History Main / LiteralSplitPersonality

* A story by Creator/RobertSheckley involves a man who got a schizophrenia cure in his childhood by getting the other personalities siphoned into artificial bodies. He spends the story searching for them around the Solar System.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', playable character [[ObviousJudas V]] and BigBad [[MaouTheDemonKing Urizen]] are two halves of the same guy -- namely, Dante's EvilTwin Vergil, who separated his human and his demonic halves using Yamato in hopes of saving his life from the various damage he'd taken from [[SatanicArchetype Mundus]]' torture and his multiple duels to the death with Dante. V is Vergil's human side, who has almost none of Vergil's demonic power, and primarily fights using his familiars Griffon, Shadow and Nightmare, who represent the ShellShockedVeteran parts of his personality from when he was Nelo Angelo, the slave of Mundus. Urizen, on the other hand, is an unholy terror who wields Vergil's demonic power and utter ruthlessness without the humanity to temper it. This leads him to plant a Qliphoth tree in Redgrave City, causing untold devastation in exchange for power surpassing even Mundus himself.

** Creator/JasonAaron's run on ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk2011'' kicks off with the Green Scar Hulk (a smarter version of the Savage) getting himself split from Banner. Banner doesn't take it at all well, [[spoiler:to the point that Banner irradiates an entire island trying to turn himself back into a Hulk]].

->'''Slipstream:''' Each of us clones represents one aspect of your personality. (Points to the other clones, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Sundowner, and Ramjet respectively) He's a coward, he's an egomaniac, he's a suck-up, he's a liar.\\

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "A Bat Divided!", a nuclear accident splits Batman into the three sides of his personality: an intellectual scientific detective, [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks an angry bruiser]]... and a laid-back, nacho-munching slacker. Apparently, it's Slacker Batman's heart that allows the other two conflicting sides of his personality to work together.

** One ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' storyline did this to the League's entire roster -- splitting Superman and Clark Kent, Batman and Bruce Wayne, etc. Hilarity spectacularly failed to ensue as [[FromBadToWorse things went on]]: Clark was [[BecomingTheMask scared of heights]] while Superman was losing his humanity, Bruce Wayne had no outlet for his rage at the criminal element while Batman lost his motivation, the Flash lost his connection to his human past while Wally West became lethargic and missed his dates with his wife, and Kyle Rayner was faced with a psychological breakdown without the ring to vent his creativity while Green Lantern lacked any imagination and just shot things. ComicBook/PlasticMan got split into Plas, who literally ''could not'' be serious, and Eel O'Brian, [[BeneathTheMask the ruthless and manipulative ex-career criminal.]] Only Franchise/WonderWoman and Aquaman were immune, and then only until they got hit with a second blast: Aquaman got split into fish and human, and Diana was split into clay statue and disembodied spirit... [[BatmanGambit which was exactly what she wanted to happen]].

** In ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'', Daiji's relationship with his inner demon Kagero causes their shared belt to transform to match whoever's in control, as the heroic Kamen Rider Live or the villainous Kamen Rider Evil. They eventually acquire an upgrade which will kill off the weaker personality to strengthen the other, and temporarily split into separate bodies so that they can fight it out to decide who gets to survive. Daiji wins, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but shooting his evil half in the head instead of resolving his issues proves immensely damaging to his psyche]] and turns him into an unstable KnightTemplar who becomes a far worse villain than Kagero ever was.

** A case of a similar bit of AppliedPhlebotinum having wildly different results: in "[[WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy The Ultimate Enemy]]", after seeing all his friends and family blown up in front of his eyes, Danny ends up going to his ArchEnemy Vlad, and asks him to "make the pain go away". Vlad agrees, and rips out Danny's humanity. This splits Danny into a ghost half and a human half, like the example above; however, having been split in a different manner, this time the ghost half is [[PsychoForHire completely insane]] and [[AxCrazy very violent]]. We don't really get to find out what the human half was like, because before we get a chance to get to know that Danny, the ghost Danny splits Vlad into ghost-Vlad and human-Vlad, and fuses with the ghost-Vlad; this amalgamation of ghostly badness then turns on human-Danny, and brutally murders him so gruesomely that human-Vlad, a decade later, is unwilling to talk about it.

** Sandman had this happen to him once, in ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man'', by some plot. He got split into his core, his childhood self, his [[OppositeSexClone feminine side]], and unfortunately, his [[SuperPoweredEvilSide evil side]] in order to handwave why he stayed a crook.

* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue: Reconstruction'', we learn that Project Freelancer, a military program implanting {{Artificial Intelligence}}s into elite soldiers, was only given a single AI to work with. So they subjected this Alpha AI to stress and [[ColdBloodedTorture psychological torture]] until it started breaking apart, producing fragmented consciousnesses based on one aspect of the Alpha -- Delta represented its logic, Gamma its deceit, Omega its rage, and so on. The problem was that the fragment embodying ambition got the idea of becoming a "true" AI by attacking the other Freelancers and absorbing its siblings, giving rise to [[BigBad the Meta]].

->'''Slipstream:''' Each of us clones represents one aspect of your personality. (Points to the other clones) He's a coward, he's an egomaniac, he's a suck-up, he's a liar.\\