History NotSoDifferentRemark / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonKingGhidorah Ichi]] more than once tells [[GoodCounterpart Vivienne]] that she's more like him than she admits, and her understanding of what it's like to be [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]] will only deepen and make her more like him now that she's a half-Ghidorah monster herself. Vivienne admits that it's true that they're alike, [[NotSoSimilar but she also observes that they're different]] in that she will fight tooth and nail to avoid walking the same path that Ghidorah did.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures Ichi/Eldest Brother]] (Ghidorah's [[MultipleHeadCase middle head]]) says as much to [[AdaptationalHeroism Monster X]], specifically [[TwoBeingsOneBody Vivienne Graham]], twice. The first time is when Ichi is performing BreakThemByTalking on Vivienne in Chapter 14, and it leads to Vivienne responding with a NotSoSimilar speech. The second time is [[spoiler:during Ichi/Eldest Brother's ultimately-failed attempt to be DefiantToTheEnd]]. Both times, Vivienne acknowledges that she is partly like him.

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'':

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* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': Caleb mentally notes that when Elyon is angry, he can see the resemblance between her and Phobos.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9035477/1/Lecture-for-Moo-Moo Lecture for Moo Moo]]'' has [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Woody]] admitting to [[WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins Moo Moo]] that she is going to a similar case to Lotso as both of them are abandoned by their owner by accident, not going back to them, and they're oblivious to the fact that they're the abandoners, not their respective owners. He successfully convinces her not to become like Lotso.

* ''Fanfic/{{Dominoes}}'': Shinichi comes to see Ran and [[AbusiveParent Yuusaku]] as far too similar. While Ran is horrified when Yuusaku turns ''overtly'' abusive, she enabled and went along with much of his [[BigBrotherIsWatching monitoring]] and [[ControlFreak controlling]], believing that that it was best to keep her boyfriend LockedOutOfTheLoop 'for his own good'. This transformed their relationship from the one bright spot in his life to something toxic, to the point where he actively ''dreaded'' spending time around Ran. Once he learns the Irregulars' secret identities, he declares that the two are practically one and the same; Ran simply displays more CondenscendingCompassion towards him.

* In ''FanFic/{{Connecting The Dots}}'' Hinata finds a kindred spirit in Lois Lane while Lois describes Franchise/{{Superman}} in a way Hinata finds familiar. Readers also get to see that Superman and Naruto are also not that different during Lois' description of Superman.

* In Chapter 56 of the ''Manga/LoveHina'' crossover story ''FanFic/ContractLabor'' Su used her supercomputer and hacking skills to crack into and copy the cellphone contents of three female bullies who attacked Shinobu at school and publicly posted the info about illegal activities online for schoolmates to access and forwarded the data to the police. When Keitaro confronts her about her actions he finds out that she also investigated the bullies' families and is planning to blackmail them to pull the bullies from that school in order to protect Shinobu. He threatens to evict her for her own illegal actions if she goes through with it, but Su points out that Keitaro himself threatened the jobs/careers of the school administrators to get them to put a halt to the harassment that dorm mate Sarah was undergoing at school by both students and a teacher. When Su spells out that her actions and those of Keitaro are not so different, he backs off on the eviction threat and instead decides to use the information that Su gathered on the families to help them resolve their problems and to convince them to pull the bullies from that school.

* ''FanFic/TheEmancipators'': Once Shouto opens up to him and reveals [[AbusiveParents his father's cruel nature]], Izuku is immediately struck by the hateful expression he's sporting... and how much it matches his own whenever he's thinking about Bakugou.

