->''"Aw, and I thought we were so close... So nice to finally meet you, face to face!"''
-->-- '''Ghostfreak''', ''{{Ben 10}}''

->'''Bad Ash''': ''I'm [[BadAss Bad Ash]]! And you're [[GoodIsDumb Good Ash]]! You're a goody-little-two-shoes!''\\
'''Good Ash''': ''Good, Bad. I'm the guy with the [[ThisIsMyBoomstick gun]].''
-->-- ''[[EvilDead Army of Darkness]]''

When someone's [[EnemyWithin inner darkness]] doesn't quite [[SplitPersonalityTakeover take over someone]], but it does "escape" their body and rampage around. Fighting someone else's Enemy Without is tricky, as often it will either [[{{Synchronization}} kill the person projecting it if it dies]], or it will just [[NighInvulnerability resurrect itself]] until the actual darkness in the hero's heart is dealt with by the hero themselves.

Often symbolically represents repression, and the hero's refusal to acknowledge the darkness within or some other aspect of themselves. Victory is achieved half the time via "reintegrating" with it. Occasionally, however, it can be seen as representing some other inner demon, and thus, rather than being reintegrated, it must be abandoned, purged, or confronted and conquered. It's generally obvious which one in context, though the first one tends to be more popular.

Sometimes this battle will occur inside someone's own head in a [[HappyPlace dreamscape]], making it both the Enemy Within and the Enemy Without at the same time.

This trope is very similar to both TheHeartless, MadeOfEvil, and StarfishCharacter. It is distinguished from The Heartless by having some personal connection to the person/people it was created from, from Made Of Evil because the Enemy may be flesh and bone, and from Starfish Character by leaving behind a clearly-defined original character.

