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* ''{{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}'': In order to escape Hell, John Constantine creates a kind of EvilTwin by removing all his more unsavory aspects (baser urges, demonic blood, clinginess over an ex-girlfriend...) and leaving it in his place. This screws him over later when Demon Constantine is on Earth and ends up raping John's niece Gemma (during John's wedding). Believing it was the real John, Gemma summons a vengeance demon and sics it on her uncle. While the misunderstanding is cleared up, their relationship is irreparably broken (and John considers her right to hate him).
* PlayedForLaughs in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' arc where Calvin time-travels two hours into the future in order to pick up his completed homework from his future self at 8:30. Naturally, 8:30 doesn't have it because he went to the future to get it two hours ago, so 6:30 and 8:30 decide it's 7:30 Calvin's fault. They both go to 7:30 to confront that time's Calvin, threatening to beat him up... but 7:30 points out that hitting him means 8:30 Calvin will get hurt too. In the end, they both return to 8:30 to find that 6:30 and 8:30 Hobbeses have done the homework for them (a novelization of the evening's events [[LemonyNarrator narrated by Hobbes]]). Calvin says it made him the laughingstock of the class even if it did get him an A+.
* PlayedForLaughs in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' arc where Calvin time-travels two hours into the future in order to pick up his completed homework from his future self at 8:30. Naturally, 8:30 doesn't have it because he went to the future to get it two hours ago, so 6:30 and 8:30 decide it's 7:30 Calvin's fault. They both go to 7:30 to confront that time's Calvin, threatening to beat him up... but 7:30 points out that hitting him means 8:30 Calvin will get hurt too. In the end, they both return to 8:30 to find that 6:30 and 8:30 Hobbeses have done the homework for them (a novelization of the evening's events [[LemonyNarrator narrated by Hobbes]]). Calvin says it made him the laughingstock of the class even if it did get him an A+.
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* ''{{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}'': ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': In order to escape Hell, John Constantine creates a kind of EvilTwin by removing all his more unsavory aspects (baser urges, demonic blood, clinginess over an ex-girlfriend...) and leaving it in his place. This screws him over later when Demon Constantine is on Earth and ends up raping John's niece Gemma (during John's wedding). Believing it was the real John, Gemma summons a vengeance demon and sics it on her uncle. While the misunderstanding is cleared up, their relationship is irreparably broken (and John considers her right to hate him).
* PlayedForLaughs in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' arc where Calvin time-travels two hours into the future in order to pick up his completed homework from his future self at 8:30. Naturally, 8:30 doesn't have it because he went to the future to get it two hours ago, so 6:30 and 8:30 decide it's 7:30 Calvin's fault. They both go to 7:30 to confront that time's Calvin, threatening to beat him up... but 7:30 points out that hitting him means 8:30 Calvin will get hurt too. In the end, they both return to 8:30 to find that 6:30 and 8:30 Hobbeses have done the homework for them (a novelization of the evening's events [[LemonyNarrator narrated by Hobbes]]). Calvin says it made him the laughingstock of the class even if it did get him an A+.him).
* PlayedForLaughs in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' arc where Calvin time-travels two hours into the future in order to pick up his completed homework from his future self at 8:30. Naturally, 8:30 doesn't have it because he went to the future to get it two hours ago, so 6:30 and 8:30 decide it's 7:30 Calvin's fault. They both go to 7:30 to confront that time's Calvin, threatening to beat him up... but 7:30 points out that hitting him means 8:30 Calvin will get hurt too. In the end, they both return to 8:30 to find that 6:30 and 8:30 Hobbeses have done the homework for them (a novelization of the evening's events [[LemonyNarrator narrated by Hobbes]]). Calvin says it made him the laughingstock of the class even if it did get him an A+.
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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': In one alternate timeline, World War II is fought against a Franco-German alliance (with [[NoSwastikas no Nazis in sight]]) and Hitler is just an army chauffeur with a particular mustache. Tobias (in Hork-Bajir morph, an alien with blades on its arms) instinctively puts him in a headlock despite Cassie pointing out that this Hitler isn't responsible for the Holocaust. He ends up with his throat slashed anyway (possibly accidentally).
