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Rage Against the Reflection
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A character, deeply unsatisfied with their current state of being, looks in a mirror or a pool of water. After a while, the character will either say (or sing, in a musical) something about themselves or just become angry, and disrupt the reflection in some way to show their dissatisfaction. This can involve punching or throwing something at a mirror in order to shatter it, slapping or stirring water to distort the reflection, or otherwise make the image of themselves go away. For some added Angst, the puncher could injure their hand in the process. Can occur with characters who have been transformed (whether physically or otherwise) or feel like they're being forced to become something they're not. If it's the transformed variant, sometimes the reflection will show their original form instead of their current form. Also sometimes used by characters who are either ugly and suffering because of it, or made a decision that they regret and are angry at themselves about it. Could also be used by a character who has unresolved parental issues and can't stand the resemblance reminding them of that relationship. Contrast Distracted by My Own Sexy where characters like looking at themselves, and for an extreme case see House of Broken Mirrors. Not to be confused with the Rap Metal band Rage Against the Machine. |
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At one point during the music video for "Symphony" by Clean Bandit, the protagonist, a man whose boyfriend died in a traffic accident, screams at his own reflection and attacks his bathroom mirror with a conductor's baton. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): When Priscilla Rich sees her alter ego Cheetah as her reflection talking to and taunting her, her reaction is to punch the mirror until it cracks. | |
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High School Musical 2, during the song "Bet On It" where he muses about his motivation, Troy expresses frustration at his reflection in the country club pond. | |
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At one point in The Girl Who Would Be King, Lola smashes her reflection in a mirror. | |
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At the end of The Phantom of the Opera (2004), the Phantom smashes several mirrors after Christine leaves him. | |
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In the film version of Dolores Claiborne, Dolores has a flashback and then smashes a pane of window glass where she'd been looking at her reflection. | |
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Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith. Emperor Palpatine gives Vader a 'gift' of Padme's former spaceship. Vader looks at his reflection in the surface, then Force-crushes the droid who's polishing up the hull to its previous mirror-finish. He then takes the spaceship and flies it into the atmosphere of Mustafar without Deflector Shields, scorching that surface to twisted and blackened metal. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Shark smashes his mirror when he learns that he is really a Barian. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul, after a particularly traumatic outing makes Kaneki realize something is wrong with him, he rushes home and looks in the mirror. The sight of his left eye sporting a Ghoul's iconic kakugan leads him to punch the mirror in horrified denial. In the anime, it's also because he sees the smiling face of the woman who nearly killed him in the glass — and she's laughing. | |
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A variation happens in Stars Above: The mirror image Homura rages against is a doppelganger of herself, with an affinity for mirrors. | |
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Happens to the hero in π, who smashes his bathroom mirror in pain during a severe migraine attack. | |
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Ban does this in Get Backers, after a brutal beating of his opponent. He catches a glimpse of his reflection in a nearby mirror and remembers his mother's cries that he was a monster, not her son. Cue the mirror-smashing. | |
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Mike Wazowski in Monsters University brushes his hand through his reflection in the lake in anger during his Heroic BSoD when he realizes that everyone was right about him not being scary and his dream of being a scarer is impossible. | |
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Dark Angel episode "The Berrisford Agenda". Alec is haunted by his past and angrily punches his reflection in the mirror. Possibly a callback to when Ben glares at the mirror in "Pollo Loco". | |
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Doom Patrol: The backup story for volume 1 issue 100 shows that Cliff Steele, aka Robotman, reacted to seeing his robot body in the mirror for the first time by destroying the mirror in anger. Alias the Blur, member of the Brotherhood of Dada. The story goes that a beautiful actress fell in love with her reflection in the mirror. As she grew older and her face grew less pretty, she thought her mirror lover had been replaced by an impostor and attacked it with acid. The sight of her distorted reflection in the melted glass terrified her so much she shot herself in the head and was left in a coma. The love and devotion the actress put in the mirror, now mutilated and warped, became Alias the Blur, The Ghost Who Eats Time. When Alias the Blur is ultimately destroyed, the comatose actress finally died. |
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Martin Sheen punches the mirror in the beginning of Apocalypse Now; the director called to Sheen to shadow-box in the mirror, but Sheen misjudged his punch and hit the mirror instead - that's real blood on his hand later in the scene. | |
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BoJack Horseman: In "Time's Arrow", in her mind, when a younger Beatrice sees her present-day self reflected back in BoJack's rear view mirror, she bats at it in disgust, causing it to crack. | |
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Andor. On seeing his reflection on the instrument panel of a crashed spacecraft, Kassa smashes it and everything else in the room in a blind rage. Having lived all his life with a primitive jungle-dwelling tribe, he's presumably never seen a mirror before. | |
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Angel: In "Life of the Party" Lorne does this after having his sleep surgically removed, while hallucinating his reflection reminding him about all the work he still has to do. After a moment's silence his reflection continues speaking from the now cracked mirror. Also happens in series 2. Pylea brings out the full manifestation of a vampire's demonic state. Angel is overcome by the strength of his demonic side when he transforms and only comes to his senses upon seeing his monstrous reflection in a pool of water. He smashes his fist into the water to disrupt his reflection and then goes into a state of shock that leaves him catatonic for hours. Also in season 2, Angel comes upon the place where Darla — who was a vampire for centuries, slain, then resurrected as a human by an evil law firm — had been staying and discovers that all of the mirrors have been smashed. Angel explains that she couldn't bear to look upon herself now that her human soul forced her to feel guilt for her vampire atrocities (Angel never had that problem when his soul was returned because he'd still been a vampire and thus had no reflection). |
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One CSI: NY episode had a woman insist that her brother was killed by an intruder who broke into their apartment despite there being no evidence of anyone else in the room. It turns out a car accident she had been in several months earlier caused her to develop Capgras delusion, which prevents her from recognizing her own reflection, and she had accidentally killed her brother while trying to fight off the "intruder" (her own image in a large window). In the police station, she denies this and after glancing at the two-way mirror in the interrogation room, she attacks it, yelling that it's the killer. | |
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain ends with Venom Snake smashing a mirror with his prosthetic hand because he just learned he's not actually the real Big Boss, but his best MSF soldier who was surgically altered to look like him. | |
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Honor Harrington: In Field of Dishonor, Pavel Young, now the Earl of North Hollow, enters his new office and comes face to face with a large wall mirror. He promptly rips it off the wall and smashes it to the floor, because seeing his reflection triggered a flashback to the deeply humiliating Insignia Rip-Off Ritual that drummed him out of Her Majesty's Navy. It's the first sign that he's genuinely losing his marbles. | |
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In season five of Dexter, after Lumen tells Dexter she is leaving because she no longer wants to be involved in his killing, he looks down at the plate he's holding, sees his own face reflected there, then throws the plate against the wall. | |
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The Simpsons: The Batman (1989) example is parodied in "Last Exit to Springfield" with the shadowy silhouette reveal of Lisa's horrific Braces of Orthodontic Overkill when the family has no dental insurance. And again in "Homie the Clown" when, after Krusty the Klown gets extensive plastic surgery, this exchange takes place: |
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In Ex Machina, after Caleb fails with his Robotic Reveal in the bathroom, he sees his reflection in the mirror which he then smashes with his fist. | |
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In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "A Hen in the Wolf House", Cal is choking Raina as she desperately tries to talk him down. When he sees a reflection of himself in the mirror, he lets her go and smashes the mirror instead. | |
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A variation occurs for Coraline when she looks in a mirror and finds her parents trapped in a frozen prison. She panics and starts pounding her fists against the glass to try to save them until the mirror shatters and reveals nothing but a blank wall behind it. | |
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All of the mirrors in Herbert's bathroom in Tanz Der Vampire are shattered. Considering he's a vampire, and from the way he dresses it's clear that he tries to pay a lot of attention to his appearance, there's a heavy implication that he probably smashed them when he discovered he no longer had a reflection at all. | |
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A variant in Miraculous Ladybug's Christmas Episode: Adrien is so angry about how Christmas has gone with his father that he decides to destroy the city's Christmas tree with his Cataclysm attack. At the last second he can't do it, but since the attack is already charged he quickly looks around for something else to use it on, and chooses an advertisement for his father's fashion company, which Adrien himself models for. (For added symbolism, he's said before that he models mostly just to make his dad happy.) | |
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Castle: Ryan smashes a mirror while staring at his reflection after a VIP is shot and killed on his watch in "At Close Range". | |
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During the second season of Heroes, Nathan sees a hideous version of himself in the mirror (probably what he would look like if Adam didn't heal him with his blood) as a reminder of what a jerk he used to be in the first season. He punches the mirror too in one episode. Didn't help him from becoming a jerk again in the next season... Somewhat subverted with Niki/Jessica in the first season. Niki's reflection looks like her, but is not Niki. |
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In the Justice League episode "Metamorphosis", this is pretty much the first thing Metamorpho does after his transformation. | |
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Inverted in the sequel Richard III where the titular character, after successfully wooing the widow of a man he murdered, decides to buy a mirror to see if he has suddenly become less hideously ugly. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_2f958fdf | comment |
D Grayman takes this to a whole new level. The Earl of Millennium is driven mad by his two new split personalites that conflict with first and are an obstacle to his holy mission. Torn apart he looks at the mirror and first plays the trope rather straight by tearing it apart not by punching it but by scratching to shattering till his fingers bleed! But then he decides to go even further and to blow up not the reflection but the real source of the problem: that is to say his own face . | |
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D.Gray-Man (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_2f958fdf | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_302e99c6 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_302e99c6 | comment |
