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Lost in Character

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Lost in Character	comment	This is when a character who is an actor (not an actor in Real Life who plays a character) goes so deep into their role that they end up temporarily forgetting their original self. They usually start Method Acting, and, before anyone knows it, is so immersed in the role they're playing that they almost literally become that role, forgetting their old name, life, and setting aside their original personality. It's worth noting that while this is analogous to Becoming the Mask, the character who becomes this is not a criminal or The Mole, may not even like the role they have immersed themselves in, and has gone so deep into the role that they don't lament any Loss of Identity or even remember having been a different person (much less compare that life to the present). While in this state, the character may act against their own interests or those of their allies and loved ones, though a good slap may fix them, or pushing a Berserk Button their normal self would take issue with. If the character had a previous psychological disorder, this may result in temporary Loss of Identity or even forming one or more Split Personalities. In extreme cases, it may take Deprogramming to bring them back. This trope can be considered a mundane, non-Phlebotinum version of getting hit with Laser-Guided Amnesia and having Fake Memories implanted. A Sister Trope to Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality. Compare with Becoming the Mask, where con men or The Mole who grow to like their assumed identity more than their original one, and also That Man Is Dead, in which the character emphatically rejects his old identity. Compare also Enforced Method Acting, where this is imposed on an actor. Contrast Brainwashed and Crazy and Split-Personality Takeover.
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Lost in Character / int_122bfae1	comment	In Midori Days, Seiji and his Delinquent friends get called upon to play the roles in a movie of the underlings of a character played by Aikawa Shou, their favorite actor. During Shou's tearful death scene, the boys get too worked up, rise up and beat the crap out of the actors playing the guys who killed him. The director decides to Throw It In!.
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Lost in Character / int_129c7b57	comment	In the second episode of Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Agent Coulson is made the new principal at Peter Parker's school, so he can keep an eye on Pete and his friends. Midway through the next episode, he calls Nick Fury, frantically begging for the full power of S.H.I.E.L.D... to help balance the school's budget.
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Lost in Character / int_134a7fc2	comment	Shtetl Days is about historical reenactors in a victorious Nazi Germany who play the role of Jews in The Theme Park Version of a shtetl. The protagonist Veit Harlan is so consumed by the persona of "Jakub Shlayfer" that he even writes it as his signature. An SS officer lampshades Veit's dedication to his role by seriously asking him for his identity card.
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Lost in Character / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Fuya Okudaira, a child actor, is pressured by his Stage Mom to not speak with other children and to focus on his role as D.D. ESPer Robin. While Fuya wants to be friends with other kids, he doesn't want to disappoint his mother. Upon coming across a Numbers card (which amplifies the user's desires, usually to a sinister extent) that takes a form similar to his mother, he begins to believe that he really is D.D. ESPer Robin, and vows to protect his card, No. 83: Galaxy Queen, as he would his own mother.
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Lost in Character / int_1e7f693c	comment	Glass Mask: Played straight, when this gets put to attention during the staging of The Two Princesses. Ayumi prepared viciously for the role, to the point that she talks of actually being Origeld, and Origeld being the one doing the moving and talking. After the last performance, she mentions this to Maya, who casually mentions that it's been like that for her all the time. Discussed when Tsukikage later tells Ayumi and Maya to portray the elements for their test of understanding the role of the Crimson Goddess. She reprimands Maya for being the wind and not portraying it, telling her that losing herself into the character isn't a good thing to do.
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Lost in Character / int_21b21f35	comment	The arc of Series 5 of BoJack Horseman involves BoJack losing the distinction between himself and his Defective Detective character, Philbert. A set designer who unintentionally designs Philbert's house as looking exactly like BoJack's, a relationship with the actress playing Philbert's love interest, Meta Casting elements getting written into the character as a plot to Catch the Conscience, a gruelling schedule of endless night shoots, BoJack's difficulty handling his mother's death and his becoming addicted to opiate painkillers after an accident on set makes matters increasingly worse, and BoJack's decaying mental state eventually causes him to have a Creator Breakdown in which he perceives the world as a gritty police procedural and culminates in having to be pulled off his costar as he tries to actually strangle her during a fight scene.
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Lost in Character / int_22989f46	comment	L.A. Law: On the episode entitled "Leapin' Lizards," a comic-book company is suing actor Julius Goldfarb to enjoin him from making anymore public appearances as their character "The Salamander," a crime-fighting superhero he portrayed in a TV series years before. Under harsh questioning during the hearing, it comes out that Julius has come to believe that he actually is the Salamander, wearing his costume and going out at night to fight real criminals. He tears off his suit to reveal that he always wears the costume and starts climbing the courtroom wall, after which he's arrested and committed. When his lawyer Ann Kelsey visits him in the hospital, he breaks down in tears at the prospect of never again being able to be the Salamander.
