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{{quote|'''Chuck:''' ''(about testifying in court)'' I'm going to say "I'm somebody!"<br />
'''Emerson:''' ''(mockingly)'' Hey, Somebody, can I see some I.D.?|''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', "Smell of Success"}}
 
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* Rizel Iwaki of ''[[Rizelmine]]'' pulls off the [[Robot Girl]] variant of this, although it's justified as the government is fully aware of her and uses secret funding and other shady measures to support her.
* In ''[[Yumeria]]'', Mone appears in Tomokazu's bed one morning, and is in school a few days later. Fortunately, his [[Lolicon|teacher]] is very accepting of the situation, and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] Tomokazu's incredulity:
{{quote| ''You look like an anime fan who's unable to accept this ridiculous premise.''}}
* ''[[Girls Bravo]]'': Miharu and other [[Human Alien]] girls enter the school system without any difficulty.
* In the TV series of ''[[Black Rock Shooter]]'', {{spoiler|Yuu is introduced}} as a [[New Transfer Student]] despite being {{spoiler|the same age as she was when she entered the Otherworld and replaced Strength, 10 years ago.}} There isn't even a handwave.
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** ''S1m0ne'' has a similar plot.
* Averted in ''[[Highlander]]'' (the first movie): Connor has to keep changing his name every few years and handing his antiques shop down to his new identity. The police find it suspicious that every owner of that property inherited it from the previous owner for at least a century.:
{{quote| '''Nerdy computer guy:''' So what you've got, Brenda, is a guy who's been creeping around since at least 1700, pretending to croak every once in a while, leaving all his goods to kids who've been corpses for years -- and assuming their identities.}}
* In ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'', Marty McFly apparently attends his [[High School]] for a week in 1955 with no problems. At the very least, he hangs out at the school for a few scenes, tells George "you weren't at school today" and goes to the [[High School Dance]]. The movie is rather vague on the point of whether or not he was officially enrolled, probably to avoid drawing attention to this very problem.
** It was November when Marty landed, so it's possible the teachers weren't paying attention to who exactly is supposed to be in their classes.
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** They have been doing this for a long time and have also amassed a lot of money and contacts to grease the wheels.
*** Pointed out in Maryann Johanson's [http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2010/06/062910the_twilight_saga_eclipse_revi.html review of the film]:
{{quote| '''Maryann:''' He’s a century-old immortal, he’s richer than God, and he’s not even bound by the clichés of vampirism to avoid sunlight: he could be doing anything and everything fabulous with his endless, privileged life. Traveling the world. Living like a rock star. Anything. What does he choose to do? Attend high school in the rural Pacific Northwest.}}
*** Possibly they decide to maintain mundane routine roles since if he did try to gain a high-profile position such as a recording artist, that would draw too much attention.
*** Or not. According to [[Word of God]], Twilight vampires are pretty much indestructible by humans, even saying that an ''atomic bomb'' wouldn't kill one if the vampire didn't want it to. Which begs the question of why vampires have to stay hidden [[Fridge Logic|at all]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* While not undead, this issue sometimes comes up in ''<nowiki>~[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse~]]</nowiki>'' with [[Humanity Ensues|wolf-born]] Garou. The game itself doesn't explain what they do if they want to integrate with human society, it's just taken for granted that the other werewolves and their kinfolk (humans born with the gene recessive) forge identities for them, and possibly teach them reading and other basic skills.
** Considering the Glass Walkers, it's not hard to figure out how they pull it off...
** ''<nowiki>~[[Vampire: The Masquerade~]]</nowiki>'' also touches on it. Between being able to create Ghouls and (depending on the clan) other mind-control powers, most vampires have find little intrinsic problems in arranging things. Source material/fluff occasionally mentions both the necessity of ensuring your own [[Undead Tax Exemption]] and the effectiveness as a tactic of screwing with your enemies'.
*** However, the fluff (Book of Nod specifically) also says "There will always be Caesar, pay him his due". The notes on that specific line imply that tax evasion is one of the biggest threats to the Masquerade.
** ''<nowiki>~[[Changeling: The Lost~]]</nowiki>'' also takes into account that characters will likely look [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|a little different]] due to their time in Faerie, if they're not presumed dead. There's a Merit called New Identity that runs from 1 dot (a forged driver's license that ''might'' pass inspection when you're pulled over) to 4 dots (a well-constructed identity that would take some deep probing by a federal agency to dismantle).
*** The stand-alone sourcebook ''Immortals'' has a similar Merit, Alternate Identity, for [[Blood Bath|Blood Bathers]] and [[Immortality Begins At Twenty|the Purified]]. [[Grand Theft Me|Body Thieves]] have no need of the Merit, for obvious reasons.
** Similarly, the rare [[Promethean: The Created|Promethean]] who manages to become human. While usually one of the Created can operate 'under the radar', when they become fully human their history is going to be rather interesting. "So what did you do before this?" "Oh, I wandered the earth as a monster trying not to fuck up the world too much until I managed to become human, what'd you do?" "I was in banking too."
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** Which is to say, this mainly depends on how much of a jerk your local MIB hapens to be:
{{quote|
'''Raven''': I have no intention of speaking with the man who tried to deport me to Russia.<br />
'''Mr. Verres''': To be fair, you ''did'' enter the country on falsified information.<br />
'''Raven''': The only thing I lied about was my ''age'', and ''I'm not from Russia''.
}}
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