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And no, the trope is not named after [[6teen|Jonesy Garcia.]]

 

* ''[[Baccano!]]'' has an instance of this involving a member of the [[Mook|white suits]]. Would not have been so bad if the person he was trying to trick was {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy|Claire Stanfield]]/[[Torture Technician|RailChaser]]/[[Chaotic Neutral|the young conductor]]}}.

* Subverted in the 8th ''[[Detective Conan]]'' movie, where Kaitou KID shows up disguised as Shinichi. Conan, who is standing right there, immediately blurts out "That isn't Shinichi!", but has no evidence to back it up without giving away his secret identity. He can't use the usual proof of tearing off [[Latex Perfection|Kid's mask]] because Shinichi and Kid share the same face.

* This trope is what does in [[Master of Disguise]] Saemon from ''[[Basilisk]]'', as his disguise as Tenzen is exposed by the actual Tenzen in some rather unfair circumstances. {{spoiler|namely, Saemon thought that Tenzen was dead and didn't know about his ability to come back from the dead after being killed. Three guesses what Tenzen did to expose Saemon; the first two don't count.}}

 

* [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] and the first appearance of the [[Master of Disguise|Chameleon]], though he has to make up another excuse as to how he spotted the impostor pretending to be Peter Parker to avoid revealing his secret identity.

** Another exchange:

** From the 1940's newspaper comics, Batman disguised himself as a mob boss... whose henchmen had just decided to get rid of. After being held at gunpoint, the ''real'' mob boss comes through the door. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', a reporter infiltrates the "[[Just for Pun|Cereal]] Convention," a convention for serial-killers from around the world, by posing as the Candyman, one of its attendees. He hopes to promote his newspaper, which is focused on the exploits of the attendees and those like them, and also to gain new insight and understanding into their work. Unfortunately for him, not only is he an unconvincing actor but the Corinthian, an ''[[Nightmare Fuel|actual nightmare]]'', knows for a fact that the Candyman died last year, killed by the [[Swamp Thing]]. As one would expect from a convention of murderers, rapists, kidnappers and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|people who talk at the theater]] they do not let his deception go unpunished.

 

* In the ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' films, Mystique does something similar to this with Lady Deathstrike and an office janitor {{spoiler|though she doesn't say anything to the real janitor when she passes him}}.

** She later {{spoiler|tries posing as Wolverine to infiltrate Stryker's base. Of course the one thing Stryker knows, it's his his own work and he isn't fooled.}}

* In Jackie Chan's ''[[Drunken Master]]'' the protagonist Wong Fei-Hung tries to trick a middle-aged man he sees eating alone at a inn into paying for his overly-large meal, when he tries to leave however, he runs into the manager who inquires as to who will be paying the bill, Wong says the middle-aged man will, at which point the manager asks Fei-Hung what his relation to man is, Fei-Hung states that the man is his father, at which point the manager informs him that the middle-aged man is really the inn's owner and that he is his son and that he's never seen him before.

* In the 1995 ''[[The Quick and the Dead]]'', [[Big Bad|John Herod]] is hosting, as well as competing in, a gunfighting tournament. One of his opponents is Ace Hanlon, a man with a few tricks, but whose guns aren't quite as quick as his mouth. As their fight is about to begin, they have the following exchange:

* A variation. Near the end of ''[[Batman Begins]]'', {{spoiler|Bruce is introduced to Ra's al Ghul. His response: "You're not Ra's al Ghul. I watched him die."}}

 

* In the short story "Animal Rescue" (later expanded into novel ''The Drop'') by [[Dennis Lehane]], a small-time thug had a scary reputation based on the rumor that he'd killed a fellow named Richie Whelan a few years back. The police never pinned it on him, but he used this to intimidate people ... until he tried to push around {{spoiler|the main character}}, one of the guys who ''really'' murdered Richie Whelan. Oops.