See also: EvilTwin, EnemyWithin, ShadowArchetype, GhostInTheMachine. The "evil" is usually a characters DreamMirror.
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* In ''{{Gunnm}}''/''BattleAngelAlita'', Kaos's backstory is that Den [[spoiler:was originally Kaos's evil impulses that occasionally surfaced to do evil things, and Kaos's father, Desty Nova, found a way to pull Den out and give him a body of his own, leaving Kaos free of Den's influence.]]
* In ''MagicKnightRayearth,'' Nova was the suppression of Hikaru's hatred for herself, given physical form by the magic of Cephiro.
*Subversion: ''{{Madlax}}'' [[spoiler: was a benign version of this; in this case, she was the sublimated desire of a young girl to kill her BrainwashedAndCrazy father in self-defense. Uniquely, she grew up on her own without too many defects, as a relatively friendly mercenary in a war-torn land.]]
* In Animerica, [[spoiler:Kiyone's EnemyWithin becomes this in Season 3, having "escaped" his body when he felt remorse over Yumi's death (she gets better) but finds his way back when his good side was just broken out of his DrivenToSuicide state and accepted Ron's words, angrily refusing to let him perform a HeelFaceTurn. He attempts to give him another HannibalLecture, but is [[ShutUpHannibal promptly told to shut up by his good side, telling him that he no longer has a purpose to be evil and wants to change for the better.]] This, followed by the power that the "true" Golem unlocks within him, triggers one of the best CrowningMomentofAwesome in the series.]]
*In ''{{Bleach}}'' Ichigo has to battle his own mirror self inside a dreamscape.
**It's mentioned later on that forcing a Shingami's ''[[EmpathicWeapon zanpaktou]]'' to manifest, then submit to you, is a required technique for accessing the second release.
*In a possible subversion, Piccolo from ''{{Dragonball}}'' began his existence as Kami's cast-off evil side. Through the course of ''Dragonball Z'', he exhibits more and more heroic qualities, eventually going so far as to re-integrate himself with Kami for a much-needed power boost.
**The original Piccolo died and his SON is the one who merged with Kami.
***Sort of. Piccolo Jr could more accurately be described as the original Piccolo's reincarnation. Had the original Piccolo truly died, [[{{synchronization}} Kami would've died with him]].
** Played fairly straight with Majin Buu. His evil side comes out, fights him, then turns him into chocolate and eats him.
*** And later reversed, when Buu's good side gets loose, and fights the evil side.
* This is part of the plot of the anime ''SevenOfSeven''. The main character, Nana, is an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary schoolgirl]] who finds herself with six alter egos representing different aspects of her personality (hot-headed Nanappe, cheerful Nanacchi, sensitive crybaby Nanarin, lazy and laid-back Nanakko, intellectual Nanasama, and eccentric Nanapon) after messing with one of her inventor uncle's experiments.
** An episode of ''KeroroGunsou'' is a direct spoof of Seven of Seven: Giroro acquires a sextet of alter-egos representing parts of his personality. The gag is, only one is obviously part of him (his "inner soldier"), and the others much less so, like his inner coward, his romantic side, and his feminine and poetic sides, the last two female!
*This happens twice and in two variations in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]''. The first time Ranma was split into his female (and evil) self and his male (and normal) self. The second time he found a way to physically fight his shadow, and inevitably, the shadow turned out to be slightly evil because it lacked a superego.
** Both the cases are present only in the anime version. In the manga this trope is not used (More precisely, in an episode there is a double of a female Ranma; but she is not a double but a ghost that, being sealed in a mirror, manifests herself looking as a female Ranma).
* The corrupted self-defense program that separated from the Book of Darkness once Hayate became its master in the second season of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. It was even explicitly called the "darkness of the Book of Darkness" by Hayate.
* Subverted in the {{Touhou}} doujin ''Remily the Strange''. When Remilia looks into a cursed mirror, it creates a doppleganger that's supposed to represent the victim's repressed evil. However, Remilia is already completely evil, so the doppleganger ends being extremely timid and "spaced out".
* [[spoiler: Nanaya Shiki]] in ''{{Tsukihime}}: {{Melty Blood}}''. Though, in a sense, he can be considered a [[spoiler:form of alternate "what if" version of Tohno Shiki.]]
* In the animated adaptation of ''{{Samurai Deeper Kyo}}'', this was Onime no Kyo's revised origin; he was essentially the [[BloodKnight fighting instinct]] within the soul of Mibu Kyoshiro, distilled into a separate and powerful body the Mibu created. Onime no Kyo then became an actual person, as opposed to merely the nickname of the BloodKnight Mibu Kyoshiro.
* In the third arc of UminekoNoNakuKoroNi, [[spoiler:Eva's younger-self "ImaginaryFriend" becomes the new Endless Witch, and sets about murdering her entire family in the most cruel and unusual ways she can think of, apparently over Eva's protests.]]

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* Professor X has attacked the ''{{X-Men}}'' via this method on a few occasions; once in [[{{X-Men}} the 90s cartoon]], and several times in [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} the comics]], most notably as a fusion of his and Magneto's darkness, Onslaught.
**The good Professor also has a recently-introduced double, [[SplitAtBirth Cassandra Nova]]. After her confusing introduction, we were introduced to the idea that ''everyone'' has such a [[EnemyWithin double, most of whom vanish at birth]].
* MarvelUniverse character The Sentry's arch-nemesis, The Void, is his own personal EnemyWithout. It's implied that the incident which caused The Sentry to be [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased from the minds of the Marvel Universe's populace]] for about 30 years was a failed attempt at re-integration.
* In the UK's ''{{Sonic the Comic}}'' comic series (not the same as the Archie one), Sonic lost control when he turned into Super Sonic, becoming interested only in causing as much destruction as he could. Eventually, Super was split from Sonic, becoming a recurring antagonist in his own right, and later a pacifistic protagonist who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia knew nothing of his past or name]] and fearing having to use his powers to help people because of his SuperpoweredEvilSide.
* ''Shade, the Changing Man's'' EnemyWithin, Hades, thanks to the [[GreenRocks power of madness]], became an EnemyWithout and an EnsembleDarkHorse in the same story arc. He also seemed to become less threatening and more helpful, so perhaps it's for the best that he vanished the scene before [[BadassDecay Spikeification]] set in.
* In an issue of the 2001 revamp of ''DoomPatrol'', every member of the team is subjected to their own personal Hell. DeadpanSnarker Flash Forward, or Negative Man, is faced with eternity alone with nobody but another one of himself for company.
* In the Mirage ''Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' comics, Casey's darker instincts, which had been personified in his mind into a darker, spikier version of himself, came to live when they took over the body of a shape-shifting comedian. Fighting ensued.
* Inverted in ''CalvinAndHobbes'' where bratty Calvin creates a clone of his good side. Interestingly played with; [[spoiler: the good duplicate vanishes in APuffOfLogic when he has an evil thought.]]

