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* ''Film/TheShining''. Jack enters the haunted room Room 237 to find a woman bathing there. She steps out of the bathtub fully naked and kisses him, until Jack looks into the mirror and is horrified to find himself embracing a cackling, rotting, zombie-woman. Later when Jack realises the waiter he's talking to is the deceased previous caretaker, you can see Jack nervously look in the direction of the mirror, but this trope doesn't happen again.
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* ''Film/TheShining''. Jack enters the haunted room Room 237 to find a young woman bathing there. She steps out of the bathtub fully naked and kisses him, until Jack looks into the mirror and is horrified to find himself embracing a cackling, an elderly, rotting, zombie-woman. Later when Jack realises the waiter he's talking to is the deceased previous caretaker, you can see Jack nervously look glance in the direction of the mirror, but this trope doesn't happen again.
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* Subverted in a Richard Creena movie where he's playing a cop who brings the female suspect a large rectangular-wrapped parcel which he says is her 'true self'. She just laughs and says he's obviously got a mirror. He removes the wrapping and she's shocked to see a rather uncomplimentary painting of her by a former friend.
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** Inverted in ''Film/Venom2018'', where anyone infected by a Symbiote sees their monstrous self in the reflection. This is how Eddie (and subsequently, the audience) gets their first look at Venom in humanoid form.
** Inverted in ''Film/Venom2018'', where anyone infected by a Symbiote sees their monstrous self in the reflection. This is how Eddie (and subsequently, the audience) gets their first look at Venom in humanoid form.
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TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf in LiveActionFilms.
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* In ''Film/AllOfMe'', Steve Martin's character sees Lily Tomlin's character, with whom he is SharingABody, any time he looks into a reflective surface.
* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast1946'': The magic mirror shows, when Belle's sisters look into it, an ugly old lady and a monkey respectively. Furthermore, Belle's beautiful necklace turns into a hideous rope when in their hands, reflecting the ugliness of their hearts once again.
* Inverted in ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''--the main antagonist is the Mirror Queen, who has a bad case of AgeWithoutYouth after being sequestered in a tower for the past few centuries. The Queen herself is lying in bed, practically mummified, but the mirror in the same room shows what she used to look like.
* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'':
** When Dana Barrett visits the Ghostbusters after encountering a demon in her apartment, they hook her up to a monitor which shows a color map of the outline of her facial features. Later in the film, a possessed Louis Tully is taken to the Ghostbusters and analyzed with the same device which now shows a color map of a demonic Terror Dog's face.
* ''Film/{{Haunter}}'': When Lisa possesses Olivia's body in the world of the living, the mirror shows her actual face, but only to herself and the audience.
* In ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', when the men got into 1986, their reflections are replaced, except the youngest since he keeps flickering and glitching seeing how he was never born yet.
* ''Film/{{Hypocrites}}'' is about a supernatural being called "The Naked Truth" (played by [[NudityEqualsHonesty a nude actress]]) who shows the hypocrisies of the local townspeople with a MagicMirror. A politician who campaigns on "honesty" is shown accepting bribes. A man and woman getting engaged are shown to be a cheater and a Gold Digger, respectively. The young people at the beach recoil in horror at the sight of the Naked Truth, but her mirror reveals them partying at the beach in skimpy (for 1915) bathing suits. The woman who followed the pastor up the mountain is revealed by the mirror to be in love with him.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
** Within a dream, Eames[[note]]and probably anyone else, but Eames is the only who does so[[/note]] can copy other people's appearances. When he looked at himself in several mirrors, some reflections showed his true face, others reflected his disguise, and which mirrors did which changed (almost certainly deliberately) between cuts.
** Supposedly, when Ariadne did the double-mirror thing in her test dreams, only Cobb's reflection appeared.
*** When Ariadne is setting up the double-mirror, both her reflection and Cobb's appear, but once the infinite reflection is set up, the scene is shot such that Ariadne's reflections beyond the first are hidden behind Cobb's (This is actually real, according to lucid dreamers. One of the distinguishing features of lucid dreams is that inside them, mirrors don't work 'correctly' (i.e., they don't reflect, or reflect something else, or are distorted)).