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Lost in Character / int_2372359	comment	The titular hero of The Belgariad discusses this with Silk, the True Companions' resident thief and con artist, who has been employing an exaggerated version of his actual identity as an Alorn prince as a cover.
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Lost in Character / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Duffman, whose actor—or at least one of them—openly admits he has no distinct personality out of his costume anymore and cringes to be called by his real name (Larry Duffman). It's later implied that this happens to all the actors playing Duffman when Homer mentions he thought he heard he'd died. One-shot minor character Senor Ding-Dong was only a man playing the role of a doorbell company mascot, a Zorro-style hero who fixes doorbells with a whip. Then he just became that character entirely. Implied to have happened to the ventriloquist operating Gabbo, who repeatedly begs the puppet to stop calling the audience "SOB's", not realising that the camera was still rolling at the time.
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Lost in Character / int_26674ed5	comment	The purpose of the S3 program imposed upon Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was to inflict this upon him, turning him from a former child soldier who rewrote his whole past with the power of denial into a second embodiment of Solid Snake.
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Lost in Character / int_2a7993df	comment	In Bad Education (2004) Juan is only pretending to be his dead brother, Ignacio. But in the process, Juan gradually ends up in the exact same situation, such as getting involved with the same men and dressing up as a transvestite.
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Lost in Character / int_31409b57	comment	One of the possible deaths of Batman in Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader? has him trying, and failing, to talk down an actor who got lost in the supervillain part he was hired to play.
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Lost in Character / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: This was parodied in an episode when Abed told the story of creating and then becoming a character for his walk-on role in Cougar Town. Danny Pudi filmed a cameo on Cougar Town in reference to this scene. Parodied in "Documentary Making: Redux", wherein Jeff is reluctantly cast as the Dean for a short commercial for Greendale and is forced to wear a bald cap over his natural hair. The shoot is only supposed to be for one day, but thanks in part to Jeff's own efforts to try and get out of it, it ends up going for almost two weeks â€“ all of which time Jeff is forced to wear his Dean's costume. Over this time Jeff gradually begins to take on several of the Dean's character traits and becomes convinced that he's actually a bald man who "only dreamed of having hair".
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Lost in Character / int_35bceb50	comment	Hamlet is sometimes interpreted this way, with Hamlet's feigned insanity leading to him actually losing his grip on reality.
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Lost in Character / int_4062c538	comment	This trope runs rampant through The Day of the Locust as part of the book's critique of Hollywood artifice; almost all of the performers in the book dive so deep into inhabiting fake personalities for audiences that their real personalities have all but vanished. Washed-up vaudeville clown Harry Greener has spent so long using his suffering to entertain audiences that he now seeks out opportunities to regale unwilling but interested bar patrons with tales of his ruined life, from his over-before-it-began entertainment career to his marriage to a serial adulteress who ran away with a magician and left him to bring up their daughter, Faye, alone. Protagonist Tod Hackett reflects on Harry's permanently in-character status early in the book: Harry's daughter Faye has been trained to use exaggeration as part of her dramatic performances, and while her acting career will likely never take off, she uses the same fakery as a defence against the harsh reality that she has no talent, viewing everything she does - including prostituting herself to pay for her father's funeral - as just another role. Faye's quasi-boyfriend, cowboy Earle Shoop, and his friends Calvin and Hink can no longer separate the characters they play in their very occasional western roles from the people they are offscreen and spend their idle hours loitering in front of a saddlery store as if they were posing on a dusty frontier town set.
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Lost in Character / int_444e73d4	comment	Dylan Dog's assistant Groucho is not the actual Groucho Marx, but rather a failed actor that impersonated him and simply never stopped acting in-character. Interestingly, his real name is apparently Julius, which was also the original Groucho's actual name (Julius Henry Marx).
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Lost in Character / int_44e0b783	comment	This was also parodied in a 2009 Garfield strip, with the dialogue as follows;
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Lost in Character / int_474c18c1	comment	In the BioShock Infinite DLC "Burial at Sea", it turns out that the Booker you've been playing as is actually an alternate version of Comstock. In his universe, he accidentally caused the death of his Elizabeth and was overwhelmed with horror and regret over what he did. In a desperate attempt to atone or at least calm his guilt, he found a universe that had no Elizabeth (that of the original BioShock) and took up Booker's name as a private detective who helped people in Rapture. At some point his deception became so thorough that he genuinely thought he was Booker, seeing no distinction between his real history and the cover story he made up for himself. Of course, "Booker" is his real identity and Comstock was an invention all along...
