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** And there's another one in ''Kingdom Hearts 2'', [[spoiler: Sora vs. Roxas]].
*** Special mention to that [[spoiler: the Awakening actually seems like a semi-physical place, since Donald and Goofy actually mentions Sora disappearing from the scene]].
** Happens yet again in ''Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep'' with [[spoiler:Ven vs. Vanitas]].

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** And there's another one in ''Kingdom Hearts 2'', HeartsII'', [[spoiler: Sora vs. Roxas]].
*** Special mention to that [[spoiler: the Awakening actually seems like a semi-physical place, since Donald and Goofy actually mentions mention Sora disappearing from the scene]].
** Happens yet again in ''Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep'' with [[spoiler:Ven vs. Vanitas]]. Vanitas]] and [[spoiler: Terra vs Master Xehanort, with Aqua potentially pitching in during the TrueFinalBoss fight.]]
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* K in ''{{Blip}}'', when she was in rage. First [[http://blipcomic.com/630/ kicked out her friends]], then for lack of semi-real targets [[http://blipcomic.com/639/ imagined and destroyed]] a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Pirate Transvestite Robot]].

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* K in ''{{Blip}}'', when she was in rage. First she [[http://blipcomic.com/630/ com/629/ kicked out her friends]], then for lack of semi-real targets [[http://blipcomic.com/639/ imagined and destroyed]] a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Pirate Transvestite Robot]].
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* K in ''{{Blip}}'', when she was in rage. First [[http://blipcomic.com/630/ kicked out her friends]], then for lack of semi-real targets [[http://blipcomic.com/639/ imagined and destroyed]] a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Pirate Transvestite Robot]].
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* The D&D illusion spells ''Phantasmal Killer'' and ''Weird'' work a lot like this trope.

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* The D&D illusion spells ''Phantasmal Killer'' and ''Weird'' work a lot like this trope.trope, although they kill instead of possess a target which succumbs to their terrors.
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* The D&D illusion spells ''Phantasmal Killer'' and ''Weird'' work a lot like this trope.
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* In ''[[TimPowers On Stranger Tides]]'', the confrontation between sorcerers [[spoiler: Leo Friend and Benjamin Hurwood]] concludes when the former attempts to re-write his own memories to bolster his own self-confidence, and therefore his power. The latter undermines his enemy's attempt to rewrite history in his own mind, crushing his opponent's psyche by exaggerating his recollection of a traumatic humiliating event.
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* The final battle of ScurgeHive.
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* [[TheWorldOnlyGodKnows Kemia]] has some of the most extreme (and funny) wars in his head over various video game related subjects. One involved a enormous space war complete with MobileSuitGundam and StarWars references, fought by armies of himself. Though it's probably his imagination.

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* [[TheWorldOnlyGodKnows Kemia]] Keima Katsuragi]] has some of the most extreme (and funny) wars in his head over various video game related subjects. One involved a enormous space war complete with MobileSuitGundam and StarWars references, fought by armies of himself. Though it's probably his imagination.
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--> '''Sarge:'''[[TalkLikeAPirate Arrr, I be havin' a southern accent. Arrr!]]
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** [[spoiler: It also turns out to be a subversion. It may have been a battle in Naruto's mind, but that didn't make it any ''less'' real. Naruto using named attacks instead of unnamed also lends credence that he could do almost anything he did in the battle in the real world.]]
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* In X-men obviously. For example, the only way to save a person infected by the Brood is to kill the parasite's mind ( unless you are a very good telepath you won't be able to save yourself. HeroicResolve won't solve the matter - it is nessessary for the help to be able to arrive in time in the first place)

