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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the ''[[Tenchi Muyo! (Anime)|Tenchi Muyo]]'' OVA, while Yosho's false persona of Katsuhito Masaki had been known fact for a while, his mother sees right though his disguise of being OLD (which was part of that persona), and asks him to take it off. No-one else knows/knew.
** Also in the movie ''Tenchi Muyo in Love'', Achika recognizes Tenchi as her son, even though she is in high school, unmarried, not dating, and the fact that he won't be born for another nine years.
 
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* In ''[[The Famous Jett Jackson|Jett Jackson: The Movie]]'', this is how [[Cool Old Lady|Miz Coretta]], Jett's grandmother, figured out that [[Trapped in TV Land|Jett had switched places with his TV role, Silverstone]]. When Silverstone asks her how she knew, she says that from the moment she first looked into the then-newborn Jett's eyes, she knew she would always be able to identify him. {{spoiler|This information [[Chekhov's Gun|later becomes important]] in defeating the shape-shifting [[Big Bad]] in Silverstone's world when he makes himself look identical to both Jetts}}.
* In the remake of ''[[The Parent Trap]]'', the father looks each twin in the eye and declares which one is Hallie. We never find out if he's right though, since the twins keep playing up the charade and make him question his own judgment.
* ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'': Implied to be the reason Rapunzel's mother recognizes her in the end {{spoiler|despite her trademark long blonde hair chopped and brown by the end of the film}}.
* Inverted in ''[[Spirited Away (Anime)|Spirited Away]]'', where the protagonist's parents have been transformed into pigs; to rescue them, she must pick them out of a line-up of several dozen other pigs. {{spoiler|She correctly determines that ''none'' of the pigs are her parents}}.
* ''[[Stardust (Filmfilm)|Stardust]]'': Una and Yvaine are captured by the witches. Tristan, trying to rescue Yvaine, mistakes Una for one of the captors and is about to attack her when she identifies herself, having recognized him even though the last time she saw him was when he was an infant.
* ''[[Changeling (Filmfilm)|Changeling]]'', a 2008 movie based on [[wikipedia:Wineville Chicken Coop Murders|true events]], is kick-started when a missing boy is returned to his mother--but she immediately realizes it's an imposter. She is committed to a mental institution when she refuses to acknowledge the boy as hers. {{spoiler|It's a ploy by [[Corrupt Cop|the kidnapping case's lead investigator]] to cover up the police department's incompetence and corruption}}.
 
== Literature ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' episode "Split Decision"--identical quadruplets are involved in a killing conspiracy, even though one was a lot younger due to the in vitro fertilization aspect of the story. The mom of one of the four said she'd know him anywhere, but didn't know the other quadruplet who'd been ID'ed at the time.
* In ''[[Fringe (TV)|Fringe]]'', during Season Four, although Peter is both out of his original timeline (making him unknown to everyone in the current one) and in the other universe, his mother Elizabeth still recognizes him as her son grown up.
* Played with in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' in which Illyria disguises herself as Fred in order to trick Fred's parents into believing that their daughter is still alive and well. They seem to fall for it... though as she's about to leave, Fred's mother wonders if there's something a bit "off" about her daughter, before shrugging it off.
 
== Video Games ==
* Inverted in ''[[Devil May Cry (Video Game)|Devil May Cry]]'', where Dante could recognize Trish (who has his mother's face) even when she was disguised as {{spoiler|Gloria}}.
* In ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow (Video Game)|King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]'', if Cassima's parents are brought [[Back From the Dead]], they can identify that the Cassima who is so eager to marry the Vizier is definitely not their daughter.
 
== Western Animation ==
* In the ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' DVD movie ''Stewie: The Untold Story'', Future Lois is able to recognize her infant son when the rest of the family isn't.
* In the ''[[She -Ra: Princess of Power (Animation)|She-Ra]]'' pilot, it's established that Princess Adora was kidnapped as an infant. When Prince Adam brings the now-adult Adora into the throne room, King Randor and Queen Marlena immediately recognize her.
* On ''[[The Cleveland Show (Animation)|The Cleveland Show]]'', when Roberta is made to disguise herself as a fat girl as part of a school project, no one at school recognizes her and Junior ends up falling in love with her. When she agrees to go on a pity date with him and he introduces her to the rest of the family, they all somehow recognize her instantly.
 
== Real Life ==
* In many instances in the animal kingdom, a mother knows her offspring by their scent. The inverse is true as well, with animal babies identifying their mother the same way.
* Another example, which also appears under [[Flags of Ourour Fathers]]: The mother of one the Marines who raised the famed flag over Iwo Jima recognized her son in the picture - from the back. She knew her own child's back and buttocks well enough that she insisted it was him even though officially, it wasn't. Eventually, she turned out to be right.
 
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