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* 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 one of her [[http://hollywoodsubliminals.wordpress.com/project-monarch/sex-kitten beta ("sex kitten")]] alters.{{NSFW}}
* A lot of people who appear on reality television are often shocked and embarrassed when seeing their behavior in the third person, as not many people get to see themselves the same way others see them.
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* Played for laughs in an episode of ''LightNovel/{{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.

* A central theme in the first story arc of ''Fanfic/SlayersTrilogy'' where several characters confront their alternate selves from different distorted universes. [[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Lina Inverse]] is bedeviled by a crazy, white-haired Lina who failed to prevent the rise of the Mazoku and end of the world, and Zelgadis bumps into another Zelgadis who was never turned into stone and became a reckless, dumb braggart.

* One of the earliest ''Franchise/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 Karl Marx's "Scorpion and Felix," the author hears a voice saying that it will prove the opposite of what he said. It turns out that this voice is 'himself.' He turns around to check who said it, and sees himself there. His first thought is that he is a 'doppelgänger.'

* The Doctor encounters mirror counterparts of the UNIT team in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "Inferno".
* In ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', 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.

* This is the foreboding fate to all who become In-births within the world of ''VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth''. It's NightmareFuel page goes in to full detail explaing this. [[NightmareFuel/UnderNightInBirth See for yourself]].

[[caption-width-right:350: The guy in the mirror is evil. [[Webcomic/ElGoonishShive The guy not in the mirror]] is [[DudeLooksLikeALady a guy.]][[note]][[GenderBender Well, usually at least...]][[/note]]]]

->''"You can defeat me Scott... but can you defeat... yourself?"''

* The first edition of ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' has one of the zombies mirroring Lara Croft in one of the lower levels. Everytime she moved, the zombie moved. [[spoiler:The solution was to get the zombie to fall into a hole in the floor, trapping it.]]

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* Music/{{Vocaloid}}: Rin and Len practically invoke this trope. Their last name, Kagamine, literally translates to "Mirror Sound", while their first names respectively invoke '''Ri'''ght and '''Le'''ft.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': Tulip's journey through the Chrome Car awakens her mirror self, who hated that she was forced to do everything Tulip did as her reflection, regardless of her own desires. Tulip decides to free her and allows MT to live her own life.

* This is the foreboding fate to all who become in-births with the world of ''VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth''. It's NightmareFuel page goes in to full detail explaing this. [[NightmareFuel/UnderNightInBirth See for yourself]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', Jesse Fayden's EvilDoppelganger shows up in a boss battle after entering a mirror dimension through an altered mirror.

->''You can defeat me Scott... but can you defeat... yourself?''
-->-- ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/DeathGate'', your path is blocked by a mirror version of yourself. Since he's just as strong as you and matches your moves exactly, you can't force your way past him. The solution? [[spoiler: Cast the self-immolation spell, but choose runes that make a mirrored pattern. He will cast the same spell, but whereas yours will be wrong and do nothing, his will work - and destroy him]].

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* [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/15353/inner-glory Inner Glory]] has the dark reflections, [[EvilTwin Evil Twins]] of the mane six dwelling in Tartarus:

-->--''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''

* In ''VideoGame/Control'' , Jesse Fayden's EvilDoppelganger shows up in a boss battle after entering a mirror dimension through an altered mirror.

* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', Blake and Rose Thorburn are reflections of each other born as different genders. Only one can inhabit the real world at a time-the other is trapped in an empty mirror world created by light shining through mirrors in the real world.

* Using the right spells in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' allows characters to enter the Plane of Mirrors, a transitive plane that uses a set of mirrors as a PortalNetwork - the catch was that entering it created an opposite-alignment mirror counterpart (opposite primary hand and all) that would try to kill you and take your place in the "real" world. An adventuring party that pursued a foe onto the plane ran the risk of encountering its very own band of PsychoRangers... as well as one potential ally.

* In ''Fanfic/FrozenWight'', Mary is a Elsa's imaginary friend who often manifests herself through her bedroom mirror.