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See also [[Snowball Lie]], which is a superset of this trope. Supertrope of [[Fake Twin Gambit]]. Compare [[The Real Remington Steele]]. A [[Pen Name]] is a real life type of '''Invented Individual'''. Contrast [[Unperson]]. Compare [[Girlfriend in Canada]].
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* Similar to the fictional student is the fake building once created on the UBC campus in [[Stargate City|Vancouver]]. Students in the psychology and sociology programs inserted a non-existent building into the campus maps and records; the hoax remained undetected until the next semester when instructors assigned classrooms in the fictitious building were unable to find it, despite the alleged location of the building being in clear view of the front of the campus' primary administrative building.
* "Rosa Kaganovich", the woman invented by Nazi propaganda to tie a new enemy to the Root Of All Evil in their mythology. Nazi [[Believing Their Own Lies|apparently believed this]], and long after they were gone a few indiscriminate rumour-mongers beclowned themselves by remixing this, as you can see with the help of a search engine. Eventually leading to a study on "problem of mythological versions of the biographies of political leaders" named ''How a Legend became a Woman: the Story of Rosa Kaganovich, Stalin’s Secret Wife''.
* Numerous colleges and universities have or had fictional alumni who were at least initially believed to be real people. Georgia Tech, for instance, had [[w:George P. Burdell|George P. Burdell]], who earned every undergraduate degree it had to offer and went on to serve on [[Mad|''Mad'' magazine]]'s Board of Directors. [[Ivy League|Princeton]] had [https://paw.princeton.edu/article/harvey-smith-1917-invented-legendary-princetonian Adelbert L’Hommedieu X. Hormone, class of 1917], "Bert" to his friends, a rogue and adventurer who owned a bar in Bali and whose adventures entertained readers of the ''Princeton Alumni Weekly'' for decades until his untimely death in 1967, just before his fiftieth reunion.
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