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6!!Dr. Henry Jekyll
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8A scientist with an upstanding reputation in the community, who nonetheless is beset by evil urges that he cannot act out. Has the brilliant idea to solve his problem by splitting his good and evil sides into entirely separate people. That way, his good side would never have to worry about temptation, and his evil side would never have to worry about guilt. He makes a potion to effect the transformation, but it only works part way, giving him a second identity that was pure evil, but no identity of pure good to balance it.
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11* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Jekyll made the chemical so that it could allow him to indulge in his unspecified desires in total anonymity. However, the chemical starts altering his appearance too much, to the point where Jekyll randomly changes into Hyde. After Carew's death, Jekyll tries to absolve himself by quitting the chemical and frantically making a note stating that Hyde would be leaving the country. However, the chemical changes his appearance again and Jekyll quickly theorizes that he'll eventually be stuck with the appearance of Hyde and the consequences of Carew's murder will eventually catch up with him. The resulting stress and guilt on the matter eventually make Jekyll believe Hyde genuinely was a separate person, rather than a secret identity that was supposed to allow Jekyll to indulge himself in his eccentricities.
12* DeadManWriting: In his last letter to Utterson, Jekyll writes that he will soon transform permanently into Hyde, which he considers his real death.
13* FatalFlaw: Hypocrisy. Jekyll believes everything he does is within good reason but can never accept that he keeps taking the potion because he [[EvilFeelsGood enjoys committing evil acts as Hyde]]. [[spoiler:When Hyde kills Danvers Carew, Jekyll is genuinely guilt-ridden and does everything he can to avoid the temptation of the potion, but by that point it's too late, and in his final days he seems to develop something of a personality disorder as he describes Hyde as a separate person who wants his freedom, instead of merely a consequence of his own selfishness.]]
14* TheJekyllIsAJerk: Downplayed. Jekyll is ''mostly'' good... but like anyone else, he has character flaws and evil temptations, and he willingly turns into Hyde to indulge them, so the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde is more that of an addict and their drugs than a split personality. Jekyll even speculates that the reason the potion worked like it did was because he was SecretlySelfish in taking it; had he genuinely wished to rid himself of temptation instead of indulging in it, the potion would've given him a ''good'' alter.[[spoiler: The trope is played straighter near the end, where Jekyll genuinely regrets being Hyde but can't ''stop'' becoming him because he's taken the potion so much that he starts transforming against his will.]]
15* GentlemanAndAScholar: Dr. Henry Jekyll tried to invoke this trope so hard it lead to his downfall, because he managed to get three doctorates, one in medicine and two in law, and he was part of the Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS), an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of London judges to have made a ''substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science'' [[note]]FRS has been described by The Guardian newspaper as ''the equivalent of a lifetime achievement Oscar''.[[/note]]. His two best friends - Doctor Lanyon and lawyer Utterson - were inseparable when they were young students. That means that Jekyll studied at least two doctorates ''at the same time'', which is quite impressive... but it also means he's been repressing all his vices instead of developing healthy coping mechanisms. Jekyll felt that he ''couldn't'' deal with his vices while remaining a gentleman, so he created the potion that turned him into Hyde... and the rest is literary history.
16* GoodAngelBadAngel: Hyde is his bad angel. The problem is that the potion is incomplete, so there's no "good angel" to balance it out--just Jekyll, who's susceptible to the temptation of a life of evil without regret.
17* GoodIsBoring: Jekyll creates the chemical so he can indulge in his eccentricities and wild behavior in anonymity as Hyde. Jekyll spent all his life repressing his urges and feels the need to change his appearance so he could act on them without consequences. Although it's never outright said what Jekyll's urges were exactly, his friends have said that he was a bit reckless when he was younger. Anything likely considered a "vice" at the time of the story's setting would ruin a gentleman's reputation, even if the deed is considered harmless or benign in the first place. [[note]] Just an example of how uptight Victorian society was during their time, the word "trousers" was considered rude, offensive, and otherwise vulgar. For Americans, "trousers" is the British equivalent of "pants". [[/note]]
18* HeelRealization: After the murder of Danvers Carew, Jekyll concludes that he really did want to indulge in his unspecified desires, rather than escape them. Asserting that if Jekyll really did want to escape his urges, Hyde would be a being of pure good.
