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{{trope|wppage=Body swap}}
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The most benign subtrope of [[Body Snatcher]]: two or more characters swap bodies (or, equally, swap minds) by some form of magic or [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. Typically, a deeper appreciation of the other's life is attained. Named for [[Freaky Friday|a novel and movie]] about a body swap between a mother and her daughter.
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When this plot is done in animation, usually the ''voices'' [[Voices Are Mental|also switch]] as narrative cheat to help younger viewers keep track of who's who, though more serious/action-oriented shows might not do this. The Flip often involves characters of different ages, genders, races, or social classes. Another variation is a protagonist and antagonist switching, which usually involves each trying to undermine the other's organization while simultaneously trying to switch back. If one or both of the characters have [[Stock Super Powers|superpowers or other special abilities]], they'll [[How Do I Shot Web?|have a lot of trouble figuring their new powers out]].
A similar idea, with less learning and more evil, is [[Grand Theft Me]]. Compare [[Personality Swap]], when the characters' personalities are swapped but their minds stay where they are meant to be. It will often involve similar tropes to transformation stories (such as [[Gender Bender]]) as this is essentially two of these in one, with the addition of confusion resulting from the transformations being into other known characters.
Sometimes is the mechanism by which a [[Folgers Crossover]] is accomplished.
{{examples}}
== Anime
* The episode "Girlz, Tenshin!" ("Trading Faces" in the English dub) of ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]'' has this happen to the three girls courtesy of Fuzzy Lumpkins, resulting in each girl having to pretend to be the other.
* ''[[Kochikame]]'' has a rare [[Double Subversion]]. Ryotsu wishes he could swap his body with his rich, handsome and skillful underling [[Non-Idle Rich|Nakagawa]]. The next day there's an accident that involves Ryotsu and Nakagawa banging their heads. All seems set for a
** Another time, Ryotsu and Reiko had their bodies switched. It began with the mad scientist inventing a body switching machine shaped like a purikura photo booth. Reiko, unaware of its purpose, took a picture together with Ryotsu. By morning, their bodies switched. The whole episode deals with adjusting their lifestyle and playing their roles. Ryotsu has to attend Reiko's important meeting. And even worse, Reiko is a target of a few dangerous kidnappers who later kidnap Ryotsu in Reiko's body. Both of their bodies switch back during the police holdup, scaring the kidnappers when Ryotsu gets reverted back to himself.
* In ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', the body swap is the result of a rather explosive curry cooked by a [[Lethal Chef|girl with truly dangerous cooking skills]].
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** It might be worth noting in this example, their voices don't switch, although their accents do.
*** In the American version, which doesn't include accents, the voices DO switch.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of The Sea]]''. The newly hatched Pokémon Manaphy does this twice: switching Team Rocket's minds among the three of them, and switching the minds of Ash Ketchum and Jack Walker (the eponymous Pokémon Ranger).
* ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'' did a child/parent switch between Shin and Misae ("Mitzi" in FUNimation's [[Gag Dub]]) and they didn't even switch voices (Goes for the dub as well). Much [[Hilarity Ensues]], including Misae doing the beloved ass dance.
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* Done in one of the ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' [[Filler]] episodes. Natsu, the man-beast, swaps with [[Chivalrous Pervert]] Loke. Gray, who [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|subconsciously strips]], swaps with [[The Chick]] Lucy. Erza, [[Big Good|the strongest main character]], swaps with Happy, the blue cat who can sprout wings. Naturally, Erza spends the whole episode switching between cranky, freaking out, and depressed. Lucy also has to foil several attempts of Gray's to strip. And they can't control each other's magic, leading to Lucy drooling ice and Loke spitting out fire while trying to ask out different girls. Happy is pretty much the only one of them to enjoy being in the new body, constantly playing with boobs and experimenting with outfit transformations. {{spoiler|By the end, the 6 manage to switch back, only the OTHER characters are now switched!}}
* In the last episode of the anime of ''[[Kämpfer]]'' the entrails animals switch bodies with their respective owners. The stuffed animals resolve that "Life... is fabulous!"
