Dissociative identity disorder in fiction

Dissociative identity disorder (DID, also referred to as multiple personality disorder) has been popularized in many works of fiction throughout the world. The topic has attracted the attention of professional scholars. [ [http://pcasacas.org/SPC/spcissues/22.1/doak.html Who Am I This Time? Multiple Personality Disorder and Popular Culture] by Robert Doak of The Department of English at Wingate University] This article provides a list of references to DID and MPD in fiction.

Books and short stories

* In Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" the scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll artificially separates his good and evil natures, causing him to switch between two separate personalities.
* Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel "The Birds' Nest", which was made into a 1957 movie called "Lizzie", was about a young woman with multiple personalities. Jackson created the character by interviewing a local psychiatrist who had had one multiple client. Many plot elements in this book later found their way into "The Three Faces of Eve" and "Sybil", ostensibly nonfiction narratives. According to Jackson's biographer, the "Lizzie" film pleased neither Jackson nor the psychiatrist who was her source.
* Mary Leader's 1973 thriller novel "Triad" features a woman who is not sure if she is multiple or being haunted by the ghost of her dead cousin.
* The protagonist of Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel "A Scanner Darkly" has a dual personality, caused by use of a drug known as "Substance D" or "Death".; he is known both as drug dealer Robert 'Bob' Arctor and narcotics agent Fred.
* In the 1981 short story "What T and I Did" by Fred Saberhagen, the viewpoint character has a second self who was seemingly created by, or discovered subsequent to, radical brain surgery.
* "Regina's Song" by David Eddings features a character who is one of identical twins. After the murder of her sister, she has lost her own identity, described as a fugue state. However, there is question whether this is due to psychological or supernatural causes.
* The short story "Multiples" by Robert Silverberg (1983) describes a future where multiples form a subculture similar to the gay community today. A singleton (a person with one personality) fakes multiplicity to attract a multiple partner, and ultimately attempts to fragment her personality to become multiple herself.
* Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series, begun in 1983, includes a number of multiples. Probably the most familiar to readers is the beggar Altogether Andrews who has multiple distinct personalities – none of which are named Andrews – each with his or her own memories and manner of speaking. Other multiples in Pratchett's work include Agnes and Perdita, and Miss Pickles and Miss Pointer in "Thud".
* Mary Higgins Clark's 1992 novel "All Around the Town" is the story of a young woman who is believed to have committed a murder. Psychiatric sessions reveal that as a young girl she was kidnapped and molested, so that now she has stereotypical MPD.
* The 1992 novel "Fools" by Pat Cadigan is set in a high-tech future when additional personalities of various kinds can be added and removed at will.
* Pat Barker's 1993 novel "The Eye in the Door" deals with numerous "splits" in the human life and psyche during wartime. The main character, Billy Prior, has a number of such "splits", but deals mostly with his obvious and sinister second self. Referred to in the book as a "fugue state"), this self appears to have been created to complete the tasks Billy can't bring himself to do, like fight in France or work as an intelligence agent.
* Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 book "Fight Club" revolves around the bizarre relationship between the mild-mannered protagonist and his radical, anti-consumerist, anarcho-primitivistic alternate personality.
* Sidney Sheldon's book "Tell Me Your Dreams" (1998) is about a woman, Ashley, who has two other selves, Toni and Alette. Each of the women has dynamically different characteristics. A string of vicious murders seem to follow her, and the police must work hard to find out who is behind them.
* The 2003 book "Set This House In Order" by Matt Ruff concerns two people with classical, stereotyped MPD on a journey of self-discovery.
* In the 2003 novel "Thr3e" by Ted Dekker, the main character has three different personalities: himself, a childhood friend, and the villain.
* "Mosaic" by John R. Maxim is about a government experiment using multiples in an attempt to create the perfect assassin.
* The 2006 novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts features, among other posthuman characters, a linguist with deliberately-induced multiple personalities brought about by brain surgery; collaboration by her alters allows her to decipher new languages at tremendous speed.
* Robert Ludlum's novel "The Bourne Identity" centers around Jason Bourne, an amnesiac who is really a former U.S. Special Forces officer named David Webb. Webb adopted the false identity of Bourne in order to catch international assassin Carlos the Jackal. Due to a severe headwound and subsequent amnesia, Webb forgets his real name and the Bourne personality becomes a distinct person. In the second book, "The Bourne Supremacy", the Bourne and Webb personalities fight during a mission over what to do.
* The Three Faces of Eve is a 1957 book by Hervey Cleckley and Corbett Thigpen, later turned into a film, loosely based on the true story of Chris Costner-Sizemore.
* In the Captain Underpants series, Mr. Krupp can be said to have a split personality as a result of hypnosis. Whenever he hears the sound of fingers snapping, he immediately becomes the title character. If he comes into contact with water as his alter-ego, he reverts back to his usual mean self.
*In Stephen King's book series, The Dark Tower, one of the main characters Susannah Dean has stereotypical split personalities. Her other personalities are a gentle, proper woman named Odetta Holmes, and a rude, vulgar, racist, and violent woman named Detta Walker. These two personalities fuse to become Susannah Dean. When she becomes pregnant, she adopts a new personality named Mia.
*In the 2008 novel Identical by Ellen Hopkins, the two central characters are identical twins, Kaeleigh and Raeanne. At the end, it is revealed that Raeanne died in an accident years before and that Kaeleigh suffers from DID and believes that Raeanne lives on inside her.

