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* One not-quite-SFW piece by the webartist CalamariCakes features Frieren's earth golem duplicate getting trapped head-first in a mimic with her rear in the air. Before freeing her, Fern takes the opportunity to spank the bejeezus out of the duplicate, [[CloudCuckoolandersMinder ranting about every way Frieren annoys her.]]

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* ''Series/BlackMirror'': In "[[Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteChristmas White Christmas]]", there are things called "Cookies" where people basically make tiny clones of themselves, with their entire memory and personality, to work as a personal assistants who live in tiny little environments that can be controlled by the one using them; one Cookie was interrogated by the police over the actual person committing murder, and after confessing (to a crime they didn't commit personally, being the clone) they were punished with listening to ''Christmas Every Day'' on constant repeat... with the time slowed down so that just listening to it over Christmas break in the real world felt like over ''two million years'' in his time.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Chirizuka Kaiou initially mistakes [[spoiler:Suzu]] for their previous life who sealed them away, not realizing it took over a hundred years for them to break out. When Garaku points out the difference, Kaiou considers them both equivalent. They'd be right for any other incarnation, who seemingly consider themselves one being, but [[spoiler:Suzu]] uniquely managed to maintain a separate consciousness.

* A popular meme on Website/{{Tumblr}} in the mid-2010s declares that anything uncouth the poster may have done is mot there fault because it was done by "...my alter ego, Countess Boochie Flagrante".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode [[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E14TheSwitchGlitch "The Switch Glitch"]] has Timmy wish Vicky was a five-year-old [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine show he can have a turn as her]] BabysitterFromHell. Vicky has none of her memories of tormenting Timmy as a teenager, so her alternates between being [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty unsatisfied with his payback]] and [[IgnoredEpiphany too spiteful to care]]--right before Timmy's fairy godparents are [[HoistByHisOwnPetard reassigned to Vicky because he made her so miserable]]. After tricking her into giving them back, Timmy has learned his lesson and decides to make it up to child-Vicky before aging her back up offscreen.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode [[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E14TheSwitchGlitch "The Switch Glitch"]] has Timmy wish Vicky was a five-year-old [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine show he can have a turn as her]] BabysitterFromHell. Vicky has none of her memories of tormenting Timmy as a teenager, so his spiteful glee at tormenting her [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty quickly fizzle out]]--right before Timmy's fairy godparents are [[HoistByHisOwnPetard reassigned to Vicky because he made her so miserable]]. After tricking her into giving them back, Timmy has learned his lesson and decides to make it up to child-Vicky before aging her back up offscreen.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode [[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E14TheSwitchGlitch "The Switch Glitch"]] has Timmy wish Vicky was a five-year-old [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine show he can have a turn as her]] BabysitterFromHell. Vicky has none of her memories of tormenting Timmy as a teenager, so his spiteful glee at tormenting her [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty quickly fizzle out]]--right before Timmy's fairy godparents are [[HoistByHisOwnPetard reassigned to Vicky because he made her so miserable]].

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': At some point the crew arrests the gate-clone of a criminal; he argues only the original should be punished, but is rebuffed because he committed the crime ''before'' he was duplicated, and the process makes a perfect copy with all personality and memories.

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "he Impossible Astronaut]]", Amy, Rory, and River receive a mysterious summons by the Doctor to meet him in Utah, where they have a picnic by a lake. While there, someone dressed as an astronaut emerges from the lake, the Doctor goes to speak with them as if this is totally expected, and [[spoiler:he is promptly shot dead, leaving his horrified and distraught friends to witness his murder and dispose of his body]]. After this traumatic experience, the three are in a diner discussing the purpose of what just occurred when in walks the Doctor, or rather a version of himself that's 200 years younger. River promptly slaps him for what his future self just put her through, and he quickly deduces that it was for something he's going to do in the future and that he's "looking forward to it".

