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* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

* Xander in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Hells Bells". An old man appears and convinces Xander not to go through with his wedding with Anya. Near the end of the episode, we find out that it was a Xander from the future. [[spoiler:And at the very end, we find out that he's not, but instead a demon trying to get revenge on Anya.]]
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' has done this more than once.
** In "That Seventies Episode", a warlock who made a deal with the girls' mother for their powers comes to collect. They go back in time to stop the deal from ever being made. Their mother is still pregnant with Phoebe, but Prue and Piper meet their younger selves.
** The episode title "Three Faces of Phoebe" refers to Phoebe casting a spell that accidentally brings a child-version and elderly-version of herself into the present, so it's "Me, My Future Self, and I".
** Season 5, episode 8, ''"A Witch in Time"'', plays this straight two times. First a warlock meets his past self to suggest using future knowledge for self gain. Second, Piper tells her past self to sabotage a rescue attempt to prevent the entire timeline from happening in the first place.

** In the series finale, Piper and Leo wind up in the future and meet their older selves, who in this case remember the meeting. Old Piper even has Aspirin waiting on a plate for Young Piper when she mentions she has a headache (from trying to understand the situation).
* ''Series/Danger5:'' In "Back to the Führer", everyone on the team meets their past selves. Pierre is a bit [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet reluctant]], Ilsa and Jackson are mistaken for the enemy but they quickly reveal themselves, Tucker attacks his old self in his quest for [[spoiler: Claire]], and [[spoiler: Claire is dead in the future, so she obviously doesn't travel back in time]].

** The 2017 season finale, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], is the first (television) story with two versions of the Master — John Simm's and Michelle Gomez's. The following Christmas special, [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]], reunites the Twelfth Doctor with the First (now played by David Bradley).
** The [[Literature/DoctorWho11Doctors11Stories Puffin ebook]] "Nothing O'Clock" features the Kin. There's only one ''actual'' Kin, but they populate places by traveling through time, forwards and backwards, until there are so many of them in one place — the limit being at least somewhere in the millions — the local structure of time collapses.

* In the first ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' movie, the heroes are stranded in the past and run into the 10-year-old version of protagonist Ryotaro. Like ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', the shock causes both to faint, but worse still, it caused the modern Ryotaro to [[EasyAmnesia forget everything that's happened so far]], [[AmnesiaDanger meaning his contracts with the Imagin can't function]]. They end up taking the younger Ryotaro (nicknamed "Kotaro", from the Japanese word for "little") along, which comes in handy since he ''can'' become Den-O, meaning the present Ryotaro is effectively useless until he gets his memory back.
* ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': Sougo Tokiwa is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who finds out from time travellers that he becomes the EvilOverlord Ohma Zi-O 50 years in the future, and sets out to [[ScrewDestiny prevent this]]. However, he doesn't take this seriously until Series/KamenRiderDecade sends him to 2068 and he meets his future self, confirming that it really is him. [[UnstoppableRage He doesn't take it well]], not in the least because of Ohma Zi-O's [[YouCantFightFate "I am inevitable"]] attitude. [[spoiler:Late in the series it turns out that Ohma Zi-O is toughening his younger self up, and when Present Sougo manages to break the BigBad's StableTimeLoop and finally achieve a good ending, Ohma Zi-O laughs and says "I'm glad I got to meet you" before he's erased from existence.]]

** In TheMovie ''Over Quartzer'', [[spoiler:the BigBad Kamen Rider Barlckxs is eventually revealed to be the "real" Sougo, who created the one from the TV series by manipulating an AlternateUniverse in order to ensure his rise to power. Not only does Present Sougo not like him, but even Ohma Zi-O intervenes, lending a portion of his power to his younger self so he can defeat Barlckxs.]]
* On Disney's ''Series/LabRats'', Leo's future self journeys back to the past to save Adam, Bree and Chase. Bonus points that Future Leo is played by Tyler James Williams, Present Leo's (Tyrel Jackson Williams) appropriately older brother.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' had an episode where Rimmer went back in time to warn his past self to be put in stasis while Lister went back in time to warn Kochanski to be put in stasis. In the end, [[spoiler:past-Rimmer thinks he is hallucinating when present-Rimmer appears before him, and then past-Lister and present-Lister enter the room together. It ends with a pair from even further in the future, future-Lister and future-Rimmer, appearing next to the other two pairs. Future-Rimmer [[StableTimeLoop seems to remember this incident]], though present-Rimmer obviously doesn't; past-Rimmer just shuts his eyes and tells everyone to go away]].
** Another episode had them meet their future selves after finding a time drive. Their future selves need the schematics to their past selve's time drive to repair their own as they don't want to go back to just drifting through space aimlessly. But [[FutureMeScaresMe the crew are disgusted]] when their future selves are gluttonous and friends with the Hitlers (as long as you don't get them talking about politics) and refuse to help. This causes their future selves to decide to destroy their past selves with their vastly upgraded version of Starbug as they decide nonexistence is better than going back to their old existence. [[spoiler: The present day crew all get killed except Rimmer, who attempts to destroy the time drive to remove their future selves from existence but fails to do so before Starbug is destroyed...which also destroys the time drive so their future selves cease to exist anyway, so they never destroyed the present crew, so the present crew reappeared and destroyed the time drive themselves to make it impossible for them to become the future selves that destroyed them...trying to explain how that made any sense [[LogicBomb caused the camera to explode]].]]

