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* '''Exploited''': Brad gives the mirror to a disliked local politician as a [[UnwantedGiftPlot white elephant]] gift so he can have someone to debate his policies with every day.

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Brad gives the mirror to a disliked local politician as a [[UnwantedGiftPlot white elephant]] gift so he can have someone to debate his policies with every day.day.
** A local politician (who may or may not be disliked) seeks this sort of mirror in order to gain advice, debate policies, and settle conflicts without needing anyone else to do it with him.

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* '''Parodied''': Brad engages in an argument with his reflection in the water of his toilet bowl.

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Brad engages in an argument with his reflection in the water of his toilet bowl.bowl.
** [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Brad's reflection destroys itself with a hammer after smelling Brad's breath.]]
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** The magic mirror doesn't have a face of its own and thus uses the face of whoever it's communicating with.
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The setting is magical and Brad is the only character in the story. The writers need someone for Brad to talk to who is exactly like him but whom he can only interact with verbally, so they choose a copy of himself.



* '''Exploited''': Brad gives the mirror to a disliked local politician as a WhiteElephant gift.

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* '''Exploited''': Brad gives the mirror to a disliked local politician as a WhiteElephant gift.[[UnwantedGiftPlot white elephant]] gift so he can have someone to debate his policies with every day.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ???

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* '''Double Subverted''': ???Subverted''': ...But it turns out this is Julie's perspective--the dog is barking furiously at Brad's reflection, knowing something is very wrong.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Sometimes, the reflection is another entity on the other side. Sometimes, it isn't. No one can figure out any pattern to it, and the reflection isn't answering any questions.



* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Brad gives the mirror to a disliked local politician as a WhiteElephant gift.
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* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???Brad, frustrated at his day, yells at his reflection in his mirror. His reflection runs off crying, with Brad in shock that his reflection, for the first time, moved independently of him.



* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Brad engages in an argument with his reflection in the water of his toilet bowl.
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** The "mirror" is a video screen with extremely high resolution, which normally mimics the image that would otherwise be "reflected" in it but has been deliberately set up to turn the person looking into it into a sophisticated CGI character that talks back.
** In-universe, mirrors are magical windows to the Mirror World. It just so happens that Mirror Brad decides he's had enough with regular Brad.

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* '''Justified''': Brad is hallucinating.

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Brad is hallucinating.
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** The mirror is revealed to be a two-way mirror with an identical twin, clone, robot or hologram on the other side.
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