Freudian Trio / Fan Works

• There are two sets in Akatsuki Kitten: Phoenix Corporation Overhaul, working under the author:
  • The three main girls: Goldstone (the Superego), Diamond (the Id), and Opal (the Ego).
  • If we go with the three highest rankings, however: Goldstone (Ego), Opal (Id), and Chimera (Superego). The author implies that Opal and Chimera used to be reversed, however.
• In The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan and The Archmage's Last Bow:
  • Zig-zagged in the present day. There are times where Nova Shine fills in the role as Superego (particularly in his more emotionally-distant moments) while Twilight Sparkle is the Ego, and then there will be times where the roles switch. Aegis and Trixie, however, are firmly the Id.
  • In the past, it's played a lot more straight. Closed-off and extremely studious Clover the Clever is a firm Superego, down-to-earth and flirty Summer Blossom is a firm Id, and Nova Shine sits between them as the Ego.
  • In Last Bow, Nova becomes more closed-off than ever and settles into a role as the Superego, his bright and cheerful apprentice Bright Gleam is the Id, and Twilight sits between them as the Ego.
• A Better Class of Criminal has Bookworm/John Binder (Id) Vinny (Ego) and Freddy (Superego) unusually, it's Bookworm who is the de facto leader of the group, and the other two who moderate his excesses.
• From Conquest in the Name of Advancement!, we have Commander Flame, Kathikon, and Synais (with the Commander occasionally being replaced by his Number Two, Fide)
  • Id: Synais (who is mostly concerned with satisfying his personal desires and suggests plans to Flame that will usually advance the Commander’s interests while having minimal of any benefit to his allies).
  • Superego: Kathikon (tends to suggest options that usually either benefit everyone equally or are at least more mutually beneficial than Synais’ ideas. Additionally, Kathikon is the most rule-abiding of the trio).
  • Ego: Commander Flame (the resident Self-Insert who relies mostly on meta-knowledge to make his decisions but is open to advice) and Fide (mostly this by default).
  • It should be noted that this is actually an Invoked Trope - Flame created Kathikon and Synais to help him decide which actions to undertake and modified their physiologies to make them naturally inclined toward these roles. Additionally, this is something of an Informed Attribute, as Foame often seems to forget that Fide, Synais, and Kathikon exists, considering how often they are Put on a Bus.
• From Constant Temptation are Mello (the Id), Matt (the Ego), and Near (the Superego).
• The trio in The Egg Team serve as this, with Luna, Kit, and Teddy being the Superego, the Id, and the Ego respectively.
• Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: The Power Trio of the three badass Smurfs: Tuffy (Id), Duncan McSmurf (Superego), and Hefty (Ego).
• Subverted in First Try Series with Team 7. Kakashi tried to see them as this, thinking they mirrored his own team but is dead wrong. Naruto hates both his teammates, Sasuke is anti-social and abrasive and Sakura sides with Sasuke no matter the situation. So basically Sasuke is The Spock but there is no "Mccoy" or "Kirk" to keep him in check.
  • In Legacy Of The Rasengan:, Naruto tends to alternate between The Kirk, The Mccoy and The Spock which tends to throw the team dynamic off what with Sakura being The Mccoy and Sasuke being The Spock. Makes it very complicated since Naruto has to, at times, play a one-man Freudian Trio to get the team to work on any level.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Italy is the Id while Germany is the Superego and Japan is the Ego. Ironically, Italy did not know of this trope since China's advice confused him.
  China: "I have to go now-aru. Let Id lead the way, not Ego-aru."
  Italy: "WAIT! WHO'S 'ID' AND 'EGO'?!" Too late. "AWW! I don't get it at all!"
• In Hope for the Heartless, we have the Invisibles (though there are four of them), the creations and servants of Cosmic Entities called the Fates.
  • Id: The second and the third Invisible (who act like Single-Minded Twins nearly always) are both wild, fun-loving and optimistic pranksters squeezing enjoyment out of nearly every situation, no matter how bad that might be. They hardly care for the Fates' instructions and continuously disobey them. Eventually the Fates give up trying to enforce a particular rule on them (being The Voiceless).
