History Main / AndThatLittleGirlWasMe

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* A story (perhaps anecdotal or urban legend) of an artist who was commissioned to do the life of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]] in a giant mural. He started with Christ's birth, using the most cherubic baby he could find as a model, and after years reached the end, but was only stuck on the model for Judas. He simply could not find anyone degraded enough to use, until he finally found a worn-out drunk with the most depraved look and hired him. The drunk could hardly refuse the money, but when they reached the studio and saw the mural he burst into tears. Asked why, he said "I know about this painting. My mother told me about it. I was the model for the Christ child."

* ''Film/TheEyesOfLauraMars'': [[spoiler:Neville launches into the RedHerring's supposed tragic backstory, describing how his prostitute mother used to leave him alone in the same diaper for days while she was working, and how his [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe probable]] father came home one night and slashed his mother's throat in front of him. Laura realizes he's talking about himself when he accidentally lapses into the first person.]]

* At the end of ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney'' Lady Alvane, who tells the story to her grand children turns out to be the heroine April Ryan in later years.

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* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHercules'':

* In Music/BobDylan's song "Simple Twist of Fate", Dylan uses first person pronouns to narrate a story about a man and a woman who had a romantic encounter that ended. In the last verse, the narrator switches to first person — "I still believe she was my twin" — revealing that he was the man in the story.

* Around the middle of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', it's revealed that the pianist frog from the intro, TheNarrator, and Greg's would-be pet are all the same being.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]'' Yukari explains what happened in her last attempt to invade the moon this way. Ran actually figures it out immediately, but Yukari denies this being the case.

* Subverted in British sitcom ''Just Good Friends''.

* On ''{{WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse}}'', Pickles once took his bandmates on a tour of the sleaziest parts of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, in an attempt to teach them about the drug-fueled excesses of 80's glam rock (and why he thought they were awesome.) He concluded the tour in an alleyway where he once saw a famous male singer performing oral sex on a guy. "And that guy...was me," he says. The others are shocked, and then Pickles laughs at them and says he was just kidding.

--> '''Ratchet''': Yes, well... the medic could have done better.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', the episode "[[Recap/TheRaccoonsS3E10TroubleShooter Trouble Shooter!]]" sees Bentley Raccoon running away from home and, after an OutOfContextEavesdropping incident, thinking he is not welcome with Bert and Cedric either and hitting the road. Cyril Sneer goes after him and tells him the story of a kid he used to know who, like Bentley, ran away from his family because he thought he could make it on his own. The kid in question grew up to be a millionaire, but there were a lot of "lost, lonely years" before he struck it rich, and no amount of money can buy back that lost time. Bentley correctly deduces that Cyril is talking about himself.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Señorella and the Glass Huarache", the FramingDevice involves a Mexican fellow telling his friend [[SettingUpdate a Mexico-themed version]] of the story of Cinderella. At the end, the friend wonders why the narrator described it as a "sad story" when it had a happy ending, and the narrator reveals [[HenpeckedHusband he's the guy who married the wicked stepmother]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "Sophmore Slump", Marco has spent the summer annoying his friends and neighbors by bragging, directly or indirectly, about his adventures on Mewni. His mom Angie tries to tell him the story of a girl she knew who came back from a trip to France, acting all snooty and using [[ItIsPronouncedTropay the French pronunciation of "croissant"]]. When Marco fails to make the connection, Angie flat-out reveals that ''she'' was the "Craw-sawn Girl".

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex 2nd Gig'' includes an episode in which a woman who owns a shop tells the Major a story about a boy and a girl who were two of the first people to get cyborg bodies. It's implied that [[spoiler:the little girl is in fact the Major]], which is all but confirmed at the the end of the episode when [[spoiler:the Major seems to know something about what happened that the woman didn't tell her]]. Also, [[spoiler:later episodes suggest that the boy was the season's AntiVillain Kuze]].

* Sasuke Uchiha in ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', when he travels alongside with Boruto back to 20 years in the past, and meets a 12 year old Naruto who's coping with Sasuke's recent defection from Konoha. He tells Naruto (who's unaware of his true identity) the story of "an old friend of his" who left his friends in search for power and how he never gave up on him until he managed to knock some sense into him. All which cheers Naruto up.

* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': When Rei tells Akiko how her father -Shinji- saved her mother -Asuka- twelve years ago thanks to the help of a friend of his Akiko quickly guesses Rei is his father's friend her aunt is talking about.

* In the ''Manga/{{Magi}}'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11057142/1/The-Brothers-Day-and-Night The Brothers Day and Night,]] the titular story is told by Kassim, about [[SiblingYinYang two brothers, one born of light and one born of darkness,]] who loved each other at first but whose differences drove them apart and led them [[CainAndAbel to become enemies.]] He presents it as his own idea, but Mariam - who he's telling the story to - can easily tell it's really about him and Alibaba.

* In Chapter 15 of ''Fanfic/TheHillOfSwords'', Agnes tells Shirou the story of a little girl who was the only survivor of a fire that claim her village (mirroring Shirou's own backstory), and how the girl grew up and hunted down all the people responsible for the fire. Until the last person, who the girl learned was the person who saved her, and was tricked into attacking the village (he thought he was preventing a plague from spreading). Agnes then asks Shirou what he would have done in the girl's place. Shirou refuses to answer. Agnes never does confirm that the girl was her, but Shirou does eventually discover the choice the girl made.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', the tour guide that told the the story to the students is revealed to be [[spoiler:[[GodInHumanForm La Muerte in human form]].]]

