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Mirror Routine

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104 feature instances
114 referencing feature instances

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Mirror Routine	label	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine	page	MirrorRoutine
Mirror Routine	comment	When someone attempts to be a mirror image of another person by standing behind a glass pane, sometimes only an empty frame or a gap in a row of mirrors, copying their movements exactly. Sometimes this is to hide the fact that they have broken the mirror, and they don't want the other character to find out. In cartoons, this is usually played for laughs with two characters that look nothing alike, with the mark trying to catch the "mirror image" out and the foil managing to pull off a perfectly synchronised act. If the act is convincing enough to work, expect the mark to attribute glaring differences to simple illness, drinking, or staying up too late. It can also be used very effectively to hide from a pursuer, especially if you happen to be an Evil Twin. Another variant is when two Identical Strangers meet each other for the first time. This is also sometimes done when someone is flawlessly disguised as the person he is impersonating or vice-versa, or even if the impersonator is only wearing a convincing rubber mask but leaving the rest of the body exposed. A similar setup is used when the character seen by the audience isn't the character seen by the other characters (e.g., a "Freaky Friday" Flip situation, or a person using a glamour to hide his true form). If Bob is hiding in Alice's body, sometimes the show will continue to show us Bob, but have everyone react like they've seen Alice, and the Mirror Routine is a decent way to clarify what's going on. Unfortunately, since mirrors have traditionally been a way to see through a glamour (e.g., how Dracula doesn't reflect), there are two variants here, one the inverse of the other: Either Bob is the true person (or at least the soul) and Alice-in-the-Mirror is what others see, or Bob is what others see and Alice-in-the-Mirror is his true form. Whichever you use, establish it well. In Real Life, this is almost impossible to do convincingly. If you've ever done basic drama in school then you've probably done this exercise and know just how hard it is to synchronise your actions with those of another actor, even with proper forward planning. See also Stand-In Portrait and Wallpaper Camouflage. Compare with The Mirror Shows Your True Self. Not to be confused with Mirror Match.
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Mirror Routine / int_11b7db91	comment	Parodied in the Adventure Time episode "Marceline's Closet", when Finn spots Jake in Marceline's house, and Jake tries to pose as Finn's reflection in the window (only he mirrors Finn's movements the wrong way around).
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Mirror Routine / int_11c6567a	comment	Played for dramatic effect near the end of The Big Over Easy (book kind-of spun off from Thursday Next).
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Mirror Routine / int_15c6ea92	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): A (short lived) retcon to Donna's backstory plays with this. She was "born" when a magic mirror absorbed a piece of her sister Diana's soul as she gazed into it and her first steps outside of the mirror matched Diana's as though her reflection had left the mirror to continue on next to her. note For Donna's most well known origin see Who Is Donna Troy?
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Mirror Routine / int_1a2b452e	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_1a2b452e	comment	Count Duckula: In the episode "One Stormy Night", a statue of Duckula come to life does this with the real Duckula. Duckula begins to believe the statue really is his reflection, until the statue points out that vampires have no reflection.
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Mirror Routine / int_1f418bf4	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_1f418bf4	comment	The TaleSpin episode "A Bad Reflection on You, Part 2" features a scene where Kit hides out in Don Karnage's dressing room. When Mad Dog enters the room, Kit dresses in Karnage's clothes and mimics Mad Dog's movements to avoid being noticed.
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Mirror Routine / int_1f72b18d	comment	Tom and another cat did this while fighting over Jerry in the Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry short Cat and Dupli-Cat.
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Mirror Routine / int_216ec1a3	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_216ec1a3	comment	Sarah Jessica Parker made a dance movie in the 1980s called Girls Just Want to Have Fun. During the final round of competition, twin dancers successfully pull off a quick intro that way and are called Mirror Image.
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Mirror Routine / int_23d2ea71	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_23d2ea71	comment	Donkey Kong Country: "Ape-Nesia" features Captain Skurvy and his pirates doing this in song to convince an amnesiac Donkey Kong he's one of them.
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Mirror Routine / int_25f3f2d1	comment	This sketch was done as a performance in The Vicar of Dibley: Rather slim prima ballerina Darcy Bussel in a famous cameo is reflected by not-at-all slim Geraldine.
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Mirror Routine / int_2b2bc861	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_2b2bc861	comment	My Lovely Ghost Kana: Daikichi and Kana are cleaning opposite sides of a window and go through a short routine, then burst out laughing at each other.