* In ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' show that the Losers Club (excluding Eddie and Stan) look in the mirror and it is revealed that the younger versions of themselves were replaced.
* In ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'', Jason's true hockey-masked self shows in reflective surfaces when he is possessing someone else. Cue a QuizzicalTilt when he finds this out himself.
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', when Chloe looks into mirrors the models at Danique's place are preparing themselves in, she notes that all the "supermodels" look like old crones.
* In ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Jekyll talks to Hyde, whom he alone can see looking back at him from a mirror.
** It later shows the inverse when Hyde saves the Nautilus; Jekyll congratulates Hyde from the mirror.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'', since Neo's appearance within The Matrix has been altered to make it harder for the humans to find him. The film has him take his actual appearance, but one early scene has one of the mirrors briefly show how he looks to everyone else.
* In ''Film/SamsonVsTheVampireWomen'', lady vampires actually cast reflections, but the mirror shows them as ancient crones with a bad skin condition.
* ''Film/{{Sleepwalkers}}'': Despite having human forms, the cat creatures' true forms are shown if they're in view of a mirror.
* ''Film/SourceCode'': The viewer see Coulter running around trying to save the day, the reflection in the window and presumably everyone on the train sees Sean Fentress.
* ''Film/Supergirl1984'': During the party scene, Selena looks at her refection in Nigel's cigarette case and sees a Shadow Demon (which would appear physically later in the movie) alongside her own face. She asks Nigel what it is, to which he replies "Over-reaching ambition. Take heed."
* ''Franchise/TheMightyThor'':
** ''Film/{{Thor}}'': Used at the very end of the film to show that [[spoiler: Dr. Selvig is being controlled by Loki]].
** In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', when [[spoiler:the resurrected]] Love walks to Gorr's side, [[spoiler:her mirror image in the lake is filled with stars and galaxies like Eternity, hinting at her newly empowered nature.]]
* Subverted in a Richard Creena movie where he's playing a cop who brings the female suspect a large rectangular-wrapped parcel which he says is her 'true self'. She just laughs and says he's obviously got a mirror. He removes the wrapping and she's shocked to see a rather uncomplimentary painting of her by a former friend.
* Inverted in ''Film/Venom2018'', where anyone infected by a Symbiote sees their monstrous self in the reflection. This is how Eddie (and subsequently, the audience) gets their first look at Venom in humanoid form.
** ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' carries this forward with Cletus Kassidy talking to his Symbiote while driving a car; Carnage's part in the conversation was shown in the rear-view mirror.
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TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf in LiveActionFilms.
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* In ''Film/AllOfMe'', Steve Martin's character sees Lily Tomlin's character, with whom he is SharingABody, any time he looks into a reflective surface.
* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast1946'': The magic mirror shows, when Belle's sisters look into it, an ugly old lady and a monkey respectively. Furthermore, Belle's beautiful necklace turns into a hideous rope when in their hands, reflecting the ugliness of their hearts once again.
* Inverted in ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm''--the main antagonist is the Mirror Queen, who has a bad case of AgeWithoutYouth after being sequestered in a tower for the past few centuries. The Queen herself is lying in bed, practically mummified, but the mirror in the same room shows what she used to look like.
* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'':
** When Dana Barrett visits the Ghostbusters after encountering a demon in her apartment, they hook her up to a monitor which shows a color map of the outline of her facial features. Later in the film, a possessed Louis Tully is taken to the Ghostbusters and analyzed with the same device which now shows a color map of a demonic Terror Dog's face.
* ''Film/{{Haunter}}'': When Lisa possesses Olivia's body in the world of the living, the mirror shows her actual face, but only to herself and the audience.
* In ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', when the men got into 1986, their reflections are replaced, except the youngest since he keeps flickering and glitching seeing how he was never born yet.
