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* In ''Film/LastActionHero'', Jack Slater, the character played by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in the [[ShowWithinAShow ''Jack Slater'' film series]], comes into the real world, meets the real Arnold Schwarzenegger, and can't stand him. ItMakesSenseInContext.

The "original" may find that ForWantOfANail their alternate version is really annoying, and (if not a fictional creation) the alternate may likewise find the original embarrassing. On the other hand, the alternate may be a much more successful or well developed individual who angers the original by outshining them. Expect at least one of them to say "IResembleThatRemark", "DoIReallySoundLikeThat" and/or "Why didn't anyone tell me [[DoesThisMakeMeLookFat this makes me look fat?]]" Can result in HypocriticalHumor if they're annoyed at a fault their other self possesses, unaware they have that flaw themselves.

'''War Doctor:''' Am I having a midlife crisis?

*** It should be noted, however, that not all of the Doctor's relationships are quite so turbulent. Excluding the ''very touchy'' subject of the Time War, Ten and Eleven get along rather swimmingly and are in practically perfect sync, and even the ones that bicker constantly like the Second and Third have been shown to praise each other and work together under the right circumstance.

** In the ''[[ComicBook/DoctorWhoFourDoctors Four Doctors]]'' comics event, the Twelfth Doctor refers to his previous selves as "incarcerations", while the Eleventh regards him as something that shouldn't exist, given that as far as he knows, he's living his last life. The Tenth isn't particularly impressed with either, and everyone takes potshots at each other over their TARDIS - Ten gets mocked for keeping Nine's design, Eleven's is criticized, and Twelve's gets mistaken for the Master's.

* ''Film/TheFlash2023'': Prime timeline Barry is repeatedly annoyed by the immaturity of the Barry Allen who exists in the timeline where Nora Allen ''wasn't'' murdered. However, the things that matured Prime Barry (his mother's murder, his father's imprisonment, being basically an orphan, gaining super powers) never happened to this Barry. Instead, he's goofy, carefree, untraumatized, and not particularly concerned with what's going on around him.

* ''Film/TheFlash2023'': Prime timeline Barry is repeatedly annoyed by the immaturity Barry Allen who exists in the timeline where Nora Allen ''wasn't'' murdered. However, the things that matured Prime Barry (his mother's murder, his father's imprisonment, being basically an orphan, gaining super powers) never happened to this Barry. Instead, he's goofy, carefree, untraumatized, and not particularly concerned with what's going on around him.

** In the ''All the Statesmen!'' event of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', the protagonist gets a chance to meet a darker version of their alternate self in the parody manga ''WebComic/LearningWithMangaFGO''. Despite presumably going through the same thing, the prime protagonist goes from getting annoyed about just how psychotically crazy their alternate self (called 'Nameless Master') is to reaching a breaking point when they realize just how abusive the Nameless Master is in treating their Servants (read: low levelled and weak, ignored for the sake of collecting the more rare Servants, to no avail)

A character encounters an "alternate" version of themselves that they greatly dislike. The alternate can be [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs a work of fiction]] existing only on a written page or ShowWithinAShow, or a {{Doppelganger}} of some sort ([[CloningBlues Clone]], {{Reincarnation}}, TimeTravel, AlternateUniverse, etc). The alternate version may be a [[TheWarOnStraw thinly veiled caricature]] that [[{{Flanderization}} exaggerates]] negative qualities or emphasizes neutral or even positive traits in ways the original dislikes, or invents traits whole cloth that [[AdaptationDecay are highly out of character.]] Or maybe they're just TooMuchAlike. The original is likely to become ''very'' angry at the author or the alternate for the real (or perceived) insult.

* WebAnimation/SonicVillains: Discussed in the Q&A video where the Eggman from the modern games is asked why he foregone recruiting the Eggman and Robotnik variants of the other worlds and instead went for other villains from those worlds; given what happened with his [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations younger self]] and [[VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure Eggman]] [[VideoGame/SonicRivals Nega]], the not-so-good doctor isn't in any hurry to repeat those experiences.

** In "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho169TheWrongDoctors The Wrong Doctors]]", an older Sixth Doctor teams up with a younger version of himself (pre-CharacterDevelopment), and finds said younger version to be unbearably arrogant and completely full of himself and likewise, the younger Sixth Doctor doesn't care much for his calmer and more reserved older self. The two incarnations of Mel don't get along, to the point where one punched the other out! (although it should be noted that [[spoiler:the younger Mel was essentially being brainwashed and her mental energy used by an external attacker that compromised her mental state]]).

Compare FutureMeScaresMe and IHatePastMe. Often is a key plot element in MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

* Sousuke in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' finds Al very annoying, but what he finds even more annoying is when someone points out that Al's neural network is a copy of Sousuke's own brain.

* In one OVA of ''LightNovel/TheSlayers'', Lina and Naga face a man who'd obtained a sealed weapon forged by a magician: a magic mirror that created a doppelganger of anyone it reflected with a perfectly opposite personality. While the opposites were too pacifistic to fight, they did drive Lina and Naga into near insanity. In the light novels it is made even worse, as after defeating the enemy they desperately tried numerous methods to destroy the artifact, only for each attempt to result in more doppelgangers. There is supposedly a town somewhere in the Slayers universe whose population is made up completely of these Lina and Naga clones.

** Suzu eventually discovers she's a SplitPersonality, the original spending most of her time dormant. Kanade, as she's eventually known, often gets rather irritated with her front-row view of Suzu's [[ExtremeLibido rampant libido]] .
** When Matsuri is a seemingly [[LiteralSplitPersonality split into]] [[GenderBender male and female halves]], both irately argue the other is just a fake. They pretty quickly ended up wrestling each other over it (mostly naked, not that either cares).

* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' ends up averting this, with all three Peter Parkers getting along incredibly well, with the [=MCU's=] Peter hugging his Raimi and Webb counterparts before they all part.

* In the sci-fi thriller ''Film/{{Coherence}}'', different timelines cross due to a TemporalParadox caused by a comet passing earth. This allows characters to meet their counterparts from other realities. One of the characters is shown to be extremely hostile towards his alternate versions, up to the point where he picks a fight with one.

** Suzu eventually discovers she's a SplitPersonality, the original spending most of her time dormant. Kanade, as she's eventually known, often gets rather irritated with her front-row view of Suzu's [[HormoneAddledTeenager rampant libido]] .