History Main / EnemyWithout

*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]] has attacked the ComicBook via this method on a few occasions, most notably as a fusion of his and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]'s darkness, ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}.

* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'': [[spoiler:Sunny created Omori in the first place as a way to escape remembering his guilt. By recalling the truth about his past, Sunny is able to break free of Omori's control, but this leads to an inevitable BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind. In the good ending, they reconcile and Omori vanishes.]]

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV,'' in order for Dark Knight Cecil to become a Paladin, he has to defeat his Dark Knight self not by fighting hand-to-hand, but by dragging out the fight, since Dark Knight Cecil uses exclusively an attack that damages the opponent at the expense of the caster's own life. The game even alerts the player of this, by saying that "A true paladin... [[SheatheYourSword sheaths his sword]]". In the American SNES version, however, since the aforementioned attack doesn't exist (as the American version is based on the "Easy Type" version), the scene makes it seem that Paladin Cecil is letting his dark self "punish" him without striking back, thus defeating it. This only applies to the original Super NES release - the American versions of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance ports are identical to the original version Japanese and the attack exists in both.

Often symbolically represents repression, and the hero's refusal to acknowledge the darkness within or some other aspect of themselves. Victory is achieved half the time via "[[SplitPersonalityMerge reintegrating]]" with it. The other half of of the time it can be seen as representing some inner demon, and thus, it must be abandoned, purged, or confronted and conquered.

** Anime/Persona3TheMovie: It's implied that Thanatos, the ultimate Persona of the Death Arcana, is a benevolent version of this trope - [[spoiler:the Nyx Avatar, a transformed Ryoji Mochizuki (the person who the Protagonist canonically forms the Death Arcana Social Link with), refers to Thanatos as "my hesitation".]]

* "Dark Link" at the end of ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''. Dark Link appears in later ''Zelda'' games as well, but this one fits the trope the best. A wizard is even seen making Dark Link pop out of Link once the boss room is entered, Link's final test for the Triforce was fighting his own evil. Dark Link (and his clones) plays a much larger role in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures''.