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1->''"Damn, I really was an annoying brat [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency back then]]..."''
2-->-- '''Joseph Joestar''', ''Fanfic/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo''
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4->'''Young Biff:''' Hey, that's very nice, thank you very much! Now why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here?!\
5'''Old Biff:''' ''[{{Dope Slap}}s Young Biff]'' It's "leave", ''you idiot!'' "Make like a ''tree'' and ''leave''"! You sound like a damned ''fool'' when you say it wrong!
6-->-- ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''
7
8->'''Buzz Lightyear #2:''' ''[holding Buzz against the glass after he snuck into his display, and talking to his "Mission Log"]'' Buzz Lightyear to Star Command. I have an AWOL Space Ranger.\
9'''Buzz Lightyear #1:''' Tell me I wasn't this deluded...
10-->-- ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''
11
12->'''Narrator Kuzco:''' So, this is where you came in. See? Just like I said, I'm the victim here. I didn't do anything and they ruined my life and took everything I had --\
13'''Kuzco:''' Hey, give it a rest up there, will ya?\
14'''Narrator Kuzco:''' What? I'm just telling them what happened.\
15'''Kuzco:''' Who are you kidding, pal? They saw the whole thing, they know what happened.\
16'''Narrator Kuzco:''' Well, yeah, but...\
17'''Kuzco:''' Just leave me alone.
18-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''
19
20->''"And then, we get this episode's absolutely hilarious money shot: Clark meets Future Clark in what is clearly an amazing use of the technology pioneered by ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}''. I was originally turned off by the fact that Superman is a bit of a total jerk to his past self, but come on. Wouldn't you be?"''
21-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/smallville-recap-episode-4-homecoming/ on]] ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' ("Homecoming")
22
23->''"You pathetic waste of boglodite flesh. I'd kill you right now if I didn't value my own life (...)Look at you: every mistake I ever made just waiting to happen!"''
24-->--'''Boris the Animal''' to his past self, ''Film/MenInBlack3''
25
26->''"[[color:#626262:PAST ME IS ALWAYS SO TERRIBLE, EVEN WHEN I LITERALLY JUST FINISHED BEING HIM.]]"''
27-->-- '''Karkat Vantas''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
28
29->''"I also like the last panel! Wait, I'm a cartoonist enjoying the artwork from something I made years ago? This doesn't feel right. This isn't natural. THIS ISN'T HOW ARTISTS WORK!"''
30-->-- '''Dan Shive''', ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
31
32->''"The old me really was just awful, wasn't she?"''
33-->-- '''Sunset Shimmer''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks''
34
35->''"Man, was I a jerk a half-hour ago."''
36-->-- '''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot]]''', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E21TimeChasers Time Chasers]]''
37
38->''"It's destiny. Because of you, I '''have''' to be. Without you, there is no '''me'''. Let the time stream figure out the rest. '''''Die, Mega Man!'''''"''
39-->-- '''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Quint]]''', ''[[ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics Rock of Ages]]''
40
41->''"I am not the man I once was. Thank goodness!"''
42-->-- '''[[Series/DoctorWho Fifth Doctor]]''', ''[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]''
43
44->'''Ebenezer Scrooge:''' Spirit, show me no more. Why do you delight in torturing me?\
45'''Ghost of Christmas Past:''' I told you, these are the shadows of the things that have been. That they are what they are, do not blame me.
46-->-- ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol''
47
48->'''Q:''' Did I hear a laugh? It's so unlike you, Jean-Luc, to have a sense of humor, especially about getting stabbed through the back.\
49'''Picard:''' I was a different person in those days. Arrogant, undisciplined, with far too much ego and too little wisdom. I was more like you.\
50'''Q:''' [[InsultBackfire Then you must have been far more interesting. Pity you had to change.]]
51-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Tapestry"
52
53->'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' Sanctuary and I are going to have a very long talk about manners after this.\
54'''ComicBook/PowerGirl:''' You going to explain to her that it's rude to call people old?\
55'''Supergirl:''' ... I'm sorry, Kara. I didn't mean anything by it. It's just that this is the one place where I shouldn't have to worry about anything. So this is all incredibly frustrating. And when I get frustrated I say some pretty stupid things.\
56'''Power Girl:''' I remember when I was like that, too.
57-->-- ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011''
58
59->''"Stop acting like it's so embarrassing you used to be me."''
60-->-- '''Teen Jean Grey''' to her adult self, ''ComicBook/JeanGrey'' #7
61
62->'''Delaryn Summermoon:''' Windrunner, you were... defender of your people. Do you not remember?\
63'''Sylvanas Windrunner:''' I remember... ''a fool''.