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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In one alternate timeline, World War II is fought against a Franco-German alliance (with [[NoSwastikas no Nazis in sight]]) and Hitler is just an army chauffeur with a particular mustache. Tobias (in Hork-Bajir morph, an alien with blades on its arms) instinctively puts him in a headlock despite Cassie pointing out that this Hitler isn't responsible for the Holocaust. He ends up with his throat slashed anyway (possibly accidentally).
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* An odd version in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': In the aftermath of Thanos ending half of all life in existence, the hoers 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 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 remember his role]]).
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* An odd version in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': In the aftermath of Thanos ending half of all life in existence, the hoers 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 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 remember his role]]).
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A character does something worthy of punishment, but an alternate version, personality, clone or even past self (usually innocent or ignorant of the other's crimes) gets punished for it. BewilderingPunishment may ensue if the alternate self truly has no idea what they're being blamed for. Don't count on them on causing the DeathOfPersonality for the guilty one, because that may not always be possible.
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A character does something worthy of punishment, but an alternate version, personality, clone or even past self (usually innocent or ignorant of the other's crimes) gets punished for it. BewilderingPunishment may ensue if the alternate self truly has no idea what they're being blamed for. Don't count on them on causing the DeathOfPersonality for the guilty one, because that may not always be possible.
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Related but distinct from CartesianKarma, when some is held accountable for crimes they "committed" because they were mind controlled. Just as likely to be boil down to MoralLuck.
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* The twin androids Popola and Devola in ''VideoGame/NieRAutomata'' are not the same units responsible for [[spoiler:the demise of humanity]] in ''VideoGame/NieR'', but all androids are hard-coded to shun and dislike them as punishment for the sins of their forebears.
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* The twin androids Popola and Devola in ''VideoGame/NieRAutomata'' ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' are not the same units responsible for [[spoiler:the demise of humanity]] in ''VideoGame/NieR'', but all androids are hard-coded to shun and dislike them as punishment for the sins of their forebears.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Wealthy people who are worried about their fate in the afterlife sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not [[KarmicMisfire punished for their creators' misdeeds]] and can live out their own lives.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Wealthy people who are worried about their fate in the afterlife sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories [[GhostMemory copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not [[KarmicMisfire punished for their creators' misdeeds]] and can live out their own lives.
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* ''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.
* ''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.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Wealthy people who are worried about their fate in the afterlife sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not punished for their creators' misdeeds and can live out their own lives.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Wealthy people who are worried about their fate in the afterlife sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not [[KarmicMisfire punished for their creators' misdeeds misdeeds]] and can live out their own lives.
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* ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'' starts with a clone of the main character, a notorious thief called Lupin III, being hanged in the place of the real version. Everybody believes the real one has been executed except [[TheDeterminator Inspector Zenigata]].
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* ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'' starts with a clone of the main character, a notorious thief called Lupin III, being hanged in the place of the real version. Everybody believes the real one has been executed except [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Inspector]] [[TheDeterminator Inspector Zenigata]].
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* An inverted example in ''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.]]
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* An inverted example in ''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.]]
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': This is the defining characteristic for Angel on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and later on [[Series/{{Angel}} his own show.]]: When Angelus is cursed by gypsies, he is given a soul, creating the alternate personality Angel. As someone who was a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil soulless]] vampire for over a hundred years before having his conscience restored by a curse, he suffers from terrible guilt for the things he remembers doing (which started with [[SelfMadeOrphan killing his entire family]] and escalated from there). Exactly how culpable he is for them is left vague - some characters seem to regard Angel is then punished with and his evil persona Angelus as two different people, while others see him as a mass murderer who shouldn't be left off the hook just because he's started feeling bad for his crimes - but Angel himself at least accepts enough of the guilt for all to have dedicated the rest of his evil alter ego has done.immortal existence to [[TheAtoner doing good in repentance.]]
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* An inverted example in ''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.]]
