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...because everyone else is taken. Be Yourself is a popular trope, especially in shows aimed at children. One character tries to persuade another character to change their image and not be a loser, geek, etc. After the change goes amiss, "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome almost always ensues, and An Aesop is delivered about how it is better to be true to one's own nature rather than putting on a facade to impress others. Usually, that means being behind the times, unfashionable, out of shape, handicapped, overweight, uncool, a complete and utter failure, socially inept and that especially means being "that guy". Being oneself also requires a person to live below his or her full potential. It's one of the most frequently broken Aesops, tying in to the Status Quo Is God mindset. If this trope is played well, it can carry the message that you can be worthy of love and acceptance without sacrificing the things that make you who you are and to value your unique traits rather than hide them to fit in, but if done poorly or too often, the message can imply that any kind of personal growth and self improvement are bad and you must never try a new look, pick up new interests, or make new friends. Or, worse, that if you're a Jerkass then you should keep being one rather than work to become a better person. Bonus points if a Subculture of the Week is featured to try to sway our hero to their side. The Easily Embarrassed Youngster often learns this one. If the trope succeeds, it may lead to said character declaring I Am What I Am. In Real Life, this is one of the important tenets of Existentialism: one's purpose in life should not be judged or determined by society, but rather one should shape one's own purpose. Of course, this is a great oversimplification, and it doesn't account for how existentialism usually plays with this trope more than just rendering it straight (most existentialists, especially Nietzsche, would have probably disapproved the way this trope is commonly executed in modern media), but it remains as a popular way to explain it. Compare Honesty Aesop, Against the Grain. Goes with Conditioned to Be Weak, where a powerful character is only docile and submissive because they are conditioned to follow orders and/or fear their leader. Super-Trope of Redundant Romance Attempt, acting out of character to impress a love interest who likes your true personality. |
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In Kamen Rider Fourze, this is the motto that Amanogawa High School follows, having each of their students be themselves, and thus have a diverse student body. However, this also creates a chaotic school ground, especially considering that some of the students are given Zodiarts Switches. | |
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In the Worm x Dark Souls II crossover fanfic, Outcry, Weld gives Taylor this advice in light of everything she's been through. | |
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A major theme in many early Astro Boy stories is Astro learning to deal with being different from his human friends (he's much smarter than the average human but he's incapable of understanding art and music and can't feel pain or fear). In one story he gets an upgrade that lets him experience more emotions but the villains of the week take advantage of his new sense of fear. In the end, Astro decides it's better to be the best robot he can be instead of trying to be something he's not. | |
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: In the Every Episode Ending, Mr. Rogers delivered this message with great sincerity directly to his viewers, getting right to the heart of the matter and warming everybody's heart in the process: | |
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Mayonaka ni Kiss: Nono tries to fit into high society by being the kind of lady the wife of the founder of Ichijou Group was but ends up fitting as herself. | |
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In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 10, Lovelin is worried about not sounding good enough when she goes to sing with hitomitchi and practices with Melodytchi and Pianitchi by playing rock music and wearing matching clothes. Near the end of the episode, she loses her confidence, realizes she wasn't being herself and regains her confidence when she performs with hitomitchi as she would at any Lovelin concert, casting aside the rock music and clothing. | |
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In Demo, it's the aesop of "Volume One Love Story". Instead of treating her compulsion with notes as a problem, as per her therapist's insistence, Marlo accepts it as a part of who she is and something she enjoys, and the story closes on her about to enjoy a date with someone who finds her compulsion fascinating. | |
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In Tales of Berseria, although never stated this way directly, this idea lies at the heart of the creed followed by the characters and they are fighting against a force that would turn everyone into unthinking creatures without any personality. "In my heart is a flame I could not extinguish even if I wanted to. To live as you are, and to be true to yourself." | |
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In Kamen Rider Wizard, this actually gets deconstructed. Rinko goes and talks with a guy who she sees as being down on his luck. She soon finds that he became a Phantom (the Monster of the Week species) and talks with him about that and for a while, she actually manages to get through to him, realizing that he doesn't like what the Phantoms are doing and doesn't like being ordered around to do exactly that. Then she suggests just doing what he wants. Turns out that she was talking to the Phoenix Phantom, a recurring enemy to Wizard whose major encounter with him involved assaulting a woman so that her son would succumb to despair. See, he likes wanton destruction more than just breaking the wills of people, and that he'd prefer doing the former more often. It actually becomes bad for all parties involved. It's bad for Rinko who soon gets held hostage by Phoenix, bad for Wizard since Phoenix grew so much in power that he would have died in one encounter, and bad for the Big Bad himself since Phoenix is going out of his control and might wind up undermining his own goal of creating more Phantoms by making his victims despair (they can't despair if they're dead). And all because someone suggested to Phoenix that he should be himself. | |
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Arrow. Early in the series, Thea gives this advice to her brother Oliver Queen regarding his relationship with Laurel Lance. So he visits her in his vigilante Arrow persona which she takes a liking to...until she witnesses the Arrow inflicting a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on someone who attacked her. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, this is implied to be the reason why Zelda had such trouble with their powers, especially compared to other Zeldas in the series who was (more or less) able to behave as they liked. In the past memories, her father King Rhoam constantly quashed and suppressed their interests, dismissing them and forcing and pressuring Zelda to behave as their ancestors would have. | |
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Almost every movie from the Disney Animated Canon post-Renaissance features this (ironically, along with very self-assured villains, and the dissonance is never addressed In-Universe): The Little Mermaid (1989) is a bit of an Unbuilt Trope, since Ariel being herself means she can't be with the man of her dreams, but her Deal with the Devil to live on land robs her of her voice, the only means by which she could have told Eric who she was. Ditto Beauty and the Beast, where Beast's selfishness is what curses him, but because he wants to be free of said curse he does his best to become a better person, while Gaston being true to his self is what kills him. This is a significant theme of Disney's Aladdin (and only the Disney version): Pretending to be the overbearing, pompous "Prince Ali" only alienates the hero from Princess Jasmine, who finds the earnest, resourceful "street rat" more appealing. This aesop is driven home in a memorable scene on the balcony, the Genie transforms himself into a bee and encourages Aladdin— "bee yourself!" Although it's not explicitly stated in Tangled there's a definite undercurrent of this moral throughout the film. For example, Rapunzel encourages a group of rough-and-tumble thugs to follow their dreams (even though they don't fit their image) and tells Flynn Rider that she prefers his real name, Eugene. In Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph plays the role of the Bad Guy and doesn't like it. The film even starts with his being told that Bad Guys are necessary to the world he lives in. In contrast, however, the sequel's moral is a more conventional of staying true to yourself rather than working in the confines of society, as Vanellope gets to be in a game she prefers. The Emperor's New Groove, however, both subverts and plays this straight — Kuzco being himself once meant being the jerkass that he was until Character Development finally kicked in, and once it does, he tries to embrace that part of himself. Now Kuzco being himself means being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold that he is. Kronk's New Groove: Kronk learns that he shouldn't try to change himself or betray his ideals just to earn his father's approval because by being himself, he's able to surround himself with friends who like him for who he is, which is everything. Frozen: Zig-Zagged Trope, as Elsa's true nature (whose ability to control ice decreases as she loses hold of her emotions) is incredibly dangerous to both herself and everyone around her, but her way of "managing" this by trying to completely repress it backfires horrendously. Embracing her nature doesn't solve all of her problems, but it helps her enjoy the good parts and find healthier and more effective ways to manage the downsides. Stitch! The Movie plays with this at the beginning. Stitch jumps out dressed in a disguise only for Lilo to take it off and tell him to be himself. In response, Stitch lets out his antennae, spikes, and extra arms, prompting Lilo to tell him "Maybe not that much yourself." |