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* ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'';
** Discussed when [[spoiler:Dyson observes that Camelot is the first purely human town he's ever seen and yet it doesn't strike him as that different from fae settlements, prompting Bo to observe that the two races aren't that different after all]].
** Occurs in a more specific context when [[spoiler:Bo tells Arthur about her conflict with her mother after Arthur learns the truth about his birth, followed by Bo and Merlin revealing their relationship to Arthur (without mentioning Morgana's role). Not only can Arthur accept her advice regarding how he would feel after killing Uther thanks to Bo citing her own experience of killing a parent, but he also recognises the similarities between Bo and Merlin's relationship and his own feelings for Gwen, giving him further reasons to trust them both]].
* Lex Luthor pulls this in ''The Man Who Sold The World'': both he and the Hunter 'want' safety for the citizens, and won't falter against anything to achieve this, unlike the Justice League.
* When Alya confronts [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lila]] in ''FanFic/MissingMiraculousLadybug'', Lila expresses false sympathy for Marinette, talking about how she tried so hard to be a good, helpful friend. She then declares that both she and Alya understand that kindness doesn't get you anywhere in this world -- after all, Alya ''immediately'' abandoned her 'bestie' once she thought Lila had something she wanted, didn't she? Much like how Lila herself [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates everyone else]] to her own ends.
* ''FanFic/MLPNextGenerationKnowFear'': When an [[RageBreakingPoint enraged]] Starburst [[StormingTheCastle attacks the griffon capital]] in order to end the war, she rampages through the city before confronting [[BigBad Emperor Stratus]] himself. After she overpowers and prepares to kill him, he decides to gloat about how she's proven him wrong about ponies being weak, since she's [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bloodthirsty as a griffon]]. This [[HeelRealization snaps her]] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain out of it]], as she realizes he's right, and decides to just arrest him for war crimes. [[spoiler: And then [[TheStarscream Nox/Shadow Wing]] kills him anyway, to make him a martyr.]]
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku runs away screaming from the tentacled shark-headed {{Kaiju}} spawn on Korusan Island, calling them monsters and batting them away without a second thought when they screech at him and attack him. But once he gets to safety, he realizes that not only are they trapped on the island due to their ability to swim, they would likely be slaughtered by humans if they were ever revealed to the world at large, much like his own plight as the only Kryptonian on an Earth that actively hates and hunts down aliens. He ends up going back to apologize for his actions and promises to leave them alone, allowing them to slink away harmlessly without a fight.
* Several examples in ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'':
** During an argument in chapter 8, Shinji and Asuka realize that they're not different at all.
** A secondary character points out that [[SmugSnake Kluge]] hates Gendo Ikari, but they're so alike than they could have been brothers.
** The final chapter sees Rei trying this on the BigBad, [[spoiler:[[AIIsACrapshoot the Emerald Tablet]], attempting to make it realize that they have common ground in both being creations born of science who are imbued with the ability to feel human emotions and form bonds with other beings. But where Rei sees the ability to experience emotion as a gift that enriches her existence, the Tablet sees it as a taint upon its being as it has [[AGodAmI massive god complex]] and perceives itself as a supreme and purely logical being, and so it lashes out in anger against Rei for daring to imply that it has emotions. The moment brings Rei to the rather bitter realization that despite their similarities, the Tablet is inherent inherently too insane and alien in its way of thinking to be reasoned with.]]
* In ''Fanfic/NullAndVoidNevaraRaven'', Izuku helps his team empathize with Himiko Toga -- a former member of the League of Villains -- by drawing direct comparisons between her and Momo Yaoyorozu; both have quirks that require regular feedings to function properly. Both have received insufficient care to compensate for their quirks, but while Momo is rich and has been able to survive on the minimum (her quirk requiring her to have a highly calorie intake), Himiko came from a lower-middle class family and her quirk being inherently scary (needing regular intake of human blood) resulted in her family not providing for her needs, causing her to develop a [[AxCrazy psychopathic disposition]]. [[ShadowArchetype If Momo's living conditions were less than ideal, she would have ended up just like Himiko.]]
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4657412/1/Operation_There_Is_No_Operation Operation: There Is No Operation]]'' KND Supreme Leader Numbuh 362 and [[BigBad Father]] are [[LockedInARoom imprisoned together]] and Father uses the situation to deliver a mock-sympathizing BreakThemByTalking about how a Supreme Leader is not so different from a parent.
-->"But what do kids know of strain, anyway? They don't know a thing. They just play all the time. Even their work is play. Not like your work. Your work... is work. Isn't it?"
* ''Fanfic/OrchestratingTheSilence'': Shinji admits he needs Asuka's presence because he has realized the two of them are birds of a feather who simply reacted differently to similar traumatic experiences.
-->"I... really like having you around," he admits. "I was going crazy without you, you know."\\
I know how that is. "Yeah, but... why me? Why Asuka?"\\
[...]"We're the same," he explains; his voice is so soft I can barely hear it. "We just went in opposite directions."\\
After a moment I nod. I'll believe that.
* In Chapter 23 of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash questions Belladonna's motives to raid the Gringy City Power Plant, after learning she's trying to murder Tokiomi Borealis for betraying his daughter Aurora (Belladonna's girlfriend). Belladonna counters by asking Ash if he's ever felt an uncontrollable rage over someone hurting a loved one and a desire to punish them. Ash realizes that he felt it before [[spoiler: when Paul ended up blasting Ash's Primeape into the air, possibly killing him]], and she realizes he knows the kind of pain she's talking about.
** An even bigger one happens in Chapter 44. To finally get Mewtwo to give up his genocidal rampage, Ash lets the artificial Pokémon [[spoiler:to peer into his mind and see his memories of his past life in the erased timeline.]] This lets Mewtwo see that Ash understands the pain of suffering a loss that cannot be reversed (as he did with Amber) and hits the last nail to trigger his HeelFaceTurn.
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9070640/1/The-Power-to-Vanquish-the-Dark-Lord The Power To Vanquish The Dark Lord]]'' Harry inadvertently does this when deliberately invoking DracoInLeatherPants by making a list of a certain someone's positive qualities and ''only'' those qualities:
-->'''Harry:''' What do you think? If you knew just this about a person, what would you say they were like?\\
'''Ron:''' Er... is it Hermione?\\
'''Hermione:''' No, it's ''Voldemort.''
* Xander explains to a shocked Faith in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32169-24/dogbertcarroll+Undulating+Flames.htm Priorities]]'' that every one of the Scoobies has either caused a human to die or at least didn't bother to save them. Xander body checked a zookeeper into a hyena enclosure, Buffy shoved the swim coach into the pen of his monsters, and all of them let Ford get eaten by vampires. So her killing the Deputy Mayor on accident wasn't nearly as big a deal as she thought it was.
* ''FanFic/AProtectorsPride'' has [[TheStoic Byakuya]] say this about [[TheHero Ichigo]] and [[GrumpyOldMan Yamamoto]] despite their dislike of each other. Both will fight [[{{Determinator}} viciously]] for their beliefs, goals and TrueCompanions. Byakuya however notes that this must hurt Yamamoto more since Ichigo might remind him of his younger self but years of compromise and dealing with the (corrupt and xenophobic) [[PointyHairedBoss Central 46]] made him LawfulStupid whereas Ichigo didn't cave in despite Yamamoto acting like a ObstructiveBureaucrat to him.
