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* Done in the pages of ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' where Captain Boomerang starts using the identity of Mirror Master, forcing him to rapidly change in and out of costumes to hide his second identity from his teammates.

* This is the device employed for the climactic sequence of the Dan Ackroyd movie ''[[Doctor Detroit]]''—his character is running back and forth between a society function and a pimps'/hookers' bash, both in the same hotel, and has to switch clothes and personae between them as well. With predictable results.

* A scene in the film ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'' combines this version and the two-identities version, with a children's entertainer, played by [[Robin Williams]], switches between a dinner with his boss and a dinner at the same restaurant where he must pretend to be the elderly babysitter Mrs. Doubtfire. He gets caught by his boss when he forgets to change back, but manages to convince him that this is his idea for a new character.

* In an episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', a family get-together on Halloween conflicts with a party Sabrina wants to make an appearance at. Being a witch, she [[Me's a Crowd|creates a duplicate]] that can only say three phrases and sends her to the mortal party (Salem points out her aunts would be more likely to catch on than her [[Muggle]] schoolmates.) Sure enough, her aunt Hilda tries to send a duplicate to the witch party which Zelda unmasks almost instantly ("Hilda, what color is my dress?" "Pass the potatoes!")

* In ''[[The Wotch]]'', Anne plans to play video games with Robin, go to band practice, make up a test she missed, and help plan the school dance all at the same time. Being a magic user, she summons up three duplicates. Unfortunately {{spoiler|these duplicates represent aspects of her personality, and shortly afterward, other aspects of her personality leave her as well. To make matters worse, they cause all sorts of trouble, some of which Anne doesn't even learn about until much, much later.}} [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]], and [[Sarcasm Mode|I'm sure that rescheduling some of those events would have been ''far'' more painful.]]

* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] "Overbooked" is a [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] episode from season six. In this episode, [[SpongeBob]] must be at Patrick's birthday party, help Sandy with her presentation, and help Mr. Krabs build a telescope, all at the same time.

* The Roman general Gaius Marius did this is in his last few weeks with two diplomatic delegations, feigning bouts of dysentery in order to rush from one end of his house to the other. It worked, but didn't help him much; he died quite soon afterwards and was in no real position to oppose a returning Sulla anyway.

* In one of his ''[[Dilbert]]'' books Scott Adams gives the example of a man who had received simultaneous job offers from two firms in the same office building. He accepted both, and negotiated that he would start at 8 am in one firm and 9 am in the other. He'd go into the first firm at 8, log onto his computer and so on, then at 9 he'd claim to have a meeting, go to the other firm, log on there, work for an hour or so, then go back to the first firm... and so. In this manner, he managed to draw two paycheck for several months, until one day there was a fire alarm and he had to figure out which group of workers to stand with...