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A character encounters an "alternate" version of themselves that they greatly dislike. The alternate can be a work of fiction existing only on a written page or [[Show Within a Show]], or a [[Doppelganger]] of some sort ([[Cloning Blues|Clone]], [[Time Travel]], [[Alternate Universe]], etc). The alternate version may be a [[Straw Man|thinly veiled caricature]] that [[Flanderization|exaggerates]] negative qualities or emphasizes neutral or even positive traits in ways the original dislikes, or invents traits whole cloth that [[Adaptation Decay|are highly out of character.]] The original is likely to become ''very'' angry at the author or the alternate for the real (or perceived) insult.
The "original" may find that [[For Want of a Nail]] their alternate version is really annoying, and (if not a fictional creation) the alternate may likewise find the original embarrassing. On the other hand, the alternate may be a much more successful or well developed individual who angers the original by outshining them. Expect at least one of them to say "[[I Resemble That Remark]]" and/or "Why didn't anyone tell me [[Does This Make Me Look Fat?|this makes me look fat?]]"
Compare [[Future Me Scares Me]] and [[I Hate Past Me]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The Slim Jim in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1XM3_0v7pw this 2000 commercial] clearly doesn't like the other Jims too much.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Super]]'': Frieza has nothing but contempt for Frost, his Universe 6 counterpart, and defeats him easily.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Hero Squared]]'' the "normal" Milo is quite annoyed with the Superhero version of himself from another universe (Captain Valor), and vice versa. Valor is less-than-impressed with Milo's selfishness and complete failure to make anything of his life, whilst Milo resents Valor's smug self-righteousness and over-simplified view of the world and how it works.
* ''[[The Authority]]:'' while crossing over to a [[Gender
* [[Marvel Comics]]: In the ''[[Identity Wars]]'' miniseries [[Deadpool]], [[Spider
** One nice example involving Deadpool has him inventing an imaginary version of himself (aka, he willed himself into having a split personality) while trapped inside a room for over 800 years (long story). Why did he do this? To have someone to play hangman with of course. His plan fails when the imaginary Deadpool turns out to be a genius and starts totally kicking Deadpool's ass in the game.
* In one Disney comic, [[Donald Duck]]'s friends and family force him to spend 24 hours with a duplicate of himself, to show him how annoying he is.
* There was a storyline in [[The Fantastic Four]] in 1998 where [[Time Travel]] mishaps resulted in Franklin and Valeria being guests of their adult selves - each version didn't like the other at all.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[
* A ''[[Labyrinths of Echo
* The first half of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''By His Bootstraps'' consists of the interaction between the protagonist Bob Wilson and some of his past and future selves, due to a very convoluted [[Time Travel]] plot. The scene is retold several times, each from the point of view of a different version of
== [[Live
* Vamp Willow in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].'' She thought the regular Willow was too wimpy, and regular Willow thought Vamp Willow was too skanky and evil.
** Also the two Xanders in "The Replacement". The one who seems to the audience to be regular Xander is annoyed at the suave, confident Xander.
* When
* ''[[Fringe]]'' - Walter and Olivia do '''not''' like their counterparts in the alternate universe. Walter doesn't like Walternate, because basically, Walternate was hellbent on destroying our universe (and also reminds Walter of how succesful Walter could have been, had he not been institutionalized). Walternate doesn't like Walter because Walter kidnapped his son and caused significant damage to the alternate universe. Olivia doesn't like Fauxlivia because Fauxlivia slept with Peter, and Fauxlivia is annoyed withe Olivia because Olivia's general demeanor is not as upbeat as Fauxlivia's.
* McGee, of ''[[NCIS]]'', wrote a novel somewhat based on people he knew. As each member of the team learned about how their counterpart was portrayed, they took offense at the idea. Tim made it ''very'' clear that the fictional versions weren't the same, but almost everyone said [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|methinks thou doth protest too much.]]
** Except Gibbs, who didn't mind.
* ''[[
** Earlier, there is an episode where Rimmer is copied, they annoy each other and eventually Lister just deletes one.
* In one episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', an alternate universe version of Rodney McKay appears. This version is charming, extroverted and socially skilled. The regular Rodney ends up disliking him because everyone seems to like him better.
** At the end of the episode Teyla, Sheppard, and Ronan reveal that they weren't terribly fond of the alt-universe Rodney, either.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has this happen to ''every'' character when they see the Doctor's holoplay "Photons Be Free", who he portrays as anti-holographic racists and even complete monsters. Eventually he relents and changes the characters to not be so obviously stand-ins for his real life friends.
