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To Know Him, I Must Become Him

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To Know Him, I Must Become Him	comment	The hero decides that the only way to defeat the enemy is to understand how the enemy thinks in the most intimate and experiential way possible: to get inside the enemy's mind either literally or figuratively. The hero may accomplish this with the aid of drugs, Psychic Powers, or some other strategy. May result in a "Not So Different" Remark, or even a personal epiphany (or Epiphany Therapy if done badly). There is also the danger of Becoming the Mask when attempting this with a practical approach! Compare Consulting a Convicted Killer, where the law-abiding protagonists ask a dangerous criminal with a background very similar to the person on the loose to try to suss out how the criminal mind works, and Mirror Character, for characters who know each other because they are already very similar. Contrast That's What I Would Do. Compare and contrast Copied the Morals, Too, where a copy made of a heroic character (usually for diabolical purposes) turns out to have the heroic character's moral code as well as their appearance.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_17024c6d	comment	The Pretender, a series where the protagonist's thing is being able to think like other people, did an inversion in the episode "Once in a Blue Moon": Jarod has to catch a serial killer, and tries to without Becoming Him, because he's afraid that once he starts thinking like a homicidal psychopath he won't be able to stop.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_1f0fe64e	comment	In Monster Inspector Lunge uses this method all the time, narrating it as he goes: "I am X... What do I do now?" For most of the series, X is Tenma or Johan (whom he assumes is a split personality of Tenma).
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_214c84d4	comment	Supposedly, General Montgomery kept a picture of Rommel on his desk and tried to think like him, and this brought about his victory. There's a funny line in The Ipcress File where after the First-Person Smartass narrator is told this story (in reference to thinking like the enemy), he thinks to himself that the extra tanks probably helped. Certainly, Montgomery didn't fight much like Rommel. Monty was a master of set piece battles where you lay out your troops, plan out everything, and launch a complicated, finely tuned attack. Rommel could do that, but he was at his best in a freewheeling mobile battle. It wasn't so much a case of trying to become like Rommel as it was a case of trying to predict his moves. Monty's decision not to pursue Rommel's forces came about because of how well he had studied the Desert Fox. He knew Rommel's strength was in running battles, and he was not about to play to that strength.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons In one episode, Ned has taken Bart, Lisa and Maggie to the river to baptize them. Homer and Marge are searching for them, and the following bizarre train of thought turns out to be spot-on: In another episode, they hire an exterminator to kill a termite infestation. The Sarcastic Middle-Aged Man says that to find the bugs he'll have to "think like a bug, act like a bug, become a bug!" He then starts gnawing on the table.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_2af72b92	comment	An early example in 1920 silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, where the asylum director has a Villainous Breakdown and desperately attempts to become the mythical character Caligari in order to continue his work. "I must know everything. I must penetrate the heart of his secret! I must become Caligari!"
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_341c02e9	comment	Though not literally becoming a different person, Batman Begins had the brilliant line "To conquer Fear; You must become Fear."
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_346db4d5	comment	In The Suffering, the toxic ghost of Executioner Hermes Haight reveals that during the months leading up to his death, he became obsessed with knowing what his victims felt before they died in the gas chamber: merely watching them yielded nothing, and listening to their phone conversations just made him feel like they knew something he didn't; even having sex with their corpses didn't satisfy his curiosity, so he concluded his obsession by "tasting the gas".
