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{{quote|''Have you ever heard of insect politics? No, neither have I. Insects don't have politics, they are very '''brutal,''' no compassion, no compromise. I would like to be the first insect politician. I want to, but I'm afraid, uh... I'm saying...I'm saying I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it... but now the dream is over, and the insect is awake... I'm saying.... '''I'll hurt you if you stay.''' ''|'''Seth Brundle''', desperately pleading his love to leave him before his final transformation into a giant fly in ''[[The Fly]]''.}}
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After months or years of suffering a [[Split Personality]], [[Demonic Possession]], [[Enemy Within]], or [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], the character is cured! ... by having the weaker, "sane" personality lose all control over the body to their inner evil. Like the slow erosion of a mountain, [[Jekyll and Hyde|Jekyll]] has succumbed to [[Jekyll and Hyde|Hyde]]'s [[Implacable Man|implacable]] id-like force, leaving nothing but the shell of who they were.
This isn't just an [[Secret Identity Identity|identity crisis]] or something [["I Know You
This is especially common if one personality is [[Gollum Made Me Do It|more dominant than the other]], or the "good" personality is subject to [[Mind Rape]] or a [[Heroic BSOD]]. Occasionally, a truly strong willed "good" personality can do the
If the takeover is incomplete, expect to see signs that the original is [[Fighting From the Inside]]. Antonym to [[Split Personality Merge]]. When this is induced by outside brainwashing, it may be [[Brainwashing for
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== [[Anime]] ==
* A variation occurs in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' as {{spoiler|the good personality takes over the evil (if [[The Woobie|tragic and even pitiful]]) one}}.
** Both are okay with that. {{spoiler|Neither one is okay with the [[Omnicidal Maniac]] side taking over at the end of the manga, leading to a [[Shoot the Dog]] moment from Kouta.}}
* In Animerica, this occurs to {{spoiler|Kiyone, explaining his [[Magnificent Bastard]] actions in Season 2. The "evil" side attempts to do this again in the beginning of Season 3, but thankfully it gets destroyed for good this time.}}
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* Happens to The Count in ''[[Gankutsuou]]'', who can almost claim without lying that [[That Man Is Dead]].
* In ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', the [[Big Bad]] of the first major plot arc is Saga, Gemini Gold Saint, a saintly (forgive the pun) warrior in Athena's service, whose [[Split Personality]] is thoroughly and irredeemably evil. Naturally, it takes over for good, which results in the Sanctuary War, although Saga's good side still shows occasionally (if only to have an [[Heroic BSOD]] as his own actions.)
* This is why Moka never takes off the rosary herself in ''[[Rosario
* Marik and Yami Marik from ''[[
** Actually, Yami Marik was born when Marik's father carved his back, the pain was so severe that Marik created a second masochistic personality to cope with the pain. Yami Marik took control to kill his father a year later.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', this is what Ichigo's [[Enemy Within|inner Hollow]] intends to do. On a few occasions he manages to briefly seize control of Ichigo's body, but Ichigo has thus far managed to fight him off each time.
** More eloquent, the spirits that, in time, turn into Hollows, and after the transformation, creatures like Orihime's brother, who fights the hollow within, with little results.
* [[Mind Screw|Arguably]] in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* Inverted with {{spoiler|Riff}} in ''Count Cain'', who {{spoiler|was given a nice personality in order to gain Cain's trust, which then faces off, and wins, against the original evil one.}}
* ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' quotes this trope to Misao which it encourages her to help her in getting rid of Ramia's evil influence over her.
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* In ''[[Psyren]]'' when Amamiya is shot {{spoiler|Abyss, her other personality created from her suppressed emotions takes over momentarily.}}
* Played with in ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]''. In the manga version, Demon Eyes Kyo is a legendary killer whose mind has been sealed inside the body of Mibu Kyoshiro, but occasionally rises to the surface. In the anime version, Demon Eyes Kyo is the dark side of Kyo's personality that escaped and became an [[Enemy Without]], then was reabsorbed back into Kyo. In both versions, Kyo eventually assumes full-time control of Kyoshiro's body.
* Although [[Inuyasha|Naraku]] already dominates Onigumo, he plans on removing his heart from him since his love for Kikyo prevents him from hurting her.
** A more classic example comes from Inuyasha himself: whenever in the presence of a powerful demonic aura and/or separated from the [[Restraining Bolt|Tetsusaiga]], his demon blood takes him over and he transforms into his fully demonic form, then proceeds to wantonly murder anyone nearby. It takes an increasingly large amount of effort to bring him back to normal each time.
* One could argue this is what happened to King Bradley/ {{spoiler|Wrath}} in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** Averted with Ling/ {{spoiler|Greed}}, which started off this way but ended up as more a case of [[Symbiotic Possession]].
