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* ''Film/{{Kuntilanak}}: According to Miko's book on Indonesian mythology, Kuntilanaks make their lairs either in trees or mirrors. The one they're contending with is inside the mirror Glenn brought home.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' has two [[FightingSpirit Stands]] that work like this:

** In ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', J. Geil's Hanged Man exists only in reflective surfaces, which it can jump between, giving the impression that it lives in a parallel mirror world, [[{{Synchronization}} and can attack people's reflections to hurt them]].

* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' Nikki's alternate personality Jessica would always manifest in reflections and when she takes control over Nikki's body early on, it's Nikki who gets trapped and slamming against the glass. Before she was named Jessica, her FandomNickname was ikkiN.

** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Vento Aureo]]'' has Illuso's Man in the Mirror, which generates a mirror world that he can drag people into, and by doing this, [[PowerNullifier he can separate a Stand from their user]]. [[GodzillaThreshold He is the only villain in the whole story who prompts Fugo to pull out his own]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Stand of Mass Destruction]], [[WalkingWasteland Purple]] [[MakeThemRot Haze]].

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a couple of Stands that are mirror monsters. The first one (J. Geil's "Hanged Man") exists as a light that can move between reflective surfaces, making it appear as if it only exists inside mirror reflections; it also can wound people by attacking their reflections. The second (Illuso's "Man In The Mirror") actually pulls you through the mirror into the "mirror world".

* WebAnimation/HTFPlus: In ''HTF+LG 3'' Flippy looks onto his mirror and LG Creepybloom looks back at him in it. This is repeated in ''HTF+CC 1''.

* This story was parodied in the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' manga, where the mirror is ''haunted'' by the girl's lingering presence, and now whoever looks into it will have their reflection pop out. They aren't so much evil as just [[RuleOfFunny incredibly annoying]].

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* Hulu's ''Deadbeat'' featured a less murderous version of Bloody Mary: she makes friends with main character Kevin, who as a psychic is the only one who can see her in the mirror.

--->What's that in the mirror,
--->And the corner of your eye?
--->What's that footstep following
--->But never passing by?
--->Perhaps they're all just waiting;
--->Perhaps when we're all dead,
--->Out they'll come a-slitherin'
--->From underneath the bed.
* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'': In "Scary Mary", chanting Mary's name three times in front of a mirror will summon Mary, who will send her three faceless servants through the mirror to drag the summoner back so Mary can steal their face.

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* According to Grover on ''Series/SesameStreet'', seeing a monster in the mirror is not a cause for freaking out but an occasion to sing "Wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo." After all, "That monster in the mirror, he just might be you."
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* ''Walking with Shadows'' features a ghost in a mirror who tries to tempt a teenage girl to suicide.

* [[ValleyGirl Tricia]] and [[MysteriousWaif Lady Rose]] from ''VideoGame/GhostMaster'' are Fetch-class ghosts, who are able to possess mirrors. Among their powers, there are a variety of tricks to scare anyone who looks in the mirror by distorting their reflections. While they are stuck in the mirrors, they both can make a clone of anyone who looks at their mirror, then take control over the clone and go for a walk to spread the chaos further.

* In ''VideoGame/RealmsOfTheHaunting'' a literal example appears in one of the trials of Sheol where you have to smash a perimeter of mirrors. But if you look directly into them a monster will pop out of it and chase you. The only way to defeat it is [[spoiler:to have it reflected in the mirror and break it]].
* ''Videogame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has [[TheWormThatWalks the Guy Made of Bees]], a parody of the Film/CandyMan. If you encounter a mirror in the Haunted Mansion and say "Guy Made of Bees" five times, he appears and attacks you. He's a HopelessBossFight [[LordBritishPostulate (usually)]] without a certain item.
* At two points in ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'', Rick walks down a hall of mirrors. Several of them have his reflection turn, climb out of the mirror and attack him.
* Saltim, a boss from ''VideoGame/{{Billy Hatcher|AndTheGiantEgg}}'' is this, he jumps in and out of mirrors trying to attack you and will even try to suck you in.

