In Film
In the Our Gang short Mama's Little Pirate, after Spanky gets in trouble for touching his dad's flashlight he gets sent to his Bedroom and he talks to his alter ego.
In Youth in Revolt, the protagonist Nick Twisp, played by Michael Cera, is a shy, socially inept teenager who is hopelessly in love with Sheeni Saunders. Twisp then creates an alter ego to help him win her love.
In Bleach, main character Ichigo Kurosaki is confronted by his darker alter ego, Hollow Ichigo, and the two fight for control of Ichigo's body.
In Black Swan, the protagonist Nina Sayers, played Natalie Portman, faces her alter ego represented by the character of the Black Swan.
In Breaking Bad, the protagonist Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, slowly forfeits himself to his alter ego, Heisenberg, to survive the drug dealing world.
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“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
That not your trespass but my madness speaks;
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)