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Mirror Routine / int_2bbcacd9	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny does this to Elmer in the cartoon Hare Tonic to convince Elmer that he is turning into a rabbit. Daffy Duck does this in The Impatient Patient and Draftee Daffy. On the short Bell Hoppy, Sylvester has to put a bell on Hippety Hopper, and after various failed attempts, he tricks Hopper into putting the bell on himself with a mirror routine. Daffy does it again in "Attack of the Drones" with one of his drones.
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Mirror Routine / int_2c71840f	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_2c71840f	comment	In the first Tomb Raider I game and its remake, there is an Atlantean creature who looks like a muscular structure of a human who copies Lara's movements exactly.
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Mirror Routine / int_30a5ebfd	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Shikamaru and the rest of the Nara family pull this off by way of their Shadow Pin ninjutsu. To paraphrase an enemy, "You got ahold of my shadow, so now we marry each other's movements."
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Mirror Routine / int_316ce2ea	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_316ce2ea	comment	The Beano once utilized this in 'The Three Bears' strip. Pa used a mirror frame to distract Hank with this while Ma and Ted robbed the store. It worked a little too well, as Hank decided that the 'mirror' was so good, that he should use it to check out his new hat. After Hank sees his 'reflection' with the old hat, he catches on, and then proceeds to knock-out Pa off-panel, and then disguise as him to trick Ma and Ted into giving him the food back.
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Mirror Routine / int_33d00522	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_33d00522	comment	The Teacher's Pet episode "Being Mrs. Leadready" has a scene where Leonard and Spot, both dressed as the mother of Spot's human persona Scott Leadyready II, copy each other's movements as if one of them was looking at their reflection.
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Mirror Routine / int_352c7503	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_352c7503	comment	Used in Airheads when Pip first leaves the radio station. He encounters a police officer, and they perform the basic routine. Pip tries to throw off the cop with some kind of dance move, but the officer reaches for his gun, causing the inept rocker to flee.
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Mirror Routine / int_35d98631	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_35d98631	comment	Taz-Mania: A spy (who, naturally, looks nothing like Taz) does this to Taz in "Yet Another Road to Taz-Mania".
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Mirror Routine / int_396e0331	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_396e0331	comment	Classic Disney Shorts: In the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Lonesome Ghosts", a ghost does this to Goofy, who mentions at the beginning, "For a moment I thought it wasn't me." After a while of doing this, Goofy finally catches on and says, "I know you, you're a ghost!" In the Chip 'n Dale cartoon Two Chips and a Miss, both Chip and Dale do this thinking they both saw a reflection of themselves to straighten their tuxedos when they were both secretly invited to a club. Pluto does this in the cartoon "Canine Casanova" with a dachshund named Dinah.
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Mirror Routine / int_3afdcfe2	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_3afdcfe2	comment	Done in The Nutt House, when two identical twins finally meet.
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Mirror Routine / int_3b88d68c	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_3b88d68c	comment	In The Divine Comedy, Dante initially mistakes the misty, transparent visage of one of the Moon's saints for his own reflection.
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Mirror Routine / int_3c538617	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_3c538617	comment	On ScrewAttack, a Clip of the Week video has the staff opening a portal to an alternate dimension and meet with their doppelgangers. Stuttering Craig and his double (played by Craig's brother) silently size each other up. Then they whack each other in the crotch.
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Mirror Routine / int_3ddddb25	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_3ddddb25	comment	In the Xiaolin Showdown episode "Like a Rock", Jack Spicer recruits Le Mime to help defeat the Xiaolin Monks. When Le Mime faces Clay, he does "the mirror gag" to stonewall Clay. Clay defeats Le Mime by punching himself in the face, which Le Mime copies. Clay can take a hit, Le Mime can't.
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Mirror Routine / int_3e5c6c5a	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	Super Mario 64 did it to simplify the graphics processing. In-story, a room had a large mirror on the wall. The game actually used a mirrored room, a duplicate of Mario, and an invisible force field. Not a perfectly mirrored room, of course. The trick in that room is to find something that isn't a perfect mirror and use that as a level entrance. In the remake, Luigi can phase through the mirror into the copied room, where things get weird.