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* In [[Frank Miller|Frank Miller's]] ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]'', Harvey Dent has received surgery to repair his face's damaged half, but it has the opposite effect on his mind - Two-Face is now entirely in control.
** They were right about each half of his face representing one of his personalities... they were just wrong about which side represented which. Oops.
* Michael Moran does this to himself in [[Alan Moore]]'s run of ''[[
* There's a ''[[Spider-Man]]'' arc involving Symbiote knockoffs. Venom, of course, always refers to himself as 'We' (as in, Eddie Brock and his Symbiote), so when one of the symbiotes stops talking in plural, Spidey knows that she's all gone - the Symbiote has taken over her mind.
** An interesting conclusion of this is that the very thing that makes Venom sound like a raving lunatic is actually an indication of his remaining sanity - or even a psychic crutch necessary for him to retain his identity.
** Carnage called himself "I" as well, although in that case it was Cletus Kasady, who was already a psychotic killer, who took over the ''symbiote's'' mind. The explanation that was recently given is that this was because the symbiote was just a baby when it first bonded with Kasady. Or, Kasady was just SO CRAZY, that he and the symbiote both wanted the same thing.
* While it wasn't made as big a deal of as the animated version, it used to be that the Goblin Serum gave Norman Osborn a [[Split Personality]], and would periodically forget he had a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] and go back to being an industrialist. Since he came [[Back
** Though during his time on ''Thunderbolts'' and ''Dark Reign'', it seems the split personality explanation is back. Subverted in that Osborn is still an evil jerk, the Goblin is just his darker side.
*** Debatable. This troper always believed that Norman was, if anything, even '''more''' evil than the Goblin. Just not in as open, raving, maniacal, blatantly psychotic way.
* Arguably what caused Brainwave's initial [[Face Heel Turn]] after the end of ''[[Infinity, Inc.]]'' About fifteen years later, [[Enemy Within|the new personality]] got possessed by [[Puppeteer Parasite|a ''third'', also villainous, personality]]. Eventually, when the third personality was defeated, it was heavily implied that the third personality ''ate'' the second one. In any case, [[Heel Face Turn|he got better]].
* A horribly tragic case occurred to Dan Turpin during [[Final Crisis]]. To be fair it skirts between this and [[Demonic Possession]], but after visiting Bludhaven in search for missing children, Danny starts getting blackouts and finds he can't control himself after a certain point. He then discovers with horror that he is being '''possessed and/or erased''' by [[A God Am I|Darkseid]]. After he is completely possessed, he is poisoned by Batman, nearly killed by the Black Racer, and finally and utterly destroyed by Superman.
** The final issue implies, but never outright states, that it was only Darkseid who got destroyed and Turpin was ultimately freed. It's probably a moot point now that DC has reset the universe again.
* Inverted, to some extent, with [[Incredible Hulk
* During the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' storyline ''The Gauntlet'', {{spoiler|Curt Connors'}} worst fears are realized when {{spoiler|he loses a battle of wills with the Lizard part of his psyche}}. {{spoiler|The Lizard kills and ''eats'' Curt's ''son'' Billy, and "Curt" essentially dies due to the trauma, leaving only The Lizard}}.
* This was Bloody Mary / Typhoid Mary's (a villainess most often found in Daredevil) entire schtick. She had rather impressive psychic and telekinetic powers, but she also had a horrible case of multiple personality disorder; namely, at least nine of them. Two of them (the aforementioned Bloody/Typhoid Marys) tended to take over more often than not, and there have been at least two instances where one or both have "permanently" taken over only for later events to unlock her original (non-powered) personality once more.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The ending of the movie ''[[Identity (film)|Identity]]''.
* ''[[
* The above quote is a hearbreaking example of this trope from the 1986 remake of ''[[The Fly]].'' Scientist Seth Brundle slowly transformed into a pathetic and diseased human-fly hybrid after accidentally fusing with said-insect in a teleporting experiment. At first, the deformities were purely physical, as his human flesh warped and decayed into a "cocoon" under which the monster grew. Sadly, he also transformed on a mental level into an instinct based animal, unbound by compassion and morality. The love of Veronica, our heroine, was sadly not enough to stop his predictions from coming true...
** Averted in the sequel with their son Martin. The murderous rampage against his oppressors is all him. They are bad enough that this isn't a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for Martin.
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* In a rare case of the good side taking over (with a little help), from [[Gene Wolfe]]'s story "The Death of Doctor Island", the psychotic teenager William, whose brain has been surgically divided between the left and right hemispheres, is deliberately subjected to a devastating trauma which leaves him catatonic. This allows his previously helpless right-brain personality, the calm and placid "Kenneth", to take control of his body.
* Happens to {{spoiler|Arnie Cunningham}} in ''Christine''.