In Snow White: A Tale of Terror, the wicked stepmother has a mirror which once belonged to her mother. When the stepmother loses her mind and starts trying to kill Lilli, the mirror guides her, showing her reflection as being young and beautiful. The stepmother is killed when Lilli stabs it with a dagger, destroying the reflection. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_302e99c6 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_302e99c6 | featureConfidence |
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_302e99c6 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_30cf38e0 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_30cf38e0 | comment |
Done literally in Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness; in the first film, Ash's reflection actually reaches out of the mirror and grabs him by the collar to tell him flatly that they're both freaking out. In the latter, Ash smashes a mirror into shards and each shard's reflection comes to life as an evil mini-Ash. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_30cf38e0 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_30cf38e0 | featureConfidence |
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Evil Dead 2 | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_30cf38e0 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3188db6e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3188db6e | comment |
In the 2010 remake of The Wolfman (2010), Lawrence angrily flips a mirror around when he sees the bite wound he received less than a month prior has healed without leaving a single mark. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3188db6e | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_3188db6e | featureConfidence |
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The Wolfman (2010) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3188db6e | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3190390c | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3190390c | comment |
Kevin Costner's Elvis-obsessed bank robber, cop killer and terrorist, Murphy, in 3000 Miles to Graceland. Both he and Kurt Russell's character (Michael) are later revealed to be the illegitimate, unrecognized offspring of The King (for reals); whereas Michael learned to accept it and got on with his life, though, Murphy was driven insane by his heartless abandonment. Once this information comes to light, Murphy pauses in the middle of a shootout to gaze straight into a grimy mirror as he hallucinates Elvis singing "My Way." | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3190390c | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_3190390c | featureConfidence |
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3000 Miles to Graceland | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3190390c | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a48eed | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a48eed | comment |
The Outer Limits (1995): In "Caught in the Act", a college girl named Hannah is possessed by an alien and goes around seducing people, then eating them after sex. In the girl's bathroom, Hannah loses her temper after the alien tries to seduce her roommate and punches the mirror. She then picks up a shard and attempts suicide, but the alien regains control and makes her drop it and continue its mission. In "Skin Deep", Sid Camden, who hates himself, punches the mirror after he deactivates the Holographic Disguise that made him look like Chad Warner. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a48eed | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a48eed | featureConfidence |
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The Outer Limits (1995) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a48eed | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a8701b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a8701b | comment |
The Flash: Mirror Master slightly subverts this in his origin story. After realizing he had killed his father (whom he had never met before due to being given up into foster care as a baby), Evan McCulloch checks on his mother. Evan sees she has committed suicide over the loss by smashing the mirror in the bathroom and using a piece to slit her wrists. Evan then stares at the smashed mirror for 12 hours afterwards. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a8701b | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a8701b | featureConfidence |
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The Flash (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_31a8701b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_324e88ce | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_324e88ce | comment |
Near the end of Morpheus, an apparition of Jan Pharris bemoans his heavily deformed face, and his stepsister, Claire Moon being crippled by polio. Then he punctuates it by smashing his own mirror. Weirder still, it was fully intact until you approached, and behind the glass is the combination to his father's cabin. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_324e88ce | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_324e88ce | featureConfidence |
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Morpheus (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_324e88ce | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32a01588 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32a01588 | comment |
Variant in Pinocchio: after Lampwick has been completely transformed into a donkey, he kicks a couple of mirrors to pieces, but in panic rather than anger. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32a01588 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_32a01588 | featureConfidence |
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Pinocchio | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32a01588 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32c541e6 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32c541e6 | comment |
Fullmetal Alchemist: Al does this by pressing the palm of his hand against a mirror, cracking it. At that point in the manga, it's the first time we saw the depth of his angst with his lack of a human body. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32c541e6 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_32c541e6 | featureConfidence |
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Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_32c541e6 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_34076754 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_34076754 | comment |
In Daft Punk's Electroma, after being forced to detonate the switch on his only companion's back and trekking in the desert alone for some time, he tries to reach his own switch, but is unable to reach it. He removes his helmet and sees his true face in the refection, then he smashes the helmet in a fit of rage. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_34076754 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_34076754 | featureConfidence |
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Daft Punk's Electroma | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_34076754 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_37a71462 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_37a71462 | comment |
In Les Misérables, Fantine throws her mirror out the window after she sells her teeth and hair and becomes a down-on-her-luck whore. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_37a71462 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_37a71462 | featureConfidence |
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Les Misérables | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_37a71462 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_38eb7e99 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_38eb7e99 | comment |
In Morbius' '90s solo series, Michael uses Spider-Man's blood to develop a serum that changes him back into a human. While out on the street, he is attacked by a gang who beat him up. Crawling out of the gutter they left him lying in, he makes his way across the sidewalk to look into a shop window and sees he has reverted back to his vampire self. He runs off after punching a hole in the shop window. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_38eb7e99 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_38eb7e99 | featureConfidence |
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Morbius (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_38eb7e99 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_38fa34eb | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_38fa34eb | comment |
Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): When Priscilla Rich sees her alter ego Cheetah as her reflection talking to and taunting her, her reaction is to punch the mirror until it cracks. Wonder Woman (Rebirth): When Diana is suffering from a magically enhanced snakebite, while also confronting the fact that her memories have been tampered with, she punches and shatters a mirror as she tries to remember who she truly is. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_38fa34eb | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_38fa34eb | featureConfidence |
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Wonder Woman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_38fa34eb | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_39c20861 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_39c20861 | comment |
Richie smashes a mirror when he sees how emaciated he still looks and why people were scared by him in public after escaping abandonment and repeatedly starving to death in the Highlander fic Long Journey Back. Then he grabs a shard of broken glass and attempts to commit suicide by hacking off his own head. Duncan and Methos have to talk him out of it. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_39c20861 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_39c20861 | featureConfidence |
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Highlander | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_39c20861 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3ac755dd | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3ac755dd | comment |
In the opening montage of Beauty and the Beast, the Beast slashes a portrait of himself in human form with his claws and hides his face in shame. There are also numerous broken mirrors in his castle, as Belle later finds out. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3ac755dd | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_3ac755dd | featureConfidence |
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Beauty and the Beast | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3ac755dd | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3e0d6d5e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3e0d6d5e | comment |
In Episode 17, Chapter 5 of Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, after discussing the latest plan with Wily, Bass comes across a mirror. He then remembers the words Roll told him before "Search your heart", and feeling conflicted between his increasing feelings for her and his own Blood Knight nature, he ends up smashing the mirror in anger. He even wonders if the shattered pieces still reflect somehow how he's feeling inside. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3e0d6d5e | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_3e0d6d5e | featureConfidence |
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Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3e0d6d5e | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3f44e3d7 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3f44e3d7 | comment |
Princess Tutu has a scene with an interesting variation — at one point, Fakir smashes through a window and threatens Kraehe with a shard of glass. She was actually in the middle of questioning her motives, but when she sees her reflection in the falling shards of glass and hears Fakir's accusation of being a "crow", she accepts who she is and mockingly responds "Why yes, I am a crow!" | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3f44e3d7 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_3f44e3d7 | featureConfidence |
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Princess Tutu | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_3f44e3d7 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4368ec08 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4368ec08 | comment |
The song "I Break Mirrors With My Face in the United States" by Death Grips namechecks the trope in its title and throughout the lyrics. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4368ec08 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4368ec08 | featureConfidence |
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Death Grips (Music) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4368ec08 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_444d8a51 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_444d8a51 | comment |
Remember11: Done by both Kokoro and Satoru upon first learning about their "Freaky Friday" Flip. Hotori's first episode is a result of that too, but you don't find out until much later. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_444d8a51 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_444d8a51 | featureConfidence |
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Remember11 (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_444d8a51 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44715363 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44715363 | comment |
