Super-Powered Evil Side/Playing With
Basic Trope: The Hero has a darker, more powerful, alternate personality.
- Straight: Bob transforms into his evil other half Dark Bob when he is in trouble.
- Exaggerated: Bob is the most kindhearted human to ever live albeit not that good a fighter. Dark Bob is a literal Complete Monster, but he's also much stronger.
- Justified: Bob has a split personality disorder. His evil side isn't objectively more powerful, but is much more ruthless and ambitious, so he is able to accomplish more in some situations.
- Inverted: Bob is the evil half, Dark Bob is the good half.
- Alternatively, Emperor Evulz has a Superpowered Good Side.
- Subverted: Dark Bob doesn't really exist, Bob only pretends to be him to throw off his foes.
- Dark Bob seems to be evil at first, but he's actually a nice guy.
- Bob's evil side turns out to be weaker than Bob himself.
- Double Subverted: Dark Bob does exist, but Bob has only ever pretended to be him... until now.
- ...but was only being good because Bob was suppressing him. Dark Bob really is unstable.
- Parodied: Bob grows a mustache when he becomes Dark Bob. Dark Bob is fond of twirling his mustache evilly.
- The worst thing Dark Bob does is literally steal candy from a baby.
- Deconstructed: Bob is avoided by everyone because he could turn into Dark Bob with no warning. Dark Bob is something of a joke among supervillains because he could turn into Bob at the wrong moment. Both of them are depressed as a result.
- Bob is terrified of becoming Dark Bob and avoids people as a result, not wanting to hurt them.
- Reconstructed: Bob is determined to make the best of it and Dark Bob won't let a puny mortal hold him back.
- Zig Zagged: Bob has several personalities. There's Dark Bob and Bobby, the evil ones, and there's Rob and Robby, the good ones. Then there's Roberta...
- Averted: Bob has no evil personality.
- Enforced: Bob's actor wants to show more dramatic range.
- Lampshaded: "Bob is not here right now."
- Invoked: Bob is superpowered in his own right; he shows his 'evil' side to gain credibility with a villainous group he means to infiltrate.
- Exploited: Bob's Treacherous Advisor gives him a superpowered evil side as a Xanatos Gambit: if he uses it he will turn evil and thus become Emperor Evulz's henchman. If he doesn't use it, he dies and can no longer interfere with Evulz's plans.
- Defied: "Wait, so you're saying that I have a Super Mode... but it's evil? Screw that! I'll take my principles over power any day!"
- Discussed: I'll do whatever it takes to save the world, even if it means losing myself to The Dark Side."
- Conversed: "Why is it that if a normal human gains superpowers, his personality always gets darker when they're in use?"