* Happens in ''[[
** And again in ''The Atlantis Complex''. Artemis, having the titular disease, is {{spoiler|taken over by his alter, Orion, multiple times.}}
* Happens to one of the bad guys in Shade's Children: {{spoiler|When the titular [[Knight Templar]] [[Virtual Ghost]] uploads himself into a supercomputer, his conscience becomes personified in Robert Ingman, who is, conciendentally, Shade's original identity. As with the trope, Robert eventually destroys his dark side and helps the protagonists banish the local [[Dimension Lord
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]],'' the character Gollum's darker side of his personality ultimately ends up taking control over his kinder side.
* Came ''this close'' to happening to Tahiri/Riina from the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series. Riina was not "evil", ''per se''- though extremely messed up, she had a [[Pet the Dog]] in one of the few times she actually did manage to seize control of their body, and the merge helped Tahiri regain her sanity largely because each compensated for the other's issues (Riina's acceptence of pain and death helped Tahiri get past her emotional fragility following her boyfriend's death, while Tahiri's moral center held back Riina's more violent urges).
* In ''[[
* This happened to a teenager named {{spoiler|Saxon Hyde}} at the beginning of Michael Slade's ''Ghoul''. That's especially unfortunate, because {{spoiler|Saxon was the only one of this young man's personalities that ''wasn't'' a serial killer.}}
* The first half of the ''Dragonlance: The New Adventures'' series consists of an evil wizard trying to engineer one of these. He implanted the preserved spirit of a powerful evil sorceress in one of his mindwiped servants to try to access her magical knowledge once she took over the servant. Needless to say, the sorceress is rather pissed when she does take over.
* In ''[[Zen and
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Played with in ''[[
** Once the chip is removed though Harvey loses any power he had and is basically trapped in John's head forever, with John able to shut him up whenever he wishes. The best Harvey can do to John is be mildly irritating - unless his life is in danger, in which case, Harvey can muster up ''just'' enough power to be dangerous.
** In the Peacekeeper Wars mini-series Harvey finally dies for good when the wormhole knowledge is deleted from John's brain.
* Basically what happened to Talia in ''[[Babylon
** There was also a rogue telepath in one episode that goes through this.
* Born vampires from ''[[Young Dracula]]'' all go through an attempt at this when get their full vampire status. How strong-willed they are seems to determine how much of their original personality is left afterward.
* Implied to have happened at the end of a ''[[Married...
* In an episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', a young man's murderous and until-then unknown alter-ego permanently takes over his body, in an attempt to protect him.
* An episode of ''[[
** ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has a similar episode where Rodney and a (female) Marine wind up sharing his body. They each fight over control of the body, until it can't take their fighting anymore: if one of them doesn't give up and willingly disappear, both will die.
** ...And then they [[Take a Third Option]], of course.
* ''[[United States of Tara]]'': Alice, the "housewife" personality, reveals that she's jockeying to be the emergent personality if Tara ever reassumes therapy. This was followed by Bryce, Tara's alter based on her childhood abuser, who reveals that he wants to "kill" Tara.
* ''[[Jekyll]]'': when [[Evil, Inc.|Klein & Utterson]] finally manage to capture Dr. Jackman, they put him into a device that deletes one of the two personalities. Unfortunately for Jackman's wife, Hyde is the surviving personality. {{spoiler|However, when Mrs Jackman and her children are captured due to Hyde's immaturity, he resurrects his dead alter-ego and [[Split Personality Merge|merges]] with him, mixing Hyde's incredible strength with Jackman's maturity.}}
* This happened repeatedly to Nikki on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' when her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] decided to start acting up.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', this happened to Willow when {{spoiler|Tara}} died.
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', [[Robot Girl|Cameron]] experienced a case of this when her processors glitched due to combat damage, and Cameron slipped into an alternate personality mode that thought it was a woman named Allison Young, who was {{spoiler|a resistance fighter in the future who was connected to the future John Connor, whom Cameron interrogated, mimicked the appearance and personality of, and subsequently killed}}.
* A positive example occurs on ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''. In the episode ''Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room'', a small-time thug (Joe Mantell) is ordered to kill someone for the first time in his life. His long buried conscience refuses to go along with committing murder and takes over as the dominant personality.
* In one episode of ''[[Tales
== Other ==
* ''[[Bionicle]]'': In one of the alternate universe Takanuva stumbles through, the alternate [[Big Bad|Makuta Teridax]] absorbs [[The Messiah|Matoro]], who failed in his mission to save Mata Nui in this universe. When Makuta absorb other beings, they normally absorb their bodies and minds, but Matoro fights back, killing himself and Teridax, becoming the hero he was destined to be.