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* In ''[[StarWars The Empire Strikes Back]]'', Luke encounters a phantom Darth Vader in a Force-flooded cave on Dagobah. When he strikes it down, it turns out to have his own face, representative of his own fear of turning to the Dark Side if he should do this for reals.
* In ''ForbiddenPlanet'', the Monster From the Id.
-->'''Morbius''': "Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!"
*Superman III features a pretty good fight sequence between a red Kryptonite-infected Superman and his moral base, Clark Kent. It's also a bit of a subversion in that its clearly shown to be a metaphor for Superman's internal struggle not to do whatever he pleases.
* Buddy Love is excised from ''TheNuttyProfessor'' in the second Eddie Murphy version.

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* This is the premise for most of ''A Wizard of Earthsea''.
* The Yamiko in ''SailorNothing'' (also TheHeartless).
* In {{Thursday Next}}, Thursday's adventures eventually inspire a book series, with the books' interpretations of Thursday appearing in the fictional Bookworld. The Thursday of the first four books is a leather-wearing pastiche of {{Badass}} {{Anti Hero}} cliches, who eventually just decides to turn evil. Interestingly, after these four books the writers decided to go in the opposite direction so there's also a Thursday who's a touchy-feely {{Granola Girl}}. This gives the impression that she's become a {{Starfish Character}}, except that the real Thursday is still around and is demonstrably the only one from the Real World.

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* In the ''RedDwarf'' episode "Terrorform", the crew have to rescue Rimmer from a planetoid that has modelled itself on Rimmer's subconscious, populated by personifications of his attributes. The BigBad in this case is Rimmer's Self-Loathing, and the only way to defeat it in the end is to convince Rimmer that he is loved. [[spoiler: It is solved by a group hug. And it's ''hilarious''.]]
** Another episode, "Demons and Angels," is an even better example of this trope. In it, the ''Red Dwarf'' and its crew are given "good" and "evil" copies by a triplicator; the "good" ''Dwarf'' is shiny, white, and well-maintained, while the "evil" version looks like an abandoned oil refinery. Similarly, the "good" versions of the crew are a bunch of pacifistic milksops, while the "evil" ones are sadistic monsters that dress in lots of leather. The plot revolves around causing the "good" and "evil" sides of the ''Dwarf'' to re-merge, as the original was destroyed in the process of creating the two duplicates; merging the "good" and "evil" sides of the crew is less of an issue ([[spoiler:and in fact becomes impossible, as the "evil" crew members rapidly kill off all of their "good" counterparts]]).
*In the ''DoctorWho'' serial "Trial of a Time Lord", [[spoiler:the Valeyard, prosecuting at the Doctor's trial in "Trial of a Time Lord", is revealed to be all the darkness in the Doctor's soul, given life at some point between his twelfth and final incarnations.]]
*In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Skin of Evil", the antagonist is the EnemyWithout for an entire civilization.
*Despite its name, the original-series ''StarTrek'' episode "The Enemy Within" makes Kirk into a StarfishCharacter, not an EnemyWithout.
* A somewhat confusing example in ''{{Supernatural}}'''s ''Dream A Little Dream Of Me''. In his "dreamworld", Dean's doppelganger taunts him on his low self-esteem and Daddy issues until Dean fights back in a rage and shoots it three times in the chest. But then it comes back with a [[NightmareFuel scary voice and black eyes]] and says;
-->'''Dream!Dean''': "You can't escape me, Dean! You're gonna die and this, this is what you're gonna become!"
::He also appears at the end of the episode, repeating the line and [[IronicEcho snapping his fingers]] with a big smile on his face.
* An episode of ''{{Angel}}'' serves as a perfect example of the [[HappyPlace dreamscape]] variety. Faith (through methods and because of reasons that are both too complicated to explain) ends up inside Angel's head and meets Angelus (Angel's EnemyWithin) there as well as Angel. This culminates in a battle between Angel and Angelus achieved by carefully choreographed fight scenes with David Boreanaz and a split screen. It was quite impressive.

