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* ''{{Magellan}}'' has the case of elderly superhero [[spoiler:Gola Beh]] pulling this after [[spoiler:being exposed to a forced FountainOfYouth. She pretends to be a great-niece named Olga Beh]].

* ''Magellan'' has the case of elderly superhero [[spoiler:Gola Beh]] pulling this after [[spoiler:being exposed to a forced FountainOfYouth. She pretends to be a great-niece named Olga Beh]].

* Leo Wyatt in the ''{{Charmed}}'' episode "Saving Private Leo."

* The Trill ambassador in ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
** Only partially. It's a racial thing....

*** The original movie has what could be the page quote: "So what we're dealing with here is a guy who's been around since at least the year 1585, pretending to cark it every once in a while, then leaving all his money to some kid who's been a corpse for decades and taking their identity." (I admit it, I mangled that quote--and he doesn't claim to be his actual grandson.)

* Captain Jack Harkness in the ''{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Small Worlds."

* MilestoneComics ''{{Icon}}'' series. The title character started off as "Augustus Freeman" in Civil-War-Era America and made a habit of this sort of identity change. By the time the comic started in the late 20th century, he was Augustus Freeman IV.

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* ''Neo Angelique'' has [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Nyx]]]].

Bonus points if you keep the same name - so John Smith becomes John Smith Jr, becomes John Smith III, etc. Lose marks if you've ever allowed someone to paint your portrait or take your photograph, as it ''will'' be discovered and expose your deception.

Bonus points if you keep the same name - so John Smith becomes John Smith Jr, becomes John Smith III...

* Short-term variant: In ''Bloodlist'', Jack Fleming rises as a vampire looking a decade younger than his real age, so poses as his own near-identical younger brother when confronting the gangsters who murdered him.

* Short-term variant: In ''Bloodlist'', Jack Fleming rises as a vampire looking a decade younger than his real age, so poses as his own younger brother when confronting the gangsters who murdered him.

* ''The Misenchanted Sword'' by [[LawrenceWattEvans Lawrence Watt-Evans]] gives the main character immortality. Once he solves the problems with it, he does just this by telling all his friends he's leaving his business to a long lost relative. Then he gets himself youthened and comes back as the relative.

* Lazarus Long mentions doing this in RobertAHeinlein's ''Time Enough for Love''. Since he effectively doesn't age, he uses makeup to make himself slowly look older over time. After he's been in an area for long enough, he comes back without the makeup as his "son."

--->"If it?s just giving a temporary introduction to ordinary people, then there is no problem. But you will use your real name when conversing with fellow immortals, and your body will reject establishing a false identity in this world"

* In ''Dracula 2000'', Dr. Abraham Van Helsing uses Dracula's blood to keep himself immortal, in order to continue research on how to kill the vampire king for good. In the modern day, he passes himself as his grandson, "Matthew Van Helsing".

* Vandal Savage in TheDCU, and the {{DCAU}}.

* The Doctor in the ''DoctorWho'' ExpandedUniverse is occasionally referenced as doing this so he can continually visit places he likes. Of course, he has the advantage that he [[TheNthDoctor doesn't look the same every time]].

* In one of the canonical ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' graphic novels, Adam Monroe, an immortal man who's nearly 400 years old, states that during one of his innumerable marriages, he and his wife, to hide the fact that he's staying the same age and she's aging normally, first introduce him as her husband, then eventually their son, then grandson. [[FridgeLogic Apparently a]] MayDecemberRomance would be too hard to believe, [[{{Squick}} Best not to think too hard on what people thought of them]].

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* In Georgia (the Eurasian one, not the North American one) men would pretend to be their fathers in order to dodge being drafted into the Russian army in the bad old days.

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-> '''Willow:''' Wow! Like father like son.
-> '''Oz:''' How 'bout exact same guy like exact same guy.
-> --''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Enemies"

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* ''Neo Angelique'' has [[spoiler: [[MeaningfulName Nyx.]]]].

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* [[spoiler:The all-mighty High Priest Dios]] in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Pyramids'' is an interesting case of this: not only has he been [[spoiler: the high priest and chief adviser to the pharaohs of Djelibeybi for over seven thousand years by abusing a pyramid's age-reversing effects]], he has ''[[StableTimeLoop always]]'' been that way (or at least for untold tens of thousands of years) as a result of [[spoiler: being brought back to the moment of Djelibeybi's founding [[LaserGuidedAmnesia with all of his religious knowledge but no memory of his past, leading him to repeat the experience over and over.]]]] As far as we know, he never actually ''pretends'' to be his own descendant - people just assume.

* Lazarus Long mentions doing this in RobertAHeinlein's ''Time Enough for Love''. Since he effectively doesn't age, he uses makeup to make himself slowly look older over time. After he's been in an area for long enough, he comes back without the makeup as his "son".

* Inverted in Jasper Fforde's ''[[ThursdayNext The Eyre Affair.]]'' Thursday meets a member of the Chronoguard, the time-traveling police, who introduces himself as the grandfather of an ex-boyfriend of hers. However, after the man dies, Thursday learns that the man actually ''was'' her ex-boyfriend, who due to an accident in the timestream had been aged over sixty years. Not bearing that Thursday should meet him like that, he took on a false identity.

* In the third book of ''ThePendragonAdventure'', Bobby claims to be his own grandson when [[spoiler: he meets the surviving gangster from First Earth, who returns his Traveler ring. ]]y.
* In Barry Hughart's ''BridgeOfBirds'', [[spoiler: the current Duke is revealed to be the same man as his alleged "ancestor" who became emperor many centuries ago]].

* Captain Jack Harkness in the ''{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Small Worlds".
* Mayor Wilkins III (aka Mayor Wilkins I and II) in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' .
* Leo Wyatt in the ''{{Charmed}}'' episode "Saving Private Leo".

* An episode of ''TheTwilightZone'' had a woman who did this, and claimed that the old woman living with her was her grandmother when it was really her ''daughter''. [[spoiler: And it turns out she was actually [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Cleopatra]] and had discovered an ancient Egyptian magic that enabled her to stay immortal by sucking the youth out of people using scarabs.]]

* In ''TheElderScrolls: Oblivion'', [[spoiler: Springheel Jak]] does this as [[spoiler: Earl Jakben of Imbel]].
* In ShadowOfDestiny, it is implied that [[spoiler:the main character, Eike, has been this, though without his knowledge.]]

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* ''Film/TheHauntedMansion'' has Master Gracey who poses as his own grandson.
* John in ''Man From Earth'' claims that he has passed himself off as his own son multiple times.

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* ''The Haunted Mansion'' has Master Gracey who poses as his own grandson.