Future Me Scares Me/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character's future self irritates and/or freaks them out.

  • Straight: Bob, the Plucky Comic Relief, is disturbed by his Future Badass self.
  • Exaggerated: Bob, The Messiah, is utterly repulsed by his future self's Complete Monster tendencies.
  • Downplayed: Bob doesn't like his future self's habit of smoking.
  • Justified: Bob is a pacifist, so seeing himself give this trait up so haphazardly freaks him out.
  • Inverted: Bob admires his Future Loser self for some obscure quality.
  • Subverted: Bob is disturbed by his Future Badass self... but another Bob from later on shows up, and it turns out he's back to being comic relief.
  • Double Subverted: And then another Bob from even later shows up; he's back to being a Future Badass.
  • Parodied: Bob, a Complete Monster, is utterly repulsed by the slight pitch change in his Messiah-like future self's voice.
  • Zig Zagged: Future versions of several characters are shown: the Granola Girl became a Well-Intentioned Extremist, the Jerk Jock became a Future Loser, and the Cloudcuckoolander didn't really change at all.
  • Averted: Future Bob is more or less the same.
  • Enforced: "We need some drama in this time-travel scene!"
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: Bob openly looks for qualities he hates in case he ever meets his future self.
  • Exploited: Emperor Evulz sets up circumstances to make Present Bob infuriated at Future Bob.
  • Defied:
    • "Screw it, my future self is actually pretty cool!"
    • He doesn't show any disturbance whatsoever and listens to his future self's warning.
  • Discussed: "A time machine? Oh no. What if I turn out to be evil?!"
  • Conversed: "You'd think Bob would be excited about how cool his future self is."

You can go back to my main version if you want, but he's kinda scary.

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