Movies and television

* In the television film Sybil, based on the novel by Flora Rheta Schreiber, a young woman is found to have developed at least 16 separate personalities. The fictionalized case of "Sybil", loosely based on the life of Shirley Ardell Mason, has become the iconic image of MPD/DID for most of the American public.
* Latka, one of Andy Kaufman's characters from the sitcom "Taxi", can be said to be multiple. In certain episodes, the normally shy Latka became the womanizing Vic Ferrari. In one particular episode he has a condition which makes him act like the main character of "Taxi", Alex Reiger.
* Norman Bates in the 1960 film "Psycho" (adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel) has dual personalities, since he has internalized his dead mother.
* Fight Club surrealistically depicts the flow of events brought about by the two personalities of the main character.
* Mort Rainey in the 2004 film "Secret Window" (adapted from Stephen King's novel) has dual personalities, coexisting with John Shooter.
* Over the years on the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live", lead character Victoria Lord (Erika Slezak) has had MPD since her adolescence. Originally she had only one other self, Nikki, who challenged her in a stereotyped "constant struggle for dominance", but in the mid-1990s Victoria's multiplicity was brought into line with then-current beliefs about MPD and she was given a vast array of alters and a back story involving childhood trauma. Victoria's daughter Jessica Buchanan (Bree Williamson) has recently also had to deal with a troublesome second personality, Tess.
*The 1992 film "Raising Cain" is about a child psychologist who turns out to be harboring several personalities in stereotyped fashion. The cause of his mental disease is said to be mind control experiments performed on him as a small child by his father.
* The 1994 film "Color of Night", starring Bruce Willis, the 1996 movies "Primal Fear" and "Shattered Mind", 1995's "Never Talk to Strangers" and 2001's "Session 9", and the 2003 thriller "Identity" feature multiple personalities and explore the idea of responsibility for another personality's actions. The multiples in these films are characterized stereotypically as meek, peaceful people housing violent, psychopathic alternate personalities.
* In the 1996 comedy film "The Nutty Professor", overweight professor Sherman Klump (played by Eddie Murphy) creates a potion to lose weight. He succeeds, but finds that the potion only works for short periods. Wanting to keep the potion a secret until he perfects it, he calls himself "Buddy Love" when he is using it. Able to do all sorts of things he couldn't enjoy as a fat man, "Buddy" (also played by Murphy) becomes an independent personality.
* "Me, Myself and Irene" (2000) starring Jim Carrey as Charlie Baileygates and Hank Evans, is a slapstick farce about a man who becomes a "split personality" after suppressing angers and frustrations for years. After his wife leaves him and more of these frustrations build, Charlie hits his breaking point and becomes Hank, an alter that shows his anger to the fullest degree.
* The 2005 film "Hide and Seek" features a young girl with an "imaginary friend". When she attributes murders and bizarre events to the doings of her companion, we are to assume she is multiple and committing all the horrors as her other personality. Instead, it is her psychologist father whose personality abruptly split, true Jekyll-and-Hyde style, after catching his wife with another man.
* In the "Drawn Together" episode "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree", Captain Hero is revealed to suffer from a self-induced form of multiple personality disorder, creating new personalities as an outlet for the parts of himself he does not want to acknowledge. In the episode, he creates a personality named Tim Tommerson as a means of exploring his repressed homosexuality and his possible romantic feelings for his roommate Xandir, while in his regular persona keeps insisting he is heterosexual.
* Screenwriters Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson portrayed Gollum in "The Two Towers" (2002) and "The Return of the King" (2003) as having a split personality. In certain scenes, Sméagol, his "good" personality, argues with Gollum, his "bad" personality. Author J.R.R. Tolkien did not include this subtext, although he had several characters dialoguing with themselves when conflicted.
* French Stewart played a multiple in an episode of "Becker" entitled "Papa Does Preach". [ [http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/articles/m_review_becker1003.html Pavilion Review: Becker] , describes the episode in detail. Retrieved 2008-07-24.]
* The popular sitcom "Barney Miller" guest-starred Stefan Gierasch as a multiple in the episode "Power Failure", which initially aired December 9, 1976. [ [http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/articles/m_review_ast-bmiller0803.html Pavilion review: Barney Miller] , describes the episode in detail. Retrieved 2008-07-24.]