* Happens in one of the visual novels for ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', with Yuki and Mikuru due to Haruhi. Their seiyuu do not swap; however, they do take a crack at voicing each other using the right personality, resulting in a scary, deadpan-sounding [[
* In Masakazu Katsura's short story "Woman in the man", the tomboyish Hazumi and the wussy Tsuyomaru switch bodies after an accident in the gym owned by Tsuyomaru's parents.
* An [[Omake]] comic from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' showed Tamaki and Kyouya in each other's bodies.
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* In the Punk Hazard arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', this happens to {{spoiler|Sanji, Nami, Chopper and Franky}}, courtesy of {{spoiler|Trafalgar Law's Ope-Ope Fruiti powers.}}
** Soon after, this happens to {{spoiler|Tashigi and Smoker}}. Seeing {{spoiler|Tashigi look all innocent in Smoker's body and Smoker look all badass in Tashigi's body}} is nothing short of fucking hilarious.
* In ''[[To
* In ''[[Sket Dance]]'' on the school trip Bossun and Himeko accidentally drink some pills that switch their minds. What makes it hilarious is that Himeko (in Bossun's body) insists that Bossun ''must not touch any intimate part'' of her body (which he now possesses). Which means that all delicate operations on that original body of her (like wiping the ass or, what a horror, ''bathing'') should be done by Himeko herself (who is now in ''Bossun's'' body, remember!). This leads to some scenes which, taken out of context, would be considered very perverse.
* Episode 13 of [[Miracle Girls]] has a swap between ''identical twins''. The trope is played utterly straight, with each of them having to pretend to be the one whose body she's in, even though they could just pull a [[Twin Switch]] using a couple of wigs and look exactly like themselves anyway.
* The central conceit of ''[[Your Name]]'' is city boy Taki and country girl Mitsuha swapping bodies and having to contend with each others' lives, as well as what happens when they try to meet up.
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* The best-known [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] example would be the tragic flip of Psylocke and Chinese assassin Kwannon. The latter had been rendered braindead after a fall, and when Psylocke turned up amnesiac in China, Kwannon's lover Matsuo saw a chance to restore his girlfriend and turned to the villain Spiral for help. However,
** ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' character Emma Frost was rather fond of this one. While still a full-time villain she swapped bodies with [[Storm]] as part of an [[Grand Theft Me|evil plot]]; years later, just before her [[Heel Face Turn|switch to heroism]], she accidentally swapped bodies with Iceman, and then proceeded to fuel his (already significant) insecurities by using his powers far more effectively than he ever had. She also tried to commit suicide while in his body, but she never mentions
** Lampshaded in ''X-treme X-Men'' once, when at a dinner party, various team members start teasing Ororo, until Kitty stands up and says, "What's everyone talking about? That isn't Storm, ''I'm'' Storm! Someone has switched our minds!" Everyone else suddenly glares at her in panicked silence. Then Ororo and Kitty shout, "GOTCHA!".
** During the X-Men's Australian run, there was an issue where [[Dazzler]] was accidentally switched with the criminal Diamondback. But unlike most hero/villain swaps, neither had any idea what was going on and Diamondback briefly joined the X-Men to get the matter sorted. Besides the clumsiness in getting used to each other's abilities (somehow Diamonback's [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] didn't work in Dazzler's body), Dazz was understandably quite pissed when Diamondback smoked cigars and slept with Wolverine in her body.
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== Fan Works ==
* This trope is common in [[Fanfic
* The unknown, yet ever-amusing ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' fic [[Fan Fic/Elphie Why Is Boq In My Body|"Elphie, why is Boq in my body?"]] is about six best friends (with kissing benefits) who switch bodies every time they kiss. Along the way, there's hot landlords, waiters, and snide homophobes to be dealt with. Unadulterated chaos, but awesome.
* The ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' fanfic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120416191842/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4302297/1/In_His_Shoes In His Shoes]'' inflicts this on Zuko and Sokka, {{spoiler|back when they were still enemies,}} and has made [[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Fanfic Recs|the rec pages]] with its explorative, in-character win and awesome.
* In the (surprisingly good) ''[[The X-Files|X-Files]]'' fanfic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190924171333/http://krycek.gossamer.org/author/10082-1.html Impulse]'', Mulder and Scully swap bodies. Hilarity ensues as Scully has to interview an abductee and Mulder is forced to do an autopsy.