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Mirror Routine / int_3f5830c4	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_3f5830c4	comment	The Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon episode "The House That Dripped Crud" had a short scene where Elliot Mess encounters a skeleton that pretends to be his reflection, even going to the trouble of scrambling his head and limb positions like Elliot's.
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Mirror Routine / int_3f633fb4	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked's The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction mentions a mental disorder called mirrored-self misidentification, in which someone looking into a mirror believes that the monster in the mirror is an intruder performing a Mirror Routine, not oneself.
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Mirror Routine / int_41804317	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_41804317	comment	In Anpanman episode 322a "Shokupanman and Horrorman", Baikinman dresses Horrorman as Shokupanman due to the skeleton feeling depressed that Dokinchan loves Shokupanman instead of him. Baikinman takes advantage of this as he wanted Horrorman to cause trouble for the superhero. When Horrorman was at the Bakery, he tries to get way from Shokupanman by using the fallen mirror and tries to pretend that he is his reflection until the mirror falls.
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Mirror Routine / int_469e1607	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_469e1607	comment	Also used in Repli-Kate: Kate and her clone both mistake each other for a reflection, unintentionally mirror each other's movements, and walk away without a clue what just happened.
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Mirror Routine / int_475b7e5c	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_475b7e5c	comment	A surprisingly horrifying example in 1408. The protagonist tries to articulate his troubles by gestures to a stranger he sees in the window of the house across the road. He manages to attract attention to himself, but then the stranger suddenly begins repeating the protagonist's own moves. And when the hero finally realizes that he sees his own reflection in the opposite window, the reflection gets attacked from behind.
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Mirror Routine / int_480ec6f0	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_480ec6f0	comment	Disney's Bonkers also had an example similar to the Scooby-Doo/Ape Man example in the episode "When the Spirit Moves You," where a ghost a haunted house disguises himself in a rubber Bonkers mask and suit and does the mirror routine with the real Bonkers at an opening in a room.
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Mirror Routine / int_48f53c06	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_48f53c06	comment	Done on by Patty Duke on the opening titles of the The Patty Duke Show as Patty and Cathy.
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Mirror Routine / int_492240cf	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_492240cf	comment	Done in an episode of MADtv (1995) spoofing Heroes, where Nikki (the one with the split personality) believes the "her" in the mirror is someone different and performs a series of elaborate stunts in front of the mirror to prove it.
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Mirror Routine / int_4a11097d	comment	The Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "Hubbykins vs. Sweetiepie" featured a variation on this trope where Hubbykins tried to avoid his irate wife Sweetiepie by covering himself in soot and pretending to be her shadow by copying her movements. His deception works until his wife's real shadow non-verbally points out he's an impostor.
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Mirror Routine / int_4afc2089	comment	Daffy Duck does this in The Impatient Patient and Draftee Daffy.
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Mirror Routine / int_4c4e08ca	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_4c4e08ca	comment	Happens a few times in The Benny Hill Show, usually with Benny in drag mirroring a woman. The "disguise" fails when they start to strip...
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Mirror Routine / int_4c99197e	comment	The Muppet Show: In an episode, Kermit checks his appearance in an empty frame; on the other side is Scooter's wind-up TV show host that looks exactly like Kermit, except for the wind-up key in the back. In a later episode, a sketch features Gonzo testing this when performing "Act Naturally" opposite his reflection, who refuses to mimic the "ludicrous things" he does.
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Mirror Routine / int_4e3408a6	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes has a shapeshifter escaping from the heroes this way. He has the advantage of being on the other side of the glass.
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Mirror Routine / int_4eaeb513	comment	Parodied in the "Arrivederci, Arnold" episode of Welcome Back, Kotter, when Mr. Kotter dresses up as Horshack and puts on a skit to convince Woodman to return Arnold from mainstream classes to the Sweathogs, with Kotter looking face-to-face at Arnold and both of them doing such trademarks as Arnold's wheezy laugh and several "Ooh-ooh-ooh!"'s. Arnold takes a look at Mr. Kotter and says "Wait a minute; I don't got no mustache..."
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Mirror Routine / int_4f1f3628	comment	Subverted in the The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "Midsummer Nightmare''. A heated argument breaks out during this routine.
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Mirror Routine / int_5b6d347c	comment	It happens again in "Scooby's Gold Medal Gambit" from The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show when the Chameleon disguised himself as Scooby, this time in full-body, even though the suit part was not as detailed.
