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* [[Going Native]]
* [[Identical Stranger]]
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* [[Lost in Character]]
* [[Persecution Flip]]
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== [[Film]] ==
* Basically the entire point of ''[[Avatar (
* The plot of ''[[Source Code]]'', where a man is plugged into a machine that allows him to experience the last minutes of a dead man's life.
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* The plot of nearly every ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode had this as a large component, if not the entire premise.
* The recent [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]] ''To Be Fat Like Me'' had a thin and popular teenager being forced into a fat-suit.
* In ''[[
* One episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
* This is the basic premise of ''[[Undercover Boss]]''. CEOs and founders of companies go undercover as normal entry level employees. Most of them haven't done that type of work in ''years'', if at all. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
== [[Theater]] ==
* This one goes back at least as far as [[Shakespeare]]: in ''Henry V'', the title character disguises himself as a common soldier in order to learn the thoughts of the men he's about to lead into battle -- a scene Data recreates on the Holodeck in [[The Teaser]] of the ''[[Star Trek:
== [[Real Life]] ==
* In 1697, Russian Czar Peter the Great traveled to western Europe incognito and spent several months working in a Dutch shipyard, in order to study the customs, traditions, and technology of the Western powers.
** See also Gustav II of Sweden some decades earlier, who traveled incognito (and much more concealed than ol' Pete) as Captain Gars ([[Fun
* Taken literally with [http://www.walkamileinhershoes.org/ Walk A Mile In Her Shoes]: The International Men's March To Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence. The male marchers can't always manage a full mile in high-heeled shoes, but they try.
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