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* In MageTheAwakening, it is possible (although not wise) for a mage to bring some aspect of his personality (usually his personal Vice) into reality in a physical body. Doing so frees the mage of that personality aspect, but having a mage's Pride or Wrath walking around doing stuff isn't usually a good thing.
** Similarly, ''VampireTheRequiem'' recently introduced the idea of "Hollow" Embraces -- vampires who were Embraced post-mortem. They have the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent traditional vampiric trait]] of not having any reflection and not appearing on film, whereas other vampires just show up blurry. Thing is, that reflection is now a separate being. And it ''hates them''.
* And in ''Fading Suns'', this is what happens if a psychic behaves ''very'' badly.
* Before it was retconned as a part of the {{Ravenloft}} setting, the 1st edition AD&D module ''I10: The House On Gryphon Hill'' was a stand-alone adventure in which the vampire Strahd von Zarovich was the EnemyWithout of a benign alchemist with the same name.

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* In ''{{Ultima}} 9'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:The Guardian, the Big Bad of the later games, is in fact the "cast off" parts of the hero after he became the Avatar, the embodiment of Virtue]]. Note that this [[RetCon contradicts part]][[CanonDisContinuity s]] of the plot in ''Ultima 7'' and ''8'' and in ''Ultima Underworld 2''.
* In ''FinalFantasyIV,'' in order for Cecil the Dark Knight to become a Paladin, he had to face his past self and allow it to "punish" him without striking back, thus defeating it. The sequence makes more sense in the first Japanese version, as Cecil's past self exclusively uses a special attack that not only damages the enemies, but damages himself as well; this attack was removed from the American version, but the fight scene was unchanged. This only applies to the original Super NES release - the American versions of the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance ports are identical to the Japanese and the attack exists in both.
** A similar thing happens in the sequel ''[[FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears The After Years]]'' except [[spoiler:Kain's dark side escapes, forcing Kain to track it down, but not before Kain's dark side wrecks havok stealing crystals.]]
*In ''FinalFantasyVI'', sleeping in a certain town with Cyan in your party triggers a sequence where the other three members of your party fight through a series of dream sequences inside his head, based on the character's previous adventures in the game, and ultimately fight a being that is devouring his soul from within.
*Happens quite a few times in ''KingdomHearts'':
** The incarnation of [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] appears to be this for Cloud - as such, all of Sora's skills cannot defeat him and ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself. You can at least convince him to back off by battering him around.
** Most of TheHeartless are generic and identical to others of their type. But if a person's heart is strong enough, it becomes a unique creature fueled by the darkness in that person's heart. They can easily become the enemy (or goal) of the Nobody created from what's left when the Heartless is formed.
* Space Harrier II with [[spoiler: the final boss being Dark Harrier]]
*"Dark Mega Man" at the end of ''MegaManBattleNetwork 4''. In ''Battle Network 5'', he would spawn on the enemy side whenever one of the DangerousForbiddenTechnique Dark Chips backfired. And heaven help you if that ever happened during a boss fight...
* [[spoiler: Pat]] and his evil split-personality [[spoiler: Rey]] both got separate bodies when fusing with Gemini. Unique in that [[spoiler: Pat]] goes with what [[spoiler: Rey]] says instead of trying to fight him. Because of that, Mega Man has to stop them both.
* Happens once in SamAndMax , In "Bright Side of the Moon", the BigBad [[spoiler:Hugh Bliss]] removes Max's hand, stomach, and tail. Each one turns into a different color Max embodying his tendency for violence, gluttony, and laziness, respectively. Without those traits, Max becomes completely docile and unable to interfere with the villain's plan.
*"Dark Link" at the end of ''[[LegendofZelda Zelda 2: The Adventures of Link]]''. Dark Link appears in later ''Zelda'' games as well, but this one fits the trope the best.
* The Transcendent One from [[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]], [[spoiler:your mortality made flesh and removed from your body by magic... Who has nothing but the deepest of loathing for you and does ''not'' want to return.]]
*A PuzzleBoss in the original ''PrinceOfPersia'' revolved around this concept, being a dark or ghostly Prince split off by a magic mirror. As usual, the solution was to re-integrate.
**The post-final boss level in ''PrinceOfPersia: The Two Thrones'' also fits this trope. [[spoiler: To defeat the Dark Prince, the embodiment of the Prince's evil qualities, after a lengthy scripted portion, you must ''run away'' from the fight, since [[AnAesop violence only breeds more violence]]]]
* Eclair in ''LaPucelle'' has to fight her inner evil self; the resolution is that she must accept it, whereupon she gets the ability to transform into that self in later combats. However, the [[GameplayAndStorySegregation gameplay]] required to do this is an ordinary combat with a cut scene at the end showing the "acceptance".