* In the "has-an-iffy-first-chapter-but-overall-good-fic" ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3791056/1/The_Switch_Glitch The Switch Glitch]'', a magic e-mail chain letter causes an eccentric ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fangirl to swap bodies with Edward Elric himself (for the first quarter of the fic at least). [[Hilarity Ensues|Need I say it?]]
* Episode Nine of ''[[Demyx Time]]'', with the two leads. Done surprisingly well for a live-action fan production.
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** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6883247/1/ Another Glee fic] in which Rachel and Kurt swap bodies and utter ''[[Hilarity Ensues]]''.
* Playing the "learning experience" part of this trope to the hilt is [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5844006/1/A_Mile_in_His_Shoes this] ''[[One Piece]]'' fic, "A Mile in His Shoes," where Zoro and Sanji's rather opposite approaches to romance are contrasted to the benefit of both.
* The [[Self Insert]] fanfics ''[[Spellbinding Radiance]]'' and ''[[Mass Vexations]]'' engaged in a flip in which the two author avatars switch bodies ''across fanfics''. It was mostly played for laughs, and within the continuity of both fics it's treated as a [[
* The ''[[Beyblade]]'' fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3742152/1/10_Miles_In_Your_Shoes 10 Miles In Your Shoes]'' brilliantly pulls this off, where Kai and Tyson explores each others life, in a very in-character way.
* A Fan Video was made of a ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' version of a Body Swap. It can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXNFI06chLA here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIPvCV7Su7I&feature=related here].
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2667351/1/Trading_places Here's a Nick crossover] where Spongebob swaps with [[The Wild Thornberries|Eliza Thronberry's older sister Debbie]].
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* The 1999 made for TV [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132666/ Wonderful World of Disney] movie (boy, Disney sure likes to use this gimmick a lot) [[wikipedia:A Saintly Switch|A Saintly Switch]] finds David Alan Grier and Vivica A. Fox switching bodies.
* ''[[The Change Up]]'' - family man switches bodies with bachelor.
* 1996's ''[[Dating the Enemy]]'' is an Australian romantic comedy that stars Guy Pearce and Claudia Karvan as a couple who wake up one morning to find that they have switched bodies. It was written and directed by Megan Simpson Huberman.
== Literature ==
* The basis of [[P. G.
* Used in F. Anstey's 1882 novel ''[[Vice Versa]]'' to swap a father and son, making it [[Older Than Radio]]. This may have inspired Mary Rodger's 1972 novel.
* In Marghanita Laski's novel ''[[The Victorian Chaise Longue]]'', a modern woman buys a Victorian couch at a bargain price because it has an old dried bloodstain that can't be removed. Falling asleep on the couch, she wakens on the same couch in Victorian times, inhabiting the body of the couch's original owner. The couch is now new and unstained, and the woman suspects (correctly) that her impending death will cause the bloodstain.
* Happened in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''Half Life'', although with a bit of a [[Personality Swap]]
* Happens to two of the protagonists of [[Esther Friesner]]'s ''[[Harpy High]]''; since one of them has a physically abusive father, the other one acquires a little more understanding than he wanted.
* In [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' book ''[[The Ogre Downstairs]]'', a mystical chemistry set leads (among other things) to two kids in a recently blended family switching bodies for a day. This is the first step towards the two sets of children actually getting along. The swap is discovered after two ''not himself'' situations
* Mary Rodgers' 1972 novel ''Freaky Friday'', on which the film adaptations are based and for which the trope is directly or indirectly named, switched a mother and a daughter. Unlike the films, the ending of the book makes it clear that the mother deliberately made the switch through means she would not explain to her daughter to teach her a lesson about growing up.
** The sequel, ''[[Summer Switch]]'', swaps the other members of that family, the father Bill and the son Ben (a.k.a. Ape Face).
* Anton and Olga switch minds in ''[[Night Watch|The Night Watch]]'' as part of a plan to draw out a plot by the Day Watch.
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* In the ''[[Goosebumps]]'' book "Why I'm Afraid of Bees", Gary, the main character, stumble upon a ''service'' that switches you with whoever you want. however, he accidently ends up in the body of a bee. [[Hilarity Ensues|Horror ensues]].
