The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Difference between revisions

 

'''Engywook:''' Oh, that's what everyone thinks! But kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away screaming! |''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]]''}}

 

* ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]''. Played with; Bastian and Atreyu aren't the same person, but they do see each other in the magic mirror and Atreyu is in many ways Bastian's Avatar inside Fantastica.

* In the ''[[Spellsinger]]'' novel "Time of the Transference," the group finds this kind of mirror. The results are ambiguous for everyone but Cautious, whose reflection is unchanged.

 

 

** This was toyed with when Wesley was impersonating Angel, where he screamed at the sight of a mirror and insisted it be covered while the people around him stood bemused and pointed out that they already knew he was a vampire.

** Also when Angel suffered from phlebotinum-induced amnesia and didn't know he was a vampire. Then he looks in a mirror...

'''Angel:''' Oh. [[Tomato in the Mirror|I'm a vampire]]. [[Oh Crap|They're gonna kill me.]] }}

* The true face of several monsters in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' that can pass for humans (like wraiths, changelings and sirens) are revealed by mirrors.