19* TheHermit: As his InvoluntaryShapeshifting goes increasingly out of control, Jekyll begins to spend all of his time locked in his home since he can't risk transforming into Hyde in public, desperately trying to create a cure or at least produce more of the potion to buy himself time while sending his servants out to get anything he needs.
20* {{Hypocrite}}: Jekyll refuses to take responsibility for Hyde's actions, and yet the reason he takes the potion was to [[ForTheEvulz enjoy committing evil acts as Hyde]]. He even says that the reason why his evil side took over when he drank the potion was that he had created it and was drinking it for an evil reason (he muses that had he done it with good intent, he would have turned into someone completely good). The author (in a letter to a friend) called this Jekyll's FatalFlaw.
21* JekyllAndHyde: [[TropeNamer Named the Trope]] when he came up with a potion that was created so he could indulge in his darker urges. However, there is a twist: Hyde is not a split personality, but a chemically created secret identity that has removed Jekyll's inhibitions and allowed him to indulge in his aforementioned urges in a younger, shorter body.
22* MadScientist: One of the codifiers of this archetype in classic literature despite not being mad in the psychiatric sense. He does toy with the lines of human nature and the results of his research and his experimenting are less than positive.
23* MomentOfWeakness: After Jekyll first involuntarily transformed into Hyde during a night's sleep, he recognized something had gone wrong and swore off the potion for some time. However, one night the urge to take it again became too strong and he gave in, becoming Hyde once more. [[spoiler:That was the night Hyde went out and murdered Danvers Carew.]]
24* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Jekyll was, [[{{Foreshadowing}} fittingly, a doctor in two subjects]]: Medicine and Law. Chapter two reveals he was a [[https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-Titles-of-Dr-Jekyll-in-The-PK75PAZVC M.D. (Doctor of Medicine), a D.C.L. (Doctor of civil law) and an L.L.D, Legum doctor, Doctor of Laws]]. And before the obligatory EvilLawyerJoke, those doctorates were truly morally ambiguous: The Medicine Doctorate allowed Dr. Jekyll to prepare the potion that unleashed the completely evil Mr. Hyde, but also let Jekyll do a lot of good in the world helping his patients after his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. The Doctorate of Law allowed Jekyll to avoid the UndeadTaxExemption for Mr. Hyde, and even helped Hyde to escape the law when Jekyll experimented an involuntary SplitPersonalityTakeover, but it also allowed Dr. Jekyll to make haste, where it was possible, to undo the evil Hyde has done.
25* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Realises that he's gone too far when Hyde kills Danvers Carew and resolves never to take the potion again Unfortunately, by that point, he's used the potion so much that his Hyde form eventually becomes his default, and he needs the potion (which he can't make more of) to return to being Jekyll]].
26* NeverMyFault: He regularly insists he is not to blame for anything he does as Hyde but it's heavily even implied that even he knows that he's just lying to himself.
27* {{Pride}}: Notably, Jekyll's narration very specifically states that his second involuntary transformation (and the first while he was fully awake) immediately followed a moment of pride in his good works as Jekyll.
28* ProfessorGuineaPig: He is the first person to drink the potion he makes. And only, if you don't count Hyde.
29* SecretlySelfish: Confesses in his final letter that despite his stated intent to separate a man's good and evil sides, he was making the potion mostly so he could indulge in evil without regret. He even speculates that the potion responded to this desire by making his alternate identity pure evil; had he ''really'' wanted to live without evil temptation, Hyde would have been a creature of pure ''good''.
30* SplitPersonalityTakeover: After taking the potion too much, he starts spontaneously transforming into Hyde without having to drink it, and worse he can't change back into Jekyll without another swig of the potion. This gradually worsens to the point where even nodding off for a moment causes him to become Hyde, and eventually proves to be his doom when the last of the old salts (a key ingredient of his potion) run out.
