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** One nice example involving Deadpool has him inventing an imaginary version of himself (aka, he willed himself into having a split personality) while trapped inside a room for over 800 years (long story). Why did he do this? To have someone to play hangman with of course. His plan fails when the imaginary Deadpool turns out to be a genius and starts totally kicking Deadpool's ass in the game.
* In one Disney comic, [[Donald Duck]]'s friends and family force him to spend 24 hours with a duplicate of himself, to show him how annoying he is.
* There was a storyline in [[The Fantastic Four]] in 1998 where [[Time Travel]] mishaps resulted in Franklin and Valeria being guests of their adult selves - each version didn't like the other at all.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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** "The Monster at the End of the Book," the episode which introduces Chuck the Prophet. Chuck thinks he's just making up stories, but he's really getting visions fo what Sam & Dean are going to do. Also they are disturbed to see people have been writing slash about their characters online.
* In an episode of ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', Doctor Rush gets sent back in time through "a freak of physics" and warns everyone that the very risky plan they were about to attempt was going to fail miserably. The non-time-travelling Rush (who's been very vocal about the risks inherent in the plan) is very smug about this, to the point of completely disregarding time-travelling Rush's ordeal. Time-travelling Rush is not impressed.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Three Doctors" (first serial of the tenth season) featured the First, Second, and Third Doctor in one story. While the First had a limited role (due to William Hartnell's failing health) [[Crowning Moment of Funny| he ''seriously'' stole the show]], giving both his successors [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], seeing them as bumbling upstarts.
 
== [[Video GamesMagazines]] ==
* ''[[MAD]]'' magazine's parody of ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]'' ends with No-Face shooting and killing Tracy; he then removes his mask to reveal he is the original [[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|Dick Tracy]] (as Chester Gould designed him) stating that he did so because the new version was ruining his reputation.
** ''MAD'' actually uses this Trope a lot in parodies of films that are adaptations. Their lampoon of ''[[Popeye (film)|Popeye]]'' is cut short by the cartoon version of the hero, who thinks the idea of Popeye not liking spinach is ridiculous.<ref>A case of [[Critical Research Failure]], as the original Popeye also refused to eat spinach until he discovered it made him strong.</ref>
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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** When he makes a copy of only his ''good'' side, it works out at first because this one is willing to do all the work, but eventually they come to blows over whether they should be nice to Susie, whom the good side openly admits to having a crush on.
** And when Calvin travels to the future to get his done homework from his future self, three different versions of him end up fighting over which of them should have done the homework. Totally averted with Hobbes in the same story, as his egotism is of a sort that gets along with itself. "You're right, as always, Hobbes."
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat|Mortal Kombat 11]]'', the [[Older and Wiser]] version of Johnny Cage is just as annoyed by his obnoxious counterpart from the past as anyone else is, to the point where [[Let's You and Him Fight|a fight breaks out between them]] .
** Oddly enough, Kano - one of the bad guys - gets along with his past self just fine.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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{{quote|'''Schlock''': The TV-me is putting me-me out of a job. [...] Maybe we can kill another TV network. Is there still money in that? }}
* In Kate Beaton's ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'' normal [[The Watson|Watson]] is displeased to learn of Stupid!Watson, the Flanderized version of himself that [[Sherlock Holmes]] is now partners with.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', {{spoiler|Haley's}} [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0382.html mental representations] argue amongst each other during her time with aphasia.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' features an access to a potentially infinite number of alternative dimensions, so there are opportunities for this.
** [[Inverted]] in "Torg Goes to Hell": Zoë and Riff accidentally rescue the wrong Torg from another dimension—one who speaks only Portuguese. When their Torg returns, he tries to communicate with this alternative version of himself using a phrase book, but only comes up with sentences in the lines of (according to Babelfish) "For the Mondays, I am a shoe." Eventually, the "Portuguese" Torg swipes the phrasebook from his hands and tries himself:
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* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]:'' while exploring Caboose's mind as a ghost, Church encounters Caboose's mental image of Church and is incredibly annoyed by him.
* There was a battle between [[Courtney Love]]'s 2 twitter feeds. The first one was the official feed managed by a ghost writter, the other was a private feed under a [[Nom De Plume]]. Courtney got enraged when the official feed started publishing polite things, and she published not-so-polite things about the official feed on her private feed.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat|Mortal Kombat 11]]'', the [[Older and Wiser]] version of Johnny Cage is just as annoyed by his obnoxious counterpart from the past as anyone else is, to the point where [[Let's You and Him Fight|a fight breaks out between them]] .
** Oddly enough, Kano - one of the bad guys - gets along with his past self just fine.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==