* In ''Film/OneMissedCall: Final'', Emiri’s boyfriend Jin-wo explains to her that at the Sign Language Summit where they had first met, he learned of the death call and how it worked from a deaf violinist whose girlfriend was killed by it. [[MyGreatestFailure The violinist knew that he could’ve saved her by taking the call and dying in her place, but he didn’t, and forever regretted it]], to the point of purposefully punishing himself until he went deaf. Then near the end of the movie, Jin-wo tells Emiri that knowing her made him stronger, and that he won’t regret again. It’s this that makes her put two-and-two together to realize that the deaf violinist was ''him''. And that he wasn’t going to make the same mistake again as he swipes Emiri’s phone (which had the death call forwarded to her during the climax), and [[HeroicSacrifice takes the call in her place]].

* Played with in the short story "Hide-and-Seek" by Creator/ArthurCClarke. The narrator of the FramingDevice is being told a tale of the Second Jovian War by the retired naval officer Kingman, who starts by saying he changed some names. The story involves a cunning spy codenamed K.15, pursued by a heavy cruiser near Mars, who uses the limited manoeuvrability of the cruiser to keep on the opposite side of Phobos. When the story is finished, the narrator suggests Kingman knows the story so well, he must have been K.15, and Kingman denies this and stalks off. The third member of the party explains that Kingman was commander of the cruiser.

* Used at the end of ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'', in a rather gut-punching way. In the epilogue, Philip K. Dick talks about the people he'd lost to drug addiction over the years, [[TheDeadHaveNames and then lists some of them off]]. One of the last names is "Phil" - he'd discovered shortly before writing the book that he had suffered permanent pancreatic damage, which would eventually kill him.

-->'''Penny's mother:''' Many years ago there was ... a girl who lived in the same road as me - we were the same age. She met a chap. And then she discovered she was carrying his child. Her family disowned her, the neighbours shunned her, even her best friend called her a trollop. She miscarried. Years later she married. She has a small family of her own now.\\

* Danish singer Anna David's song "Den Lille Pige" ("The Little Girl") about a teenage girl who was raped. Translated into English: "Even though she's a grown-up now, she'll never forget you. Take my word - I know it, because the little girl was me".

* In Music/BobDylan's song "Simple Twist of Fate", Dylan uses first person pronouns to narrate a story about a man and a woman who had a romantic encounter that ended. In the last verse, the narrator switches to first person - "I still believe she was my twin" - revealing that he was the man in the story.

* This trope is reference in Lauren O'Connell's song "The Pilot":

* There's an older Myth/{{Egyptian|Mythology}} version of that biblical tale: the god Set is attending a congress of deities, and an old woman comes to him asking for reddress: her evil brother has killed her husband, usurped his position, and maimed and driven away her son. Set agrees that a great injustice has been done to her, and asks for the name of the criminal. It's Set himself, as the old woman is really the goddess Isis, her murdered husband is Osiris, and their son is Horus.

* Later on on in ''Videogame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', [[spoiler:Anya]] sends B.J. recordings of her reading through her cousin Ramona's journal, which chronicles Ramona's methodical RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Nazis. As the story goes on, the story clearly references moments such as a stint in University and how [[spoiler:a heavily-scarred man suffering horrible head trauma was brought into her family's hospital and how she finds a kindred spirit within him]]. The final entry has her admitting that some of these things might have happened to her.

* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingHappyHomeDesigner'', as part of your job training, Lottie takes you to a client's house as a practice room, which is completely bare except for an unopened package. Lottie tells you, "The client who lives here is a girl who is a fan of [[RainbowSpeak all things cute]]. She's requested [[RainbowSpeak a room with a lovely atmosphere]]." After teaching you the core mechanics of the gameplay, Lottie leaves you to design the room however you like, claiming she'll play the part of the client. After you finish up and recieve her impression of the room, Lottie admits that she really is the client, and she hadn't had time to decorate due to work, having to use a sleeping bag during the night.

* WebVideo/WoolieVersus: In the VideoGame/The3rdBirthday Playthrough, while Woolie and Minh were reflecting on past regrets ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]), Minh tells a story about the time where he asked a friend of his to check his email on their PC, but wound up closing all of his friend's millions of tabs in the process, and lied to said friend about it out of embarassment. Since there was no browser history in those days, there was no recovering them, and his friend was really depressed about it. Minh then asks Woolie whether or not the story seems familar to him:

* In the afterword of ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'', Creator/PhilipKDick [[TheDeadHaveNames listed all of the friends he'd lost to drug use]] - among the names was "Phil, Permanent Pancreatic Damage".

-->'''Trevor:''' "This story's about a boy called Tr... Tre... Trisha."\\
'''Wade:''' "Is Trisha a boy's name?"\\
'''Trevor:''' "It doesn't matter."

* During the second night of the first Democratic Debates in 2019, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11U-rzW8Ufc Kamala Harris attacked Joe Biden]] over his previous opposition to desegregation busing, telling the story of a young girl who was part of busing, before {{Name Drop}}ping this trope to the surprise of Biden and everyone else. [[MemeticMutation It quickly became one of the more iconic moments of her campaign.]] The Biden-Harris ticket went on to win the 2020 presidential election with a historic number of votes (81 million) and "that little girl" became the first woman, first black person and first person of Asian descent to be elected Vice President of the United States.

-->My mother did drugs, hard liquor, cigarettes, and speed\\

-->Come to think about, his name was... [[FridgeHorror it was you]].\\