* ''Fanfic/PurpleDays'': When Joffrey faces Ramsay Bolton, caught trying to rape a mute Handmaiden, Ramsay tries to claim she invited him into her tent and dismisses the testimony of the guardsman who caught him as that of a spurned lover. Joffrey calls him out on it, because he can see what he used to be in Ramsay: a selfish monster used to having his way over the others.
* ''FanFic/RacerAndTheGeek'' [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/racer-and-the-geek has a moment]] when Telny, a veteran, realizes that he's not that much different than Goggles, a greenhorn.
* ''FanFic/RainboomsAndRoyalty'': Just before the FinalBattle, as part of her [[TheFinalTemptation pitch]], Nightmare Moon pulls this on Rainbow Dash, saying that she knows what it's like to have one's self and achievements overlooked in favor of another. Dash, however, doesn't buy it.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8988902/1/Reconciliator-of-Empire-City Reconciliator of Empire City]]'' has [[VideoGame/{{inFamous}} Cole]] pointing this out to [[ComicBook/XMen Kitty]] as both of them worked under the shadows of an EvilMentor and can't let go of their hate on them.
* ''FanFic/RenamonWho'' has [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures Valmont]] admitting to [[Anime/DigimonTamers Rika]] they're so alike. Both of them are rich, have a [[SpoiledBrat spoiled]] [[JerkAss attitude]]. That second statement reminded him when he was once a kid and still has it as an adult. Neither of them treat their non-human partners right; as a result, they lose them. As much as Rika said she doesn't need Renamon and that she hates Digimon, Valmont shares those same feeling with Shendu. When Rika tries to deny those, she eventually [[JerkassHasAPoint realizes Valmont is right]]; [[HeelRealization she has become like him]].
* ''Fanfic/RWBYEpicOfRemnant'': Salem claims she and Angra Mainyu are the same. Formerly innocent people who were screwed over and have a burning hatred of humanity and the gods.
* In the ''Fanfic/TheSagaOfAvatarKorra'', Mako states that he and Korra are rather similar due to how hard their pasts have been between him losing his parents and working for gangs while Korra was kidnapped by the the terrorist group, the Red Lotus, when she was a child and separated from her parents.
* ''Fanfic/{{SAPR}}'': Sunset Shimmer has this line dropped on her multiple times over the course of the story with many people she ends up confronting. From bullies like Cardin to terrorists like Adam to reflections like Cinder, they all carry a piece of Sunset in them. This, of course, feeds back into Sunset's own character development as she slowly starts to realize that she's been a villain this whole time and didn't even notice it.
* ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'':
** Shinji and Asuka. It is pointed out several times for several characters:
*** During a fight Shinji shouted to Asuka that she was right like him.
*** In chapter 5 Asuka thought that he was right, they were the same.
** A much darker example when Asuka saw Shinji naked, collapsed over the floor and spitting blood because of her, and she imagined in her mind the MP-Evas grinning and telling: "You see, we're not that different, you and meeee…"
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'':
** In the last scene Shinji admits he finally understands his father a bit, since when [[spoiler:he thought Asuka was dead he almost started the Instrumentality right on the spot. And he would have done if Asuka would have not reached him in time.]]
** Kaworu taunts Asuka stating maybe she knows him better than she admits.
** In the sequel ''Webcomic/AkiChansLife'': [[spoiler:Aki]] meets a girl called Ririko who is prone to get angry and hold grudges. Later [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] meets Ririko's overbearing and strict mother and gets pretty irritated at the woman's attitude. Then Ririko tells that her mother is like that because if they are not the best nobody will respect them... In other words, they have the same mindset Asuka had been fed with since she was a little child. Upon hearing it, [[http://jimmywolk.studenten-froendenberg.de/eng/aki.php?browse.4.130 Asuka got frozen in the spot]].
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9126801/1/Similar-Case Similar Case]]'': [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] admits that he isn't too different from [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Eas]]. Both of them are cold and stubborn, trying to prove their worthiness to their bosses, trying their best in defeating their rivals who are always stupid, grinning, and carefree, and [[VillainousBreakdown losing their cool when they showed them to be better than themselves]]. After her battle with Cure Peach, she finally understands that she is not so different from him after all.
* Shirayuki remarks in ''Fanfic/TheSnowHasStoppedTheRain'' that Ichigo and Zangetsu are frighteningly similar as they're both prone to being hot-headed and irritable. The fact that they simultaneously object to this comparison only reinforces it in her mind.
* The fancomic [[http://omny87.deviantart.com/art/A-Somber-Meeting-359962328 "A Somber Meeting"]] has King Sombra try and make a typical "not so different" speech, but is cut off by Twilight before he could start when she realizes what he's attempting to do, having [[GenreSavvy "read this bit a hundred times in a hundred stories"]]. She then turns it around on Sombra, delivering a "We are nothing alike" speech. [[spoiler:Sadly, he wound up one-upping her, when she resorted to using dark magic to save herself, after he tried to kill her.]]
* ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'': After [[spoiler:allying himself with [[TheProtagonist Vale]] ]], [[BrokenAce Obsi]][[{{Deuteragonist}} dian]] confesses his concerns that, despite calling himself "not the ideal Career," he isn't so different from the rest of the pack at all. His fellow District One tribute, [[BloodKnight Amber]], throws this in his face later, as she's giving him a cutting TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* The fanfic ''Fanfic/StoryOfTheCentury'' and several of its companion 'shots hammers this point several times, particularly at the end when OriginalCharacter Erin [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tears L a new one]] before [[spoiler:she leaves him.]]
-->"You make me sick. Both of you. You're just like him. You call yourself justice...but all I see i-is a monster, a-a pathetic hypocritical brat who makes up whatever sounds good at the time so you always have an excuse to do whatever you want. You made that abundantly clear when we were messing with Yotsuba; I just made the mistake of thinking that you could move past that. This wasn't about saving anybody, this was just about satiating your fucking egos. I don't care if you're the world's greatest detective and I don't care if you've got your own goddamn screensaver; to me you're just one of the stupidest most over-glorified self-entitled bastards I'll ever meet! You and him! Fucking stupid bastards!"
** Earlier, she points out to [[spoiler:Light and Misa,]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters "You've turned into the same monsters you say you're fighting."]] [[spoiler: Light dismisses her accusations, Misa says essentially that [[PayEvilUntoEvil if becoming a monster gets the job done, then so be it.]]]]
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6953776/1/Test_Of_Humanity Test Of Humanity]]'', [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] uses this to torture [[spoiler:Wheatley]] by telling them they're no different from one another.
-->"Oh, but it's true. Face it, [[spoiler:moron core]], you are nothing but a cold, heartless, sadistic, unloving machine. Just like me. You may look human. You may sound human. You may act human. But that's only because I wanted to see how long a robot could live a lie. You're more like Hal than you want to admit. You're more like me than you want to a-"
* In ''FanFic/ThisBites'': PlayedForLaughs in the Skypia arc, where the Strawhats note that [[TagalongKid Aisa]] is a small and bratty but loyal companion to the Shandarians just as Soundbite and Su are to Cross and Conis respectively. While Soundbite and Su are happy to the comparison, Aisa rejects being called an "animal companion", and it gives Kamakiri doubts of allying with the Strawhats.