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Great Teacher Onizuka: This is Onizuka's message to Tomoko, who discovers she has Hidden Depths when he enters her in a beauty pageant. He denies doing anything to make her popular, saying she did that all on her own. | |
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Dexter: Dexter Morgan spends much of the second season deciding whether he should be himself. Thing is, the "himself" he means is a serial killer... | |
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The Music Freaks: The entire story is about Jake learning to embrace his passion for music, regardless of what other people say. | |
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"Follow Your Arrow" by Kacey Musgraves: | |
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Clarissa Explains It All: In one episode Clarissa's guidance counselor tries to get her to be more "normal." After trying out "normal" activities suggested by her guidance counselor and seeing her example of normalcy, Clarissa decides it's better to just be her own quirky self. There is an episode where Clarissa starts dating a guy while pretending to a different persona, "Jade". But it becomes a Reconstruction, as the boyfriend decides to give Clarissa another chance even after finding out that she lied to him. |
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In the Miraculous Ladybug fic Bring Me Back Home, Bridgette has been trapped in another universe and forced to impersonate her counterpart Marinette. After Adrien finds out and he manages to convince her he's a good guy (compared to her own Cat Noir), they have this conversation. | |
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In Asteroid in Love, this is what Misa tells Moe as the former leaves for college, which also serves as an indirect rejection to the latter's Love Confession. | |
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales is about Miles learning to be his own Spider-Man and his own adult. The trope name is fittingly the title of the Platinum Trophy. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: In Kung Fu Panda, this is key to understanding the Dragon Scroll's message, which contains the power to make whoever reads it one of the greatest kung fu masters in existence. It's a blank scroll that shows nothing but the reflection of the reader's face. Or rather, the true secret of the Dragon Scroll is that there is no secret ingredient. The most important factor in your success is you and your desire/determination to improve yourself. Makes a return in Kung Fu Panda 3 where the arc words for the heroes are essentially "I need to turn you into you", a koan that naturally baffles everyone who hears it for the first time. What it means is that a good teacher cannot make a student into something they are not (Shifu cannot make Po into another Shifu, Po cannot make the other pandas into another Po), but instead should make their student into the best version of themselves possible by embracing their own abilities to win the day. |
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In Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph plays the role of the Bad Guy and doesn't like it. The film even starts with his being told that Bad Guys are necessary to the world he lives in. In contrast, however, the sequel's moral is a more conventional of staying true to yourself rather than working in the confines of society, as Vanellope gets to be in a game she prefers. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: This is a huge part of Simon's character arc. At the beginning of the series, Simon had very low self-esteem and lacked confidence in himself and his own abilities, due in part to others looking down on him and tragically losing his parents at an early age. His Big Brother Mentor, Kamina, circumvented this issue by telling him to "Believe in the me that believes in you", essentially saying that even if he doesn't have confidence in himself, he can have confidence in someone else's faith in him. This worked well enough, but Kamina unintentionally made himself Simon's Living Emotional Crutch as a result. When Kamina tragically dies, Simon's emotional state is at an absolute low as he tries to, and unsuccessfully, live up to the example that Kamina set. Fortunately, before passing on, Kamina amended his previous statement and told Simon not to rely on other's faith in him, but to have faith in himself, a lesson that Simon eventually understands and takes to heart. | |
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Nautilus from Cucumber Quest gives some helpful advice. | |
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Kronk's New Groove: Kronk learns that he shouldn't try to change himself or betray his ideals just to earn his father's approval because by being himself, he's able to surround himself with friends who like him for who he is, which is everything. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Alphonse Elric once sent Sheska a message telling her not to be discouraged that her best asset was reading and that he respected her for having a unique talent. | |
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Community: In the episode Physical Education, Jeff gives this advice to Abed when the rest of the study group is telling him to act differently when approaching a potential secret admirer. In the end, it's subverted, as Abed teaches everyone else that if you're confident in your own identity, it's no big deal to change. This leads Jeff to realize that his clothes aren't an important part of his identity and play pool naked. | |
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In RWBY Volume 9, this is the lesson Ruby ultimately learns, having spent so much of her life aspiring to be like who she thought her mother was or the heroes in the storybooks she was read and crumbling under the pressure of various failures, setbacks and deaths. | |
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In The Hunger Games, this is Cinna's advice to Katniss regarding her interview with Caesar Flickerman. | |
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In Second Chance, Kairi's father is trying to raise her as a Proper Lady, and she goes along with it for a while despite her own desire to join in Sora and Riku's sword training. Ventus soon picks up on this. | |
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The title character of Franny K. Stein learns this lesson in the first book Lunch Walks Among Us. In an effort to fit in and make friends with the other kids at her school easier, Franny drinks a potion that turns her into a normal child and adapts to enjoying the same food and activities her peers like. When a Pumpkin-Crab Monster shows up and goes on a rampage at the school, Franny takes an antidote so she can become a mad scientist girl again and save the day. The next day at school, Franny is finally accepted by the other children, who like her for who she is and are grateful for her stopping the monster. | |
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The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom Western Animation, TV Series, and Comic Books.): All of Tucker's dates end up pretty badly because he purposely made his dating profile to describe him as someone he's not. When he's finally honest with his dating profile, he gets a good date with Velma Dinkley. | |
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Ditto Beauty and the Beast, where Beast's selfishness is what curses him, but because he wants to be free of said curse he does his best to become a better person, while Gaston being true to his self is what kills him. | |
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Theodora Goes Wild: Theodora gives a rousing little speech about being a modern woman, and the importance of being yourself. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In chapter 80, the group gets separated by a flash flood during their hiking trip. This results in elderly Yaku being paired with Naddy, who does her darnedest to act as American as possible. This includes speaking in mangled language that's difficult even for modern day students to parse, never mind an 89-year-old. After a few instances of Yaku failing to comprehend a word Naddy says, she reverts to proper speech until Yaku, noticing the change, assures Naddy that she much prefers her usual energetic self, even if she can't always understand it. A more cheerful Naddy is ready to find the rest of their friends. In chapter 142, when Tama (a woman who got so worn down by her job she decided to quit being human in favor of becoming a cat, courtesy of an Animal-Eared Headband, a fake tail, and a sweater with paws) joins the group, a good number of the girls point out she's obviously human. Naddy sticks up for her, declaring everyone's got the freedom to live how they want. |
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Chapter 54 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant has a twisted take on this trope. After Yuuki Terumi finishes thoroughly kicking Adam Taurus to the curb and calling him out on believing himself a hero of his kind when he's just a delusional psychopath, he then encourages him to stop hiding from the truth and embrace what he really is deep down: a selfish, spiteful monster who only cares for himself. | |