* In "" (2006), mutant Jean Grey is described as having developed a split personality as a result of mental barriers placed in her mind by her mentor, Professor Xavier. This "creature" represented all her primal urges, and called itself "Phoenix". In , two characters are subject to DID at some point in the series. Rogue suffers from it after her accumulation of psyches overwhelms her and she looses her sanity. Legion, or David, Xavier's son also suffers from DID as a continuing condition where each personality has a mutant ability. The personalities include David, Lucas, and Ian.
* The NBC TV series "Heroes" features a character, Niki Sanders with two other selves referred as Jessica and Gina. Niki can sometimes be seen to be "talking to herself", but is actually arguing and fighting for control with Jessica.
*On Smallville Lana Lang was once possessed by a direct ancestor of her family named Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, a 16th-century witch who uses Lana's body to try and obtain 3 stones that have infinite power. When exposed to red kryptonite, Clark Kent manifested a secondary personality known as Kal, who lacked Clark's usual inhibitions and restraints when using his powers and in daily life; on another occasion, he was mentally programmed to become a Kryptonian personality known as Kal-El, but this personality was defeated when Martha Kent used black kryptonite to separate Clark and Kal-El into two separate bodies, Clark subsequently defeating Kal-El in a fight.
* In an episode of the USA Network series "Psych", (2006) the main character confronts a murderer with typically theatrical split personalities.
* Various episodes of popular TV shows such as "X-Files", "Psi Factor" and "Judging Amy", use the idea of multiples with a hidden "killer personality". The film "Saimin" plays on this idea with one personality being a demonic possession by a malevolent incarnation of the Monkey King; "Touched by an Angel" also implies that multiples are actually possessed by demons. The "Babylon 5" episode "Divided Loyalties" (1993) postulates a hidden killer personality programmed into a telepathic woman and triggered by a telepathically sent password.
* Several Tamil language works deal with multiple personality disorder: the television serial "Marmadesam", and the films "Anniyan" and "Chandramukhi".
* In the Malayalam film "Manichithrathazhu" Ganga (played by Shobana) has MPD. The Hindi film "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" is an adaptation of this story by Indian film director Priyadarshan.
* In "E.R" , episode "Jigsaw", and in the "Nip/Tuck" episode "Montana / Sassy / Justice", patients are portrayed with theatrically-stereotypical dissociative disorders.
* Jacqueline Hyde, a villain in the game show "Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?", is a teenager with (as usual) a sweet, innocent personality and an insane, evil personality. Her voice alternates along with her personality between soft-spoken and loud and "modulated."
* Professional wrestler Mick Foley uses multiple personalities as a gimmick: party animal Dude Love, sado-masochistic psycho Cactus Jack, and deranged but childlike Mankind. They are sometimes referred to as "The Three Faces of Foley", with Mick being depicted as the fourth and 'real' Foley. The names for his alter egos were coined for a home video release focusing on the three different characters.
* "Alternate", the season nine premiere of "" deals with a woman who supposedly has DID. [ [http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit/video/#mea=139331 Law & Order: SVU on NBC.com] ]
* In "Code Monkeys", Todd has two other personalities: Pardue, a Dungeons & Dragons fan who thinks the everyday world is part of a role-playing game world and is unaware of Todd's existence, and Tiffany, Todd and Pardue's nymphomaniac "girlfriend".
*In the television show "", Catherine Willows comes into contact with a killer named Tammy Felton who was kidnapped as a child, when her name was Melissa Marlowe. In order to escape punishment, Melissa/Tammy pretends to have DID.
* In the television show "Criminal Minds", Special Agent Spencer Reid is kidnapped by a serial killer named Tobias Hankles. The killer's heroin addiction, along with mounting pressure from his abusive father, causes him to "snap" and take on two other personalities, that of his now deceased father and the Archangel Raphael. (season two, episode fifteen)
* The film "Haute Tension" (Switchblade Romance) ends with a "killer MPD" revelation.
* In the cartoon , the Decepticon has three separate personalities and faces to match: a calm strategist with a blue face and monocle, a hot-headed fighter with a red face and visor, and a childish psychopath with a jack-o-lantern like face.