* In ''Enchanted Sceptres'', there's a dead end with a mirror, which seems "as strong as steel" at first. A Black Knight sometimes appears out of the mirror, and if you smash it then, the knight "shatters into a thousand pieces".
* At one point in ''VideoGame/{{Prince of Persia|1}}'', your path is suddenly blocked by a mirror. When you jump through it, your reflection separates from you (you re-merge with it near the end of the game).
* Subverted with [[EvilCounterpart Dark Link]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. He is Link's reflection who is brought to life through the magic of an enchanted room in the Water Temple.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' features one scare in which you pass through a door into a room that contains nothing but a mirror covering one wall. You cannot interact with, and the door does not open if you attempt to leave. As you move around the room, your reflection suddenly stops. A dark liquid similar to blood then begins to spread around the floor in a vein pattern, spreading across your frozen doppelganger. [[MindScrew This is never explained or mentioned again once you escape the room.]]
** Hang around for a while longer, and [[spoiler:Heather will die. Fortunately, once your doppelganger freezes the doors to the room unlock and you are free to leave - provided your interest in finding what that room is about doesn't induce you to stay (there's no signal letting you know the door is unlocked)]].
* ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' uses a mirror monster as well. In one of the apartments, Murphy can read about an obsessive tenant who was always focused on making sure his furniture matched the reflection in the mirror, for if he didn't then a monster, only visible in the mirror and able to still harm him (and be harmed), would appear and assault him. Should the player stick around to do the puzzle they'll find that something in the mirror is amiss, and they have to rotate something in the room to match the reflection. Fail to do so, and a Screamer attacks you. It's not a tough enemy, but because it is only visible in the mirror it makes defending yourself difficult as you basically have to use the mirror image to fight it.
* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs'' has Bloody Mary herself from the RealLife section below, now working as what is effectively a Mafia hitwoman. And complete PsychoForHire, as she happily takes her time off to show up when kids summon her and feed their lungs to dogs, when she isn't already occupied by her equally-enjoyed job. She also shows the ability to sense when the MagicMirror from Snow White is looking at her and shutting it down, hence why he really doesn't like her.
* ''Videogame/FallenLondon'':
** Mirrors within the Neath tend to be rather dangerous. Many have seen glimpses of something unclear looking back at them off the corner of their eyes. Something unnervingly [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent ophidian]], for those who get clearer looks. And only magicians seem to try and deal with them in anything beyond looking at your reflection, and are rumored to converse with whatever's on the other side, and even strike deals. [[spoiler:This is because mirrors are all doorways to the outer edges of [[DreamLand Parabola]], which are frequented by unscrupulous magicians, the occasional person who was going so utterly mad they accidentally walked into Parabola from the sheer nastiness of their nightmares, and the Fingerkings, snake-like {{Animalistic Abomination}}s who run the place, and have both a hidden agenda and mysterious powers with which to carry it out. In these outer edges, you can find hundreds and hundreds of mirrors sticking out of the marshes, and can peer into them back into reality, to whatever it is that's out that particular mirror. It also doubles as a HungryJungle full of dangerous flora and chatty fauna. That said, there's also some really valuable things to be found, which is why there's people who take venturing into Parabola and bringing them back as their job, and a very lucrative one at that. You can spot them by their [[FictionalColour Cosmogone]] glasses.]]
** One slightly amusing ''and'' annoying moment once you start entering Parabola with some regularity, and participating in its wars, is that your very own reflection can become increasingly independent depending on which actions you take. If it gets too independent and too strong, your reflection will detach, jack a bunch of your troops and go off on its own campaign, and you have to chase yourself across the land before you do something (both of) you regret.