64-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVp7yLfnmrE Warbringers: Sylvanas]]''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
65
66->'''Ocellus:''' [[HeroicBSOD I can't.]] Maybe my past was so horrible it's still inside me, just waiting to come out again!\
67'''Smolder:''' That's ridiculous. That's not who you are anymore! You've changed.\
68'''Ocellus:''' Maybe we can't really change ''that'' much...
69-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "What Lies Beneath"
70
71->''"I used to think that life was nothing but suffering. But our days in the student council have changed my worldview more than you will ever know. And the more I realized just how kind you are, the more I came to hate myself. When I looked at other people, all I would think was, "will they be of use to me?" I saw them as nothing more than tools. I realized then how cold I was. I came to realize I was a terrible woman with a twisted, disfigured heart."''
72-->-- '''Kaguya Shinomiya''', ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''
73
74->'''Past Johnny:''' Untwist your panties, Older Me, I'm a star!\
75'''Present Johnny:''' [[ThisIsReality This is a military operation, ''not'' a movie set!]]\
76'''Past Johnny:''' I'm only the best fighter here... but ''your'' daughter has me sitting at the kids table!\
77'''Present Johnny:''' ''[[[DopeSlap bitchslaps]] his past self]'' ''Our'' daughter is C.O.! A little humility ''might'' earn her respect!\
78'''Past Johnny:''' Dad always said "Hungry people eat lunch, humble people serve it."\
79'''Present Johnny:''' ''[[AbusiveParents Dad was an asshole!]]'' Hollywood made ''us'' an even bigger one! ''[[[MythologyGag grabs his past self's sunglasses and stomps on them]]]''
80-->-- ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''
81
82->'''Kotal Kahn:''' I care not for your younger self.\
83'''Erron Black:''' I ''was'' a bit much, wasn't I?\
84'''Kotal Kahn:''' How did you survive your youth?
85-->-- ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''
86
87->''"Every mature person has to make peace with the fact that they used to be dumber, but to have it thrown in your face every single day? Man, it sucks."''
88-->-- '''Kelly Grayson''', ''Series/TheOrville'', "[[Recap/TheOrvilleS2E13TomorrowAndTomorrowAndTomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow]]"
89
90->''"Listen to me, you bitch. I can only assume some fluke of time travel brought you here. But this Labyrinth ain't big enough for the two of me, okay? Nothing to say for yourself? You know what, we should talk. I don't give a hot fuck if this messes with the timeline. You need to hear this. I feel so much rage when I look at you. You know that? You prioritize yourself over everything. You're going to get people killed. Heck, you're going to kill people. And they won't always deserve it. Dad won't love you more if you keep winning. He can't. He died when Mom died. And you'll bury him. Your competitive streak stops. I'm demanding it."''
91-->-- '''[[spoiler: Agent Carolina]]''' to the [[IronicHell Labyrinth]] version of their past self, ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', "Omphalos"
92
93->'''Present Squares:''' Stop.\
94'''Past Squares:''' Huh?! Wh-who are you?\
95'''Present Squares:''' I'm Squares. I'm the person you become after a lot of people go out of their way to help you.\
96'''Past Squares:''' What are you talking about...?\
97'''Present Squares:''' Oh, how ignorant and naive I was.\
98'''Past Squares:''' Fool! Answer me!\
99'''Present Squares:''' I could insist for you to stop all this right here and now. But the only way I was able to grow was by making mistakes. It makes it quite difficult to decide what to do with you. Does that make sense, past me?\
100'''Past Squares:''' I don't know what you're rambling on about. Just get out of my way! [[ImpliedDeathThreat Don't make me make you.]]\
101'''Present Squares:''' Oh? [[BringIt I'd like to see you try.]]
102-->-- ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris2''
103
104->'''Dr. Neo Cortex:''' Do you have any idea how stubborn I used to be?\
105'''Aku-Aku and Coco:''' [[BluntYes Yes.]]
106-->--- ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime''
107
108->''"I am so disappointed in myself."''
109-->-- '''Rex Dangervest''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart''
110
111->Eliot had struggled before he found Fillory, he knew that: [[TheAlcoholic he drank too much]], he [[GentlemanSnarker found clever ways to be nasty to people]], he never seemed to have an emotion that wasn't either ironic or chemically generated. He'd changed in [[MagicLand Fillory]], and the thought of going back to that, of becoming that person again, frightened him. He wouldn't die with Fillory, he'd meant that when he said it, but [[ApocalypseHow if Fillory died]] Eliot knew that something in him, something small but essential, wouldn't survive either.