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Mirror Routine / int_5df49516	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_5df49516	comment	Variation of sorts in The Pink Panther (1963) where Sir Charles and his nephew are cracking a two-sided safe, unaware of each other, wearing identical gorilla costumes.
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Mirror Routine / int_5dfb8aa2	comment	Sonic Generations: Before fighting the Death Egg Robot, Classic and Modern Sonic both walk up to a glass window in the wall separating them and perform this gag. The perspective the player sees it from depends on which Sonic they used to enter the boss portal from the hub world. In Classic Sonic's perspective, he realizes the trick after Eggman speaks. In Modern Sonic's, he doesn't notice until Classic Sonic runs off.
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Mirror Routine / int_5e11dafe	comment	The protagonist of Chopping Block once did this with Jason (both wear hockey masks).
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Mirror Routine / int_5e41eec2	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_5e41eec2	comment	Pluto does this in the cartoon "Canine Casanova" with a dachshund named Dinah.
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Mirror Routine / int_65ccb34a	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_65ccb34a	comment	Delirious does one in this promo from NWA Wildside, with Daizee Haze and referee Mike Posey as the second Delirious.
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Mirror Routine / int_691be369	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_691be369	comment	Done in an episode of The X-Files. In the Season 6 two-part episode "Dreamland", Mulder switches bodies with a man in black. When he later looks in the mirror, the two actors (David Duchovny and Micheal McKean) perform this trope.
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Mirror Routine / int_6ae1d164	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_6ae1d164	comment	In Galaxy of Fear: The Nightmare Machine, Zak ends up in a hall of funhouse mirrors that, with holographic aid, distort reflections in improbable ways. After a while in there, he comes across Lando Calrissian, assumes he's a particularly cool-looking reflection and tries posing. Lando grabbing him is one of the book's Pseudo-Crisis chapter ends.
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Mirror Routine / int_6c617441	comment	Daffy does it again in "Attack of the Drones" with one of his drones.
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Mirror Routine / int_6ce0d19c	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_6ce0d19c	comment	Scott Bakula did the same performance with dozens of other actors on Quantum Leap, for pretty much the same reason.
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Mirror Routine / int_6eb4ca5c	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: In "Enter The Viper", when Jackie first met Viper, they were dressed identically when they passed, causing Jackie to think he was looking in a broken mirror. In "The Tiger And The Pussycat", after Jackie gets split into two thanks to accidentally using the tiger talisman, the two Jackies initially thinks they're looking into a mirror.
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Mirror Routine / int_70c7b114	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_70c7b114	comment	One episode of Gilligan's Island involves a Soviet spy who has undergone plastic surgery to resemble Gilligan landing on the island. When the two Gilligans come face to face, the spy tries to convince the real Gilligan that he is looking into a mirror. Gilligan manages to trip the spy up by acting like he is going to sneeze and then stopping halfway through.
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Mirror Routine / int_7291539d	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_7291539d	comment	A version of this appears in Batman: Arkham City, albeit so subtly that neither the player nor Batman notice until the end of the game: when Batman arrives for their second confrontation, Joker is seen adjusting his makeup in a large mirror; though he has his back to the door, it's clear from his reflection that he's still horribly diseased and likely within hours of dying. However, when the Joker turns around, he appears perfectly healthy. It's not until the end of the game that Batman discovers that Joker has actually hired Clayface to act as his Body Double; the "mirror" was just a pane of glass that the real Joker was hiding behind, Clayface being able to mirror his bosses mannerisms almost perfectly as he put the finishing touches on his disguise. If you look carefully at the mirror during this scene, you can even get a glimpse of the real Joker ducking out of sight.
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Mirror Routine / int_72e6ad4a	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_72e6ad4a	comment	Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced: The fight against Fake Crash has him copying the player's movements. If you touch him you'll die, so to damage him you had to lead him into the traps in the stage without getting killed by them yourself.
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Mirror Routine / int_72e7d7f6	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_72e7d7f6	comment	In one Lord Peter Wimsey short story, a man who suffers from a chronic fear of doppelgÃ¤ngers meets his long-lost Evil Twin when he mistakes him for a reflection in a glass door, then has a panic attack.
