History Trivia / TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde

* ReferencedBy:
** The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, ''WesternAnimation/HydeAndGoTweet'' have Tweety ingesting Dr. Jekyll's potion and turning into a gigantic canary monster to get even on Sylvester.
** Calvin Zabo, a MadScientist in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, is an in-universe fan of the book, made his own serum based on the one in the book, and even took up the name "Mr. Hyde" as a super villain alias. Unlike Henry Jekyll, though, who had a degree of shame, Zabo as himself is also a pretty horrible person.
** ''Literature/TheDeadlyExperimentsOfDrEeek'' mentions Jekyll and Hyde early in the adventure; fittingly enough the book's main villain is another MadScientist, not unlike Jekyll.
** ''Westernanimation/{{Pagemaster}}'': Richard Tyler, Adventure, Fantasy and Horror visit Jekyll's and Hyde's house.
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpaceHeroes'' has a villain named Hyde and a MeaningfulName at that; like the novel's character, Hyde appears to be a reasonable and important figure of authority on the surface, but is secretly evil in the inside and intends to eliminate an alien planet for his benefits.
** The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villain Two-Face was inspired by the Jekyll-and-Hyde story; the noble district attorney Harvey Dent has a psychotic break when half his face is scarred by a criminal, leading him to flip a coin to decide whether he's going to embrace his decent or darker impulses.

!!The 1931 movie provides examples of:
* CastTheRunnerUp: Miriam Hopkins was originally cast as Muriel Carew, but Director Rouben Mamoulian convinced her that the part of Ivy Pierson was the better role. The part of Muriel went to Rose Hobart.
* StuntDouble: Creator/FredricMarch's stunts were performed by Chick Collins.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JohnBarrymore was originally asked by Creator/ParamountPictures to play the lead role(s), in an attempt to recreate his role from the 1920 version, but he was already under a new contract with Creator/{{MGM}}.

** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpaceHeroes'' has a villain named Hyde, who has a MeaningfulName for just like the novel's character, Hyde is appears to be a reasonable and important figure of authority on the surface, but is secretly evil in the inside and intends to eliminate an alien planet for his benefits.

* Calvin Zabo, a MadScientist in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, is an in-universe fan of the book, made his own serum based on the one in the book, and even took up the name "Mr. Hyde" as a super villain alias. Unlike Henry Jekyll, though, who had a degree of shame, Zabo as himself is also a pretty horrible person.
* ''Westernanimation/Pagemaster'': Richard Tyler, Adventure, Fantasy and Horror visit Jekyll's and Hyde's house.

* ReferencedBy: Calvin Zabo, a MadScientist in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, is an in-universe fan of the book, made his own serum based on the one in the book, and even took up the name "Mr. Hyde" as a super villain alias. Unlike Henry Jekyll, though, who had a degree of shame, Zabo as himself is also a pretty horrible person.

* BasedOnADream: Allegedly, the idea for the story came from a fever dream. Many rumours tie the origins of the story to Stevenson's cocaine addiction.
* CreatorBreakdown: The popular story is that Stevenson wrote the novel after a particularly vivid nightmare. Even if this isn't true, then the novel's themes of duality and of a man suffering drastic personality shifts and driven to ruin by what is essentially an escalating drug addiction probably rang true with the author, who was not unfamiliar with such situations.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Spencer Tracy was cast despite concerns that he was too old to play Jekyll at the age of 41. The irony being that in the original story, Jekyll was 50.
* PlayingAgainstType: Invoked: Ingrid Bergman was cast as Jekyll's virtuous girlfriend Bea, and Lana Turner was supposed to play Ivy, the slutty barmaid (and implied prostitute). Bergman, bored with playing righteous heroines, requested that the roles be reversed, and they were.

* RedundantParody: That infamous IncrediblyLamePun about playing "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" or "Mr. Hyde-And-Seek" is in fact made in the original book.
-->'''Gabriel Utterson''': If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.

* PlayingAgainstType: Ingrid Bergman was cast as Jekyll's virtuous girlfriend Bea and Lana Turner was supposed to play Ivy, the slutty barmaid (and implied prostitute). Bergman, bored with playing righteous heroines, requested that the roles be reversed, and they were.

!!The 1988 video game provides examples of:
* ColbertBump: Before WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, did ''you'' remember this one?
* CoversAlwaysLie: Those who do recall the title from back in the day likely remembered it for its rather cool [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/DrJekyllAndMrHydeNESBoxart.jpg box art]] that promised a much, much more interesting game than the one that was actually inside.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Those who did likely remembered the game for its rather cool [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/DrJekyllAndMrHydeNESBoxart.jpg box art]] that promised a much, much more interesting game than what was actually inside.

* BasedOnADream: Or so Stevenson said.

* NominalParody: That infamous IncrediblyLamePun about playing "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" or "Mr. Hyde-And-Seek" is in fact made in the original book.

* ParodyFailure: That infamous IncrediblyLamePun about playing "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" or "Mr. Hyde-And-Seek" is in fact made in the original book.

* ParodyFailure: That infamous IncrediblyLamePun about playing "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" or "Mr. Hyde-And-Seek" is in fact made in the original book.
-->'''Gabriel Utterson''': If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.