In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Ms. Chono breaks a mirror out of rage at being stood up. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44715363 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_44715363 | featureConfidence |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44715363 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44d900ad | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44d900ad | comment |
Zuko ends up smashing a mirror in Zuko's Story when he first peels the bandages away from his scar. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44d900ad | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_44d900ad | featureConfidence |
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Zuko's Story (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_44d900ad | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_468bebb0 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_468bebb0 | comment |
In the Discworld book Witches Abroad, Granny punches out a mirror in the house of late fairy godmother Desiderata Hollow because the face she sees in it is not hers, but that of Big Bad Lady Lilith, who is scrying through the mirror in order to find Desiderata's magic wand. Extra symbolism points for Lilith being Granny's sister — not a twin (Lily is older, Granny looks older), but still very similar siblings. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_468bebb0 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4ab60cf9 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4ab60cf9 | comment |
Snow White: The 1987 Cannon Films take has the evil queen, upon learning that a prince's bride-to-be is fairer than she, toss something at her magic mirror to break it. It wildly spins and starts to fracture. As she heads off to the wedding in a huff (to discover that said bride is the revived Snow), each crack in the mirror progressively ages her, leaving her an old hag by the time she arrives. When it shatters once and for all, she does the same, crumbling to dust. In Snow White: A Tale of Terror, the wicked stepmother has a mirror which once belonged to her mother. When the stepmother loses her mind and starts trying to kill Lilli, the mirror guides her, showing her reflection as being young and beautiful. The stepmother is killed when Lilli stabs it with a dagger, destroying the reflection. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4ab60cf9 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4ab60cf9 | featureConfidence |
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Snow White | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4ab60cf9 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4b8906a8 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4b8906a8 | comment |
Ever17: In Coco's Route, the Kid has a truly epic Freak Out in front of the locker room mirror. The reflection therein looks nothing like the Kid; he's a Tomato in the Mirror. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4b8906a8 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4b8906a8 | featureConfidence |
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Ever17 (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4b8906a8 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4da4f10d | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4da4f10d | comment |
Work It Out Wombats!: In "Measure for Measure," when Ellie doesn't find a hat she wants, Mr. E expresses grief that the Everything Emporium didn't have everything. He then fires himself by yelling at his reflection in the mirror, telling him that he is fired. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4da4f10d | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4da4f10d | featureConfidence |
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Work It Out Wombats! | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4da4f10d | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4dd2f23b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4dd2f23b | comment |
Happens twice in Tokyo Babylon, once with Seishirou oddly enough given that he's not a character associated with self-hatred to say the least, and at the end with Subaru, with the added subtext of his reflection being a symbol for his dead twin sister Hokuto. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4dd2f23b | featureApplicability |
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Tokyo Babylon (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4dd2f23b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4e45b093 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4e45b093 | comment |
On The Big Bang Theory, Raj shouts "What is wrong with you?" to his reflection after a disastrous date with one of Penny's friends (and after the friend screams the same thing to Penny, who in turn screams it at Raj). | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4e45b093 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4e45b093 | featureConfidence |
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The Big Bang Theory | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4e45b093 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4f242074 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4f242074 | comment |
The titular protagonist of the splatter movie Adam Chaplin, punches the mirror full of rage during an Angsty scene while is thinking about his dead wife. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4f242074 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4f242074 | featureConfidence |
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Adam Chaplin | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4f242074 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4faef659 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4faef659 | comment |
In Left Behind (2000), Rayford Steele throws his wife's Bible at the mirror in their bedroom, although this is more how angry Rayford is at God for his wife being Caught Up in the Rapture than anything that he sees in himself. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4faef659 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_4faef659 | featureConfidence |
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Left Behind (2000) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_4faef659 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5178149f | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5178149f | comment |
In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Red Hood (the Joker's Alternate Universe good twin) breaks a mirror after looking at his newly warped face. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5178149f | featureApplicability |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5178149f | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_530f42e7 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_530f42e7 | comment |
In Moonrise Kingdom, Suzy is revealed to have injured her hand punching her mirror when she was feeling particularly disgusted with herself. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_530f42e7 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_530f42e7 | featureConfidence |
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Moonrise Kingdom | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_530f42e7 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd32 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd32 | comment |
The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "The Mirror", a Fidel Castro-like dictator acquires a mirror that shows him images of his enemies and those destined to betray him. After killing most of his allies after seeing them in the mirror, the dictator sees an image of himself. He goes crazy and smashes the mirror before committing suicide. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd32 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd32 | featureConfidence |
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The Twilight Zone (1959) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd32 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd8b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd8b | comment |
The Twilight Zone (1985): In "A Saucer of Loneliness", the extremely depressed Margaret yells "I hate you!" at her reflection several times before breaking down in tears. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd8b | featureApplicability |
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The Twilight Zone (1985) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_53a0bd8b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_543d5e12 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_543d5e12 | comment |
Occurs in SLC Punk!!: Heroin Bob punches a mirror in a fit of pique (or to emulate the iconic Black Flag album). Parodied in that unlike almost every example here, the consequences of punching a mirror are explicitly played out. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_543d5e12 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_543d5e12 | featureConfidence |
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SLC Punk! | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_543d5e12 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_54bee1e5 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_54bee1e5 | comment |
Beyond the Lights features a symbolic one. After the disastrous BET Awards performance, Noni breaks down and smashes several glass-covered posters of herself- even attempting to yank one off the wall before Kaz stops her (after which he uses his CLEAN WHITE SHIRT to bandage her wounded hand!). | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_54bee1e5 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_54bee1e5 | featureConfidence |
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Beyond The Lights | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_54bee1e5 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_56466301 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_56466301 | comment |
Wonder Woman (Rebirth): When Diana is suffering from a magically enhanced snakebite, while also confronting the fact that her memories have been tampered with, she punches and shatters a mirror as she tries to remember who she truly is. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_56466301 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_56466301 | featureConfidence |
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Wonder Woman (Rebirth) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_56466301 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5651ab17 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5651ab17 | comment |
Tess of Blind Lake is a young girl with a bad habit of breaking mirrors when she sees "Mirror Girl" looking back at her. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5651ab17 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_5651ab17 | featureConfidence |
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Blind Lake | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5651ab17 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_578be4e1 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_578be4e1 | comment |
In The Irregular at Magic High School, Miyuki imagines (?) she sees her younger self in a mirror, who tells her that she can't deny her incestuous attraction to her brother, much to Miyuki's anguish. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_578be4e1 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_578be4e1 | featureConfidence |
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The Irregular at Magic High School | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_578be4e1 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_59215319 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_59215319 | comment |
Done by Ulala Serizawa to a mirror in the animated introduction of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_59215319 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_59215319 | featureConfidence |
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Persona 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_59215319 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5b3356f8 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5b3356f8 | comment |
In Turning Red, this is downplayed. When Mei chastises herself in front of her bedroom mirror she grabs it and shakes it. | |
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Turning Red | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5b3356f8 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5c208620 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5c208620 | comment |
Superman: The Animated Series: In "The Way of All Flesh", Metallo finally comes to terms with his Sense Loss Sadness and knows he is trapped inside of lifeless robot body for the rest of time. He declares that he is no longer John Corben, tearing much of his artificial skin off and smashing his reflection in the mirror. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5c208620 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_5c208620 | featureConfidence |
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Superman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5c208620 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce2f08b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce2f08b | comment |