* In ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: The Countess]]'', the Shade is a corrupting, evil entity that dwells in a creepy, pitch black mirror. Once guarded dutifully by an AncientOrderOfProtectors, it was found centuries later by lady Gloria Codington, whose creativity the Shade fed on. It also trapped anyone coming close to it into its own dimension, where its hapless abductees were enslaved until death and even in their afterlife.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria'', Sorey at one point asks if Seraphs (who are normally invisible to humans) can be reflected in mirrors, Lailah answers that only if they focus really hard they can only make themselves visible for a short moment, which is usually enough for them to groom themselves in it; Rose then wonders if people have been freaked out upon seeing a Seraph's image alongside theirs in the mirror, and thinks that maybe that's the origin for the stories of ghosts that appear in the mirrors.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', when the group explores the GhostShip, the Atherum, the ghosts themselves are only visible on the mirrors of the walls.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'', one of the dungeons in [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Dycroft]] is full of mirrors. Stepping in front of any of these mirrors to where you see Stahn's reflection causes a battle between him and a duplicate called a "Shadow". Presumably, the reflection comes to life and emerges from the mirror to attack him.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-01 since the green succubus BZOMF'ed him,]] [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-06-28 his reflection acts on its own.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Hexameron}}''*, Lady in Black is only visible in a mirror, and cannot harm you while being looked at.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdOeY-yC_lI One More Fright]]'', at one point Steve wanders into [[HumanoidAbomination Herobrine's]] own lair, and when he looks into a mirror Herobrine's reflection looks back and sneers.

* In Kazuo Umezu's ''Scary Book: Reflections'', the vanity of a girl who admires her beauty incessantly in a mirror causes her evil reflection to escape and attempt to take her place, driving her to the edge of insanity in the process.

* In one ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' NonSerialMovie, Lina and Naga ran afoul of a mirror that created clones of them. This mirror, showing the exact metaphysical opposite of the person who looks into it, creates a wimpy, demure [[MsFanService Naga]] and a pathetic, weepy [[ActionGirl Lina.]]

* ''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior'': [[EldritchAbomination Giratina]] travels through mirrors to get to its home dimension, the Reverse World. When it is trying to capture Ash and friends, it uses reflective objects to open a portal through and drag them via whirlwinds into the Reverse World.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Brûlée has eaten the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, which gives her a number of mirror-themed powers. One of them is access to the Mirror World, allowing herself to travel through mirrors. From someone looking from the other side, it comes across as this trope, as she appears in someone's mirror and can reach out and emerge through it. This power is later exploited by both her enemies and allies: The Straw Hat Pirates, realizing that Brûlée, in spite of her fearsome powers, is pretty feeble in strength, decide to tie her to other people so they can also use the Mirror World, for fast travel. Her family members, meanwhile, upon finding out that [[spoiler:Luffy is in the Mirror World trying to use the mirrors to quickly get to Cacao Island, order the citizens of Cacao Island to either destroy or submerge every mirror on the island to cut off Luffy's escape]].

* There was a ''[[Magazine/TheNewYorker New Yorker]]'' cartoon by Creator/CharlesAddams in which a man in a barber chair with mirrors on either side has a [[DrosteImage virtually infinite series of reflections]], one of them about three-fourths of the way down the line being of a monster sitting where he is sitting.

* In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}, Franchise/WonderWoman once battled a villain from a dimension that existed within mirrors.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: While Circe is stalking Diana she, and the readers, keep catching glimpses of a shadowed woman's face in reflective surfaces.

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' spinoff ''The Bridge: A Shimmer in the Dark'', the monster Mizu can inhabit reflective surfaces and use them as portals.