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Lost in Character / int_485c564	comment	Taken to frightening extremes in Guilded Age: The five main characters are online gamers selected to take part in a deep-immersion virtual reality role-playing game, and due to the unique magic/technology hybrid nature of the game, they think they actually are their game characters, with absolutely no memory of who they really are or the lives that they used to have.
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Lost in Character / int_4da4f20	comment	Dream Park: In The Barsoom Project, a young LARPer named Michelle is handed a working rifle by a saboteur and unwittingly kills an extra in the Fimbulwinter Game. Unable to face what she's done, she convinces herself that she really is her character, "Eviane", who'd shot the man because he was a villain trying to impose Endless Winter upon the world.
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Lost in Character / int_4e433e78	comment	One interpretation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is that it is actually a documentary recreation of Arthur's adventures set in the modern era, only to have everyone fall prey to this until the end when they're arrested for murder.
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Lost in Character / int_5286ec36	comment	According to the sequel comic, Judge Doom of Who Framed Roger Rabbit was originally a Toon actor named Baron Von Rotten, who often played villainous roles (a deleted scene of the movie claimed Doom was the one who shot Bambi's mom). A concussion during a shoot led him to think he really was a villain.
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Lost in Character / int_5318e444	comment	Colditz: An officer in the World War 2 German prisoner of war camp simulates insanity so that he will be repatriated to Britain, the plan being that he will then reveal himself as sane and return to action. His simulation succeeds only too well â€“ at the end of the episode, the prisoners in Colditz receive a letter from the officer's wife relating that he actually went insane and is now confined to a mental institution. The escape committee then decides that no other prisoner in Colditz is to attempt that ploy.
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Lost in Character / int_53435bc5	comment	In Don't Starve, Wigfrid is a faded actress obsessed with her battle-hungry Viking character to the point of peppering her speech with umlauts and refusing to eat non-meat dishes. Her character animation "The Curtain Calls" implies that this was her most famous role, but also a Tough Act to Follow, driving her into depression and delusion until Maxwell offered her the chance to live as the Valkyrie for real.
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Lost in Character / int_53a0bd32	comment	In The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "A World of Difference", this is what everybody thinks happened to Gerry Raigan, an alcoholic actor who seems to have snapped and identified too closely with happy executive character Arthur Curtis. He, on the other hand, thinks that he actually is Curtis, trapped in a nightmare world.
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Lost in Character / int_55101334	comment	In The Night Mayor, a problem develops inside a virtual reality realm based on Film Noir movies. The first person sent in to fix it is chosen because he creates detective VR stories and already has his own hardboiled detective VR persona. After he's been in for a while (and partly due to mind games by the villain), he loses track of his identity and forgets the persona isn't the real him, and somebody else has to be sent in to rescue him and fix the original problem.
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Lost in Character / int_5562da6a	comment	3rd Rock from the Sun: Tommy is forced to become his highschool's Mascot after failing to show enough enthusiasm during a game. He quickly becomes addicted to the attention, refuses to answer to any name but "Hooty" and eventually attacks the coach when the team loses a game.
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Lost in Character / int_55764048	comment	This was parodied in an episode when Abed told the story of creating and then becoming a character for his walk-on role in Cougar Town. Danny Pudi filmed a cameo on Cougar Town in reference to this scene.
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Lost in Character / int_5690420f	comment	In an episode of DuckTales (1987) when an amnesiac Scrooge goes missing, the boys have Fenton impersonate him until he can be found. Fenton gets too caught up into the role and starts pinching pennies even harder than the real Scrooge, up to and including cutting both the housekeeper's pay and the nephews' allowances! When the real Scrooge finally regains his memory and starts proving himself to be the real deal, by this point Fenton has lost himself in the role so much that he tries to have his own boss arrested.
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Lost in Character / int_575345af	comment	One episode of Press Gang concerned an actor who played the lead role in children's adventure serial Colonel X, who had been severely typecast and 'drinking rather too much' before getting into a car crash which killed his wife. Unable to handle it, he started going around in-character as the Colonel, aided by how the press erroneously reported him dead along with his wife. (This is a mashup of problems affecting famous Doctor Who actors Tom Baker and Roger Delgado (who played the Master), and the Colonel is played in the show by Michael Jayston, who played the not-quite-Doctor the Valeyard. The episode was written by Steven Moffat, who later went on to... well, yeah.)