Black Butler II: Ciel does this when he thinks he sees Alois in the mirror. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce2f08b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce2f08b | featureConfidence |
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Black Butler (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce2f08b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce3fc86 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce3fc86 | comment |
In Soul Eater, Stein has a moment during his Sanity Slippage, complete with bloody knuckles. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce3fc86 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce3fc86 | featureConfidence |
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Soul Eater (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5ce3fc86 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5cf17ede | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5cf17ede | comment |
In Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh, Curtis Craig sees disturbing visions every time he looks in the mirror, and Curtis can break it with a hammer at one point later in the game. As soon as he does, though, an eerie fleshy substance is seen behind it before the mirror changes back to normal again. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5cf17ede | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_5cf17ede | featureConfidence |
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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5cf17ede | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5d4da197 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5d4da197 | comment |
Near the end of Spider-Man 2 Harry does this by throwing a knife at a mirror after hallucinating that his father is talking to him from the mirror. It reveals the entrance to the Green Goblin's secret armory. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5d4da197 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_5d4da197 | featureConfidence |
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Spider-Man 2 | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5d4da197 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e11dafe | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e11dafe | comment |
Butch of Chopping Block did this once because "the damn thing was always staring at him." | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e11dafe | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e11dafe | featureConfidence |
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Chopping Block (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e11dafe | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e41b16d | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e41b16d | comment |
The Shadow Man in Happily Ever After kicks a puddle of water upon seeing his reflection in it. It's a pretty obvious clue as to who he is and why he's with Snow White. It's the Prince under a curse. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e41b16d | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e41b16d | featureConfidence |
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Happily Ever After | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_5e41b16d | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_60570997 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_60570997 | comment |
In one S.S.D.D. comic Tessa smashes the mirror in her bathroom after the Oracle appears in it and states that she's getting boring, fortunately her Healing Factor got most of the glass out of her hand. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_60570997 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_60570997 | featureConfidence |
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S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_60570997 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_609c8e01 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_609c8e01 | comment |
In Phenomenon: George is angry at who he has become and yells at a mirror. When angrily gesturing at his reflection, he inadvertently smashes it with his telekinesis. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_609c8e01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_609c8e01 | featureConfidence |
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Phenomenon | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_609c8e01 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_625e571 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_625e571 | comment |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent: In "Betrayed", a domineering husband learns that his Trophy Wife has run away, and turns and punches her mirror; cutting his knuckles in the process. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_625e571 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_625e571 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_625e571 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_64dd58b2 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_64dd58b2 | comment |
Harry Potter: An unusual case appears at the climax of the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Harry, trapped in a battle in his own mind, caps off his rejection of Voldemort and his "Not So Different" Remark sentiments by punching a symbolic mirror into shards. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban there is a mirror hanging above the fireplace in the Shrieking Shack that has very clearly been punched in, most likely by Lupin in his younger years. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_64dd58b2 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_64dd58b2 | featureConfidence |
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Harry Potter | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_64dd58b2 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_656e8d31 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_656e8d31 | comment |
Kamina in RahXephon returns to Tokyo Jupiter in an attempt to figure out who he actually is, and ends up throwing a chair at a mirror out of frustration. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_656e8d31 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_656e8d31 | featureConfidence |
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RahXephon | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_656e8d31 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_694ab80 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_694ab80 | comment |
Batman Beyond: In "Heroes", Magma shatters a reflective computer panel over how some kids looked at him as if he was a monster, despite having rescued them. In "Out of the Past", Bruce, freshly rejuvenated by the Lazarus pit, is exercising in a gym, and Terry is impressed by this glimpse of what he was like in his heyday as Batman. While Bruce himself marvels at this, he suddenly throws the barbell he was using into a mirror. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_694ab80 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_694ab80 | featureConfidence |
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Batman Beyond | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_694ab80 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6956d9bf | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6956d9bf | comment |
The Swan Princess has Odette slapping at her reflection in the lake, in swan form, at several points in the movie. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6956d9bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6956d9bf | featureConfidence |
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The Swan Princess | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6956d9bf | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6a8aff51 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6a8aff51 | comment |
The Stormlight Archive has a variant with Shallash, one of the ten Heralds (divinely empowered humans worshipped by the Vorin faith as angelic quasi-divinities) who goes around destroying every religious depiction of herself she can find. This seems to have started due to her guilt at abandoning her duties and lying about it, but over the years it seems to have become a full-on compulsion, to the point where we several times see her stop what she's doing to destroy pictures of herself. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6a8aff51 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_6a8aff51 | featureConfidence |
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The Stormlight Archive | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6a8aff51 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6b2bd433 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6b2bd433 | comment |
In The Hideous Sun Demon, when Gilbert McKenna transforms for the first time and sees himself in the mirror, he smashes it. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6b2bd433 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_6b2bd433 | featureConfidence |
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The Hideous Sun Demon | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6b2bd433 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6c9193a1 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6c9193a1 | comment |
A variation in The Venture Brothers fanfiction The Sorrows of Young Werner, telling the backstory of Baron Ãœnderbheit. The future Baron tells his manservant to smash the mirror when he wakes up in hospital with his jaw blown off. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6c9193a1 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_6c9193a1 | featureConfidence |
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TheVentureBrothers | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6c9193a1 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6cd3b44f | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6cd3b44f | comment |
Black Lagoon: Roberta does this after she takes a Shower of Angst following the death of her master, Diego Lovelace. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6cd3b44f | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_6cd3b44f | featureConfidence |
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Black Lagoon (Manga) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6cd3b44f | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6e1d5f36 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6e1d5f36 | comment |
An interesting version happens in Farscape during the second season finale. Harvey, in Scorpius' image, appears to John in a mirror; when John punches it, the mirror shatters, but the image remains. He punches it at least five more times, and as soon as the glass falls, Harvey reappears, taunting him. When Aeryn enters the scene, we see that the mirror actually did shatter: John's been punching the wall for the last minute, and his knuckles are bleeding. And then everything goes to hell. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6e1d5f36 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_6e1d5f36 | featureConfidence |
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Farscape | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_6e1d5f36 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_72262aee | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_72262aee | comment |
In the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "Sozin's Comet, Part 3", Azula rages at her hallucination of her mother in a mirror as she realizes that she is completely alone and unloved, thus also clearly raging against herself. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_72262aee | featureConfidence |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_72262aee | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_73d7930f | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_73d7930f | comment |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: When Damar tosses his glass of kanar at his reflection, it signifies the beginning of his Heel–Face Turn. In "Second Skin", Kira is held on Cardassia, surgically altered to resemble a Cardassian spy and is told she actually is her. This is her reaction as she looks at her altered face in the mirror, uncertain if it's true. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_73d7930f | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_73d7930f | featureConfidence |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_73d7930f | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_75584731 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_75584731 | comment |
In Tropic Thunder, when Kirk Lazarus finally starts breaking character and remembering who he really is, he drives the point home to himself by shattering his reflection in a nearby mirror. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_75584731 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_75584731 | featureConfidence |
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Tropic Thunder | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_75584731 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7832b74c | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7832b74c | comment |
In the Steven Universe episode "Jungle Moon", Stevonnie experiences Pink Diamond's memories in a dream, of her demanding her own colony to Yellow Diamond. Stevonnie sees whose memories these are and wakes up after witnessing Pink smash a reflection of herself through her own eyes. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7832b74c | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_7832b74c | featureConfidence |
