History Main / MirrorSelf

Not to be confused with an AlternateSelf, who is the same person without being an opposite. Might have gone through different experiences and been changed by them, but is not a polar opposite like the Mirror Self. Compare MesACrowd.

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* In ''TheSmurfs'' story "The Hundredth Smurf", a Smurf's mirror is [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]], which brings his reflection to life. The reflection speaks backwards and does everything the original Smurf does, but in reverse (lifting the right arm when the other lifts the left, for instance). After he causes chaos in the village by his opposite nature, the reflection decides to return to the mirror, but he goes through it instead, and comes out a regular Smurf.

* [[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Conan the Barbarian]] once visited a parallel universe to meet Conar, a [[Series/{{Scrubs}} bastard coated with bastard with bastard filling]] as opposed to his {{jerk with a heart of gold}} nature. No less of a badass and favored of the fates, Conar had already won his throne by that time, and it turned out the arrival of Conan foiled an assassination attempt by some would-be usurpers. After a fight to a standstill (after winning the hearts or more of some of his mirror self's subjects, including the wife and the mistress), Conan left the mirror world, justifying the act as leaving the throne to its rightful owner.

* In [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1 Prince of Persia]], the Prince, at one point, has to jump through a mirror, which sets his reflection free, who is pretty much the game's most memorable villain. It makes a few appearances throughout the game generally being a jerk, until he has a level dedicated entirely to dealing with it.

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* Played for laughs in an episode of ''Anime/{{Slayers}}''. An evil wizard uses a mirror that brings to life the subject it reflects. In a flash of light, the heroes are face to face with exact mirror duplicates of themselves. They run off screaming because they are cowards where the originals are brave adventurers.

* John Byrne retold [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]]'s origin in ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' so that she was originally the mirror self of Princess Diana as a teenager, but given a separate personality by the sorceress who owned the mirror. Donna Troy was then captured by Queen Hippolyta's nemesis Dark Angel, who mistook her for Diana, and subjected her to live multiple lives that all ended in tragedy, ultimately leading to the one where Donna becomes Wonder Girl/Troia of the ComicBook/TeenTitans. This origin has recently been retconned out of her history since 2006.

** It's {{Fan Wank}}ed that the mirror universe Doctor himself is [[ShadowDictator Fearless Leader]] of the mirror world.

** It's not really an oxymoron, because demons are the good guys there.
** It's not impossible for [[HopeSpot hope to become figuratively demonic]].

* In ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', Link has to do battle against a mirror image of himself. He was so popular that "Dark Link" has shown up several times since then.

* One of the earliest StarTrek novels, "Spock Must Die!" involved a transporter accident duplicating Spock. As such things go, of course the clone is evil, but Kirk and the others can't tell who is who. They eventually figure out that [[spoiler: since the copy was created by a reflected transporter beam, it is reversed left-to-right, right down to the molecular level. He can only survive on special synthesized food, because his body is made of backwards amino acids.]]

* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', the MirrorWorld has a Mirror Self of every character, just like in Franchise/StarTrek. The characters also have alignment-shifted powers, creating oxymorons like the Demon of Hope.

* The ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon ''story "Mirror/rorriM Off The Wall" has a MirrorUniverse where everything is in reverse/backwards, including handedness and fingerprints. One of its inhabitants is a MirrorSelf of someone in our universe: they're both named Robert Trebor.

* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', the MirrorWorld has a MirrorSelf of every character, just like in Franchise/StarTrek. The characters also have alignment-shifted powers, creating oxymorons like the Demon of Hope.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', one story arc features Calvin making a MirrorSelf of himself. The real Calvin doesn't want to do his homework or clean his room, but his MirrorSelf is a well adjusted polite little boy who gladly does these things... and proceeds to destroy his life [[GoneHorriblyRight by being way too nice.]]

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage'' features four separate battles with Aqua's MirrorSelf created by the MagicMirror of the darkness-corrupted Dwarf Woodlands. Three are mandatory and of steadily increasing difficulty, while the fourth requires beating the game once and performing a sidequest to unlock the BossRush, at the end of which awaits the immensely powerful [[ThatOneBoss Zodiac Aqua]].

* Played for laughs in an episode of ''Anime/Slayers''. An evil wizard uses a mirror that brings to life the subject it reflects. In a flash of light, the heroes are face to face with exact mirror duplicates of themselves. They run off screaming because they are cowards where the originals are brave adventurers.

