History Main / PersonalityRemnant

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* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk is frequently portrayed as something of GentleGiant when he is not under attack and will go out of his way to save those close to him as Banner and sometimes even save {{Innocent Bystander}}s.
* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': The Venom symbiote causes its hosts to become aggressive and violent, but in some cases, Venom manages to stay an AntiHero despite his hatred for ComicBook/SpiderMan.
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* ''Franchise/{{Berserk}}''

* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': After seeing [[spoiler:Kujiragi kiss and slice Shinra with Saika, Celty]] goes berserk, transforming into an amorphous shadow monster and chases [[spoiler:Kujiragi]] across Ikebukuro. While [[spoiler:Kujiragi]] remarks that although [[spoiler:Celty]] is mindless in this state, she's still hellbent on attacking [[spoiler:Kujiragi]] and getting [[spoiler:Shinra]] back.

* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk is frequently portrayed as something of GentleGiant when he is not under attack and will go out of his way to save those close to him as Banner and sometimes even save InnocentBystanders.
* The ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote causes its hosts to become aggressive and violent, but in some cases, Venom manages to stay an AntiHero despite his hatred for ComicBook/SpiderMan.

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* {{Discussed|Trope}} by ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E16Doppelgangland Doppelgangland]]", where Willow encounters her vampire double from another universe and is disturbed to find that she's an AxCrazy, sensual, leather bustier-wearing nutjob.

* ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': The reason [[NobleDemon Koragg]] believes in HonorBeforeReason despite being a villain is because he is [[spoiler:actually Leanbow, Udonna's husband who has been brainwashed into serving the forces of darkness. Despite making him switch sides, they could not completely erase his sense of honor.]]
** This also goes for the original Sentai version, ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', with Koragg's counterpart Wolzard. However, in this case, while part of it is his pride as an honorable warrior, it's mostly implied to be [[spoiler:increasingly flimsier justifications made as a result of Wolzard's original self, Blagel/Isamu, recognizing the Ozu siblings as his children and not wanting to hurt them. It's eventually revealed that Wolzard's apparent defeat of Miyuki/[=MagiMother=] at the beginning of the series actually involved [[DeathFakedForYou teleporting her away at the last second]], because Blagel's love for his wife intervened.]]

** Mind flayers, who reproduce by taking over human bodies, will sometimes inherit CharacterTics that the body's original occupant possessed. They are extremely careful to hide this from others of their kind, in part because of fears of "The Adversary" - a theoretical mind flayer [[AssimilationBackfire whose personality was completely subsumed by their host's]], leading them to become a HunterOfTheirOwnKind, though WordOfGod states that this scenario is just superstition and not actually possible.
* Played with in TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} with the Residual Personality quirk, which is exclusive to shape-changers. With it, mental traits from your "primary form" manifest at a reduced level in your other forms.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'': The werewolves of [[spoiler:The Companions]] are a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent unique strain]] that can change at will and have basic control of their wolf forms.

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', [[spoiler: the Telethia are revealed to be the original form of the [[SpaceElves High Entia]], which they revert to when exposed to high concentrations of Ether. While most of them lose sentience and become instantly hostile servants of [[GodIsEvil Zanza]] when this happens, some Telethia can be found close to their surviving relatives, as if they are still watching over them. One of the victims, prince Kalian, manages to hold onto his sense of self long enough to say goodbye to his sister Melia [[DyingAsYourself shortly before dying.]] With Zanza gone in ''Future Connected'', the Telethia become much less hostile and even help the party at times, and Teelan is convinced that in time, it may be possible to change them back to their old selves.]]

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Usually when demons [[HulkingOut go]] [[OneWingedAngel berserk]] they are just mindless killing machines, but this trope has occurred twice thanks to [[spoiler:Buwaro's star pendant]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Twokinds}}'' has an example where the person doesn't physically transform but is similar in spirit, [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent Trace]] has a SuperpoweredEvilSide that is violently murderous towards Keidran but at one point he slips into a similarly powered state but this time he protects Flora, though it is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] as he's AxeCrazy.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': In "Big Problem", the heroes fight a mutant monster that keeps quoting Shakespeare. After some investigation, they figure out that the monster is millionaire Orso Knox, who had been mutated by experimental gene altering technology, trying to cry out for help with quotations by the Bard.
** In two-parts episode "City of Monsters", [[spoiler:Karmi]] is turned into a mutant creature and forced to kidnap and later try to kill Hiro, on [[spoiler:Di's order]]. But as Hiro gives her an [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight "I Know You're in There Somewhere"]] speech, she snaps out of [[spoiler:Di's control]] and proceeds to fight against [[spoiler:Di's right-hand man Chris]].

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': When morphing into an animal, its instincts come with it, which leads to a few teething issues the first time until the morpher gets the animal under control (such as small prey animals finding themselves out in the open surrounded by humans, or a shark's urge to find blood, or an insect's HiveMind overriding the human).

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** In early versions of the game, The Polymorph Other and Polymorph Any Object spell can change one living thing into another. There is a chance (based on the intelligence of the target and the hit dice of each form) that the target will keep their original mind. If they do, each day the polymorph continues, they must check again to see if they acquire their new form's mentality.
** The 3.5 Edition Libris Mortis says that successfully reminding an undead of its mortal life might alleviate its AlwaysChaoticEvil instincts for a short time; for example, to permit a would-be victim to leave alive, or at least give them a head start.
** Mind flayers, who reproduce by taking over human bodies, will sometimes inherit CharacterTics that the body's original occupant possessed. They are extremely careful to hide this from others of their kind, in part because of fears of "The Adversary" - a theoretical mind flayer [[AssimilationBackfire whose personality was completely subsumed by their host's]], leading them to become a HunterOfTheirOwnKind, though WordOfGod states that this scenario is just superstition and not actually possible.
* Played with in TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} with the Residual Personality quirk, which is exclusive to shape-changers. With it, mental traits from your "primary form" manifest at a reduced level in your other forms.
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