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Steven Universe | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7832b74c | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_78fc0025 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_78fc0025 | comment |
Characters on Twin Peaks who are subject to Demonic Possession by BOB have the tendency to smash their heads into mirrors. Since the reflection is always of BOB himself, this nicely demonstrates the conflict between BOB and his victim. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_78fc0025 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_78fc0025 | featureConfidence |
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Twin Peaks | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_78fc0025 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_79ed218f | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_79ed218f | comment |
During the Kiss 2 Kill Music video, Jimmy Jacobs breaks a mirror with his fist. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_79ed218f | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_79ed218f | featureConfidence |
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Jimmy Jacobs (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_79ed218f | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7a83b2b1 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7a83b2b1 | comment |
In Eyes of Laura Mars, the murderer angrily stabs a mirror with a knife. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7a83b2b1 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_7a83b2b1 | featureConfidence |
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Eyes of Laura Mars | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7a83b2b1 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7aaf9e41 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7aaf9e41 | comment |
Batman: Two-Face does this in his Golden Age origin, in which he throws a flowerpot against the mirror. This becomes a recurring theme of adaptations of the character inevitably trashing a mirror when he finally gets a look at himself after his scarring. Starting in the 1980s, this was added to the Joker's backstory as well starting with Alan Moore and The Killing Joke. In this version, after the man that would become the Joker suffers his worst day ever, it's topped by him looking at seeing his disfigured face in a puddle as he starts laughing. While the Joker himself admits that he might be mis-remembering this, and he's retold many different stories about his past, this particular detail tends to repeat itself. One of the more famous adaptations of this story is in Batman (1989), which also used The Killing Joke as an inspiration for the film. In this version, it comes complete with pitiful, horrified whimpering at the first glance he gets at his new face, then crazed laughter shortly after that. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_7aaf9e41 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_7aaf9e41 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7aaf9e41 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d0cd638 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d0cd638 | comment |
In the animated version of The Ricky Gervais Show, this happens in Karl's film pitch when Bryan (who hates Tom Cruise) wakes up in the hospital with his brain in Cruise's body. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d0cd638 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d0cd638 | featureConfidence |
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The Ricky Gervais Show (Radio) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d0cd638 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d67d66e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d67d66e | comment |
The title character of Richard II breaks a mirror when his reflection fails to show any maturity or hardship after his deposing. "A brittle glory shineth in this face — as brittle as the glory is this face". Inverted in the sequel Richard III where the titular character, after successfully wooing the widow of a man he murdered, decides to buy a mirror to see if he has suddenly become less hideously ugly. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d67d66e | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d67d66e | featureConfidence |
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Richard II (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_7d67d66e | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_813cce6a | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_813cce6a | comment |
Time to Disinfect: A mental breakdown caused by her mother's abuse drives Mari to lash out at her "blank-eyed" reflection and punch her bathroom mirror hard enough to crack it. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_813cce6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_813cce6a | featureConfidence |
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Time to Disinfect (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_813cce6a | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_82881b4e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_82881b4e | comment |
Happens in I Miss You, I Miss You after Tina's identical twin sister Cilla has died. Tina takes out some of her anguish on her mirror image, imagining that it's actually Cilla she's seeing. Eventually the mirror cracks. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_82881b4e | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_82881b4e | featureConfidence |
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I Miss You I Miss You | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_82881b4e | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_834197b2 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_834197b2 | comment |
In Horus Heresy, Fulgrim does it several times after his guilt catches up with him in form of Ferrus Manus, Abel to Fulgrim's Cain, appearing in various reflections as a silent, if mocking reminder of what he did. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_834197b2 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_834197b2 | featureConfidence |
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Horus Heresy | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_834197b2 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_83ad2ee5 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_83ad2ee5 | comment |
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban there is a mirror hanging above the fireplace in the Shrieking Shack that has very clearly been punched in, most likely by Lupin in his younger years. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_83ad2ee5 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_83ad2ee5 | featureConfidence |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_83ad2ee5 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_83d41855 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_83d41855 | comment |
Gargoyles did it twice: In "Reawakening", Big Bad Demona resurrects her clanmate Coldstone in the form of a Cyborg. When he sees his image in a mirror, he shatters it in disgust. In "The Mirror", Demona uses a magic mirror to capture Puck and have him do her bidding. Among the things she wants is for him to Kill All Humans, but he tells her he's not powerful enough for that. Another thing she asks for is to no longer turn to stone during the day (as all gargoyles do). At the end of the episode, Puck grants this wish by having her turn into a human during the day. When Demona realizes this, she smashes the mirror in horror. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_83d41855 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_83d41855 | featureConfidence |
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Gargoyles | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_83d41855 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8426674b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8426674b | comment |
Subverted in Conan the Destroyer. Before taking the Heart of Ahriman, Conan had to kill the guardian Toth-Amon by smashing the mirrors around him. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8426674b | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_8426674b | featureConfidence |
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Conan the Destroyer | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8426674b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8509db53 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8509db53 | comment |
The song "Hopelessly Devoted To You" from Grease ends with a variation of this trope. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8509db53 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_8509db53 | featureConfidence |
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Grease | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8509db53 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_85a246b3 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_85a246b3 | comment |
Titans (2018): In "Origins", the orphanage nuns lock Rachel up in a cell to stop her Superpowered Evil Side escaping. When said evil self appears in the mirror, Rachel smashes it, but Evil-Rachel continues to taunt her, with the broken shards even levitating out of the frame to speak to her when she's not facing the mirror. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_85a246b3 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_85a246b3 | featureConfidence |
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Titans (2018) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_85a246b3 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_86904ab8 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_86904ab8 | comment |
In Iron Man, when Tony Stark learns from a CNN report that Stark Industries weapons were used by terrorists against innocent people in Yinsen's hometown, he blasts a glass wall in his lab with his gauntlet's repulsor, after catching his reflection in the glass. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_86904ab8 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_86904ab8 | featureConfidence |
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IronMan | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_86904ab8 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8707600c | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8707600c | comment |
Infinity: Ever17: In Coco's Route, the Kid has a truly epic Freak Out in front of the locker room mirror. The reflection therein looks nothing like the Kid; he's a Tomato in the Mirror. Remember11: Done by both Kokoro and Satoru upon first learning about their "Freaky Friday" Flip. Hotori's first episode is a result of that too, but you don't find out until much later. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_8707600c | featureApplicability |
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Infinity (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8707600c | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89b2502b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89b2502b | comment |
In Sudden Impact, Sondra Locke's character smashes the mirror after she herself resembles the image she painted of herself. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89b2502b | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_89b2502b | featureConfidence |
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Sudden Impact | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89b2502b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89bf8ce | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89bf8ce | comment |
Liz Lemon has a self-loathing speech in front of a mirror in the "Retreat to Move Forward" episode of 30 Rock. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89bf8ce | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_89bf8ce | featureConfidence |
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30 Rock | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_89bf8ce | |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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When Michael Myers in Halloween: Nightdance starts seeing visions of his past as a child in the reflections of a hall of mirrors, he stabs the nearest one with his knife. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_8d817ccb | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8d817ccb | comment |
There is a lot of symbolic focus on characters looking into mirrors in Lost season six's sideways timeline. Sawyer smashes a mirror with his bare fist after an argument with Miles. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_8d817ccb | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_909ca4b1 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_909ca4b1 | comment |
ReBoot has Matrix do this twice during an All Just a Dream episode. First time is when he's rebooted as Megabyte and a vidwindow reflection does a Hannibal Lecture, and Matrix smashes it which makes him look normal again. Second time is when another vidwindow appears and a reflection of himself does another Hannibal Lecture, and Matrix shoots that. | |
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ReBoot | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_90b916ba | comment |