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* In X-men Comicbook/{{X-Men}}, obviously. For example, the only way to save a person infected by the Brood is to kill the parasite's mind ( unless you are a very good telepath you won't be able to save yourself. HeroicResolve won't solve the matter - it is nessessary for the help to be able to arrive in time in the first place)
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* Comicbook/TheAvengers played with this one in the 2001 annual, involving Hank Pym's separate personalities (Goliath, the cold unfeeling reason, and Yellowjacket, the impulsive showoff) who hated each other's guts getting dumped into a psychic landscape that was supposed to represent the original's mind after they were physically separated into two people in the real world. Initially, they started fighting for control, even trying to force Janet (who was back together with him at the time) to choose which one would live. Only after they both accepted the previously ignored third aspect (the human combination of both) were they put back together, keeping him from dying.
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-> '''Arsenal:''' ''"All you're telling me is that I've pissed in your Cheerios more than once, and I did it beside Donna. Lemme tell you, those are two things that make me a very happy little camper...And hey, extra bonus for me at the end of it? I pissed you off when I didn't even mean to! Little ol' me. [[BadassNormal A guy. A dude. A very attractive but semi-normal human fleshbag.]] Man, I'm good."''

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-> --> '''Arsenal:''' ''"All you're telling me is that I've pissed in your Cheerios more than once, and I did it beside Donna. Lemme tell you, those are two things that make me a very happy little camper...And hey, extra bonus for me at the end of it? I pissed you off when I didn't even mean to! Little ol' me. [[BadassNormal A guy. A dude. A very attractive but semi-normal human fleshbag.]] Man, I'm good."''
* DoctorWho fanfiction [[FanFic/The10Doctors ''The Ten Doctors'']] features [[spoiler:all ten Doctors versus Dalek Tor (a Dalek version of the Doctor) in a battle for the Tenth Doctor's mind. Features Doctor quotes, Nine with a baseball bat, and a mega-merge Doctor who looks ''awesome''.]]
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** Or, you need to be Wolverine.
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* Used in the DCNation universe after Raven's attempt to restore some of Troia's lost memories end up getting Raven, Troia, Nightwing, Flash, and Arsenal [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/923182.html in a brawl with Dark Angel]]. Leads to one of Arsenal's CrowningMomentsOfAwesome:

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* Used in the DCNation universe after Raven's attempt to restore some of Troia's lost memories end up getting Raven, Troia, Nightwing, Flash, and Arsenal [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/923182.html in a brawl with Dark Angel]]. Leads to one of Arsenal's CrowningMomentsOfAwesome:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome best lines]]:
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* Chapter 493 of ''{{Naruto}}'' has [[spoiler: Naruto vs his dark side(or something to that general effect) at the Waterfall of Truth.]]

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* Chapter 493 of ''{{Naruto}}'' has [[spoiler: Naruto vs his dark side(or side (or something to that general effect) at the Waterfall of Truth.]]




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* At one point in the ''{{Berserk}}'' manga's Millennium Falcon arc, [[spoiler:Schierke has to go inside Guts's mind using AstralProjection to snap him out of the influence of his [[EnemyWithin inner beast]] the first time he uses the Berserker Armor]].
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* The GalaxyRangers fanfics [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1195951/1/Isnt_Life_Strange "Isn't Life Strange"]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/348456/1/Chrysalis_Trial_by_Fire "Chrysalis"]] have [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen]] pulling this. ([[MoreThanMindControl Niko]] in the first example, [[MindRape Zach]] in the second). Subverted in that the Rangers affected lose - ''badly.'' [[spoiler: It's played straight in both later, though...after the affected Ranger gets some psychic backup from their {{Nakama}} to fight it off.]]

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* The GalaxyRangers fanfics Because MindRape was a staple of GalaxyRangers, the {{Fanfic}} tends to break out this one quite often. Red Witch's [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4076944/1/Down_the_Dark_Path Down the Dark Path]] plays it straight after Shane was tortured with the Mindnet. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1195951/1/Isnt_Life_Strange "Isn't Life Strange"]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/348456/1/Chrysalis_Trial_by_Fire "Chrysalis"]] have [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen]] pulling this. ([[MoreThanMindControl Niko]] in the first example, [[MindRape Zach]] in the second). use it as well. Subverted in that those fics as the Rangers affected lose - ''badly.'' [[spoiler: It's played straight in both later, though...after the affected Ranger gets some psychic backup from their {{Nakama}} to fight it off.though.]]
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Virtually the entire plot takes place inside a dream, battling defensive figments called 'projections' while trying to plant the Idea. [[spoiler: To make things worse, the specter of the protagonist's dead wife haunts his steps.]]

