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** Something similar to this happened in [[Secret Plot]] Deep, where the main male character's twin sister died in an accident, and his parents were so shaken up about it that they started believing he was his sister. Apparently, they got rid of all the photos of him and forgot he existed. To keep them content, he cross-dressed when at home. [[Hentai|This leads to transvestite sex with a girl from school. And a female teacher.]]
* In ''[[Kongou Banchou]]'', [[Deceptively-Human Robots|Machine Banchou]] mistakes little Tsukimi for "Dr. Tsukina", whose orders supersede all others, and she unintentionally alters his personality by giving him suggestions on how to be cooler. This is played for [[Nightmare Fuel]] when she realizes the one thing she can't make him do is {{spoiler|not kill Kongou.}}
** Also an unusual case of it, as, being a [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[
** Hayate was actually visiting, he was standing off to the side during the conversation.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' has what appears to be an explicit tribute to ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' by not only using this trope, but also reusing the name "Dave".
* The Queen of Fables, an evil sorceress [[Refugee From TV Land|from a story book]] believes that [[Wonder Woman]] is her arch enemy, [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (
** She also mistakes [[Superman]] for [[Prince Charming]].
* Effie in the ''Ernie/Piranha Club'' newspaper comic regularly mistakes people for one of her many ex-husbands. (Except [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Arnold]], which she thinks is one of her ''old dogs''.)
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[
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* In the western ''[[Quigley Down Under]]'', Crazy Cora keeps calling Matthew Quigley 'Roy', because, well..... (Roy turns out to be {{spoiler|Crazy Cora's first husband, who left her after she accidently killed their child.}})
** Which is what made it so significant {{spoiler|when she called him by his full name in the final moments of the film}}. The Roy identity also {{spoiler|came in handy when he was booking passage back to the U.S.}}
* In ''[[Batteries Not Included (
** And in a heartbreaking scene in the end, when said character decides to play along for once and pretends that he is her son, {{spoiler|(because he set the house on fire, and is trying to save her)}} it causes her to break through her denial and realize the horrible truth...
* In the final scene of ''Smoke,'' Augie poses as a blind old lady's grandson rather than let her spend Christmas alone. Subverted in that she probably realizes that he isn't actually her grandson but goes along with the act rather than admit that she has been abandoned.
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== Literature ==
* In a [[Hoka]] story by [[Poul Anderson]] and [[Gordon R. Dickson]], the Hoka [[Sherlock Holmes]] persists in calling Alex Jones "Watson" -- the real, which is to say Hoka, Watson is not there, and he can't avoid the pattern.
** The Hoka stories are a particular variation on this trope. The basic premise of the Hoka stories is that the Hokas (a highly intelligent race that just happen to resemble teddy bears) have trouble distinguishing fact from fiction, so whenever they come across a human novel they end up acting it out and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. It's never entirely clear when they do so whether they are conscious of the fact that it's just a re-enactment.
* Professor Binns in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is constantly mistaking everyone for the students of centuries past. It's implied that he's so out of it, he doesn't even realize he died.
* ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]''. After Mole dies, Badger is pretty old and out of it by this time, so when he encounters Mole's son, Mossy, he mistakenly believes that Mossy is his father. Weasel, wanting to be kind to Badger is his last few years, asks Mossy to keep up the charade to spare his feelings.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld
** In ''[[Discworld
* A particularly old and addled man at a museum confuses [[Star Wars|Lara Notsil]] for someone else he once knew. In typical ''[[Star Wars]]'' fashion, he actually confused her ''for her mother'', {{spoiler|an Imperial Intelligence agent, like Lara/Gara/whatever-her-name-is-today herself. This confusion puts another Wraith on the trail to discovering her identity, no less}}.
* In [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''Choke'', the protagonist's mother spends most of the book confusing him for someone else, and one of her fellow patients in the nursing home is convinced that he is her brother who molested her as a child.
* In Vivian van Velde's ''Now You See It'', the main character's senile grandmother keeps calling her by the wrong name. It turns out this is because {{spoiler|the main character traveled back in time and befriended her grandmother; her grandmother is calling her by the false name she gave}}.
* In [[Madeleine L
** ...who Charles Wallace {{spoiler|technically was}}. Sort of. It's [[Mind Screw|that kind of book.]]
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s "[[John Carter of Mars|Swords of Mars]]", he meets, while in disguise, a woman named Zanda, who comes from the city of Zodanga, destroyed because of John Carter's actions. She has sworn [[Revenge]] if she ever meets him. She therefore deliberately feigns this trope when she realizes the truth.