Batman: The Animated Series: In "Two-Face: Part 1", upon awakening after getting caught in an explosion, Harvey Dent demands a mirror. When he sees the grotesque scarring of half his face, he screams with horror and anger, and his transformation into the villain Two-Face becomes complete (except for the occasional Hope Spot that keeps Batman tormented that his old friend might be saved). In "Baby-Doll", Batman is chasing Baby Doll through a funhouse, into the Hall of Mirrors. She's caught up short when one of the mirrors shows her as she would have been if she did had not been born with a rare condition that makes her forever look five years old. Cue Villainous Breakdown during which she empties her gun into the mirror. In "Terror in the Sky", Francine Langstrom does this when witnessing their transformation into Man-Bat in the mirror of an airplane bathroom. |
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Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_912009bb | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_912009bb | comment |
In the Pony Psychology Series, Rainbow Dash is flying by one day when she hears yelling. Inside? Pinkie Pie screaming hateful insults at herself while smashing a mirror with her FACE. This severely weirds out poor Rainbow. | |
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Pony Psychology Series (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_91c7a535 | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_91c7a535 | comment |
In the first volume of the third series of Orfani, there's a scene where the Villain Protagonist Jsana Juric accuses her stepfather SÃ ndor Kozma by ignoring her and focusing solely on his job as the EMR's President, and then, she takes a perfume gift and she throws it into a mirror and smashing it. | |
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Orfani | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_924bb56e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_924bb56e | comment |
Dollhouse: Episode "The Public Eye" - After releasing Echo and the Senator, Bennett smashes her forehead into her black reflection on the reflective surface of the monolithic server, breaking the glass. | |
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Dollhouse | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_924bb56e | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_92916f5a | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_92916f5a | comment |
After Fiona has left to marry Lord Farquaad, Shrek sees his ogre reflection in broken glass shards and splashes mud upon them. Earlier, when Fiona sees her ogre reflection in a bucket of water, she dashes it aside. | |
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Shrek | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_92916f5a | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_93d12a59 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_93d12a59 | comment |
In Home Sweet Home (2005), Cham Yim-hung, the deformed woman who kidnaps May's son for mistaking him as her deceased son, immediately smashes the glass door of an electrical grid upon seeing her reflection, causing a blackout throughout the entire apartments complex. | |
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Home Sweet Home (2005) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_93e3f14e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_93e3f14e | comment |
Disney's Tarzan has young Tarzan slap at his reflection in a pool because of his frustration with being so obviously different from the "other" gorillas. | |
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Tarzan | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_950fa01b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_950fa01b | comment |
In The Country Girl, alcoholic Frank looks up from his drink, sees his sad-looking reflection in the mirror, then chucks his glass, shattering the mirror. | |
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The Country Girl | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_950fa01b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9588284f | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9588284f | comment |
Happens in The Congress when Robin Wright has a Heroic BSoD because she feels uncomfortable with the cartoon world, then, she smashes a mirror headbutting it. | |
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The Congress | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9588284f | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9aab7b0a | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9aab7b0a | comment |
Swamp Thing: In the flashback of the Patchwork Man's origin in issue three of the original 1972 series, he sees that he has become a Frankenstein's Monster in the mirror shown to him by Anton Arcane, responding by destroying the mirror. Issue 23 of the original series had Swamp Thing see his reflection in the mirror after accidentally making Ruth Munroe faint and instinctively shatters the mirror by throwing a figurine at it. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_9c615a34 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9c615a34 | comment |
Esther of The Bell Jar does this with a hand mirror upon gazing at her disfigured appearance in the reflection. | |
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The Bell Jar | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9c615a34 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9e97b2fc | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9e97b2fc | comment |
In The Relic, the brain-eating monster that is the film's antagonist breaks every mirror it encounters because it doesn't like being reminded that it isn't human anymore. | |
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The Relic | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9e97b2fc | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9ed01625 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9ed01625 | comment |
In a particularly hard-to-watch scene from the film Vulgar, the main character returns home after being brutally gang-raped by an insane father and his sons. He demolishes his house and smashes his mirror with a wrench while screaming at his reflection, after which he uses a shard of glass to cut his hand.'' | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9ed01625 | featureApplicability |
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Vulgar | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9ed01625 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9f02c5f | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9f02c5f | comment |
Before the end of Summer of Sam, After Dionna's left Vinny for his infidelities, the latter one, before the arrival of his friends, sniffs cocaine and, enraged, shouts profanities and smashes his mirrored furniture. | |
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Summer of Sam | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_9f02c5f | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a14e5771 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a14e5771 | comment |
A slightly different take in 28 Days Later, when one of the soldiers who's got the rage virus stares fixatedly at his reflection in a free-standing mirror, before fleeing. It's just as well he didn't strike it as a little girl was hiding behind it. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a14e5771 | featureApplicability |
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28 Days Later | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a14e5771 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a183d57f | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a183d57f | comment |
In the Futurama episode "I, Roommate", a sober Bender winds up lying in an alley in a puddle of his own bodily fluids (mostly oil). He sees his reflection in the puddle, and, predictably, smacks it. | |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a183d57f | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a48c533e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a48c533e | comment |
In Zardoz, Zed shoots his former Exterminator self inside the Tabernacle. | |
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Zardoz | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_a4f6203b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a4f6203b | comment |
Implied in The Phantom of the Opera (1990) miniseries, where Erik declares, "My eyes are the only part of face that I can look at in the mirror without wanting to break the glass." | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a4f6203b | featureApplicability |
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The Phantom of the Opera (1990) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_a6db221e | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a6db221e | comment |
Mark Owen's (of Take That (Band)) solo song "Clementine" has the subject of the song do this though it's less rage and more a Despair Event Horizon and the final line suggests a Downer Ending. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a6db221e | featureApplicability |
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Take That (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_a8f6cdd9 | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_a8f6cdd9 | comment |
"Superman and Spider-Man": As dwelling on the accident which ruined his face, Doctor Doom removes his mask, stares at his disfigured, naked face in a mirror and angrily smashes the reflecting surface to bits. As putting his mask back on, Doom considers to ban mirrors after conquering the world. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a8f6cdd9 | featureApplicability |
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Superman and Spider-Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a8f6cdd9 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a949e666 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a949e666 | comment |
In Elysium Kruger punches and partially shatters a mirror after his face is reconstructed. Seeing one of the shards is what gives him the idea to kill Delacourt. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a949e666 | featureApplicability |
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Elysium | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_a949e666 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_aad197d5 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_aad197d5 | comment |
In Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa, one of the victims of the week is discovered to have a broken mirror in his apartment, which is the last clue Himura needs to solve the case. He finds out that the victim suffered from dysmorphophobia, which caused him to avoid mirrors so he wouldn't have to see his (imagined) ugly face. Because of this, Himura realises that the victim and the supposed culprit, a bandaged man who avoided looking into mirrors, are one and the same. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_aad197d5 | featureApplicability |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_aad197d5 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ad436a58 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ad436a58 | comment |
Killer Workout: When the body count is mounting and everything is unravelling, Rhonda takes a moment to fix her hair and makeup. She surveys the results in a hand mirror, and then angrily hurls the mirror away, where it smashes. This is because she is really Valerie and knows that all of her beauty is false. The makeup covers residual scarring on her face, and the hair is a wig to disguise the fact she is bald because of the tanning bed accident. | |
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Killer Workout | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ad436a58 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ada547f3 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ada547f3 | comment |
The infamous film The Room (2003) has Tommy Wiseau's character do this to a mirror during his wimpy Anger Montage. Appropriately mocked on Rifftrax: | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ada547f3 | featureApplicability |
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The Room (2003) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ada547f3 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ada93ca | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ada93ca | comment |
Countess Dracula: During her Villainous Breakdown, Elisabeth sees her now aged relection in a mirror lying the floor and angrily smashes it. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ada93ca | featureApplicability |
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Countess Dracula | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_ae11a901 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ae11a901 | comment |
The Pants Project: When trans boy Liv first sees himself in a skirt, as required by his new school's dress code, he throws a shoe at his bedroom mirror. | |
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The Pants Project | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ae11a901 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b36b99c6 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b36b99c6 | comment |
In Hulk, Hulk smashes the water in a lake when he thinks he sees his father's reflection. | |
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Hulk | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b36b99c6 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b51b368d | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b51b368d | comment |
