I Hate Past Me: Difference between revisions

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See also [[Future Me Scares Me]], so for this from the point of view from the past self, go there. Compare [[Old Shame]], a more mundane version of this trope, and [[Amnesiac Dissonance]], where something similar happens as a result of previously-hidden memories being recovered. Contrast [[Other Me Annoys Me]].

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== Anime ==

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* A future version of Doctor Smith uses this trope as a justification for attempting to kill his past self in the movie version of ''[[Lost in Space]]''.

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

* In ''[[Time Cop]]'', Senator ~~[[Mc Comb]]~~ 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* Upon seeing his decisions from an observer's point of view, [[A Christmas Carol|Ebenezer Scrooge]] eventually has little but large amounts of disdain for the choices his past self made, occasionally berating him despite knowing he can't hear.