Instances of Other Me Annoys Me in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- In Amazing Fantasy, Mistress Sinister's main problem with Mr. Sinister is that he allows his obsession with the Summers-Grey genes and fights with the X-Men get in the way of advancing research.
- Avenging the Ultimate:
- While neither expressly states it, it is clear that 616-Steve Rogers disapproves of his more hardline Ultimate counterpart, informing his other self that Spider-Man is one of the best people he knows even if Ultimate Cap dismissed him as another foolish child.
- Also applies by proxy for 616-Hank Pym, who quickly becomes annoyed at how the Ultimates act as though he's automatically as bad as his counterpart just because they're both Hank Pym.
- Though it happens off-screen, the backstory timeline for The Bridge shows an encounter between two different incarnations of Godzilla. While it is subverted in the sense they aren't the exact same individual, they do have the same powers, similar appearance; and the same title. One is the grown-up Godzilla Junior from the Heisei series, who is a Gentle Giant unless defending what he cares for and goes out of his way to protect humanity. The other is the revived 1954 Godzilla, a Chaotic Evil monstrosity who kills everything in his path. When they met it was this trope turned violent and cranked up to eleven. Take a wild guess how their encounter went. With some aid from Anguirus and Gamera, Junior killed his predecessor.
- Child of the Storm: Harry and his older alternate counterpart, 'Nathan', bicker somewhat but actually get along rather well (though Nathan is not even remotely above trolling his younger counterpart). One of the other counterparts they witness in their view of the multiverse notices them and sends them a friendly wink. Another one recognises them, too. Unfortunately, that one is the Dark Phoenix, who killed everyone, is sitting on a throne made of the burning World Tree, and cracks up into mad laughter at Harry's horror (which reaches the point of vomiting, because he realises that that version of him has murdered everyone he loved).
- Coreline:
- A Job for the Water Tribe: The Korras share a mutual dislike for each other, with Trainer Korra even remarking that if her counterpart's attitude was part of being the Avatar, then she's glad she was born without powers.
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: When Gilgamesh learns of his counterpart's rather Undignified Death at the hands of Sakura Matou, he declares, "That guy is too stupid to be me!" - Happens with Maya and Miho meet in The Dimensionhoppers (technically they are counterparts of each other).
- In Falling Is Like Flying, Azami's annoyed by how his witch form effectively embodies his inexperience with love. Making matters worse is how said witch form is able to speak normally, unlike Azami himself.
- The Infinite Loops:
- This is how Classic Spyro and Legend's Spryo tend to act around each other. They've gotten better about it... mostly.
- Tends to happen a lot when a looper hears about their baseline self's less-than-stellar behavior since they've often matured over time but the baseline hasn't. For example, the looping version of Diamond Tiara has long since outgrown her childish bullying antics and befriended the CMC, so hearing how her baseline non-looping self pulled some particularly low trick on them really gets to her. Twilight Sparkle isn't too impressed with her past self on most occasions, either, thanks to Show Twilight being an Idiot Hero.
- This can be particularly horrifying for a Looper if their baseline self is evil, either because they're a villain who underwent a Heel–Face Turn during the Loops, or — more rarely, but not unheard of — a hero whose baseline self underwent a Face–Heel Turn during an Expansion. The latter was the case with James Ironwood, whose canon actions after Volume 7 were so horrible that his Looping self underwent a Heroic BSoD after experiencing the Expansion loop, and no longer considers the two of them to even be the same person.
- An odd variation of this occurs in Lucifer Reacts to Supernatural, which looks at Lucifer and Ella Lopez (Lucifer (2016)) watching the fourth season onwards of Supernatural together, with Lucifer often commenting that he truly hates his fictional counterpart for such acts as manipulating Nick (Lucifer's vessel in the show) into saying "Yes" by basically using the murder of Nick's wife and child.