In Ergo Proxy, Raul Creed punches his reflection on two occasions as his frustration and inner turmoil grow. The second time, he hits hard enough to break the mirror and injure his hand. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b51b368d | featureApplicability |
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Ergo Proxy | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_b616e19b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b616e19b | comment |
In Korn's "Here to Stay" the singer supposedly smashes his head into a mirror during the line about it but the audience sees it from the other side of the mirror so it just looks like he's slamming his head through glass. There is also no mirror finish shown on the pieces of broken glass that spin back to face the audience. | |
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Korn (Music) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride has this with Kovu's reflection. Why? Unlike Simba, who saw Mufasa in his reflection, Kovu sees Scar. | |
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_b6ae9932 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b6ae9932 | comment |
Having fallen into dereliction after his daughter's death in Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Sam Fisher gives the ole mirror a bloody-fisted whack. | |
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Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b6ae9932 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b8b43ba | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_b8b43ba | comment |
Haunting Ground has Daniella, who will stop and scream whenever she sees her reflection for a moment or two before breaking the mirror. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_b8c3cc30 | comment |
Young Justice (2010): In "The Fix", Tigress (Artemis) smashes the mirror when she looks into it and sees her real face staring back at her, rather than the illusion everyone else sees, as she is so angry at the lie she is living. | |
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Young Justice (2010) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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It's implied in Deus Ex: Human Revolution that Adam Jensen does this to his mirror a lot. The superintendent of his apartment building has all but given up on even trying to replace the computer-backed, rather expensive mirrors. Implied until he outright states during the showdown with Taggart that the first thing he did upon viewing his post-surgery self was put his fist through the mirror. |
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In the Duckman episode "Noir Gang", the Love Triangle between Cornfed, Duckman, and Tamara has just come to a head, with Cornfed revealing that he's in love with Tamara as well and that she returns his feelings. Duckman storms out and Cornfed gazes at his own reflection in the mirror, then punches it out. | |
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Duckman | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_bc3e398b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_bc3e398b | comment |
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Sarah Connor punches and breaks a mirror at the end of "Strange Things Happen at One Two Point". | |
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_bc3e398b | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_bc848d30 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_bc848d30 | comment |
In one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick is talking to his reflection about going on the "Fiery Fist o' Pain" roller coaster. It calls him a coward, causing Patrick to punch it out—not the mirror, the reflection. After it's knocked out of view, he says to the blank mirror, "I thought we'd settled this the last time!" | |
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Zigzagged in Tiger House. Following her fight upstairs, Kelly stares at her now Unkempt Beauty, with dishevelled hair and other people's blood smeared across her face. It looks like this trope is in play when she picks up a bottle and slams it into the exact centre of her reflection: smashing the mirror. However, she then starts carefully picking the fragments of mirror out of the frame: taking the largest of them and wrapping it in a towel. It is then revealed that she actually broke the mirror so she would have something sharp enough to cut the zip-ties on the Bound and Gagged hostages. | |
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Tiger House | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_bf3a0285 | comment |
In one episode of Without a Trace, the team are looking for a missing teenage boy whose blood has been found on a shattered bathroom mirror. It turns out he punched it in a rage after the girl he had a crush on cruelly humiliated him. | |
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Without a Trace | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_bf3a0285 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c01688c8 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c01688c8 | comment |
The Batman (1989) example is parodied in "Last Exit to Springfield" with the shadowy silhouette reveal of Lisa's horrific Braces of Orthodontic Overkill when the family has no dental insurance. | |
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Batman (1989) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c01688c8 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c24649f8 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c24649f8 | comment |
Parodied in Zoolander. At Derek's lowest moment, he looks into a puddle in the road, gets philosophical, and then a car goes by and splatters him with said puddle. | |
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Zoolander | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c24649f8 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c3335b05 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c3335b05 | comment |
RWBY: Scars: In one chapter, Weiss argues with Mirror, a hallucination of herself that she sees in her reflection, and punches the mirror, injuring her hand. Her aura heals the injury but her sleeve is left bloody. She tries to pass it as ketchup to her teammates. When her sister Winter sees it, she thinks that Weiss has started self harming again. At a critical moment when she's starting to recover, Weiss yells at Mirror and smashes her mirror, giving Mirror a scar identical to her own. Her brother Whitley notices the outburst while passing by her room films it and shows it to their parents. Jacques revokes Weiss' status as heir due to her unstable mental state and gives it to Whitley (which was Whitley's intention as he knows Weiss' life would be easier if she had more freedom). |
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RWBY: Scars (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c3335b05 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: In "Let's Kill Hitler", the Doctor is badly poisoned and activates the TARDIS voice interface because he can't work the controls anymore. The interface uses a holographic image of the Doctor himself to communicate. The Doctor tells the TARDIS to shut it off and show him someone he likes instead. | |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_c61f3112 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c61f3112 | comment |
In Justice Society of America, Damage says that after his face was irreparably destroyed by Zoom, he smashed out all the mirrors in his apartment. | |
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Justice Society of America (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_c63757e9 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c63757e9 | comment |
I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too: At the start of the story, Yuuya smashes his mirror when he can't hold back his frustration and anger over all the abuse he's endured his entire life, no matter how much he tried to do good to honor his grandfather's wishes, and feeling that it will likely continue throughout his life. Fortunately, this act results in him accidentally opening the hidden door to his house's secret room, which in turn holds the door to the other world. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_c8da904d | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c8da904d | comment |
In Future GPX Cyber Formula, after suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of Hayato and his Super Asurada 01 in the England race trials, Shinjyo looks himself at the bathroom mirror and punches it. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c8da904d | featureApplicability |
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Future GPX Cyber Formula | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_c8da904d | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ca2e0d18 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ca2e0d18 | comment |
In Face/Off, after Sean Archer undergoes plastic surgery that gives him Castor Troy's face. Upon waking up after the surgery and seeing his enemy's face in the mirror, he takes his rage against the reflection out by trying to smash the mirror with a coat hanger, only to be stopped by his friends. A clever version happens later in the movie where Archer (in Troy's body) and Troy (in Archer's body) are in a back-to-back Mexican Standoff with a mirror between them and they both turn to fire through their reflections, showing the faces they really want to kill. |
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Face/Off | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_caa3f7db | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_caa3f7db | comment |
In Rachel Griffin, Siegfried smashes the reflective looking glass when it shows how his girlfriend was Mind Raped and molested by the villains. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_caa3f7db | featureApplicability |
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Rachel Griffin | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_caa3f7db | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ccc80720 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ccc80720 | comment |
Jenny does this in the first episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot (And the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons short the series is based on), lamenting on how no one would want to be friends with a robot. In her case, she vaporizes the mirror. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ccc80720 | featureApplicability |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_ccf875f7 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ccf875f7 | comment |
In the Criminal Minds episode "Outfoxed", the unsub saw their reflection as a teenager, and shot it. | |
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Criminal Minds | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ccf875f7 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cd38232a | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cd38232a | comment |
Space Pirate Mito: Ranban punches the mirror and then rages against it. Or rather, rages against Mito, who he considers his "mirror-image" since they share the same blood (his drips on the mirror shards as he says this) and were both in line for the throne. He wonders how it can be that they're so alike, yet only he was "cursed" with a genetic defect that lead to him being imprisoned by the rules of their society. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cd38232a | featureApplicability |
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Space Pirate Mito | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_cf7c1158 | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_cf7c1158 | comment |
Punisher: War Zone. Jigsaw sees his reflection in a mirror and breaks down crying at seeing how disfigured he is. Loony Bin Jim assures his big brother that he’ll never have to look at his reflection again, then proceeds to smash every mirror in the room by slamming himself into them, head-butting them, using exaggerated pseudo-martial arts, and just throwing heavy objects at them, howling like a madman the whole time, while his brother laughs in approval. Later when both characters are arrested, the traditional double-sided mirror in the interrogation room is shown to have been broken as well. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cf7c1158 | featureApplicability |
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Punisher: War Zone | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cf7c1158 | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cffd305d | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cffd305d | comment |
In April Showers, Sean smashes a bathroom mirror after he has a flashback to being unable to tell April he loves her before she was killed in the school shooting. He has a bandage on his hand for the rest of the movie. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_cffd305d | featureApplicability |
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April Showers | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d4412e3 | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d4412e3 | comment |
In Tommy it is Mrs Walker who smashes the mirror — thus revealing Tommy's true self and releasing him from his self-imposed prison. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d4412e3 | featureApplicability |