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* In the ''[[TheSmurfs Smurfs]]'' story "The Hundredth Smurf", a Smurf's mirror is [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]], which brings his reflection to life. The reflection speaks backwards and does everything the original Smurf does, but in reverse (lifting the right arm when the other lifts the left, for instance). After he causes chaos in the village by his opposite nature, the reflection decides to return to the mirror, but he goes through it instead, and comes out a regular Smurf.

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* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' has "Nega-Scott". [[spoiler: Subverted. Other than his [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Dark Link appearance]] he's exactly like Scott and they get along swimmingly.]]

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* In ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'', Pedro's efforts in constructing a mirror portal turn his reflection into an EvilTwin named [[SdrawkcabName Ordep]]. Later, the mirror also turns Ordep's reflection into the goody-goody [[SignificantAnagram Erpod]]

* [[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Conan the Barbarian]] once visited a parallel universe to meet Conar, a [[Series/{{Scrubs}} bastard coated with bastard with bastard filling]] as opposed to his {{jerk with a heart of gold}} nature. No less of a {{badass}} and favored of the fates, Conar had already won his throne by that time, and it turned out the arrival of Conan foiled an assassination attempt by some would-be usurpers. After a fight to a standstill (after winning the hearts or more of some of his mirror self's subjects, including the wife and the mistress), Conan left the mirror world, justifying the act as leaving the throne to its rightful owner.

* It's a commonly held belief [[ConspiracyTheorist among many conspiracy theorists]] that mirrors are [[http://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/10-secret-mind-control-symbols-in-music-videos-and-movies among the 10 secret mind control symbols]] that appear all throughout the media and that they represent [[ManchurianAgent "alters" or artificial personalities]] that were created by a performer's [[TheIlluminati Illuminati mind-control programmers]] or "handlers". The main four alters are alleged to be "alpha" (general), "beta" (sex), "delta" (killer) and "theta" (psychic} with beta being the most common. Mirrors are [[UrbanLegend considered to be important]] in [[{{Brainwashed}} Illuminati programming]] because the the mirrors create internal images. Within the [[http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon02.htm Monarch slave's mind]] countless mirror images are made. The person seeing a different person in the mirror is said to be a powerful MK Ultra mind control symbol. According to the [[TinfoilHat tinfoil hat crowd]], mirrors also serve as a [[ManchurianAgent hypnotic trigger]] for the performer in question. For example, [[http://www.imagebam.com/image/bd618910245796# this photo]] of Cindy Margolis, which appeared in the July, 2008 issue of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' has two mirrors and she's looking in one of them. [[ConspiracyTheorist They]] also claim that having half of her face shadowed indicates a SplitPersonality and the fact that she's naked emphasizes that Cindy Margolis is looking at her [[http://hollywoodsubliminals.wordpress.com/project-monarch/sex-kitten beta ("sex kitten")]] alter.{{NSFW}}

* It's a commonly held belief [[ConspiracyTheorist among many conspiracy theorists]] that mirrors are [[http://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/10-secret-mind-control-symbols-in-music-videos-and-movies among the 10 secret mind control symbols]] that appear all throughout the media and that they represent [[ManchurianAgent "alters" or artificial personalities]] that were created by a performer's [[TheIlluminati Illuminati mind-control programmers]] or "handlers". The main four alters are alleged to be "alpha" (general), "beta" (sex), "delta" (killer) and "theta" (psychic} with beta being the most common. Mirrors are [[UrbanLegend considered to be important]] in [[{{Brainwashed}} Illuminati programming]] because the the mirrors create internal images. Within the [[http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon02.htm Monarch slave's mind]] countless mirror images are made. The person seeing a different person in the mirror is said to be a powerful MK Ultra mind control symbol. According to the [[TinfoilHat tinfoil hat crowd]], mirrors also serve as a [[ManchurianAgent hypnotic trigger]] to the performer in question.For example, [[http://www.imagebam.com/image/bd618910245796# this photo]] of Cindy Margolis, which appeared in the July, 2008 issue of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' has two mirrors and she's looking in one of them. [[ConspiracyTheorist They]] also claim that having half of her face shadowed indicates a SplitPersonality and the fact that she's naked emphasizes that Cindy Margolis is looking at her [[http://hollywoodsubliminals.wordpress.com/project-monarch/sex-kitten beta ("sex kitten")]] alter.{{NSFW}}