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Mirror Routine / int_77bda8e9	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_77bda8e9	comment	Partially applies to a scene in Witches Abroad, where Lily rushes into her mirror-filled room and mistakes Granny for one of her own reflections, as she's standing in the frame of a broken one. Justified in that Granny was dressed similarly to Lily, they're sisters who look a lot alike, and Lily's ordinary reflections don't move perfectly in synch with her, due to her excessive use of mirror-magic.
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Mirror Routine / int_7d5e43b0	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies. In "The Baddies", our heroes are chasing evil robot doppelgangers of themselves. Graeme Garden comes across a mirror and cringes in fear until realising it's just a reflection. He decides to check his appearance in the mirror, only to suddenly reach through the frame and knock out his robot double. It's a variation on this trope in that it really is a reflection of the actor, which then becomes a visual gag.
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Mirror Routine / int_8258e260	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario 64 did it to simplify the graphics processing. In-story, a room had a large mirror on the wall. The game actually used a mirrored room, a duplicate of Mario, and an invisible force field. Not a perfectly mirrored room, of course. The trick in that room is to find something that isn't a perfect mirror and use that as a level entrance. In the remake, Luigi can phase through the mirror into the copied room, where things get weird. In Paper Mario 64, some shape-changing enemies try to pull this in the seventh dungeon, an ice palace, where every room looks like it has a mirror covering its wall, but is actually divided by a giant wall of glass. Eventually you find a hole in the "mirror" and bump into your "reflection". In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario and Luigi do this when they meet The Starshade Bros.
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Mirror Routine / int_84986bf9	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_84986bf9	comment	In the RuneScape quest "Broken Home", you encounter the ghostly Mysterious Waif in a room, with a pane of glass between you. She doesn't respond if you speak to her, but if you mimic her actions like a mirror, you can make her smile. Turns out, it was a very good thing that glass was separating you...
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Mirror Routine / int_85698529	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_85698529	comment	In Paper Mario 64, some shape-changing enemies try to pull this in the seventh dungeon, an ice palace, where every room looks like it has a mirror covering its wall, but is actually divided by a giant wall of glass. Eventually you find a hole in the "mirror" and bump into your "reflection".
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Mirror Routine / int_882f1fdb	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_882f1fdb	comment	Bugs Bunny does this to Elmer in the cartoon Hare Tonic to convince Elmer that he is turning into a rabbit.
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Mirror Routine / int_88b348e8	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_88b348e8	comment	A variation of this is done in Cardcaptor Sakura. The Mirror card deliberately mirrors Sakura's actions in order to reveal its identity.
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Mirror Routine / int_8cc1090a	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_8cc1090a	comment	Sleeper is an homage to silent film slapstick — at one point, Woody Allen does the routine shaving at a futuristic mirror, where he notices his reflection is just a bit off-sync.
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Mirror Routine / int_8f36f969	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: In "Cover Girls", Luan (disguised as Leni) runs into the real Leni (who's in her normal getup). They end up doing this, complete with Macarena.
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Mirror Routine / int_919cd120	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_919cd120	comment	The Crumpets episode "Pity The Prize" has the Weather Girl's encounter with Cassandra, who is being disguised as her in an attempt to divert her own crush's attention. This scene is an intentional homage to the Big Business movie example, including blowing raspberries and nose pinching.
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Mirror Routine / int_945b7a4f	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_945b7a4f	comment	Tangled: The Series: One of these occurs at the beginning of "Rapunzeltopia" when short-haired Rapunzel meets her long-haired alter ego:
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Mirror Routine / int_9d963831	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_9d963831	comment	In Septimus Heap, Septimus finds a mirror he thinks is a Chronoscope, which shows a super-old man mimicking his movements. Then the old guy pulls him through and shoves him through a Portal to the Past of 500 years ago. It turns out the old guy was Marcellus Pye, who really was over 500 years old.
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Mirror Routine / int_a183d57f	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: One of the animals on Vergon-6 is the Four-Legged Mimic. When seen, it's turned into a horse version of Leela, and is doing this. Fry comes along and is confused as to which is which. He throws a net over Leela.
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Mirror Routine / int_a309575c	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_a309575c	comment	This is a plot point in the episode "The Tailor's Dummy" of Jonathan Creek, inspired by Duck Soup, to bluff that one man was the murderer.
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Mirror Routine / int_a309c5a5	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_a309c5a5	comment	This is done as part of a rehearsal for a school play in Hannah Montana.