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Virtually the entire plot takes place inside a dream, battling defensive figments called 'projections' while trying to plant the Idea. [[spoiler: To make things worse, the specter of the protagonist's dead wife haunts his steps.]]



* {{Inception}} takes this trope and turnes it UpToEleven.

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* {{Inception}} takes this trope and turnes it UpToEleven.
UpToEleven. Virtually the entire plot takes place inside a dream, battling defensive figments called 'projections' while trying to plant the Idea in the subject's mind. [[spoiler: To make things worse, the specter of the protagonist's dead wife haunts his steps.]]
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* ''TeenTitans''. Episode "Nevermore".

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* ''TeenTitans''. Episode "Nevermore".The ''TeenTitans'' episode "Nevermore" takes place in Raven's head. Needless to say, it is a scary place.



* The 90s ''Series/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon was fond of this. The most notable instances would be Professor Xavier versus the Shadow King and Rogue versus Miss Marvel's [[SharingABody transplanted personality]].

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* The 90s ''Series/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon was fond of this.this, and would make elaborate battles in a mindscape shaped by the combatants, making the grandest, most awesome (and trippy) affairs out of scenes that were basically two people glaring at each other in the comics. The most notable instances would be Professor Xavier versus the Shadow King and Rogue versus Miss Marvel's [[SharingABody transplanted personality]].



* The symbiote asserts its dominance this way during its introduction in ''SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries'', manifested as the symbiote and a giant Spider-Man struggling over Peter Parker. As surreal as it was, it was arguably one of the series' better fight scenes...

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* The symbiote asserts its dominance this way during its introduction in ''SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', manifested as the symbiote and a giant Spider-Man struggling over Peter Parker. As surreal as it was, it was arguably one of the series' better fight scenes...
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* In X-men obviously. For example, the only way to save a person infected by the Brood is to kill the parasite's mind ( unless you are a very good telepath you won't be able to save yourself. HeroicResolve won't solve the matter - it is nessessary for the help to be able to arrive in time in the first place)
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* Happened a couple of times in StargateAtlantis, memorable examples being Dr. Weir facing off with Oberon in her mind to allow her teammates to escape the other Replicators, Teyla fighting off the Wraith queen's attempts to probe her mind, and Sheppard fighting himself (sort of) in McKay's mind.

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* Happened a couple of times in StargateAtlantis, memorable examples being Dr. Weir facing off with Oberon in her mind to allow her teammates to escape the other Replicators, Teyla fighting off the Wraith queen's attempts to probe her mind, and Sheppard fighting himself (sort of) in McKay's his own mind.
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*Happened a couple of times in StargateAtlantis, memorable examples being Dr. Weir facing off with Oberon in her mind to allow her teammates to escape the other Replicators, Teyla fighting off the Wraith queen's attempts to probe her mind, and Sheppard fighting himself (sort of) in McKay's mind.
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* Crops up in ''ParanoiaAgent''; OrIsIt a [[LotusEaterMachine Lotus Eater Machine?]]
* Happens between brother and sister Masamune and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa in SoulEater. The conflict between the two souls (Masamune being able to possess Tsubaki, which she allowed in order to confront him) is shown as a physical battle between the two, each using their own weapon forms. Souls get Mental Worlds elsewhere in the series, but this is the only actual battle so far. Curiously, Black Star's attempt at mastering the form possessed (and corrupted) by Masamune ultimately involved not a similar fight but a conversation.
* In {{Dragonball Z}} Goku and Vegeta fight projections of Piccolo, Gohan, and Gotenks in Super Buu's brain.