* ''Film/{{Legend|1985}}'': Darkness first appears to Lily by stepping out of a mirror.
* ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'': Satan's father (the "Anti-God") is on the other side of a mirror trying to get through into our world.
* ''Film/{{Phantasm}}'': At the end of the movie, the Tall Man emerges from a mirror to grab Mike.
* Inverted with Ozma in ''Film/ReturnToOz''. She's [[AChildShallLeadThem the girl queen]] of Oz and was [[TailorMadePrison imprisoned in mirrors]] as a reflection by Mombi.
* ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'' had what turned out to be a demonic being inhabiting mirrors and attacking anyone who looked into them.
* In ''Film/TheWatcherInTheWoods'', Jan sees a blindfolded girl in a mirror. She turns out to be [[spoiler:not a ghost, but trapped in another dimension]].
* There's a movie called ''In Dreams'' in which, at the very end, a mirror actually distorts and drags someone in.
* In ''Film/NightOfTheDemons1988'' there's a demon head that appears in a mirror, looking vaguely like a monstrous cow skull.
* ''Film/TheDemon'': The StringyHairedGhostGirl that was once Sunjid first makes her ghostly appearance by coming out of her own portrait hanging on the wall, where she then kills Khatnaa, the person who was looking at the portrait.

* Near the end of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', dream invading serial killer Freddy Krueger leads the remaining kids to a room full of mirrors. They see him standing in the largest mirror, upon which he duplicates himself into every mirror in the room and drags them inside kicking and screaming. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Joey learns to use his powerful voice -- his own dream skill -- to attack Freddy and free all his friends.]]
* In ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'', the Cenobite Angelique kills one of the future soldiers by appearing in a mirror in her human form as a woman pleading for help before dragging him in and decapitating him.

* ''Film/TheHouseThatDrippedBlood'': In "Method for Murder", a shaken Charles is lighting a cigarette on by the fireplace when he glance sin the mirror and sees Dominick standing on the landing behind him. But when he turns around, there is no one there.
* The ghosts in ''Film/PoltergeistIII'' manifest through the reflections in the mirrors.
* One of the goblins in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' appears in a mirror briefly as Toby's being snatched.
* ''Film/GrimPrairieTales'': When Martin is shaving, he loses control of the hand holding the razor. When he looks in the mirror, he can see Colochez (or his ghost) holding his arm and attempting to give him a DangerouslyCloseShave. But there is no sign Colochez in the room, only the mirror.

* The 2010 film ''Mothman'' reimagined TheMothman as an entity that exists within reflective surfaces, which it can escape from when someone makes eye contact with it.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story "Literature/TheUnpleasantProfessionOfJonathanHoag", the Sons of the Bird are powerful evil entities that enter and exit our world through mirrors.
* In ''The Shadow of the Wind'', Julian, as a lonely child, made up stories that he told to other kids that he had a sister who came to visit him through the mirror and lived with the devil.
* In the fourth installment of ''Literature/OddThomas'# by Creator/DeanKoontz, something briefly materializes out of a mirror to collect someone's soul.
* In a book-only detail of ''Literature/HarryPotter'', once the Locket of Slytherin has been turned into a SoulJar by [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]], [[spoiler: his young self's eye can be seen watching through the mirror inside]].
* In ''Literature/ShamanOfTheUndead'', all mirrors are the gates to the various hells, so demons (or people who walk between mirrors) can and do pull this off sometimes.
* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', the villain uses mirror magic, and when she loses control at the end, her reflection reaches out of a mirror and pulls her in.

* The Creator/StephenKing short story "The Reaper's Image"

* Played with in John Harding's ''Florence and Giles.'' Florence, the twelve-year-old narrator, discovers that Miss Taylor, her new and possibly undead governess, magically inhabits all the manor's mirrors. [[spoiler:Then again, Florence is both an UnreliableNarrator and completely AxCrazy.]]
* Creator/ChinaMieville short story ''The Tain'' features imagos, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from the other side of the mirror taking over the world. They are trapped inside mirrors by people looking at their own reflections, [[AndIMustScream which causes them excruciating pain]]. When they manifest in reality, most of them manifest as an EvilTwin, but sometimes as something weirder like hair, hands, lips and other body parts.
* The Polish book ''Bromba i inni'' (featuring descriptions of numerous fictional creatures) includes the "Wild Viceverses", mirror-dwelling creatures which are created whenever two mirrors are placed opposite each other. While they look more or less like warped abominations, they're a subversion in that they're rather amiable and benevolent. That said, they love playing tricks on vain people by suddenly replacing their reflection in the mirror.