Manga and anime

* In the popular Japanese manga "MPD Psycho", [ [http://www.popcultureshock.com/mpd_psycho/41752/ Manga Review: MPD Psycho, Vol. 1] ] made into a TV miniseries directed by Takashi Miike, a police detective who is multiple is tracking down a serial killer who is also multiple, and fears that the clues point to one of the people in his own system as the murderer.
* In the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing", one of the main characters, Lady Une, has two separate personalities, a ruthless and cruel military officer ("Col. Une"), and a caring advocate of peace ("Saint Une"). They're easy to distinguish by their clothing and manners. The two sides are reconciled into one after she is shot and nearly killed; she goes into a coma and emerges as one person. The now psychologically complete and emotionally stable "Lady Une" helps end the war, establishes the Preventors, and adopts Mariemaia Khushrenada (Treize Khushrenada's daughter) as her own.
* In "InuYasha", Suikotsu of the Shichi'nintai has two personalities: a good and peaceful doctor, and a ruthless mass murderer. At first the Good Doctor is the dominant one, with Evil Suikotsu relegated to his subconscious; as the story advances, Evil Suikotsu takes over more frequently, and later becomes the dominant one. Inuyasha himself has a sort of split personality, not entirely a separate self, but a more savage, bloodthirsty version of himself. His trademark sword normally prevents this aspect from manifesting, but when the sword is broken and he is placed in life or death situations, he changes into this form. Inuyasha displays little to no memory of anything that occurs with these changes, although the alternate personality retains most of Inuyasha's memories and early hand to hand combat style. The savage presence is depicted by a change in eye color, fang and claw length, and the appearance of jagged marks on Inuyasha's face.
* In the anime "Sukisho", the two main characters develop alternate personalities as a result of abuse in a scientific experiment.
* The anime film "Kara no Kyōkai" depicts the main character Shiki as having split personalities, having the feminine side (式"Shiki") and her masculine side (織"Shiki")
* In the anime and manga "Cardcaptor Sakura", Yukito Tsukishiro famously exhibits signs of MPD after his "true personality", Yue, emerges. It is a fairly stereotypical display, including memory loss and radical differences between both personalities despite them sharing similarities.
* In the anime and manga "D.N.Angel", the main character, Daisuke Niwa, has genetically inherited a separate personality, Dark. While Daisuke is shy and unsure of himself, Dark is flirtatious and confident. Acting as an antithesis, Satoshi Hiwatari has inherited a second self called Krad. While Satoshi is relatively calm and quiet, Krad is (of course) a sadistic homicidal sociopath.
* In the anime and manga "Yu-Gi-Oh!", the main character, Yugi Mutou, has a second personality, Yami no Yūgi (meaning "Dark Yugi") later revealed to be the long dead pharaoh Atem. Atem seems to have Yugi's best interest at heart, and the two cooperate and share achievements and goals. Yugi's friend Ryo Bakura has a similar alternate personality, Yami no Bakura ("Dark Bakura"), that is thought to be a long dead tomb robber and king of thieves from ancient Egypt. Bakura's second self is manipulative, self serving, and at times even displays sadistic tendencies towards Bakura (and others).
* Another character in "Yu-Gi-Oh!", Marik Ishtar, develops a more theatrically typical form of DID during his childhood, due to traumatic events (namely, his isolation from the real world and his father's mistreatment of him, his sister Isis, and his adoptive brother Rishid/Odion). The psychotic alter ego still goes by the name Marik, but it's made very clear that the two are separate personalities. After being defeated, Marik regains control of himself.
* In "Yu-Gi-Oh! GX", Sartorius (Takuma Saiou) and Pro League king, The D (DD), develop destructive split personalities after being exposed to an alien energy.
* In "YuYu Hakusho", the villain of the Chapter Black Saga, Shinobu Sensui, has developed seven personalities after witnessing the death of weaker demons by humans. These seven personalities help him achieve Sacred Energy, because their presence shortens the training from 49 years to 7 years. They have their own names and characteristics: 'Minoru' is intellectual and charismatic, "Kazuya" is sadistic and bloodthirsty, "Naru" is a girly-girl, etc.
* The character Lucy from "Elfen Lied" had MPD since childhood. Later in the series, her disorder is revealed to have been caused by head trauma from a sniper's bullet. The "Lucy" personality is a wicked, violent sadist, while the other, "Nyuu", is kind and innocent.
* Kozue Aoba of "Mahoraba" has five personalities who differ drastically from one another.
* The character Hatsuharu Sohma from "Fruits Basket" who is usually calm, well mannered, and soft spoken has another personality that his other family members call Black Haru, a violent sexual deviant. It originated because of being teased a lot when he was young. One of Haru's cousins, Kagura Sohma, is usually kind, shy and sweet, but also has another personality, which has a violent temper that is second only to Hatsuharu's.
* Momoka Nishizawa from "Sgt. Frog" has two different selves who work very well together without memory loss, although one is much more confident and manipulative than the other.