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* On ''[[Friends]]'', Rachel dates Russ, a guy who's remarkably like Ross. Ross finds him completely annoying, being totally unaware that he's basically criticizing himself.
* This is referenced in ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' where fictionalized characters closely resemble real people but with negative characterization. Anger ensues.
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'' in the episode Tall Tales Sam and Dean take turns telling Bobby what's happened so far and describe each other in an unflattering way.
** "The Monster at the End of the Book," the episode which introduces Chuck the Prophet. Chuck thinks he's just making up stories, but he's really getting visions fo what Sam & Dean are going to do. Also they are disturbed to see people have been writing slash about their characters online.
* In an episode of ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', Doctor Rush gets sent back in time through "a freak of physics" and warns everyone that the very risky plan they were about to attempt was going to fail miserably. The non-time-travelling Rush (who's been very vocal about the risks inherent in the plan) is very smug about this, to the point of completely disregarding time-travelling Rush's ordeal. Time-travelling Rush is not impressed.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Three Doctors" (first serial of the tenth season) featured the First, Second, and Third Doctor in one story. While the First had a limited role (due to William Hartnell's failing health) [[Crowning Moment of Funny| he ''seriously'' stole the show]], giving both his successors [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], seeing them as bumbling upstarts.
== [[Magazines]] ==
* ''[[MAD]]'' magazine's parody of ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]'' ends with No-Face shooting and killing Tracy; he then removes his mask to reveal he is the original [[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|Dick Tracy]] (as Chester Gould designed him) stating that he did so because the new version was ruining his reputation.
** ''MAD'' actually uses this Trope a lot in parodies of films that are adaptations. Their lampoon of ''[[Popeye (film)|Popeye]]'' is cut short by the cartoon version of the hero, who thinks the idea of Popeye not liking spinach is ridiculous.<ref>A case of [[Critical Research Failure]], as the original Popeye also refused to eat spinach until he discovered it made him strong.</ref>
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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** When he makes a copy of only his ''good'' side, it works out at first because this one is willing to do all the work, but eventually they come to blows over whether they should be nice to Susie, whom the good side openly admits to having a crush on.
** And when Calvin travels to the future to get his done homework from his future self, three different versions of him end up fighting over which of them should have done the homework. Totally averted with Hobbes in the same story, as his egotism is of a sort that gets along with itself. "You're right, as always, Hobbes."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat|Mortal Kombat 11]]'', the [[Older and Wiser]] version of Johnny Cage is just as annoyed by his obnoxious counterpart from the past as anyone else is, to the point where [[Let's You and Him Fight|a fight breaks out between them]] .
** Oddly enough, Kano - one of the bad guys - gets along with his past self just fine.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
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* In Kate Beaton's ''[[Hark!
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', {{spoiler|Haley's}} [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0382.html mental representations] argue amongst each other during her time with aphasia.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' features an access to a potentially infinite number of alternative dimensions, so there are opportunities for this.
** [[Inverted]] in "Torg Goes to Hell": Zoë and Riff accidentally rescue the wrong Torg from another
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'''Torg''': "''Embezzle?'' Embezzle means to steal from a company or boss! I'm a freelance web designer, so I don't have a boss! Why?"
'''Bun-bun''': "The word is pronounced "Imbecile.""
'''Portuguese Torg''': "''Ahh!''" }}
** In "That Which Redeems", Torg encounters another version of himself who turns out to be a complete jerk, to the point of not going to {{spoiler|his girlfriend's, or possibly wife's, funeral, on the basis that he can get any woman now that he's a big "hero".}} In response to this, "our" Torg clubs him over the head with a serving-tray.
** In "4U City Red", {{spoiler|Riff}} meets an old grumpy alternative-dimension-version of himself that's basically the same as he, except older and grumpier. They really annoy each other, especially the young one the old one, though there is some grudging respect by the end at least.
* Zigzagged in ''[[League Of Super Redundant Heroes]]'' with Good Girl, or rather, her original, not-so-good personality, Bad Good Girl. Throughout the first few hundred strips, Bad Good Girl has despised her heroic alter-ego. However, when the two become a [[Literal Split Personality]], they [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=746-express-yourself get along surprisingly well.] More or less.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]:'' while exploring Caboose's mind as a ghost, Church encounters Caboose's mental image of Church and is incredibly annoyed by him.