** Eclair being an homage to Princess Crown's Gradriel, the latter's heroine also faces off against and gains the power to transform into her evil version.
* Inversion: Rularuu the Ravager, a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien eater-of-dimensions from ''CityOfHeroes'', has a Hero Without, Faathim the Kind, who helps you fight him.
** ''CityOfHeroes'' also has the Madam of Mystery, who gets stronger every time you fight her again. It turns out that she is the manifestation of darkness in the soul of the very person who is sending you to defeat her, only she doesn't know it.
** In a ''CityOfVillains'' mission, you go inside Johnny Sonata's head and kill his soul. Again inverted, his soul is nicer than he is.
* Maggie, and later Pandora, in ''Persona''.
** ''Persona 3'''s expansion, FES, has a dark version of the main character as a boss. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it doesn't come from the main character (he's dead), but rather from the party's collective regret of his death.]]
** In ''{{Persona 4}}'', personas arise from accepting and embracing one's EnemyWithout. Denying it instead makes it go into OneWingedAngel mode.
* In the original ''Shadow Hearts'', Yuri had to deal with the mysterious Fox Face, who appears if the in-game KarmaMeter rose to high by defeating enemies. Halfway through the game, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Fox Face is the manifestation of Yuri's fear of succumbing to the monsters that dwell within his soul as a Harmonixer. Once he learns that his soul belongs to himself alone, and the monsters can never take him over, Fox Face disappears. In addition, when Yuri harmonizes with a monster soul after this sequence, his animation changes from a frightening cry of anguish with accompanying head pain to a simple grunt with accompanying arm swing, showing that he has cast off his fear of his power.]]
* In ''TwistedMetal'' Head-On, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Needles Kane, Sweet Tooth's driver, the [[MonsterClown psychotic clown]], is a split personality of Marcus Kane. They drive different cars, and can fight and kill each other in the game. Eventually, Marcus gives in to Sweet Tooth's influence, and together, they drive a building and become Tower Tooth, the final boss of the game, as well as Dark Tooth, which is a super-powered ice cream truck with giant jaws that smash opponents. Which they also drive together. And ALL FOUR of these can fight in the same match. ''''.]]
** To be fair, it's also suggested that either [[spoiler:the entire series is Marcus' hallucination]] or [[spoiler:Marcus is a RealityWarper.]]
* The final boss of ''MegaManZero 3'' may or may not be Zero's SuperpoweredEvilSide possessing a separate body. His origins are left somewhat vague.
** In this case Zero is more of a Hero Without. Said separate body is [[spoiler: Zero's original body, which was being occupied by an evil personality. The mind of the real Zero (the good and {{badass}} one) came into possession of a duplicate]].
* The first two-thirds of ''Jade Cocoon 2'' are spent collecting items that will allow the demon possessing Kahu to be drawn out and defeated in this manner. Afterwards, Kahu must travel to the Forest of Darkness and [[spoiler: slay four kalma who are possessing his friends and drawing out their inner evil or self-doubt.]]
* In ''SoulCalibur'', Nightmare was originally Siegfried's alter ego, but subsequent games have given it its own body and personality (an extremely ChaoticEvil one).
* Pyramid Head from ''SilentHill 2'' is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:the incarnation of James Sunderland's guilt and weakness over his wife Mary's death, which kill themselves (there's two of them at this point) once James accepts the truth]]. True, he has been appearing in recent games despite [[spoiler:James]] not being around, but those have been just irrelevant {{Fanservice}}. To further the trope, Pyramid Head is often depicted in fanart as [[spoiler:looking identical to James under the helmet]].
** There's also other examples from elsewhere in the series, such as the Memory of Alessa in the the third game and The Butcher in ''Origins'' (who could also be [[spoiler: the EnemyWithin according to one of the game's Endings]]).
* Leotheras the Blind from ''WorldOfWarcraft'' summons Inner Demons from raid members when he transitions to demon form. Each demon can only be hit by the person it was summoned from, and if that person doesn't manage to kill it before he turns back to his human form, they become mind controlled for the rest of the fight.
* The "understand your dark side" part is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] (and subesequently [[AvertedTrope averted]]) in ''DevilMayCry 3'', when a shadowy doppleganger of Dante appears to fight him.
-->'''Dante''': I know why you're here. You're here to ask me some questions. Well too bad. I've already answered them myself. I don't need you.
* Llednar in ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' is actually [[spoiler: Mewt's form of concentrated power and hatred that is totally invincible to all forms of attack until Cid uses a card by Ezel to nullify Llendar's invincibility. Once defeated, Llednar turns into stone and crumbles.]]
* The final boss of ''TheSuffering'' is lead character Torque's intense psychological issues given physical form by the evil presence at Carnate in the form of an enormous, grotesque monster. In a blunt application of the "understand your dark side" aspect, he has to make use of his EnemyWithin SuperMode to defeat it.

