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Basic Trope: The Split Personality is an antagonist.
- Straight: Bob, the shy and kind protagonist, develops a split personality, boB, who is rude and offensive, and causes problems for all his friends.
- Exaggerated: Bob is a saint. boB is a supervillain planning to Take Over the World, and doesn't care how many dogs he has to kick or babies he has to eat to do it.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is loving and kind. boB is angry and lashes out at people from time to time.
- Bob's "Evil Side" is just his negative characteristics (anger, pride, etc.) and he has to suppress them.
- Justified: A traumatic event triggered a rage inside Bob that is battling for control.
- Inverted:
- Alice is a villain who develops an heroic split personality.
- boB is a mentor personality who guides Bob to do the right thing to do.
- Subverted: A traumatic event triggers a split personality inside Bob. This new personality was created to help Bob get through his problems.
- Double Subverted: That was a ruse. The new personality is manipulating Bob and giving him bad advice.
- Parodied: Bob has a Complete Monster in fetus form literally inside his brain.
- Zig Zagged: Bob has four personalities; boB, a Complete Monster who loves to rape children; Mark, a Straw Loser who bluffs to burn people down that used to be Bob's original personality before he had a traumatic incident; Tom, a Stepford Smiler Broken Ace that he developed as a defence mechanism; and Tim, a Friend to All Living Things who is a moral compass to Bob.
- Averted:
- Bob only has one personality.
- His other personality is exactly the same.
- Enforced: "How can I add angst to Bob, the saint who might just well have achieved nirvana? Give him an evil personality trying to take over!"
- Lampshaded: "Bob, I will give you an advice. Your worst enemy is yourself."
- Invoked: Ksogrians inflict psychological trauma to Bob so that he would help their plan to destroy the world instead of fighting against them as the prophecy told.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz uses Bob's evil split personality so that he can brainwash him into a mindless killing machine.
- Defied: Bob seeks professional help, and with the right combination of drugs and therapy, Bob manages to take control of his demons.
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- Conversed: ???
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