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** There's a lesser example in "Rest and Ricklaxation", where after a detoxification treatment at a spa, Rick and Morty wake up in a devastated world where everything is covered in, or made of, green slime. Initially Rick assumes that the detox machine exploded and caused an apocalypse, but eventually he realizes the truth: him and Morty are inside the detox machine, and they're the {{AnthropomorphicPersonification}}s of the real Rick and Morty's toxic personality traits.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Tuong Lu Kim, the owner of the [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish Shitty]], uh ''City'' Wok Chinese restaurant [[spoiler:is not actually Chinese. He's Dr. Janus, a white man with multiple personality disorder.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': In the second season, despite having [[HeroicSacrifice blown himself to bits]] in season one in a futile attempt to slow Omni-Man down and buy some time, Donald is [[UnexplainedRecovery seemingly alive and well.]] After a brief encounter with Debbie leaves her looking like she'd seen a ghost, and having no luck getting any answers from Cecil, Donald begins looking for answers himself. In episode 4 of season two he manages to hack into Cecil's classified documents and is horrified to discover video footage of his own death at the hands of Omni-Man. Panicked, he then stabs himself in the arm with a knife while in the restroom to see if he still bleeds normally, which he does and at first Donald is relieved... only to then panic again when he realizes the knife he used [[CameBackStrong is]] [[MadeOfIron now]] ''[[OhCrap bent.]]''
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': In the second season, despite having [[HeroicSacrifice blown himself to bits]] in season one in a futile attempt to slow Omni-Man down and buy some time, Donald is [[UnexplainedRecovery seemingly alive and well.]] After a brief encounter with Debbie leaves her looking like she'd seen a ghost, and having no luck getting any answers from Cecil, Donald begins looking for answers himself. In episode 4 of season two he manages to hack into Cecil's classified documents and is horrified to discover video footage of his own death at the hands of Omni-Man. Panicked, he then [[SelfMutilationDemonstration stabs himself in the arm with a knife knife]] while in the restroom to see if he still bleeds normally, which he does and at first Donald is relieved... only to then panic again when he realizes the knife he used [[CameBackStrong is]] [[MadeOfIron now]] ''[[OhCrap bent.]]''
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': In the second season, despite having [[HeroicSacrifice blown himself to bits]] in season one in a futile attempt to slow Omni-Man down and buy some time, Donald is [[UnexplainedRecovery seemingly alive and well.]] After a brief encounter with Debbie leaves her looking like she'd seen a ghost, and having no luck getting any answers from Cecil, Donald begins looking for answers himself. In episode 4 of season two he manages to hack into Cecil's classified documents and is horrified to discover video footage of his own death at the hands of Omni-Man. Panicked, he then stabs himself in the arm with a knife while in the restroom to see if he still bleeds normally, which he does and at first Donald is relieved... only to then panic again when he realized the knife he used [[CameBackStrong is]] [[MadeOfIron now]] ''[[OhCrap bent.]]''
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': In the second season, despite having [[HeroicSacrifice blown himself to bits]] in season one in a futile attempt to slow Omni-Man down and buy some time, Donald is [[UnexplainedRecovery seemingly alive and well.]] After a brief encounter with Debbie leaves her looking like she'd seen a ghost, and having no luck getting any answers from Cecil, Donald begins looking for answers himself. In episode 4 of season two he manages to hack into Cecil's classified documents and is horrified to discover video footage of his own death at the hands of Omni-Man. Panicked, he then stabs himself in the arm with a knife while in the restroom to see if he still bleeds normally, which he does and at first Donald is relieved... only to then panic again when he realized realizes the knife he used [[CameBackStrong is]] [[MadeOfIron now]] ''[[OhCrap bent.]]''
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': In the second season, despite having [[HeroicSacrifice blown himself to bits]] in season one in a futile attempt to slow Omni-Man down and buy some time, Donald is [[UnexplainedRecovery seemingly alive and well.]] After a brief encounter with Debbie leaves her looking like she'd seen a ghost, and having no luck getting any answers from Cecil, Donald begins looking for answers himself. In episode 4 of season two he manages to hack into Cecil's classified documents and is horrified to discover video footage of his own death at the hands of Omni-Man. Panicked, he then stabs himself in the arm with a knife while in the restroom to see if he still bleeds normally, which he does and at first Donald is relieved... only to then panic again when he realized the knife he used [[CameBackStrong is]] [[MadeOfIron now]] [[OhCrap ''bent.'']]
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': In the second season, despite having [[HeroicSacrifice blown himself to bits]] in season one in a futile attempt to slow Omni-Man down and buy some time, Donald is [[UnexplainedRecovery seemingly alive and well.]] After a brief encounter with Debbie leaves her looking like she'd seen a ghost, and having no luck getting any answers from Cecil, Donald begins looking for answers himself. In episode 4 of season two he manages to hack into Cecil's classified documents and is horrified to discover video footage of his own death at the hands of Omni-Man. Panicked, he then stabs himself in the arm with a knife while in the restroom to see if he still bleeds normally, which he does and at first Donald is relieved... only to then panic again when he realized the knife he used [[CameBackStrong is]] [[MadeOfIron now]] [[OhCrap ''bent.'']]''[[OhCrap bent.]]''
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* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. Superman realizes that he is actually the shape-shifting Ron-Karr, tricked into believing that he is Superman in order to be put to use as a spy. And the only reason Ron-Karr was planted there was because Chameleon Boy (another shapeshifter) was planted in the villain's team with the same method, needing a similar Tomato in the Mirror moment to get him back.
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* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006''. Superman realizes that he is actually the shape-shifting Ron-Karr, tricked into believing that he is Superman in order to be put to use as a spy. And the only reason Ron-Karr was planted there was because Chameleon Boy (another shapeshifter) was planted in the villain's team with the same method, needing a similar Tomato in the Mirror moment to get him back.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'': The HalloweenEpisode "Trick or Threat" has its main characters initially appear to be four trick-or-treating children dressed as Batman, Zatanna, Dr. Fate and John Constantine. When they end up confronting Klarion, they see their reflections in the House of Mystery and discover that they're actually the real Batman, Zatanna, Dr. Fate and John Constantine magically transformed into costumed children.
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** In "Rebirth", an interesting variation occurs in the first episode of the revived series. The Planet Express ship crashes after the events of the last movie, killing everyone, except the Professor and an amnesiac Fry, who is able to revive everyone with a stem cell machine. Leela remains in coma, so Fry builds a robot version of her in despair. The robot Leela learns of her true nature, but aside from some Angst, isn't concerned...until of course the real Leela wakes up, and they [[CloningBlues battle each other, so Fry is forced to shoot either one]], [[TakeAThirdOption and ends up]] [[TooDumbToLive shooting himself]]. Turns out Fry himself, was a robot, the real him was killed in the crash, while Leela, whom he shielded, survived. Since there was little left of Fry, Leela created a robot Fry. A malfunction, however, killed Leela forcing the Professor to use the rebirth machine on her along with the other dead crew members, and destroyed Robot Fry's memory. The issue is resolved when Fry is resurrected, and Robot Fry and Leela decide to hook up with each other.
