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Line 7: \|'''John Byrom'''}} ~~Combination~~'''Prince and Pauper''' is a type of plot that is a combination of [[Swapped Roles]], [[Identical Stranger]], [[Princess for a Day]] and [[Fish Out of Water]]. Two [[Doppelganger\|physically identical people]] from different backgrounds swap roles (either by fate or by arrangement) and have to learn how to [[Mock Millionaire\|fake being]] [[King Incognito\|each other]]. Everyone usually has [[An Aesop]] before episode's end. Comes from the story ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'' by [[Mark Twain]], and is regularly used in Disney TV movies, but not commonly in TV episodes, (unless twins are involved). If one is literally a prince (or other royalty), there will usually be a plot by ~~the~~an [[Evil Chancellor]] to depose ~~him~~them already underway when the switch happens. Compare with [[Emergency Impersonation]] and [[Freaky Friday Flip]]. Also see [[Mock Millionaire]]. Line 17: {{examples}} ==Anime and Manga== * This happens in ''[[Turn A Gundam]]'' when the queen of the Moonrace decides to switch places with a lookalike on a whim. This has severe repercussions on both characters and on the war between the Moonrace and Earthrace, ultimately culminating in {{spoiler\|the lookalike ~~going to be~~becoming Queen of the Moonrace in the actual queen's place}}. * The ''[[Detective Conan]]''/''[[Lupin III]]'' crossover special twists this trope a little by having one of the parties (a bratty [[Rebellious Princess]]) trick the other (Ran Mouri from ''Conan'') into swapping clothing, then runs off. * One ''[[Pokémon]]'' episode (shown in the page image) has Dawn trade places with a princess who wanted to participate in a Pokemon contest, who then gave her Togekiss to Dawn to gain experience as she traveled. * This happened ''ten years'' before the beginning of ''[[Princess Principal]]'', with Princess Charlotte of Albion and her friend Ange ~~''deliberately''~~ taking each other's place ~~before~~on ~~being~~the ~~separated~~day byof a revolution that left them on opposite sides of a ~~literal~~[[Berlin Wall\|Berlin-style wall]]. For bonus irony points, "Ange" has become a spy in that time, and has been assigned to take the place of "Princess Charlotte", which leads to their reunion. At the same time, "Charlotte"—initially an illiterate street urchin—drove herself to excel in everything she needed to know to ''be'' a princess, simply for self-preservation. ==Comic Books== Line 29: ==Film== * ''[[Trading Places]]'' plays with this; the people aren't physically identical. Instead, two really rich old guys are pulling the strings. * The various versions of ''[[The Parent Trap]]'', including a movie starring the 11-year-old [[Olsen Twins ~~circa age 11~~]], use a variant on this plot in which each of the swapped characters isare both "prince" and "pauper" at the same time. And, in all versions ''except'' the one with the Olsen Twins (which was titled ''[[It Takes Two]]''), the protagonists were related. Incidentally, the only film versions to actually have twins playing twins were the original ''Das doppelte Lottchen'', and the 1953 UK version ''[[Twice Upon A Time]]''. One of the sequels to the 1961 Disney film cast a genuine set of ''triplets''. * ''The [[Lizzie McGuire]] Movie'' had Lizzie swapping places with an Italian pop idol. * ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' short "Alfalfa's Double" has a rich kid named Cornelius from another neighborhood who looks just like Alfalfa. When he bumps into Alfalfa they decide to swap roles. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. * ''[[The Great Dictator]]'', where Charlie Chaplin plays both a Hitler-esque dictator and a Jewish barber, naturally ends up like this. * ''[[Class Act]]'' has a juvenile delinquent and a genius high school student end up swapping roles when their pictures are ~~swopped~~swapped on their school records. == Literature == * The trope is named for the Mark Twain novel ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'' in which [[Street Urchin]] Tom Canty gets mixed up with Prince Edward VI of England. ** An element that rarely get used in other works is that both try to come clean and get it reversed. Of course, even at the crowning ceremony no-one takes the pretender seriously that he isn't really the prince until the real one shows up.