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', in the 200th episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E04Homecoming Homecoming]]": [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Brainiac 5]], in an effort to help Clark deal with his fears of his past and 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."]]

* In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Admiral Janeway comes back in time to help get Captain Janeway and her crew home sixteen years ahead of schedule. Why she chose to wait until they'd been in the Delta Quadrant for seven years is still [[FlameBait a topic of debate.]]
** A very minor example occurs in "Relativity", in which Seven of Nine is recruited by temporal agents to help prevent the destruction of ''Voyager''. The mission requires her to bounce through several timelines, the final one of which is about twelve hours before she was recruited. Several interactions between past and future Seven occur.
* Happens repeatedly to O'Brien in one episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in which the episode's AppliedPhlebotinum causes him to be pulled into the future in such a way that he always appears wherever his future self is in that moment.
** In another episode, O'Brien's daughter Molly falls through a PortalToThePast and re-emerges after spending ten years in the past timeline (though only a few hours have passed for everyone else). At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:she reenters the portal and ends up arriving at the same time as she initially fell through, causing her to encounter her younger self. The younger Molly doesn't recognize that the woman is her, but the older Molly does realize it's her younger self and is able to send her home.]]

** In "A Stitch in Time", Dr. Theresa Givens travels back in time to October 28, 1976 and saves her 15-year-old self from the man who kidnapped her and repeatedly raped her over the course of five days in the original timeline. Dr. Givens tells her younger self to stay away, indicating that {{Never the Selves Shall Meet}} probably applies too. This experience led the "second" Dr. Givens from the altered timeline to create a time machine of her own. The long-term repercussions of this are felt four seasons later in "Final Appeal".
** A subversion occurred in "Tribunal" when SS-Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher, who is assigned to Auschwitz in 1944, meets himself as an elderly man from 1999. The older Rademacher has been forced to wear the clothing of a concentration camp inmate by Aaron Zgierski and Nicholas Prentice, who brought him back in time. The younger Rademacher is not convinced by his older self's claim to be him from the future. [[spoiler:He shoots him in the head, believing him to be just another Jewish prisoner]].
** Another subversion occurred in "Time to Time" when the 25-year-old Lorelle Palmer from 1989 met herself as a five-year-old girl in 1969. Like her parents and everyone else from 1969, the younger Lorelle didn't realise the older Lorelle's true identity.
** In "Breaking Point", Andrew [=McLaren=] travels back in time to 1993 to prevent himself from meeting his wife Susan so that he will not be able to kill her on December 6, 2000. He confronts his younger self and, before killing him, tells him that his theories about time travel are correct. The older Andrew then ceases to exist. [[spoiler: However, Susan still dies as she takes a drug overdose, which meeting Andrew originally stopped her from doing.]]

** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Gus Rosenthal is transported back in time to the 1940s and befriends his past self. The young Gus never finds out that Harry Rosenthal, a writer from UsefulNotes/LosAngeles conducting research for a new story, is himself from the future. However, he comes to view him as a surrogate father who, unlike his actual father Lou, plays with him and reads him stories. The young Gus is very upset when "Mr. Rosenthal" tells him that he has to leave as it makes him feel unloved and abandoned. He tells his future self that he will be successful one day and will spit in his face and beat him up. [[spoiler:When the boy runs away, the older Gus remembers that he made his vow to become successful after [[StableTimeLoop Mr. Rosenthal left and never came back]].]]
** In "Grace Note", Rosemarie Miletti, who is from March 1966, is sent 20 years into the future and learns that her dream of becoming an opera star will come true as her future self is performing ''La Traviata'' in the Lincoln Center. Rosemarie does not interact with her older self and [[InvisibleToNormals can't be seen by either her or her younger sister Dorothy]] when she enters her dressing room. However, the older Rosemarie seems to be able to sense her younger self's presence, [[StableTimeLoop possibly because she remembers being her]].

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* ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': In a more realistic example of this trope, Pris meets up with her past self from when she was a young girl in a dream during her 4th episode.

* ''Manga/HimechanNoRibon'': The Himeko Nonohara of 1994 goes to meet the Himeko Nonohara of 1997 to find out how she's doing. She doesn't find out anything immediately useful.

** Affected again in 2020's ''Film/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic'' in which the two have a time limit set on creating the promised song that will bring the world together. To do this, they travel forward into time at a point when the song was recorded and take it with them back to the present. Bill and Ted obtain it on a thumb drive from themselves in a nursing home, but now they wind up in Hell to rescue their daughters who were sent there accidentally.

* Played confusingly in ''Animation/TimeMasters'', where it's reveal that a group of aliens threw a group of space travellers back in time 60 years. [[spoiler:Piel (the boy the main cast were trying to rescue) is one of them, and Silbad was him grown up (having lost his memory from a head injury after being sent back) all along.]]

