I Hate Past Me: Difference between revisions

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== Anime ==

* In ''[[Noein]]'', Karasu condemns his past self for being an utter coward. [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|Considering what he's trying to do]], not an entirely unreasonable attitude. And then {{spoiler|the titular Noein turns out to be yet another future Yuu, who hates ''both'' Yuu and Karasu}}.

* [[Naruto]], after the [[Time Skip]] in ''Shipuuden'', does an omake with his past self. He is shocked by the fact that he was a very annoying, obnoxious loudmouth before the [[Time Skip]].

* A minor one in ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'': Future Trunks lets his curiosity get the better of him and goes to get a good look at his baby self... who starts pulling his hair.

 

* In [[Twisted Toyfare Theatre]], Future Hulk (Maestro) couldn't believe how stupid his younger counterpart is.

* During Genis-Vell's omnipotent madman phase, he brought Rick Jones's teenage self to the present—that is, Rick from ''before'' the Gamma Bomb accident that created the Hulk, when Rick was forced to grow up and start taking responsibility for his actions. Naturally, present-day Rick can't stand him.

* [[Doctor Strange]]'s villains occasionally attempt mind-games like showing him his life as an [[Dr. Jerk|arrogant young surgeon]]. He's never once been tempted to go back.

 

* Asuka in ''[[RE-TAKE|Evangelion Re-Take]]'' feels somewhat vitriolic toward her past self, particularly when she enters into a romantic relationship with Shinji, whom future Asuka has much more reason to hate. There's also some self-loathing and jealousy involved.

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon thinks that Future!Kyon is arrogant and condescending and that Past!Kyon is incompetent. This is [[Playing with a Trope|played with]], as Kyon [[Discussed Trope|tells Koizumi]] that he mostly [[Invoked Trope|annoys himself so that he'll remember things that he'll have to do later]], but this was played straight during a later chapter when Future!Kyon sent a text to Kyon calling him an idiot for not seeking help from Yuki during an encounter with an enemy slider.

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Back to The Future|Back to the Future II]]'', Old Biff doesn't particularly like Young Biff, thinking of him as an ignorant macho idiot ([[Generation Xerox|like his grandson]]), but is willing to give him the secret to infinite wealth since it will make himself rich in the future. Unfortunately, the end result is a Biff much more diabolical than either of them.

** Young Biff didn't care much for Old Biff either, thinking he was some crazy old coot even when Old Biff showed him his plan to make him/them rich was legit. So...I Hate Future Me?

{{quote|'''Future Doctor Smith:''' I never liked myself much anyway.}}

* In ''[[Time Cop]]'', Senator McComb travels from 2004 to 1994 to kill his then business partner and meets his past self in the process. He remarks that he "remembers having bigger balls", tells his past self to "lay off the fucking candy bars" and punches him in the face.

 

== Literature ==

* In the ''Mistborn'' novel ''[[The Alloy of Law]]'', Miles burning gold sees two possible "pasts" of himself, and both hate each other.

** This is a common effect of burning gold, actually, since it shows you either your past or a possible past (it's rather unclear- gold is probably the least understood of the core allomantic metals, since burning it is often a disturbing experience). Vin, the heroine of the original ''[[Mistborn]]'' trilogy, is also extremely uncomfortable with seeing her pre-[[Character Development]] [[Broken Bird]] self while burning gold, and never does it again.

* In the "Q-Continuum" series of ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels, Q takes Picard on a trip through his past to show him why breaching the galactic barrier would be a bad idea. Throughout the trip Q laments his past self's actions. Understandable, since he did grant {{spoiler|a sadistic [[Eldritch Abomination]] and its equally monstrous cronies entrance to our galaxy which led to the destruction of an entire civilization that had actually earned Q's respect.}}

 

* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode ''Time Slides'', Lister goes back in time to visit his teenage self who turns out to be an authority-hating punk who believes everything is 'crypto-fascist'. Also, [[Future Me Scares Me|inverted]] in ''Out of Time''.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''The Five Doctors'', after the past Doctors return to their respective timelines, the present Doctor (the fifth one) says "I am not the man I was ... thank goodness." This implies that while he might not exactly ''hate'' his past selves, he considers them phases he's since outgrown.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Spellforce|Spellforce: The Order Of Dawn]]'', {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] is the past version of the [[Big Good]].}} Naturally this relationship applies. At the end of the game, {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] undergoes a [[Heel Face Turn]] and goes back in time to stop his past self from causing [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. This leads to a [[Stable Time Loop]], wherein he becomes the [[Big Good]].}}

* The ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' quest, "Mystery of the Infinite," has you fighting along your future self to defend an object from the Infinite Dragonflight. Throughout the fight, your future self mocks you with tidbits such as:

* In [[Legacy of Kain|Soul Reaver 2]], Raziel's past [[Amnesiac Dissonance|self]], a [[Jerkass]] [[Knight Templar]], scares him.

 

* Subverted in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', where The Sorrow shows the amnesiac Liquid his past in order to to show him how, violent, cruel and indifferent to humanity he was. Cue Liquid gushing over how much of a [[Badass]] he was.

* A book 4 arc of ''[[Fans]]'' pits the science fiction club against their book 1 versions, and nearly all of them have this reaction.

* From ''[[Narbonic]]'': "I'm your future, and I hate you. I'm {{spoiler|going to electrocute you now.}}"

* [[Templar, Arizona]]: In the bonus comic [http://templaraz.com/bonus_comics/confirmation.php Confirmation] the loud, boisterous adult Reagan, meets and torments her insecure, reserved, {{spoiler|and racist<ref>moulignan is the Italian equivalent of nigger in case if you're wondering</ref>}} younger self.

 

== Western Animation ==

** Ironically, the past self is only a few days younger then the future self. Granted, a ''lot'' happened in those few days, including several magical transformations which increased his intelligence and dramatically boosted his power.

* In an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', [[Batman Beyond|old Bruce Wayne]] meets his past self and, during a suspect's interrogation, comments that "I can't believe I used to be so green." Afterwards, Old Bruce teaches his past self how to properly interrogate a criminal, foregoing the traditional method of terrifying the [[Mook]] and instead simply ''beating'' information out of him. This leads to an amusing [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]] with Batman playing both roles, and past Batman's teammates expressing their disbelief at the Batman they know being able to pull off Good Cop.

** The relationship is eventually inverted. His younger self dislikes Matrix's bitterness while Matrix tries to regain some of the idealism of his youth.

* ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'': Following a trans-dimensional mishap in one episode, 10-year-old Ben Tennyson meets his 16-year-old self. Ben doesn't hate his younger self, but he does find him incredibly rude and annoying, scolding him when he makes rude comments.

* In ''[[Generator Rex]]'', the eponymous character, suffering from chronic [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], finds out that he once sold out his best friends to a crime boss. Also, though he never mentions ''hating'' it, per se, Six was a cold-hearted [[Jerkass]] and wannabe [[The Casanova|Casanova]] before he met Rex, and {{spoiler|temporarily reverts to this when he loses six years of memory}}.

 

== Other ==

 

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