* The entire premise of the kids' series ''Katie Kazoo Switcheroo'' is this trope. She switches bodies with other characters partway through each story, thanks to a magic wind.
* In [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Moon Singer'' series, the Thassa swap bodies with their telepathic animal companions as part of their training. Body-swaps with other humans are possible, but rare.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* Appears in the ''[[Dollhouse]]'' episode "Belle Chose." Echo is imprinted with a bubblehead college student a professor wants to seduce, while Victor has the mind of a comatose serial killer uploaded into him (to make an interrogation possible). Then their minds get swapped, and... it becomes hilarious and scary all at once.
* In the ''[[Charmed]]'' episode "Enter the Demon", a spell causes Paige and Phoebe to switch bodies. Also another story "Lost Picture Show" has Leo and Piper constantly arguing about their marital life which causes them to see a soothsayer who swap their bodies.
* ''[[8 Simple Rules]]'': Cate watches the film, then next morning awakes to find she and daughter Bridget have swapped bodies. However, son Rory has swapped with his hamster, and Jim and CJ have also
* In the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode titled "Out of Their Minds," everyone on the ship switched bodies twice. This episode was somewhat atypical in that they actually mentioned (and showed) the characters taking the totally logical step of [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman|getting acquainted]] with their new ''equipment''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fD7Uah_QUY Oh momma!]
** This episode is also notable for their solution to the problem of remembering who is in what
* Happens in an [[Out-of-Genre Experience]] promo for Series 3 of ''[[Father Ted]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Al107Xebw\]
* In the appropriately named ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'' episode, "Those Freaky McGuires", Lizzie and Matt swap bodies after an argument. Disney as a whole absolutely ''loves'' this bit.
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* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' was just one huge Freaky Friday Flip combined with [[Body Surf]] in premise. Although it rarely played that way, since the actor playing the main character was always on screen rather than the character with which he was switched.
* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Body Swap", the voices also swap with Chris Barrie doing a Liverpool accent during the scenes where he's playing Lister. Leads to a [[Grand Theft Me]] when Rimmer refuses to leave Lister and later hijacks the Cat's body.
* ''[[Smallville]]'': Lionel Luthor switches bodies with Clark, leaving Clark in prison and Lionel with
* Played with a twist in ''[[Space Cases]]'' as the characters don't switch bodies, only races, after each character complains someone else on the ship has it easier. The swaps also swap most of the character's hair styles as well, for no understandable reason. In addition it proves that the really happy and really pessimistic ones are that way by genetics.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''
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** The Ancients devised a communicator that operates on this trope. It's shown up in a few episodes throughout all three series, and is the Destiny team's only link to Earth in ''[[Stargate Universe]]''.
* An episode of the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'' has the Red Ranger Sousuke switch bodies with the [[Monster of the Week]], leading to a particularly odd scene where Sousuke's ''soul'' is shot from the team's combined weapon to get him back in his proper body.
** Some episodes later, the team's [[Combining Mecha]] [[Non-Human Sidekick|Non Human Sidekicks]] (who need to have their Soul placed in a diecast version of
** In the earlier series of ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger|Dekaranger]]'' there was an episode where Hoji's mind is swapped with that of an alien criminal and must somehow tell the team they've been swapped. The plot was later carried over into an episode of ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]''
** In an episode of ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'', Kai and Houka have swapped bodies due to the [[Monster of the Week]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]], but then they find out [[Oh Crap|they can't morph]].
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' pulled a variation on this when a visit to a psychic somehow causes the spirit of Wataru's late father Otoya to possess him. While in the present, Otoya helps [[Action Girl|Megumi]] resolve a crisis, learns of the joys of the Internet and maid cafes, helps complete a violin Wataru was working on, and provides subtle [[Foreshadowing]].
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', "Swap Meat", in which a geeky seventeen-year old with a flair for dark magic swaps bodies with Sam so he can enjoy the perks of being a "stunning-looking man" and {{spoiler|get close enough to Dean to kill him.}}
* Played with on ''[[The Young Ones]]'', in a scene where the lads' ''actors'' are switched, trading costumes and personas. No reason is given for why each of the four characters looks
* [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s bookends cause this, in the ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' episode "Merge With Caution". First to a thief and a security guard, then Myka and Pete. Then the pairs merge into one that keeps switching. Then the first pair [[Squick|explode]]. Thankfully, Myka and Pete prevent this last.