* In ''[[Fanfic/ThroughTheLookingGlassMyNextLifeAsAVillainess Through the Looking Glass]]'', when he sees the outburst from [[spoiler:the Katarina from the game universe]], the Isekai Prince Alan tells the others that her reaction mirrored his younger self. [[spoiler:Both of them felt that their efforts weren't good enough, especially when compared to the more favored counterpart (Alan with Gerald, and Game!Katarina to Isekai!Katarina), leading to them lashing out at others in frustration. While the Alan of the Light Novel timeline had Katarina to help him out of his InferioritySuperiorityComplex, the Katarina from ''Fortune Lover'' had no one in her world]].
* Surprisingly, Steven Universe and Bill Cipher are fairly similar in ''Fanfic/ATriangleInTheStars''. And both are very much aware of this: Bill, at one point, catches himself when thinking about it; Steven even muses over this in Chapter Thirty, considering the fact that at least one parent is dead. But there's more to this than ever thought... [[spoiler: not helped by the fact that they're already kind of similar canonically, almost as if it was ForWantOfANail.]] In Chapter Forty-Three, it comes up again, as a thought in Bill's mind, and that time he actually finishes it.
* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''/''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''Fanfic/TheVampireOfSteel'', Buffy remarks she and Supergirl aren't very different despite of her different abilities and areas of influence.
-->'''Willow:''' Well, Supergirl ought to be safe from everything. Except maybe Kryptonite.\\
'''Supergirl:''' No, Willow. Kryptonians are vulnerable to magic. If you performed the right spell, even you could hurt me.\\
'''Willow:''' Then you mean, like... well... vampires...\\
'''Supergirl:''' Yes, dear. Vampires can hurt me. The last time I met Buffy, they did, several times. But I go where the job takes me.\\
'''Buffy:''' Sounds kind of like a Slayer.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8964251/40/The-Supernovas-of-Mass-Effect The Supernovas of Mass Effect]]'': After the Normandy Crew are left feeling betrayed by the Supernovas after discovering their true origins (they're cosmic vigilantes not native to their galaxy who were assigned to "re-do" the ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' story to achieve a better outcome), the first one they begin to forgive is [[VideoGame/InFamous Cole MacGrath]] because they realize his situation is not too different from their's: he too was betrayed by a fellow Supernova (Ryan) that left him cut off from his home, considerably weakened, and placed under Kessler's thumb.
* In ''Fanfic/WalkingInCircles'': Solas after spending over a year in the Ostwick Circle realizes that the people in this world are real and not so different from his people thousand years before.
** In chapter 33, Evelyn points out to Solas that she and the mages that caused Wisdom's death isn't so different. Had she was in the same position of them: hungry, afraid, desperate, she'd probably resort to some magic she doesn't really understand to save herself too. And the only reason she didn't was because Solas was there to take care of her.
** In the same chapter, after being called out by his lover, Solas realized that he maybe not so different from his fellow false gods after all. The Evanuris acted arrogantly because they saw themselves as gods, and Solas despite his insistence that he's different also has no problems acting like that when it suits him, easily killing people as if they aren't real.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9729235/10/Wand-Knife-and-Silence Wand, Knife and Silence]]'' Theodore Nott tried to pull this on Harry. Harry countered with the rejoinder that Nott killed for pleasure while he killed when there was no peaceful alternative.
* ''Fanfic/TheWarriorsDaughter'': When Vegeta questions how she can feel sorry for the Androids, Bulla dryly points out they have been turned into weapons to fight in someone else's wars, right like the Saiyans were.
* In the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP]] and ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' crossover ''FanFic/TheWheelAndTheButterflySaga'' Pinkie Pie eventually calls out Elise, for acting like she has ''any'' morale high ground over [[SociopathicHero Dan]], despite repeatedly showing she can be just as bad if not worse.
-->'''Elise:''' Maybe my moral high ground is less a mountain and more a bathmat...
* In ''Fanfic/WhenThereWasATomorrow'', [[Franchise/MassEffect Shepard]] and his crew can't help but see an uncomfortable number of parallels between The Illusive Man and [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Dr. Halsey]], and several of his teammates seem to be losing respect for him for siding with her, maintaining loyalty only because Shepard thinks she's their only ticket home.
* In ''Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesToDie'', Anzu Sugiura, the Ultimate Waitress, initially dislikes and distrusts Reiko Mitamura, the Ultimate Proofreader and the group's leader (although Sugiura is hesitant to outright admit it), since she's one of the few people who doesn't vote for Mitamura. While Sugiura's opinion of Mitamura never improves, especially not after [[spoiler:Mitamura outs Sugiura as the Ultimate Poisoner and tries to frame her for a murder Mitamura committed]], Sugiura ultimately realizes that they both put on a façade in order to fit in.
* In ''FanFic/WhyAmICrying'', Miss Cheerilee tells Scootaloo that she and Diamond Tiara have several things in common. They both lost their mothers at a young age, have hard-working fathers who have little time to spend with them, and hold grudges against their opposite social classes, but they're both strong-willed and have loyal friends to support them; the difference is that, while Diamond dealt with her pain by lashing out at others, Scootaloo bottles her emotions in.
* In ''FanFic/WinterWar'', Urahara notes that he and Mayuri are really very similar in their desire for [[ForScience knowledge for its own sake]], and that the only thing that keeps him from performing Mayuri's experiments is that, unlike Mayuri, he likes people and wants them to like him back.
* When Izuku asks Shouto about Bakugou in ''FanFic/WitnessGoodNeighbors'', wanting to learn how his [[WeUsedToBeFriends former friend]] was doing, Shouto finds himself mentally comparing his former classmate to his father: both are powerful and highly ambitious. This leads him to wonder whether Endeavor used to act like Cluster Bomb did, before becoming bitter over his failure to live up to his own promise. Struggling to find a way to say something nice about Bakugou, he ends up falling back upon something he uses to describe his father: "He was skilled in combat."
* In ''Fanfic/YesterdayUponTheStair'' Chapter 55, after Izuku chews out Nighteye over [[spoiler:the latter's faulty assumption that the former's Quirk means he doesn't care about death]], he says that he sought internship with the latter out of the belief that both their Quirks let them know things that others wouldn't and that Nighteye would thus understand what he's going through.
* This Trope is {{Deconstructed}} in ''Fanfic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor'' when the villain tries it on Andy:
-->'''Iris:''' Admit it... You liked that. People like you say things like 'I'm sorry it has to come to this' or 'it didn't have to end this way'. I've heard it so many times. But it's hard to believe them. I mean, come on... After all that's happened, weren't you so anxious to do that?\\
'''Andy:''' [[ShutUpHannibal Shut up.]]\\
'''Iris:''' Seriously, you finally got your chance. Felt kind of good, huh? Seeing me hurt? Hearing me scream? Philosophers and philanthropists always say, Andy, that taking pleasure in the suffering of others is immoral... Would that mean that someone who does so is an immoral person?\\
'''Andy:''' If killing you prevents innocent people from suffering, I have no problem with it. ''[Looks at his watch.]'' Now, I believe official tournament rules say that refusing to take your turn more than three minutes after your opponent ends his is grounds for disqualification, and I ended my turn about… Let's see… Forty seconds ago.\\
'''Iris:''' ''[Hisses in reply as she does so.]''\\
'''Stan:''' Honestly, Iris. You watch too much television. That routine never works anymore.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures Ichi/Eldest Brother]] (Ghidorah's [[MultipleHeadCase middle head]]) says as much to [[AdaptationalHeroism Monster X]], specifically [[TwoBeingsOneBody Vivienne Graham]], twice. The first time is when Ichi is performing BreakThemByTalking on Vivienne in Chapter 14, and it leads to Vivienne responding with a NotSoSimilar speech. The second time is [[spoiler:during Ichi/Eldest Brother's ultimately-failed attempt to be DefiantToTheEnd]]. Both times, Vivienne acknowledges that she is partly like him.

* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'':
** At the beginning of the story Shinji and Asuka realize they are alike. Since that point, when they are trying to understand each other, each one of them thinks "He/she is just like me. How would I feel in that situation?"
** When [[spoiler:Asuka fell into the Leliel otherdimensional trap,]] Shinji acted incredibly cool and unemotional as she was missing. Misato thought he looked just like his father.
** In chapter 7 Kaji is arguing with Shinji and Asuka. During that discussion Shinji looked so cold and his stare so harsh and firm that Kaji could not help to think of how much Shinji resembled his father.
* In ''FanFic/AllAmericanGirl'', despite being raised as a human and not a pony, DJ clearly shares a temper and obstinacy with her biological mother [[spoiler:Rarity]] that is all too-well noted by just about everyone/everypony who knows either of them.
* ''FanFic/BadFutureCrusaders'':
** [[MysteriousBacker The Masquerader/Arpeggio]] compares herself to Scootaloo with a classic "we have a lot in common you and I".
** [[TheDragon Dinky]] tries to win over Apple Bloom by saying that [[BigBad Twilight's]] [[TheEmpire regime]], while harsh, only does what's [[NecessarilyEvil necessary for peace]], just like the actions Apple Bloom took during the war in Sonhos Vale.
* ''FanFic/BlackenedSkies'': Celeste plays this card during the first trial once it becomes clear that both she and Kaede lied to everyone about what they knew, mocking her rival's apparent hypocrisy in preaching about how they should all trust each other and work together while concealing vital information from them.
* In ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheepDogSeries'', Sirius considers himself the WhiteSheep of his otherwise bigoted blood-purist family, but many characters have pointed out how, despite his rebellion, he still shares a lot more in common with his relatives than he'd care to admit--driving home the ThickerThanWater message of the series.
** Orion frequently remarks how much Sirius is like his mother, as both are hot-tempered and prone to dramatic outbursts when things don't go their way.
** More than once, Walburga compares Sirius to his cousin Bellatrix due to to their wild and rebellious streak. They both refuse to be constrained by their BlueBlood circle's standards of proper conduct, and would rather fight to the point of death than be forced to do what they don't want to do. Collette later notices the same thing when she meets Bellatrix for the first time.
** Although Sirius and Orion have completely opposite temperaments, they have surprisingly similar views about love, marriage and how to treat the fairer sex, as Lucretia and, later, Andromeda points out.
--->'''Lucretia:''' I see you've not only grown to ''look'' like your father--you're almost as ''uptight''.