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Dr. Havoc's Diary: The lesson that Dr. Havoc teaches Crystal Mynxx in Episode 8. Unfortunately, that lesson ends up working a little TOO well... | |
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A theme in the final episodes of Princess Tutu. Ahiru has trouble giving up her pendant, which contains the final shards needed to complete Mytho's heart, because that will end the story and turn her back into a duck. In the end, with Fakir's help, she is able to realize that her true self is a duck, and that's all right. | |
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Girl Meets World handled this particularly well; when the yearbooks came out, everyone found out what the rest of the class thinks of them. Three of the four main characters put on the sort of over-the-top, costumed transformations you'd expect from a Kid Com, and just when you can feel the usual Broken Aesop coming, Farkle decides he's going to drop the assumed name and attitude-but keep the edgier look. | |
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In House Party 3, Kid goes to his questionably-sane Uncle Vester for advice on how to get his fiancee's parents to like him. Vester's response? | |
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One of the songs in High School Musical, "Stick to the Status Quo", features three people who move out of their group's normal behaviour (a geek who likes hip-hop dancing, a stoner who plays the cello, a basketball jock who bakes) and their friends exhort them repeatedly to "Stick to the stuff you know; stick to the status quo". | |
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In the 2004 Made-for-TV Movie Biopic Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story. From his rough child star upbringing onward, Jackson keeps mentally flashing to a vision of Diana Ross advising "Follow your heart". | |
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In "Secret Identities", Supergirl starts high school under an assumed identity, but after a few days, she gets sick of teenagers pretending to be friendly as planning to backstab you. Deciding a secret identity was a mistake, she reveals her true self to her classmates and flies off after telling them they should stop pretending to be other people. A bullied girl takes her advice to heart and starts talking back to her tormentors. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion plays this in a horribly cynical way. The whole plot probably wouldn't have gone as insane as it did if Shinji had just been honest with himself and others from the start. | |
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In the Maya the Bee Movie, Flip the grasshopper tells Maya to just be herself and she'll be just fine. He and his friends then sing about it. | |
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Played with in Brooklyn Nine-Nine where Peralta wants to impress Santiago's father at Thanksgiving dinner. Boyle says the trope to him, but Peralta is skeptical and asks his colleagues how long it took for him to get them to like him. | |
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In The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss episode "Who Are You, Sue Snue?" It's Sue's eleventh and a half birthday, so she has to decide which of her uncles she wants to follow in the footsteps of, or else eat her hat. When her attempts to be like her uncles have all failed, she realises she just needs to be herself and doesn't need to decide anything else yet, and her uncles agree. | |
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The main theme of Lindsey Stirling's piece "Transcendence" is about being who you are and the happiness and freedom that comes with that, rather than trying to fit ideas other people project onto you or how culture says you should be. | |
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Turns up as a lesson for a student teacher in Welcome Back, Kotter. First she tried Mr. Kotter's personality, but her jokes fell flat. Next she tried By-the-Book Cop, consulting her textbook every few minutes to figure out what to do next. This ended up pissing Epstein off, and she ran crying from the room. Kotter counseled her to be herself, and that worked. | |
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In The Mysterious Benedict Society, each of the members of the titular society is chosen for their own particular talents, and though they may at times wish to be more like each other or doubt themselves, ultimately they can only succeed by being themselves. Used humorously when Constance is lamenting a hastily devised plan that even narration describes as being "bold, ill-formed and likely to fail." | |
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In Kung Fu Panda, this is key to understanding the Dragon Scroll's message, which contains the power to make whoever reads it one of the greatest kung fu masters in existence. It's a blank scroll that shows nothing but the reflection of the reader's face. Or rather, the true secret of the Dragon Scroll is that there is no secret ingredient. The most important factor in your success is you and your desire/determination to improve yourself. | |
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Makes a return in Kung Fu Panda 3 where the arc words for the heroes are essentially "I need to turn you into you", a koan that naturally baffles everyone who hears it for the first time. What it means is that a good teacher cannot make a student into something they are not (Shifu cannot make Po into another Shifu, Po cannot make the other pandas into another Po), but instead should make their student into the best version of themselves possible by embracing their own abilities to win the day. | |
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In Homestuck, Vriska Serket learns this. | |
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Christina Grimmie's song "Ugly" is all about not caring what other people think because those who are judging you aren't that great. | |
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In Despair's Last Resort, Kaito is given this advice by Hikaru when he asks how to get girls to like him. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Mr. Bevis", Mr. James B.W. Bevis learns this Aesop after his Guardian Angel J. Hardy Hempstead makes him a Slave to PR. In "Cavender is Coming", the Guardian Angel Harmon Cavender turns Agnes Grep into a very wealthy woman and a member of high society. After all of her old friends and neighbors fail to recognize her, she tells him that she was happy as she was, even though she was unemployed and behind on her rent. Cavender returns things to normal, telling Agnes that she is the richest woman that he knows and that money does not guarantee contentment. |
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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Everyone keeps picking on Emmett because his nice-and-sweet personality and interests clash with the post-apocalyptic world they're all playing in, but when he eventually starts to take these jibes on board and tries to change himself, the results are only disastrous. | |
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The Peanuts Movie: Charlie Brown spends the movie trying to talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl or even simply get her attention. As it turns out, he didn't need to do any of that for her to see him as the wonderful person he is. | |
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In My Huntsman Academia, Yang gives Izuku this advice when he asks how he could have possibly won her over while hanging out Vale at night. | |
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Subverted in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. Ami, afraid that Usagi and others would leave her if she didn't act more social, reads a self-help book and tries to immerse herself more in her friends' habits, even lying just to establish herself as a more outgoing person. Usagi finds the book and realizes Ami has been faking it, and it seems that we're in for a straight Be Yourself aesop... until we find out at the end of the episode that while Ami has indeed reverted to her old shy personality, some of the positive changes have stuck, and she has the potential to defrost even more. People don't change overnight, but can change slowly, given enough time. | |
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This is a major idea, plot point, and overall Aesop delivered in Persona 4. Whenever someone gets thrown into the TV world, they're confronted with a twisted "Shadow" version of themselves that attempts to Break Them by Talking, and then just break them. The only way to survive is to accept their repressed issues, which turns the Shadow into a Persona. Becomes darkly twisted in the case of Adachi, who is implied to have gained his Persona due to accepting his Shadow and thus embracing his depravity. A similar case would be Mitsuo, where his shadow represents that he's a worthless human being, which he rejects with a feeble attempt at claiming that his life is actually worth something. Although, the boss fight after, an outer shell that looks like an 8-bit character, implies what happens to people like that, and that part of themselves is the shell they hide behind, but it's not as "self" as what's under it. ...or at least, that’s the message the game preaches. In practice, every character who is “themself� and also goes against what society wants ends up changing their mind and deciding what they actually want is what’s been forced upon them by Japanese society and not what they spent their arc fighting for. While individually, these are fine, only four characters (two in the Updated Re-release, as the new true ending CG has the two heroic characters who didn’t change to something uncomfortable to them for society’s norms end up doing so even when it caused great distress for one when doing it in private with a loved one a mere few months ago) don’t break the message to conform...and two of them are villains. |
