Future Me Scares Me/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character's future self irritates and/or freaks them out.

• Straight: Bob, the Plucky Comic Relief, is disturbed by his Future Badass self.
• Exaggerated: Bob, The Messiah, is utterly repulsed by his future self's Complete Monster tendencies.
• Downplayed: Bob doesn't like his future self's habit of smoking.
• Justified: Bob is a pacifist, so seeing himself give this trait up so haphazardly freaks him out.
• Inverted: Bob admires his Future Loser self for some obscure quality.
• Subverted: Bob is disturbed by his Future Badass self... but another Bob from later on shows up, and it turns out he's back to being comic relief.
• Double Subverted: And then another Bob from even later shows up; he's back to being a Future Badass.
• Parodied: Bob, a Complete Monster, is utterly repulsed by the slight pitch change in his Messiah-like future self's voice.
• Zig Zagged: Future versions of several characters are shown: the Granola Girl became a Well-Intentioned Extremist, the Jerk Jock became a Future Loser, and the Cloudcuckoolander didn't really change at all.
• Averted: Future Bob is more or less the same.
• Enforced: "We need some drama in this time-travel scene!"
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: Bob openly looks for qualities he hates in case he ever meets his future self.
• Exploited: Emperor Evulz sets up circumstances to make Present Bob infuriated at Future Bob.
• Defied:
  • "Screw it, my future self is actually pretty cool!"
  • He doesn't show any disturbance whatsoever and listens to his future self's warning.
• Discussed: "A time machine? Oh no. What if I turn out to be evil?!"
• Conversed: "You'd think Bob would be excited about how cool his future self is."

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You can go back to my main version if you want, but he's kinda scary.