Instances of Other Me Annoys Me in Comic Books.
- Armageddon 2001: Waverider initially had a bad relationship with the leader of the Linear Men when it was revealed that he is the Matthew Ryder that ended up living the life Waverider had lived (or would have lived in the new timeline) and so ended up killing the other Matthew Ryder. This, of course, had the effect of causing Waverider, Superman, and the Linear Men to be trapped in a Nullsphere with no way to escape...until Waverider used the energy from Hunter's eye beam to alter time so that the other Matthew Ryder would not be killed in the first place. Both Matthew Ryders made their amends with each other and Waverider became a new member of the Linear Men.
- In the Astro City story "Where the Action Is", several of publisher Manny Monkton's depictions of in-unverse supers draw their ire. First, Nightingale chews him out for insinuating that she and her sidekick Sunbird are a lesbian couple. Then, Glowworm beats him up for depicting him as a white supremacist (which particularly offends him because he's actually black under the Power Glow). Afterwards, Monkton gets the idea to avoid future problems by shifting his focus to stories about high-level cosmic entities who won't care what he writes about them. This proves not to be the case...
- The Authority: while crossing over to a Gender Flipped Alternate Universe to talk to their counterparts, Jack Hawksmoor's equivalent is visibly pregnant. When asked about how he feels to see himself female and pregnant, he responds that he doesn't want to find out who the father is.
- Mr Block of Black Science uses his access to transdimensional travel to contact his other selves and negotiate trades. One such trade goes south when both Blocks are equally intractable about their terms.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In one 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.
- Fantastic Four: In FF #20 (2012), Present and Future Valeria Richards don't seem to be getting along with each other; Present Val finds her Future self stuck up and bossy and suspects she has her own agenda, while Future Val knows perfectly well that her younger self has her own agenda and is yet to develop the empathy required to match her incredible intellect, at one point giving her a Dope Slap and making her delete detailed plans to conquer and subjugate the Kree Empire. The two Franklins, by contrast, get along marvellously, happily referring to each other as 'Kid Franklin' and 'Mister Franklin'.
- Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: One of the stories has Mabel get stuck in a pocket dimension full of alternate versions of herself. Mabel grows frustrated with the other Mabels' poor attention spans, self-absorption and short-sightedness, which leads to a Jerkass Realization.
- When Heroes Reborn started, its version of the Avengers had a version of Thor that was The Berserker, but the post-Rob Liefeld issues revealed that this wasn't the real Thor and when the real Knight in Shining Armor Thor did show up, neither really liked the other.
- In Hero Squared the "normal" Milo is quite annoyed with the Superhero version of himself from another universe (Captain Valor), and vice versa. Valor is less-than-impressed with Milo's selfishness and complete failure to make anything of his life, whilst Milo resents Valor's smug self-righteousness and over-simplified view of the world and how it works.
- Invader Zim (Oni):
- In Issue 12, Zim and Dib are accidentally slingshotted into a Bad Future where Zim has conquered the world and declared himself Emperor. Present Zim is naturally thrilled by this, but as Emperor Zim is somewhat more mature and competent, he finds his past self to be an idiot and acts dismissive towards him. This leads to the insulted Present Zim teaming up with Dib to defeat Emperor Zim and escape back to their own time.
- This is also a big part of the Battle Void arc (Issues 46-49), which features a Pocket Dimension full of numerous alternate counterparts of Zim. They're all convinced that they're the best version, and are constantly butting heads. It soon turns out that the whole place is secretly run by an Ax-Crazy counterpart of Dib who killed his Zim, but ended up merging with his PAK and went insane in the process. Our Dib is horrified when he realizes this;, the other Dib, meanwhile, views the main one as an idiot, so acts dismissively towards him even before they come into conflict.
- Judge Dredd:
- In one story, Dredd's arch-enemy Judge Death escapes from confinement and goes back to Deadworld to restrategize, but a mistake by the dimension-travel scientist sends both Death and the scientist back in time as well. When the two Judge Deaths run into each other, the past one initially runs his claw through the future one's chest. He's ultimately glad after Dredd takes his alternate self back to the future, because he really didn't want to deal with another him.
- Downplayed in the 2021 story "Trinity", a one-shot from 2000 AD #2262, where Dredd encounters and must briefly team up with parallel versions of himself representing the 1995 and 2012 film adaptations. Being all Dredds, they get some snide commentary on each other in; their first meeting has 2012!Dredd jeering at the fanciful designs of Dredd and 1995!Dredd's uniforms, which causes the original to mock 2012!Dredd's visibly body armor-inspired outfit in turn. Dredd mocks his counterparts for not having the advanced super-tech of his world, and neither Dredd nor 2012!Dredd think highly of 1995!Dredd's "Double-Whammy" Lawmaker round, nor his willingness to use his helmet as a decoy to apprehend the perp they're after. However, the biggest bone of contention is between Dredd and 2012!Dredd due to the latter's standard policy being to execute any lawbreakers. Dredd feels 2012!Dredd is too harsh, whilst 2012!Dredd in return calls his counterpart out as too soft.