* ''Series/BlackMirror'': In "White Christmas" there are things called "Cookies" where people basically make tiny clones of themselves, with their entire memory and personality, to work as a personal assistants who live in tiny little environments that can be controlled by the one using them; one Cookie was interrogated by the police over the actual person committing murder, and after confessing (to a crime they didn't commit personally, being the clone) they were punished with listening to ''Christmas Every Day'' on constant repeat... with the time slowed down so that just listening to it over Christmas break in the real world felt like over ''two million years'' in his time.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]], Amy, Rory, and River receive a mysterious summons by the Doctor to meet him in Utah, where they have a picnic by a lake. While there, someone dressed as an astronaut emerges from the lake, the Doctor goes to speak with them as if this is totally expected, and [[spoiler:he is promptly shot dead, leaving his horrified and distraught friends to witness his murder and dispose of his body]]. After this traumatic experience, the three are in a diner discussing the purpose of what just occurred when in walks the Doctor, or rather a version of himself that's 200 years younger. River promptly slaps him for what his future self just put her through, and he quickly deduces that it was for something he's going to do in the future and that he's "looking forward to it".
** The episode "Let's Kill Hitler" introduces a team of time travelers who hunt down historic {{Karma Houdini}}s at the end of their lives and submit them to torture so that they face some sort of punishment. Ideally, they aren't altering the timeline, since the subject is about to die anyway (and, when necessary, their ship transforms into a copy of the person to live out the rest of their life). Except their ship is about as reliable as the TARDIS, and they wind up targeting Hitler 7 years early (he's plenty guilty already, true, but they're still including crimes he hasn't committed yet in his sentence), and they stumble on [[spoiler:River Song]] the very day she's going to first attempt (and fail at) the crime they're targeting her for.

* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', Sarah is ''very'' hateful and distrustful of the T-800 assigned to protect John, as it looks and sounds like, and is the same model, of machine that tried to murder her and succeeded in murdering Kyle Reese, even though ''this'' T-800 has done nothing but fight tooth and nail to keep her son alive. In the extended cut she even tries to destroy it by smashing its chip, forcing John to appeal to her cold pragmatism to (just barely) convince her to spare it by pointing out they need it as proof of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Judgment Day]]. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie though, while she's not moved to tears by its HeroicSacrifice like John is, she at least has come to accept and admire it enough to give it an approving handshake and see it [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming as more than just a machine]].]]

* An odd version in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': In the aftermath of Thanos ending half of all life in existence, the heroes manage to assemble what's left of the team and beat the crap out of Thanos... who has taken up the CallToAgriculture and barely puts up any resistance. [[spoiler:He doesn't even have the Infinity Stones anymore, having used their own power to destroy them,]] greatly weakening himself in the process. The Avengers kill him anyway, but it's obvious they feel no satisfaction or justice from doing so. Fortunately, [[spoiler:they go back in time to retrieve the stones to undo the damage and are followed by pre-snap Thanos,]] resulting in a Thanos who is very much satisfying to kill, even if he technically hadn't (yet) killed half of all life. [[spoiler:It helps that having seen the results of only killing half of it, he decides to kill the ''entire'' Universe and start over so no one will be "ungrateful" at him for it]].

* An odd version in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': In the aftermath of Thanos ending half of all life in existence, the heroes manage to assemble what's left of the team and beat the crap out of Thanos... who has taken up the CallToAgriculture and barely puts up any resistance. [[spoiler:He doesn't even have the Infinity Stones anymore, having used their own power to destroy them,]] greatly weakening himself in the process. The Avengers kill him anyway, but it's obvious they feel no satisfaction or justice from doing so. Fortunately, [[spoiler:they go back in time to retrieve the stones to undo the damage and are followed by pre-snap Thanos,]] resulting in a Thanos who is very much satisfying to kill, even if he technically hadn't (yet) killed half of all life ([[spoiler:it helps that having seen the results of only killing half of it, he decides to kill the ''entire'' Universe and start over so no one will be "ungrateful" at him for it]]).

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': a metahuman named Griffin Gray kidnapped Harry Wells, blaming him for Griffin's rapid aging. Only problem is, Harry is just the doppelganger of the guy who actually did do it- he's from Earth 2, while the real culprit is his Earth-1 counterpart [[spoiler: who was actually Eobard Thawne/the Reverse Flash in disguise]].
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E08Dax Dax]]". The Trill are a race of humanoid aliens. Some of them have another slug-like sapient alien implanted into their bodies, with the two combined beings forming a joint consciousness. The Trill Jadzia Dax is the combination of the Trill Jadzia and the symbiont Dax. During the episode she is arrested for a murder and treason allegedly committed thirty years ago by a previous Trill/symbiont combination named Curzon Dax, a merger of the Trill Curzon and the same symbiont Dax. The extradition hearing is based on the question of whether the current Jadzia/Dax combination can be held responsible for the crimes allegedly committed by the past Curzon/Dax combination. [[spoiler: Ultimately the issue gets sidestepped when it turns out that Curzon Dax was framed in the first place.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Rose Quartz was a notorious rebel leader who turned against her Diamond, ultimately killing her. Steven inherited her [[HeartDrive gemstone]], which makes him as much her {{reincarnation}} as her son. Numerous villains think it means he '''[[MistakenIdentity is]]''' Rose Quartz, and want to punish her for her crimes. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed that Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond all along and Pink Diamond's death was faked. And while her sisters are happy she's alive, [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint they're still ticked that she didn't tell them anything]] when things started going too far out of control.]]