* It's a commonly held belief [[ConspiracyTheorist among many conspiracy theorists]] that mirrors are [[http://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/10-secret-mind-control-symbols-in-music-videos-and-movies among the 10 secret mind control symbols]] that appear all throughout the media and that they represent [[ManchurianAgent "alters" or artificial personalities]] that were created by a performer's [[TheIlluminati Illuminati mind-control programmers]] or "handlers". The main four alters are alleged to be "alpha" (general), "beta" (sex), "delta" (killer) and "theta" (psychic} with beta being the most common. Mirrors are [[UrbanLegend considered to be important]] in [[{{Brainwashed}} Illuminati programming]] because the the mirrors create internal images. Within the [[http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon02.htm Monarch slave's mind]] countless mirror images are made. The person seeing a different person in the mirror is said to be a powerful MK Ultra mind control symbol. According to the [[TinfoilHat tinfoil hat crowd]], mirrors also serve as a [[ManchurianAgent hypnotic trigger]] to the performer in question.For example, [[http://www.imagebam.com/image/bd618910245796# this photo]] of Cindy Margolis, which appeared in the July, 2008 issue of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' has two mirrors and she's looking in the mirror. [[ConspiracyTheorist They]] also claim that having half of her face shadowed indicates a SplitPersonality and the fact that she's naked emphasizes that Cindy Margolis is looking at her [[http://hollywoodsubliminals.wordpress.com/project-monarch/sex-kitten beta ("sex kitten")]] alter.{{NSFW}}

* It's a commonly held belief [[ConspiracyTheorist among many conspiracy theorists]] that mirrors are [[http://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/10-secret-mind-control-symbols-in-music-videos-and-movies among the 10 secret mind control symbols]] that appear all throughout the media and that they represent [[ManchurianAgent "alters" or artificial personalities]] that were created by a performer's [[TheIlluminati Illuminati mind-control programmers]] or "handlers". The main four alters are alleged to be "alpha" (general), "beta" (sex), "delta" (killer) and "theta" (psychic} with beta being the most common. Mirrors are [[UrbanLegend considered to be important]] in [[{{Brainwashed}} Illuminati programming]] because the the mirrors create internal images. Within the [[http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon02.htm Monarch slave's mind]] countless mirror images are made. The person seeing a different person in the mirror is said to be a powerful MK Ultra mind control symbol. According to the [[TinfoilHat tinfoil hat crowd]], mirrors also serve as a [[ManchurianAgent hypnotic trigger]] to the performer in question.For example, [[http://www.imagebam.com/image/bd618910245796# this photo]] of Cindy Margolis, which appeared in the July, 2008 issue of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' has two mirrors and she's looking in the mirror. [[ConspiracyTheorist They]] also claim that having half of her face shadowed and the fact that she's naked emphasizes that Cindy Margolis is looking at her [[http://hollywoodsubliminals.wordpress.com/project-monarch/sex-kitten beta ("sex kitten")]] alter.{{NSFW}}

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* It's a commonly held belief [[ConspiracyTheorist among conspiracy theorists]] that mirrors are [[http://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/10-secret-mind-control-symbols-in-music-videos-and-movies among the 10 secret mind control symbols]] that appear all throughout the media and that they represent [[ManchurianAgent "alters" or artificial personalities]] that were created by a performer's [[TheIlluminati Illuminati mind-control programmers]] or "handlers". The main four alters are alleged to be "alpha" (general), "beta" (sex), "delta" (killer) and "theta" (psychic. Mirrors are [[UrbanLegend considered to be important]] in [[{{Brainwashed}} Illuminati programming]] because the the mirrors create internal images. Within the [[http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon02.htm Monarch slave's mind]] countless mirror images are made. The person seeing a different person in the mirror is said to be a powerful MK Ultra mind control symbol.

** It's {{Fan Wank}}ed that the mirror universe Doctor himself is [[BigBrother Fearless Leader]] of the mirror world.

* In ''DarkLegacyComics'', it turns out that the characters have mirror selves on the other side. The protagonists are alliance characters in World Of Warcraft, so their mirror selves are horde. This make [[http://darklegacycomics.com/287.html at least one character frustrated]] and at least [[http://darklegacycomics.com/288.html one (*2) character(s) happy.]]

-->'''Anti-Wonderella:''' [[http://nonadventures.com/2008/03/15/clover-and-over-again/ The opposite of neutral is still neutral!]]

* Music/TheloniousMonk is reflected in mirror images on the album cover of ''Music/BrilliantCorners''.