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Mirror Routine / int_a48bef99	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_a48bef99	comment	BoBoiBoy: When BoBoiBoy's counterparts are split up for too long, their memory deteriorates. Adu Du exploits this weakness by kidnapping one of the three so they can't reunite. As they all undergo identity loss, BoBoiBoy Earth and BoBoiBoy Wind (who weren't kidnapped) are puzzled over which of them is the "real" BoBoiBoy, and start mirroring each other's actions at some point.
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Mirror Routine / int_a695c23a	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_a695c23a	comment	The Mission: Impossible â€“ Rogue Nation special effects team used this to film Benji's Imagine Spot about donning a Latex Perfection mask. In the movie, Benji has the mask fitted, then the camera seamlessly pans to a mirror showing his disguised reflection. In reality, Benji's actor, Simon Pegg, sat in front of a hole with a mirror frame around it, facing a flipped duplicate of the set. The man Benji wanted to disguise as sat on the opposite side of the hole and copied Pegg's motions as best as he could. Ilsa's actress, Rebecca Ferguson, also had a body double portray her reflection in the scene. Reversed in Ethan's case, as Tom Cruise played the reflection, and his body double filled the role of the "real" Ethan.
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Mirror Routine / int_a84f287e	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_a84f287e	comment	Also played for horror in Cube 2: Hypercube. One character opens a door and sees herself in an apparent mirror...until her other self grabs her hand, then is murdered seconds later by another character who's in the room with them.
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Mirror Routine / int_a930b90	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_a930b90	comment	In A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the vampiric Girl taunts Hossein like this as she stalks him on the opposite side of a street.
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Mirror Routine / int_abc09ce0	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_abc09ce0	comment	A serious (and more realistic) variant was used in an episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, in which a photograph thought to show a boy looking into a mirror turned out to be an image of identical twins, posed as if doing a Mirror Routine.
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Mirror Routine / int_ae050a9f	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The battle against Shadow Link starts off like this and goes on for about a minute or so before he starts attacking on his own. You can break the mirror act sooner by using something other than sword-and-shield.
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Mirror Routine / int_b05d40f	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_b05d40f	comment	In the first episode of Sister, Sister, Tia and Tamara simultaneously brush their hair a bit (like, out of one eye) while standing on either side of an empty frame. Neither knows about the existence of the other until later in the episode.
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Mirror Routine / int_b0fc9724	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied in a Saturday Night Live sketch parodying The Swan in the episode hosted by the Olsen twins. One twin played the contestant looking at herself in the mirror; the other played the mirror image, deliberately off-sync with the other. The "image" even hands the other a tissue when she starts crying!
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Mirror Routine / int_b1f8e5ae	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_b1f8e5ae	comment	In The Little Rascals animated short "Rascals' Revenge", Butch does this to Alfalfa in the abandoned house.
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Mirror Routine / int_b24f49ab	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_b24f49ab	comment	In the unused script for Back to the Future Part II, old Doc Brown travels to the sixties and has to avoid being seen by young Doc Brown by hiding behind an empty mirror frame. "Great Scott! I look terrible!"
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Mirror Routine / int_b2b8158	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_b2b8158	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, after Josuke and Koichi manage to warn Jotaro about Hazamada's planned ambush, Josuke notices how he suddenly took Jotaro's pocket pen, and upon looking at his nearby reflection, he realizes that it's actually Hazamada's Surface controlling him from afar.
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Mirror Routine / int_b310c8f4	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_b310c8f4	comment	In Barney & Friends, two characters perform the clown version of this.
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Mirror Routine / int_b507f2d1	comment	A common gag on Scooby-Doo, usually with Shaggy as a participant. Sometimes it is the Fake Monster of the Week doing the copying, other times it's Shaggy trying to fake out his pursuers. In "Never Ape an Ape Man", this happens with Scooby, with the villain wearing a very realistic latex Scooby-Doo mask but with his true hands exposed. It happens again in "Scooby's Gold Medal Gambit" from The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show when the Chameleon disguised himself as Scooby, this time in full-body, even though the suit part was not as detailed. A serious (and more realistic) variant was used in an episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, in which a photograph thought to show a boy looking into a mirror turned out to be an image of identical twins, posed as if doing a Mirror Routine.
