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. |
50 | [[/index]] |
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