- Infinity Crisis:
- In Different Strokes, when Slade of the Arrowverse confronts his Earth-51 counterpart, the two quickly get on each other's nerves, Earth-51 Slade dismissing his counterpart as unable to understand his full potential and Slade angry that his other self is only in the game for the money without any interest in something more despite them both having lost their families. It is also suggested that Oliver would have a similar reaction to his counterpart, as Earth-51 Slade muses that his version of Green Arrow would be "cracking stupid jokes and going on liberal rants" during a fight.
- A minor example in Legacy of Lightning: Team Flash disagree with Barry-Blue's request to deal with his Reverse-Flash on his own, but respect his right to handle his problems his way.
- A more serious example occurs in Counterpart Conferences, when a variation of the DC Animated Universe Joker kills his Earth-51 counterpart, denouncing the other Joker as having lost his way as he is no longer a 'true' Joker but just an intimidating thug.
- Later in Counterpart Conferences, while Regina of Once Upon a Time doesn't directly meet her Descendants counterpart, she reflects that she knows what type of person the Queen is, and advises Evie to focus on being herself rather than trying to be a legacy for her mother.
- In the same chapter, Morgan Le Fay has altered her appearance (to now look like Elizabeth Hurley in Runaways (2017)) as she wanted to rid herself of the memories of her "weaker half" (having previously split herself from her old 'disguise' of Lena Luthor in Of Kryptonians and Queens).
- Also in Counterpart Conferences, the DCAU Batman meets and is disgusted by his Earth-99 counterpart and how far he's fallen. He gives him a prolonged "The Reason You Suck" Speech, before beating him in a fight and sending him to the Phantom Zone.
- In Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences, three versions of Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl (from Earth-1, Earth-2, and Earth 167) meet each other and immediately butt heads over differing attitudes towards superheroing, though they later reconcile as they realize that they have more in common than not. In the same chapter, Merlin (from the BBC series) and Nimue (from Cursed (2020)) also meet and discuss each other's counterparts across the multiverse.
- When Maleficent meets her Descendants counterpart in Maleficent and Descendants: A mother's love, she is disgusted at the pettiness of her counterpart's motives and the way she treated Mal, as she would give anything to have a daughter and her other self was cruel to the child she did have out of nothing but a desire for revenge over a relatively minor slight.
- In Spider, Slayer, Vampires and Avengers, "The Apocalypse is here" features a range of doppelgangers coming to the main universe after an attack by Apocalypse disrupts the dimensional barriers. When Steve Rogers and Tony Stark meet Johnny Storm (Fantastic Four (2005)), Tony observes that the young man is essentially Rogers with Tony's attitude, Steve reflecting that they would not have gotten along if Rogers had been like Johnny.
- In the Once Upon a Time/Descendants crossover Villains and Happy Endings, Regina makes her contempt for Grimhilde clear, to the extent that Evie and the other 'Villain Kids' briefly wonder if Regina's Evie's future self rather than her mother's counterpart given that Cora sounds more like Grimhilde than Regina does.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has an episode wherein The Prankster Socrates is cloned, and he quickly finds his clone to be very irritating.
- A Different Kind of War: The casts of several of Parcasious' Fate/stay night fics are pulled into another world by a mysterious entity and ordered to go to war. To motivate them, the entity kills one version of Shirou Emiya to make an example of him and to demonstrate that if a Shirou dies, his world and everyone from it is erased from existence. Several of the Shirous, especially the ones from The Vasto of White and The Holy Man of the Church Creek, see no way out and lead their factions in war, determined to survive. The casts of Fate: Kill are among the only ones trying to make alliances with other casts, welcoming the casts of Fate: Sword Order and then the original Fate/stay night when they arrive later. When the original Shirou learns what is going on, he is infuriated that any version of himself would just give up and start killing others just to survive instead of working together to try to beat the entity or at least Take a Third Option.
- Fate/Harem Antics: Jeanne Alter hates the original Jeanne d'Arc for being a goody two shoes. Since Saber looks like and acts similar to the original Jeanne, Jeanne Alter becomes obsessed with destroying her.
- Little Ritsuka and her Loving Family:
- Jeanne Alter despises her counterpart for being 'weak', while Jeanne hates her Alter for all the death and destruction she caused, declaring she never wanted revenge for her execution.
