone after ''20 years''.
** ComicBook/EmmaFrost was rather fond of this one. While still a full-time villain she swapped bodies with ComicBook/{{Storm}} as part of an [[GrandTheftMe evil plot]]; years later, just before her [[HeelFaceTurn switch to heroism]], she accidentally swapped bodies with Iceman, and then proceeded to fuel his (already significant) insecurities by using his powers far more effectively than he ever had. She also tried to commit suicide while in his body, but she never mentions that -- and considering she's not above using her telepathic powers to make you vomit uncontrollably whenever you hear the word "broccoli", you probably shouldn't either.
** Lampshaded in ''X-treme X-Men'' once, when at a dinner party, various team members start teasing Ororo, until Kitty stands up and says, "What's everyone talking about? That isn't Storm, ''I'm'' Storm! Someone has switched our minds!" Everyone else suddenly glares at her in panicked silence. Then Ororo and Kitty shout, "GOTCHA!".
** During the X-Men's Australian run, there was an issue where ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} was accidentally switched with the criminal Diamondback. But unlike most hero/villain swaps, neither had any idea what was going on and Diamondback briefly joined the X-Men to get the matter sorted. Besides the clumsiness in getting used to each other's abilities (somehow Diamondback's ImprobableAimingSkills didn't work in Dazzler's body), Dazz was understandably quite pissed when Diamondback smoked cigars and slept with Wolverine in her body.

* The Creator/DCComics ''Silver Age'' megaseries by Creator/MarkWaid involves a villain called Agamemno swapping the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica's minds with the LegionOfDoom. This means that all the powered heroes have lost their powers, and even the unpowered ones have lost some of their abilities (Batman is stuck in Penguin's unathletic body; Green Arrow complains that Felix Faust has lousy eyesight, spoiling his aim).

** The best-known example would be the tragic flip of ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} and Chinese assassin Kwannon. The latter had been rendered braindead after a fall, and when Psylocke turned up amnesiac in China, Kwannon's lover Matsuo saw a chance to restore his girlfriend and turned to the villain Spiral for help. However, Spiral--being Spiral--decided that switching the women's minds would be far more entertaining, and gave both women certain aspects of the other. As a result, Psylocke got Kwannon's martial arts skills while Kwannon's mutant empathic power was given a boost by Psylocke's superior telepathy. Kwannon later joined the X-Men herself as Revanche, but would later commit suicide after contracting the Legacy Virus (aka Mutant AIDS). This used to be one of the few examples of the flip being permanent due to the extent of Spiral's tampering with the women's minds and genetic makeup, only being undone after ''20 years''.

* Also happened in an ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''/''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' crossover, when Jean Grey got so pissed at Wolverine's constant attempts to woo her that she sent his mind to the one place he wanted to be least... High School. He ends up spending a day in Peter Parker's body, even attempting to "get busy" with MJ, while Peter, in Logan's body, went from one bad situation to another. He was understandably upset when Jean came to fix things. Then, just when it's finally over, MJ asks him if they can wait until they're older to do what "he" tried earlier.
-->'''Peter:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments You #* + !! @$$%&^%#! You know why people hate you? It's not because you're mutants! It's because you're all a bunch of ^&$# @* |$%&!@!!!]]\\
'''Colossus:''' Why am I an #$@#$@? I was just standing here.
** This issue was loosely adapted as "Freaky" in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' cartoon, with the main difference being that Mesmero was the cause of it.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', [[spoiler:Doctor Doom blackmails Reed into switching bodies with him during the "Frightful" arc. Reed turns it around by attempting to pull a HeroicSacrifice, and revealing the truth just before doing so: Doom reverses the switch rather than let Reed take the credit]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'' and his human host, Rick Sheridan, ended up switching bodies for several issues after a botched attempt to release Sleepwalker while Rick was awake. In Sleepwalker's body, Rick ended up battling supervillains and supernatural horrors of the Mindscape, while Sleepy had to fill in for Rick in his human life, ironically having more success with women than Rick himself. The body swap was, [[spoiler: in fact, a key part of the EvilPlan hatched by BigBad Cobweb to invade the Earth and make Rick think Sleepwalker was the invasion's leader, hindering any attempt Sleepy might make to stop him.]]
* Happened in ComicBook/AllNewWolverine's first Annual, when Laura swaps bodies with ComicBook/SpiderGwen. The two go on an adventure to fix it, leading to the hilariously painful moment when Gwen-in-Laura's-body tried to make use of the claws, only to stab herself in the head and pass out from the pain.
* Happens to Spider-Man yet again, this time with [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] in an issue of ''Marvel Team-Up''. While the switches temporarily reverse due to an implant within Spidey's body - [[CrazyPrepared a precaution in case this would ever happen again]], it doesn't change the fact that they're forced to spend a lot more time as each other. This leads to the usual hijinks with regards to adjusting to new powers and living different civilian lives with mixed results. Both sort of appreciate being older/younger, but have some difficulties getting around the other areas; Kamala horribly fails at impressing for a job interview due to her lack of Peter's smarts and learns about the various bills and loans he has to pay off to stay afloat, while Peter in turn not only has to deal with being a different gender, age and ethnicity (being on the receiving end of racist jokes poking at Kamala's Pakistani heritage, understanding Urdu, going through her period in the middle of class, etc.) but botches her biology presentation -- ironically enough, by plagiarizing from ''himself''.

* A variant occurs in ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'': Samantha and Dave accidentally drank DNA samples the dodos had left out instead of their drinks, and ended up turning into each other. The night before their wedding, no less.
* One ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Uncle Scrooge]]'' comic book had Magica swap bodies with Scrooge in order to steal his number one dime. Of course Scrooge is then able to access Magica's own hoard of magic tricks and use them against her.