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Mirror Routine / int_b8d8ef94	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_b8d8ef94	comment	The Emperor's New School has Kuzco shape-shift into Kronk with one of Yzma's potions and then pose as a reflection in the mirror to the real Kronk to steal the potion that will turn him back.note Kronk is holding the potion while venting his guilt in the "mirror".
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Mirror Routine / int_b9b58c14	comment	When the title character of Ruby Quest leaves a room and returns, what was a window into another room seems to have changed into a mirror, as she discovers when the players see a shadow behind it. When she shatters the mirror, however, there is someone on the other side- whose body distorts horribly in order to squeeze into the room. The other person was later discovered to be a horribly mutated Daisy.
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Mirror Routine / int_c160ecac	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_c160ecac	comment	In a later episode, a sketch features Gonzo testing this when performing "Act Naturally" opposite his reflection, who refuses to mimic the "ludicrous things" he does.
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Mirror Routine / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Rainbow Dash does this in "A Canterlot Wedding Part 2" with the first Changeling to take her appearance, complete with a subtle lag in the latter's movements. In "The Times They Are a Changeling", Spike does this when he first encounters Thorax the Changeling (who's taken on Spike's form). Spike only figures it out when he turns to leave and Thorax accidentally slips in the snow copying him.
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Mirror Routine / int_c66ffb9c	comment	In Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster, Fawn pranks Beck by dressing up as her and pretending to be her reflection.
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Mirror Routine / int_cf69b21e	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_cf69b21e	comment	The Beast Wars episode "Double Dinobot" has a bit where Dinobot and his organic clone face one another and copy each other's movements.
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Mirror Routine / int_d1702e57	comment	PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus: At the end of the first mission for the "Daybreak" update, Mai's Munchlax will end up doing this with an illusion-disguised Zorua.
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Mirror Routine / int_d6f9b009	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: Bolt's look-alike father mirrors his son's actions in "The Cameo" when they first meet. They even shout "Marx Brothers! Duck Soup!" to each other when they finish.
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Mirror Routine / int_dbaabb61	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_dbaabb61	comment	In the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Lonesome Ghosts", a ghost does this to Goofy, who mentions at the beginning, "For a moment I thought it wasn't me." After a while of doing this, Goofy finally catches on and says, "I know you, you're a ghost!"
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Mirror Routine / int_e00d7ae0	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_e00d7ae0	comment	MegaMan NT Warrior (2002) has Yuriko and Mariko doing this, mainly because Mariko thought Yuriko was her reflection due to their very similar appearance. Yuriki then hypnotises Mariko to forget she ever saw her and disappears.
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Mirror Routine / int_e3a1067	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_e3a1067	comment	On Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Chuck's Evil Counterpart Fastener stands in front of a mirror that Chuck is examing. Chuck starts goofing off with Fasterner mimicking his actions. Then Fastener smacks Chuck in the face and zips behind him before he can get reoriented. With Fasterner's reflection now in the mirror, Chuck tries to punch him...and rips his hand open on the glass.
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Mirror Routine / int_e52e9eea	comment	In Interview with the Vampire, the titular vampire, Louis, relates his encounter with the French vampire Santiago, who happens to be quite dressed similarly to himself. Upon being spotted by Louis, Santiago amuses himself by engaging in a bit of this before he actually properly introduces himself to Louis. He does at the end again, where Louis confronts him armed with scythe. This time, however, Louis proves too fast for him.
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Mirror Routine / int_e53e8d5	comment	Seen in the Paramount/Trans-Lux version of Felix the Cat entitled "Felix the Cat Suit", when as another scheme to steal the magic bag, the Professor disguises himself in a strange inflatable Felix the Cat costume, removes the glass from Felix's mirror and readies himself; once the real Felix arrives and begins combing his hair in the mirror, he is shocked to see a larger, fatter and permanently-grinning version of himself as his "reflection." Felix figures that he is either getting the mumps, is getting fatter, or the mirror is out-of-focus. But then a bee comes along and pokes the "reflection" with its stinger, causing the Felix suit to blow up and give the game away.
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Mirror Routine / int_e5c6748d	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_e5c6748d	comment	Like every other slapstick trope, this one was used on occasion by The Three Stooges — usually Curly.
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Mirror Routine / int_ea4f62db	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy does this with Hitler vs. Stewie disguised as Hitler, a shot-by-shot remake of the infamous Marx Brothers skit in the episode "Road to Germany". A variation features in "Switch the Flip" when Stewie accidentally swaps bodies with Peter; to stop Peter realising what has happened to him, Brian-in-Chris tells Peter-in-Stewie to look in a "mirror" that is just a door with Stewie-in-Peter on the other side.