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** In "Rebirth", an interesting variation occurs in the first episode of the revived series. The Planet Express ship crashes after the events of the last movie, killing everyone, except the Professor and an amnesiac Fry, who is able to revive everyone with a stem cell machine. Leela remains in coma, so Fry builds a robot version of her in despair. The robot Leela learns of her true nature, but aside from some Angst, isn't concerned...until of course the real Leela wakes up, and they [[CloningBlues battle each other, so Fry is forced to shoot either one]], one, [[TakeAThirdOption and ends up]] [[TooDumbToLive shooting himself]]. Turns out Fry himself, was a robot, the real him was killed in the crash, while Leela, whom he shielded, survived. Since there was little left of Fry, Leela created a robot Fry. A malfunction, however, killed Leela forcing the Professor to use the rebirth machine on her along with the other dead crew members, and destroyed Robot Fry's memory. The issue is resolved when Fry is resurrected, and Robot Fry and Leela decide to hook up with each other.
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** Batman and Robin try to distribute the cure for a madman's ZombieApocalypse drug. Turns out they were the ones under the effects of a drug that gives you wild hallucinations about everyone else being a zombie, and that same hallucinogen was what they were about to spread through the entire city.
** While D.A.V.E. is aware that he's a robot, he believes that he's a human supervillain who's been imprisoned inside of a robotic body - in reality, he's a computer program designed by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]] with the memories and abilities of Batman's rogues gallery. When Batman asks him about his origin, he rattles off the origins of several other villains and then [[VillainousBreakdown has a meltdown when he realizes the truth]].
--->'''D.A.V.E.''': "But...I am [[CardCarryingVillain Gotham's ultimate criminal mastermind]]! I consider all possibilities! How could I not have considered...''this''?"
** While D.A.V.E. is aware that he's a robot, he believes that he's a human supervillain who's been imprisoned inside of a robotic body - in reality, he's a computer program designed by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]] with the memories and abilities of Batman's rogues gallery. When Batman asks him about his origin, he rattles off the origins of several other villains and then [[VillainousBreakdown has a meltdown when he realizes the truth]].
--->'''D.A.V.E.''': "But...I am [[CardCarryingVillain Gotham's ultimate criminal mastermind]]! I consider all possibilities! How could I not have considered...''this''?"
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** Batman and Robin try to distribute the cure for a madman's ZombieApocalypse drug. Turns out they were the ones under the effects of a drug that gives you wild hallucinations about everyone else being a zombie, and that same hallucinogen was what they were about to spread through the entire city.
** WhileIn "[[Recap/TheBatmanS3E13GothamsUltimateCriminalMastermind Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind]]", while D.A.V.E. is aware that he's a robot, he believes that he's a human supervillain who's been imprisoned inside of a robotic body - -- in reality, he's a computer program designed by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]] with the memories and abilities of Batman's rogues gallery. When Batman asks him about his origin, he rattles off the origins of several other villains and then [[VillainousBreakdown has a meltdown when he realizes the truth]].
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** In "[[Recap/TheBatmanS4E6StrangeNewWorld Strange New World]]", Batman and Robin try to distribute the cure for a madman's ZombieApocalypse drug. Turns out they were the ones under the effects of a drug that gives you wild hallucinations about everyone else being a zombie, and that same hallucinogen was what they were about to spread through the entire city.
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** In "[[Recap/TheBatmanS4E6StrangeNewWorld Strange New World]]", Batman and Robin try to distribute the cure for a madman's ZombieApocalypse drug. Turns out they were the ones under the effects of a drug that gives you wild hallucinations about everyone else being a zombie, and that same hallucinogen was what they were about to spread through the entire city.
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*** "His Silicon Soul": A robot duplicate of Batman goes through this trope before his programming activates. The plan of the AI that created it is only foiled because the duplicate was programmed ''too well'': it was programmed with all of the real Batman's personality traits, including his steadfast refusal to kill.
*** "Growing Pains": Clayface forms a separate sentient being, in the form of a young girl, to scout for him. She forgets who she is and is found by Robin who befriends her. She tells Robin of a man who is chasing her, and when they encounter him he seems to be her father; he tells the girl (Annie) that "It's time to come home." In the heartbreaking final scene, Annie realizes what she is, and throws herself into Clayface to save Robin, being absorbed in the process. Robin then throws batarangs into the tank of solvent above them, causing streams to pour out onto Clayface as he demands he bring Annie back. Since Annie gaining separate sentience was a fluke to begin with, Clayface can't. Batman catches Robin's arm just as he's about to hurl the batarang that will kill Clayface.
*** "Judgment Day": ComicBook/TwoFace was targeted by a violent vigilante who called himself the Judge, and was determined to get him first. He and Batman were in agreement on this, as the Judge had already nearly killed both the Penguin and Killer Croc, and eventually, nearly succeeded in killing Two-Face by turning his own hideout into a DeathTrap - going to so far as to seal off an escape route that Two-Face thought only ''he'' knew about - that Batman had to get them both out of. As it turned out the Judge was actually a third personality of Harvey Dent himself, created in response to his Two-Face persona in order to ''fight'' crime. As Batman said in the end. "That's why he knew about the escape route. He knew everything about Two-Face...except that he ''was'' Two-Face."
*** "Growing Pains": Clayface forms a separate sentient being, in the form of a young girl, to scout for him. She forgets who she is and is found by Robin who befriends her. She tells Robin of a man who is chasing her, and when they encounter him he seems to be her father; he tells the girl (Annie) that "It's time to come home." In the heartbreaking final scene, Annie realizes what she is, and throws herself into Clayface to save Robin, being absorbed in the process. Robin then throws batarangs into the tank of solvent above them, causing streams to pour out onto Clayface as he demands he bring Annie back. Since Annie gaining separate sentience was a fluke to begin with, Clayface can't. Batman catches Robin's arm just as he's about to hurl the batarang that will kill Clayface.
*** "Judgment Day": ComicBook/TwoFace was targeted by a violent vigilante who called himself the Judge, and was determined to get him first. He and Batman were in agreement on this, as the Judge had already nearly killed both the Penguin and Killer Croc, and eventually, nearly succeeded in killing Two-Face by turning his own hideout into a DeathTrap - going to so far as to seal off an escape route that Two-Face thought only ''he'' knew about - that Batman had to get them both out of. As it turned out the Judge was actually a third personality of Harvey Dent himself, created in response to his Two-Face persona in order to ''fight'' crime. As Batman said in the end. "That's why he knew about the escape route. He knew everything about Two-Face...except that he ''was'' Two-Face."
