The Alternates are the central antagonists of the 2021 horror analog web series The Mandela Catalogue by Alex Kister.

They are demonic shapeshifters who drive their victims to suicide, which they do through a mental condition, Metaphysical Awareness Disorder, caused by exposure to "Verbal information that is not desired to be known". While their motivations for driving humanity insane, or even if they have one, are unknown, it is blatant that they are malevolent in nature.