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== Anime and Manga ==

* Claire Stanfield in ''[[Baccano]]'' has one while finishing off his [[Madness Makeover]]:

{{quote| "{{spoiler|[[Cult|Lemures]]...[[The Mafia|The Russo family]]...Don't make me laugh. ''I'll'' be your monster. The one that will devour you all. From now on, just for you, ''I'' will be your [[The Reveal|Rail Tracer]]!}}"}}

{{quote|"{{spoiler|[[Cult|Lemures]]...[[The Mafia|The Russo family]]...Don't make me laugh. ''I'll'' be your monster. The one that will devour you all. From now on, just for you, ''I'' will be your [[The Reveal|Rail Tracer]]!}}"}}

* 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.

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* 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:

{{quote| '''Gerry''' [looking in the mirror]: You have two head problems. One, that was close, very close. Put in layman's terms, she nearly caught you. Two, and this is far more worrying than the first one, you're talking to yourself in the mirror again. Really bad sign.}}

{{quote|'''Gerry''' [looking in the mirror]: You have two head problems. One, that was close, very close. Put in layman's terms, she nearly caught you. Two, and this is far more worrying than the first one, you're talking to yourself in the mirror again. Really bad sign.}}

** Later brought up again by his friend:

{{quote| '''Russell''': You've been talking to yourself in the mirror again, haven't you?}}

{{quote|'''Russell''': You've been talking to yourself in the mirror again, haven't you?}}

* Willem Defoe did a ''really'' good one in the first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' movie. He was [[Talking to Themself|talking to his Goblin side]].

* 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]].

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* 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:

{{quote| '''Tristan:''' (to mirror, rehearsing to tell his father, Dunstan) Father, I lost my job. Father, I...I lost my job, I'm sorry. Father...~~<br />~~

{{quote|'''Tristan:''' (to mirror, rehearsing to tell his father, Dunstan) Father, I lost my job. Father, I...I lost my job, I'm sorry. Father...

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

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

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* 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]].

{{quote| "They don't know. They don't know shit. You're not going to get hurt... They believe every word because you're '''super cool'''."}}

{{quote|"They don't know. They don't know shit. You're not going to get hurt... They believe every word because you're '''super cool'''."}}

* ''[[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.