Contradictory character seems to mean a character who defies stereotypes or exhibits traits that contradict one another, in a literary sense. I wish to distinguish what I mean from round characters.
Is there a commonly used term for when a player role-plays someone radically different than the player is? Or is the ambiguous "contradictory character" as good as it gets? I'm not interested in potential terms - if there isn't any normally used term for it I'll accept that answer. DMs don't count here because we might role-play almost anyone in a normal game; What about when a player breaks away from their norm and portrays a persona clashingly different from their own?
I'm aware of the relevant psychological terms but alas no clear RPG term.