- Averted by Saber and her Alter; the former is too confused and distracted by everything else that's going on at the time, while Saber Alter is too focused on the battle to care.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Amongst the post-Boston King Ghidorah's three minds, the version of the left head known as San-Who-Could-Have-Been (or San-2 out-of-universe) disparages his Monster X-attached doppelganger San for not doing a good enough job of repairing and protecting Vivienne on top of him considering that San an Expendable Clone, and he later expresses envy and resentment that Vivienne doesn't show San-Who-Could-Have-Been the same love and desire to be connected to him as she has for Monster X-San.
- The author has also written several non-canon crossover posts on her Tumblr where the AbraxasVerse versions of the MonsterVerse characters meet their canon doppelgangers, and some don't get on with their canon selves as well as others do:
- In the Gravity Falls Flipside AU, there's a story called [[59985742 Double Backflip-side]] in which a Stanford Pines from another dimension ends up in the Flipside one, and the main Ford actually ends up calling him out for his treatment of Stan.
- An interesting example of this occurs from both perspectives in cutflowers' Amiss trilogy (Looking at a world where Miley was unable to undo the wish she made that she would be Hannah all the time); Miley attempted to make friends with the Lilly Truscott of her new world but alt-Lilly ended up blackmailing her out of ten million dollars. The fic begins when the 'original' Lilly is able to make her own wish to join Miley in the other world, and is horrified at how shallow her other self is, having left her family and ruined her friendship with Oliver just to be rich, to the extent that Lilly privately reflects that she would kill her other self if they ever met. Back in the original world, alt-Lilly is initially annoyed at having to rebuild her reputation from scratch and feels that her other self wasted too many opportunities to establish Lola as an independent celebrity rather than just Hannah's eccentric friend, but over time she undergoes a Heel Realization as she realises what she did to Miley.
- In the penultimate chapter of Eternal Fantasy, Harry uses a magic device that gives him a glimpse of his life without the transition. He sees a fat Dudley bullying him, a fully human Hermione ragging on him for allegedly cheating at Quidditch, and himself and Draco fighting to the death. Harry's outright horrified and insists the magic device (which could change the world back to canon) go away and never show him such things again.
- In Season 2 Episode 7 of The New Adventures of Invader Zim, Dib, Zim, Tak, and their respective teams are accidentally transported to a Mirror Universe and meet their counterparts there, and none of them are pleased. Dib and the twins are morally disgusted by their counterparts' supervillain natures, while Zim and Tak are similarly disgusted by their counterparts being friendly and trying to help Earth instead of conquering it. Furthermore, Tenn is offended by her counterpart's laziness, while Nyx is furious at her counterpart being a bland corporate drone.
- In When Gamers Collide, a couple of random accidents in their respective universes cause the version of Gaz from the original cartoon and the one from the continuation comics and movie to meet in a Pocket Dimension. At first, they get along pretty well, but since the comic/movie version has had more Character Development, she grows to be disgusted by the show version's general attitude, while the show Gaz comes to see her counterpart as being soft and wimpy. This leads to an argument that ends with the two coming to blows.
- In Are You a Friend, Too?, for the most part, the main characters get along fairly well with their Kirby: Right Back at Ya! counterparts, except for Dedede. Video Game!Dedede thinks of his counterpart as a moronic oaf who reminds him way too much of his past self, while Anime!Dedede gets pissed when Video Game!Dedede insults him and can't understand his friendship with Kirby.
- The premise of Peeking Through the Fourth Wall is the Louds reading various fanfics about themselves. Often, they express displeasure over how their fictional counterparts are characterized.
- Marooned in Madagascar: In Making the Wrong Choice, King Julien is horrified to learn what some of his alternate selves have done. Particularly the ones who abandoned their people and threw away their royal status in order to live at the Central Park Zoo or run away with a circus performer.