* A live-action segment of ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' had Mario's "pizza transformer" switching his brain with that of [[Cher]]'s dog.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
** Before this, 2nd edition had the "Switch Personality" telepathic science from ''The Complete Psionic Handbook''. It allows the psionicist to switch mind with another creature, but any prolonged use is dangerous, as both bodies tend to degrade when inhabited by the wrong mind.
** ''The Complete Book of Necromancers'' also introduced the "Life Force Exchange" spell, which is permanent and can be used on any two creatures (including or not the caster). It is one of two powerful spells allowing aged necromancers to [[Grand Theft Me|abandon their old body for a new, younger and stronger one]].
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'': In ''[[Magic: The Gathering/Agents of Artifice|Agents of Artifice]]'', Jace Beleren accidentally induces a flip between {{spoiler|himself and his friend Kallist}}. The swap is so thorough that neither party even realizes anything has
== Video Games ==
* When the ''[[Pokémon]]'' Manaphy appears from a Pokéball in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'', it uses its Heart Swap move to change the control of two fighters on the field, so each player controls the other one character for a while. This doesn't mean the affected characters should commit suicide though; they still keep their own levels.
* In Junk Man's miniquest in ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 4'', Mega Man is the victim of a rockslide of garbage. Immediately afterwords, he adopts an accent and starts acting weird.
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'' does this to the extreme with a ''six way'' swap, the entire Angel Troupe and their commander getting switched around. No voice changes ensue, resulting in a comically [[Camp Gay]] voice for Milfie-in-Volcott's-body.
* One of the TV shows in ''[[Harvest Moon]]: Friends of Mineral Town'', 'Aaron Changes', is about a boy named Aaron switching bodies with his girlfriend Erin.
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* The [[Gender Bender]] version shows up in ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' when Mori's Spell Gun explodes.
* ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'' did this with Brent and Skull.
* This was a central element in a ''[[Mountain Time]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527190747/http://mountaincomics.com/2009/04/13/five-part-special-part-1/ story arc].
* In ''[[Girly]]'', there is an arc where many primary and secondary characters get switched around due to a "fist-powered" ray.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' a [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030622 filler storyline] by [[Phil Foglio]] has Torg and Zoe switch bodies, but unable to remember anything that [[Showing Off the New Body|happened]] during the bodyswap once it's reversed.
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** Tedd and Grace [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-05-14 emulated this] via [[Shapeshifting|transformation]] into each other's forms. After all, Grace ''studied'' Tedd...
{{quote|'''Grace''': [http://www.egscomics.com/?date{{=}}2006-08-07 ...and couples switching bodies is #37 on your list of weird things you like.]}}
* A [[NSFW]]<ref>Though not explicitly showing naughty bits, except maybe [[Nipple-and-Dimed|nipples]]</ref> comic by [[Transformation Comic|Ian]] [[Taken for Granite|Samson]]{{who}} involves two lovers swapping bodies to teach each other what pleases them the most (which in her case, involves [[Wall-Bang Her]]).{{context|reason=Does this comic have a URL?}}
* ''[[Wright As Rayne]]'' has a one-sided version of this. Vigilante Alex Rayne is forced to inhabit the body of teenage girl Dorothy Wright, but Wright's mind is in some kind of stasis.
* Joked about in ''[[Questionable Content]]'', where Hannelore thinks this is happening because she dreamed about it.
* One of Lamerix's inventions in [[Jix]] caused Lauren and Jix/Lamerix/Remula (all three of Remula's personalities) to switch. The trio caused Lauren to break her arm as they were not used to walking without a tail.
* In ''[[Off White]],'' the humans want to transfer the [[It Makes Sense in Context|white spirit wolf's spirit into a human body to bring back the balance that was lost when the human white spirit disappeared.]] It must be a wolf because the only thing they have to go by is an old legend that pairs wolves and man together as being created at the same time.
* In [[Tales Of Gnosis College]], Willie and the lady professor he does work study for achieve a temporary and apparently accidental
== Web Original ==
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* ''[[Tale Spin]]'' has an example of the adult/child switch in the episode "A Baloo Switcheroo", with Baloo and Kit getting zapped by an ancient totem; later in the episode, Rebecca and Don Karnage do the protagonist/antagonist switch.