* In both the manga and anime versions of "3x3 Eyes", all members of the Sanjiyan race have two selves.
* Lunch in "Dragon Ball" has two different selves which alternate whenever she sneezes. The normal Lunch has blue hair and is kind and sweet, but her other self is a gun-toting blonde.
* In "Hellsing", one of the Vatican's assassins, Yumiko has another personality, Yumie Takagi. In stereotypical fashion, Yumiko is somewhat of a coward, while Yumie is a ruthless killer. Yumiko does not appear in "Hellsing" proper, but this does not negate her presence, since she only appears in battle.
* The character Akito from the manga and anime "Air Gear" has a separate self called Agito. Akito is a kind, gentle boy, while Agito is his stronger, darker, bloodthirsty side. Akito and Agito are aware of each other's presences. They signal that they are trading places by shifting an eyepatch from one eye to the other. When the right eye is covered, Akito is running the body; if the left eye is covered, Agito is in charge. They can share memories and information, especially if it's of particular interest to the other, but also hide information from each other with a bit of effort.
* Yaya, the main character in the manga "Othello", has an alternate personality named Nana. Nana initially comes out if Yaya sees her reflection or suffers a head injury, but is able to take the body more easily as the story progresses. Eventually, Nana leaves Yaya.
* In "Paranoia Agent", the episode "Double Lips" features Harumi Chono, tutor of Lil' Slugger's victim Yuichi Taira. She has an alternate personality named Maria. In the time-honored fashion, Harumi is a modest, reserved, and shy tutor and assistant, while Maria is a wild prostitute who comes out at night. The two communicate through Harumi's answering machine. Maria "wants to be free" and this results in a battle for dominance that escalates when Harumi gets engaged.
* In "Mega Man Star Force" and its anime and manga equivalents, the character Tsukasa Futaba (English Pat Sprigs) has an evil self named Hikaru (Rey). When he fuses with his FM partner Gemini, both personalities become two separate entities.
* In "Bleach", Kurosaki Ichigo develops an Inner Hollow, a literal "inner deamon", forming into a separate personality. The Inner Hollow tries to take over during later battles but is subdued with training.
* In "Perfect Blue", the main character Mima plays a character in the TV drama "Double Bind" who splits after being raped, in order to repress the memories and "save her soul". The second self identifies as a model, and proceeds to commit a number of gruesome murders, which forms the main storyline of the drama. Mima's manager, Rumi, also seems to have a Jekyll-and-Hyde type split personality. She identifies herself as 'the real Mima' and denounces Mima as an impostor. She then commits a series of murders echoing "Double Bind".
* In "Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei", one of the female students, Kaere Kimura, has MPD after undergoing mental trauma from having to adapt to the customs of the separate countries she visited as an exchange student. Her main personality, Kaere, resembles that of a stereotypical foreigner who flashes her panties and constantly threatens to sue others, while her second self, Kaede, is gentle, easily embarrassed and generally possesses the traits of a yamato nadeshiko.
* In Samurai Deeper Kyo The two of the main character's personalities inhabit the same body. Kyoshiro (the gentler of the two) switched personality with Demon Eyes Kyo when he draws his sword.
* In "Mobile Suit Gundam 00", the character Allelujah Haptism developed another personality named "Hallelujah" as a result of the experements done to his mind during his childhood in able to make him a Supersoldier. The Hallelujah persona is aggressive, cold and sadistic in contrast to Allelujah. When they switch personalities, Allelujah's fringe of hair covering his right side of the face switches to the left, concealing his grayish left eye and exposing his gold right eye. Allelujah is most likely heterochromic, because both personalities combine at the season one finale as the result of a near-fatal battle.
* In Shigofumi Fumika developed another personality after abuse from her father.
* In Kaori Yuki's gothic manga Earl Cain, the character Riff is developed by DELILAH to be loyal and loving to Cain, while his true personality is a very evil man. While Riffael is primarily right-handed, Riff became left after attempts at suicide and thus he became ambidextrous.
* Lisianthus from the Shuffle! series is actually two girls, one an absorbed fetal twin, sharing a single body, not always comfortably since one is part angel and the other part devil.
* In Bottle Fairy, four fairies merge together to appear as a single human girl, but each fairy retains her own individuality.
* In the manga "Change 123", the protagonist Makoto has three main alternate personalities which arose after her rigorous training by three different "fathers" in three types of combat skills. These personalities are named Hibiki, Fujiko and Mikiri (collectively known as HiFuMi) and are proficient in karate, weaponry, and submission moves, respectively. There is also a fourth personality, Zero, who is inhumanely powerful and ruthless.
* In the cartoon , the Decepticon has three separate personalities and faces to match: a calm strategist with a blue face and monocle, a hot-headed fighter with a red face and visor, and a childish psychopath with a jack-o-lantern like face.