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_34d050c6	comment	In the Darkwing Duck episode "Disguise the Limit", Darkwing tries this to find his Evil Twin Negaduck's hideout. Problem is, he's also suffering from that week's Applied Phlebotinum accident. He actually becomes Negaduck. You can find Negs under the Omnicidal Maniac pages; Gosalyn and Launchpad easily find him by following the trail of destruction. Then again, he did find Negaduck. And then accused him of being a fake.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_36c89d24	comment	Taken to dangerous extremes for Will Graham, the main character in Hannibal (adapted from Red Dragon; see above), who uses "pure empathy" to think/feel like the serial killers the team has to find in order to reconstruct their motives and bring about their downfalls.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_3a467f3f	comment	In Resident Evil: Survivor, the first light-gun entry into the series, the protagonist is investigating an Umbrella lab island by impersonating the evil director. This does have a risky side: on losing his memory during the investigation, all of the evidence available made him believe he was the director. Fortunately, he decided that even if he WAS the director, he didn't need to be a dick any longer.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_44fe781e	comment	In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji and Asuka get their asses kicked by Israfel who is "one mind in two bodies". To defeat him, the two do a synchronization training where they do absolutely everything in complete unison. At the end, they are even shown sleeping in the exact same pose. Due to the power of Soundtrack Dissonance (they helped their synch by timing their attacks to music), it worked.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_455e3038	comment	In the King of the Hill episode "Phish and Wildlife:
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_4e5b6428	comment	In Making Money, the antagonist Cosmo Lavish is obsessed with becoming Lord Vetinari. Not just taking over Lord Vetinari's power and position, but actually becoming the man by adopting his speech and mannerisms (including building a device to help Cosmo perfect the Fascinating Eyebrow), and even acquiring Vetinari's old shoes, Sword Cane and signet ring as paraphernalia that might help him metamorphose into the tyrant. That's sad enough, but what's really tragic is the fact that there's an insane asylum ward of people with the same delusion. Even in his insanity, Cosmo couldn't be original. Although he did eventually win the ward's eyebrow-raising competition, so at least he's good at what he does.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_4f7a49d9	comment	Literally in George's case in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. When he becomes another creature, he thinks like that creature, sometimes to the point where he almost loses his own personality until something (usually the thought of his wife) snaps him back. So when he becomes a Leader Tayhil so he can boss other Tayhil around, he learns a lot about Tayhil in general. Later, he ponders shapeshifting as an aid to interspecies understanding.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_58ca57a	comment	A rare unwilling example: After the events of Dark Nights: Metal, the Batman Who Laughs is still at large in Gotham City. The Joker, upon hearing this, immediately makes for Batman's cave and shoots himself so the toxin in his heart can convert Batman into BWL. His logic? "The only way to beat him... is to become him..."
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Soul Eater: In order to understand Crona's soul, which is hidden by their insanity, Maka goes insane herself during their second fight.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_60f02ddb	comment	This is played for laughs in American Dad!, when Roger tasks himself with finding Haley and Jeff to steal the money they conned from Haley's parents to elope with. When Klaus questions how Roger will find them, Roger replies, "to find a stoned loser, I must become a stoned loser". After taking a large hit off a water bong, he begins skateboarding off down the street. Suddenly the pot kicks in and he skates through a psychedelic acid sequence to MGM's "Electric Feels" before face-planting on a beach in Thailand, right in front of Haley and Jeff.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_625e571	comment	In the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Vacancy", Goren and Eames come to suspect that a method actor who was working on a role as a serial killer may have got so method that he ended up killing someone himself. They're right, although his motive is a bit more complicated than that.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_62894fec	comment	In JLA # 11, in order to navigate a holographic maze controlled by the mind of The Joker, the Martian Manhunter reconfigures his brain so he can think like him.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: There was an episode where there's a gruesome series of killings. Turns out Mulder's old mentor in criminal profiling is doing it — after thinking like a certain killer he was trying to catch for twelve years, he really did become him.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_6d5f5c09	comment	When The Kingpin hires Bullseye to kill Frank Castle in The Punisher MAX, Bullseye first fails to kill Frank when he shows up and tries to snipe the Kingpin. With his first attempt a failure, Bullseye embarks on a quest to get inside Frank Castle's head by sleeping in his old hideouts, wearing his clothes, eating his food, and finally, to try and recreate what created the Punisher in the first place - by kidnapping families, then having them murdered in the park while pretending he's the father. He repeats this three times, but still doesn't succeed, until he spends a week isolated in a room while staring at old family photos of Frank and his family, and finally realizes something that no one else has: Frank's last words to Lisa before she and the kids were killed - "I'm leaving".