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While they never outright say it, Persona 5 inverts this with its main story. The villains have, in Persona 4 terms, accepted their true selves and yet are unrepentant in being evil. When you see their Shadow selves, they're the same exact character, with the only difference being in that they don't bother putting on a public persona to appear fit for society. | |
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In Turning Red, Jin encourages Mei to accept what Ming rejected, as a part of her. | |
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In Rusty and Co., Mimic soothes Dirk telling him that only Cube is Cube -- he should just be Dirk. Stabs comments on the irony of a mimic advising "Be Yourself." | |
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In The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers, Petrie learns from Guido that he should stand out from the crowd instead of being like everyone else. | |
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Stitch! The Movie plays with this at the beginning. Stitch jumps out dressed in a disguise only for Lilo to take it off and tell him to be himself. In response, Stitch lets out his antennae, spikes, and extra arms, prompting Lilo to tell him "Maybe not that much yourself." | |
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The Ultra Fast Pony episode "Utter Lunacy" discusses and plays with this one. Twilight Sparkle insists that Princess Luna needs to conform if she wants to be accepted by Ponyville. Luna wonders if perhaps "being yourself" would be a better message to send to the viewers—and Twilight busts a gut laughing. But the events of the episode eventually prove Luna right. Her attempts to "act normal" all fail hilariously, but when she gives up and starts complaining about Twilight Sparkle, everyone congratulates her on how well she's fitting in. | |
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Being true to yourself is Jughead's core tenet in Archie Comics (2015): | |
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Zombie Land Saga: In episodes 6 and 7, Junko begins to suffer from an identity crisis as she realizes the idol industry has long moved past the perfectionist ideals she was taught in the 80s. She suffers a Heroic BSoD following a heated argument with Ai over this fact. Eventually Kotaro reassures Junko that she can still represent her time-period and not force herself into conforming with the hyper-social lifestyle of modern idols. | |
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Ever since Jerk Jackson was renamed "Bobby Fish" in Pro Wrestling NOAH, this has been his main jerk justification. You may not like it but all it's him and all Fish is interested in doing anymore is being him. | |
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Shallan Davar of The Stormlight Archive is a Master of Illusion who crafts different personas, most prominently street-smart Veil and dignified Radiant, but is insecure about her real self. When she tells her fiance Adolin that she can be anything he wants, he tells her that the Shallan he wants is the real her, the one that's currently speaking to him. | |
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Iris from Pokémon the Series: Black & White starts off being this pompous, haughty jerk towards Ash by trying to assert her supposed "maturity" towards Ash by teasing him about the petty mistakes he makes. She eventually learns to be herself by embracing and learning from her childish mistakes (she even calls herself a kid a few times), respecting Ash a lot more as a trainer, and becoming a lot kinder to not only him but others as well. | |
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One of the main themes in Dead Poets Society, which is subverted when you consider that staying true to himself indirectly leads Neil to be Driven to Suicide. Also completely averted with Todd, who initially did not idolise Mr. Keating and follow his ideas. One should think that Mr. Keating would accept that not all of his students share his way of thinking, considering how he claims that he wants all of them to be independent thinkers, but it turns out that he would have none of it. In fact, he puts a lot of effort into changing Todd, and evetually succeeds, but it never crosses his mind that maybe Todd's initial personality was already his true self to begin with. It becomes clear that when Mr. Keating says he wants his students to be independent thinkers, he actually means that he wants them to be reflections of himself. | |
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ACH stopped teaming with Matt Sydal during Road To Best In The World out of a desire to be his own man, which lead to Silas Young attacking ACH out of the belief he didn't know what was good for him, the importance of being secure in yourself, or not, becoming central to their resulting feud. | |
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Deconstructed in Ghosts of Evangelion when Asuka points out that Misato enabling Shinji didn't do him any good. | |
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Keedie from A Kind of Spark works so hard to mask her autism at university that she ends up with massive burnout. Meanwhile, she makes no real friends, and almost loses touch with who she really is. She warns Addie not to repeat her mistake. | |
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In Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist, many of the patients get afflicted by the mysterious disease because of the stress they experience from suppressing their true self. "Condiment Tears": Koto has been forced to suppress her own feelings and desires so that her mother could use her acting talent to make herself rich, and the condiment she cries are the manifestation of her bottled-up emotions. Part of the treatment Dr. Ramune gives her is some tea that causes her to speak out her mind. "Chilli Pepper Fingertips": Takaharu is actually The Ace, but deliberately holds himself back in order to let his best friend shine. To remove the chilli peppers, Dr. Ramune gives him a magic tool that only allows itself to be used by those it considers "worthy", forcing Takaharu to display his true talents to be considered as such. "Popcorn Head": Shun Aona is a talented artist whose father wants him to stop "playing around" with art and start helping out with his business. Shun recovers after his parents agree to let his talents flourish rather than force him to become someone he's not just to keep him nearby. |
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In Agarest Senki Vira-Lorr's people, the onerthes are... not treated kindly by others. Most have taken to hiding their third eye and pretending to be human to avoid being hunted. Vira-Lorr on the other hand openly displays her third eye and practically dares hunters to come after her, rather than hide what she is. | |
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In Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos, Neil's events revolve around his wanting to improve as a cook. He started it up because he liked eating, and he wanted to emulate his father, the restaurant's previous chef. He keeps comparing himself and his cooking to that of his father, until the later events make him realize he doesn't have to do that. He can still aim to follow his father's path in cooking, but he can also add his own note in how he cooks the same dishes. | |
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Zebra Girl: After Viv and Incubus trying to get Sandra to become human or demon, Mabel tells Sandra that she is not Viv or Incubus but her own person. | |
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Frozen: Zig-Zagged Trope, as Elsa's true nature (whose ability to control ice decreases as she loses hold of her emotions) is incredibly dangerous to both herself and everyone around her, but her way of "managing" this by trying to completely repress it backfires horrendously. Embracing her nature doesn't solve all of her problems, but it helps her enjoy the good parts and find healthier and more effective ways to manage the downsides. | |
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The Doubleclicks: "Dimetrodon" admonishes... Their "Clever Girl" is about not judging oneself by Hollywood's unrealistic depictions...of Velociraptors! |
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Ed Wood: The point of the film is basically "love what you do, do what you love". Yeah, Ed may be bad at making films, but it's a passion he undeniably loves doing and, even with all the setbacks, he still plows on. | |
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Warehouse 13: Claudia has just been made an apprentice agent, and tries desperately to act the part. She naturally makes a fool of herself. Later, when Claudia is about to go on a date with a hardware store employee named Todd, who appears to be clueless about anything tech-related. When she asks Artie for advice, he tells her to just be herself. Her attempt ends up completely ruining the date, and she blames Artie for giving bad advice (to be fair, Artie's not exactly an expert on relationships). Artie does end up fixing things. Later, it's revealed that Todd is, in fact, a geek in a witness protection program, and Claudia instantly falls for him (she gets off on him using technical terms). |