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Tommy (Music) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d456b5a9 | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d456b5a9 | comment |
Defied in Eleutherophobia: Ghost in the Shell. After watching himself be victim-blamed on the news, Tom looks in the bathroom mirror and thinks about how he can pull the same cruel expressions as the Puppeteer Parasites who wore his body, but decides not to smash it. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d456b5a9 | featureApplicability |
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Eleutherophobia (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d461f757 | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d461f757 | comment |
Battlestar Galactica (2003): An enraged Adama punches the mirror, cutting his hand, after discovering his long-time friend Saul Tigh is a Cylon. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d461f757 | featureApplicability |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d4f9ccf | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d4f9ccf | comment |
There's a scene in Aladdin where Jasmine slaps at her reflection in a pool and says "Maybe I don't want to BE a princess anymore!" | |
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Aladdin | hasFeature |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d4f9ccf | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d5fcae4e | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d5fcae4e | comment |
Ted Lasso: Nate spits at his reflection in a mirror after impulsively kissing Keeley. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d5fcae4e | featureApplicability |
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Ted Lasso | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d6ed834e | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d6ed834e | comment |
In the flash game Die Anstalt, Dolly the sheep does this when shown a mirror. | |
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Die Anstalt (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d7943b1b | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d7943b1b | comment |
One could interpret the prologue of book eight of Guardians of Ga'Hoole this way. | |
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_d7c4626a | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_d7c4626a | comment |
The Sandman (1989): In "The Kindly Ones", Hippolyta Hall does this in her hallucination journey. | |
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The Sandman (1989) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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.45: When Big Al is holding Kat in front of the dresser mirror and is demanding that she declare herself a whore, Kat reaches out and smashes the mirror instead. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_da872ea6 | featureApplicability |
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.45 | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_dc25de3f | comment |
In the Portal fan film "No Escape," the protagonist appears to do this, until we see her pick up a shard of the mirror and use it to look at the bar code tattooed onto the back of her neck. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_dc25de3f | featureApplicability |
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Portal / Videogame | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_dcb802d3 | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_dcb802d3 | comment |
In the music video for "Jessie's Girl", Rick Springfield smashes a mirror with the neck of his guitar, because he doesn't think he's good enough to get a woman like Jessie's girl. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_dcb802d3 | featureApplicability |
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Rick Springfield (Music) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_dcf7d02e | type |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_dcf7d02e | comment |
Pulled by Misaki Touno in Private Actress, right after she crosses the Despair Event Horizon. What follows is her using her own blood to draw a cross on the wall and her pulling a Bath Suicide. | |
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In Once Upon a Time, in the first episode with Belle, Rumplestiltskin has a sheet over the one mirror in his home, which seems at first like a reference to this trope and its use in Beauty and the Beast (as it turns out Rumplestiltskin is the Beast). It turns out to be a subversion: his actual reason turns out to be that the Evil Queen is capable of spying and work magic through mirrors — he winds up pulling the sheet off to rant at her a bit. | |
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Once Upon a Time | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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In Unknown (2006), one of the characters smashed a bathroom mirror out of frustration. | |
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Unknown (2006) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_e21eb559 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
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Happens in Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 when the tile antagonist watches his disfigured face. | |
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Laid to Rest | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_e293455a | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A variation on this is in the season four episode "Who Are You?" Faith and Buffy have switched bodies, and Faith gets an eye-opening experience at what it's like to be Buffy and to have have friends and family who love her and trust her. This affects her so deeply that at the end of the episode where she and Buffy face off, this exchange takes place: Buffy suffers long-term depression after being dragged back from the afterlife at the beginning of Season Six. Her attempts to rediscover her passion in a Destructive Romance with Spike only make things worse. In "Dead Things", when Buffy (incorrectly) thinks she has murdered an innocent woman, she savagely beats an unresisting Spike, describing him in terms that clearly mirror her own fears over what she has become. |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_e3433012 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
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Like just about anything else, 5 Second Films have played this for laughs with Self-Hatred | |
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5 Second Films (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Digimon Frontier: Takuya does this after he recovers from his Next Tier Power-Up, which caused him to go berserk and attack all his friends. | |
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Digimon Frontier | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_e6267766 | comment |
In the Star Wars Legends novel "Death Star" Darth Vader punches out a mirror in his quarters out of anger and frustration over his life in general. | |
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Star Wars Legends (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_e66220af | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_e66220af | comment |
In Pan's Labyrinth, Captain Vidal slashes his mirror with his razor while shaving, symbolizing the more self-destructive aspect of his obvious father issues. | |
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Pan's Labyrinth | hasFeature |
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Played for Laughs in Italiano Medio (Average Italian Man in Italian). While Giulio Verme is preparing to participate to Master VIP (a parody of Reality Televisions like X-Factor and Got Talent), his inner sane personality talks to him to come back to his senses through a mirror, then, Verme smashes it with a very light punch. | |
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Italiano Medio | hasFeature |
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If Walker shoots the hallucination of Konrad in Spec Ops: The Line, he shatters like a mirror with the wrong reflection. | |
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Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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In Cyberpunk 2077, V can possibly punch a motel bathroom mirror out of grief over Jackie's death following the Relic heist. | |
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Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_ee77a8e2 | comment |
Kaiju Girl Caramelise: When in the hospital after an outburst over the mistreatment she faced over her apelike face, Rairi comes across a makeup kit that promises that anyone who uses it can look like a famous model. She decides apply the makeup — but she sees that her face barely looks any different in the handheld mirror that came with the kit. We then cut to a distant shot of the hospital as a shattering sound is heard, implying Rairi tossed the mirror away. | |
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After the appliances in The Brave Little Toaster fall down a waterfall and nearly die, the Toaster blames himself and his fear of water. Looking at his reflection in a puddle, he swats at it in frustration. | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ef4fd083 | featureApplicability |
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The Brave Little Toaster | hasFeature |
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Rage Against the Reflection / int_ef7b3325 | type |
Rage Against the Reflection | |
Rage Against the Reflection / int_ef7b3325 | comment |
Fantastic Four: Doctor Doom smashes anything reflective when not wearing his mask. The shot of Doom hunched over, fist in a smashed mirror is re-used during one story arc for Reed, after Doom burns his face. | |
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Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics's rendition of Beauty and the Beast has Beast looking at his reflection in a water pond, then screaming in despair and throwing a rock at it. Maria/Beauty sadly looks at him from a window. | |
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Breaking Bad: in "Four Days Out", Walt repeatedly punches his reflection in a bathroom tissue dispenser after hearing the news that his cancer is in remission. Ordinarily this would be good news, but for Walt, it means his "exit strategy" for getting out of the crystal meth business just vanished. There are multiple interpretations to his rage here, none of which are mutually exclusive. Along with the above, it also robbed of him of a convenient excuse to continue doing criminal deeds. This gained even more traction in the Grand Finale four years later when he admits that everything he did, he did because he enjoyed doing it. | |
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The Lion Guard: Like his future brother-in-law, Kion, fearing that he's becoming more like his evil great-uncle now that (among other things) he has a matching scar, slaps a pool of water when his reflection turns into Scar. | |
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The Smurfs (1981): In the episode "Hats Off to Smurfs", Vanity becomes so horrified at how disfigured his face becomes after he started wearing the yellow hat created by Gargamel that he smashed all the mirrors in his house. | |
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The protagonist of "Vicious Wrath", by Krisiun makes reference to this at one point late in the song (during the second, longer guitar solo): | |
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In the Kingdom Hearts fanfic Darkness Born, slightly subverted in that it's not the character's own reflection that enrages them. Marluxia hallucinates his abusive father in his mirror, mocking him and calling him weak. He screams at it to shut up and punches out the mirror. The broken glass slices up his hand, arm, face, and legs. | |
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An unusual case appears at the climax of the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Harry, trapped in a battle in his own mind, caps off his rejection of Voldemort and his "Not So Different" Remark sentiments by punching a symbolic mirror into shards. | |
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In Bride of Frankenstein, the Monster sees his reflection while drinking from a pool. He churns the water in disgust, only to see the reflection reappear to his horror. This is based off a scene in the original Frankenstein. | |
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In Carrie, the titular character smashes a mirror in her room by telekinesis. | |
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Neither a mirror or pool of water, but in The Nightmare Before Christmas, when Sally tries to talk Jack out of Subbing for Santa by showing a picture of Jack as the Pumpkin King, Jack simply takes the picture and breaks it over his knee. | |
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In the 25th chapter of The Power of the Equinox, Dimmed Star is angry with herself after she (under the influence of the Entity) attacks and nearly kills Pinkie Pie, traumatizing her seriously. When she sees her own eyes mocking her in shattered mirror fragments, she destroys them completely. | |
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