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Lost in Character / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear series: Metal Gear Solid: Decoy Octopus is so committed to his disguises that he requires deprogramming to leave his assumed identities after a mission. The purpose of the S3 program imposed upon Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was to inflict this upon him, turning him from a former child soldier who rewrote his whole past with the power of denial into a second embodiment of Solid Snake. In Metal Gear Ac!d, La Clown is able to 'become' Teliko so thoroughly that La Clown is able to access Teliko's memories and feelings, only breaking character when telling Snake her codename of Swallowtail. Apparently only a powerful psychic can detect the difference between La Clown's stolen memories and a person's real memories.
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Lost in Character / int_5a3dae52	comment	Misfits had a Femme Fatale character who turned out to be this; she was auditioning for a part when the storm happened, and her power made her become that character. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this also means she subconsciously exerts a degree of Mind Control, compelling the men she gets involved with to fall into the roles of her recurring story: first as her secret lover, then her savior from her abusive ex-, finally becoming her abusive ex- for the next guy in the cycle to save her from.
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Lost in Character / int_5a48e12b	comment	Some text in XCOM: Chimera Squad mentions Faceless being subject to Psychic Fragmentation Syndrome, implying impersonating other people has deleterious effects on their mental health. This explains why all Faceless encountered in the game are untransformed.
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Lost in Character / int_6b6e06e3	comment	In an episode of Peter Pan & the Pirates when Peter obtains Hook's hat he starts acting like a pirate captain himself. He gets so caught up playing the role though that he winds up literally believing himself to be a real pirate, to the point of even talking in Hook's voice. This ends up with the real Hook joining forces with him and Peter trying to feed Wendy to the crocodile!
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Lost in Character / int_6eed44ab	comment	Dead Ringers: Apparently anyone who plays Queen Elizabeth II becomes convinced she is Her Maj, as Olivia Colman learns a little too late in Christmas 2020, having ignored the warnings of Claire Foy and Helen Mirren.
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Lost in Character / int_72262aee	comment	Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender seems to joke about this when she was playing the villain for training. When she throws a flaming boulder too close to Sokka she cries out:
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Lost in Character / int_75149ccd	comment	In the X-Wing Series, Gara Petothel is a Deep Cover Agent formerly from Imperial Intelligence who no longer has anyone to deprogram her between missions. During one infiltration she's profoundly impacted by the Power of Trust and hopes to Become the Mask and embrace the role of Lara Nostil, a Farm Girl-turned-Ace Pilot. But then she's contacted by the (dead) Nostil's actual brother with a message from the Big Bad, complete with doctored family holograms in the background that insert Gara into Lara's life. This is not good for her already fragile mental state, and for a little while she finds herself struggling to remember whether she's Gara pretending to be Lara or Lara who's imagining she was once Gara. She gets over it pretty quickly, though.
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Lost in Character / int_75584731	comment	Deconstructed and parodied in Tropic Thunder by Robert Downey, Jr.'s character, a method actor so obsessed with being authentic with his roles that he's willing to get cosmetic surgery to look like an entirely different ethnicity, sticks to it well beyond any point of reason, and ultimately has an identity crisis when made to realize he has no idea who he really is under all these characters. The gag is extended to the DVD commentary, where RDJ stays in character as Kirk Lazarus as Sergeant Lincoln Osiris until the very line of the movie where Lazarus-as-Osiris claims not to break character until the DVD commentary. When Ben Stiller calls him on it, he finally breaks character... and continues the commentary as Kirk Lazarus, acclaimed Aussie actor. It's only when Lazarus has his own "Who am I?" moment in the film that Robert Downey Jr. emerges.
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Lost in Character / int_7a59fbeb	comment	Azrael: A combination of the Scarecrow's Fear Gas and the mind-altering System lead Jean-Paul Valley to believe that not only was he Batman, but the one true Batman, going so far as to claim that he was nothing if he couldn't be Batman.
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Lost in Character / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Back when The Joker had his own comic series in the 1970s, one of the opponents he faced was an actor who had started to believe he actually was Sherlock Holmes. The post-Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! version of the second Two-Face, Paul Sloane, was reimagined as an actor so involved in method acting that he ended up turning himself into one of Batman's deformed, psychotic rogues while researching a part. One of the possible deaths of Batman in Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader? has him trying, and failing, to talk down an actor who got lost in the supervillain part he was hired to play.
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Lost in Character / int_7c59b70a	comment	Eminem got so lost in the role of B-Rabbit in 8 Mile that he had to relearn how to write songs as himself again after getting off filming. It might be a factor in why The Eminem Show uses less shock humour than his previous music had done.
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Lost in Character / int_7cabe488	comment	Bendy and the Ink Machine has voice actress Susie Campbell. She really took to her Alice Angel role, so much that she liked it when Joey called her Alice and that she referred to herself as "Alice" in her Chapter 4 audio log where she mentions that Joey has an "opportunity" for her. Then she became an inky version of Alice.