* ''Film/{{Hypocrites}}'' is about a supernatural being called "The Naked Truth" (played by [[NudityEqualsHonesty a nude actress]]) who shows the hypocrisies of the local townspeople with a MagicMirror. A politician who campaigns on "honesty" is shown accepting bribes. A man and woman getting engaged are shown to be a cheater and a Gold Digger, respectively. The young people at the beach recoil in horror at the sight of the Naked Truth, but her mirror reveals them partying at the beach in skimpy (for 1915) bathing suits. The woman who followed the pastor up the mountain is revealed by the mirror to be in love with him.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
** Within a dream, Eames[[note]]and probably anyone else, but Eames is the only who does so[[/note]] can copy other people's appearances. When he looked at himself in several mirrors, some reflections showed his true face, others reflected his disguise, and which mirrors did which changed (almost certainly deliberately) between cuts.
** Supposedly, when Ariadne did the double-mirror thing in her test dreams, only Cobb's reflection appeared.
*** When Ariadne is setting up the double-mirror, both her reflection and Cobb's appear, but once the infinite reflection is set up, the scene is shot such that Ariadne's reflections beyond the first are hidden behind Cobb's (This is actually real, according to lucid dreamers. One of the distinguishing features of lucid dreams is that inside them, mirrors don't work 'correctly' (i.e., they don't reflect, or reflect something else, or are distorted)).
* In ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' show that the Losers Club (excluding Eddie and Stan) look in the mirror and it is revealed that the younger versions of themselves were replaced.
* In ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'', Jason's true hockey-masked self shows in reflective surfaces when he is possessing someone else. Cue a QuizzicalTilt when he finds this out himself.
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', when Chloe looks into mirrors the models at Danique's place are preparing themselves in, she notes that all the "supermodels" look like old crones.
* In ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Jekyll talks to Hyde, whom he alone can see looking back at him from a mirror.
** It later shows the inverse when Hyde saves the Nautilus; Jekyll congratulates Hyde from the mirror.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'', since Neo's appearance within The Matrix has been altered to make it harder for the humans to find him. The film has him take his actual appearance, but one early scene has one of the mirrors briefly show how he looks to everyone else.
* In ''Film/SamsonVsTheVampireWomen'', lady vampires actually cast reflections, but the mirror shows them as ancient crones with a bad skin condition.
* ''Film/{{Sleepwalkers}}'': Despite having human forms, the cat creatures' true forms are shown if they're in view of a mirror.
* ''Film/SourceCode'': The viewer see Coulter running around trying to save the day, the reflection in the window and presumably everyone on the train sees Sean Fentress.
* ''Film/Supergirl1984'': During the party scene, Selena looks at her refection in Nigel's cigarette case and sees a Shadow Demon (which would appear physically later in the movie) alongside her own face. She asks Nigel what it is, to which he replies "Over-reaching ambition. Take heed."
* ''Franchise/TheMightyThor'':
** ''Film/{{Thor}}'': Used at the very end of the film to show that [[spoiler: Dr. Selvig is being controlled by Loki]].
** In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', when [[spoiler:the resurrected]] Love walks to Gorr's side, [[spoiler:her mirror image in the lake is filled with stars and galaxies like Eternity, hinting at her newly empowered nature.]]
* Subverted in a Richard Creena movie where he's playing a cop who brings the female suspect a large rectangular-wrapped parcel which he says is her 'true self'. She just laughs and says he's obviously got a mirror. He removes the wrapping and she's shocked to see a rather uncomplimentary painting of her by a former friend.
* Inverted in ''Film/Venom2018'', where anyone infected by a Symbiote sees their monstrous self in the reflection. This is how Eddie (and subsequently, the audience) gets their first look at Venom in humanoid form.
** ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' carries this forward with Cletus Kassidy talking to his Symbiote while driving a car; Carnage's part in the conversation was shown in the rear-view mirror.
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