* There was a battle between [[Courtney Love]]'s 2 twitter feeds. The first one was the official feed managed by a ghost writter, the other was a private feed under a [[Nom De Plume]]. Courtney got enraged when the official feed started publishing polite things, and she published not-so-polite things about the official feed on her private feed.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the Gaang attend a play about themselves only to find that everyone except Toph hates their theatric counterparts.
* Towards the end of the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' episode ''[[Duck Amuck]]'', the frame shifts, [[Camera Screw| leaving Daffy's top half on the bottom and bottom half on the top]]... inadvertently cloning Daffy. The two Daffys quickly start arguing with each other:
* In ''[[Batman Beyond]],'' Terry takes Bruce to see Batman: The Musical for his birthday. Terry finds the jolly, musical Batman to be great fun. Bruce is... not impressed. ▼
{{quote|'''Daffy Prime:''' Listen, bub, if you wasn't me, I'd smack you right in the puss!
'''Daffy Clone:''' Don't let ''that'' bother ya, Jack!
'''Daffy Prime:''' ''[winding up a punch]'' Okay, buddy, you asked for it!
''[Daffy Clone gets erased just before Daffy throws his punch, making him miss wildly]''}}
* In an episode of ''[[The Smurfs]]'', an accident with magic causes both Papa Smurf and Gargamel to each split into two separate "twins" of themselves. The two Papa Smurfs try to find a cure to recombine, but they can't get along or cooperate with each other at all, and cause even more accidents, blowing up their lab; eventually, they decide they have to work on it separately, and draw straws, the loser leaving the village. (The other smurfs decide to help out, half of them leaving with the one who leaves.) Meanwhile, the two Gargamels fare even worse, hating each other to the point of getting into fist fights. When the two Papa Smurfs eventually do find the cure, it turns out the reason both pairs didn't like each other, simply put, was that they were too similar.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]],''
▲** In
** This version of Bruce is also quite annoyed when he meets the younger version of himself in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' and sees the younger Batman hang a criminal over the edge of a building. "I can't believe I was ever this green," says the elder version. He takes his cane and moves towards the crook, threateningly. "''This'' is how you interrogate a perp."
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', oh so many times. If you want comedic examples only, I still have them in spades. The most notable is in Triple Trouble, when Odd is split into three. They fight over who gets to go to lunch, and who has to go to PE class. They also ruin a joke by inadvertently repeating it. Another example is in X.A.N.A.'s Kiss. Odd complains to the clone he's fighting, telling it that if it's going to keep changing form, it should turn into a wimp next time. Its next form: Odd. In Revelation, another Polymorphic clone pulls a similar move on Ulrich, this time for strategy rather than mockery.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' has the main characters travel to an alternate dimension where the characters meet their counterparts and find them annoying despite being almost identical. Except for Bender, who being an [[It's All About Me|egomaniac]] gets along with his counterpart just fine. The others eventually warm up to their duplicates, too.
** Then there was that time they went to the end of the universe and looked across to see their alternate, cowboy hat-wearing selves. Bender got tired of his alternate self flaunting the hat and decided to leave.
* In ''[[Turtles Forever]]'', this is the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* Weird variation in ''[[South Park]]:'' a giant dragon summoned by overuse of the word "shit" has Cartman's voice - when it's defeated, Cartman says "What a lame voice..."
* In ''[[Teen Titans (
** Not to mention [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyFrPVIGvBw the made-for-TV movie], ''[[Teen Titans Go!]] vs. [[Teen Titans]]''. Neither team like the other ''at all'', the cooperation between them being the [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork|teeth-clenched type.]]
* From ''[[Rick and Morty]]''; Rick is an anti-establishment type who hates governments, and he also hates himself. So [[Fridge Brilliance| it makes perfect sense]] that he'd ''despise'' the Council of Ricks, which is [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs| a government made up of alternate versions of himself.]] And the feeling is ''very'' mutual.
* In ''[[American Dad]]'', Roger is an alien with a [[Split Personality]], and ''all'' his personalities are ''complete'' jerks. However, his Ricky Spanish persona is ''such'' a jerk that ''all'' of Roger's other personas despise him.
* Bizarrely done in the season three opener of ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'', which opens with a porn film depicting Harley and Poison Ivy as lovers. Then the camera zooms out to show the actual Harley and Ivy watching it, and they are neither impressed nor aroused. Ivy is especially annoyed that the actress playing her is wearing leaf-covered lingerie, thinking it's silly.<ref>A Mythology Gag, as Ivy did indeed wear something like this in pre-Crisis comics.</ref>
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