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Kamen Rider: In Kamen Rider Fourze, this is the motto that Amanogawa High School follows, having each of their students be themselves, and thus have a diverse student body. However, this also creates a chaotic school ground, especially considering that some of the students are given Zodiarts Switches. In Kamen Rider Wizard, this actually gets deconstructed. Rinko goes and talks with a guy who she sees as being down on his luck. She soon finds that he became a Phantom (the Monster of the Week species) and talks with him about that and for a while, she actually manages to get through to him, realizing that he doesn't like what the Phantoms are doing and doesn't like being ordered around to do exactly that. Then she suggests just doing what he wants. Turns out that she was talking to the Phoenix Phantom, a recurring enemy to Wizard whose major encounter with him involved assaulting a woman so that her son would succumb to despair. See, he likes wanton destruction more than just breaking the wills of people, and that he'd prefer doing the former more often. It actually becomes bad for all parties involved. It's bad for Rinko who soon gets held hostage by Phoenix, bad for Wizard since Phoenix grew so much in power that he would have died in one encounter, and bad for the Big Bad himself since Phoenix is going out of his control and might wind up undermining his own goal of creating more Phantoms by making his victims despair (they can't despair if they're dead). And all because someone suggested to Phoenix that he should be himself. |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Jack Atlas looks down on Yuya Sakaki because so far, Yuya only emulates his father instead of forging his own path and finding his own way of doing things. Then later played with in their second duel where Jack states that everyone is influenced by the people around them and says it is fine to use other's words as long as you fully understand them and can convey your will through them. | |
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Grupa Operacyjna: "Bądź Sobą" hammers in that if you don't know who to be, be yourself, not some celebrity. | |
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Shadows: After her heartbreak with Tony, Lelia adopts a brassy, hard-shell attitude with Davey, making him wait two hours to take her out, insulting him, and also acting sexually aggressive. When Davey tells her to knock it off, saying simply that "It's you I like," she starts to cry and then embraces him as they dance. | |
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Audrey, Wait!: A side character preparing her for live, national TV says these exact words to Audrey... before handing her cue cards on what to say. Audrey ultimately takes the advice to heart, ignoring the cue cards and screwing over the network airing her (and their duplicitous label associates). | |
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Ruthlessly parodied on 30 Rock, when Tracy gives one of these speeches at a high school graduation, which concludes, "Just be yourself, and I guarantee you every single person in this room will one day be President of the United States!" | |
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Saved by the Bell: Lisa pretends to be high-class to date a rich guy. She discovers he's a jerk when he scoffs at her old friends. | |
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Satirized on the podcast Behind the Bastards, which tells the real-life stories of some of history's most unpleasant people. After being pressed on what seems to connect bastards during the episode on John C. Woods, host Robert Evans concludes that the most common trait seems to be boundless self-confidence and an inability to self-reflect, rather than outright sadism or wickedness. He then jokingly suggests that the lesson to be learned from this is 'don't always try to be yourself; you might be horrible without realizing it'. | |
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Comes up in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It's even symbolised with Miles's costumes. Prior to his big heroic moment, he's wearing a cheap Halloween Spider-Man costume, and spends his time trying and failing to be a poor man's Peter Parker. Later, when he figures out how to be his own Spider-Man instead of an inferior copy of the first one, he comes up with his own design and uses that. This is also part of his lessons from Peter B. Parker, although sadly the line that best exemplifies it was only in the trailers: | |
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Glee: In one episode, token Camp Gay Kurt just wants to be normal, his standards for "normal" being his father, and musician John Mellencamp. For a glee club assignment, he performs Mellencamp's "Pink Houses", complete with false Southern Indiana accent. The teacher Will is visibly concerned, and by the episode's end, Kurt learns he was trying way too hard to be more like his dad, even if it meant not doing his hair and making out with Brittany. | |
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Persona: This is a major idea, plot point, and overall Aesop delivered in Persona 4. Whenever someone gets thrown into the TV world, they're confronted with a twisted "Shadow" version of themselves that attempts to Break Them by Talking, and then just break them. The only way to survive is to accept their repressed issues, which turns the Shadow into a Persona. Becomes darkly twisted in the case of Adachi, who is implied to have gained his Persona due to accepting his Shadow and thus embracing his depravity. A similar case would be Mitsuo, where his shadow represents that he's a worthless human being, which he rejects with a feeble attempt at claiming that his life is actually worth something. Although, the boss fight after, an outer shell that looks like an 8-bit character, implies what happens to people like that, and that part of themselves is the shell they hide behind, but it's not as "self" as what's under it. ...or at least, that’s the message the game preaches. In practice, every character who is “themself� and also goes against what society wants ends up changing their mind and deciding what they actually want is what’s been forced upon them by Japanese society and not what they spent their arc fighting for. While individually, these are fine, only four characters (two in the Updated Re-release, as the new true ending CG has the two heroic characters who didn’t change to something uncomfortable to them for society’s norms end up doing so even when it caused great distress for one when doing it in private with a loved one a mere few months ago) don’t break the message to conform...and two of them are villains. While they never outright say it, Persona 5 inverts this with its main story. The villains have, in Persona 4 terms, accepted their true selves and yet are unrepentant in being evil. When you see their Shadow selves, they're the same exact character, with the only difference being in that they don't bother putting on a public persona to appear fit for society. |
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Subverted in Morgan. The title character is told to just "be yourself" during an upcoming psychological evaluation. Given that Morgan is an artificially-created Super-Soldier, this doesn't end well. | |
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In Twice Charmed, Cinderella learns that it wasn't her dress that made the Prince fall in love; it was her. | |
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A major part of Shrek 2, Shrek begins to feel insecure about his relationship with Fiona and tries to make it right by taking a potion to turn them into a more beautiful human form. But Fiona assures him that he's already everything she wants and they decide not to make the transformation permanent, becoming ogres again after the stroke of midnight. | |
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This is a recurring theme for Zuko's character arc in The Stalking Zuko Series. It's pointed out that Zuko considers his mastery of stealth and Dao swords an important part of his identity since they're things that he mastered on his own. Lu Ten's final letter also tells Zuko that he shouldn't conform to others' expectations of him, although he, having internalized others' opinions of him, believes it means he can't change and begins to despair until Katara helps him to understand. The author believes that Mai's relationship with Zuko will not work out because of their mutual desire for the other to change. | |
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Dungeon Crawler Carl: When Katia is uncomfortable with the "stage persona" that Donut is trying to craft for her, Carl recommends she just be herself. Donut snaps that she's a doppleganger; her entire species is about being someone else. Katia says she never understood that advice even back when she was human. | |
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Finding Light: Downplayed. Malady wonders if she needs to significantly change her personality because of how Uno took their son Dylan and left her out of fear she would hurt Dylan with her odd way of raising him. Mari states that she can still be herself, but that she should at least be mindful of Dylan. | |
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All Might in My Hero Academia gives this advice to Endeavor. Telling him that the reason he's always been second best is that he was copying someone else, rather than following his own beliefs. | |
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Deconstructed in Brody's Ghost. Kagemura demands that Brody destroy all but his most essential belongings so he can focus on his training, to which Brody refuses, citing that Kagemura is trying to change who he is. Given that at this point Brody has proven to be an out-of-shape slacker who let one break up ruin his life, Talia rightly points out that he needs to change who he is because who he currently is is not good. | |