- Downplayed in Stars Will Light the Way when Strange Supreme ("What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?") is the one drawn into the 'prime' MCU rather than the corpse of Defender Strange. While the "local" Strange is obviously unnerved by his counterpart at first, the two are relatively cordial to each other, even if Strange Supreme avoids revealing exactly how their realities diverged at first. However, when Strange Supreme faces Sinister Strange and learns how his other self has been dreamwalking into other Stranges to drive them to kill themselves, he has no problem trapping Chthon in Sinister Strange and performing a banishing ritual that will kill that version of himself, explicitly musing that he'd feel worse if it was Earth-199999 Strange or some other alternate but this one he has no problem killing.
- Bring Me Back Home:
- After Marinette reads her counterpart Bridgette's diary and learns about how Cat Noir is cursed, she expresses disappointment in how Coccinelle refused to break it. This leads her to kiss him on the off chance she'll count enough to break the curse.
- When Chat Noir learns about his counterpart, he replies "So Let Me Get This Straight... The Chat Noir in your world not only has some awful curse from his Miraculous, but he has a stupid name, too?"
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Aftermath of the Games: Puppy Spike and Dragon Spike can't stand each other. Every time they interact, it leads to an argument, whether it's over the benefits of each other's species, who was cuter as an infant, or whose crush is prettier.
- I Forgot I Was There plays this for serious drama: Twilight accidentally brings her reflection to life, and both Twilights severely resent each other from the very beginning. Their petty competition is the main focus of the fic.
- Pony POV Series:
- During a Vision Quest, Applejack meets her counterpart Orangejack, and they argue and briefly fight. Applejack is annoyed that Orangejack abandoned the farm to become a business pony, and got a loving husband and children out of it. Orangejack is annoyed that Applejack stayed on the farm and basically did nothing with her life except being a farmer, and got to become a hero and have lots of friends. They make peace when they realize they are similar in how they feel about their loved ones.
- Diamond Tiara's mother Golden Tiara gets shown a vision of her alternate universe counterpart Spoiled Rich. Golden Tiara is first comically horrified by Spoiled Rich's botched nose job, then is angered and disgusted by how vain and selfish Spoiled Rich is and how horribly she treats her daughter. The being who showed her the vision then summons duplicates of both Spoiled Rich and Golden Tiara's insane persona Screwball. Golden Tiara beats both of them into submission while vowing to never become like either of them.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Crisis on Two Equestrias has the Lunaverse Trixie and Twilight Sparkle run into their show counterparts. L-Trixie thinks her show counterpart is an obnoxious ham, show-Trixie in turn thinks she's a pampered layabout who could use some exercise. Show-Twilight is initially not too hostile to her Lunaverse counterpart until she insults Clover the Clever, but L-Twilight thinks she's just as bad as her (L-Twilight having become a fugitive for mild misuse of illegal magic) on account of the "Want-It, Need-It" incident. They do, eventually, get over this. After nearly being killed by an equicidal alicorn created by their bickering.
- The Twilight Child: Initially Averted when Twilight Twinkle meets an alternate of herself named Midnight. The two get along reasonably well, even writing a joint letter to Princess Celestia. Then right before her departure, Midnight teleports, something Twinkle isn't capable of. Twinkle takes this... poorly.
- In The Two Sides of Daring Do, AK Yearling gets annoyed and jealous of her clone who is stronger and a better fighter than her and can get through ancient traps more easily. It gets to the point where she gives up and decides her clone deserves to be the real Daring Do. They make peace at the end, when they acknowledge they each deserve to live, and the clone needs her help to survive in the real world which is a lot different than the idealized world of the Daring Do novels.
- In Forgiveness is the Attribute of the Strong, young All for One travels forward in time and meets his adult self. It's mutual hate at first sight.
- In the Personality Swap AU, Bakugou is the only one of Izuku's classmates who doesn't take well to Izuku's mimicry, as having to experience his own callous and cruel personality being mirrored back at him proves to be a Rage Breaking Point. He reacts similarly when Shinsou impersonates him.
