Basic Trope: Characters get a glimpse of their ancestors or Alternate Universe versions, which resemble themselves but with major differences.
- Straight:
- Badman, dictator and military leader of the People's Republic of Tyranny, looks into a Magic Mirror and sees himself as a lowly street performer who never inherited his father's position.
- The Five-Man Band gaze into a room-size magic mirror, and see themselves as bitter rivals who get drunk every night and don't fight for what they believe in.
- Exaggerated: Badman has been at war with Troperia for nearly a decade. The mirror represents him as a Red Shirt in the warring country's militia.
- Downplayed: Badman sees himself as A Father to His Men with a higher approval rating.
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- Subverted: The vision comes from his own wishful thinking about What If?
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