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Ouran High School Host Club does this with Nekozawa and, even more memorably, Kasanoda. Also done with Honey; in his case "being himself" includes being a hedonist who values sweets and toys above people (even his own family). Haruhi even notes that "himself" isn't that great of a person. This is used for Haruhi herself, as a sort of subversion. She says that she'll "Be herself from now on," meaning she would leave the host club. Haruhi eventually decides to pursue her dreams and become a lawyer, moving away to America. | |
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Family Matters: Deconstructed with "Stefan Urquelle". And then reconstructed when Laura decides she loves regular Steve, instead of letting him be Stefan permanently. But the fact that Steve ended up with Laura is a painful inversion of this trope in itself. Laura had always refused to give Steve a chance until he suddenly stopped wearing suspenders and "improved himself". But he gladly did all of this just to end up with his "true love", despite the fact that he was already dating another girl, Myra, who had been in love with his true self from as soon as she met him. | |
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SOPHIE's album OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES implicitly has this as its central theme, but with a twist. Several songs allude to concepts of self-identity and immaterialism, how she thinks "your inside is your best side," but the song "Faceshopping" in particular brings to mind photoshopping, plastic surgery, fitting social dialects, etc. She believes that this sort of self-alteration for personal branding reflects a certain type of honesty from the subject and that there's authenticity in artificiality. | |
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Early on in His and Her Circumstances Yukino is Ms. Perfect at school and a Slacker at home who likes to wear sweat clothes and be comfy. She learns to "Be Herself". She put so much work into faking perfection that she's constantly exhausted and burnt out when she's at home. | |
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Jon: In one strip, an ugly kitten asks for advice on how to get attention and Garfield's advice is to do that and scratch curtains. | |
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This is the aesop of Swamp Thing Annual #2. Alec Holland asks his predecessor the plant elemental Swamp Thing from Alan Moore's run what it did to become The Paragon of Green champions. It tells him that the secret to its success is very simple: if something tries to change who he is as a person, he can always say no. The past Green champion who introduced them tells Alec that all he needs to do to be successful is to emulate his predecessor exactly. Alec proves he learned the lesson by saying no. | |
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Archie Comics: Subverted in an issue where Archie is asked what he believes to be the secret to popularity, and answers "Just be yourself. Unless you're a jerk, of course, then be someone else." Being true to yourself is Jughead's core tenet in Archie Comics (2015): |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Season 1 has this present during Judai's duel vs. Kaiser in the graduation duel. Judai tried dueling like Kaiser or Misawa would and it nearly cost him the duel. After some food and some advice from Kaiser to be himself, he went back to normal to try and win, making a huge comeback. He didn't win, but neither did Kaiser as he forced the duel into a draw. | |
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Elvis Costello's "Pay It Back": | |
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The Brady Bunch: Multiple episodes have had this as the moral, most notably "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up," "The Personality Kid" and "Today I Am a Freshman." | |
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Deconstructed pretty harshly in Fate/Zero. Gilgamesh gives this advice to Kotomine- except that Kotomine's natural inclination is to take pleasure from suffering, and Gilgamesh knows it. | |
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Toy Story: Played with, in that Woody is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, while Buzz believes he is the real Buzz Lightyear. The sequels, however, play the Ironic Echo "You. Are. A. Toy." for all its worth. | |
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In ...Virgin Love, Daigo has to reassure Kaoru that it's okay to be a Crazy Jealous Guy and that he shouldn't run from relationships because of self-hatred. In turn in ...Junai no Seinen, Kaoru tells Daigo he doesn't have to try so hard to live up to Kaoru's expectations because Kaoru wouldn't date him if he wasn't already what he wanted. | |
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This is the moral of The Weird Al Show episode "One for the Record Books". Al spends the entire episode trying to break a world record in order to feel special until he finally learns that he's special just the way he is. | |
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The Emperor's New Groove, however, both subverts and plays this straight — Kuzco being himself once meant being the jerkass that he was until Character Development finally kicked in, and once it does, he tries to embrace that part of himself. Now Kuzco being himself means being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold that he is. Kronk's New Groove: Kronk learns that he shouldn't try to change himself or betray his ideals just to earn his father's approval because by being himself, he's able to surround himself with friends who like him for who he is, which is everything. |
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In Hetalia: Axis Powers, when Canada tries to stand out and goes overboard, his brother America at first teases him but then tells Canada that he's fine the way he is. Canada doesn't buy it, but the end of the strip states that America meant what he said. | |
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The Bible: Book of Psalms 139 invokes about being yourself that God made and loved you before you were born. | |
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Blue Flag: Deconstructed and reconstructed in chapter 39, as Masumi and Akiko talk about the former's sexuality. Akiko immediate advice is for Masumi to just be herself, but Masumi answers by saying that when you're different, you are putting yourself in a situation where you can lose friends who disagree with you and that is easier to live with others and empathize when you are as similar to the majority as you can, so she can still lose by being herself. Akiko acknowledges this but reconstructs when she says that people are so different she'll never be able to identify with everyone, and though she may lose some people on the way, even those she loves dearly, choosing the best path for yourself is something necessary. | |
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One of the main themes in I'm Gonna Be an Angel!, where it mainly applies to the heroine, Noelle, but as it turns out, most of all to Mikael | |
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The Most Popular Girls in School: At the end of Season 2, Brittnay and Mackenzie resolve to never change who they are to become rich and famous. Even if who they are is being rude, crass, and kind of psychotic. | |
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In How to Train Your Dragon (2010) Hiccup is told a few times that he just needs to change, but eventually becomes respected for his own abilities. The quotation below becomes a set of Arc Words. | |
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My Dress-Up Darling: Female lead Marin Kitagawa firmly believes that people should be able to enjoy whatever hobbies they want, and that nobody should judge them for it, no matter who they are. It's this ethos that allows Wakana Gojo, someone's who never been able to share his passion with others, to open up to her and others. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, Valimar essentially tells the main protagonist, Rean Schwarzer, this, noting that there's little point in him trying to be someone or something that he's not. In The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie, Lapis and Rufus end up telling this to each other at different parts in the game. |
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Father Ted gives this advice to his junior, Father Dougal, in regards to talking to women. Unfortunately, what Dougal is is an awkward, none-too-bright Manchild, and he goes on to make a visitor extremely uncomfortable before selling her the parish house, leading Ted to take back his advice. | |
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Hypergamouse demolishes this in its very first episode, with later strips burning the debris and salting the earth. The comic's attitude is, "If you are prone to one-upmanship, unsolicited corrections and embarrassingly dorky revelations about yourself, you should probably curb those tendencies if you want to endear yourself to others." | |
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Super Robot Wars V: This is what Amuro tries to tell Full Frontal that he shouldn't act like he's Char but be his own person. | |
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The song "Everyone Is Special" from Barney & Friends is all about this trope. | |
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In Rags, Kadee's big issue is that her father and costume designer are pressuring her into performing exactly what they want her to, how they want her to, regardless of her own wishes. Charlie encourages her to be herself and sing the music she wants to sing, despite her fears about doing so. | |