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* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ozzie VIII is the leader of Medina when you first meet him, using his kinship to the first Ozzie (TheDragon in the first part of the game) to boss other monsters around. It's possible to dethrone Ozzie in the past so when you return, Ozzie VIII is now a servant being bullied by the other monsters. While the player and the PCs know what happened, it's a BewilderingPunishment to Ozzie VIII since he was never a bully in this timeline.
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* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ozzie VIII is the leader of Medina when you first meet him, using his kinship to the first Ozzie (TheDragon in the first part of the game) to boss other monsters around. It's possible to dethrone Ozzie in the past so when you return, Ozzie VIII is now a servant being bullied by the other monsters. While the player and the PCs [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] know what happened, it's a BewilderingPunishment to Ozzie VIII since he was never a bully in this timeline.
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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': In one alternate timeline, WW2 is fought against a Franco-German alliance (with no Nazis in sight) and Hitler is just an army chauffeur with a particular mustache. Tobias (in Hork-Bajir morph, an alien with blades on its arms) instinctively puts him in a headlock despite Cassie pointing out that this Hitler isn't responsible for the Holocaust. He ends up with his throat slashed anyway (possibly accidentally).
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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': In one alternate timeline, WW2 World War II is fought against a Franco-German alliance (with [[NoSwastikas no Nazis in sight) sight]]) and Hitler is just an army chauffeur with a particular mustache. Tobias (in Hork-Bajir morph, an alien with blades on its arms) instinctively puts him in a headlock despite Cassie pointing out that this Hitler isn't responsible for the Holocaust. He ends up with his throat slashed anyway (possibly accidentally).
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* ''{{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]].
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* ''{{Series/TheFlash2014}}'': ''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]].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': People who are worried about their fate in the afterlife and have the resources to do something about it sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not punished for their creators' misdeeds.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': People Wealthy people who are worried about their fate in the afterlife and have the resources to do something about it sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not punished for their creators' misdeeds.
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* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'': After Grigor II (a giant robot with an AI powerful enough to serve as Grigor's heir) becomes a totalitarian dictator, Molotov (a TrueBeliever in Grigor's cause) returns to the past in the hopes of convincing Grigor of taking Novaya Russia down another path to avoid turning the revolution that returned Russia to a global superpower into a fascist nightmare. Unfortunately, [[StrawHypocrite Grigor turns out to have no problem letting things turn out this way as long as he's in power.]] Molotov shoots him dead and returns to the future, but the ending doesn't show whether this was for good or bad.
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* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'': After Grigor II (a giant robot with an AI powerful enough to serve as Grigor's heir) becomes a totalitarian dictator, Molotov (a TrueBeliever [[MyCountryRightOrWrong true believer in Grigor's cause) cause]]) returns to the past in the hopes of convincing Grigor of taking Novaya Russia down another path to avoid turning the revolution that returned Russia to a global superpower into a fascist nightmare. Unfortunately, [[StrawHypocrite Grigor turns out to have no problem letting things turn out this way as long as he's in power.]] Molotov shoots him dead and returns to the future, but the ending doesn't show whether this was for good or bad.
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* "Roko's basilisk" is a hypothetical situation in which an artificial super-intelligence creates simulations of people who did not work to bring it into existence for the purpose of punishing them. When the concept was proposed by Blog/LessWrong user Roko in July 2010, site creator Eliezer Yudkowsky was so alarmed by the concept -- and the fact that Roko had [[TakingYouWithMe posted it online]], [[BrownNote potentially putting readers in the basilisk's crosshairs]] -- that he deleted Roko's post and banned all discussion of the topic for five years.
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* "Roko's basilisk" is a hypothetical situation in which an artificial super-intelligence creates simulations of people who did not work to bring it into existence for the purpose of punishing them. When the concept was proposed by Blog/LessWrong user Roko in July 2010, site creator Eliezer Yudkowsky was so alarmed by the concept -- and the fact that Roko had [[TakingYouWithMe posted it online]], [[BrownNote potentially putting readers in the basilisk's crosshairs]] -- that he deleted Roko's post and banned all discussion of the topic for five years.years.