* In the short [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] story "The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste", several men all claim to be the aristocratic sleuth and wine expert Lord Peter Wimsey. A wine tasting is held in order to determine the real Wimsey. Their host can't figure out who the real one is until {{spoiler|it is revealed that they're all fakes - Wimsey is the one visitor not calling himself Lord Peter Wimsey.}}

* In ''The Bad Bunch'' by [[J. T. Edson]], Belle Boyd poses as Belle Starr in order to infiltrate an all-female outlaw gang. Unfortunately for her, the real Belle Starr had the same idea

 

* A variation in an episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' had a cocky wannabe bandit try to intimidate Xena by telling her that he had killed the dread warlord somebody, which earned him only a passing nod. Later on, he repeats the boast, and Xena tells him he's a liar, and he didn't kill that guy. "How do you know?" "Because ''I'' did."

* The first episode of the children's show ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]'' featured one character infiltrating a gang that wore doubleface masks when stealing and had code names based on characters in their favorite videogame. During the meeting the group introduced themselves with the names—the infiltrator had a fifty-fifty chance of picking the name the unintroduced gang member didn't have. He chose poorly.

'''Bertie:''' Who was it?

'''Barmy:''' Jeeves! }}

 

** [http://notalwaysright.com/a-man-of-many-faces-all-of-them-dumb This is arguably the straightest example]. Bonus points for using an ID they didn't bother to check.

** [http://notalwaysright.com/lesson-1-how-to-scam-a-scammer And invoked here].

** [http://notalwaysright.com/a-poser-by-any-other-name-part-2 And here].

* There's a variant in a joke floating around the internet where a guy gets taken to a mental hospital because he's convinced that Jesus sent him on a quest of some kind. When he says this in the waiting room, another patient jumps up and calls bullcrap, because he (the second patient) did no such thing.

 

 

* Spies in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' are easily rooted out by the people on the other team whose names the game has randomly given them for their disguise.

** Or, in a much easier sense, if a player knows he's the only person on his team with his class (in which case the Spy will inevitably have that player's name).

** The Halloween update had a "Costume Contest" achievement for killing Spies disguised as your class. Spies themselves have an achievement (Identity Theft) for killing the guy they're disguised as.

* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear Solid 2]]'', Pliskin knows that the person claiming to be Solid Snake is, in fact, an imposter. Wonder why? Ah, it's the voice. He doesn't have the sexy manliness of David Hayter.

 

* The [[Trope Namer]], as noted above, is ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.

* Happens in ''[[Anti-HEROES]]'' #67. Kaal is impersonating "Dave" when he runs into the real "Dave", and manages to [[Mirror Routine|stay in sync with him]] for a while before [[The Ditz|his own stupidity]] does him in.

* In ''[[Terror Island]]'', one of the main characters tries to sneak into a college reunion under the obviously made-up name "Ned Q. Sorceror, D.D.S.". Turns out the school actually has an alumnus by that name.

 

* In the ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon ''Hello, How Am I?'', Wimpy impersonates Popeye in hope of getting some hamburgers from Olive, and has an argument with the real Popeye over which of them is genuine.

** An argument based entirely on [[Fridge Logic]]. The only thing that the points brought up in the argument actually proved was that one of the two wasn't Popeye, without providing any evidence as to which one was the real Popeye.

* Parodied in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Road to Germany:" "Two priests?! That's impossible!" Later in the same episode it's played straight, complete with [[Mirror Routine]]. Also played straight in another episode when Peter tries to impress a high school classmate by claiming he grew up to be "Neptune, God of the Sea" only to find out that the real Neptune is playing at the same miniature golf course and doesn't appreciate Peter sullying his good name.

 

* There are lots of urban legends about fraudsters trying to pass off fake or stolen IDs that turn out to be relatives of people in the queue behind them, or the manager of the store they're trying to rip off.

** One variant on this theme (possibly apocryphal) has reports of drivers being stopped and offering false ID—that turns out to belong to the cop stopping them (or a relative/close friend of same).