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In one Arthur, King of Time and Space strip, a reformed Morgana says she's struggling with humility because she's "perfectly me. I'm a much better me than you are, or than you could be even if you wanted and tried. I'm a superb me. I'm very good at ignoring what other people think should be me, and instead being the me I know I am." When Arthur says this sounds like a cool way to live, she says she got it from him. | |
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Bertie and Elizabeth: Subverted. Edward VIII was made to look like an uncommon jerk for being himself. George VI was praised for being a Wise Prince. The message was "do your duty" not "be yourself". It helps that Edward VIII was a royal brat and that George VI is to this day one of England's most beloved monarchs due to his steadfast leadership during World War II. | |
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Chris's mother says something of this nature to him in the movie Just Friends. | |
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In Kings Quest (2015), Chapter 4 sees King Graham and his long-lost son trying to reconnect. But Graham is a pun-loving guy who prefers to work through puzzles in the traditional manner, while Alexander has become a mage during his absence and is more comfortable using his magic to resolve problems. The crux of their disagreement comes from Alexander wanting to be himself instead of the person Graham has always thought he would be. | |
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Boldores And Boomsticks: Whisper adores Weiss so much that she wants to fight exactly like her, even though they have different dominant hands and abilities. | |
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Happy Feet: The whole point of the movie's Aesop is that Mumble made all the difference in the world by being himself. | |
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"You've Got to Stand for Something" by Aaron Tippin: | |
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Black Veil Brides: Their music exists to say this. | |
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Subverted in Neighborhood Story, where the author obviously considers daring to be your eccentric self and going against the current in a society as stiff and homogeneous as the Japanese a sign of bravery and something admirable, but at the same she doesn't gloss over the hardships that being an oddball is likely to bring you. Like being bullied and expelled from school and having close to no friends until you find more kindred spirits. | |
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The main theme of "Life's Too Short" by aespa: | |
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Bloom Into You: Learning a variant on this lesson is a major part of Touko's Character Development. She'd originally started out as a shy girl with mediocre grades and few friends, but after her older sister's death, she started to emulate her and change for the better. Eventually, she learns that her sister was, in actuality, a bit of a slacker who only pretended to be a model student, and is deeply shaken by it, but can't give up on her desire to emulate her sister. However, Yuu finally gets through to Touko by helping her realize that everyone who likes Touko sees her as herself, not as a copy of her sister. In the School Play, the main character is a high school girl who lost her memory (and is played by Touko, so it plays into her character development above), and hears three different accounts of herself from her schoolmate, her brother, and her girlfriend- respectively as The Ace, an Aloof Big Sister and a surprisingly needy crybaby. In the original ending, she "chooses" to become the person her girlfriend saw her as, but in the revised version, her nurse convinces her to remain true to the person she became after waking up in the hospital. |
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This is the big life lesson of Kimi ni Todoke. Sawako uses her gifts to make friends and isn't forced to change her innate nature. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: In the endgame battle between Kira Yamato and Rey Za Burrel, the latter tries to get into Kira's head by pretending to be Rau Le Crueset, the previous season's Big Bad and both are clones of Al Da Flaga. Ultimately, Kira bluntly tells Rey that he is his own person rather than living on the identity of someone he is not. This ultimately compels Rey to betray and shoot Gilbert during his standoff with Kira. | |
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Quadrophenia by The Who ends with this. One of the more mature uses of the trope: the plot is about Jimmy trying and failing to find his identity by fitting in with other groups (and constantly being let down). It's only when he lets all that baggage go at the end of the story and decides to be himself that he finds his identity. | |
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Their "Clever Girl" is about not judging oneself by Hollywood's unrealistic depictions...of Velociraptors! | |
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Invoked in Cherry 2000, wherein the hip, New Age Californian villain orders his henchmen to spread out and be themselves! | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid provides a good example of how this type of lesson can backfire. One chapter has Greg describe how his class was shown an educational film titled It's Great to Be Me and address how the moral of being fine just the way you are and not trying to change anything about yourself is a terrible lesson to tell the kids in his school. As an example, we see some bullies gleefully declare "It's great to be me" while beating up another kid. | |
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This is the central theme of Sting's song "Englishman in New York", about a man who tries to be who he is despite being a stranger in the crowd. | |
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Yelled repeatedly along with "dude" in the Aladdin show in Disney's California Adventure park by the genie when Aladdin goes to meet Jasmine. After yelling for a good minute, the genie becomes overly embarrassed at how long he took, and then goes off to "find nemo". | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie, Lapis and Rufus end up telling this to each other at different parts in the game. | |
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Subverted in Lucifer, in which the eponymous protagonist takes this to the extreme. He even tells his protégé: "Be yourself until you bleed." In the end, Lucifer's attitude is deconstructed by Yahweh, who points out that no-one can truly be entirely themselves: Everyone is created and shaped by external influences, and Lucifer's continued desire to be himself means he'll be eternally seeking for something he can never have and be forever alone and miserable. |
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In Joy To The World, Joy struggles with dealing with her mothers attempts to make her act and dress more like a girl. Joy hates dresses. | |
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In A Diamond Under Pressure, the very theme is about Raquel being himself by getting in touch with his feminine side despite identifying as a man. | |
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The ultimate lesson Manolo learns while in the world of the dead in The Book of Life. | |
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In the Warrior Cats book Bramblestar's Storm, Bramblestar tells Sandstorm that he's trying to do what Firestar would have done. Sandstorm points out that that's not what he's supposed to do: he's not an echo of Firestar; he should be himself and trust his own judgement on what's best for the Clan. | |
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: This pops up at the end when, after having come to identify with Risky Boots somewhat and see a deeper side of her during their Enemy Mine, Shantae hopes the pirate will drop the villainy and become a good guy. Risky Boots brushes it off saying that, like how Shantae can talk and dress the part of a pirate but will never truly be one as that's simply not what the young half-genie is, she can act the part of a good guy but will simply never truly be one and that the two of them need to just be themselves. | |
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Forever Evil (2013): The ultimate lesson of Cyborg's arc in the Justice League tie-ins. He learns that he doesn't have to reject his identity as part machine, but instead embrace both the human world and cyberspace, which belongs to him. | |
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Astro City: Starbright tries telling his archnemesis Simon Says this, after escaping a deliberately flawed deathtrap of Simon's (which is the supervillain's way of saying "thanks" for Starbright bring Simons' friends to a birthday party). It isn't until after Starbright's death that Simon follows up on those words herself. | |
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Namco High: "BE TRUE TO YOURSELF" shows up at least once in each route and in the end credits. | |
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Subverted in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series. After spending the entire episode trying to break a world record, Calvin seems to be headed in this direction until he proclaims that millions of people's suffering was completely justified by his own existence. | |
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Granny Girl Hinata-chan: Hinata is a kindergartner who retains the memories, personality, and mannerisms of her past life as a grandmother. After an attempt to see her old self's grandson ends in disaster, Hinata resolves to be more like a normal six-year-old. She trades her tea for juice, tries playing more video games, and tries watching childrens' television instead of her preferred sumo. Hinata's mother catches on to her behavior and tells her it's okay to be her usual self and she will be loved no matter what. The experience gives Hinata a greater appreciation for her mother. | |
