"I wanted to do those things; it felt natural. I think that I'm a bad person."
"I'm nothing like her, Michael. She's terrifying, she's... she's like a twisted version of everything I've ever aspired to be. I'm gonna have nightmares about myself now."
—Sylvia Tilly, on her Mirror Universe counterpart, Star Trek: Discovery
Willow: Angel, I can't! Please, I can't fight! Not now...
Angel: It's going to be okay.
Willow: No! You don't know me like this! It's never okay!
Angel: Willow, it will be. I promise you. I need you to trust me. I know that's hard, after Twilight, after everything, but please, Willow. Can you trust me?
Willow: I... I... yes. But I don't trust me.
Angel: It's going to be okay.
Willow: No! You don't know me like this! It's never okay!
Angel: Willow, it will be. I promise you. I need you to trust me. I know that's hard, after Twilight, after everything, but please, Willow. Can you trust me?
Willow: I... I... yes. But I don't trust me.
—Angel & Faith, "Family Reunion"
"All I knew at the time was that I had a fainting spell," said Supergirl. "While I was out, the real Red K effect came through. The thing... it..." She fumbled for words, then burst out: "I was cloned! It cloned me, and the clone was, well, my evil side. My dark side. And it was just as real as... as real as me."
Celestia: This can't be!
Daybreaker: If Luna could turn into Nightmare Moon, you could absolutely turn into me: DAYBREAKER! The better, prettier and more powerful version of you!
Celestia: No... I will never turn into you!
Daybreaker: Deep inside, you know how powerful you are. You don't need Luna!
Celestia: That's not true! Even when we were apart, I knew I needed her!
Daybreaker (Evil Laugh): Oh, Please! You don't need ANYPONY! You could do whatever you want! And all you have to do is GET RID OF ANYPONY WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY!
Daybreaker: If Luna could turn into Nightmare Moon, you could absolutely turn into me: DAYBREAKER! The better, prettier and more powerful version of you!
Celestia: No... I will never turn into you!
Daybreaker: Deep inside, you know how powerful you are. You don't need Luna!
Celestia: That's not true! Even when we were apart, I knew I needed her!
Daybreaker (Evil Laugh): Oh, Please! You don't need ANYPONY! You could do whatever you want! And all you have to do is GET RID OF ANYPONY WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY!
—My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, A Royal Problem
Cassie: No, that was not reality! I do not own a slave! That's sickening! What are you talking about?
Rachel: And where was I?
Jake: I was thinking how I'd have to turn Cassie in for not approving of some war down in Brazil! That's not reality.
—Animorphs - Megamorphs #3
"What was that? A phantom of m—? Come on Noel, pull yourself together. You're still just a regular human."
"In his thoughts, he is once again a gawky youngster named Steve Rogers, wanting so desperately to fight America's enemies that he volunteered to test an unknown serum... and so became the guardian of his country. But no one knew anything about Steve Rogers—least of all himself. There had been no security checks on him, before entrusting him with his power. What if he had had the fatal flaw, that would have driven him to super-patriotism, madness, and mayhem? What if things had been just slightly different?"
— The narration after Steve Rogers defeats William Burnside, Captain America #156
"I've never fought the evil side of my own nature. And that's what he is, after all - a man who began with the same dreams I did - and ended as an insane, bigoted superpatriot. He is what he is because he admired me - wanted to copy me. In a very real way, I'm responsible for all the evil he's done."
— Steve Rogers, on William Burnside, Captain America #156
"I... I cannot give in to this power!"