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dax_(episode) 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.
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dax_(episode) 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.
combination. [[spoiler: Ultimately the issue gets sidestepped when it turns out that Curzon Dax was framed in the first place]].
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* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', a launch accident causes the spaceship 'Lost Light' and its crew to be duplicated in a different part of space. An investigation of the duplicate by the survivors of the "original" crew finds all of its occupants [[BodyHorror murdered in terrible ways]]. It also reveals that [[spoiler:the ship's resident scientist is, in fact, a [[TheMole Decepticon spy]], and begins an arc with him as the primary antagonist. While it later becomes apparent that he was acting for the greater good, he is still judged guilty and briefly imprisoned for selling out the crew to a Decepticon hit squad, something that his quantum duplicate was technically responsible for.]]
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* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', a launch accident causes the spaceship 'Lost Light' ''Lost Light'' and its crew to be duplicated in a different part of space. An investigation of the duplicate by the survivors of the "original" crew finds all of its occupants [[BodyHorror murdered in terrible ways]]. It also reveals that [[spoiler:the ship's resident scientist is, in fact, a [[TheMole Decepticon spy]], and begins an arc with him as the primary antagonist. While it later becomes apparent that he was acting for the greater good, he is still judged guilty and briefly imprisoned for selling out the crew to a Decepticon hit squad, something that his quantum duplicate was technically responsible for.]]
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* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', a launch accident causes the spaceship 'Lost Light' and its crew to be duplicated in a different part of space. An investigation of the duplicate by the survivors of the "original" crew finds all of its occupants [[BodyHorror murdered in terrible ways]]. It also reveals that [[spoiler:the ship's resident scientist is, in fact, a [[TheMole Decepticon spy]], and begins an arc with him as the primary antagonist. While it later becomes apparent that he was acting for the greater good, he is still judged guilty and briefly imprisoned for selling out the crew to a Decepticon hit squad, something that his quantum duplicate was technically responsible for.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "Avatar Day", Aang finds out too late that the titular Avatar Day is, for the local people he just stumbled upon, the day to desecrate the Avatar's image because of what the past Avatar (Kyoshi) did to their greatest king in the past. Upon finding out Aang is the current Avatar, they capture and immediately try to execute him. Played with in that all Avatars are the reincarnations of the previous one, and upon the execution, Kyoshi's soul briefly takes over Aang's body to... admit that she did kill the king, because said king was [[AssholeVictim a tyrant conqueror who threatened her group.]] This just makes the villagers even angrier until Fire Nation thugs raid the village, forcing them to rely on Aang and friends to fend them off.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "Avatar Day", "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarDay Avatar Day]]", Aang finds out too late that the titular Avatar Day is, for the local people he just stumbled upon, the day to desecrate the Avatar's image because of what the past Avatar (Kyoshi) did to their greatest king in the past. Upon finding out Aang is the current Avatar, they capture and immediately try to execute him. Played with in that all Avatars are the reincarnations of the previous one, and upon the execution, Kyoshi's soul briefly takes over Aang's body to... admit that she did kill the king, because said king was [[AssholeVictim a tyrant conqueror who threatened her group.]] This just makes the villagers even angrier until Fire Nation thugs raid the village, forcing them to rely on Aang and friends to fend them off.
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* The twin androids Popola and Devola in ''VideoGame/NieRAutomata'' are not the same units responsible for the demise of humanity in ''VideoGame/NieR'', but all androids are hard-coded to shun and dislike them as punishment for the sins of their forebears.
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* The twin androids Popola and Devola in ''VideoGame/NieRAutomata'' are not the same units responsible for the [[spoiler:the demise of humanity humanity]] in ''VideoGame/NieR'', but all androids are hard-coded to shun and dislike them as punishment for the sins of their forebears.
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A character does something worthy of punishment, but an alternate version, personality, clone or even past self (usually innocent/ignorant of the other's crimes) gets punished for it. BewilderingPunishment may ensue if the alternate self truly has no idea what they're being MisBlamed for.