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* An interesting variation is found in ''[[EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'', where during the main characters' trip into the Castle Of Ordeals, the only thing evil enough on the Castle's record to represent Black Mage's sins is... [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=051018 himself]], who becomes more powerful as Black Mage reminds the doppelgänger of a few sins the Castle forgot to add. In typical fashion, Black Mage stabs the manifestation in the back of the head. Then absorbs its energy to avoid the catharsis of literally killing his own evil. [[ScrewYourself Then has sex with the corpse]].
** The last part of that is only implied, rather than explicitly shown, though.
* In ''TheWotch,'' Anne once tries to create helper duplicates, and is GenreSavvy enough to make sure none of them believe they're the original or decide they'd rather stay separate. Something goes wrong with it anyway, and each copy is a different aspect of her personality (often simply [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience wearing a different color]], though a few take on forms from previous arcs, such as her courage being a Batgirl-based hero, and her curiosity being a CatGirl.) The villains talked her anger, frustrated with having been kept from acting by the rest of Anne's personality, into refusing to return and trying to get rid of the others.
* After a crossover with Melonpool, ''[[{{Walkyverse}} It's Walky!]]'' introduced Anti-Joyce, a slutty duplicate of Joyce supposedly created from her repressed libido via the Dupe-O-Matic. She was killed by the original shortly afterward.
*[[LivingShadow The Wraith]] in the [[{{Discontinuity}} Aiden and Bronwyn arc]] of ''{{Misfile}}'' was apparently an amalgamation of the negative parts of their love, [[{{Wallbanger}} or something]]...
* The exact nature of Xero in SuicideForHire isn't quite clear, though he's definitely spawned from Arcturus' dark side. Arcturus describes arm-wrestling with Xero as a "metaphorical battle", implying it's taking place only in his imagination, and nobody else can see Xero, but Arcturus holds conversations with him out loud (much to the confusion of the waitress who sees him talking to himself and can't hear the replies). The strongest evidence that Xero has some kind of tangible form is that items of clothing Xero was seen wearing, which Arcturus doesn't own, keep turning up in places he's recently been.