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*** "His "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE62HisSiliconSoul His Silicon Soul": Soul]]": A robot duplicate of Batman goes through this trope before his programming activates. The plan of the AI that created it is only foiled because the duplicate was programmed ''too well'': it was programmed with all of the real Batman's personality traits, including his steadfast refusal to kill.
***"Growing Pains": "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE8GrowingPains Growing Pains]]": Clayface forms a separate sentient being, in the form of a young girl, to scout for him. She forgets who she is and is found by Robin who befriends her. She tells Robin of a man who is chasing her, and when they encounter him him, he seems to be her father; he tells the girl (Annie) that "It's time to come home." In the heartbreaking final scene, Annie realizes what she is, and throws herself into Clayface to save Robin, being absorbed in the process. Robin then throws batarangs into the tank of solvent above them, causing streams to pour out onto Clayface as he demands he bring Annie back. Since Annie gaining separate sentience was a fluke to begin with, Clayface can't. Batman catches Robin's arm just as he's about to hurl the batarang that will kill Clayface.
***"Judgment Day": ComicBook/TwoFace was "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE24JudgementDay Judgment Day]]": Two-Face is targeted by a violent vigilante who called calls himself the Judge, Judge and was is determined to get him first. He and Batman were are in agreement on this, as the Judge had has already nearly killed both the Penguin and Killer Croc, and eventually, eventually nearly succeeded succeeds in killing Two-Face by turning his own hideout into a DeathTrap - -- going to so far as to seal off an escape route that Two-Face thought only ''he'' knew about - -- that Batman had has to get them both out of. As it turned out turns out, the Judge was is actually a third personality SplitPersonality of Harvey Dent himself, created in response to his Two-Face persona in order to ''fight'' crime. As Batman said says in the end. "That's why he knew about the escape route. He knew everything about Two-Face... except that he ''was'' Two-Face."
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*** A variation of this trope occurs when Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman had illusions in which they saw each other as monsters. [[LetsYouAndHimFight Fighting ensues.]] After a while of [[HowMuchMoreCanHeTake brutal fighting from both sides,]] Superman discovered, to his astonishment, [[AGlitchInTheMatrix Wonder Woman's - not the monster's - reflection in water.]] Superman tried to expose the ruse to Wonder Woman, but found his attempts futile. Following a small, but brutally [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown one-sided fight,]] Wonder Woman finally got an answer to "Where is Superman?!" The monster pointed to a ''mirror'' revealing that she had been fighting her friend the entire time.
*** In the two-part episode ''Legends'' a few members of the League get transported to an alternate universe. They find themselves in a bizarre world that is seemingly a pastiche of the retro [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic books, with its own (cornball) version of the Justice League, the Justice Guild of America, who regularly battle against equally cornball villains. However, after some investigation by Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that the entire city was a LotusEaterMachine created by a RealityWarper, and the real Justice Guild died long ago trying (and failing) to prevent a nuclear war; in other words, the current Guild learns that they aren't even real. When Ray attacks and defeats the League members, the Justice Guild ultimately decides to fight Ray despite knowing that defeating him would result in a DreamApocalypse that would [[HeroicSacrifice take them with it]]. "We died once to save this Earth. And we can do it again."
*** In the two-part episode ''Legends'' a few members of the League get transported to an alternate universe. They find themselves in a bizarre world that is seemingly a pastiche of the retro [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic books, with its own (cornball) version of the Justice League, the Justice Guild of America, who regularly battle against equally cornball villains. However, after some investigation by Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that the entire city was a LotusEaterMachine created by a RealityWarper, and the real Justice Guild died long ago trying (and failing) to prevent a nuclear war; in other words, the current Guild learns that they aren't even real. When Ray attacks and defeats the League members, the Justice Guild ultimately decides to fight Ray despite knowing that defeating him would result in a DreamApocalypse that would [[HeroicSacrifice take them with it]]. "We died once to save this Earth. And we can do it again."
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*** A variation of this trope occurs in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E10And11ParadiseLost Paradise Lost]]" when Franchise/{{Superman}} Superman and Franchise/WonderWoman Wonder Woman had illusions in which they saw each other as monsters. [[LetsYouAndHimFight Fighting ensues.]] ensues]]. After a while of [[HowMuchMoreCanHeTake brutal fighting from both sides,]] sides]], Superman discovered, discovers, to his astonishment, [[AGlitchInTheMatrix Wonder Woman's - not the monster's - reflection in water.]] water instead of the monster's]]. Superman tried tries to expose the ruse to Wonder Woman, but found his attempts are futile. Following a small, but brutally [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown one-sided fight,]] fight]], Wonder Woman finally got gets an answer to "Where is Superman?!" The monster pointed points to a ''mirror'' revealing that she had she's been fighting her friend the entire time.
*** In the two-part episode''Legends'' "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E18And19Legends Legends]]", a few members of the League get transported to an alternate universe. They find themselves in a bizarre world that is seemingly a pastiche of the retro [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic books, with its own (cornball) version of the Justice League, the Justice Guild of America, who regularly battle against equally cornball villains. However, after some investigation by Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that the entire city was a LotusEaterMachine created by a RealityWarper, and the real Justice Guild died long ago trying (and failing) to prevent a nuclear war; in other words, the current Guild learns that they aren't even real. When Ray attacks and defeats the League members, the Justice Guild ultimately decides to fight Ray despite knowing that defeating him would result in a DreamApocalypse that would [[HeroicSacrifice take them with it]]. "We died once to save this Earth. And we can do it again."
*** In the two-part episode
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** In "Hollow Mind", Luz and Hunter end up in Belos' MentalWorld, where they learn through both his memories and his inner self that not only did he lie about the dangers of "Wild magic" and what the Titan the Boiling Isles are made from wants, but his Golden Guards were all [[ArtificialHuman artificially made beings]] called Grimwalkers whom Belos killed when they turned against him, with Hunter being the latest one.
** The very next episode, "Edge of the World", has Luz, King, and Hooty following a letter left by someone who appears to be a member of King's species. They call themselves "Titan Trappers", but Luz and Hooty realise that the way they describe Titans applies to King. Not only that, but they're not really demons, just witches who dress up like Titans in order to catch them. Luz ends up telling King that he's a Titan when she has to stop the trappers from sacrificing him.
** The very next episode, "Edge of the World", has Luz, King, and Hooty following a letter left by someone who appears to be a member of King's species. They call themselves "Titan Trappers", but Luz and Hooty realise that the way they describe Titans applies to King. Not only that, but they're not really demons, just witches who dress up like Titans in order to catch them. Luz ends up telling King that he's a Titan when she has to stop the trappers from sacrificing him.