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Lost in Character / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: As the timeline progresses, Jimmy is increasingly prone to diving into his various personas and effectively becoming them to cope with his problems and traumas. He starts as himself (a cheerful Nice Guy), gradually transitions into Saul (a sleazy but lovable Noble Demon) as he struggles, then crashes into Gene (a timid and paranoid Shrinking Violet) after having to go on the run, and then finally ends up creating Viktor (a callous and ill-tempered sociopath) when all the issues and feelings he's been suppressing for years get dredged back up and he starts self-destructively chasing the highs of crime again.
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Lost in Character / int_7fd403f8	comment	Galaxy Quest: Due to the premise, this is a recurring joke for the whole cast. Just about everyone has a moment where they forget their real selves, Guy especially (who only had a one-time bit part on the show). Hell, by the end, even Alexander is in on it, and he always hated his role!
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Lost in Character / int_82439e64	comment	A common joke in The Office (US) involves a character (usually either Dwight or Michael or both) getting so caught up in a fake scnario that they forget it isn't actually real. Jim loves to take advantage of this for his pranks, such as when he effortlessly manipulates a role-played customer service interaction to tell Michael that he'll buy a million bushels of paper if he fires Dwight, and the two react with all the horror and temptation that they would if this were an actual legitimate offer.
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Lost in Character / int_83eb3ef9	comment	The main characters in Sublo and Tangy Mustard are always wearing their costumes and refer to each other by the mascots' names even when they're not at work. Justified because their boss makes them wear their costumes at all times.
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Lost in Character / int_8607fd53	comment	Gravity Rush: At the end of the mission "A Time to Play", Kat has seemingly forgotten why she was trying to infiltrate the Snakerabbits to begin with, embracing her role as the gang's new leader and threatening the police officers she was helping when they come by to see how things shook out. They're confused, but awkwardly let it slide since she solved the problem anyway.
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Lost in Character / int_86fa6d5b	comment	In .hack//SIGN, a limited version happens of this. Tsukasa knows he's in a videogame even though he can't leave the game and feels everything within it as though he were actually there, but he's forgotten that in real life he's actually a girl.
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Lost in Character / int_8c080f90	comment	In Double Star Lorenzo is hired to impersonate kidnapped politician John Joseph Bonforte. He becomes so immersed in being Bonforte that after the original is killed, he takes over and actually becomes him. By the end of the book, he's forgotten he was ever anyone else.
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Lost in Character / int_8d81f086	comment	This was a plot point in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Actor", when a TV movie was being made about Adrian Monk, starring renowned actor David Ruskin as him. Except, Ruskin has a history of falling too deeply into his roles (for example, once having to spend three months in a rehab clinic after playing an alcoholic in a TV movie, because he managed to have all the symptoms of alcoholism without drinking), and when he portrayed Monk... Afterward, in session with Dr. Kroger, Monk notes that Ruskin has decided to try something less depressing, then adds "He's in England playing Hamlet."
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Lost in Character / int_90a3a7f4	comment	In an episode of Kim Possible The Fearless Ferret and White Stripe's actors forget they are actors and think they are their own characters.
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Lost in Character / int_924bb56e	comment	This is arguably the super-power of Echo, the protagonist of Dollhouse. Despite repeated memory wipes, she always retains the "imprints" of the other personalities she's assumed.
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Lost in Character / int_9284ad43	comment	In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Dual Destinies, the Big Bad is the phantom, an international spy who's spent so much time impersonating people that he's completely forgotten his original identity.
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Lost in Character / int_96da2473	comment	While making Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey basically disappeared for a year and Andy Kaufman took his place. When it was over, Carrey didn't even remember most of what he did during the shoot and was so exhausted that he declined to appear as Andy in R.E.M.'s tie-in video for "The Great Beyond". This reached a point where in interviews for the 2017 retrospective documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Carrey directly attributes his actions during production to Andy rather than himself (rather fascinating to consider given the number of Andy Kaufman fans who expected him to return from having faked his death). But as he explains, there was more to it than this: While it took a few weeks to fully reconstruct who he was afterward, by that point in his career Carrey needed a chance to shed the character he'd been playing in public for much of The '90s: "Jim Carrey" the perpetually sunshiny comic and movie star. Playing Kaufman allowed him to be free of that for a while, and gave him opportunity to ponder what his "real self" was as opposed to what the outside world and expectations wanted him to be, so he ended up more himself for the experience.