** Then after they switch back at the end of the episode, two of Don Karnage's lackeys have ended up switching.
* ''[[Gravity Falls]]'': Dipper and Mabel are victims of this in "Carpet Diem", and their reaction [[Reality Ensues| seems far more realistic]] than most who are afflicted with it in fiction: puking, screaming, panicking, and being driven to the brink of insanity.
* ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' has a double adult/child switch, swapping Darkwing with Gosalyn and Launchpad with Honker. In addition to trading voices, the switched characters also trade eye shape and color.
** This one does deal with the voice issue; at one point to help fool J. Gander Hooter (Darkwing's occasional [[Da Chief]]), Darkwing (in Gosalyn's body) sits in Gosalyn's lap (from Darkwing's body) and uses his voice to talk to him. Earlier, they pass it off as Darkwing imitating a little girl's voice.
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* In one ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' episode, [[Big Bad]] Duke Igthorn swaps bodies with Tummi to gain access to the Gummiberry Juice. Fortunately, Igthorn's scheme fails when he discovers that the juice affects humans and Gummi Bears differently.
* This happens with Jackie and Jade in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''.
* An episode of ''[[The Fairly
* Happens in one episode of ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'', only they doesn't realize they had switched bodies until just before they switch back. They don't call them two ''[[Dogs Are Dumb|stupid]]'' dogs for nothing.
* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Slimer, Is That You?", ascetic Ghostbuster Egon and gluttonous ghost Slimer switch bodies. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In the ''[[Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys|Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys]]'' episode "Escape from the Plant of the Apes", Captain Simian and Shao Lin switch bodies. [[Hilarity Ensues]]
* In the ''[[Centurions]]'' episode "Double Agent", Doc Terror switches Ace and Hacker's minds as part of an evil plot.
* This happens to Lily and Mitsuki, the two heroines of the Nicktoon ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'' who are also roommates, through a pair of friendship bracelets, in the episode ''Manic Monday''.
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* ''Ruby-Spears [[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'', "Bot Transfer": Mega Man unwillingly switches bodies with Snake Man, of all robots. His reaction is quite logical. (Notably, their voices stay with their bodies.)
* Kind of done in ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. As revenge for having him arrested as a spy and turning him into a fugitive, Wasp disguises Bumblebee as himself and vice versa. This involves switching their helmets and vocalizers along with their paint jobs, and since they share the same basic bodymold it's as good as a body swap.
* ''[[Lilo
* An episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' does it when Garfield and Odie touch a mysterious idol together. At the end of the episode, the idol gets broken, Jon and the gypsy owner of the idol pick up the pieces... and also get swapped. In both cases, it goes unnoticed (only Garfield notices at a certain point that he became a dog).
** Here [[Voices Are Mental]] is justified at least with Garfield. What we hear is actually Garfield's thoughts, not his voice, so it makes sense that Garfield in Odie would sound the same. No excuse for the others, though.
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* ''[[Robotboy]]'' does this first with Robotboy and Gus when the latter gets electrocuted reaching into the former's head during a tune-up, then with Gus and a dove by minor villain Felonious Hexx for revenge on what he did in a previous episode. In the latter case it's actually an improvement because [[Fridge Logic|the dove does Gus' schoolwork better]] and Gus genuinely enjoys life as a dove.
* In an episode of ''[[Chowder]]'' the titular character subjects himself, Mung Daal, Truffles, and Schnitzel to this after attempting to [[Too Dumb to Live|cram an entire container of a certain ingredient into a dish]]. At the end they're in their proper bodies except for Mung who somehow has switched with his [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]] Endive.
* This is the plot of season 1, episode 8 ''Once Upon a Swap'' of ''[[The Owl House]]'', involving a three-way swap where King inherits Luz's body, Luz inherits Eda's boy, and Eda inherits King's as a result of a spell cast by Eda. The episode centres around each other learning the difficulties in each other's life: Eda is a powerful witch, but is wanted and arrested, King is cute and loveable, but powerless, and Luz has to deal with the teen drama in her life. At the end of the episode, the three understands the struggle of others, and are changed back. The spell used to do this is never used again.
== Real Life ==
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