Comics

* The Batman supervillain Two-Face has a Jekyll-Hyde split personality owing to injury which scarred one side of his face, the resulting damage to the left side of his brain turning him into a violent criminal. Another Batman foe, The Ventriloquist, also has DID, his violent personality manifesting itself through a dummy named Scarface.
* In the 1980s, the backstory of the Incredible Hulk was reworked to fit then-current beliefs about DID, with the Hulk's multiple incarnations reflecting different aspects of Bruce Banner's personality, repressed by Bruce due to his childhood abuse at the hands of his father. He came to believe that showing emotion caused people to be hurt. For a time, the character's personalities were believed to have been merged, but he eventually redifferentiated back into his multiple state. It was also revealed that the supposed 'merged' personality was actually yet another personality created by his psychiatrist Doc Samson, in the hopes that it would become the true personality, thus ending much of the threat the Hulk presented to the world and to Bruce himself. Banner was revealed to have had hundreds of personalities, most of which appeared to have 'died'.
* As written by Doug Moench, Moon Knight had three separate civilian identities. Often he showed confusion as to which was his "real" personality. He eventually did develop something similar to DID, but was apparently integrated. His counterpart in Marvel's Ultimate Marvel line not only has four personalities to begin with, he later creates a fifth, which goes by the name Ronin. In this version he never integrates.
* Rose and Thorn are the personalities of two different multiples in DC Comics. In the 1940s, Rose Canton, who later married the original Green Lantern, had a self called Thorn, a plant-based supervillain. The 1970s version depicted gentle Rose and feisty crimefighting Thorn, who was out to avenge the murder of Rose's father. Rose had no idea that Thorn shared her body. This latter series was remade in 2003 to incorporate a storyline which fit then-current beliefs about DID – the personality of Thorn was revealed to have been induced by an unscrupulous therapist.
* Typhoid Mary, an enemy/lover of the Marvel Comics character, Daredevil, is one of three coexisting persons in one body. In accordance with the usual stereotypes, Typhoid Mary is a violent seductress, Bloody Mary is a psychopathic murderer, and "Mary" is a timid pacifist.
* Crazy Jane of the Doom Patrol has 64 distinct personalities as a result of being molested by her father as a child. Each of them has a unique skill or ability. Some aspects of her story are based on real-life multiple Truddi Chase.
* Aurora, a superheroine from "Alpha Flight", was actually diagnosed with DID. As in "Rose and the Thorn", a mild-mannered self dominates during Aurora's normal, day-to-day life, and a more adventurous self is responsible for her excursions as a costumed hero, although Aurora is aware (but disapproves) of her other's existence. Aurora's DID was apparently cured or suppressed for a time (i.e., the two selves were integrated).
* In the 1994 "Zero Hour" version of the Legion of Super-Heroes series, Luorno Durgo or Triplicate Girl was considered to have multiple personality disorder at birth. Natives of her world can split into three bodies, but all three usually have identical personalities; her three separate selves were considered a shameful defect. Luorno was incarcerated in an institution where her three selves were tortured to force them to behave identically. She escaped and was adopted by R.J. Brande, the father of Chameleon Boy.

