Other Me Annoys Me / Western Animation

Instances of Other Me Annoys Me in Western Animation.

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• A very dark version appears in Adventure Time. Lemongrab has obvious self-esteem issues and appears to harbor a lot of self-loathing. He later meets an exact clone of himself, and they start off as very close friends, for over a year. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Lemongrab begins to grow annoyed by his counterpart, and this frustration soon spirals into full-blown loathing. He later tortures and devours his clone, much to the horror of everyone who witnesses this.
  • Another example and a rather confusing one is Fern the human who is a result of Finn's Grass Sword and Finn Sword merging into one being. At first he believed that he was Finn, considering the real Finn a threat and, later, an imitator/fan. While he does realize later that he isn't Finn he still tries to replace Finn which ultimately results in his death. Things get confusing when you remember that Fern came from the Finn sword which resulted from an alternate reality Finn being turned into a sword in "Is That You?" As a part of the plan to bring back Prismo meaning he really is Finn, and Princess Bubblegum seems to agree but Finn does not see that
• In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Gaang attend a play about themselves only to find that everyone has been extraordinarily Flanderized. Everyone is angry and embarrassed except for Toph (who's played by a huge beefy actor) and Sokka, once he corrals the actor backstage and offers suggestions to "improve" the show's humor.
• Batman Beyond:
  • Terry takes Bruce to see Batman: The Musical for his birthday. Terry finds the jolly, musical Batman to be great fun. Bruce is... not impressed.
  • This version of Bruce is also quite annoyed when he meets the younger version of himself in an episode of Justice League Unlimited and sees the younger Batman hang a criminal over the edge of a building. "I can't believe I was ever this green," says the elder version. He takes his cane and moves towards the crook, threateningly. "This is how you interrogate a perp."
• The Ben 10 episode "Ben 10,000" sees a mutual form of this. Ben is brought several years into the future to team up with an older version of himself. The problem is that while Present Ben is his usual immature but good-humoured self, Future Ben has unlocked many more aliens and better commands the Omnitrix, but has also become a loner who's Married to the Job and is now constantly brusque to the point of rudeness. So Present Ben sees Future Ben as a humourless jackass and Future Ben sees Present Ben as an irresponsible punk. Eventually they learn to get along, and it turns out Future Gwen's reasons for bringing Present Ben in was to get Future Ben to unclench a little.
• Attempted to be invoked by Mung against Gazpacho in Chowder, who after moving in with the catering company following an argument with his mother becomes a nuisance, by feeding him a Multi-Rye Sandwich, which will make a clone that will annoy him to leave. It fails, and Chowder tries to salvage by feeding Gazpacho and his clone more sandwiches, filling the kitchen with a herd of Gazpacho clones.
• Code Lyoko, oh so many times.
  • The most notable is in Triple Trouble, when Odd is split into three. They fight over who gets to go to lunch, and who has to go to PE class. They also ruin a joke by inadvertently repeating it.
  • Another example is in X.A.N.A.'s Kiss. Odd complains to the clone he's fighting, telling it that if it's going to keep changing form, it should turn into a wimp next time. Its next form: Odd. In Revelation, another Polymorphic clone pulls a similar move on Ulrich, this time for strategy rather than mockery.
• Two Danger Mouse instances:
  • "Four Heads Are Better Than Two" is a zig-zag in that DM is paired with a robot duplicate of Penfold while Penfold is paired with a robot duplicate of DM, both as an experiment from Colonel K. Trouble is, the androids are more trouble with their peripheral partners than DM and Penfold are to themselves.
  • "The Good, The Bad And The Motionless" has DM facing his evil alter-ego, a red-colored version of himself with a trident, devil horns and a devil tail. He sets out playing mind games with DM until our hero figures things out and beats the hell out of his devil clone within the mystic amphitheater of Stonehenge.
    DM: I'm not going to be pushed around by two percent of me. Come down and put 'em up! (balls up his fists)
    Evil DM: What? A fair fight? You have to be joking! (evil laugh)
• Towards the end of the Looney Tunes episode Duck Amuck, the frame shifts, leaving Daffy's top half on the bottom and bottom half on the top... inadvertently cloning Daffy. The two Daffys quickly start arguing with each other:
  Bottom Daffy: Now what?!
  Top Daffy: What are you doing down there?