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_6e884bf9	comment	Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines: In "Operation Birdbrain," Dastardly reasons that the only way for the Squadron to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon is to think, eat and sleep like a pigeon. Guess how that turned out.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The episode "Field of Fire" centers around Ezri Dax tracking down a serial killer on the station in this way. Made more literal by the fact that one of her previous hosts was a murderer. Inverted in the episode "Facets," where to get to know Dax's previous hosts better, Jadzia must temporarily take them out of her mind and into friend's bodies.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_74149a97	comment	This is Will Graham's whole modus operandi — and curse. In fact, he had to spend some time in a mental ward just because that's what having to think as foully as Hannibal Lecter did to him.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_76c01b30	comment	In V for Vendetta, Inspector Eric Finch, in order to understand V's motives, visits the concentration camp where V was driven insane (and from which he escaped), and takes a massive amount of LSD. The resulting "imprisonment and escape"-themed acid trip not only helps Finch comprehend V's mind and thereby discover his hideout; it also leads Finch to confront his moral ambivalence, guilt and "trapped" feeling regarding his job, and ultimately to the V-like realization that he's his own jailor and can free himself.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_7aa5ebea	comment	Squidbillies: Early references this by name while explaining to Granny that the only way to understand his convoluted, drunken instructions is to be an angry ranting drunk.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_7ec0cdab	comment	There was an episode of the radio version of The Mighty Boosh where there was a villain stealing animals from the zoo. Howard wants to do a psychological profile, get inside the fiend's head and work out when he'll next strike... and Bob Fossil and Vince suggest flying around in a helicopter firing flares everywhere.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_8125b468	comment	A somewhat inadvertent example occurs in Batman: The Man Who Laughs. Bruce Wayne, targeted by the Joker and under police guard, takes a non-lethal dose of the Joker's venom so that Alfred can spirit him away in an ambulance and allow him to change into costume. However, before the antidote Alfred gives him takes effect, Wayne has a brief psychotic episode in which he blames all of Gotham for his parents' death and swears revenge. Upon regaining his wits, Batman suddenly understands the Joker's paranoid thought process and deduces that the villain means to kill the entire city.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Played for laughs at the climax of the Alabasta arc in One Piece. While most of the main characters are hunting down a massive bomb set up by Crocodile, Usopp's big idea is to start doing a comical impression of Crocodile in an attempt to figure out how he thinks. This earns him a Dope Slap.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_ad216b56	comment	Done by accident in Oshi no Ko: To help her with reality TV performances, Akane creates a persona based on Ai. It's so eerily close to the real thing, it gives her the insight to figure out Aqua is Ai's son.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_afc86b0a	comment	The whole reason children, and specifically Ender, are trained the way they are in Ender's Game. Only someone who completely sympathizes with and understands the buggers can predict their tactics and defeat them, but anyone who could understand them that well couldn't bring themselves to wipe them out. So you train children up and don't let them know they're already commanding real armies in real war; an adult would see through this. (Also, they have nimble video-game-playing fingers.)
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Ultra Series The philosophy and methods of Alien Knackle from Return of Ultraman The Ur-Example for the Ultra Series may be the Guts aliens in Ultraseven.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_b4fe32c9	comment	As noted in the page quote, one episode of Invader Zim has Dib go into a speech about how he'll have to do this in order to beat Zim. Subverted somewhat in that he never actually does any of what he's talking about.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who, "Curse of Fenric": During WWII, British Commander Millington has a room in his HQ that looks just like Hitler's office, so he can think like he thinks. (Millington is pretty unstable — though not a Nazi.)
