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^ I thought that one is for more personal protector.
For the trope I'm thinking of, it's like Batman if he didn't leave any signs after he fights thugs.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
A) The Drifter. See also its supertrope Mysterious Stranger for general "mysterious characters that have major influences on or are even main characters in a story"
Edited by Scorpion451
1. Sounds like The Paragon, or Living Legend, both of whom are often surrounded by myth and hearsay. Hence the reason their feats of heroism are usually exaggerated. Yet, their meer existence gives hope to masses from the mere fact that their fabled hero is out there "somewhere".
Nevermind, The Cowl seems to fit 1).
Can Literal Split Personality count cases where neither of the personality did the split themselves? Or that they didn't have any second personality prior to the split?
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
Doesn't have to be done to oneself, or require multiple personalities.
The usual play is actually someone having this done to them by accident or an outside force, and the split usually has each duplicate being a Flanderized version of some facet of their personality-
- Bob kind of likes a good fight, so one of his fragments is a Blood Knight
- Bob is a Big Eater, so another facet is a Fat Slob
- Bob has an awkward dating life, so there's a Casanova Wannabe facet
- and so on.
There's a strong tendency for this to be part of An Aesop about being a well-rounded person- an internally conflicted character gets split into sides that each get what they think they want at the cost of the rest of themselves, a character is split into parts based on the Seven Deadly Sins for a Compressed Vice episode, etc.
Edited by Scorpion451
B The split characters are Alternate Self s ± Shadow Archetype s. See also Mirror Self.
Edited by Asherinka
Thank you guys.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
A) The archetypal "mysterious savior": Someone who saves people without having their identity/name known. They become a mystery, and probably hope, for the people around them. Not necessarily a superhero.
Example I'm thinking of
B) Something/some happenstance causes a character to split into multiple "versions" of themselves; they tend to have differing characteristics from each other.
Example I'm thinking of