  Bottom Daffy: Down here? What are you doing up there? [to audience] Down here—
  [top Daffy snatches Bottom Daffy into the top frame, which then re-centers]
  Daffy Prime: Listen, bub, if you wasn't me, I'd smack you right in the puss!
  Daffy Clone: Don't let that bother ya, Jack!
  Daffy Prime: [winding up a punch] Okay, buddy, you asked for it!
  [Daffy Clone gets erased just before Daffy throws his punch, making him miss wildly]
• One episode in The Flintstones had Fred wrongfully take the credit for a heroic act, only to have Wilma find out the truth and confront him with her disgust, ending with "I just hope you can live with yourself!" Suddenly, Fred is bothered by a duplicate of himself, who's even more annoying than he is, eating his food, telling bad jokes, and pulling nasty tricks like giving him an exploding cigar. After only a short time, Fred admits he can't live with himself, tells the duplicate to scram, and then confesses to everyone that Barney is the actual hero.
• Futurama:
  • The main characters travel to an alternate dimension where the characters meet their counterparts and find them annoying despite being almost identical. Except for Bender, who being an egomaniac gets along with his counterpart just fine. The others eventually warm up to their duplicates, too.
  • Then there was that time they went to the end of the universe and looked across to see their alternate, cowboy hat-wearing selves. Bender got tired of his alternate self flaunting the hat and decided to leave.
  • In Bender's Big Score:
    • Fry is jealous of Lars' romance with Leela, not realizing that Lars is an older version of himself from another timeline. Or something; it's confusing.
    • And even Bender proves he's not immune to this trope. Seconds after meeting himself, and apparently agreeing to a course of action, the second Bender arbitrarily decides to try and murder his future-self.
  • Professor Farnsworth often finds his young clone Cubert annoying.
• In Gargoyles, the Archmage engages in a Stable Time Loop to save himself from his apparent death and acquire ultimate magical power, thus for a while there are two of him at the same time. While it might have made sense for the two to stay together and combine their powers for an even greater advantage over their enemies...the Archmage's arrogance is of a brand that doesn't get along with itself. Despite having just been him not more than 24 hours previous (by his perspective), the "older" Archmage is annoyed and impatient with his past self, criticizing and patronizing him relentlessly throughout their interactions. When the "younger" Archmage achieves the same knowledge and power as his future self, he leaves to fulfill his part in the time loop, and the elder couldn't be happier to see him gone.
  Archmage: Finally. I thought he'd never leave.
• In the Gravity Falls episode "Double Dipper," Dipper makes about ten clones of himself in order to pull off an extremely elaborate plan to dance with Wendy. In an amusing Aversion, they all get along really well at first. Their inevitable revolt only comes because Dipper gets enough Character Development to abandon their plan, and even then they're weirdly nice about it.
  • In "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape from Reality," Dipper discovers that Mabel has been trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine that creates her idea of an apparently "perfect world." Although she wants him to stay, she has prepared a "backup Dipper," Dippy Fresh, who's more to her taste.
    Dippy Fresh: Dude, take a chill-pill! They grow on trees here.
    Dipper: You stay out of this, Dippy Fresh!
• Kaeloo: In the episode "Let's Play Astronauts", the main four go to an Alternate Universe where Kaeloo's transformation happens in reverse, Mr. Cat and Quack Quack have each other's personalities and Stumpy is a genius. While Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat hit it off with the other counterparts, Stumpy's math-loving, comic-book hating counterpart annoys him to no end.
• In an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Pinkie Pie makes copies of herself. Her duplicates are obliviously and single-mindedly focused on having fun, to the exclusion of all else — an accusation frequently leveled at Pinkie herself — and it turns out to annoy Pinkie just as much as it does everyone else.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • The whole premise of the made-for-TV movie is that the main cast travels to another dimension. While Doofenshmirtz is initially on good terms with his alternate dimension counterpart, it doesn't take long for Doof-2 to realize that Doof-1 is absolutely clueless and after having the Otherdimensionator built decides he wants nothing to do with him.
  • Another special Parodies a Zombie Apocalypse when Doof accidentally creates The Virus, spread by touch, that turns people into mindless clones of him.
    "One of me is fine, but eh, I can be really annoying en masse. I admit it."
