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* One episode of ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' has the heroes encounter their alternates from another dimension (where the biggest difference was that Buzz himself was evil). XR warns the team to avoid touching their counterparts—just as the two Boosters greet each other with a hug. When nothing happens, XR remarks on the trope not applying.

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' movie ''Bender's Big Score'', we learn that duplicates of persons or objects created by time travel are automatically doomed, as a form of [[Equivalent Exchange]]. This becomes a plot point as we learn that {{spoiler|Leela's new fiancee is another version of Fry, and calls off the wedding rather than subject Leela to the grief caused by his ultimate demise.}} At the end, hundreds of Bender duplicates appear and {{spoiler|as they explode one by one, the sheer volume of temporal anomalies leads to a rupture in the universe - and a [[Sequel Hook]] for the next movie.}} This is ''almost'' a subversion as until time corrects the paradox by destroying the duplicate duplicates are free to touch and interact with each other.

'''Scammer Alien:''' Oh come on, you prudes!. }}

* In the season finale of ''[[Superjail]]'', the Warden goes back in time to his own trial to save himself, and by the simple act of hugging his past self, causes the very fabric of reality to completely and utterly fall apart.