31* TragicHero: He was a nice and decent man, as well as a brilliant and well-respected scientist and lawyer, but his repressed anger and inability to accept any flaws in himself (most of his friends brings up some misbehavior but nothing outside youth's mistakes) due to said status pushed him to make a potion so he can live his evil as a different person.
32* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Jekyll has some unspecified urges that he's greatly suppressed all of his life. He made Hyde as a secret identity that he could change into whenever he drinks a chemical. Although these urges were bad, they weren't really worth any attention from the authorities or worth kicking and screaming over. It's only when he kills Danvers Carew and tramples a child that Jekyll starts to realize he's losing control.
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34!! Mr. Edward Hyde
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36Hyde is Jekyll's repressed evil side, free of any desire to do good or remorse for his evil. Jekyll found being him enjoyable, as he can gain pleasure from indulgence in evil without any lingering goodness to make him feel bad about it. Unfortunately, the more Jekyll turns into him, the harder it is to ''stop''.
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39* AnimalMotif: He's often described as animalistic and he attacks Danvers Carew with "ape-like fury". This reflects Hyde's inhumanity and savagery compared to Jekyll.
40* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Hyde is the embodiment of Dr. Jekyll's inner evil as he made from a chemical concoction that was supposed to separate his good traits from his bad ones. In doing so, he creates Mr Hyde, a chemical disguise that would allow him to express himself with total anonymity. Although his initial acts as Mr Hyde were shameful, they weren't worth kicking or screaming about. However, his actions grow increasingly violent, to the point where he loses his temper one night, and murders a man in a drug-induced attack.
41* AnthropomorphicVice: Hyde can be seen as the embodiment of substance abuse (alcoholism, drug addiction, etc.). Hyde is born from a potion, Jekyll feels liberated when he drinks the potion, loses his inhibition as he uses it, becomes addicted to using it, and becomes a gateway sin that leads to the murder of Danvers Carew (an allegory for drug-induced crime). Despite realizing how it's ruining his life, the addiction becomes increasingly hard to resist, and it eventually grows to the point that while Jekyll would stop if he could, he now needs to regularly take the potion just to "stay normal". Tragically, when he finally runs out for good he dies shortly afterward (a metaphor for fatal withdrawal). Jekyll's struggle with Hyde is akin to the early stages of addiction; he secretly enjoys being Hyde and has fun at first, but Hyde quickly becomes dangerous and scary when Jekyll's addiction to being him spirals out of control.
42* AxCrazy: Beats Danvers Carew to death for a small slight; however, Jekyll posits it was also a form of {{Revenge}} against Jekyll for going cold turkey on the potion for a length of time. He also tends to react to anything from slights to attempted greetings with violence.
43* BigBad: Zigzagged as while it appears that way initially, Hyde is in reality just a chemically created secret identity. The concoction simply removed Jekyll's inhibitions allowing him to indulge in his darker urges in a younger, shorter body. The actions may have been committed in the form of Hyde, but it is all Jekyll.
44* CharacterExaggeration: This happens a lot in adaptations. In the original story, Hyde is explicitly ''not'' a split personality; although the chemical changes Jekyll's looks, mentally all it does is remove any good qualities from his character. Jekyll only starts describing Hyde as if he were another person when he's in the middle of a [[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]]. This is primarily because Jekyll can't recreate the potion and because he refuses to take personal responsibility for his actions as Hyde. Many adaptations of the story have Hyde as a completely different identity that Jekyll can converse with, something that never occurs in the story itself.
45* DirtyCoward: Hyde's cruelty and confidence tend to disappear when he is faced with an actual threat, at which point he devolves into a panic and he makes a point of avoiding anything or anyone that could hurt him in retaliation for his deeds. It's telling that where once Jekyll would transform into Hyde to indulge in evil without regret, Hyde eventually becomes the 'default' and takes the potion to become Jekyll to hide from the consequences of his actions.
46* DrivenToSuicide: Takes cyanide rather than be exposed to Utterson and likely hanged for Carew's murder.