* In ''FanFic/BrideOfDiscord'' Luna has a bit of an epiphany, after seeing Discord seemingly show true genuine compassion towards Fluttershy during their "date" in the Everfree, where she says in confusion, that a creature like him, could never change...

* In ''Fanfic/CeladonsNewBlossom'', Ash bonds with Sabrina over their similar pasts. Prior to becoming a trainer, Ash never got along with other kids and was frequently bullied due to the fact he [[DisappearedDad never knew his father]]. As a child, Sabrina was bullied and ostracized for having psychic powers. While Ash ignored the bullying and moved along with his life, Sabrina began shutting out everyone and developed a CreepyChild SplitPersonality to cope with her issues. Ash realizes that Sabrina [[IJustWantToHaveFriends just wants a friend]] and starts hanging out with her.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'':
** In chapter 5 Ritsuko unthinkingly compares Asuka with her mother when she mentions Asuka almost did the same thing than Kyoko: [[spoiler:killing herself and taking her daughter with her.]]
** In that same chapter Shinji and Asuka open up and talk and realize they have more things in common than they thought:
--->'''Asuka''':''"I-I mean...you're speaking with confidence...you're so shy, usually. I think I'm like this because I trust you and I feel that I can put my trust in you. You're like a confidante."''\\
'''Shinji''':''"I...it's the same for me. We've got a lot in common, don't we?"''\\
'''Asuka''':''"You try to avoid pain by running away from people. I try to avoid pain by driving them away. But in the end, we just hurt ourselves more. Aren't we pathetic, Shin-chan?"''
** Later Shinji fears he will become other Gendo because he realizes he is not so different of his father.

* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'': In [[Recap/ChildrenOfTimeS1T3AStudyInWhite "A Study In White"]], Literature/SherlockHolmes and Bram Stoker are captured by a [[Series/DoctorWho plasmavore]] who is addicted to the blood of alcoholics. Despite the deadly danger he's in, Holmes empathizes with her addiction and pleads with her to let his friends help her.

* In Chapter 56 of the ''Manga/LoveHina'' crossover story ''FanFic/ContractLabor'' Su used her supercomputer and hacking skills to crack into and copy the cellphone contents of three female bullies who attacked Shinobu at school and publicly posted the info about illegal activities online for schoolmates to access and forwarded the data to the police. When Keitaro confronts her about her actions he finds out that she also investigated the bullies' families and and is planning to blackmail them to pull the bullies from that school in order to protect Shinobu. He threatens to evict her for her own illegal actions if she goes through with it, but Su points out that Keitaro himself threatened the jobs/careers of the school administrators to get them to put a halt to the harassment that dorm mate Sarah was undergoing at school by both students and a teacher. When Su spells out that her actions and those of Keitaro are not so different, he backs off on the eviction threat and instead decides to use the information that Su gathered on the families to help them resolve their problems and to convince them to pull the bullies from that school.
* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Shinji got pointed out to him that he and his father are more alike than he would want to admit: both were willing to end up the world for a woman. Gradually Shinji has to admit regretfully that it's true.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12348367/1/Dead-Last-Blossom Dead Last Blossom]]'', [[GenderFlip Sakuya Haruno]] is quiet and prefers a professional relationship with his teammates Naruto and Sasuke, and on occasion will try to complete missions on his own without telling the others. It's after Obito stops Kakashi from showing his dislike towards Sakuya (springing from detecting the boy as a stress factor towards Naruto) that the former realize Sakuya is [[YouRemindMeOfX just how Kakashi was as a child]].
* In ''Fanfic/TheDelinquentAndHisLover'', Makoto tries to convince Akira to help her get Tsukasa off her back.
-->'''Makoto''': We’re the same, you and me.\\
'''Akira''': Oh yeah? How so?\\
'''Makoto''': We’ve both had labels thrust upon us that neither of us wanted.\\
'''Akira''': Maybe so. But your honor student label will only help your future, [[NotSoSimilar whereas mine has already been decided for me]].
* In ''{{FanFic/Depravare}}'' Kira and Righteous [[spoiler:(Light and L)]] have always readily accepted this about each other and are offended when Near doesn't get it, he doesn't want to see Kira as anything but an evil mass murderer and [[spoiler: [[BrokenPedestal his mentor]]]] as anything less than a saint.
* In ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman'', Celestia discusses this with Navarone, when she compares his growing darkness to the path Arachne went down, as well as her own experiences. She also notes that as much as he likes to pretend otherwise, as a human he does have more in common with ponies than he'd like to admit.
* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': During the extended flashback in Chapter 3, Kaworu alludes to passing over his own personal DespairEventHorizon and going out to set off Third Impact and wipe out all life on Earth. The circumstances were somewhat different, but the parallel is noticeable enough that Shinji feels a bit of sympathy for Kaworu despite the bad blood between them.
* ''Fanfic/EchoingSilence'': Sombra comes to realize that he's similar to Diadem/Twilight, after he finds out how they suffered a "betrayal like no other", her by Celestia and her friends, and him with his former Queen, Ametrine Crystal. Unlike [[http://omny87.deviantart.com/art/A-Somber-Meeting-359962328 "A Somber Meeting"]], however, Diadem/Twilight actually ends up agreeing with him. But unlike Twilight, who just ended up banished, Sombra murdered Ametrine and took her place.
* ''FanFic/TheEmancipators'': Once Shouto opens up to him and reveals [[AbusiveParents his father's cruel nature]], Izuku is immediately struck by the hateful expression he's sporting... and how much it matches his own whenever he's thinking about Bakugou.
* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsAFairlyOddFriendship''

* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': After Shinji has told her about his childhood, his mother’s death, his uneasy relationship with his father and his father’s lover and how little he likes being around Dr. Akagi, Asuka reflects that they are not very different:
-->'''Asuka''': We're not that different after all.
* ''Fanfic/FeralnetteAUBigFatBreak'':
** PlayedWith during the ''Enough Rope'' arc. When Hawkmoth finally manages to land one of his akumatizing butterflies on Marinette's bandages and attempts a BreakingSpeech gloating about her being 'friendless', Marinette [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine turns it right around on him]], asking him [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what happened to Mayura]] and pointing out just how alone ''he'' is.
--->'''Marinette:''' Calling me friendless, what a '''joke'''! Where's Mayura, Hawkmoth?! Where's your only friend in the whole world? Did you think no one would notice how sick Mayura was? How weak? How ''frail''? Supposedly I'm the friendless one, but I'm not the one destroying my loved ones.
** When Kagami catches Alya stealing a gift out of Marinette's locker in order to 'helpfully' deliver it to Adrien, wrongly assuming that it's meant for him, she notes how both of them have a bad tendency to assume that Marinette ''needs'' them to help her out. But while Kagami is learning to better gauge where her help is actually ''necessary'', Alya keeps making faulty assumptions and strong-arming her way along, straining her already fractured friendship with Marinette even further.
* In ''Fanfic/TheFifthAct'' after [[PeggySue Cloud]] is freed [[spoiler: from Hojo and Jenova]] by [[TookALevelInKindness Sephiroth and Genesis]], Cloud is horrified when he realizes that he's ''extremely'' similar to his timeline's original Sephiroth.
-->In that split second, he'd wondered what he'd do after he killed Sephiroth.\\
His first thought had been to destroy [=ShinRa=]. Destroy the company that had drained the Planet, dropped the Plate on Sector 7, and made Sephiroth possible in the first place. Destroy the man ''who left his mother in Nibelheim to die.''\\
Except... once he'd been freed of Jenova's influence, he'd realised how familiar that line of thinking was.\\
''When he found out the truth of his origins...''\\
...The first thing Sephiroth had done when he'd returned from the Lifestream was assassinate President [=ShinRa=].\\
''He started to hate [=ShinRa=].''\\
Revenge on [=ShinRa=] hadn't been enough. He turned his resentful eyes towards the Planet, and constructed fanciful notions that it was to be destroyed and made anew – that it was his ''birthright.''\\
''Then after a while, he started to hate everything.''
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'', as Zim feels this way about himself and the Membrane parents due to their MadScientist antics and habit of InsaneTrollLogic.
* In ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'' Shinji is afraid of his child, right like his father was afraid of him. When he feels tempted to run from his daughter, Asuka bluntly says she will not allow him become a copy of his father. Several years later, he meets Gendo again and Shinji admits that being a father is frightening.
-->"We have a daughter, she and I. She'll be three years old in a few weeks."\\
"I see," Gendo said. His voice betrayed no emotion.\\
"She's..." Shinji paused, then looked at his father and said, "I never knew they could be so frightening. Children, I mean."\\
Gendo's eyes widened a fraction. He held his son's gaze for several moments, then looked away. "Yes," he said, nodding.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9139830/1/Hit-and-Hug Hit and Hug]]'' has Rainbow Dash admitting that she's not too different from Fluttershy since both of them are arrogant and realize the error of their ways to make amends with their friends.
* ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'': After enduring numerous pranks from the [[GreatGazoo chaotic and mischievous invisible servants]] of [[CosmicEntity the Fates]], the Horned King notes two traits he has in common with them: the Invisibles are deeply passionate about their work, like he had been about world domination; and like him, they have endless drive and ruthless determination to make something work, no matter how difficult that might be.

* In ''Fanfic/JustBeforeTheDawn'', this is one of the things Celestia and Tercio manage to bond over. More specifically, the feeling of "being a stranger in their own land" as Celestia puts it.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24376201/chapters/67864100 Kamino's Ward]]'', All-Might is horrified that his idol, Captain Kamino, was really a ChildSoldier named Izuku Midoriya from when Quirks first emerged. His friend Tsukauchi points out that the Hero Industry begins training heroes like All-Might at age 15 in Hero Schools.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' Kyon realizes this and mentions it to Wataru as both want to protect their loved ones, in particular each one's sister.

* * ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Guzma tries to compare himself to Professor Kukui because they both weren't able to become trial captains. Kukui completely shuts it down since while he decided to study Pokémon, Guzma just became a gangster.

* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Guzma tries to compare himself to Professor Kukui because they both weren't able to become trial captains. Kukui completely shuts it down since while he decided to study Pokémon, Guzma just became a gangster.

* In ''Fanfic/BlackSheepDogSeries'', Sirius considers himself the WhiteSheep of his otherwise bigoted blood-purist family, but many characters have pointed out how, despite his rebellion, he still shares a lot more in common with his relatives than he'd care to admit--driving home the ThickerThanWater message of the series.