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** In "Hollow Mind", Luz and Hunter end up in Belos' MentalWorld, where they learn through both his memories and his inner self that not only did he lie about the dangers of "Wild magic" and what the Titan the Boiling Isles are made from wants, but his Golden Guards were all [[ArtificialHuman artificially made beings]] called Grimwalkers whom Belos killed when they turned against him, with Hunter being the latest one.
one. They were also implied to be cloned from someone Belos once knew (possibly his brother), and the same episode also reveals that Belos is actually a human. Several episodes later, Hunter says that he doesn't know if this means he's a witch or a human.
** The very next episode, "Edge of the World", has Luz, King, and Hooty following a letter left by someone who appears to be a member of King's species. They call themselves "Titan Trappers", but Luz and Hooty realise that the way they describe Titans applies to King. Not only that, but they're not really demons, just witches who dress up like Titans in order to catch them. Luz ends up telling King that he's a Titan when she has to stop the trappers from sacrificing him. It's also strongly implied that his father became the Boiling Isles.
** The very next episode, "Edge of the World", has Luz, King, and Hooty following a letter left by someone who appears to be a member of King's species. They call themselves "Titan Trappers", but Luz and Hooty realise that the way they describe Titans applies to King. Not only that, but they're not really demons, just witches who dress up like Titans in order to catch them. Luz ends up telling King that he's a Titan when she has to stop the trappers from sacrificing him. It's also strongly implied that his father became the Boiling Isles.
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** In "Hollow Mind", Luz and Hunter end up in Belos' MentalWorld, where they learn through both his memories and his inner self that not only did he lie about the dangers of "Wild magic" and what the Titan the Boiling Isles are made from wants, but his Golden Guards were all [[ArtificialHuman artificially made beings]] called Grimwalkers whom Belos killed when they turned against him, with Hunter being the latest one.
** The very next episode, "Edge of the World", has Luz, King, and Hooty following a letter left by someone who appears to be a member of King's species. They call themselves "Titan Trappers", but Luz and Hooty realise that the way they describe Titans applies to King. Not only that, but they're not really demons, just witches who dress up like Titans in order to catch them. Luz ends up telling King that he's a Titan when she has to stop the trappers from sacrificing him.
** In "Hollow Mind", Luz and Hunter end up in Belos' MentalWorld, where they learn through both his memories and his inner self that not only did he lie about the dangers of "Wild magic" and what the Titan the Boiling Isles are made from wants, but his Golden Guards were all [[ArtificialHuman artificially made beings]] called Grimwalkers whom Belos killed when they turned against him, with Hunter being the latest one.
** The very next episode, "Edge of the World", has Luz, King, and Hooty following a letter left by someone who appears to be a member of King's species. They call themselves "Titan Trappers", but Luz and Hooty realise that the way they describe Titans applies to King. Not only that, but they're not really demons, just witches who dress up like Titans in order to catch them. Luz ends up telling King that he's a Titan when she has to stop the trappers from sacrificing him.
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** Except Isaac isn't her adoptive dad. He's the genuine article, even when you consider the revelation of Sari's "birth". After all, his DNA was required in order to bring her "online" and was what made her part-Human, effectively making her his biological daughter at the same time as being a robotic alien.
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** Except Isaac isn't her adoptive dad. He's the genuine article, even when you consider the revelation of Sari's "birth". After all, his DNA was required in order to bring her "online" and was what made her part-Human, part-human, effectively making her his biological daughter at the same time as being a robotic alien.
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* At the cliffhanger end of the Season Two finale of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Sari looks down at her injured elbow to see circuitry poking out, and her adoptive dad, robotics genius Isaac Sumdac, responds "[[{{Understatement}} We need to talk]]." In the next season, it's revealed that Sari was a Cybertronian Protoform Isaac somehow came across, and sampled his DNA to create her.
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* At the cliffhanger end of the Season Two finale of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Sari looks down at her injured elbow to see circuitry poking out, and her adoptive dad, robotics genius Isaac Sumdac, responds "[[{{Understatement}} We need to talk]]." In the next season, it's revealed that Sari was a Cybertronian Protoform that Isaac somehow came across, and sampled his DNA to create her.her human form.
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* In the first season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Red Arrow is the most adamant about finding TheMole in the Team, placing suspicion on Artemis (who isn't really Green Arrow's niece and whose parents are criminals), Superboy (who's a Cadmus creation), and Miss Martian (who's lying about her true appearance, and though she ''is'' Martian Manhunter's niece, he doesn't know her that well). It turns out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole, subconsciously programmed to create dissent, and while under MindControl he puts the ''entire Justice League'' under mind control as well. In the next episode, it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
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* In the first season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Red Arrow is the most adamant about finding TheMole in the Team, placing suspicion on Artemis (who isn't really Green Arrow's niece and whose parents and sister are criminals), Superboy (who's a Cadmus creation), and Miss Martian (who's lying about her true appearance, and though she ''is'' Martian Manhunter's niece, he doesn't know her that well). It turns out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole, subconsciously programmed to create dissent, and while under MindControl he puts the ''entire Justice League'' under mind control as well. In the next episode, it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
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* In the first season of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Red Arrow was is the most adamant about finding TheMole in the Team, placing suspicion on Artemis (who isn't really Green Arrow's niece and whose parents are criminals), Superboy (who's a Cadmus creation), and Miss Martian (who's lying about her true appearance, and though she ''is'' Martian Manhunter's niece, he doesn't know her that well). It would turn turns out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole, subconsciously programmed to create dissent, and while under MindControl he puts the ''entire Justice League'' under mind control as well. In the next episode, it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
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** The page image is from the episode "Hall Monitor", in which [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to enforce the law, but end up breaking through open windows and causing car crashes. The public end up starting a manhunt for the "maniac" the caused all this trouble, and the rest of the episode derives a lot of its humour from the fact that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick can't figure it out despite how increasingly obvious it is.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' episode "Monster in the Mist", Boog has been staring at a Mini Chomp game for multiple hours that it renders his vision blurry. When he sees Fanboy with Chum Chum sitting on his head, he hallucinates the two as a scary monster and freaks out; the boys, thinking there's a monster around, vow to help Boog catch it; and even Lenny is led in to mistake the two for the monster when cheese spray gets all over his glasses. Of course, the boys don't realize they were the monster the whole time until Boog wears glasses and the cheese is wiped off of Lenny's, and he angrily chases them out for nothing. But then an actual monster similar to the one he hallucinated appears. Go figure.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HildaAndTheMountainKing'': During the first act, the titular main character is told twice that she is a troll, but both times she refuses to believe it... until she sees her own reflection [[BreakTheCutie and starts crying.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', when Scarlet Spider learns he is not a teenager from the streets suffering from Doc Ock's {{brainwash|ed}}ing as he'd come to believe. Rather he is a Synthezoid imbued with Spider-Man's DNA. He does not take the revelation well, prompting a HeroicBSOD.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Red Arrow was the most adamant about finding TheMole in the team. It would turn out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole and while under MindControl, he put the ''entire Justice League'' under mind control as well. In the next episode, it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Red Arrow was the most adamant about finding TheMole in the team. It would turn out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole and while under MindControl, he put the ''entire Justice League'' under mind control as well. In the next episode, it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', when Scarlet Spider learns he is not a teenager from the streets suffering from Doc Ock's {{brainwash|ed}}ing as he'd come to believe. Rather he is a Synthezoid imbued with Spider-Man's DNA. He does not take the revelation well, prompting a HeroicBSOD.