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Lost in Character / int_9f1833be	comment	In a similar effect like the one in Perfect Blue, Nikki Grace from Inland Empire confuses her acting with reality, at a point where is impossible, even for the spectator to tell which is which.
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Lost in Character / int_a04b0ca3	comment	In the Tintin story The Secret of the Unicorn, Captain Haddock gets so wrapped up in the tale of his famous ancestor Sir Francis Haddock that he runs off some visitors at cutlass-point in the belief they're pirates, and demolishes his room while relating the battle with Red Rackham.
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Lost in Character / int_a1d44b1d	comment	The post-Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! version of the second Two-Face, Paul Sloane, was reimagined as an actor so involved in method acting that he ended up turning himself into one of Batman's deformed, psychotic rogues while researching a part.
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Lost in Character / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid: Decoy Octopus is so committed to his disguises that he requires deprogramming to leave his assumed identities after a mission.
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Lost in Character / int_abe2e836	comment	In one of the many endings on the PC video game adaptation of And Then There Were None, one of the culprits is an actress who got too far into character and committed murder for real.
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Lost in Character / int_b0c66bf6	comment	This concept is a metaphorical interpretation of Black Swan. Nina, sweet and a perfect representation of the White Swan, tries so hard to become the Black Swan that she loses herself.
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Lost in Character / int_b0cf0cdd	comment	The guys behind WrestleCrap have suggested this is what happened to Jim Hellwig, the Ultimate Warrior, who went so far as to have his name legally changed to "Warrior."
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Lost in Character / int_b0fc9724	comment	Played for laughs in an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Emma Stone. Stone plays an actress in a gay porn movie whose only role is to leave the house and then come back a while later to catch her husband cheating on her with another man. She gets deep into character, trying to understand what motivates the woman, and ends up giving an amazing performance...that the director will just cut, because it's gay porn, and no one cares about the internal life of the cheated-on wife.
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Lost in Character / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In recent interpretations, the Chameleon sometimes has trouble discarding his assumed identities without some mental issues.
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Lost in Character / int_b712435c	comment	Possibly Sophie Devereaux in Leverage. She mentions before her sabbatical that she's created so many fake personas she's not really sure what's really her anymore and leaves to bury each of them. This extends so far that we're not sure what her real name is.
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Lost in Character / int_b9d947a4	comment	In Kappa Mikey's Christmas Episode this is Gonardâ€™s fate in a Bad Future via the It's a Wonderful Plot section. Because nobody yelled â€œCUTâ€� during the taping of the final episode of Lilymu (since everyone was abruptly fired) Gonard never stopped playing his villainous counterpart from the show. Thus he became an actual supervillain; or at least a public menace.
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Lost in Character / int_c01e568e	comment	When the cast of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again reformed for their last series in 1973, after a five-year break, this phenomenon was Lampshaded in a mainly-comic sketch. Tim Brooke-Taylor was viewed as so identified with his famous radio personality of Lady Constance de Coverlet, that he simply couldn't get out of character. Fellow cast member Graeme Garden - playing on the fact he genuinely is a qualified medical doctor - diagnosed the condition and performed an "operation" on set to surgically separate Tim from Lady Constance - incidentally parodying TV medical dramas and soap operas.
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Lost in Character / int_c2297a9c	comment	One Judge Dredd story involved an actor playing Judge Death at a tourist trap who got a little too immersed in the role. He begins talking like Death even when off the clock and eventually starts hallucinating the real Death appearing to him and encouraging him to murder people. He snaps and kills his manager, then tries to kill a group of people in a bar with an axe. Dredd is forced to shoot him to save them. Hilariously, his manager continues to praise his Method Acting, even while being strangled to death.
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Lost in Character / int_c2d94770	comment	The House That Dripped Blood: In "Method for Murder", Richard, the failed actor that Alice uses to play Dominick, the strangler from her husband Charles' book, in order to drive him insane, becomes so immersed in the role that he actually believes he is Dominick and murders the psychiatrist, Charles, and finally Alice.
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Lost in Character / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Fake It Till You Make It", Fluttershy creates three salespony personas — one posh, one hipster/valley, and one disaffected goth — and hides behind them because she's too much of a wallflower to deal with strangers directly. It doesn't take long for the personas to start taking over and disagreeing with each other.
