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Remember when, as a kid, you used to copy everything a friend said? Well, you're not alone. Everyone played it, including the creators of fiction. It gets old very fast and, in some circumstances, is not even a game: it's just a way to get on someone's nerves. Obviously, this is exploited in comedy, with the end result "stop copying me!"... "I mean it!" Sometimes the victim will turn the table and force the perpetrator to either quit the game or say embarrassing things. This may still mean that the joke is on the victim, if the purpose of the game ''was'' to make them say embarrassing things.
That said, in horror, there is a niche for the game. The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E10 Midnight|Midnight]]" went down that road rather spectacularly.
For "stop copying me" on the scale of an entire work, see [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]].
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* ''Brotherhood of the Rose'' by David Morrell. One of the protagonists is stuck in a retirement village for spies with the [[Big Bad]] and does this to [[Mind Screw]] him (any attempt to use physical violence would lead to his execution; so he's trying to drive the [[Big Bad]] out through continued harassment).
* Zuriaa played with this trope with {{spoiler|The Fleur-de-mal }} in the second book of The Meq Trilogy.
* In ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Mason Brown, Duck and Cover play the echo game.
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