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"Is your happiness so great," I asked, "that it has caused you to forget your vow to kill John Carter?"<br />
She returned my bantering smile as she replied. "I do not know anyone by the name of John Carter."'' }}
* [[Fate/stay
* A woman named Bertha mistook [[Ephraim Kishon]] for the guy who made the drawings her dead husband liked so much, in the weekly newspaper he read. Kishon wrote for a daily, non-illustrated newspaper. That is, in the story. It tends to overlap.
* The Five Find-Outers (well, minus Fatty) once mistook Ernest Goon for Fatty, thinking he was in a clever disguise, and his repeated claims that he didn't know them and wasn't their friend just was a part of the disguise.
* In Angie Sage's ''[[
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* ''[[Raising Hope]]'' has [[Cloris Leachman]] as Maw Maw, who thinks her grandson Jimmy is her dead husband. Traumatizing Frenching and ass-slapping ensue.
* An episode of [[CSI New York]] drew upon a story from Real Life below. Two girls were in an auto accident. One was killed, while the other survived, albeit badly injured. However, the survivor was later murdered in the hospital. {{spoiler|It turns out her killer was her own mother, who, like everyone else, believed her identity to be that of the other girl, whom she blamed for the accident. Her mother kills her in a misguided act of revenge, believing her to be someone else.}}
* One episode of ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'' has Cal Lightman meeting a woman with Alzheimer's Disease who mistakes him for her (dead) husband, and insists that someone murdered her (also dead) sister. {{spoiler|They eventually realize that she has attributed mistaken identities to virtually everyone in her life, and the fellow nursing home patient she'd confused with her sister was the victim of an Angel Of Death style [[Serial Killer]]. She'd witnessed the murder and had been struggling desperately through most of the show to remember it.}}
== Videogames ==
* [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|"Keith, Meg, I'll need you to take over the Wet Noodle when I'm gone!"]] {{spoiler|That's actually an act.}}
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[The Legend of Zelda:
** Then again, the Legend of Zelda timeline(s) are so screwy that goddesses know how many Links there have actually ''been.''
** Mistaking Link might be a genuine accident, but she definitely uses this to trick her daughter into thinking she's senile as Anju is a terrible cook.
* Not quite a character, but in ''[[
** What makes her especially deluded is that given the difference in her two children's ages, Raine would've been ten or eleven when their mother was still pregnant with Genis.
* The player in ''[[Vampire Bloodlines]]'' is approached by someone is certain that they recognize you, so certain that they suspect you of being on drugs when you don't recognize them. The only clue that they might actually know who you were is that [[Story and Gameplay Segregation|if you let her phone other friends about you, you lose Masquerade points]].
** To be fair the dialogue options are ambiguous about whether the player did know the person. An alternate interpretation is that the PC only denies knowing the person because they don't wish to associate with their old life now that their vampire form demands a very different lifestyle. The game does make the point that people who associate with vampires often meet misfortune of one kind or another.
* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'', the player is mistaken for the Teller Of Places's dead lover, until the player is able to convince her that she is wrong.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Prototype (
* Under [[AI Is a Crapshoot|a different definition of senility]], 343 Guilty Spark in the first ''[[Halo]]'' game doesn't seem to see a difference between Master Chief and his long extinct creators, talking to Master Chief as if they've met before and referring to past conversations they've never had. The [[Precursors|matter of who his creators]] ''[[Precursors|are]]'' is one of the many hints across the lore of a connection between the two.
** It's made explicit by the end of ''[[Halo 3]]'', where Guilty Spark comes out and ''says'' {{spoiler|that humans ''are'' the [[Precursors|Forerunners]], or at least their direct descendants}}. This does not, however, stop him from going [[Ax Crazy]] when he realizes that in order to save the galaxy from the Flood, {{spoiler|Master Chief is planning on destroying "his" Halo ''again''}}.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (
* When [[Pibgorn]] [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2010/02/05/ takes Dru as "Sylvia"], Dru intervenes, seriously.
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** But then again, ''his'' grandfather called him Billy.
** In "Dances With Smurfs" some idiot murdered the 9-year-old morning announcer after he mistook him for the middle-aged man his wife was cheating on him with.
* All ''[[
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
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