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Usually—but not always—involves an [[Identical Stranger]]. See also [[Body Double]] and [[Mock Millionaire]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'', Makoto Mizuhara is forced to impersonate the missing Princess Fatora until she is rescued. He pulls this off [[Bishonen|with surprising ease]] despite the fact that he sounds nothing like her and portrays her as shy, giggling thing when she's actually a loud, abrasive tomboy.
* In episode 12 of ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', Mashiro runs away rather than meet a foreign prince, and Arika is forced to impersonate her. However, in a double invocation of the trope, the prince is himself an impostor, the bodyguard of the true prince who himself is missing. Naturally, Mashiro and Prince Takumi meet, neither knowing who the other is. (Pleasantly enough, this is ''not'' played for laughs, despite the strong tendency of anime using this trope to do so. What ''is'' played for laughs is Nina claiming to be Arika just for the hell of it—and to further perpetrate the joke, Mashiro introduces herself as Nina, completing the circle.)
* Inverted in an episode of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', where Usagi is kidnapped and Minako must pretend to be Sailor Moon. Everyone else is fooled, but Usagi is less than impressed.
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