47* EstablishingCharacterMoment: To show how vile he is, the first thing Hyde does in the story was to trample on a little girl.
48* EvilFeelsGood: The reason Jekyll wants to be him--since he is pure evil and void of remorse, he can indulge in pleasurable vices without any conscience to hold him back.
49* EvilMakesYouUgly: Played with. Nobody can ever explain ''why'' they think Hyde is ugly, but everyone who sees him universally finds him repulsive and thinks he's somehow deformed. It's suggested that this isn't anything about his physical features, but that the onlookers can subconsciously sense his unnatural evil.
50* ForTheEvulz: The reason he does anything, and arguably the reason for his existence; Jekyll himself even refers to him as being pure evil.
51* GoodHairEvilHair: He's usually depicted with messy hair, compared to the cleaner, well-maintained hair that Jekyll has. It's only in the later adaptations where he's depicted with mutton-chop sideburns.
52* HateSink: Invoked. Hyde was created specifically to have all of Jekyll's vices and no redeeming or sympathetic traits of any kind.
53* TheHeartless: Hyde is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[MadeOfEvil Jekyll's inner evil]].
54* TheHedonist: Upon becoming Hyde, Jekyll gladly indulges in all the pleasures he couldn't openly indulge in before. Deconstructed in that Hyde takes this too far and starts taking pleasure in doing things like committing murder, to Jekyll's horror.
55* HumanoidAbomination: Mr. Edward Hyde is one of the earliest literary examples in literature. Everyone who meets him hates him on sight and feels that he is some way deformed, but they can never articulate exactly what's wrong with him. Of course, as we all know, Hyde is what you get when you take an ordinary, flawed man, and then subtract all the good from him. Mr. Hyde is literally pure evil.
56* LackOfEmpathy: Hyde is completely devoid of remorse for any of his deeds or concern for the feelings of others.
57* MadeOfEvil: He is the personification of everything bad in a human being (mostly untamed aggressiveness) and people react toward him with complete disgust and hatred due to how pure his evil is.
58* MeaningfulName: "Hyde" sounds a lot like "hide". It seems to indicate that he's the hidden monster beneath the benevolent Jekyll.
59* TheNapoleon: Hyde is frequently described as being "short," "small" and even "dwarfish," in contrast to the taller, well-built Jekyll. This is explained as being because Jekyll never indulged in his evilness before, so his evil side is "underdeveloped."
60* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's often described as small but displays frightening levels of strength, easily able to beat people to death with his bare hands.
61* PureIsNotGood: Most humans, including Jekyll, are a mix of good and evil. Mr. Hyde, on the other hand, is pure evil because he's the embodiment of Jekyll's evil tendencies.
62* {{Sadist}}: Hyde takes immense pleasure in his cruelty to others.
63* SecretIdentityIdentity: Originally, Jekyll drank his potion to become Hyde whenever he wanted to experience EvilFeelsGood. And then, it went the other way around--with Hyde becoming the "default" and needing to drink the potion to turn into Jekyll so he could hide from the consequences of his actions.
64* ShadowArchetype: Represents and acts out Jekyll's repressed evil urges.
65* TheSociopath: He's completely incapable of feeling any compassion, guilt, or kindness and cares only about indulging his own desires, [[DidntThinkThisThrough even when it will shoot him in the foot long-term.]]
66* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: While there's ''something'' unsettling about him, he's pretty normal in terms of appearance aside from being rather short.
67* UngratefulBastard: When Hyde wrote to Lanyon in Jekyll's writing to retrieve Jekyll's chemistry set in order to mix up the potion and Lanyon did so, Hyde still felt the urge to mock Lanyon over Jekyll's "unscientific balderdash" before taking the potion and returning to Jekyll before his eyes. The shock of witnessing this is what leads to Lanyon's deteriorating health and death.
68* WouldHurtAChild: He has no problem trampling an innocent little girl just because she accidentally bumped into him.
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70!!Dr. Hastie Lanyon
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72One of Jekyll and Utterson's oldest friends, known for his work in medicine. He became estranged from Dr. Jekyll ten years before the story's events, due to Jekyll’s ''unscientific balderdash''.
