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The alter egos used by MTV for ''Daria'' were often based on images from popular culture, particularly MTV-related icons of the 1990s. A number of alter egos had female ''Daria'' characters dressed and posing as pop star [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2009/01/theyre-creepy-and-theyre-kooky.html Madonna], for instance, based on images from her most popular music videos. Some alter egos have more obscure origins that only movie buffs might catch (e.g., [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2008/12/youre-going-to-love-this-one.html Janet Barch as Marlene Dietrich], from the latter's 1930 movie, ''Der Blaue Engel'' (The Blue Angel)).
The ''Daria'' franchise has made extensive use of alter egos. The TV episodes produced dozens of alter egos, primarily for the major characters. The episodes "[[College Bored]]," "[[Write Where It Hurts]]," "[[Lane Miserables]]," and "[[Murder, She Snored]]" included brief segments in which characters appear in various [[crossovers]] and [[dream world]]s, usually as part of Daria's daydreaming or story writing. ''[[The Daria Diaries]]'' and ''[[The Daria Database]]'' both use an assortment of alter-ego illustrations. The computer game ''[[Daria's Inferno]]'' includes many oddball alter egos
The most extensive online collection of official ''Daria'' alter egos is at [[Outpost Daria]], consisting of images used early in the ''Daria'' series. Late-series ''Daria'' alter egos, 220 of them, are collected at the current [http://www.mtv.com/onair/daria/flipbook/altarego/ MTV ''Daria'' site].
==="Future Egos"===
With the end credits in the movie ''[[Is It College Yet?]]'' is a series of images sometimes called '''future egos''', apparently showing the ''Daria'' characters years after they graduate high school. Daria and Jane have their own TV show, Mack and Kevin own an ice-cream business, and so on. Though it has been stated that these images were not meant to show what "really happened" to the cast and were meant as a bit of silly fun (Mystic Spiral have joined a church choir!), they have been often used in this manner to inspire fanfiction.
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