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  • 100% Orange Juice! has Star Breaker (an Ax-Crazy Omnicidal Pyromaniac) and Reika Hoshino (an Ordinary High-School Student, originally from a Drama CD), two different versions of the same person. Both are noticeably grossed out by the fact that they both look identical to each other and actually have special dialogue between each other to reflect this.
    Reika: "She looks so identical to me... disgusting."
    Star Breaker: "Ew, the same face as mine. Gross."
    • There's also Kyoko, who express considerable annoyance towards Kyousuke (a gender-flipped version of her from QP Kiss), mostly due to his habit of being a Walking Shirtless Scene.
    • In addition to that, Shifu (the Big Bad of Suguri) is clearly annoyed by his robotic doppelganger NoName, namely due to the latter being a lecherous pervert (not that Shifu himself is any better, but still...).
      Shifu: (after defeating NoName) "I feel so disgusted."
  • In Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle, adult Morgane talks to a younger version of herself, and neither of them is particularly impressed. Young Morgane had hoped to grow up prettier and adult Morgane thinks her younger self is a brat.
    Young Morgane: If I'm honest, I'm a little disappointed.
    [...]
    Adult Morgane: I don't ever remember myself being this obnoxious.
  • In Chrono Cross, you spend a lot of time hopping between Home World and Other World, where everyone's lives went slightly or entirely differently. You can bring along party members to meet their other selves, and sometimes they are not impressed — pirate captain Fargo, for instance, is disgusted by the embittered gambling hall operator Fargo.
  • Dragon Ball Z video games tend to have Future Trunks displaying varying degrees of annoyance with his main timeline counterpart, mainly due to the fact that Kid Trunks is something of a Spoiled Brat (while Future Trunks, who grew up in an After the End hellhole, is well-mannered and pragmatic). Usually though, Present Trunks manages to do something that wins his other self's respect; in the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai games it's Kid Trunks achieving Super Saiyan at a young age, while in Dragon Ball Xenoverse it's GT Trunks coming to the Future Warrior's aid during the Super 17 Saga.
    • Note that this doesn't actually come up in the DBZ anime, as Future Trunks only interacts with his other self when the latter is a newborn baby...though he does pull on Future Trunks' hair. It's averted in Dragon Ball Super when they actually get to meet for real and get along just fine.
  • Late in Final Fantasy Dimensions, it's revealed that the "red mage" Elgo is Emperor of Avalon. This flummoxes the Warriors of Darkness, who met "him" during their journey, but he calls that his weakness given form (or in other words, his sense of morality) and dismisses him as "worthless trash".
  • The Journeyman Project 2: Buried In Time: After you, Agent 5, acquire a copy of Arthur from Amarax Station, you can jump back to that same place and retrace your steps along the same path. Along the way, Arthur apparently has a problem with how his original self sounds.
    Your Arthur: You know how the things you hate most in others are the things you hate in yourself? Well, this guy's beginning to get on my nerves.
  • In Kirby Fighters Deluxe, Kracko's pause description on Very Hard suggests that he knows Mecha-Kracko from Kirby: Squeak Squad. And from what we hear, he's not very pleased with being replaced.
  • During the prologue of LEGO Dimensions, the Batman from the DC Comics universe runs into the Batman from The LEGO Movie. They almost immediately get into a Wimp Fight with each other.
  • The Nightmare Sequence in Episode 5 of Life Is Strange has a guilt trip part where an Alternate Self of Max delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to herself. It isn't made clear if this is an actual alternate self, or just Max's own subconscious guilt, however.
  • Love of Magic: Owyn from the original timeline is really unimpressed by the choices made by Owyn from the Alternate Timeline. In particular, Owyn from the Alternate Timeline spent all his time having sex with Jenny, Bella, and Katie, instead of developing his abilities on the paths and making Molly a Chosen.
  • In the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable games, Nanoha and Fate are shown to get along really well with Stern and Levi, their Material duplicates, despite the fact that their copies have completely opposite personalities from them. Hayate and Lord Dearche on the other hand... hoo-boy. Before becoming allies, Hayate considered her Card-Carrying Villain of a twin to be an utter pest while Lord Dearche completely despises Hayate's very being. After becoming allies however, Hayate tries to connect with her duplicate much like Nanoha and Fate did, while Lord Dearche... still hates everything related to Hayate, so Hayate alternates between trying to become friends with her and outright Trolling her.
  • Whenever there are two versions of Bowser in a Mario RPG, expect this trope to come into play. Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time mixes this trope with My Future Self and Me when Baby Bowser and adult Bowser meet, but Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam plays it more straight with Paper Bowser and "regular" Bowser. The Kameks from the two worlds also find each others' laugh to be annoying (even though it's completely identical).
  • In Mass Effect 2, Commander Shepard, who by this point is Famed In-Story because of the events of the first game, is told about a VI (an artificial not-all-that-intelligence, much like a computerized personal assistant) modeled after him/her. In the third game, s/he can actually find one and it promptly begins throwing out dialogue tangentially related to Shepard's imported reputation, boasting that it can predict the real Shepard's responses with 7% accuracy. If anything, the real Shepard is horrified that it might be that high.
    • Likewise in Mass Effect 3: Citadel, the clone of Shepard is roundly mocked for not being Shepard both dramatically (s/he doesn't really understand the concept of a team) and comically (s/he co-opts Shepard's catchphrase "I should go", to the latter's consternation).
  • Mortal Kombat 1: Sindel's reaction to finding out about her Evil Doppelgänger from the timeline encompassing Mortal Kombat 9 to Mortal Kombat 11 is to remark that the other Sindel "sounds like a screeching harpy."
  • In Portal 2's Perpetual Testing Initative DLC, Cave Johnson is annoyed by most of his alt-universe counterparts, calling them 'backwater universe yokels' and developing a rivalry with Dark Cave.
    • Though the latter case is inverted later on:
      Cave Prime: [laughs] Oh, Dark Cave, you are the only one around here who gets me.
  • In Prey, January ranges from dismissive to outright hostile towards its alternative counterparts, especially December. This also verges on I Hate Past Me as all the Operators including January were created by Morgan Yu who was suffering from a repeating case of amnesia and came up with mutually-contradictory plans after every reset. January just appears to be the most recent version.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: Dr. Nefarious does not get along well with his vastly more competent alternate universe self, Emperor Nefarious, seeing him as an arrogant Jerkass who's never had to face a real challenge. Emperor Nefarious gladly returns the favor, scorning Dr. Nefarious as a pathetic loser. They're both right about each other.
  • Tales of the Abyss has a very interesting and spoiler filled take on the trope: Asch the Bloody is the original Luke fon Fabre and sees his replica as this trope because he doesn't accept him as his own person.
  • World of Warcraft: Everything your "Future You" says in the quest "Mysteries of the Infinite" is a direct attack on the player. Never mind the fact that you're both wearing the same kind of equipment... and that the NPC comments on your "old gear." Of course, you can later get revenge of sorts when you get to repeat the quest at level 80 and be the "Future You" for now "Past You." Past you also comments on how much better your gear has gotten.... despite visually wearing the same gear. (Especially if you go back in the future wearing equipment that your past self not only has not yet acquired, but cannot wear at his or her level.)

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