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Played with in The Quintessential Quintuplets. Itsuki, as a way to cope with her mother's death, often tries to act as the Team Mom for her sisters, which means she forces herself to act more mature than she actually is. When Fuutarou starts looking for the girl in his photo, Yotsuba asks Itsuki to pose as her, and while she's worried about not being able to act convincingly, Yotsuba tells her to just "be herself". | |
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It's what both Fievel and Tanya learn by the end of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and it's shown that they've learned it more through action than words; i.e. Tanya washing her make-up off and Fievel turning his hat right-side-in so it's blue again and not a cowboy hat. A rare example of the trope executed in a way that doesn't come off as sappy. Also inverted when Tiger saves the day and gets the girl by going from peace-loving to badass via training montage. Kind of breaks the whole aesop if you think about it. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Nagi (in Alberio's pactio): You should be yourself. | |
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In Yuri is My Job! this is one interpretation of Kanoko's advice to Hime. After Hime learns that she's been working alongside her former friend Mitsuki, the only person besides Kanoko who knows that Hime's cute façade is merely an act, and who dislikes her due to a past incident, Kanoko tells Hime that if this is true, then Hime doesn't need to put up the façade and get Mitsuki to like her. Since Kanoko believes the real Hime is cuter than the façade she puts up, it can be interpreted as an example of this trope, or as her trying to convince Hime to give up on Mitsuki since Kanoko later becomes jealous of Hime's closeness with Mitsuki. | |
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Inverted in the reality show Beauty and the Geek with a series being about men (and women) having to act in specifically uncharacteristic ways to get their smart or attractive partner. | |
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Although it's not explicitly stated in Tangled there's a definite undercurrent of this moral throughout the film. For example, Rapunzel encourages a group of rough-and-tumble thugs to follow their dreams (even though they don't fit their image) and tells Flynn Rider that she prefers his real name, Eugene. | |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: When Josephine asks Travers how she can be more likable, Travers' only advice is that she be herself- otherwise she'll regret bending to the will of others down the line. This hits close to home for Travers, who's a trans woman that still struggles with being comfortable in her own body. Michal tries to act suave in order to impress Lenore but doesn't manage to grab her attention beyond a little curiosity. Ciro says that, with this sort of thing, most people would advise Michal to be himself if he wants to try and impress her. |
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Coco: Ernesto decided to embrace his true nature as a musician instead of his family and encourages Miguel to disregard his family's wishes to do the same. | |
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Anon: When Dani admits to Ian she wants to be with Hunter, Ian is happy as long as she's happy but reminds her not to change her personality to fit in with Hunter's lifestyle. | |
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In Mission: Yozakura Family, Taiyo tries multiple times to engineer perfect dates and outings for Mutsumi while keeping her safe, following tips he sees in magazines and what not. But he's always at his coolest when he's just being honest with himself and clearly expressing his feelings for her. It's in those moments that he manages to make her swoon even if he doesn't realize it. | |
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Murder for the Modern Girl Guy Rosewood's character arc is based around him being hesitant to accept his true identity as Peter Buchanan due to guilt over getting his father killed and wanting to separate himself from his past. However, due to Ruby Newhouse's encouragement and their mutual love, he slowly but surely accepts his original identity with Ruby even stating that she prefers kissing his true self. At the end of the novel, he stops using his Guy Rosewood form and makes his true identity his Shapeshifter Default Form to show that he has embraced his true self, not wanting to put on any more "masks". | |
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Subverted in the Highway to Heaven episode "Friends", in which the lesson is that it's okay to be yourself if you're not fat. Jenny is a fat girl who doesn't have any friends. The lesson she must learn in the episode is that she needs to lose weight for people to like her. | |
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Spanish band Taxi's "Da igual" invites the viewer to pursue freedom to be himself even if others don't understand them. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Cyrano is ugly and eloquent. He loves Roxane, but he will never dare to confess to her because he is afraid she would reject him. Christian is fair but not witty and wants to confess to Roxane, but he knows she never will accept someone who is not eloquent. Cyrano convinces Christian to woo Roxane (who desperately wants to believe Christian is as eloquent as fair) by Cyrano being... well, Playing Cyrano. When Christian discovers the rather obvious truth that Cyrano also loves Roxane, Christian accepts the fact that he is fair but unwitty and forces Cyrano to tell the truth. Notice that Christian still has hope that Roxane will choose him, but if not, Cyrano and Roxane, the two people Christian loves most in the world, would have been happy. | |
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Ratatouille: Be yourself and follow your dream, even at the risk of death. | |
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Addressed in Frasier. When Frasier is mocked and pranked repeatedly on-air by some shock jocks at his station, he compares it to the bullying he and his brother faced as kids. Martin is unsympathetic to both instances, pointing out that the reason he and Niles were picked on, both then and now, is that their high-class, stuffed shirt personalities made them easy targets, and the only way for it to stop would be to act more middle-class. Frasier realizes toward the end of the episode that while that he may get picked on for being different, the only real way for a bully to win would be for him to change who you are. | |
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Friends: Phoebe is nervous about meeting her boyfriend's parents for the first time and asks the other girls for advice. Monica tells her this, assuring her they'll love her as she is, but it doesn't go over well. | |
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The Little Mermaid (1989) is a bit of an Unbuilt Trope, since Ariel being herself means she can't be with the man of her dreams, but her Deal with the Devil to live on land robs her of her voice, the only means by which she could have told Eric who she was. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Subverted in one instance when Crankcase is preparing to meet a friend and is getting advice from his fellow Scavengers. Krok tells him to be himself, then adds "be a less abrasive version of yourself". | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Deconstructed. Exactly what "being yourself" means to the animals in the film is never clear—they straddle the line between the humans and the truly wild wolf. At the beginning, they act like humans, with lawyers, gym teachers, and newspaper columnists. The film later asks, how much like yourself should you be, when that self is brilliant but destructive? We never really get a good answer. | |
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Darth Vader: Hero of Naboo: Vader (having been sent back in time from Episode V to Episode I) tells Anakin that, should the boy join the Jedi Order, he should strive to become the Jedi he wants to be, not what the Council wants him to be. | |
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Nathaniel Keene, from the novel of the same name, is encouraged to do this by his school principal. Unfortunately, since Nat is a vampire, 'being yourself' involves becoming a bloodthirsty murderer. Nat doesn't bite. | |
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Fight Club does a Decon-Recon Switch on this trope. The deconstruction comes in the worldview of Tyler Durden, who believes that the message of individualism pushed by the media, while presented as liberatory, does nothing more than atomize society, leaving only a mass of disconnected consumers who have nobody to turn to for help when things get rough. In Tyler's view, the ruling elite of plutocratic capitalists loves this message, because it leads dissidents down a rabbit hole and short-circuits any real resistance that can truly threaten their power. The reconstruction comes when we see Tyler's alternative, Project Mayhem, take shape, quickly turning into a terrorist cult where Individuality Is Illegal in favor of The Spartan Way and a quest to restore mankind to a "state of nature" where violence is king. The protagonist's victory, such as it is, comes by rebelling against Tyler and learning to be his own man, defined by neither mainstream society nor Project Mayhem. | |
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Origami Angel's Somewhere City: "Find Your Throne" includes the singer telling a friend that they don't have to try being someone they're not, and he knows them better than anyone else: | |
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