History Main / CollectiveIdentity

** Trident, an opponent of the New ComicBook/TeenTitans, was actually three separate individuals masquerading as a single villain.

TwinSwitch is a variation of this trope. A SisterTrope to TogetherWeAreX. Contrast SecretIdentity and TwoAliasesOneCharacter. LegacyCharacter is a more specific related trope, where the identity is passed on from person to person. IdentityImpersonator is when a second person temporarily adopts the identity in order to have Secret Identity and Public Identity appear together. See also AmalgamatedIndividual, where multiple deeds are ascribed to a single person. Not to be confused with TheDividual, where the multiple characters having one identity is more permanent and treated as an idiosyncrasy rather than a plot point. Also loosely related to DeadPersonImpersonation. See also TogetherWeAreX.

See also HousePseudonym, the real-life version of this trope, where multiple authors use the same pen name for a book series.

** Similarly, the Crimson Fox of [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League Europe]] was actually a pair of twin sisters sharing both a single heroic and civilian identity (after having faked the death of one sister).
** Amusingly one has a thick French accent and the other does not and no one seems to notice.

*** For that matter, ''ComicBook/BatmanThreeJokers'' has this trope as its premise; following up on {{the reveal}} in ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' revealed that [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] himself is this: "he" is actually a collection of three men working together to create the persona of the Joker. The three are known individually as the Criminal (Golden Age Joker), the Clown (Silver Age and Jason Todd's killer), and the Comedian (the aforementioned Red Hood and the one who caused the events of''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''. However, ''Three Jokers'' was subjected to ShrugOfGod by its writer, Creator/GeoffJohns, about if it's actually in continuity [[spoiler:and Creator/ChipZdarsky ''ComicBook/{{Batman|ChipZdarsky}}'' run officially made it CanonDiscontinuity and walked back the idea of the "three Jokers" idea with "Joker: Year One" explaining it away not actually being this trope, the Joker isn't actually three men, but rather [[SplitPersonality three personalities in one man]].]]

*** For that matter, ''ComicBook/BatmanThreeJokers'' has this trope as its premise; following up on {{the reveal}} in ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' revealed that [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] himself is this: "he" is actually a collection of three men working together to create the persona of the Joker. The three are known individually as the Criminal (Golden Age Joker), the Clown (Silver Age and Jason Todd's killer), and the Comedian (the aforementioned Red Hood and the one who caused the events of''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''. However, ''Three Jokers'' was subjected to ShurgOfGod by its writer, Creator/GeoffJohns, about if it's actually in continuity [[and Creator/ChipZdarsky ''ComicBook/{{Batman|ChipZdarsky}}'' run officially made it CanonDiscontinuity and walked back the idea of the "three Jokers" idea with "Joker: Year One" explaining it away not actually being this trope, the Joker isn't actually three men, but rather [[SplitPersonality three personalities in one man]].]]

*** In ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', the costumed villain Red Hood is actually just a mask which the members of a robbery gang give to the insider man of every robbery, the better to confuse the police. (At least, [[MultipleChoicePast if the flashback scenes are to be believed]].) For that matter, ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' revealed that ComicBook/TheJoker himself is this: the original Joker, the one who'd [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke torment the Gordons]], and the one responsible for ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' are separate people, with ''ComicBook/BatmanThreeJokers'' stating they're this trope.
*** ''ComicBook/BatmanThreeJokers'' has this trope as its premise; TheReveal that ComicBook/TheJoker is actually a collection of three men working together to create the persona of the Joker. The three are known individually as the Criminal, the Clown, and the Comedian.

* The "Florida Man" meme treats the various [[OnlyInFlorida "Florida Man (does something bizarre and/or idiotic"]] stories as if they were all about the same person.