** In a ''Comicbook/WhatIf'' story, "What If Tony Stark Became Doctor Doom?", Victor Von Doom and Tony Stark were college roommates, until Doom trapped Tony in a mind-transfer device, taking the precaution of wiping Tony's memory before swapping minds with him. Doom, in Tony's body, took over Stark International([[SelfMadeOrphan possibly killing Howard Stark to achieve that end]]) and became a hugely successful CorruptCorporateExecutive. Stark, meanwhile, in a neat subversion of EasyAmnesia, never regained his memories but retained his intellect and achieved several doctorates under the name Victor Von Doom. As Von Doom, he started his own company in Latveria, and developed his own powered armor, which he used to counter "Stark" when he tried to destroy Von Doom Industries with his own powered armor. On the verge of defeat, Doom offered to restore Stark's mind to his body in exchange for amnesty, saying, "I can give you your family name back." Stark refused, saying, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "You have made the name Stark synonymous with corruption and corporate avarice. Why would I covet that?"]]

** During the X-Men's Australian run, there was an issue where ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} was accidentally switched with the criminal Diamondback. But unlike most hero/villain swaps, neither had any idea what was going on and Diamondback briefly joined the X-Men to get the matter sorted. Besides the clumsiness in getting used to each other's abilities (somehow Diamonback's ImprobableAimingSkills didn't work in Dazzler's body), Dazz was understandably quite pissed when Diamondback smoked cigars and slept with Wolverine in her body.

* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'' and his human host, Rick Sheridan, ended up switching bodies for several issues after a botched attempt to release Sleepwalker while Rick was awake. In Sleepwalker's body, Rick ended up battling supervillains and supernatural horrors of the Mindscape, while Sleepy had to fill in for Rick in his human life, ironically having more success with women than Rick himself. The body swap was, [[spoiler: in fact, a key part of the EvilPlan hatched by {{Big Bad}} Cobweb to invade the Earth and make Rick think Sleepwalker was the invasion's leader, hindering any attempt Sleepy might make to stop him.]]

** In ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Super Sonic Special #12]]'', Sonic and Knuckles switch bodies thanks to a scheming Dimitri and [[spoiler:fake]] Robotnik, in order to blackmail them into getting the Master Chaos Emerald.

** Happened a lot to Superman. He has on occasion switched bodies and minds with Franchise/{{Batman}}, [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]], ComicBook/JimmyOlsen (see for example [[http://mikegrost.com/superman.htm 1957's "Non-Super Superman"]]), and lots of other people along the years.

** In ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures, one comic, "Jimmy Olsen vs. Darkseid" has the IntrepidReporter and Superman trapped in each others' bodies as the result of Jimmy fouling up a villain's body-swapping scheme.
* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} went through this in a Silver Age story where [[MadScientist Lesla-Lar]] swapped bodies with her.

* In a ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' story, villain Ultra-Humanite swaps bodies with Power Girl's friend Terra.

* In the run up to ''Amazing ComicBook/SpiderMan'' 700, Doctor Octopus inflicts this on Spidey - with the added problems that Ock's body is a) in prison and b) on its last legs after years of punishment, only barely kept alive by life support. How does Peter get out of it? [[spoiler: Well, he kind of... doesn't. He manages to get himself out of prison, but eventually dies inside Doc Ock's body, but not before making Ock make a HeelFaceTurn, and after Peter dies, Ock vows to be a better Spider-Man than Peter ever was. A ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan, if you will.]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': When Zenna Persik realizes she's been captured by her old foe the Nazi Karl Schlagel she swaps her mind out with that of an unsuspecting ComicBook/BlackCanary who had been following their chase trying to figure out what was going on and apprehend them.

* Happened once in #37 of the ''ComicBook/SonicX'' comic, in which Sonic and Dr Eggman switched bodies. Truth be told though, neither took real advantage of it, despite the cover suggesting more heinous actions by Eggman (in Sonic's body). Eggman in Sonic's body is unable to control Sonic's speed, while Sonic in Eggman's body has a hard time driving the Eggmobile. The story is resolved when the two use the ray Eggman used to swap their bodies to swap back. Eggman's comedy relief henchmen, Decoe and Bocoe tie up Eggman in the end, believing he is still Sonic, and interrogate him.
* In ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Super Sonic Special #12]]'', Sonic and Knuckles switch bodies thanks to a scheming Dimitri and [[spoiler:fake]] Robotnik, in order to blackmail them into getting the Master Chaos Emerald.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'':

** The best-known example would be the tragic flip of ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} and Chinese assassin Kwannon. The latter had been rendered braindead after a fall, and when Psylocke turned up amnesiac in China, Kwannon's lover Matsuo saw a chance to restore his girlfriend and turned to the villain Spiral for help. However, Spiral--being Spiral--decided that switching the women's minds would be far more entertaining, and gave both women certain aspects of the other. As a result, Psylocke got Kwannon's martial arts skills while Kwannon's mutant empathic power was given a boost by Psylocke's superior telepathy. This is one of the few examples of the flip being permanent, due to the extant of Spiral's tampering with the women's minds and genetic makeup. Kwannon later joined the X-Men herself as Revanche, but would later commit suicide after contracting the Legacy Virus (aka Mutant AIDS).

* Issue 21 of the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' comic is built around this trope as an accident involving [[ItMakesSenseInContext GIR, pudding, and a mind-swap machine]] causes Zim to switch bodies with Gaz, and Dib with GIR. TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody is, for the most part, in full effect -- Gaz gains Zim's drive to TakeOverTheWorld while Zim becomes apathetic and game-obsessed, and Dib is ultimately rendered insane by the information in GIR's robot brain. GIR himself, meanwhile, doesn't change, and in fact doesn't even seem aware of what's happened.