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* Inverted in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E39NervousManInAFourDollarRoom Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room]]" [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_Man_in_a_Four_Dollar_Room (other wiki entry)]]. Jackie's normal personality is weak and scared, his alternate personality (which he sees in a mirror) is confident and ethical.

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* Inverted in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E39NervousManInAFourDollarRoom "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E3NervousManInAFourDollarRoom Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room]]" [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_Man_in_a_Four_Dollar_Room (other wiki entry)]]. Jackie's normal personality is weak and scared, his alternate personality (which he sees in a mirror) is confident and ethical.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' beginner witch Agnes Nitt invented a "cool and mysterious" Bad Girl part of herself -- Perdita X Dream. She didn't drop the habit when she became a witch, so HilarityEnsues: Agnes got not just a SplitPersonality, but an autonomous and very quarrelsome (but sometimes very useful) "co-pilot" in her head, permanently.

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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' beginner witch Agnes Nitt invented a "cool and mysterious" Bad Girl part of herself -- Perdita X Dream. She didn't drop the habit when she became a witch, so HilarityEnsues: hilarity ensues: Agnes got not just a SplitPersonality, but an autonomous and very quarrelsome (but sometimes very useful) "co-pilot" in her head, permanently.
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* ''Series/{{QI}}'': Subverted by Creator/SeanLock: "I hear voices - but I ignore them and carry on killing."

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* ''Series/{{QI}}'': Subverted by Creator/SeanLock: Sean Lock: "I hear voices - but I ignore them and carry on killing."
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** In ''Film/SpiderMan1'', Norman Osborn tries to blame his evil split personality, the Green Goblin, for his crimes once he's defeated by Peter. However, Norman had some dark tendencies even before taking the PsychoSerum that changes him into the Goblin, and while he doesn't remember his crimes at first, he willingly goes along with the Goblin's plans even after he figures out the truth. Peter clearly doesn't believe Norman's claims that he's completely innocent - with good reason, since it turns out that [[spoiler:Norman was just distracting Peter to call up his glider and kill him from behind. It's only in his dying moments that Norman is finally freed of the Goblins's influence]]. Then this gets played around with when Norman is [[spoiler:brought BackFromTheDead]] in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', as he's shown to be terrified of his evil persona, who [[spoiler:has a much greater control over his body than Norman thinks--even shattering the Goblin's mask isn't enough to stave Gobby off, and he's able to turn the other displaced villains against the Peter Parker trying to help them ''and'' kill Aunt May in one fell swoop. When Peter and his cinematic predecessors are able to tag-team Goblin and cure him, he's genuinely horrified at what he did.]]

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** In ''Film/SpiderMan1'', Norman Osborn tries to blame his evil split personality, the Green Goblin, for his crimes once he's defeated by Peter. However, Norman had some dark tendencies even before taking the PsychoSerum that changes him into the Goblin, and while he doesn't remember his crimes at first, he willingly goes along with the Goblin's plans even after he figures out the truth. Peter clearly doesn't believe Norman's claims that he's completely innocent - with good reason, since it turns out that [[spoiler:Norman was just distracting Peter to call up his glider and kill him from behind. [[DyingAsYourself It's only in his dying moments that Norman is finally freed of the Goblins's influence]].influence]]]]. Then this gets played around with when Norman is [[spoiler:brought BackFromTheDead]] in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', as he's shown to be terrified of his evil persona, who [[spoiler:has a much greater control over his body than Norman thinks--even shattering the Goblin's mask isn't enough to stave Gobby off, and he's able to turn the other displaced villains against the Peter Parker trying to help them ''and'' kill Aunt May in one fell swoop. When Peter and his cinematic predecessors are able to tag-team Goblin and cure him, he's genuinely horrified at what he did.]]
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* From time to time on ''Series/QuantumLeap'', Sam's mind would "psycho-synergize" with his leapee's, and he'd take on some of their thoughts and mannerisms. The most chilling example of this was in "Lee Harvey Oswald," where Sam leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald at various points in his life, and Sam's actions get progressively worse with Oswald's mind taking over his. It's just very narrowly averted when Sam is in the book depository squaring up the shot to [[WhoShotJFK kill John F. Kennedy]], and Al breaks through to him, causing him to snap out of it long enough to leap into Special Agent Clint Hill.
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* ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith:'' As his mental state goes increasingly south, Anakin starts attributing things to a "dragon", the personification of all his fears. After he loses his fight with Obi-Wan and is told he strangled Padmé, he refuses to believe this. He couldn't do it, would never do it. And then comes the realization: There is no dragon. There's no Darth Vader. It was just him and ''only'' him, and he's going to have live with that for the rest of his life.

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