112-->-- ''Literature/TheMagicians''
113
114->'''Jet:''' From what I heard, people eat like this every night in Ba Sing Se. I can't wait to set my eyes on that giant wall.\
115'''Iroh:''' It is a magnificent site.\
116'''Jet:''' So you've been there before?\
117'''Iroh:''' Once. When I was a...[[TheAtoner different man]].
118-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
119
120-> [...] I began looking the thing over to see what it was like-for I had not the least recollection of ever having penned it. Well .... I managed to get through, after about 10 closely typed pages of egotistical reminiscences & showings-off & expressions of opinion about mankind & the universe. I did not faint-but I looked around for a 1924 photograph of myself to burn, spit on, or stick pins in! Holy Hades—was I that much of a dub at 33 ... only 13 years ago? There was no getting out of it-I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snonbish, self-centered, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! That earlier illness had kept me in seclusion, limited my knowledge of the world, & given me something of the fatuous effusiveness of a belated adolescent when I finally was able to get out more around 1920, is hardly much of an excuse. Well—there was nothing to be done ..... except to rush a note back to Conover & tell him I'd dismember him & run the fragments through a sausage-grinder if he ever thought of printing such a thing! The only consolation lay in the reflection that I had matured a bit since '24. It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all. [...]
121-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', in a [[https://quotepark.com/quotes/1888488-hp-lovecraft-i-can-better-understand-the-inert-blindness-defi/ letter]] to Catherine L. Moore, Feb. 2, 1937
122
123->''"You know what? That right there was a perfect summary of what I was like as Circus Baby and Scrap Baby. A violent, psychopathic '''idiot''' too stupid to realize what she was doing and deserved every single one of her failures. Good FUCKING riddance to you!"''
124-->-- '''Liz Schmidt''', commenting on Circus Baby's level in "[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience]]" after beating it, ''Fanfic/MikesNewGhostlyFamily''
125
126->''"I wish I could say I was treated badly as a child. You know, to give reason for why I turned out the way I did. But I could not. Instead, I was indulged and became something of a spoiled brat, given to drinking and carousing and bouts of petulance. Looking back, I realize what a little shit I was. But of course, it's the lot of old men to look back upon their youth and realize too late all the mistakes they made."''
127-->-- '''Uriah Olathaire''', ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy The Last Church]]'' ''[[WebAnimation/TheLastChurch (fan-animated adaptation)]]''
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129->''"She's a selfish little girl who only looks out for herself. But the irony is that she doesn't even like herself! She's rude, she's mean, and she's unkind. And she would throw any one of us under a bus to get what she wants. But she doesn't even know what she wants! And the things that she thinks she wants... she's too afraid to get them. She's a weak, cowardly, disgusting bitch! I hate her! Why do I have to be her?"''
130-->-- '''Amnesiac Asuka''' about her older self, ''Fanfic/WhenSheSmilesFreshC''
131
132->''"I...wasn't a good person in high school. Don't know if I am now, but definitely not then. I was friends with Brittney and Cody. Brittney liked being awful to Lily, Cody liked being awful to everyone, and I just liked being awful. It's not like I was dealing with anything. Not that it would have given me an excuse. I just liked hurting people."''
133-->-- '''Jocelyn''', ''VisualNovel/ItLivesWithin''
134
135->'''Past Doom:''' But this is '''nonsense!''' If you were '''truly''' my future self, you would '''know''' -- that '''Doom can never fail!'''\
136'''Modern Doom's inner monologue:''' ''True. Lesser men may fail -- Doom only suffers delays to the final victory... but is this Doom not also my lesser? He has '''seen''' less, '''done''' less, '''knows''' less. Who is this '''child''' to correct '''me?'''''
137-->-- ''ComicBook/Venom2021''
138
139->''"What can I say to you? I remember how it felt to take that throne. All that it meant. And all that it did not. A [[WarGod god of war]]... a [[TraumaCongaLine god of pain]]. [[DeathSeeker Of suffering]]. [[DestroyerDeity Of destruction]]. The Norns said I chase a redemption that [[BeyondRedemption I know I can never deserve]]. What does that make me? God of [[CosmicPlaything fools]]. God of... [[HopeBringer hope]]. '[[HopeSpringsEternal When all else is lost...]]' You lost everything. And everyone. And you became... There is no forgiving you. You chose...! '''I''' chose. What now? [[OldShame Should I, this same man, should I sit]]? Take? Proclaim? Lead? Place myself in service? In service. Should I... lose everything and everyone... will there still be enough left inside so that I do not become you? I do not know. But I do have hope. You are [[AxCrazy cruel]], and [[RageAgainstTheHeavens arrogant]], and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]]. But... [[DeconstructedTrope you are more than that]]. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You have always been more than what others saw. You are more than that]]."''
140-->-- '''Kratos''' speaking to a vision of his younger self, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', "Valhalla DLC"

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