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* Crops up in ''ParanoiaAgent''; OrIsIt a [[LotusEaterMachine Lotus Eater Machine?]]
LotusEaterMachine?
* Happens between brother and sister Masamune and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa in SoulEater.''SoulEater''. The conflict between the two souls (Masamune being able to possess Tsubaki, which she allowed in order to confront him) is shown as a physical battle between the two, each using their own weapon forms. Souls get Mental Worlds elsewhere in the series, but this is the only actual battle so far. Curiously, Black Star's attempt at mastering the form possessed (and corrupted) by Masamune ultimately involved not a similar fight but a conversation.
* In {{Dragonball Z}} ''DragonballZ'', Goku and Vegeta fight projections of Piccolo, Gohan, and Gotenks in Super Buu's brain.
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* {{Inception}} loves this trope. Almost every fight takes place in dreams.

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* {{Inception}} loves this trope. Almost every fight takes place in dreams.
this trope and turnes it UpToEleven.
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* Kitananx made a song CALLED Battle In The Center Of The Mind.
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* Used in the DCNation universe after Raven's attempt to restore some of Troia's lost memories end up getting Raven, Troia, Nightwing, Flash, and Arsenal [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/923182.htmlin a brawl with Dark Angel]]. Leads to one of Arsenal's CrowningMomentsOfAwesome:

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* Used in the DCNation universe after Raven's attempt to restore some of Troia's lost memories end up getting Raven, Troia, Nightwing, Flash, and Arsenal [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/923182.htmlin html in a brawl with Dark Angel]]. Leads to one of Arsenal's CrowningMomentsOfAwesome:
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* DrHorriblesSingalongBlog - Dr. Horrible vs. "Billy"
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* [[TheWorldOnlyGodKnows Kemia]] has some of the most extreme (and funny) wars in his head over various video game related subjects. One involved a enormus space war complete with MobileSuitGundam and StarWars referances, fought by armies of himself. Though it's probably his imagination.

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* [[TheWorldOnlyGodKnows Kemia]] has some of the most extreme (and funny) wars in his head over various video game related subjects. One involved a enormus enormous space war complete with MobileSuitGundam and StarWars referances, references, fought by armies of himself. Though it's probably his imagination.



* Happens between brother and sister Masamune and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa in {{Soul Eater}}. The conflict between the two souls (Masamune being able to possess Tsubaki, which she allowed in order to confront him) is shown as a physical battle between the two, each using their own weapon forms. Souls get Mental Worlds elsewhere in the series, but this is the only actual battle so far. Curiously, Black Star's attempt at mastering the form possessed (and corrupted) by Masamune ultimately involved not a similar fight but a conversation.

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* Happens between brother and sister Masamune and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa in {{Soul Eater}}.SoulEater. The conflict between the two souls (Masamune being able to possess Tsubaki, which she allowed in order to confront him) is shown as a physical battle between the two, each using their own weapon forms. Souls get Mental Worlds elsewhere in the series, but this is the only actual battle so far. Curiously, Black Star's attempt at mastering the form possessed (and corrupted) by Masamune ultimately involved not a similar fight but a conversation.



* ''TheIncredibleHulk: Ultimate Destruction'' has a boss battle in Bruce Banner's subconscious, where the Hulk takes on Banner's underlying hostility and malevolence, officially dubbed "Devil Hulk".

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* ''TheIncredibleHulk: Ultimate Destruction'' ''TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'' has a boss battle in Bruce Banner's subconscious, where the Hulk takes on Banner's underlying hostility and malevolence, officially dubbed "Devil Hulk".



* Princess Tekla from ''ShadowRaiders'', who fought Lamprey when the latter took over her body.

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* Princess Tekla from ''ShadowRaiders'', ''ShadowRaiders'', who fought Lamprey when the latter took over her body.



* In an episode of the 90s ''TheIncredibleHulk'' cartoon, Banner was possessed by a demon; Green Hulk and Grey Hulk joined forces to kick him out of their shared body. Several episodes also showed the two Hulks fighting for control when Banner hulked out.

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* In an episode of the 90s 90s' ''TheIncredibleHulk'' cartoon, Banner was possessed by a demon; Green Hulk and Grey Hulk joined forces to kick him out of their shared body. Several episodes also showed the two Hulks fighting for control when Banner hulked out.

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