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A character does something worthy of punishment, but an alternate version, personality, clone or even past self (usually innocent/ignorant of the other's crimes) gets punished for it. BewilderingPunishment may ensue if the alternate self truly has no idea what they're being MisBlamed blamed for.
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* ''{{Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When Angelus is cursed by gypsies, he is given a soul, creating the alternate personality Angel. Angel is then punished with the guilt for all his evil alter ego has done.
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* ''{{Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When Angelus is cursed by gypsies, he is given a soul, creating the alternate personality Angel. Angel is then punished with the guilt for all his evil alter ego has done.
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* In ''Series/BabylonFive'' the Earth Alliance's standard method of capital punishment is DeathOfPersonality. In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E04PassingThroughGethsemane Passing Through Gethsemane]]", a group of people related to a serial killer's victims attempts to take revenge on the person he's become post-mind wipe, a Trappist monk.
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* The twin androids Popola and Devola in ''VideoGame/NieRAutomata'' are not the same units responsible for the demise of humanity in ''VideoGame/NieR'', but all androids are hard-coded to shun and dislike them as punishment for the sins of their forebears.
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Compare CartesianKarma, when some is held accountable for crimes they "committed" because they were mind controlled.
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A character does something worthy of punishment, but an alternate version, personality, clone or even past self (usually innocent/ignorant of the other's crimes) gets punished for it. BewilderingPunishment may ensue if the alternate self truly has no idea what they're being MisBlamed for.
Compare RevengeByProxy and AmnesiacsAreInnocent. See also KarmaHoudini, AlternateIdentityAmnesia, PrecrimeArrest, CriminalDoppelganger, and JekyllAndHyde.
!! Examples
[[AC:Manga]]
* ''Manga/SamuraiExecutioner'': One of the criminals Asaemon has to execute is a woman whose SplitPersonality is a {{pyromaniac}}, but is completely unaware of what she does when in her trances. As Asaemon is against killing people who don't know why they're being killed, he arranges for fireworks to go off during the execution, causing the woman's other personality to take over, letting Asaemon execute the guilty personality with the innocent one (instead of just the innocent).
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* ''{{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}'': In order to escape Hell, John Constantine creates a kind of EvilTwin by removing all his more unsavory aspects (baser urges, demonic blood, clinginess over an ex-girlfriend...) and leaving it in his place. This screws him over later when Demon Constantine is on Earth and ends up raping John's niece Gemma (during John's wedding). Believing it was the real John, Gemma summons a vengeance demon and sics it on her uncle. While the misunderstanding is cleared up, their relationship is irreparably broken (and John considers her right to hate him).
* PlayedForLaughs in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' arc where Calvin time-travels two hours into the future in order to pick up his completed homework from his future self at 8:30. Naturally, 8:30 doesn't have it because he went to the future to get it two hours ago, so 6:30 and 8:30 decide it's 7:30 Calvin's fault. They both go to 7:30 to confront that time's Calvin, threatening to beat him up... but 7:30 points out that hitting him means 8:30 Calvin will get hurt too. In the end, they both return to 8:30 to find that 6:30 and 8:30 Hobbeses have done the homework for them (a novelization of the evening's events [[LemonyNarrator narrated by Hobbes]]). Calvin says it made him the laughingstock of the class even if it did get him an A+.
* The second ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series opens with the Runaways hunting down Victor Mancha because his alternate-future self killed an alternate-future version of Gert. Thankfully, they soon realized how unfair this was and decided to conscript him to their team instead.
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* ''Film/UneditedFootageOfABear'': Donna, who is addicted to the fictional anti-depressant Claridryl, has multiple "clones" running around during the short; the main one, who is depicted as cruel and abusive to her children, representing her addicted personality. She hits Donna with her own car and then leaves to torment the children, leaving Donna to crawl back home. When Donna makes it, it's clear she's too late to do anything, as flashing red and blue lights approach her. In her addictive state she'd at least hurt her kids, causing police intervention, but it's staged as though the sane and injured Donna is innocent and the cruel, abusive Donna clone is the criminal.
--> ''Donna'': "I don't have a gun... I don't have a gun..."
