History Main / YouRemindMeOfX

* Michael implies this to a teenage client he helped on an episode of ''BurnNotice'', complete with the show ending with the two of them leaning against his car in the exact same pose.

* In ''{{Futurama}}'', Zapp Brannigan, king of {{Metaphorgotten}}, says this of Fry: "You remind me of a younger me. Not much younger, mind you. Perhaps even a little older."

* In ''{{Scrubs}}'' JD is told by Jordan (the ex-wife of his reluctant mentor Dr. Cox) how he kind of reminds her of Dr. Cox when Cox was that young.
* Auron from FinalFantasyX tells Tidus that he reminds him of [[HotDad Jecht]]. The latter isn't [[ArchnemesisDad happy]] [[AlcoholicParent about]] [[AbusiveParents the]] [[ToughLove comparison]].

* In the StephenKing novella ''Low Men in Yellow Coats'' (part of the ''Literature/HeartsInAtlantis'' book), Bobby gets told by a waitress how much he reminds her of his long-dead and barely remembered father. Sure enough, at one point when she's totally petrified she [[WrongNameOutburst calls Bobby by his father's name]].

* [[TheDarkKnight "You know, you remind me of my father... I HATED my father!"]]
* In one episode of ''StargateSG1'', Teal'c informs informs the New Guy Cameron Mitchell that he reminds him of Jack O'Neill, SG-1's former team leader who Mitchell replaced. Mitchell thinks this is a compliment. Teal'c doesn't seem so sure.

* Arkraptor from ''TowerOfGod'' says this about Miseng.

A character with a deceased LoveInterest runs into someone who causes a FlashbackEcho of his/her former love. The character will often look startled, then say "Sorry, for a moment you reminded me of someone I once knew". The two easily form a connection, [[ReplacementLoveInterest foreshadowing a possible future relationship]], though one haunted by the [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest tragic end of the previous romance]].

* Parodied/subverted in an episode of ''[[ImAMarvelAndImADC I'm A Marvel and I'm A DC]]'', when [[XMen Wolverine]] tells [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} the Comedian]] how the Comedian reminds him of himself, then immediately remembers all the things that are different about them.

* In Chris Roberson's {{Warhammer 40000}} BloodRavens novel ''Dawn of War II'', the [[CryingLittleKid two boys]] they find in the hive remind Thaddeus of himself at that age — partly because he came from the same sort of hive, and partly because they fit the aspirant profile. (When he suggests that they might become BloodRavens and [[{{Revenge}} kill xenos such as killed]] [[MissingMom their mother]], they are quite eager to be like him.)

* [[spoiler:The G-Man to Adrian Shepard]] at the end of ''HalfLife: Opposing Force''.

-->'''Q:''' Then you must have been far more interesting. Pity you had to change.

-->Bud Fox: [getting up] I don't know. I guess I realized that I'm just Bud Fox.

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'' Naomi Misora tells [[VillainProtagonist Light]] "You remind me of [[HeroAntagonist L]]. [[NotSoDifferent There's something about you that's just like him.]]"

* [[{{Gatekeepers}} Feiling's Day In The Limelight]] has her helping out a JerkWithAHeartOfGold old man. You later learn that he has a granddaughter who looks [[strike: similar]] exactly like her.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ("Tapestry")

* Negi of MahouSenseiNegima constantly reminds people of his father. During the end of his tournament bout with Jack Rakan, Jack reminisces that it's almost like fighting with Nagi again.

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* Several characters suspect that Nagi's initial attraction to [[HayateTheCombatButler Hayate]] is that he reminds her of her mother, who died when she was still young.

** Interestingly enough, said student turns out to be quite the model commissar, offering to stay behind (and certainly die) to buy time for the others to escape. When he does survive, but it brain washed, he prefers to commit suicide after being temporarily rather than lose his free will again. Should Cain's assessment be on the mark, it would seem to shine a light on Cain's own character.

* Happens in ''{{JAG}}'' when the main character gets a new female partner after the last one gets killed.

* In the first episode of ''{{Community}}'', Pierce means it as a compliment when he tells Jeff that Jeff reminds him of younger version of himself, but since Pierce is, putting it gently, a complete tool, Jeff [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame doesn't take it as one]].

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1026 Antimony anticipiates being told she resembles one of her parents. Mr. Donlan surprises her by saying that would be what to say, except that she's her own person.]]

A character with a deceased LoveInterest runs into someone who causes an immediate flashback memory of his/her former love. The character will often look startled, then say "Sorry, for a moment you reminded me of someone I once knew". The two easily form a connection, [[ReplacementLoveInterest foreshadowing a possible future relationship]], though one haunted by the tragic end of the previous romance.

* In ''GunnerkrigCourt'', [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1026 Antimony anticipiates being told she resembles one of her parents. Mr. Donlan surprises her by saying that would be what to say, except that she's her own person.]]

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* In ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Mido meets Link after his seven-year absence. He doesn't exactly recognize Link, but does say that for some reason, seeing Link makes him remember.

* ''TalesOfSymphonia'' draws on this trope in a slightly unexpected way, where [[spoiler:Kratos, Lloyd's father, remarks about how Lloyd reminds him of Mithos. Not that this breaks with the trope in any way, but considering the father's more commonly the one the comparison's drawn TO, it's a neat twist for the father to be the one drawing the comparison.]]

* In ''EternalSonata'', Frederic tells Polka she reminds him of his deceased younger sister. There [[AllJustADream may be a very good reason for that]], or it could just be a coincidence.

* ''{{Abarat}}''. Candy reminds [[spoiler:Carion]] of [[spoiler:Princess Boa.]] '''A lot.'''

* In the StephenKing novella ''Low Men in Yellow Coats'' (part of the ''HeartsInAtlantis'' book), Bobby gets told by a waitress how much he reminds her of his long-dead and barely remembered father. Sure enough, at one poin t when she's totally petrified she [[WrongNameOutburst calls Bobby by his father's name]].

* Dante in the ''DevilMayCry'' series reminds about half the bosses he fights of his father, Sparda. Oddly, Nero reminds Berial of ''Dante'' in the fourth game's novelization.

* ''{{House}}'': In the first-season episode "Poison", an 82-year-old woman goes to the clinic because she's acting unexpectedly "frisky". She flirts with House while he examines her, saying, "You remind me of [Ashton Kutcher]. Same bedroom eyes."

* When Green Lantern, Black Canary and Arsenal teamed up in the events leading to the current incarnation of the JLA, Green Lantern thinks how Black Canary thinks it's because Arsenal reminds him of a younger Green Arrow — and that, the reality of it is, that Arsenal reminds him of his own younger self.

* In the StephenKing novella ''Low Men in Yellow Coats'' (part of the ''HeartsInAtlantis'' book), Bobby gets told by a waitress how much he reminds her of his long-dead and barely remembered father. For bonus points, she refers to Bobby by his father's name at one point in the book when she's absolutely petrified.

* {{CSI NY}} Mac tells Reed that Reed reminds him (Mac) of his mother, Mac's late wife Claire.

* {{CSI NY}} Mac tells Reed that Reed reminds him (Mac) of his mother, Mac's late wife Claire.