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* In ''{{Literature/Anpanman}}'' episode 322a "Shokupanman and Horrorman", Baikinman dresses Horrorman as Shokupanman due to the skeleton feeling depressed that Dokinchan loves Shokupanman instead of him. Baikinman takes advantage of this as he wanted Horrorman to cause trouble for the superhero. When Horrorman was at the Bakery, he tries to get way from Shokupanman by using the fallen mirror and tries to pretend that he is his reflection until the mirror falls.

* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' has Yuriko and Mariko doing this, mainly because Mariko thought Yuriko ''was'' her reflection due to their very similar appearance. Yuriki then hypnotises Mariko to forget she ever saw her and disappears.

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* Done by Chuckie and Donnie in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}[=/=]WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' Crossover "Rugrats Go Wild".
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* A surprisingly horrifying example in ''Film/FourteenOhEight'': the protagonist tries to articulate his troubles by gestures to a stranger he sees in the window of the house across the road. He manages to attract attention to himself, but then the stranger suddenly begins repeating the protagonist's own moves. And when the hero finally realizes that [[MindScrew he sees his own reflection in the opposite window]], [[MirrorScare the reflection gets attacked from behind...]]

* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', Mario and Luigi do this when they meet The Starshade Bros.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', some shape-changing enemies try to pull this in the seventh dungeon, an ice palace, where every room ''looks'' like it has a mirror covering its wall, but is actually divided by a giant wall of glass. Eventually you find a hole in the "mirror" and bump into your "reflection".

* ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' did it to simplify the graphics processing. In-story, a room had a large mirror on the wall. The game actually used a mirrored room, a duplicate of Mario, and an invisible force field. Not a ''perfectly'' mirrored room, of course. The trick in that room is to find something that isn't a perfect mirror and use that as a level entrance. In the remake, Luigi can phase through the mirror into the copied room, where things get [[WhiteVoidRoom weird]].

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* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts:

* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Graeme Garden sees a mirror and starts checking his appearance, then suddenly reaches through the frame and shoves aside an IdenticalStranger who just happened to be standing there for RuleOfFunny.

* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Graeme Garden sees a mirror and starts checking his appearance, then suddenly reaches through the frame and shoves aside a {{Doppelganger}} who just happened to be standing there for RuleOfFunny.

* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'', in the episode "One Stormy Night".

'''Dojo:''' ''The mirror gag.''' Why did it have to be a mime?!

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' has an evil mime do this to Clay. It ends when he tries to mirror-punch himself in the head.

* Done in an episode of ''Series/MadTV'' spoofing ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', where Nikki (the one with the split personality) believes the "her" in the mirror is someone different and performs a series of elaborate stunts in front of the mirror to prove it.

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* There is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeL0xdVTy_g deleted scene]] in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' where Sarah Connor installs new hardware into the head of the Terminator while he sits in front of a mirror. In the movie, the mirror and its reflections are genuine. In real life, Creator/LindaHamilton's identical twin stood on the other side of the mirror and copied her sister's movements. This was done so that the camera could make a continuous shot from the back of the Terminator's head (actually a dummy) to looking down inside it; Arnold sat on the other side of the fake mirror while Leslie Hamilton pretended to fiddle with his head. Also, it's done to fool ''us'' the audience, and you know what? It works.

* The "mirror test" for animal intelligence is whether or not animals can recognize their own reflection in a mirror as such, or think it's [[UncannyValley an intimidating, scent-less stranger whose every action matches their own]].

** In the MickeyMouse cartoon "WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts", a ghost does this to Goofy, who mentions at the beginning, "For a moment I thought it wasn't me." After a while of doing this, Goofy finally catches on and says, "I know you, you're a ghost!"