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Family Guy	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_ea4f62db
Mirror Routine / int_f14deb8a	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_f14deb8a	comment	In The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Big Top Trap", the Hooded Claw, disguised as Clyde ("One more clown Clyde won't be noticed"), does it by putting a mirror frame between himself and the real Clyde in the circus.
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Mirror Routine / int_f361b493	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_f361b493	comment	Lucy and Harpo Marx, in an episode of I Love Lucy, echoing the famous scene from Duck Soup.
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Mirror Routine / int_f361b493	featureConfidence	1.0
I Love Lucy	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_f361b493
Mirror Routine / int_f502a38a	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_f502a38a	comment	Timid Smurf (later known as Actor) does this to Brainy in The Smurfs (1981) episode "All the Smurf's a Stage".
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The Smurfs (1981)	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_f502a38a
Mirror Routine / int_f819fba7	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_f819fba7	comment	Jekyll and Hyde speak to each other this way in MK's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.
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Mirror Routine / int_f83d9d5b	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_f83d9d5b	comment	In an episode of Phil of the Future, Pim dresses up as Debby's grandmother to sneak out of a Slumber Party. She then poses as a mirror in front of Debby's real grandmother but gets caught when she accidentally sneezes.
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Phil of the Future	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_f83d9d5b
Mirror Routine / int_fd275a9c	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_fd275a9c	comment	In the second Garfield movie, A Tale of Two Kitties, Garfield and Identical Stranger Prince do this when they finally meet, over a hedge arch. They desynchronize once Garfield tries some wicked dance moves, although it's Garfield's bad breath that's the last straw for Prince.
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Garfield	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_fd275a9c
Mirror Routine / int_fd3487b9	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_fd3487b9	comment	In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario and Luigi do this when they meet The Starshade Bros.
Mirror Routine / int_fd3487b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mirror Routine / int_fd3487b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_fd3487b9
Mirror Routine / int_feb78663	type	Mirror Routine
Mirror Routine / int_feb78663	comment	Lost in a Harem: Done by a disguised Peter Johnson and Nimativ, with Peter posing as the mirror to keep Nimativ fooled.
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Mirror Routine / int_feb78663	featureConfidence	1.0
Lost in a Harem	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_feb78663

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Mickey Mouse Comic Universe (Comic Book) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Muppet Show Comic Book (Comic Book) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Little Hands, Big Attitude (Fanfic) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Bolt Chronicles (Fanfic) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Airheads / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Airplane! / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Duck Soup / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Garfield / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Idle Roomers / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Interview with the Vampire / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Johnny Stecchino / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Lost in a Harem / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Muppets Most Wanted / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
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Sherlock, Jr. / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Empty Man / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Floorwalker / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Pink Panther (1963) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
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Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Us / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Anpanman / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Divine Comedy / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Rings of Kether / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Machinima) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Because I'm Jonesy	seeAlso	Mirror Routine
My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Shadows House (Manga) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
halfâ€¢alive (Music) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
I Love Lucy / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
On n'demande qu'à en rire / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Kenny Everett Video Show / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Vicar of Dibley / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Welcome Back, Kotter / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Her Story (Video Game) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Paper Mario 64 (Video Game) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Sonic Generations (Video Game) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
AstroLOLogy (Web Animation) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Jake and Amir (Web Video) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
OSW Review (Web Video) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Petscop (Web Video) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
anti-HEROES (Webcomic) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
MK's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Webcomic) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
SMGPMD (Webcomic) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Bone Trouble / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Bonkers / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Casper's Haunted Christmas / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Doodlez / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Hare-Way to the Stars / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Lonesome Ghosts / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Oh Yeah! Cartoons / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Out-Foxed / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Rugrats Go Wild! / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Stitch! The Movie / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Taz-Mania / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Teacher's Pet / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Teen Titans Go! / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Crumpets / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Heckling Hare / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Little Rascals / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
The Smurfs (1981) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Two Chips and a Miss / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Wacky Races (2017) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Hunter Johnston (Wrestling) / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Head / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Get Smart / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine
Wizards of Waverly Place / int_138dd240	type	Mirror Routine

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