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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': In one alternate timeline, WW2 is fought against a Franco-German alliance (with no Nazis in sight) and Hitler is just an army chauffeur with a particular mustache. Tobias (in Hork-Bajir morph, an alien with blades on its arms) instinctively puts him in a headlock despite Cassie pointing out that this Hitler isn't responsible for the Holocaust. He ends up with his throat slashed anyway (possibly accidentally).
* ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'': Agnes' more vicious personality Perdita makes a nasty comment about Granny Weatherwax and gets slapped by Nanny Ogg for it... or rather, Agnes gets slapped for it since they share a body.
* Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'': ThePunishment for the god Nahadoth was to be bound in mortal form and MadeASlave. At night, he's a HumanoidAbomination, but by day, he's a human with no memory of his divine self. [[spoiler:When Nahadoth is released, he [[LiteralSplitPersonality grants the human a body]] and sets him free.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Hado]]:''' All the people who feared the god did ''not'' fear the man. They quickly learned they could do things to the man that the god would not tolerate. So the man lived his life in increments, born with every dawn, dying with every sunset. Hating every moment of it. For two. Thousand. Years.
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* ''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.
* ''{{Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When Angelus is cursed by gypsies, he is given a soul, creating the alternate personality Angel. Angel is then punished with the guilt for all his evil alter ego has done.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'' the Earth Alliance's standard method of capital punishment is DeathOfPersonality. In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E04PassingThroughGethsemane Passing Through Gethsemane]]", a group of people related to a serial killer's victims attempts to take revenge on the person he's become post-mind wipe, a Trappist monk.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'' the Earth Alliance's standard method of capital punishment is DeathOfPersonality. In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E04PassingThroughGethsemane Passing Through Gethsemane]]", a group of people related to a serial killer's victims attempts to take revenge on the person he's become post-mind wipe, a Trappist monk.
* ''{{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 "[[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dax_(episode) 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.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': People who are worried about their fate in the afterlife and have the resources to do something about it sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not punished for their creators' misdeeds.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ozzie VIII is the leader of Medina when you first meet him, using his kinship to the first Ozzie (TheDragon in the first part of the game) to boss other monsters around. It's possible to dethrone Ozzie in the past so when you return, Ozzie VIII is now a servant being bullied by the other monsters. While the player and the PCs know what happened, it's a BewilderingPunishment to Ozzie VIII since he was never a bully in this timeline.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'': After the EvilChancellor is ousted from the realm in the real world, his dream self (a rich and arrogant merchant) is arrested by the king in the dream world despite being completely unrelated to (and ignorant of) the crimes his real-world self committed.
* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'': After Grigor II (a giant robot with an AI powerful enough to serve as Grigor's heir) becomes a totalitarian dictator, Molotov (a TrueBeliever in Grigor's cause) returns to the past in the hopes of convincing Grigor of taking Novaya Russia down another path to avoid turning the revolution that returned Russia to a global superpower into a fascist nightmare. Unfortunately, [[StrawHypocrite Grigor turns out to have no problem letting things turn out this way as long as he's in power.]] Molotov shoots him dead and returns to the future, but the ending doesn't show whether this was for good or bad.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "Avatar Day", Aang finds out too late that the titular Avatar Day is, for the local people he just stumbled upon, the day to desecrate the Avatar's image because of what the past Avatar (Kyoshi) did to their greatest king in the past. Upon finding out Aang is the current Avatar, they capture and immediately try to execute him. Played with in that all Avatars are the reincarnations of the previous one, and upon the execution, Kyoshi's soul briefly takes over Aang's body to... admit that she did kill the king, because said king was [[AssholeVictim a tyrant conqueror who threatened her group.]] This just makes the villagers even angrier until Fire Nation thugs raid the village, forcing them to rely on Aang and friends to fend them off.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In the episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E11JustAnotherManicMojoMimeforaChange Mime For A Change]]", Rainbow the Clown is transformed by a bleach spill into the evil Mr. Mime. The Powerpuff Girls manage to transform Mr. Mime back into Rainbow, then they beat up Rainbow and send him to jail even though he was NotHimself.
