Line #21 Main/SplitPersonalityTropes


1	%%[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1348708863077800100 Discussion Thread]]
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3	Tropes about people who have or think they have multiple alternate identities, personalities, or selves.
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5	This is a sub-index of MadnessTropes.
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7	[[index]]
8	* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: One side does not remember anything the other side does when they're in control.
9	* DividedDeity: A deity who becomes split into two or more distinct and lesser deities.
10	* EnemyWithin: The evil personality aims to take over the body.
11	* EnemyWithout: The evil personality escapes from the body.
12	* EvilBrunetteTwin: The evil personality has darker hair.
13	* EvilFeelsGood: The evil personality enjoys doing evil.
14	* EvilTwin: The evil personality is the moral opposite of the good one.
15	* FlipPersonality: The change between personalities.
16	* FunnySchizophrenia: The split personalities are PlayedForLaughs.
17	* GhostMemory: One personality has the memories of the other.
18	* GollumMadeMeDoIt: The evil personality bullies the good personality into compliance.
19	* TheHatMakesTheMan: A piece of headgear that alters the wearer's personality.
20	* HearingVoices: The personality in control can still hear the other one talking to them.
21	* TheHeartless: The evil personality is born from negative emotions.
22	* HelplessGoodSide: The good personality can't do anything to keep the evil personality in check.
23	* HeroicSafeMode: One personality decides to take matters into their own hands.
24	* HydePlaysJekyll: One personality pretends to be the other.
25	* IdentityAmnesia: A character suffers amnesia and develops a new personality.
26	* JekyllAndHyde: A good person who changes into a villainous alter ego.
27	* TheJekyllIsAJerk: The original personality isn't much better than the "bad" split personality - and may be even ''worse.''
28	* TheKillerInMe: In a twist, one of the main characters turns out to be the killer. The character in question may or may not be aware of this.
29	* LiteralSplitPersonality: A person gets separated into two or more individuals who each represent a different aspect of the person's personality.
30	* LivingMemory: A memory of a character somehow becomes alive and able to interact with other characters.
31	* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Many antagonistic/villainous spirits controlling one person.
32	* MindHive: One body, many minds.
33	* MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: Alters have different genders from each other.
34	* NotHimself: A character isn't acting like their normal personality.
35	* SexierAlterEgo: A character transforms into the attractive version of themself.
36	* ShadowArchetype: A character that embodies something another character does not like about themselves.
37	* SplitAtBirth: A singular being separates into multiple entities at birth.
38	* SplitMindSplitPowers: A character has different powers depending on which personality is currently in control.
39	* SplitPersonality: A character whose mind is split into multiple different personalities. Alternately, fictional portrayals of systems or multiples, or people with dissociative disorders.
40	* SplitPersonalityMakeover: Physical changes show which personality is in charge.
41	* SplitPersonalityMerge: Two or more alters combine into one; in fiction, this is usually meant to symbolize accepting all aspects of oneself.
42	* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: A specific situation that consistently causes a split personality to emerge.
43	* SplitPersonalityTakeover: A character succumbs to their dark side permanently and irrevocably.
44	* SplitPersonalityTeam: A character's multiple personalities have different skills and responsibilities, and they take control as appropriate.
45	* SuperpoweredAlterEgo: A person's other self has superpowers.
46	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: The evil personality of a good person has superpowers.
47	* TalkingToThemself: A person has a conversation with themself; in this case, a person's split personalities converse with each other.
48	* TwinTest: Trope variation in which a character is tasked with distinguishing when one personality is in control by any of the personalities to see how well that character knows them.
49	* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: When a person is involved in a LoveTriangle with multiple personalities of the same individual. Note that this also applies to individuals with an alter ego (e.g. superheroes and their civilian identities, real-life people and their online personae, etc.) and is not exclusive to a person "multiple personalities", so to speak.
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