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Lost in Character / int_c43df4d8	comment	Actors who played the Doctor from Doctor Who have been prone to this, as the Doctor is said to be one of those characters (much like Sherlock Holmes) who just gets into an actor's head and erodes their identity, and prolonged exposure is extremely dangerous â€“ most Doctors only play the character for short runs as a protective measure against this. A couple, however, slipped into this: Due to the serious mental health problems he was experiencing at the time combined with a punishing shooting schedule, William Hartnell, who played the first Doctor, is reported to have, at times, not known if he was the Doctor or not. He slipped into character to talk his way out of a parking ticket at one point, which is understandable, but apparently would also slip into character to get away from familial obligations, and occasionally even for no obvious reason. The other Doctor whose mental health tanked as a result of the role, Tom Baker, would reportedly keep up character whenever he was out and about for the benefit of child fans, but seven years of being the Doctor both onscreen and off took its toll on both his stress levels and his ability to distinguish Doctor Who from reality. He was unable to stop comparing himself to the character and experienced intense self-loathing for not being so wonderful and heroic as him, in particular struggling to accept his inability to save people from real problems the way the Doctor could save people from monsters, and found himself succumbing to various personality flaws that he had but the Doctor was too perfect for. The fact he had undiagnosed bipolar disorder absolutely did not help with this. Accordingly, with Baker cited as the reason, no actor has since played the character for more than three consecutive seasons (David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker both technically had three and a half, the 'half' in the form of specials, but they were considerably spaced out over a year)
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Lost in Character / int_c5eaa1a9	comment	Beetlejuice: Beetlejuice is roped into playing Captain Ahab in a production of Moby-Dick and so gets into the part he starts thinking he is the man, leading to a disparaging comment from the whale playing Moby about Method actors.
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Lost in Character / int_cb9125e0	comment	In Metal Gear Ac!d, La Clown is able to 'become' Teliko so thoroughly that La Clown is able to access Teliko's memories and feelings, only breaking character when telling Snake her codename of Swallowtail. Apparently only a powerful psychic can detect the difference between La Clown's stolen memories and a person's real memories.
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Lost in Character / int_cb994711	comment	Happens in A Flintstones Christmas Carol, while Fred is busy rehearsing his part of Scrooge and starts acting like a selfish jerk to his family and friends.
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Lost in Character / int_cebeda7b	comment	In the anime film Perfect Blue, Mima confuses scenes from the TV series in which she acts with reality, played for Mind Screw.
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Lost in Character / int_d46cc708	comment	In Ed, Edd n Eddy, Double D and Eddy dress up Ed in a monster costume vaguely resembling a xenomorph in hopes that maybe he'd attract customers to their fair, but Ed's overactive imagination soon takes over and he soon starts truly believing he is a monster and starts attacking all the kids in the cul-de-sac.
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Lost in Character / int_d7d092b5	comment	El Santo. Lucha Libre legend throughout the 50s and until his death in 1984. He became known for his silver mask, which he only removed once for the public eye, and was buried with it on.
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Lost in Character / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Cartman creates a very unfunny and very racist hand puppet impersonation of Jennifer Lopez for a diversity event. He soon completely loses control over everything he makes Jennifer do, and "she" gets a record deal despite Cartman's protests, engages in a sexual relationship with Ben Affleck, ends up in hospital thanks to assault from the real Jennifer Lopez, eventually reveals she is actually a con artist named Mitch Connor, swallows a Cyanide Pill and dies. Subverted in the final seconds of the episode when it's revealed Cartman was just doing it to convince Kyle that this trope was in play, so he could laugh at him about it. Although Mitch Connor returns in "200" and knows Mr. Hat, making this more confusing. "Super Fun Time" has the boys and their class visit a 19th-century living history museum. There is a rule stating that the employees are not allowed to break character for any reason until the moment the work day ends, and the employees treat this rule as Serious Business. A group of robbers who held up a Burger King takes everyone in the museum hostage and demand they give up the code to an electronically locked door so they can escape the police, and since electronic locks don't exist in the 19th century, the employees can't tell them, no matter how much they want to. When the robbers start killing employees for not cooperating, one employee decides to break character and tell them the code to make the killing stop. Before he can do so, one of the other employees uses a gun the kids convinced him to get to arm himself against the bad guys and shoots him dead. The kids and the robbers are absolutely dumbfounded.
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Lost in Character / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: Bolin does this when he gets some Acquired Situational Narcissism after playing Nuktuk, hero of the south, refusing to answer to his actual name, and not understanding why exactly the actress he works with isn't interested in him off-stage.
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Lost in Character / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Drusilla uses her psychic talents to appear to Giles as his former lover Jenny Calendar in order to seduce some information from him. She gets so carried away in the role that she continues making out with him for some time after learning what she was after. Overlapping with Becoming the Mask, Faith switches bodies with Buffy and then impersonates her for several days. She becomes so enamored with Buffy's heroic lifestyle (with loving family and friends looking up to her), that when she has the chance to skip town free and clear she instead comes back to save innocent hostages from a group of vampires "because it's wrong". When Buffy-in-Faith's-body shows up to confront her afterwards, all Faith's own self-loathing comes pouring out in their fight; she beats the crap out of her former body while screaming that she's dirt, trash, and evil. Buffy is able to switch their bodies back but is so shaken by what she just witnessed that she doesn't pursue Faith when she immediately flees.