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* This was attempted in ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version two, but didn't work out. The character Walter Smith was originally made in the pregame with the concept of him being the manifestation of Jack Bexley's dark side, as Jack was also a politician's child but, while he did not let himself be corrupted as Walter was, still had part of him that was like that. The plan was that they'd be bitter rivals, and Jack would eventually kill Walter in a fight late in the game as a symbol of finally getting rid of that side of his personality. Unfortunately, Jack's handler left the site and never put Jack into the game, leaving the storyline in the air and Walter as a [[CompleteMonster pure evil]] villain without any of the symbolism.

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*In ''{{Ben 10}}'', Ben's Ghostfreak form is revealed near the end of the second season to be bad news... After Ben loses control, Ghostfreak winds up separated from Ben's body and on his own, chasing Ben and possessing others for the remainder of the episode, trying to get back to Ben's body and take over. One of the examples where "re-integrating" the Enemy Without would be a ''very bad idea''.
** Then again... [[spoiler: (Near the end of the third season, a copy of the "true" (sunlight-vulnerable) Ghostfreak ends up on the Omnitrix. Whether this copy contains Ghostfreak's personality remains to be seen).]]
*** Well, [[spoiler: Ghostfreak himself said that his race, the Ectonurites, retain memory within the tiniest strand of DNA, so, yeah, it's probable that this is true, and that the [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot writers just forgot.]]]]
* In ''SamuraiJack'', Aku realizes that none of his forces are as strong as Jack is... so he creates an EvilTwin of Jack, made of Jack's anger and fury, to take him out. Naturally, Jack wins when he accepts it and [[SheatheYourSword doesn't fight back]].
* In ''DarkwingDuck'', the first episode ever written with a character called "Negaduck" was not truly starring the recurring EvilTwin AlternateUniverse Negaduck that came to spearhead the Fearsome Five in later days. This Negaduck was the accidental byproduct of an invention Megavolt called "the tron-splitter", which was designed to separate an object into its component "positrons and negatrons", and then later re-merge them. A locked door, thus separated, would leave an empty doorway Megavolt could simply stroll through, and once re-merged without ever being unlocked, there would be no sign of tampering for the CSI squad to analyze. Things start going wrong when Darkwing catches him red-handed, and in the ensuing fight, Megavolt turns the tron-splitter on DW. DW's good side turns out, much like Captain Kirk, to lack the necessary sock-pow forthrightness that makes for a quack-fu action hero, while his evil side is unhesitantly violent, and goes on a fearsome rampage. Later, it is discovered that the tron-splitter can "galvanize" a tron-pure subject, imparting functionally limitless super powers. As always, the solution is to re-merge the two before the EnemyWithout destroys everything. Also includes an instance of SpotTheImposter, early on after the split.
** As implied, this is all a comedic rehash of an episode of the original ''StarTrek'' in which a transporter accident splits Captain Kirk in two.
* In ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'''s third season, [[spoiler:Shadow Thief]] was revealed to be [[spoiler:Hawkman]]'s EnemyWithout.
* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "Fourth Grade," Mr. Garrison has a face-off with his "Gay Side" in a direct parody of the cave in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''. [[spoiler: He loses.]]
* In an alternate BadFuture of ''DannyPhantom'', after losing his entire family and friends to a deadly explosion, the main character willingly agrees to separate his humanity. Thus resulting in his sympathetic [[BigBad arch enemy]] Vlad Masters--who had just recently adopted Danny--to honor his wishes by using the Ghost Gauntlets to separate his ghost half from his human self. This doesn't turn out so well; his ghost half instantly turns malevolent, uses the same procedure to tear off Vlad's ghost half, and JOINS with his half. The result? A Carnage-like mixture of Vlad Plasmius and Danny Phantom: [[FutureMeScaresMe Dark Danny]]. Not only does he kill his human half, but he BLOWS up the entire mansion, and spends the next 10 years turning the planet into a living nightmare. And this is a kid's cartoon.
** It's a SugarBowl [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/VideoGames compared to]] the BadFuture in PokemonMysteryDungeon. Still that scene [[NightmareFuel had to inspire nightmares]].
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