* A hex in ''Literature/FancyApartments'' causes a mirror to distort the image of any person reflected in it. It's apparently rather disturbing.
* In the ''Literature/MrAndMrsDarcyMysteries'' Sir Francis Dashwood hides his soul in a mirror and then takes over his great nephew's body using it.
* In the Literature/{{Boojumverse}}, Doppelkinder are monsters which hunt in mirrors and eat their victims' eyes. They are incapable of harming Cheshires or Boojums, which don't recognize two-dimensional images like reflections in mirrors because they think three-dimensionally.
* In the Franchise/SherlockHolmes[=/=]Franchise/CthulhuMythos crossover story "The Adventure of the Death-Fetch" a man is menaced by a deadly doppelganger monster, who can come out of any mirror that shows his reflection. The poor bastard locks himself in a room with no mirrors or reflective surfaces, but in the end [[spoiler:gets killed when he catches a glimpse of his reflection in his rifle's polished barrel]].

* The Boogeyman in... ''Film/TheBoogeyman''.

* ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' has the Princess race's Court of Mirrors, which exists inside [[EldritchAbomination the darkness]] they are a court of princesses that can travel through mirrors and sap the hope and willpower from a person.

* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'': In the episode "To Earn Your Stripes", after Jarrod's many attempts at breaking free from his control (i.e., pounding his head and destroying silverware), Dai Shi briefly enters a mirror to tell him that he was just as bad before he possessed him and that it was the exact reason he did so to begin with.

* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'': In the episode "To Earn Your Stripes", after Jarrod's many attempts at breaking free from his control, Dai Shi briefly enters a mirror to tell him that he was just as bad before he possessed him and that it was the exact reason he did so to begin with.

* Series/PowerRangersJungleFury: In the episode "To Earn Your Stripes", after Jarrod's many attempts at breaking free from his control, Dai Shi briefly enters a mirror to tell him that he was just as bad before he possessed him and that it was the exact reason he did so to begin with.

* ''Videogame/FallenLondon'': Mirrors within the Neath tend to be rather dangerous. Many have seen glimpses of something unclear looking back at them off the corner of their eyes. Something unnervingly [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent ophidian]], for those who get clearer looks. And only magicians seem to try and deal with them in anything beyond looking at your reflection, and are rumored to converse with whatever's on the other side, and even strike deals. [[spoiler:This is because mirrors are all doorways to the outer edges of [[DreamLand Parabola]], which are frequented by unscrupulous magicians, the occasional person who was going so utterly mad they accidentally walked into Parabola from the sheer nastiness of their nightmares, and the Fingerkings, snake-like {{Animalistic Abomination}}s who run the place, and have both a hidden agenda and mysterious powers with which to carry it out. In these outer edges, you can find hundreds and hundreds of mirrors sticking out of the marshes, and can peer into them back into reality, to whatever it is that's out that particular mirror. It also doubles as a HungryJungle full of dangerous flora and chatty fauna. That said, there's also some really valuable things to be found, which is why there's people who take venturing into Parabola and bringing them back as their job, and a very lucrative one at that. You can spot them by their [[FictionalColour Cosmogone]] glasses.]]

* The Swamp Spirit in ''Lord of the Sword'' is a mirror master. It has a fireball for a head from which a cloak hangs. There's no body underneath, but a mirror. Whenever the spirit opens its cloak, it raises a swordfighter akin to Landau from the ground. Only by shooting at the mirror can the spirit be defeated.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' called "Jinx", Rigby tries to break his jinx by performing a ritual in front of a mirror. He ends up summoning a demonic reflection from inside a mirror named [[SdrawkcabName Ybgir]], which can be best describes as a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot demon werewolf raccoon]]. It's banished back when someone chants its name three times. This has a lot of references to the Bloody Mary myth.