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1	What will you be like in five years? Ten? Twenty? A hundred, if you last that long? Chances are you'll have seen different sides of life, witnessed multiple worldview-shattering events, and met countless new friends and enemies. If it weren't for your name, you could be easily mistaken to be a new person.
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3	In stories, this trope concerns the time the audience is given the chance to see the future of a setting and future versions of different characters, who will almost certainly contrast their past selves in several different ways. This view can be obtained through TimeTravel (sometimes a FutureSelfReveal), a FlashForward, or a TimeSkip. This is a SuperTrope to FutureBadass, FutureMeScaresMe, and FutureLoser. IHatePastMe and FormerTeenRebel may also be involved.
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5	AmnesiacDissonance is related, where someone becomes a different person in the future because of amnesia (or someone is revealed to be different in the past because of amnesia). Compare CharacterDevelopment, CharacterizationMarchesOn.
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14	* Of all characters from the first generation of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', Sora Takeuchi is the one who most changed of all the Chosen Children. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' she's a tomboy who was rebelled against her mother for not being feminine and also being a soccer player. But in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' as well in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' (the events of both of witch happened various years after ''Adventure''), Sora receives a GirlinessUpgrade, in which as other things, she changed soccer for [[InnocentFlowerGirl ikebana, aka Japanese floral arrangement]].
15	* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', the main timeline Trunks is an overconfident, somewhat spoiled BrattyHalfPint who nevertheless has supportive friends and family. Future Trunks is a mild-mannered, reserved HeartbrokenBadass who has watched most of his loved ones die off.
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19	* In the TurnOfTheMillennium version of ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' (the one made by Creator/GeoffJohns), the regular team found themselves with their obscure future versions called "Tomorrow Titans", in which ComicBook/{{Superboy}} is the new Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Robin}} (Tim Drake) is the new Batman, ComicBook/WonderGirl is the new Franchise/WonderWoman and Kid Flash (Bart Allen) is the new Franchise/TheFlash (before he briefly took the mantle a year after Wally West "died" in the ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis), and also there are grown-up versions of Raven and Beast Boy. Sadly none of them [[HeelFaceTurn were on the good side]] as they became DarkerAndEdgier versions of them in a BadFuture.
20	* One ComicBook/BlackPanther comic had T'Challa dealing with an [[GameBreakingInjury untreatable, progressive brain injury]] from [[DentedIron repeated head trauma]] that'd eventually kill him after eroding his mind. He meets himself from the future where he is a jovial goofball compared to his present day stoic self from it.
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24	* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', Lewis is a socially marginalized orphan and a struggling inventor. [[spoiler:His future self, Cornelius Robinson, is a world-famous orphan that has formed a very large and supportive family.]]
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28	* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Barry Allen/The Flash is a warm-hearted superhero-in-progress. He meets two, very different versions of himself in Season 3. One has become a depressed, solitary JadedWashout [[spoiler:after the death of Iris]]. The other is [[spoiler: Savitar, a megalomaniac narcissist with a serious case of being a GodhoodSeeker]].
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32	* Reversed in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', where we contrast Auron from the present, where he's a gruff, cynical, snarky mentor figure who shows deep distrust and distaste for the CorruptChurch, to the past version of him seen in old recordings found throughout the game. Past Auron was a stiff, honorable, and eager true believer and a WarriorMonk in the Church of Yevon. We go through a pretty large portion of the game's plot before we learn everything that happened to cause this transformation.
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36	* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', the main timeline Emiya Shirou is a naive, optimistic young boy that wants to be a "hero of justice", someone who saves lives at the expense of his own. His future self Archer is a HeartbrokenBadass and AntiVillain that gave up all of his ideals after trying to uphold them broke his mind. Archer, now a DeathSeeker, wants to kill Shirou in order to escape the deal he made for his new powers.
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40	* ''Franchise/Ben10''. Ben Tennyson was a BrattyHalfPint JerkWithAHeartOfGold before becoming a slightly more mature, but carefree and friendly teenager. In the very distant future, Ben 10,000 is serious, distant, and has NoSenseOfHumor.
41	* In a time travel episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Batman (along with some others) travels into the BadFuture and meets his elderly self from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', who is appalled by how "green" he once was. The two of them proceed to pull a GoodCopBadCop on a crook, with the younger Bruce playing the good one, the weirdness of which is immediately lampshaded by Static.
42	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In ''[[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore Bender's Big Score]]'', Philip J. Fry (a rather immature fool) meets his future self, an older man going by the alias of "Lars Filmore" who is considerably wiser than his younger self.
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