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|'''John Byrom'''}}
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
If one is literally a prince (or other royalty), there will usually be a plot by
Compare with [[Emergency Impersonation]] and [[Freaky Friday Flip]]. Also see [[Mock Millionaire]].
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==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
* 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.
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* ''[[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
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* 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.
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