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{{trope}}
{{quote|''God bless
''God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;
''But who pretender is, or who is King--
''God bless us all--that's quite another thing.''
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|'''John Byrom'''}}
Comes from the story
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]].
{{examples}}
* This happens in ''[[
* The ''[[Detective Conan]]''/''[[Lupin
*
* This happened ''ten years'' before the beginning of ''[[Princess Principal]]'', with Princess Charlotte of Albion and her friend Ange taking each other's place on the day of a revolution that left them on opposite sides of a [[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.
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* In one [[Archie Comics|''Archie'' comic]], Lil' Archie agrees to take the place of a weary prince who is identical to him. Lil Archie then successfully puts down an uprising, while the Prince is off enjoying his freedom.▼
▲* This happens in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam|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 Queen of the Moonrace in the actual queen's place}}
▲* The ''[[Detective Conan]]''/''[[Lupin the Third]]'' 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.
▲* A recent ''[[Pokémon]]'' episode had 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.
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* In one [[Archie Comics|Archie comic]], Lil Archie agrees to take the place of a weary prince who is identical to him. Lil Archie then successfully puts down an uprising, while the Prince is off enjoying his freedom.
* ''Bunty'', a British comic for girls, used this plot a few times. One recurring strip involved a wealthy Victorian heiress switching places with her maid for a day, but then the maid steals a valuable heirloom belonging to the heiress and claims to be her. The real heiress is forced to remain as a servant until she can find a way to prove her identity.
* The
== 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
** And
** One of the sequels to the 1961 Disney film cast a genuine set of ''triplets''.
* ''The [[Lizzie
* ''[[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 trope is named for a Mark Twain novel 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.
* ''Das doppelte Lottchen'', published in English as ''[[Lottie and Lisa]]'', is the [[Adaptation Displacement|original book]] that all the ''Parent Trap''-style films are offshoot adaptations of.
* Quoted, played straight, subverted, lampshaded, deconstructed, and reconstructed in ''[[Duumvirate|Billy and Howard]]''. Repeatedly.
* This is the main plot element of Anthony Hope's 1894 novel
* A similar plot is used by Robert Heinlein in
* Parodied and subverted all to heck in ''[[Split Heirs]]'' by [[
* Happens in the ''[[Narnia]]'' book ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]''
* Happens in [[Myth Adventures]] novel ''[[Hit or Myth]]'', where King Roderick convinces protagonist Skeeve, the court magician, to temporarily take his place using illusion magic. Of course, Skeeve finds out a little too late that the King did it because he was due to be married to the queen of a neighboring kingdom who's rumored to be [[God Save Us From the Queen|insanely greedy and bloodthirsty]]. It turns out that {{spoiler|the Queen IS ambitious and clever, but not evil, and catches on to the switch instantly... but when she shows more interest in marrying Skeeve than the King, the conflict becomes finding the King and getting him back to the wedding without the Queen finding out and killing him.}}
== Live-Action TV ==▼
* The premise of the Australian TV show ''[[Minty]]''.
* Used
* Happens in the ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' episode "Warrior... Princess", where Xena (a commoner, despite her nickname) temporarily switches places with an [[Identical Stranger|identical-looking princess]] at the local king's request.
* In the third season ''[[The Man
* This concept is used in a ''[[Wishbone]]'' episode where he is telling the story.
* ''[[The Monkees]]'' episode "The Prince and the Paupers", where Davy impersonates a prince to help him get married.
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*
* The [[Moxy Früvous]] song "King of Spain" is all about this:▼
''I took a change of position!"'' }}▼
* Used in ''[[Vocaloid|The Story of Evil]]
▲* in the 1896 John Philip Sousa opera "El Capitain," Don Enrico Medgua, the Viceroy of Peru, doubles for "El Capitain," the leader of the rebellion against the Spanish rule in Peru.
* ''[[Bloom County]]'' had Opus temporarily switch places with [[Michael Jackson]] at his request during MJ's heyday. Suprsingly,
▲* The Moxy Früvous song "King of Spain" is all about this:
▲{{quote| ''"Prince and pauper<br />
▲Junior and Whopper<br />
▲World made up of<br />
▲Silver and copper<br />
▲Under my own volition<br />
▲I took a change of position!"'' }}
▲* Used in [[Vocaloid|The Story of Evil]] when {{spoiler|[[Meaningful Name|Rillianne]], who was a [[God Save Us From the Queen|terrible ruler]] switches places with her servant and [[Twin Switch|twin brother]], Allen. A bit unusual in that this is not the beginning of the plot, but rather the dramatic climax of it and that Allen himself organizes the whole thing to save her from an uprizing. Under the Princess' guise he gets captured and promptly [[Off With His Head|decapitated]] while the Princess successfully escapes. In a later song Rillianne is shown being burdened with regrets over his death, though, and in the finale she becomes a lowly nun in a monastery, so I guess [[An Aesop]] was learned as usual.}}
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* [[Bloom County]] had Opus temporarily switch places with [[Michael Jackson]] at his request during MJ's heyday. Suprsingly, none noticed.
▲== Theater ==
* The [[Zany Scheme]] subplot of ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', wherein Lucentio (son of a wealthy merchant from Pisa) and Tranio (his servant) switch clothes upon arriving in Padua. Tranio takes on Lucentio's identity while Lucentio pretends to be a tutor. (Whether the two actually resemble each other depends on your interpretation of the line "We have not yet been seen in any house/Nor can we be distinguished by our faces/For man or master". Regardless, it's clear that they get away with the switch because no one in Padua knows them, and in performance they generally look nothing alike.)
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* Used
{{quote|
▲* Used/spoofed in the ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' cartoon "The Prince and the Pinhead", which had a cartoon version of Mark Twain show up near the end to complain about the overuse of this plot.
'''Prince:''' Um, why, yes I am. You see, I -
▲{{quote| '''Johnny:''' [[Genre Savvy|Hey, you ain't one of them rich princes who wants to switch places with his exact double, are you?]]<br />
'''
▲'''Prince:''' Am I really that transparent?<br />
'''Johnny:''' Naw, I just seen a lot of TV. }}
* In the
* Done in
* [[Mickey Mouse]] starred in an adaption of the Twain story.
* Candace did it in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Make Play".
* The ''[[
* In an episode of The Hub's ''[[Pound Puppies]]'' series, team member Squirt and high society pooch Mr. Cuddlesworth switch places after meeting at the shelter when the latter chihuahua runs away from his home.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Pink Panther
* A ''[[Jem]]'' episode featured a
* ''[[The Proud Family]]''
* Done in an episode of ''[[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye & Son]]'' with Junior and a prince.
* In an episode of ''[[Fish Hooks]]'', Oscar gets mistaken for the Queen of Fish England when he impersonates her [[It Makes Sense in Context|and almost ends up getting married to Mr. Muscles]]. At the end, the real Queen of Fish England shows up, and we find out that she was at Freshwater High impersonating Oscar... [[Makes Just
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