Basic Trope: A character literally wants to be someone else.
- Straight: Alice is jealous of Betty, and really wants to be her, to the point where she's Driven by Envy and tries to imitate a lot of Betty's aspects.
- Exaggerated: Alice goes as far as to attempt a Grand Theft Me on Betty.
- Downplayed: Alice wants to be like Betty, but doesn't necessarily want to be her.
- Justified: Alice thinks that Betty has a great life, which is much better than hers — from her perspective, why wouldn't she want to be her?
- Inverted: Alice realizes that she and Betty have too much in common, and wants them to not be so similar.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn't want to be anything like Betty.
- Enforced: The work is trying to set up a "Be Yourself" moral.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "But why can't I just be Betty? She's so much better than I am!"
- Conversed: "Remember that one episode where Alice was Driven by Envy over Betty, since she believed that Betty's life was so much better than hers? Even though she went too far, I felt bad for Alice..."
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