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_c5b9137b	comment	Dark City: Mr. Hand volunteers to inject himself with the memories John should have received, so he can better understand their quarry. This successfully turns Mr. Hand into a psychopath, but fails to teach him anything about John. After all, the entire reason they are after John is because he found those memories so abhorrent that he was able to reject them.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_ca2e0d18	comment	In Face/Off, FBI agent Sean Archer has plastic surgery to resemble criminal mastermind Castor Troy, who is conveniently in a coma and in custody, adopts his mannerisms, and gets himself jailed to find out the location of a bomb from Troy's brother. However, Archer soon finds himself Hoist by His Own Petard when Troy awakens, forces the doctors to give him Archer's face, kills everyone who knows about the switch, and takes his place at home and work.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_cb7e4986	comment	One-Punch Man: Garou tries to do this in order to defeat Saitama, and actually achieves some measure of success at first, copying his movements, thoughts, and mannerisms, with the intention of drawing out Saitama's full power and copying it completely. He even reaches the point where he actually develops a copy of Saitama's face over his own. With this, he is able to match Saitama's consecutive normal punches and even his serious punch, but it turns out that challenging Saitama on a level he had never been confronted with before only spurred him to continue getting stronger at an exponential rate, and even though Garou kept attempting to copy him, his own rate of power increase simply couldn't keep up.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_ccf875f7	comment	This is more or less the premise of Criminal Minds. "I'm the unsub..."
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_cd713f4	comment	The Stainless Steel Rat uses drugs and hypnosis to take on Angelina's sociopathic personality, in order to work out what her next move might be after losing track of her on an alien planet. Sociopathic!Jim realizes that Evil Feels Good and decides to keep taking the drug, but fortunately his normal self took the precaution of setting up a sleep-gas booby-trap inside his gun case, so he gets knocked out until the drug wears off. The plan works though, as Jim realizes that Angelina's self-centered narcissism will make her Take Over the World (sure enough, she's working behind the scenes to launch a revolution).
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_d3e3e38a	comment	Subverted in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Glimmer goes to Shadow Weaver asking about how she can think like Catra to figure out where she's been hiding out. Shadow Weaver's response is to tell her she can just use a spell to locate Catra's base directly. Played a bit straighter when Scorpia has to find some information left behind by Entrapta after she was sent to Beast Island. She tries to think like Entrapta, including impersonating her voice, until she comes up with a place to look.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_df49d104	comment	The first-season explanation behind Frank Black's abilities in Millennium (1996). The second and third seasons turned it into something more mystical, against creator Chris Carter's original plan.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_e5de447c	comment	Your basic strategy in the X-COM games is to research the alien invaders through recovered artifacts, autopsies and interrogations until you understand their motives, while at the same time reverse-engineering enough of their technology that you can emulate their tactics and defeat them. This is particularly pronounced in the Enemy Within expansion for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, in which you can use the alien's "Meld" technology to turn your soldiers into cyborgs similar to how the aliens have modified their own troops (if to a less horrific extent), or give your soldiers biological augmentations based on the aliens' own biology. Your Chief Engineer admits to being troubled by the thought of following the same path as the aliens, and appropriately, Enemy Within's opening quote is from R. Buckminster Fuller, warning that "Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword."
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Parodied when the Griffins house is infested with termites. Peter suggests that they adapt the termites customs, wear their clothing, and breed with their women, and "eventually, our differences will be forgotten". Another episode has Stewie afraid of the Tooth Fairy, and decides to capture him. He states that, "to find a fairy, he has to think like a fairy". Brian then gives an Aside Glance, and a narrator gives the viewer the options of choosing between two incredibly obvious gay jokes, and having Brian do a Mexican hat dance.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_f858a2c5	comment	In Bookhunter, when Agent Bay discovers that the thief he's hunting is a dark-haired woman, he announces that he's going to get himself fitted for a black wig. He explains, "To catch a thief, you must think like a thief. You must live, eat, and dress like a thief." This is never really followed up on.
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To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_fdb030a8	comment	Training Day: "It takes a wolf to catch a wolf."
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