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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has a scene with an interesting
* Happens twice in ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'', once with Seishirou oddly enough given that he's not a character associated with self-hatred to say the least, and at the end with Subaru, with the added subtext of his reflection being a symbol {{spoiler|for his dead twin sister Hokuto.}}
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': Al does this by pressing the palm of his hand against a mirror, cracking it. At that point in the manga, it's the first time we saw the depth of his angst with his lack of a human body.
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** [[The Joker]] certainly did in [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''.
*** Not just the movie. The comics have portrayed it more than once, most famously in a particularly disturbing sequence in ''The Killing Joke'', where [[The Joker]] sees his disfigured face reflected in a puddle and just ''[[Freak-Out|starts laughing]]''.
* [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]] hates himself. Despite [[Civil War (Comic Book)|what you might think]], he's hated himself pretty much since his ''origin story''. There are days when he can barely stand to look at himself in the
* ''[[The Flash]]'' villain Mirror Master slightly subverts this in his origin story. After realizing he had killed his father (whom he had never met before due to being given up into foster care as a baby), Evan McCulloch checks on his mother. Evan sees she has committed suicide over the loss by smashing the mirror in the bathroom and using a piece to slit her wrists. Evan then stares at the smashed mirror for 12 hours afterwards.
* For one more obscure, try Alias the Blur from [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[Doom Patrol]]'', of the Brotherhood of Dada group. The story goes that a young girl fell in love with her reflection in the mirror. As she grew older and her face grew less pretty, she saw this as a betrayal by the mirror and attacked it with acid, and ends up getting crushed by the mirror. Her spirit enters the broken mirror, and becomes Alias the Blur, The Ghost Who Eats Time.
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* In a [[Tear Jerker|particularly hard-to-watch]] scene from the film ''Vulgar'', the main character returns home after being brutally gang-raped by an [[Complete Monster|insane father]] and his sons. He not only smashes his mirror and injures his hand, but ''attempts to slash his wrists with a shard of the broken mirror.''
* Near the end of ''[[Spider Man 2]]'' Harry does this by throwing a knife at a mirror after hallucinating that his father is talking to him from the mirror.
* In ''Tommy'' it is Mrs Walker who smashes the
* In Peckinpah's ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'' Garrett shoots at his reflection right after shooting Billy.
* In [[Ang Lee]]'s ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'' movie, Hulk smashes the water in a lake when he thinks he sees his father's reflection.
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== Western Animation ==
* Azula of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' rages at {{spoiler|her hallucination of her mother in a mirror as she realizes that she is completely alone and unloved, thus also clearly raging against herself}}.<ref>
** Zuko, naturally, ends up smashing a mirror in the manga ''Zuko's Story'' (released as a prequel to the [[Live Action Adaptation]] ''[[The Last Airbender]]'') when he first peels the bandages away from his scar.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "I, Roommate", a sober Bender winds up lying in an alley in a puddle of his own bodily fluids (mostly oil). He sees his reflection in the puddle, and, predictably, smacks it.
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'''Surgeon:''' Oh, nonsense, Krusty. You look at least 10 years younger. Plus, I did your breasts.
'''Krusty:''' Does anybody hear me complaining about the breasts? }}
* In one episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Patrick is [[Mirror Monologue|talking to his reflection]] about going on the "Fiery Fist o' Pain" roller coaster. It calls him a coward, causing Patrick to punch it
** "I thought we'd settled this the last time!"
* ''[[Re Boot]]'' has Matrix do this twice during an [[All Just a Dream]] episode. First time is when he's rebooted as Megabyte and a vidwindow reflection does a [[Hannibal Lecture]], and Matrix smashes it which makes him look normal again. Second time is when another vidwindow appears and a reflection of himself does another [[Hannibal Lecture]], and Matrix shoots that.
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