  • Superego: The first Invisible acts as the serious leader of the group. It tries to follow the Fates' instructions more than the others and is considered boring by them, being often called Dusty. It can barely stand The Prankster duo and is constantly the butt of their tricks.
  • Ego: The fourth Invisible is the most sensitive and the least vocal of the group. It uses to observe the others' antics with amusement. Sometimes it even happily joins The Prankster duo's schemes or does something wild of its own.
  • Their differences are finely shown and explained when the Horned King nearly chokes Avalina to death and locks her up: the second and the third Invisible channel their agony into fiery rage rather than grief, the first Invisible turns its agony into a wall of ice, and the fourth Invisible sobs uncontrollably.
• In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and its subsequent sidestories have characters in different groups at the same time. This includes:
  • Rumi (Id), Jun (Superego), and Mari (Ego).
  • Ibuki (Id), Taira (Superego) and Abe (Ego).
  • Yuki (Id), Miu (Superego) and Tomoko (Ego).
  • Yuki (Id), Erin (Superego) and Tomoko (Ego).
  • Jiro (Id), Gentaro (Superego) and Kengo (Ego).
• In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, the Red Lotus Trio falls into this.
  • Id: Lexi (Bitter, cynical, really is wary of free-riders)
  • Superego: Atticus (Loyal, kind, fatherly, the eldest of the three)
  • Ego: Chloe (Curious, reasonable, is both kind and caring yet also holds resentment)
• My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series: The Crusaders.
  • Id: Scootaloo, brash and lecherous Lovable Sex Maniac who usually has to be restrained from what she wants.
  • Superego: Apple Bloom, the Only Sane Man who tends to reel in both her friends, and is perhaps one of the most sane characters in the entire series.
  • Ego: Thrackerzod, obsessed with appearing normal to an extreme degree, who only joined the group in the first place because it seemed normal for girls her (host's) age.
• In another Pokémon fic, A Mid-Sinnoh Night's Dream , this is the main three male characters, though it's downplayed and lampshaded multiple times.
  • Id: Lucas, calm, stoic, quietly intelligent.
  • Superego: Barry, Energetic, emotional, instinctual.
  • Ego: Hilbert, Hot-blooded with common sense, somewhere in-between.
• Mia Fey: Ace Attorney – The Fool's Turnabout has the title character and her investigation companions Ryuji Sakamoto and Makoto Niijima. Ryuji is clearly the id since he is the more brash and hot-headed one. He can be very confrontational and is the most openly passionate one about getting Ren acquitted for the crime he didn't commit. Makoto acts as the superego most often since she is typically level-headed when conducting the investigation and usually only acts out when she notices Ryuji overstepping his boundaries. Although, she has a moment of being heated when she realizes who the killer is and is furious about it. Mia falls into the ego role by acting as the mediator between the two while both inhabiting the passionate role of defending Ren while having to think logically about the situation.
• Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises has Max (Ego), Leon (Id), and Kiku (Superego).
• In Necessary to Win, there is one such trio among three students of the Nishizumi school. Kikuyo is The McCoy, a compassionate and idealistic maid for the head instructor, who is torn between her loyalty to her mistress, and her desire for the well-being of her mistress' daughter, to whom she is a mother figure. Ami Chouno, a JGSDF instructor who helped train Oarai's tankery team, is The Kirk, who shares many of Kikuyo's desires and conflicts, but also reminds her of practical considerations. Takako Kubo, who, in this fic, is Black Forest's coach, is The Spock, believing that harsh methods of discipline are entirely justified and necessary in order to make Black Forest a winning team. Interestingly enough, The Spock in this case gets along with The McCoy better than The Kirk, with whom she had a falling out over her methods of discipline.