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75* BerserkButton: Jekyll's "unscientific balderdash" is quite the sore spot for him, with Lanyon momentarily flushing purple in anger when Utterson mentions him.
76* DeadManWriting: When he [[TheReveal reveals]] that Jekyll and Hyde were one and the same, he's already dying from the shock of what happened that night. By the time Utterson reads the paper, he's long dead.
77* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When he finds out that Hyde is Jekyll, the truth horrifies and ultimately kills him from shock.
78* StupidScientist: Dr. Lanyon avoids Jekyll, due to Jekyll’s "unscientific balderdash". Jekyll is very disappointed by Lanyon because Lanyon calls his theories "scientific heresies" and considers Lanyon "an excellent fellow, but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant". Consider that Dr. Jekyll has three doctorates, he is an FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) and a famous doctor. In other words, Dr. Jekyll is a respected colleague and not just an [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight eccentric, insane, or paranoid person who also happens to be right]]. According to Lanyon's last letter, Hyde made sure to rub this ignorance in right before taking the potion before his eyes to transform back into Jekyll.
79* TraumaButton: Mentioning Jekyll becomes this after he sees Jekyll become Hyde; Utterson remarking to him that Jekyll is ill prompts Lanyon to pale, state that Jekyll is dead to him, and say that if Utterson cannot avoid the topic of Jekyll he should GetOut.
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81!!Gabriel John Utterson
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83A friend of Dr. Jekyll, who becomes curious as to why his respectable friend is associating with a nasty piece of work like Edward Hyde.
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86* AmateurSleuth: His function in the original story, trying to figure out why Dr. Jekyll was covering for Hyde despite them having no known relationship.
87* DemotedToExtra: In most adaptations, since the twist is better known than the original premise of the story.
88* {{Foil}}: He is quite subtly presented as this towards Dr Jekyll. He's described as being a rather severe and even humourless individual on the surface but is ultimately quite kind-hearted, loyal, and good-natured. He genuinely enjoys the company of his cousin Enfield despite their different personalities and is described as someone who loyally sticks by his friends to the point where he is often "the last respectable person" that those on a downward spiral can count on. Jekyll, meanwhile, is described as being a handsome and virtuous gentleman who has earned the respect of all but is gradually revealed to be someone fighting with evil urges, trying to find a way to indulge them while keeping his conscience clean, and ultimately being consumed by them. Utterson's HiddenDepths reveal him to be a decent man; Jekyll's HiddenDepths reveal him to be a monster-in-the-making.
89* PerpetualFrowner: "Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable."[[note]]Creator/StephenKing wondered ''how'' he could come off as lovable after the rest of that description...[[/note]]
90* PinballProtagonist: He doesn't interfere much in the story's conflict, with the exception of serving as the impetus for Hyde to commit suicide at the end. He's basically there so that the 'Jekyll and Hyde are one and the same' twist would remain a twist.
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92!!Danvers Carew
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94A well-loved member of Parliament who has the misfortune to cross Mr. Hyde.
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96* KickTheDog: Hyde beats him to death because of a minor slight.
97* LovedByAll: By all accounts, he was well-liked. Hyde only killed him because, as the personification of Jekyll's evil, he was incapable of positive feelings towards another.
98* NiceGuy: If his reputation with the people isn't a clear enough sign, Carew is a very polite fellow who was simply asking Mr. Hyde for directions and was subsequently beaten to death for his troubles.
99* PosthumousCharacter: By the time he's introduced properly, Hyde is already wanted for his murder.
100* RiddleForTheAges: What was in the envelope he was intending to post to Mr Utterson? The letter is mentioned only as a clue that advances the story, but its contents are never revealed. The reader is also left to wonder precisely why this saintly old gentleman is wandering the streets at an hour when saintly old gentlemen are usually asleep in their beds.
101* SmallRoleBigImpact: His death was such a horrific, pointless act of evil that it enraged the entire nation against Hyde and caused Jekyll to have a HeelRealization about Hyde's antics.
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