* In''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Red Arrow was the most adamant about finding TheMole in the team. It would turn out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole and while under MindControl, he put the ''entire Justice League'' under mind control as well. In the next episode, it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Fern, who was created from the fusion of the Grass Sword and the Finn Sword, is born convinced that he's the real Finn Mertens and the other guy is just an imitator. He has a major tantrum when he finally realizes ''he's'' the imitator, and he has [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor a long and very complicated journey]] trying to find his identity and live up to his hero legacy.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'':
** Batman and Robin try to distribute the cure for a madman's ZombieApocalypse drug. Turns out they were the ones under the effects of a drug that gives you wild hallucinations about everyone else being a zombie, and that same hallucinogen was what they were about to spread through the entire city.
** While D.A.V.E. is aware that he's a robot, he believes that he's a human supervillain who's been imprisoned inside of a robotic body - in reality, he's a computer program designed by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]] with the memories and abilities of Batman's rogues gallery. When Batman asks him about his origin, he rattles off the origins of several other villains and then [[VillainousBreakdown has a meltdown when he realizes the truth]].
--->'''D.A.V.E.''': "But...I am [[CardCarryingVillain Gotham's ultimate criminal mastermind]]! I consider all possibilities! How could I not have considered...''this''?"
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' has a duo (ex-trio) of alien hunters that think they were mutated by [[ScaryDogmaticAliens DNAliens]], and hate all aliens. At the end of the episode, they are told that the reason they look like aliens is because [[PunctuatedForEmphasis They. Are.]] [[HalfHumanHybrid Part alien.]] [[BigNo NO.]] Really?
** Also Tyler in the episode "Inside Man", turning out to be a [[ScaryDogmaticAliens DNAlien]] who still is fighting it and trying to be human.
* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
*** "His Silicon Soul": A robot duplicate of Batman goes through this trope before his programming activates. The plan of the AI that created it is only foiled because the duplicate was programmed ''too well'': it was programmed with all of the real Batman's personality traits, including his steadfast refusal to kill.
*** "Growing Pains": Clayface forms a separate sentient being, in the form of a young girl, to scout for him. She forgets who she is and is found by Robin who befriends her. She tells Robin of a man who is chasing her, and when they encounter him he seems to be her father; he tells the girl (Annie) that "It's time to come home." In the heartbreaking final scene, Annie realizes what she is, and throws herself into Clayface to save Robin, being absorbed in the process. Robin then throws batarangs into the tank of solvent above them, causing streams to pour out onto Clayface as he demands he bring Annie back. Since Annie gaining separate sentience was a fluke to begin with, Clayface can't. Batman catches Robin's arm just as he's about to hurl the batarang that will kill Clayface.
*** "Judgment Day": ComicBook/TwoFace was targeted by a violent vigilante who called himself the Judge, and was determined to get him first. He and Batman were in agreement on this, as the Judge had already nearly killed both the Penguin and Killer Croc, and eventually, nearly succeeded in killing Two-Face by turning his own hideout into a DeathTrap - going to so far as to seal off an escape route that Two-Face thought only ''he'' knew about - that Batman had to get them both out of. As it turned out the Judge was actually a third personality of Harvey Dent himself, created in response to his Two-Face persona in order to ''fight'' crime. As Batman said in the end. "That's why he knew about the escape route. He knew everything about Two-Face...except that he ''was'' Two-Face."
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Bizarro is full of FakeMemories that have him convinced he's Superman. He even convincingly looked and acted like the real Superman, at least, initially...
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
*** A variation of this trope occurs when Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman had illusions in which they saw each other as monsters. [[LetsYouAndHimFight Fighting ensues.]] After a while of [[HowMuchMoreCanHeTake brutal fighting from both sides,]] Superman discovered, to his astonishment, [[AGlitchInTheMatrix Wonder Woman's - not the monster's - reflection in water.]] Superman tried to expose the ruse to Wonder Woman, but found his attempts futile. Following a small, but brutally [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown one-sided fight,]] Wonder Woman finally got an answer to "Where is Superman?!" The monster pointed to a ''mirror'' revealing that she had been fighting her friend the entire time.
*** In the two-part episode ''Legends'' a few members of the League get transported to an alternate universe. They find themselves in a bizarre world that is seemingly a pastiche of the retro [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic books, with its own (cornball) version of the Justice League, the Justice Guild of America, who regularly battle against equally cornball villains. However, after some investigation by Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that the entire city was a LotusEaterMachine created by a RealityWarper, and the real Justice Guild died long ago trying (and failing) to prevent a nuclear war; in other words, the current Guild learns that they aren't even real. When Ray attacks and defeats the League members, the Justice Guild ultimately decides to fight Ray despite knowing that defeating him would result in a DreamApocalypse that would [[HeroicSacrifice take them with it]]. "We died once to save this Earth. And we can do it again."
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
** Parodied in the episode "The Terror of the Terra-Fermians!", where Launchpad, after watching a B-Horror of Mole Monster, thinks that Dewey is one of them in disguise. Dewey, getting frustrated of the suspicion, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks how can Launchpad that by his logic, know is he not a mole monster himself]]. [[TheDitz Launchpad actually ends up considering this, stopping his paranoia]].
** Played straight in "The Last Adventure!", when Webby learns that she's actually an OppositeSexClone of Scrooge that was created by F.O.W.L.
* Several examples in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'';
** One of the "Scary Door" gags: "Why should I believe you? You're [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]]!"
** In the episode "The Honking", Bender is run over by a "were-car" while staying at a mansion he inherited from his uncle. When people back in New New York are getting run over, Bender believes the were-car followed him, until it turns out Bender became a were-car himself.
** Subverted in "Into The Wild Green Yonder". Fry looks around to find the person whose thoughts he can't read (the dark one). After not finding anyone, he concludes that he is himself the dark one, as his thoughts can't be read by other telepaths. However, the dark one is actually a small alien leech that Leela keeps nearby.