* In the first ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' movie, the heroes are stranded in the past and run into the 10-year-old version of protagonist Ryotaro. Like ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', the shock causes both to faint, but worse still, it caused the modern Ryotaro to [[EasyAmnesia forget everything that's happened so far]], [[AmnesiaDanger meaning his contracts with the Imagin can't function]]. They end up taking the younger Ryotaro (nicknamed "Kotaro", from the Japanese word for "little") along, which comes in handy since he ''can'' become Den-O, meaning the present Ryotaro is effectively useless until he gets his memory back.

* In several reviews, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic meets his future self (a character clearly parodying [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doctor Emmett Brown]]). This starts with ''Film/TheRoom2003'', where the future Critic brings the present one to the future to justify calling a relatively recent movie "nostalgic". In the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' movie review, the Critic does a strange double version of the trope, where he reviews alongside of both his future self and his past self at the age he was when he first saw the film.

* In ''WesternAnimation/EgoTrip'' Dexter must travel to the future to stop Mandark from taking over the planet

** The [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Manakete]] princess Tiki exists in both her little girl incarnation (as seen in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem''), and her young adult incarnation (as seen in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''), and there's nothing to stop the player from placing them on the same four-person team. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as the game in question is a {{Crossover}} featuring characters from all of the games in the series, and the {{Player Character}} summons them directly from the world and time period in question. Later, a young version of Azura from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' was added and can be placed alongside her adult self (in fact the Tempest Trial centered around Azura had the two meeting in Young Azura's dreams).

* ''LetsPlayWitchCraftSMP'': In a more realistic example of this trope, Pris meets up with her past self from when she was a young girl in a dream during her 4th episode.

A trope in which a character using TimeTravel encounters themself in the future or the past, and goes to introduce himself. It is the opposite of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet in that the situation has no disastrous effects (at least not from the fact that the meeting occurred at all).

A trope in which a character using TimeTravel encounters himself in the future or the past, and goes to introduce himself. It is the opposite of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet in that the situation has no disastrous effects (at least not from the fact that the meeting occurred at all).

--> '''Present!Xan:''' Well... Claire's Accessories is just called Claire's now...
* Cassie from ''Webcomic/TimesLikeThis'' has done this [[http://timeslikethis.com/index.php?id=16 early]] and [[http://timeslikethis.com/index.php?id=264 often]] - and even from her [[http://timeslikethis.com/index.php?id=35 100-year-old self]] - [[http://timeslikethis.com/index.php?id=290 TWICE]].

** Which is twisted at the end when [[spoiler:after the kids discover the trickery and the parents apologize, Cartman announces that he learned a lesson and will now work to better his life by losing weight and being less of a {{Jerkass}}. He is then approached by a man in a suit claiming to be the Future Cartman, who considers this to be the defining moment of his life and what led to him becoming the very wealthy and successful owner of his own time travel business. Present-day Cartman assumes he is just another actor, and spitefully declares that because this guy tried to trick him, he's now going to live his life even ''worse'' than before. After he storms off, [[RealAfterAll Future Cartman transforms into an obese mechanic]] and screams, "[[CatchPhrase AH, GOD DAMMIT!]]".]]

* In several reviews, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic meets his future self (a character clearly parodying [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doctor Emmett Brown]]). This starts with ''Film/TheRoom'', where the future Critic brings the present one to the future to justify calling a relatively recent movie "nostalgic". In the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' movie review, the Critic does a strange double version of the trope, where he reviews alongside of both his future self and his past self at the age he was when he first saw the film.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/47609722/chapters/119995132 Down the Karmic Hole]]'' is a ''[[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Miraculous Ladybug]]'' that deals with Alix Kubdel being visited by her future self, Bunnyx. Fairly straightforward, right? Well, the catch is that this takes place in the universe of ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'', Bunnyx is the future version of an Alix ''different'' from the Alix in this universe, and her visit mostly involves [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWront telling her alternate past self about the future in hopes that she can avert the bad future ahead]].

* In the mobile spin-off game ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes,'' the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Manakete]] princess Tiki exists in both her little girl incarnation (as seen in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem''), and her young adult incarnation (as seen in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''), and there's nothing to stop the player from placing them on the same four-person team. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as the game in question is a {{Crossover}} featuring characters from all of the games in the series, and the {{Player Character}} summons them directly from the world and time period in question. Later, a young version of Azura from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' was added and can be placed alongside her adult self (in fact the Tempest Trial centered around Azura had the two meeting in Young Azura's dreams).

* ''Manga/HimechanNoRibon'': The Himeko Nonohara of 1994 goes to meet the Himeko Nonohara of 1997 to find out how she's doing. She doesn't find out anything immediately useful.

* ''Fanfic/DragonBallZDynasty'': As in canon, Future Trunks returns and meets his infant cell during the Android Saga, the same happening with Future Ranch and [[spoiler:Future Goten]]. Bulma and Android 17 would also see their future selves when the BadFuture androids are brought to the present day to repair Android 18, with Future Bulma arriving to aid her past self.