  • In one episode, Candace ended up splitting into two halves thanks to one of her brother's inventions; one was obsessed with Jeremy, and the other was obsessed with busting her brothers. They ended up singing an entire song about how they dislike each other (though most of the hate comes from Busting Candace).
• Rick and Morty:
  • Rick's ability to travel through alternate universes and the general trend of the various versions of him pissing off those in power has resulted in thousands of his alternate selves forming the Council of Ricks, a governing body meant to police themselves. The protagonist Rick hates these Ricks, as they're people who hated government that essentially Became Their Own Antithesis.
  • Similarly, Morty is irritated by his alternate selves, all captured by Evil Rick and Evil Morty, who just cower in fear and pray for someone to come save them instead of taking action, and rallies all of them himself to revolt and bring down Evil Rick.
  • And once Morty finds out in "Rickmurai Jack" that Evil Morty has been the Big Bad all along, he naturally has this towards him, too, frequently pissed off (both in this episode and their next encounter in "Unmortricken") by how much of a total dick he is and calling him out for it. This is entirely mutual, as Evil Morty despises "sellout Mortys" like the main one who remain loyal to their Ricks, and consistently acts condescending and disdainful towards Main Morty.
  • "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" has Beth and Jerry go to alien marriage counseling which shows couples how the other sees them... by creating a monster out of each partner's perception of the other. Then they show how to make their relationship work and have the monsters love each other. Beth and Jerry's monsters are a giant insect and a spineless worm—and worse, they're codependent, which allowed them to escape! The only way they could stop them is creating a Goddess Beth to kill them. It should come as no surprise that Beth and Jerry divorce for a season before getting back together only after some Character Development.
  • The plot of "Rest and Ricklaxation" has Rick and Morty get split into two halves by a detoxifying machine at an alien spa. The machine separates toxic parts of the user's own personality into a separate person (or rather, the parts of their personalities that they see as toxic in themselves), so it's only natural that the "purified" Rick and Morty butt heads with their toxic halves.
  • In the season 4 finale, "Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri," it is revealed that Rick really did end up cloning Beth at the end of "The ABC's of Beth." While one Beth stayed at home, without knowing of the other, the other Beth went into space to travel the universe like her father. When Space!Beth returns and encounters Home!Beth, the two butt heads right away, The former seeing the other as weak, and the latter seeing the other as just like their father. They eventually set aside their differences and get along by the end of the episode, however.
• An episode of Rugrats dealt with twins Phil and Lil wanting to be less like each other, and thus adopting the mannerisms of Chuckie and Angelica, respectively. Chuckie became exasperated with Phil's constant over-cautiousness, while Angelica was not at all amused with Lil's new aggressive persona. In the end, both Phil and Lil went back to being themselves.
• In an episode of The Smurfs, an accident with magic causes both Papa Smurf and Gargamel to each split into two separate "twins" of themselves. The two Papa Smurfs try to find a cure to recombine, but they can't get along or cooperate with each other, and cause even more accidents, eventually blowing up their lab; eventually, they decide they have to work on it separately, and draw straws, the loser leaving the village. (The other smurfs decide to help out, half of them leaving with the one who leaves.) Meanwhile, the two Gargamels fare even worse, hating each other to the point of getting into fist fights. When the two Papa Smurfs eventually do find the cure, it turns out the reason both pairs didn't like each other, simply put, was that they were too similar, the Too Much Alike Trope clearly applying in both cases.
• Weird variation in South Park: a giant dragon summoned by overuse of the word "shit" has Cartman's voice - when it's defeated, Cartman says "What a lame voice..."
• In Star Trek: Lower Decks, Boimler has this reaction after being cloned by the transporter. It doesn't help that "William" gets to keep his dream job on the Titan while the original Boimler is sent back to the Cerritos.
• In an episode of Steven Universe, Steven uses a time-traveling device to create several time copies of himself for a band. They get along at first, but have a disagreement when the original starts trying to designate each copy as a specific role ("the funny one", "the smart one", etc), and calls them annoying. They eventually start a fight that goes through at least four different areas in spacetime and gathers many more clones.
• In Teen Titans, a character named nosyarG kciD, nicknamed Larry, (an Expy of Bat Mite, a Great Gazoo from the comic books who idolizes Batman), who is Robin from an alternate dimension, comes to try to help Robin heal his broken arm, but Robin doesn't quite enjoy this encounter. His double is massively incompetent, which doesn't help smooth things over.

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