* The video for [[
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* In ''[[Twisted Metal]]: Head-On'', {{spoiler|Marcus Kane gives into Needles Kane, aka Sweet Tooth. Interestingly, however, it's not a complete takeover, but rather they seem to be working together, thereby making Dark Tooth and Tower Tooth (the two cars they drive together) the strongest in the game.}}
* The bad ending of ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' involve this, with Gig using your greed to destroy the main character's soul and taking over his/her body. {{spoiler|The 'bad' ending of the Demon Path reverses the roles, with the main character destroying Gig instead.}}
* Both the good and the evil ending of ''[[The Suffering]]: Ties That Bind'' {{spoiler|results in either Torque and Blackmore wiping the other personality out completely.}}
* The bad ending of ''[[Manhunt|Manhunt 2]]''- achieved by killing people as gruesomely as you can - has {{spoiler|Leo killing off Daniel's personality and becoming the sole resident of his body}}.
* Near the end of ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' you get trapped in a place where you encounter three of your previous "incarnations". One wants to take you over so and another simply wants to destroy you. If you manage to forcibly take over the other two or get them to merge with you, you will gain their memories (and a ton of XP). If you fail, you have to destroy them and their memories are lost forever. The third takes no convincing to get him to merge with you and is more than happy to.
* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' has a scene where, after being led along by the two, you finally confront {{spoiler|Jeanette and Therese Voermann -- wait, make that Tourette Voermann. One half of her face is done up in Therese's professional businesswoman style, while the other half is done up in Jeanette's slutty schoolgirl style, and the two sides speak in turns about wanting to kill the other}}. Depending on the dialogue you choose, either {{spoiler|Jeanette kills Therese, Therese kills Jeanette, or the two personalities decide to put aside their differences and coexist.}}
* Done very strangely in the ''[[
* One of the main plot points of Riku's story in [[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]] and its remake is that Riku is fighting off the last of Ansem's darkness within his Heart. Several times he almost falls to it, and once he actually does, however how it happens depends on the version. In the original after completely dominating Lexaeus in their fight, the latter ''blows himself up'' in an attempt to drag the latter down into the Darkness, however in the nick of time he is able to resist. In the remake however, after a stalemate battle Riku lunges at Lexaeus to finish him off, only to be backhanded into the ''ceiling'' and passing out. Unconscious Riku's body is possessed by Ansem who then kills Lexaeus in ''one hit'' before Mickey appears and frees Riku.
* [[Inazuma Eleven|Fubuki Shiro]], who is taken over by Atsuya, his inner mind's high ego little brother.
* A positive example can be found in ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'', where {{spoiler|upon being traumatized and locked in the White Room by Forrest Kaysen, Francis Zach Morgan develops the personality of Francis York Morgan, who takes dominant control in order to protect Zach. At the endgame, Zach is given back control for the final confrontation with Kaysen.}}
* In ''[[
* [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] 3: Subverted {{spoiler|When Cobray Gordon was formed from the fusion of Ayin and Ingram, Ingram tries to take over Ayin's body but ultimately realizes that he himself is being absorbed by Ayin}}
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' verse, the Daedric Prince of Order {{spoiler|Jyggalag}} was cursed by the other Princes with this {{spoiler|becoming the Prince of Madness Sheogorath}}. {{spoiler|He can only briefly become himself again every few thousand years, and never long enough to permanently restore his realm. "Killing" and replacing him in ''Shivering Isles'' frees him to wander Oblivion again.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Norman Osborn undergoes this in ''[[Spider
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** He undergoes this before being sent into another dimension.
* In an ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' episode, when a botched experiment leads to Mozenrath and Aladdin sharing the same body, Mozenrath tries to do this. [[Captain Obvious|He isn't successful.]]
* ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', episode ''Sins of the Son''. Charles Xavier discovers he has a son in Scotland, David Haller, and goes to meet him, only for two other boys to enter the fray as well. These three boys (David, Ian, and the evil Lucas) are all parts of the same being. Xavier tries to help expunge Lucas, {{spoiler|but ends up locking away David, forever losing his son as Lucas goes off, never to be seen again (as the series was cancelled before this story could continue).}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* A curious example in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Reconstruction'' - when an AI is implanted in a character, the effect is described as being "of the same mind", where the two entities share thoughts. Though the host is usually able to maintain his or her identity (even if free will is lost), Agent Maine (better known as [[The Juggernaut|the Meta]]) degenerated into a mindless husk after playing host to 7 different AIs ''at once'' and stayed that way even when the AIs were removed. Of particular note is the fact that all 7 AIs were [[Literal Split Personality|Literal Split Personalities]] of another AI, the Alpha.
* [[Whateley Universe]] example: Sara Waite is really a [[Cosmic Horror|Great Old One]] who is supposed to evolve into The Kellith, a being who will wipe the earth of humanity and re-populate it with her spawn. She ends up having a fight to the death with The Kellith in a [[Journey to
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