** Played straight in ''Bender's Big Score'' though. Fry loses Leela to a man named Lars. He later travels to the past and splits in two, with the original Fry returning to the future and the time loop created copy staying and living 12 years in Fry's original time. When Bender travels back in time to kill this Fry, his attack burns Fry's hair off and damages his vocal cords, changing his voice. Time-loop Fry looks in the mirror and realizes that '''he is''' Lars and then travels to the future to court Leela.
** In "Rebirth", an interesting variation occurs in the first episode of the revived series. The Planet Express ship crashes after the events of the last movie, killing everyone, except the Professor and an amnesiac Fry, who is able to revive everyone with a stem cell machine. Leela remains in coma, so Fry builds a robot version of her in despair. The robot Leela learns of her true nature, but aside from some Angst, isn't concerned...until of course the real Leela wakes up, and they [[CloningBlues battle each other, so Fry is forced to shoot either one]], [[TakeAThirdOption and ends up]] [[TooDumbToLive shooting himself]]. Turns out Fry himself, was a robot, the real him was killed in the crash, while Leela, whom he shielded, survived. Since there was little left of Fry, Leela created a robot Fry. A malfunction, however, killed Leela forcing the Professor to use the rebirth machine on her along with the other dead crew members, and destroyed Robot Fry's memory. The issue is resolved when Fry is resurrected, and Robot Fry and Leela decide to hook up with each other.
** In "The Ghost in the Machines", Bender's software ghost is perplexed and frustrated when his coworkers appear to be ignoring him, but stunned when the Robot Devil explains to him that he's dead: "I thought I just had laryngitis and antigravity."
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' has this occur to one of its protagonists. The fifth episode of Book 3 reveals that Hazel, a young girl with a seemingly malfunctioning number and no memories of her parents, learns that she's actually a denizen native to the train. A few episodes later, she discovers that she's an imperfect clone of Alrick (Amelia's deceased lover).
* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. Superman realizes that he is actually the shape-shifting Ron-Karr, tricked into believing that he is Superman in order to be put to use as a spy. And the only reason Ron-Karr was planted there was because Chameleon Boy (another shapeshifter) was planted in the villain's team with the same method, needing a similar Tomato in the Mirror moment to get him back.
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Kipo learns in the sixth episode that she's actually half-Mute, with the ability to [[PartialTransformation shapeshift parts of her body]] into that of a jaguar to allow for night vision, super-strength, and enhanced sense of smell and hearing. She later learns from her father that he and her mother were geneticists who [[LEGOGenetics spliced her DNA with an animal mutagen]] in hopes that her existence could serve as an example of how humans could safely return to the surface without being in constant fear of the DeathWorld it had become. He also reveals that she'll eventually be capable of shapeshifting into [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a Mega-Mute jaguar]] in addition to her base abilities. When Kipo learns of this, she reacts with glee of turning into a Mega-Jaguar.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'', Zane has gone his whole life not knowing if he actually has any parents. Guided by a mysterious falcon, he eventually stumbles upon a hidden laboratory. He first discovers the falcon is actually a robot, then sees mysterious blueprints. Moments later, he realizes these aren't just any blueprints...they're ''[[RoboticReveal his]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In the episode "Mortiplicity", Rick reveals he built "decoy families", which are completely identical to the real Smiths, to protect them from vengeful aliens. But because the decoys don't know they're decoys, they start believing they ''are'' the real Smith family and begin building their own decoys and so on and so forth. Summer points out this possibility to Rick (over multiple iterations), but he's so sure of his own creations that he brushes it off. She's proven right when the decoy families start killing each other off in preemptive strikes under the impression they're the real family. At the end it turns out ''none'' of the families the episode followed were the real family.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch, two boys enter a junkyard, boasting that the junkyard dog won't catch them. The Wrestling/JunkyardDog jumps out and one of the boys tells him he died in 1998. Junkyard Dog groans in disappointment, sprouts a halo and ascends to heaven.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'', the Saturday family and their nemesis, V.V. Argost, spend the first season trying to retrieve clues that would help locate Kur, a dangerous ancient Sumerian being that ruled over all cryptids, only to find that Zak, who has always had the ability to communicate with these creatures and considered their best counter to Kur, is in fact Kur's reincarnation.
* PlayedForLaughs by ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The page image is from the episode "Hall Monitor", in which [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to enforce the law, but end up breaking through open windows and causing car crashes. The public end up starting a manhunt for the "maniac" the caused all this trouble, and the rest of the episode derives a lot of its humour from the fact that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick can't figure it out despite how increasingly obvious it is.
** In the episode "Rule of Dumb", when Squidward makes all of Bikini Bottom realize that [[AuthorityInNameOnly "King" Patrick has no real power of authority]], Patrick goes on an angry tirade against [=SpongeBob=], insisting he's not a corrupt ruler. When he realizes [=SpongeBob=] fearfully sneaked out, Patrick decides to get himself the drink he ordered [=SpongeBob=] to get him, when he sees his monstrous reflection in the mirror. Only then does he realize why he ended up alone, and happily abdicates the throne.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** Parodied in "Blood Moon Ball", where a skeletal horse is shocked to discover that he's been dead all along.
** Played more seriously in "Monster Bash" where Miss Heinous discovers that she's actually a [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid half-monster named Meteora, and the daughter of Queen Eclipsa and her monster lover]].
** A possible example in "Escape From The Pie Folk", where the Pie King claims that Festivia, the girl who Meteora was replaced with to become Queen, was originally from Pie Island, making Moon and Star related to the Pie Folk. However, since the Pie Folk are known for being liars, it's unknown if this is really the case or not.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Steven always knew that he was [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Gem]]. What he didn't know until "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose A Single Pale Rose]]" was that the gem he inherited from his [[DeathByChildbirth mother]] wasn't a [[SuperSoldier Quartz gem]], but a ''[[UltimateLifeform Diamond]]''.
** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind Change Your Mind]]": After being proven wrong about Steven being Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond's MeatPuppet and getting called out by Steven for acting like a child, [[ThePerfectionist White Diamond]], who believes herself to be flawless, gets embarrassed and [[LuminescentBlush blushes]] ''bright pink'', along with all of the other Gems she's controlling. She realizes that if all of her puppets are blushing, then ''she'' must be the one blushing, meaning that she's ''not'' perfect and flawless as she had believed.
* At the cliffhanger end of the Season Two finale of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Sari looks down at her injured elbow to see circuitry poking out, and her adoptive dad, robotics genius Isaac Sumdac, responds "[[{{Understatement}} We need to talk]]." In the next season, it's revealed that Sari was a Cybertronian Protoform Isaac somehow came across, and sampled his DNA to create her.
** Except Isaac isn't her adoptive dad. He's the genuine article, even when you consider the revelation of Sari's "birth". After all, his DNA was required in order to bring her "online" and was what made her part-Human, effectively making her his biological daughter at the same time as being a robotic alien.
* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', when Scarlet Spider learns he is not a teenager from the streets suffering from Doc Ock's {{brainwash|ed}}ing as he'd come to believe. Rather he is a Synthezoid imbued with Spider-Man's DNA. He does not take the revelation well, prompting a HeroicBSOD.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Red Arrow was the most adamant about finding the mole in the team. It would turn out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole and while under mind-control, he put the ''entire Justice League'' under mind-control as well. In the next episode it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'':
** Batman and Robin try to distribute the cure for a madman's ZombieApocalypse drug. Turns out they were the ones under the effects of a drug that gives you wild hallucinations about everyone else being a zombie, and that same hallucinogen was what they were about to spread through the entire city.
** While D.A.V.E. is aware that he's a robot, he believes that he's a human supervillain who's been imprisoned inside of a robotic body - in reality, he's a computer program designed by [[PsychoPsychologist Hugo Strange]] with the memories and abilities of Batman's rogues gallery. When Batman asks him about his origin, he rattles off the origins of several other villains and then [[VillainousBreakdown has a meltdown when he realizes the truth]].
--->'''D.A.V.E.''': "But...I am [[CardCarryingVillain Gotham's ultimate criminal mastermind]]! I consider all possibilities! How could I not have considered...''this''?"
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' has a duo (ex-trio) of alien hunters that think they were mutated by [[ScaryDogmaticAliens DNAliens]], and hate all aliens. At the end of the episode, they are told that the reason they look like aliens is because [[PunctuatedForEmphasis They. Are.]] [[HalfHumanHybrid Part alien.]] [[BigNo NO.]] Really?
** Also Tyler in the episode "Inside Man", turning out to be a [[ScaryDogmaticAliens DNAlien]] who still is fighting it and trying to be human.
* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
*** "His Silicon Soul": A robot duplicate of Batman goes through this trope before his programming activates. The plan of the AI that created it is only foiled because the duplicate was programmed ''too well'': it was programmed with all of the real Batman's personality traits, including his steadfast refusal to kill.
*** "Growing Pains": Clayface forms a separate sentient being, in the form of a young girl, to scout for him. She forgets who she is and is found by Robin who befriends her. She tells Robin of a man who is chasing her, and when they encounter him he seems to be her father; he tells the girl (Annie) that "It's time to come home." In the heartbreaking final scene, Annie realizes what she is, and throws herself into Clayface to save Robin, being absorbed in the process. Robin then throws batarangs into the tank of solvent above them, causing streams to pour out onto Clayface as he demands he bring Annie back. Since Annie gaining separate sentience was a fluke to begin with, Clayface can't. Batman catches Robin's arm just as he's about to hurl the batarang that will kill Clayface.
*** "Judgment Day": ComicBook/TwoFace was targeted by a violent vigilante who called himself the Judge, and was determined to get him first. He and Batman were in agreement on this, as the Judge had already nearly killed both the Penguin and Killer Croc, and eventually, nearly succeeded in killing Two-Face by turning his own hideout into a DeathTrap - going to so far as to seal off an escape route that Two-Face thought only ''he'' knew about - that Batman had to get them both out of. As it turned out the Judge was actually a third personality of Harvey Dent himself, created in response to his Two-Face persona in order to ''fight'' crime. As Batman said in the end. "That's why he knew about the escape route. He knew everything about Two-Face...except that he ''was'' Two-Face."
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Bizarro is full of FakeMemories that have him convinced he's Superman. He even convincingly looked and acted like the real Superman, at least, initially...
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
*** A variation of this trope occurs when Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman had illusions in which they saw each other as monsters. [[LetsYouAndHimFight Fighting ensues.]] After a while of [[HowMuchMoreCanHeTake brutal fighting from both sides,]] Superman discovered, to his astonishment, [[AGlitchInTheMatrix Wonder Woman's - not the monster's - reflection in water.]] Superman tried to expose the ruse to Wonder Woman, but found his attempts futile. Following a small, but brutally [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown one-sided fight,]] Wonder Woman finally got an answer to "Where is Superman?!" The monster pointed to a ''mirror'' revealing that she had been fighting her friend the entire time.
*** In the two-part episode ''Legends'' a few members of the League get transported to an alternate universe. They find themselves in a bizarre world that is seemingly a pastiche of the retro [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic books, with its own (cornball) version of the Justice League, the Justice Guild of America, who regularly battle against equally cornball villains. However, after some investigation by Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that the entire city was a LotusEaterMachine created by a RealityWarper, and the real Justice Guild died long ago trying (and failing) to prevent a nuclear war; in other words, the current Guild learns that they aren't even real. When Ray attacks and defeats the League members, the Justice Guild ultimately decides to fight Ray despite knowing that defeating him would result in a DreamApocalypse that would [[HeroicSacrifice take them with it]]. "We died once to save this Earth. And we can do it again."
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
** Parodied in the episode "The Terror of the Terra-Fermians!", where Launchpad, after watching a B-Horror of Mole Monster, thinks that Dewey is one of them in disguise. Dewey, getting frustrated of the suspicion, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks how can Launchpad that by his logic, know is he not a mole monster himself]]. [[TheDitz Launchpad actually ends up considering this, stopping his paranoia]].
** Played straight in "The Last Adventure!", when Webby learns that she's actually an OppositeSexClone of Scrooge that was created by F.O.W.L.
* Several examples in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'';
** One of the "Scary Door" gags: "Why should I believe you? You're [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]]!"
** In the episode "The Honking", Bender is run over by a "were-car" while staying at a mansion he inherited from his uncle. When people back in New New York are getting run over, Bender believes the were-car followed him, until it turns out Bender became a were-car himself.
** Subverted in "Into The Wild Green Yonder". Fry looks around to find the person whose thoughts he can't read (the dark one). After not finding anyone, he concludes that he is himself the dark one, as his thoughts can't be read by other telepaths. However, the dark one is actually a small alien leech that Leela keeps nearby.
** Played straight in ''Bender's Big Score'' though. Fry loses Leela to a man named Lars. He later travels to the past and splits in two, with the original Fry returning to the future and the time loop created copy staying and living 12 years in Fry's original time. When Bender travels back in time to kill this Fry, his attack burns Fry's hair off and damages his vocal cords, changing his voice. Time-loop Fry looks in the mirror and realizes that '''he is''' Lars and then travels to the future to court Leela.
