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* [[Justified Trope]] in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', where someone in the government is responsible for creating the legal identities.
** That, and everyone is either a shapeshifter or has access to a transformation device of some sort.
** Which is to say, this mainly depends on how much of a jerk your local MIB hapens to be:
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'''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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* Something like this happens in ''[[The Wotch]]'' with Mingmei, who is a middle-aged [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-02-12 Latino man transformed into a teenage Asian girl]. A [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|quick memory-altering spell]] allows her to pass herself off as an exchange student, but the larger problems of lack of paperwork, a real family back in Japan, or any means of support are not addressed... [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2005-10-05 till] [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2005-11-25 later].
* ''[http://sharingauniverse.comicgenesis.com/ Sharing a Universe]''. Lynette is still able to get a job, rent an apartment, and otherwise live a perfectly normal life despite being an Elf from a parallel fantasy-themed universe. Lampshaded from time to time with her lack of ID for buying alcohol, and Allison suspecting that she's an illegal immigrant.
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* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', Bud and Brandi are able to acquire modern birth certificates and social security numbers despite being immortal clay golems who predate most known civilizations. However, it is made believable in that it was done by Jin, who has been playing political manipulator in multiple countries for over a thousand years, and probably has more than enough contacts to make someone exist (or cease to exist).
* Inverted in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' with Aylee, who mentions she has problems surviving in society because she doesn't have photo ID. So apparently if she had that, it'd be no problem [[Department of Redundancy Department|she's an alien who looks like the alien from]] ''[[Alien]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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