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Through the Looking Glass: Aside from Isekai!Katarina, every one of the switched characters from the canon world and the Fortune Lover world questions, scoffs at, or is shocked by the decisions and beliefs of their counterpart. Examples include:
- Isekai!Keith is left mortified and disgusted at how much of a shameless flirt Game!Keith is while Game!Keith scoffs at how devoted Isekai!Keith was to his sister.
- Geord thinks Gerald was insane for being so willing to stay with Katarina that he would even give up the throne while Gerald comes to despise Geord for trying to murder Katarina, even desiring to kill him as payback.
- Game!Katarina, upon hearing about her counterpart, is horrified and angered that she would be so unladylike. This comes to a boil in the Isekai world where she is so aggravated at hearing about Isekai!Katarina that she becomes determined to prove they are not the same person. Part of this comes from Game!Katarina being envious of how beloved Isekai!Katarina is despite all the work Game!Katarina put in to be seen as a proper lady.
- In Destiny is a Hazy Thing, Naruto gets a glimpse at his canon life and is appalled by how reckless and idiotic his alternate self is, declaring that he should have died dozens of times and only got by on pure luck.
- Naru-Hina Chronicles Mini-sodes: When Naruto accidentally creates clones with different personalities, one of them is the smart one, who makes a few comments about how the real Naruto is such a buffoon and that he now understands Sakura's perspective.
- A Crown of Stars: In the first chapter Shinji and Asuka meet their future selves. Asuka found her older self quite irritating. Subverted with her counterpart of the "The Way out Is Through" universe. Rather than annoying her, that timeline's Asuka unsettled her... a lot.
- Rise of the Minisukas: Asuka and her mini-counterpart Shiki are very hostile toward each other. When Leader asks Shiki why she picked a fight with their bigger counterpart, Shiki replies her face and her attitude piss her off. Leader reminds her those are her own face and attitude, and Shiki claims she grew up... and anyway, she would still hate her because she hates herself (which is canon-accurate).
- The Second Try: Discussed. Asuka thinks her younger self would hate her if she saw what she has become. Shinji argues she is being too hard on herself, and he mentions his younger self would surely be shocked.
- In the story Rei Ryghts: Ace Attorney Turnabout in Ultradimension, the titular character still holds a grudge against her Ultradimension counterpart for giving her HDD powers that turned her completely Ax-Crazy in canon, to the point she initially refuses to take a case from her, before being convinced by her boss. Said counterpart, on the other hand, is apologetic and remorseful about what she did in the past.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- Broken Bow: When Armani and Selene first meet each other, they immediately get into a fight. However, once matters are straightened out, they get along well enough.
- Arc Royale:
- Fate (the Jaune from the Not this time, Fate universe) makes a poor impression on all of the other Jaunes due to his generally spiteful and cynical attitude. For his part, Fate looks down upon his counterparts, but especially the default/mainstream/prime Jaune, projecting his own intense self-loathing onto them.
- Ashari (Relic of the Future) is outraged when Null (Null) murders one of their own Jaune's. Later, Ashari tries to find common ground with Null, unsuccessfully once Null sardonically reveals to him that it was Team RWBY who murdered his mother in his universe. Null, for his part, views all of his counterparts with indifference as nothing more nor less than targets, obstacles, or temporary circumstantial allies.
- Speaking of Ashari, he reacts with irritation to the Main Jaune mistaking him for their father, shouting that he is not going to endure receiving that ironic misconception from him.
- To a lesser extent, Main Jaune, aside from being irritated to the point of losing his temper by Fate's attitude and personal low-blows at him, generally feels resentful that just about all of his summoned alternate selves are impressive badasses of some kind or another that he can't see himself ever becoming. The exception is Magnis (One Good Turn Deserves Another), a Jaune who became a mature and impressive but mundane Huntsman through nothing but hard work and initiative and who becomes a pseudo-mentor to the main Jaune helping to rebuild his confidence.
- In the Star Trek (2009) fanfic Written in the Stars, Fem-Kirk gets the spirit of her counterpart stuck inside her head. Hilarity regarding the subject of Spock ensues.Kirk: Well, excuse me, Miss Know-It-All.