- Loki:
- In Loki: Agent of Asgard, Old Loki has nothing but contempt for the new, younger Loki who is on a quest to redeem themself and escape their role as the villain of the tale. When the two finally meet face to face, they mock younger Loki and reveal that they'll never stop being the villain Because Destiny Says So. Let's just say Old Loki doesn't take well what happens later.
- Similarly, in Young Avengers, Loki is haunted by kid Loki who constantly annoys them by mocking their wicked schemes, deconstructing their motives, and spouting bad puns.
- When reintroduced in Thor (2014) the jerk does a Loki trademark Me's a Crowd with the twist of all copies being different versions of themself. It literally devolves into a Loki fight over how much the others suck ("I'm beginning to hate myself.").
- Comic Book/Supergirl:
- In the Post Crisis continuity, Power Girl rather disliked Supergirl for several reasons: she felt Kara's existence made hers redundant (as stated in Power Trip (2005)), their powers went haywire when they got closer in Girl Power, and Kara's early attitude in Supergirl (2005) was bratty (because of Kryptonite poisoning, but neither of them knew that in the time). Although Kara attempted to make amends, they hardly got along.
- In Supergirl (2011), it's Power Girl who makes Supergirl feel upset, since Kara feels she's a wreck compared with her alternate adult self.
- In Supergirl Special, Kara sometimes feels like Power Girl's presence implies a rival who is outshining her and making her look superfluous and inferior. It does not help that social media argues the nature of their relationship, or come up with "Who would win" scenarios.
- Marvel Comics:
- In the Identity Wars miniseries Deadpool, Spider-Man and the Hulk cross over into an alternate dimension. Spider-Man's alternate version is a Well-Intentioned Extremist, which annoys Spidey. Deadpool gets along famously with his alternate until he discovers that alt-Deadpool isn't Wade Wilson, it's Victor Von Doom. Alt-Wade Wilson is a Big Bad who Deadpool takes down. Bruce Banner discovers that he can't turn into the Hulk in this dimension and is overjoyed, until that gets reversed. Then alt-Hulk and Hulk duke it out.
- 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.
- When Gwenpool pulls different versions of herself from the timeline (as a metacommentary on her inconsistent personality) in Gwenpool Strikes Back , all of them aren't too impressed by the Gwenpool from Rocket Raccoon and Groot.RRG Gwen: I've got guns! Hyuck hyuck!
GSB Gwen: Take it down a notch, Harley-Gwen. You're embarrassing us.
- In PS238, some of the characters go to a universe much like theirs, but where metahumans don't exist. Victor, the genius scion of a supervillain family, is horrified to discover that his alternate self is a child pop star. (And this, right after mocking someone who likes Justin Bieber.) Similarly, Zodon not only has to deal with his counterpart hugging him, but getting Cecil's Star Trek reference without even an ounce of shame.
- The Sandman (1989): One issue depicts William Shakespeare's theatre troupe performing A Midsummer Night's Dream for an audience of The Fair Folk, including the originals of Oberon, Titania, Puck, and Peaseblossom. Auberon and Titania appear to be mainly flattered at having a play about them, and Puck is amused by his representation, but Peaseblossom is enraged by being depicted as a cheerful fairy helper and has to be physically restrained from attacking the actors.
- In The Sandman: Overture, the many different "aspects" of Dream are gathered together and immediately start arguing about whether they count as one person or many people. Two Dreams have this side conversation:Dream 1: Am I always like this?
Dream 2: Like what?
Dream 1: Self-satisfied. Irritating. Self-possessed, and unwilling to concede center stage to anyone but myself.
Dream 2: I believe so, yes. In my experience.
Dream 1: Ah. Fascinating. - Secret Wars (2015): The 'alliance', such as it is, between Reed Richards and the Maker, the Reed of Earth-1610, is all about this. The Maker regards his other self as a pathetic, mopey waste, while Reed sees the Maker for the sociopath he is. Ultimately (heh), the Maker betrays Reed at the crux simply because Reed misses his family (presumed dead), and decides he can't tolerate that. After his death and revival, the Maker's moved past this attitude.
- The DC Comics Crisis Crossover War of the Gods was about a fight between the Greek and Roman gods over who was the true Olympian Pantheon, with Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel as their champions. (Even though the Big Red Cheese gets his half his powers from the Greeks, and only a third from the Romans.) The fallout from the later Crisis Crossover Genesis would reveal that this was a Literal Split Personality that lasted millenia; the Greek gods created autonomous aspects of themselves to watch over the proto-Romans, and they diverged considerably.
- Zenith: Zenith takes an instant dislike to his alternate universe self, Vertex, finding him to be smug and irritating. Ironically, our Zenith is the one who’s a self-centered prick, while Vertex is nothing but polite, friendly, and heroic. In other words, he’s everything Zenith isn’t.
- Final Crisis: At the end of Legion of 3 Worlds, Superboy Prime comes face to face with an older version of himself who's become the Time Trapper. Prime's only concern is yelling about his future self's "stupid beard", before trying to punch him in the face for telling him what to do. Can't blame Braniac 5 for muttering "what an idiot" when this goes badly for him.
