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{{quote|''"Duffman can never die! ([[Beat]]) ...Only the actors who play him!"''|'''(A fatally wounded) Duffman''', ''[[The Simpsons]]''}}
A character is said to have [[Immortality|lived for centuries]]; his name found all throughout the history books. When our hero or heroes finally meet him, he reveals his deepest, darkest secret -- he's not actually immortal. As it turns out, he is merely the latest in a long line of [[Spell My Name With a "The"|Bob The Immortals.]] Apparently, the original Bob secretly trained a second to take up his name, appearance and personality. The second continued this with a third, and so on until present day. (There was always someone to [[Take Up My Sword]], or for [[Passing the Torch]] to.)
This can be made much easier if first Bob The Immortal wore a mask all the time (possibly while [[From a Certain Point of View|claiming]] that [[Mask of Power|the mask is what gives him immortality]]) or [[Shrouded in Myth|no one can agree on what the original looked like]] beyond 'he wears a [[Badass Longcoat]] and carries around a [[BFS|huge sword]].'
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This can also apply to [[Time Master|Time Travellers]], if they're sighted in multiple time periods and are thought to be immortal because of it.
Related to (and partially [[Trope Namer|named for]]) [[Legacy Character]]. The primary difference between the two is that most [[Legacy Character
The inversion (Bob the Immortal pretends to be a series of different people) is [[My Grandson Myself]].
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== Anime ==
* [[Code Geass|Zero]] will live on even though Lelouch is {{spoiler|dead}}.
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* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion]]'', the [[Phantom Thief|Gray Fox]] works this way. He actually was many people in row wearing the same magical mask. The mask was cursed by the Daedra it was originally stolen from; wearing it permanently erases the wearer's identity from history, meaning nobody will ever recognize them (masked or not) as anyone other than the Gray Fox. After {{spoiler|the curse is broken, the wearer is able to use the mask to perfectly mask his identity, but the mask can be removed and the effect will end.}}
* [[Mass Effect 2]] has the Shadow Broker, an unseen entity which commands a galaxy-spanning information network. The current Broker is {{spoiler|Liara T'Soni, who took command secretly after [[You Kill It You Bought It|killing her predecessor]], an unnamed never-before-seen alien ''who did the exact same thing years before''. The origin of the network is as-of-yet unknown.}}
* In [[Zettai Hero Project]], the Unlosing Ranger (a sendup of the entire
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