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A character talks to their reflection in the mirror. Usually, it's a male character giving himself a pep talk.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Sailor Moon]] SuperS'' Sailor Jupiter's mind is increasingly befuddled in Nehelenia's lair and she finds herself [http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=g-7_dsPwrS4&feature=related having a conversation] with her reflection. Her "reflection" convinces her to give up, since it controlled by the [[Big Bad]]. Next goes on to Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, but only Moon is unconvinced for once.

* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' anime, Light does this while contemplating the likelihood that he'll have to {{spoiler|kill his little sister}}. Misa listens outside.

* The much-parodied "[[You Talkin' to Me?]]" scene from ''[[Taxi Driver]]''.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Sliding Doors]]'', after Gerry almost had his "secret romance" revealed to his live-in girlfriend:

** Later brought up again by his friend:

* Ash Williams in ''[[Evil Dead|Evil Dead 2]]'' tries to use a mirror to reassure himself that everything's going to be fine. Since evil spirits are running loose, however, his mirror image immediately comes to life, mocks him and tries to strangle him. He does the same thing at the start of the video game ''Hail to King'': in this case, his reflection not only responds, it emerges from the mirror to become his [[Evil Knockoff]].

* The intro to Montgomery Brogan's rant in [[Spike Lee]]'s ''[[25th Hour|Twenty Fifth Hour]]''.

* The opening of ''[[The Truman Show]]'' has one of these. It's a little more complicated than that, though. Since he's doing dialogue for two ''other'' characters watching from behind the mirror... Much of a later scene of him doing the same thing and drawing on the mirror was apparently improvised by [[Jim Carrey]].

* Tristan in ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]'', after he lost his job:

'''Dunstan:''' ([[Right Behind Me|behind him]]) You lost your job. }}

* In Disney's ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' the title character sings with her own reflection.

* Pictured above, Don Logan does the nutter variety of this in ''[[Sexy Beast]]'', eventually talking himself into attacking Gal in his bed.

* In ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', Mr. Orange's pep talk before going undercover for the first time, as well as [[The Power of Acting|preparing his "criminal" anecdote]].

* ''[[Michael Clayton]]'' cuts back and forth between [[Tilda Swinton]] character laboriously practicing her comments as a mirror monologue and the "final version" she delivers. This shows that her air of self-confidence is an agonizingly crafted facade hiding stark terror just below the surface.

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': Gollum/Smeagol's argument with his reflection in the water before he and the Hobbits get to Cirith Ungol.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Angel]]'' featured an eerie inversion of this trope as an episode [[The Teaser|teaser]]. Lorne, due to {{spoiler|having his need for sleep allegedly removed, and then staying awake for several weeks on end}}, is slowly losing his mind, and his control over his powers. After he retreats to a dressing room to take a breather, his reflection starts giving him the cheerful pep talk he's too exhausted to give himself. The real Lorne suddenly flies into a rage and tells himself to shut up, [[Rage Against the Reflection|shattering the mirror]] and snapping himself back to reality.

* In the ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' episode "If The Shoe Fits...", Aphrodite's reflection convinces Aphrodite to get the little girl back as her apprentice/whatever.

* Liz Lemon did this in ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]''.

* This variation was used for a similar purpose in the ''[[Charmed]]'' episode "Coyote Piper."

* And in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' with Niki and Jessica.

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', during the [[Musical Episode]], Dawn looks at herself in a mirror and starts to sing a sad song... only to be interrupted and kidnapped after singing the first line.

* In the final season of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', Miley is confronted by her own guilty conscience, represented by herself as Hannah in the mirror. After years of [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|Miley]] [[Little Miss Snarker|being generally obnoxious to other people]], it's incredibly amusing to watch her try to out-sass herself.

 

 

 

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