** In "Rebirth", an interesting variation occurs in the first episode of the revived series. The Planet Express ship crashes after the events of the last movie, killing everyone, except the Professor and an amnesiac Fry, who is able to revive everyone with a stem cell machine. Leela remains in coma, so Fry builds a robot version of her in despair. The robot Leela learns of her true nature, but aside from some Angst, isn't concerned...until of course the real Leela wakes up, and they [[CloningBlues battle each other, so Fry is forced to shoot either one]], [[TakeAThirdOption and ends up]] [[TooDumbToLive shooting himself]]. Turns out Fry himself, was a robot, the real him was killed in the crash, while Leela, whom he shielded, survived. Since there was little left of Fry, Leela created a robot Fry. A malfunction, however, killed Leela forcing the Professor to use the rebirth machine on her along with the other dead crew members, and destroyed Robot Fry's memory. The issue is resolved when Fry is resurrected, and Robot Fry and Leela decide to hook up with each other.
** In "The Ghost in the Machines", Bender's software ghost is perplexed and frustrated when his coworkers appear to be ignoring him, but stunned when the Robot Devil explains to him that he's dead: "I thought I just had laryngitis and antigravity."
* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' has this occur to one of its protagonists. The fifth episode of Book 3 reveals that Hazel, a young girl with a seemingly malfunctioning number and no memories of her parents, learns that she's actually a denizen native to the train. A few episodes later, she discovers that she's an imperfect clone of Alrick (Amelia's deceased lover).
* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. Superman realizes that he is actually the shape-shifting Ron-Karr, tricked into believing that he is Superman in order to be put to use as a spy. And the only reason Ron-Karr was planted there was because Chameleon Boy (another shapeshifter) was planted in the villain's team with the same method, needing a similar Tomato in the Mirror moment to get him back.
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Kipo learns in the sixth episode that she's actually half-Mute, with the ability to [[PartialTransformation shapeshift parts of her body]] into that of a jaguar to allow for night vision, super-strength, and enhanced sense of smell and hearing. She later learns from her father that he and her mother were geneticists who [[LEGOGenetics spliced her DNA with an animal mutagen]] in hopes that her existence could serve as an example of how humans could safely return to the surface without being in constant fear of the DeathWorld it had become. He also reveals that she'll eventually be capable of shapeshifting into [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a Mega-Mute jaguar]] in addition to her base abilities. When Kipo learns of this, she reacts with glee of turning into a Mega-Jaguar.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'', Zane has gone his whole life not knowing if he actually has any parents. Guided by a mysterious falcon, he eventually stumbles upon a hidden laboratory. He first discovers the falcon is actually a robot, then sees mysterious blueprints. Moments later, he realizes these aren't just any blueprints...they're ''[[RoboticReveal his]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In the episode "Mortiplicity", Rick reveals he built "decoy families", which are completely identical to the real Smiths, to protect them from vengeful aliens. But because the decoys don't know they're decoys, they start believing they ''are'' the real Smith family and begin building their own decoys and so on and so forth. Summer points out this possibility to Rick (over multiple iterations), but he's so sure of his own creations that he brushes it off. She's proven right when the decoy families start killing each other off in preemptive strikes under the impression they're the real family. At the end it turns out ''none'' of the families the episode followed were the real family.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch, two boys enter a junkyard, boasting that the junkyard dog won't catch them. The Wrestling/JunkyardDog jumps out and one of the boys tells him he died in 1998. Junkyard Dog groans in disappointment, sprouts a halo and ascends to heaven.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'', the Saturday family and their nemesis, V.V. Argost, spend the first season trying to retrieve clues that would help locate Kur, a dangerous ancient Sumerian being that ruled over all cryptids, only to find that Zak, who has always had the ability to communicate with these creatures and considered their best counter to Kur, is in fact Kur's reincarnation.
* PlayedForLaughs by ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The page image is from the episode "Hall Monitor", in which [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to enforce the law, but end up breaking through open windows and causing car crashes. The public end up starting a manhunt for the "maniac" the caused all this trouble, and the rest of the episode derives a lot of its humour from the fact that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick can't figure it out despite how increasingly obvious it is.
** In the episode "Rule of Dumb", when Squidward makes all of Bikini Bottom realize that [[AuthorityInNameOnly "King" Patrick has no real power of authority]], Patrick goes on an angry tirade against [=SpongeBob=], insisting he's not a corrupt ruler. When he realizes [=SpongeBob=] fearfully sneaked out, Patrick decides to get himself the drink he ordered [=SpongeBob=] to get him, when he sees his monstrous reflection in the mirror. Only then does he realize why he ended up alone, and happily abdicates the throne.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** Parodied in "Blood Moon Ball", where a skeletal horse is shocked to discover that he's been dead all along.
** Played more seriously in "Monster Bash" where Miss Heinous discovers that she's actually a [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid half-monster named Meteora, and the daughter of Queen Eclipsa and her monster lover]].
** A possible example in "Escape From The Pie Folk", where the Pie King claims that Festivia, the girl who Meteora was replaced with to become Queen, was originally from Pie Island, making Moon and Star related to the Pie Folk. However, since the Pie Folk are known for being liars, it's unknown if this is really the case or not.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Steven always knew that he was [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Gem]]. What he didn't know until "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E18ASinglePaleRose A Single Pale Rose]]" was that the gem he inherited from his [[DeathByChildbirth mother]] wasn't a [[SuperSoldier Quartz gem]], but a ''[[UltimateLifeform Diamond]]''.
** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind Change Your Mind]]": After being proven wrong about Steven being Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond's MeatPuppet and getting called out by Steven for acting like a child, [[ThePerfectionist White Diamond]], who believes herself to be flawless, gets embarrassed and [[LuminescentBlush blushes]] ''bright pink'', along with all of the other Gems she's controlling. She realizes that if all of her puppets are blushing, then ''she'' must be the one blushing, meaning that she's ''not'' perfect and flawless as she had believed.
* At the cliffhanger end of the Season Two finale of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Sari looks down at her injured elbow to see circuitry poking out, and her adoptive dad, robotics genius Isaac Sumdac, responds "[[{{Understatement}} We need to talk]]." In the next season, it's revealed that Sari was a Cybertronian Protoform Isaac somehow came across, and sampled his DNA to create her.
** Except Isaac isn't her adoptive dad. He's the genuine article, even when you consider the revelation of Sari's "birth". After all, his DNA was required in order to bring her "online" and was what made her part-Human, effectively making her his biological daughter at the same time as being a robotic alien.
* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', when Scarlet Spider learns he is not a teenager from the streets suffering from Doc Ock's {{brainwash|ed}}ing as he'd come to believe. Rather he is a Synthezoid imbued with Spider-Man's DNA. He does not take the revelation well, prompting a HeroicBSOD.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Red Arrow was the most adamant about finding the mole in the team. It would turn out that '''he''' was unknowingly the mole and while under mind-control, he put the ''entire Justice League'' under mind-control as well. In the next episode it goes FromBadToWorse. He isn't even the real Roy Harper, but a clone created to be the villains' pawn.
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