![]() So, he ends up in an asylum, switching continuously from one identity to the next, desperately searching for a face to call his own. He realized that he didn't have an independent identity anymore - just a big collection of faces stolen from his enemies. Spider-Man's foe the Chameleon has ended up like this at least once.Delirium, the personification of madness in The Sandman (1989), sometimes transforms involuntarily into multicolored butterflies or fish.Their natural state is to identify more or less as each other, so they don't really have a base identity to lose or worry about getting back. They exist naturally in a state where they have no solid identity and switch fluidly and easily from shape to shape. Fantastic Four: The entire race of Poppupians is an inversion to this trope.Even if they don't, they can make their imitatees question which is real one. Chameleonians in Space☆Dandy, who don't even know their true forms, are believed to suffer from this.(Though it's censored to protect audience sanity.) Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! has this in the flash anime Remember My Love(craft-sensei), with Nyarko's cousin Nyarue.This is traumatic for the manbeasts themselves, who don't harbour any ill-will to humans. In the Wild Series, all manbeasts lose control of their form when in extended contact with humans, losing their sanity and attacking them.He's eventually revealed to be Sicks's daughter/clone 11, who was set loose in unstable state as an experiment. He has an out-of-control Healing Factor that allows considerable shapeshifting but also means all of his cells are constantly replicating at horrific speed, including his brain cells, so he has no idea what his proper form, or sex, or name, or anything are, and his early memories are long since lost. Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro features X, a shapeshifting Serial Killer whose motivation is inspecting the insides of his victims hoping to learn a bit more about himself.His copied forms start to bleed together and he is left begging for help in making it stop. ![]()
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