[[AC:Real Life]]
* "Roko's basilisk" is a hypothetical situation in which an artificial super-intelligence creates simulations of people who did not work to bring it into existence for the purpose of punishing them. When the concept was proposed by Blog/LessWrong user Roko in July 2010, site creator Eliezer Yudkowsky was so alarmed by the concept -- and the fact that Roko had [[TakingYouWithMe posted it online]], [[BrownNote potentially putting readers in the basilisk's crosshairs]] -- that he deleted Roko's post and banned all discussion of the topic for five years.
Compare RevengeByProxy and AmnesiacsAreInnocent. See also KarmaHoudini, AlternateIdentityAmnesia, PrecrimeArrest, CriminalDoppelganger, and JekyllAndHyde.
!! Examples
[[AC:Manga]]
* ''Manga/SamuraiExecutioner'': One of the criminals Asaemon has to execute is a woman whose SplitPersonality is a {{pyromaniac}}, but is completely unaware of what she does when in her trances. As Asaemon is against killing people who don't know why they're being killed, he arranges for fireworks to go off during the execution, causing the woman's other personality to take over, letting Asaemon execute the guilty personality with the innocent one (instead of just the innocent).
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* ''{{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}'': In order to escape Hell, John Constantine creates a kind of EvilTwin by removing all his more unsavory aspects (baser urges, demonic blood, clinginess over an ex-girlfriend...) and leaving it in his place. This screws him over later when Demon Constantine is on Earth and ends up raping John's niece Gemma (during John's wedding). Believing it was the real John, Gemma summons a vengeance demon and sics it on her uncle. While the misunderstanding is cleared up, their relationship is irreparably broken (and John considers her right to hate him).
* PlayedForLaughs in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' arc where Calvin time-travels two hours into the future in order to pick up his completed homework from his future self at 8:30. Naturally, 8:30 doesn't have it because he went to the future to get it two hours ago, so 6:30 and 8:30 decide it's 7:30 Calvin's fault. They both go to 7:30 to confront that time's Calvin, threatening to beat him up... but 7:30 points out that hitting him means 8:30 Calvin will get hurt too. In the end, they both return to 8:30 to find that 6:30 and 8:30 Hobbeses have done the homework for them (a novelization of the evening's events [[LemonyNarrator narrated by Hobbes]]). Calvin says it made him the laughingstock of the class even if it did get him an A+.
* The second ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series opens with the Runaways hunting down Victor Mancha because his alternate-future self killed an alternate-future version of Gert. Thankfully, they soon realized how unfair this was and decided to conscript him to their team instead.
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Film/UneditedFootageOfABear'': Donna, who is addicted to the fictional anti-depressant Claridryl, has multiple "clones" running around during the short; the main one, who is depicted as cruel and abusive to her children, representing her addicted personality. She hits Donna with her own car and then leaves to torment the children, leaving Donna to crawl back home. When Donna makes it, it's clear she's too late to do anything, as flashing red and blue lights approach her. In her addictive state she'd at least hurt her kids, causing police intervention, but it's staged as though the sane and injured Donna is innocent and the cruel, abusive Donna clone is the criminal.
--> ''Donna'': "I don't have a gun... I don't have a gun..."
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': In one alternate timeline, WW2 is fought against a Franco-German alliance (with no Nazis in sight) and Hitler is just an army chauffeur with a particular mustache. Tobias (in Hork-Bajir morph, an alien with blades on its arms) instinctively puts him in a headlock despite Cassie pointing out that this Hitler isn't responsible for the Holocaust. He ends up with his throat slashed anyway (possibly accidentally).
* ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'': Agnes' more vicious personality Perdita makes a nasty comment about Granny Weatherwax and gets slapped by Nanny Ogg for it... or rather, Agnes gets slapped for it since they share a body.
* Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'': ThePunishment for the god Nahadoth was to be bound in mortal form and MadeASlave. At night, he's a HumanoidAbomination, but by day, he's a human with no memory of his divine self. [[spoiler:When Nahadoth is released, he [[LiteralSplitPersonality grants the human a body]] and sets him free.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Hado]]:''' All the people who feared the god did ''not'' fear the man. They quickly learned they could do things to the man that the god would not tolerate. So the man lived his life in increments, born with every dawn, dying with every sunset. Hating every moment of it. For two. Thousand. Years.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* ''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.
* ''{{Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When Angelus is cursed by gypsies, he is given a soul, creating the alternate personality Angel. Angel is then punished with the guilt for all his evil alter ego has done.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'' the Earth Alliance's standard method of capital punishment is DeathOfPersonality. In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E04PassingThroughGethsemane Passing Through Gethsemane]]", a group of people related to a serial killer's victims attempts to take revenge on the person he's become post-mind wipe, a Trappist monk.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'' the Earth Alliance's standard method of capital punishment is DeathOfPersonality. In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E04PassingThroughGethsemane Passing Through Gethsemane]]", a group of people related to a serial killer's victims attempts to take revenge on the person he's become post-mind wipe, a Trappist monk.
* ''{{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 "[[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dax_(episode) 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.
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': People who are worried about their fate in the afterlife and have the resources to do something about it sometimes create Shabti, {{Golem}}-like simulacra with [[FakeMemories copies of their memories]], to suffer divine judgement in their place. {{Psychopomp}}s try to get Shabti RescuedFromTheUnderworld so they're not punished for their creators' misdeeds.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ozzie VIII is the leader of Medina when you first meet him, using his kinship to the first Ozzie (TheDragon in the first part of the game) to boss other monsters around. It's possible to dethrone Ozzie in the past so when you return, Ozzie VIII is now a servant being bullied by the other monsters. While the player and the PCs know what happened, it's a BewilderingPunishment to Ozzie VIII since he was never a bully in this timeline.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'': After the EvilChancellor is ousted from the realm in the real world, his dream self (a rich and arrogant merchant) is arrested by the king in the dream world despite being completely unrelated to (and ignorant of) the crimes his real-world self committed.
* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'': After Grigor II (a giant robot with an AI powerful enough to serve as Grigor's heir) becomes a totalitarian dictator, Molotov (a TrueBeliever in Grigor's cause) returns to the past in the hopes of convincing Grigor of taking Novaya Russia down another path to avoid turning the revolution that returned Russia to a global superpower into a fascist nightmare. Unfortunately, [[StrawHypocrite Grigor turns out to have no problem letting things turn out this way as long as he's in power.]] Molotov shoots him dead and returns to the future, but the ending doesn't show whether this was for good or bad.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "Avatar Day", Aang finds out too late that the titular Avatar Day is, for the local people he just stumbled upon, the day to desecrate the Avatar's image because of what the past Avatar (Kyoshi) did to their greatest king in the past. Upon finding out Aang is the current Avatar, they capture and immediately try to execute him. Played with in that all Avatars are the reincarnations of the previous one, and upon the execution, Kyoshi's soul briefly takes over Aang's body to... admit that she did kill the king, because said king was [[AssholeVictim a tyrant conqueror who threatened her group.]] This just makes the villagers even angrier until Fire Nation thugs raid the village, forcing them to rely on Aang and friends to fend them off.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In the episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E11JustAnotherManicMojoMimeforaChange Mime For A Change]]", Rainbow the Clown is transformed by a bleach spill into the evil Mr. Mime. The Powerpuff Girls manage to transform Mr. Mime back into Rainbow, then they beat up Rainbow and send him to jail even though he was NotHimself.
[[AC:Real Life]]
* "Roko's basilisk" is a hypothetical situation in which an artificial super-intelligence creates simulations of people who did not work to bring it into existence for the purpose of punishing them. When the concept was proposed by Blog/LessWrong user Roko in July 2010, site creator Eliezer Yudkowsky was so alarmed by the concept -- and the fact that Roko had [[TakingYouWithMe posted it online]], [[BrownNote potentially putting readers in the basilisk's crosshairs]] -- that he deleted Roko's post and banned all discussion of the topic for five years.
