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Line 2: [[File:Hulk meets hulk 5438.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\|<span style{{=}}"color\|:#626262\|;">PAST ME IS ALWAYS SO TERRIBLE, EVEN WHEN I LITERALLY JUST FINISHED BEING HIM.}}</span> \|'''Karkat Vantas''', \|''[[Homestuck]]''}} ~~The~~'''I Hate Past Me''', the inverse of [[Future Me Scares Me]], is where a character sees the past and either meets or somehow witnesses the actions of their past self, and just can't stand them. Maybe they were once a villain, and now that they've reformed dislike how evil they once were, or, inversely, they're ''more'' evil and show disdain for how "weak" their past self is. Maybe they're just more experienced, and are annoyed with how inexperienced and impulsive they were in the past. In any case, they're constantly ticked off by their past. See also [[Future Me Scares Me]], so for this from the point of view from the past self, go there. Compare [[Old Shame]], a more mundane version of this trope, and [[Amnesiac Dissonance]], where something similar happens as a result of previously-hidden memories being recovered. Contrast [[Other Me Annoys Me]]. Line 49: * [[Artemis Fowl]] is shocked at how ruthless he used to be upon meeting his younger self in ''The Time Paradox''. * In Jonathan Carroll's novel ''The Wooden Sea'', the narrator, Frannie, who is a cop, meets his past self, a troubled teenage bully. However, he eventually does come to see that he really was a good kid and manages to help patch things with his (teenage Frannie's) father in the past. * In ''[[~~Discworld/~~Night Watch (Discworld)\|Night Watch]]'' (the ''Discworld'' novel, not the other one), Sam Vimes is annoyed to realize that past him was a "twerp". * In [[Stephen Baxter]]'s novel ''The Time Ships'', when Moses meets his past self he initially doesn't like his trousers, his waistcoat, his attitude, or him. Damn young turk! * In the "Q-Continuum" series of ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels, Q takes Picard on a trip through his past to show him why breaching the galactic barrier would be a bad idea. Throughout the trip Q laments his past self's actions. Understandable, since he did grant {{spoiler\|a sadistic [[Eldritch Abomination]] and its equally monstrous cronies entrance to our galaxy which led to the destruction of an entire civilization that had actually earned Q's respect.}} Line 114: * In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)\|The Simpsons]]'' episode "I Love Lisa", Krusty plays an old clip from 1973 of himself singing [[The Doors\|"Break On Through (To the Other Side)"]]. "What was I on?" he muses. == [[Other Media]] == * Admit it: ''How'' many times have you looked back on your life and the things you've done/written/drawn/made/whatever and thought "What the hell was I THINKING?!"