Kirk Prime: That's Mrs. Know-It-All to you. Recall I'm a married woman.
Kirk: How could I forget? Your husband's a true Mr. Know-It-All.
Kirk Prime: It's fun having my sense of humour thrown back at me. If a little annoying.
Kirk: Just shut up!
- Essentially deconstructed in Star Wars: Legends Never Die when Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade of Star Wars Legends find themselves in the events of The Force Awakens. While Legends!Luke admires ideas like rotating the New Republic capital to different planets, seeing him gets Han and Leia wondering what they did "wrong" since Luke's equivalent of Ben never fell to the Dark Side, and the two versions of R2-D2 get briefly competitive regarding which of them has achieved the more impressive accomplishment.
- Faded Blue: Side Stories and Missing Scenes: One chapter has the Faded Blue incarnation of Blue Pearl meet an alternate of herself who joined the Crystal Gems. The alternate treats her with the utmost contempt, combining this with I Hate Past Me.
- In the Switcheroo AU page "Extras", canon!Pearl finds Switcharoo!Pearl unnerving. Averted with the Spinels, who get along just fine.
- In the Supergirl fanfic Hellsister Trilogy, Lex Luthor of Earth-One can't stand his Earth-Two counterpart; as far as he's concerned, the other Luthor is an ingrate who hasn't gone through his same losses and is unable to appreciate how lucky he is."Listen now to Luthor of Earth-One," said Brainiac, whose face resembled nothing less than a metallic death's-head. "He shall be our field commander. We have the worlds within our grasp. It is our time, now."
"Wait one bloody second!", said one attendee, an older man with red hair. "Who appointed that second-rate lab rat our spokesman?"
Lex Luthor of Earth-One turned, his warsuit primed for action. He recognized the voice. It was his Earth-Two counterpart, the older Luthor who had fought that Earth's Superman. His Man of Steel was dead now, killed in the Crisis. He had never lost his hair. He had never lost a wife or son. On top of that, he had even worked with the Earth-One Luthor, in a joint effort against the two Supermen.
The man was a damned ingrate, and Lex was fully in favor of wiping him out with an energy bolt.
- Darkly played in The Ouroboros, which deconstructs how the 2012 turtles, April and Casey tricked their counterparts from the reality they saved into going into space under the pretense of having them maintain a Stable Time Loop, so that they could take their places. When the counterparts realize what happened, they return to New York determined to get answers... and things get significantly worse when they learn that Splinter died during their absence.
- When the Turtles, April, Casey and Karai of the 2012 series are transported to the reality of the 2003 series in TMNT Turtles together and forever, 2012 Karai makes it clear to the 2003 turtles that she doesn't share her counterpart's veneration of the Shredder, displeased that her counterpart is still loyal to his memory even after his near-destruction of reality.
- In Better Than You, Transformers: Animated Shockwave ends up in The Transformers universe and is forced to spend the entire day with his G1 counterpart. The two repeatedly butt heads with each other, although they seem to have developed some level of respect for each other by the end.
- Used to chilling extent in The Land of What Might-Have-Been, when Elphaba and others find themselves in an alternate universe where the key divergence is that the Elphaba of this reality was subjected to a complex surgery that gave her a normal appearance, but at the cost of driving her utterly insane, fixated on the idea that she only became 'good' when she became beautiful, and thus determined to force others to become beautiful even if that means corrupting their minds. While Elphaba and the Empress are basically at war from the moment they learn that the other exists, Glinda and Dorothy are disturbed to realise what happened to them in this new world but Glinda accepts it, and Dorothy ends up killing her insane counterpart in their final confrontation. As for Dorothy's companions, Fiyero's counterpart dies before he learns the full nature of their current situation and the Cowardly Lion actually ends up forming a fairly positive bond with his counterpart; only Boq's relationship with his other self can be easily defined as 'annoyance', as Doctor Kiln observes the various ways in which the Tin Woodman has missed so many chances to be better in his past, even as he encourages his other self to try and improve now.