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Lost in Character / int_e93b2f62	comment	Downplayed with The Fly (1986). In the retrospective documentary Fear of the Flesh Jeff Goldblum admits to having absorbed his character Seth Brundle's possessive insecurity about his relationship with Veronica Quaife — who was, it must be noted, being played by Goldblum's actual lover (and eventual second wife) Geena Davis. Goldblum became a pest during the shooting of the scenes between Veronica and the third corner of the Love Triangle, Stathis (John Getz), saying that there shouldn't be too much chemistry between them lest the love between Seth and Veronica be compromised, to the point that he was once asked to leave the set. Writer-director David Cronenberg subsequently reminded Goldblum that there had to be genuine tension in the triangle for it to work and he behaved from that point onward, but Davis and Getz agree that the scenes between Veronica and Stathis did end up being played pricklier than they read on the page — which, given that Stathis is a creepy Stalker with a Crush, may have been for the best.
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Lost in Character / int_ed8afeac	comment	In an episode of the "Super Chicken" segment of George of the Jungle, an actor portraying a Snidely Whiplash-like character abducted the actress portraying the damsel in distress, making her a real Damsel in Distress.
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Lost in Character / int_f4e06c40	comment	In Avenue 5, Sarah is an actress who is playing one of the bridge crew, also named Sarah, and constantly switches back and forth between Sarah, the actress, and Sarah, the character. This eventually leads to her ejecting herself out the airlock because it seemed like something her character would do.
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Lost in Character / int_fe30da6	comment	On WKRP in Cincinnati, a well-paying job requires Johnny Fever to play an obnoxious, boisterous host of a televised disco dance show, to the point he actually does begin to lose himself and becomes frightened this vile character will become him. Twice as interesting for the fact that Johnny Caravella already plays a role as Doctor Johnny Fever â€“ but it is a role he likes. His best friend Gordon Sims tried to lose himself in the role of Venus Flytrap, to escape from the memories of his time in Vietnam. They catch up with him anyway.
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Lost in Character / int_fee760db	comment	After portraying Idi Amin (a brutal and genocidal Ugandan dictator) in The Last King of Scotland, Forest Whitaker had to go into a period of intense therapy to shake off the character.
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Lost in Character / int_ffe96c37	type	Lost in Character
Lost in Character / int_ffe96c37	comment	Martin Brown, one of the player characters of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, is an actor portraying Jacket in the fictional Midnight Animal film. In the dream sequence of one of his chapters, he professes his love of killing teenagers and attacks an interviewer. When confronted with Richard, Martin tries to explain that it's only a film, but Richard isn't buying it.
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Lost in Character	processingCategory2	Identity Index
Lost in Character	processingCategory2	In Another Man's Shoes
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Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader? (Comic Book) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey (Fanfic) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
New Hope University: Major In Murder (Fanfic) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Bad Education (2004) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Black Swan / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Galaxy Quest / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Inland Empire / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Man on the Moon / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Maniac (1934) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
May December / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Fabelmans / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
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Arsène Lupin / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
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SSS-Class Suicide Hunter / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Day of the Locust / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Night Mayor / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Vicky Angel / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Midori Days (Manga) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
My Neighbor Seki (Manga) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Skip Beat! (Manga) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Music) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Station to Station (Music) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Music) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Bottom / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Dad's Army / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Dark Side of the Ring / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Dead Ringers / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Dollhouse / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Dwight in Shining Armor / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Home Improvement / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
House of Cards (US) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Midsomer Murders / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
MonkTropesK-R	seeAlso	Lost in Character
The Other Two / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Prince (Theatre) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Video Game) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Technobabylon (Video Game) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Yakuza (Video Game) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Cheat Commandos (Web Animation) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Sublo and Tangy Mustard (Web Animation) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
A Killer Party (Web Video) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Gayle (Web Video) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Girlfriend Reviews (Web Video) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Presidential Adventures (Web Video) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Two Saiyans Play (Web Video) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Guilded Age (Webcomic) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Powerup Comics (Webcomic) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Apple & Onion / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Cars 2 / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Jellystone! / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Mummy Nanny / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Phantom Investigators / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The Emoji Movie / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
The X's / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Scott Hall (Wrestling) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Ultimate Warrior (Wrestling) / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character

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