• The Night Unfurls:
  • Celestine (Ego, Reasonable Authority Figure) is torn between her right hand Claudia (Id, Honor Before Reason) and her left hand Kyril (Superego, No-Nonsense Nemesis) respectively.
  • In the first two chapters of the remastered version, Alicia, Kyril and Prim form such a trio. Alicia (Id) aspires and acts like a Knight in Shining Armor. Kyril (Superego) is a Black Knight without the armor and title. Unsurprisingly, the two do not get along, leaving Prim (Ego) to soothe the choler between them.
• The three main characters in the Teen Titans Our Own League books, Robin/Damian, Superboy/Conner and Wonder Girl/Donna are respectively the Superego, the Id and the Ego. Damian rigidly acts according to efficiency and logic (even when the logic only makes sense to him), and Conner is passionate to a fault and rarely looks before he leaps, while Donna is meditative and decides who's course of action is best taken. Her knack for this is the reason she is nominated leader of the New Titans in the first book.
• In Lauralot's Shadow Selves fic, Scarecrow and Jonathan are written as a "functional" version of dissociative identity disorder. Chapter 61 reveals that Jonathan works as the superego of their team while Scarecrow acts as the id - and Scarecrow "had no idea where their ego was". In a more traditional sense, the author mentions that they recorded their psych notes as Superego: Batman, Joker: Id, and Ego: Bruce Wayne.
• In Sight, Ichigo, Zangetsu and Hakuran: Ichigo is the Ego, the conscious self, acts as the mediator between Hakuran and Zangetsu and reconcilates Zangetsu's suggestions with Hakuran's desires. Zangetsu is the Superego acts as Ichigo's conscience and is better at strategy and recognizing social conventions, such as knowing when to tell Ichigo how to lie through omission. Hakuran as Ichigo's Inner Hollow is the Id, the base desire. Hakuran is always itching for a fight, does not censor himself in his language and has a childish curosity.
• There are a lot of Freudian Trios in Super Smash Brothers: Guardians Arise!, considering that a lot of chapters introduce three characters at the same time. Some examples being:
  • Aly (Id), Eric (Superego), and Mars (Ego).
  • Nao (Id), Kai (Superego), and Teal (Ego).
• Swing123 and garfieldodie's Calvinverse has something akin to this in a sextet:
  • Calvin and Socrates are the Ids, the latter more so.
  • Hobbes and the MTM are the Egos.
  • Andy and Sherman are the Superegos, the latter more so (again).
• Takato, Ruki and Chaos all form one of these in the Tamers Forever Series.
  • Id: Chaos — the living embodiment of disorder and thus the most impulsive of the trio.
  • Superego: Ruki — a sentient A.I and thus the most intellectual of the three.
  • Ego: Takato — the balance between the two.
• This Bites!:
  • Meta example: As of Chapter 26, the three authors designate themselves as this, calling themselves the Cross-Brain; Xomniac is the Ego, CV12Hornet is the Superego, and The Patient One is the Id.
  • Additionally, the three mates of the Straw Hat Pirates seem to be this: first mate Zoro is the Id, second mate Nami is the Superego and, appropriately, third mate Cross is the Ego.
• In The Sanctuary Telepath with the London Three:
  • Id: John (loving, protective, attacked by a creature of instinct)
  • Superego: James (logical, genius, keeps the other two in check when necessary)
  • Ego: Janine (generally reasonable, but feels deeply, believes in the "lesser evil" - sometimes can switch to Id, causing John to take up the role of the Ego)
  • When there's just the two of them, Janine and John fluctuate between Superego and Id with little problem, both being partly Ego the whole time.
• The relationship between Lisa, Taylor, and the Doctor quickly becomes reminiscent of the classic trio themselves in the Worm/StarTrek crossover Vulcan’s Forge. Taylor is The Spock (obviously), the Doctor is The Mccoy, and Lisa of all people becomes The Kirk.
• The Gravity Falls fic Weirder Things reimagines the series with this. Mabel is the Id and Dipper is the Ego, while the Superego is their OC cousin Patrick.

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