Computer and video games

* The main character of "Xenogears", Fei Fong Wong, has three personalities, who appear physically as well as psychologically different. He is mistakenly referred to as "schizophrenic" at several points in the game. Later events in the game reveal that he has MPD as a result of having been subjected to abusive medical experiments as a child. Fei's confrontation and integration of these personalities is a major plot feature of the game.
* In the videogame "Killer7" the main character, Harman Smith, is an old man confined to a wheelchair whose different personalities take their own physical forms; all of them are murderers. Known as the Smiths because of their shared last name, (Garcian Smith, Dan Smith, Kaede Smith, Con Smith, etc.), they each have different abilities and weapons that the player must use to progress through the game. A major aspect of the game is finding out which personality is the dominant and the original one.
* The 1999 PlayStation game "" by Agetek features a situation similar to the "Star Trek" episode "The Enemy Within".; a meek main character with a homicidal alternate personality. The player must combine the former's insight with the latter's ruthlessness to solve puzzles and to survive.
* The Prince in ' has an alter-ego called the Dark Prince, who constantly bickers with him about right and wrong. At times, the Prince physically transforms into the Dark Prince. The Dark Prince wields the "Daggertail", a bladed whip fused to his arm, while the Prince has a more standard sword. This split-personality theme was meant to combine the Prince's characters from the two previous incarnations of the ' trilogy.
* In the "Twisted Metal" series, Marcus Kane has another self known as Needles Kane.
* One character in "Mega Man Star Force", Pat, has 2 personalities, one evil, one good.
* The character Sakubo from ".hack//GU" appears to be played by two siblings, but is actually played by one person with two selves.
*In "The Suffering" and its sequel, "" Torque has suffered since early adolescence and has several personalities. This is explored in more depth in the sequel. One of his selves assists him in fights.
*In the game "", Ripper Roo is a literate, civilized person co-existing with a deranged kangaroo, who is regarded as the original or core self.
*In "Crash of the Titans", Doctor N. Gin is shown having split-personalities, who leading him in extremely hysterical ways.
*In "Soulcalibur" series, the female character Tira has two selves. In stereotypical fashion, one self is happily insane, the other angry and combative.
*In the 2000 video game , Alfred Ashford, one of the main antagonists for the game, shares his body with his sister Alexis.
*In the video game "", Therese and Jeanette Voerman is one and the same person. Jeanette turns out to be a personality concocted by Therese as an escape from the sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her father.

In music

* Quadrophenia by British rock band The Who is about a mod named Jimmy who has four distinctive personalities.
* The American progressive rock band The Mars Volta's second full-length album Frances the Mute, deals with a story about a woman who suffers from DID
* In Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence song by progressive metal band Dream Theater one of the movements, titled "Losing Time", tells a story of a woman with DID
* The song Sweating Bullets by American Thrash/Speed metal band Megadeth is apparently about DID.

ee also

*Dissociative identity disorder

References