History Main / MyFutureSelfAndMe

* Along with the ''DoctorWho'' examples is the inversion/ subversion in the "The Next Doctor", where a mix-up and some amnesia leads the past Doctor to introduce himself to the future Doctor (rather than the usual future introducing themselves to the past). Then the future Doctor turns out not to be the Doctor after all, so it might not count anyway.

* Played confusingly in ''TimeMasters'', where a group of aliens throw a group of space travellers in time 60 years, and damage caused by what happened then reveals that [[spoiler:Sylbain and Piel were one in the same, both seperate entities of the same person at different times in his life.]]

* ''[=~The Time Traveller's Wife~=]'' is made of this trope.

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[[caption-width:288:Brushing your teeth with your future self blows.]]

* ''TheTimeTravellersWife'' is made of this trope.

* ''{{Smallville}}'', in the recent 200th episode "Homecoming"; [[LegionOfSuperheroes Brainiac 5]], in an effort to help Clark deal with his fears of his past and to embrace his heroic destiny, allows him to see his near future, where he and Lois are the star reporters for The Daily Planet and very much in love, and he has become Superman. [[spoiler: At one point, Clark meets his future self, and is taken aback by [[ClarkKenting his suit and glasses]]. Future Clark, as it turns out, was waiting for his past self, and tells him to go to the Planet's roof to save Lois while he prevents a nuclear reactor meltdown across town. When Clark asks how Future Clark was expecting him, Future Clark simply answers, "Time travel. Think it through."]]

* ''ProfessorLayton and the Last Time Travel'', in which the plot is driven by the professor's apprentice's future self, who went back in time to ask the professor for help.

** ''Starts off''?
** Yes, he does. ... Was there a point to saying that?
** The thing is, "starts off as a jerk" is a bit of an understatement. InsufferableGenius BrattyHalfPint since before the beginning of the book would be more accurate. Artemis himself is annoyed at his younger self, being all "that can't be how I acted".

* ''{{Smallville}}'', in the recent 200th episode "Homecoming"; [[LegionOfSuperheroes Brainiac 5]], in an effort to help Clark deal with his fears of his past and to embrace his heroic destiny, allows him to see his near future, where he and Lois are the star reporters for The Daily Planet and very much in love, and he has become Superman. [[spoiler: At one point, Clark meets his future self, and is taken aback by [[ClarkKenting his suit and glasses]]. Future Clark, as it turns out, was waiting for his past self, and tells him to go to the Planet's roof to save Lois while he prevents a nuclear reactor meltdown across town. When Clark asks how Future Clark was expecting him, Future Clark simply answers, "Time travel. Work it through."]]

* ''{{Smallville}}'', in the recent 200th episode "Homecoming"; [[LegionOfSuperheroes Brainiac 5]], in an effort to help Clark deal with his fears of his past and to embrace his heroic destiny, allows him to see his near future, where he and Lois are the star reporters for The Daily Planet and very much in love, and he has become Superman. [[spoiler: At one point, Clark meets his future self, and is taken aback by [[ClarkKenting his suit and glasses]]. Future Clark, as it turns out, was waiting for his past self, and told him to go to the Planet's roof to save Lois while he prevented a nuclear reactor meltdown across town. When Clark asked how Future Clark was expecting him, Future Clark simply answered, "Time travel. Work it through."]]

* ''{{Smallville]]'', in the recent 200th episode "Homecoming"; [[LegionOfSuperheroes Brainiac 5]], in an effort to help Clark deal with his fears of his past and to embrace his heroic destiny, allows him to see his near future, where he and Lois are the star reporters for The Daily Planet and very much in love, and he has become Superman. [[spoiler: At one point, Clark meets his future self, and is taken aback by [[ClarkKenting his suit and glasses]]. Future Clark, as it turns out, was waiting for his past self, and told him to go to the Planet's roof to save Lois while he prevented a nuclear reactor meltdown across town. When Clark asked how Future Clark was expecting him, Future Clark simply answered, "Time travel. Work it through."]]

* ''{{Smallville]]'', in the recent 200th episode "Homecoming"; [[LegionOfSuperheroes Brainiac 5]], in an effort to help Clark deal with his fears of his past and to embrace his heroic destiny, allows him to see his near future, where he and Lois are the star reporters for The Daily Planet and very much in love, and he has become Superman. [[At one point, Clark meets his future self, and is taken aback by [[ClarkKenting his suit and glasses]]. Future Clark, as it turns out, was waiting for his past self, and told him to go to the Planet's roof to save Lois while he prevented a nuclear reactor meltdown across town. When Clark asked how Future Clark was expecting him, Future Clark simply answered, "Time travel. Work it through."]]

* In an episode of {{Sliders}], the group finds themselves in a dimension that is behind our own in time, leading Quinn to encounter himself as a child and teach his younger self how to fight, in order to avoid a traumatic event in his childhood when he seriously injured a bully with a baseball bat.

* In a ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode, {{Batman}} travels to the future and meets his old self. His first reaction is "I am surprised I lived for so long". Later, he pulls off a GoodCopBadCop routine with his older self. And ''he'' is the Good Cop.

** His "-All You Zombies-" turns this UpToEleven, as the main character [[spoiler:is actually ''all'' the characters: through loads of time travel, the main character (who is an intersex, and at the start of the story a man) travels back in time, impregnates his past female self, then the female gives birth to a baby but complications in the birth force the doctors to turn the mother into a man, and the baby is sent to the past by the oldest version of the main character. So, the main character is simultaneously his own father, mother, child, and kidnapper]].

* ''{{Homestuck}}'': [[spoiler: After fighting through the Medium for months gathering all the information he can, Dave travels back from a BadFuture to the present in order to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. Future!Dave then uses himself to prototype his present self's kernelsprite, effectively becoming his own SpiritGuide and a recurring character.]] This apparently undid the future that he originally came from, and set the main events of the story on an alternate timeline starting from when he appeared. Of course, TimeTravel in ''{{Homestuck}}'' is extremely [[TimeyWimeyBall wibbly and wobbly]], so [[BellisariosMaxim try not to think about it too hard.]]

** It's notable that since each of the Doctor's [[TheNthDoctor regenerations]] has a slightly different personality, and he seems to dislike "WhichMe" situations in general, gatherings of two or more Doctors tend to involve a lot of bickering. (Except for Number 10, who's pleased to see Number 5 again because that was one of his favorite periods of his life.)

** It's notable that since each of the Doctor's [[TheNthDoctor regenerations]] has a slightly different personality, and he seems to dislike "WhichMe" situations in general, gatherings of two or more Doctors tend to involve a lot of bickering. Except for Number 10, who's pleased to see Number 5 again because it was one of his favorite periods of his life.