History Main / PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative

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* ''Literature/TheBible'': When Abram and Sarai enter Egypt, Sarai pretends to be Abram's sister so that the men don't try to murder Abram and steal Sarai. It doesn't work as the Pharaoh tries to add Sarai into his harem and gives bribes to Abram. Pharaoh eventually lets her go when God inflicts plagues on Egypt and also discovers that Sarai is Abram's wife.
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* After faking their own deaths in the finale to the prior season, the final season of ''Series/Charmed1998'' saw the Halliwell sisters pose as their own cousins for the early part of it.

-->--''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''

->'''Pepe''': I am Monsieur Pepe.\\
'''Mr. Farquhar''': But you were the doorman!\\
'''Pepe''': Eh? No, no, that's Mario. My brothers.
-->-- ''Film/CarryOnAbroad''

* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Fletch-Widow-Bradley-Gregory-Mcdonald/dp/0375713514 Fletch and the Widow Bradley]]'': The dead husband is wandering about as '''her''' sister, in a story that's early enough that [[GenderBender gender changing]] wasn't so obvious an occurrence.

* [[ComicBook/ScarletSpider Ben Reilly]] did this during the part of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' where he believed he was the real Peter Parker, he let the existing Pete keep the identity and passed himself off as Peter's cousin to explain the resemblance.
* Early on in the ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' series, Matt, to throw people off the scent that he was the title hero, engaged in a FakeTwinGambit and posed as his own twin brother named Mike, though he'd ultimately fake "Mike's" death. [[spoiler:That said, events in ''ComicBook/DaredevilCharlesSoule'' and Creator/ChipZdarsky's [[ComicBook/DaredevilChipZdarsky subsequent run]] resulted in a CosmicRetcon that made Mike Murdock an actual, separate, and still-living person -- with the latter ending up reversing the situation with Mike posing as Matt to protect his identity as Matt, as Daredevil, serves time in prison for his AccidentalMurder of a criminal and for Mike's own schemes.]]
* In ''ComicBook/ThePowerOfShazam'', Billy uses his OlderAlterEgo to pass himself off as his Uncle Ebenezer. Since he can "tweak" the form, he gives himself a beard so he doesn't look ''exactly'' like Captain Marvel.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' took a leaf out of Ben's book when she met her own clone, passing the girl off as Cousin April.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'':
** Matsuri and Suzu first met Haya when she's impersonating her brother Soga by [[CaptureAndReplicate capturing the real thing, stealing his exorcist ninja suit]], and saying he'd been [[GenderBender turned into a girl]] by an ayakashi (even threatening Ponosuke into playing along). All of it was just a way to get Matsuri to tell Haya what it was like when he actually ''had'' been turned into a girl.
** After Matsuri's male and female halves are split apart, Reo makes a WeirdnessCensor-manipulating trinket that makes {{muggles}} believe they're twins--who inexplicably have ''[[RealNameAsAnAlias the exact same name]]''--that have both attended the same class for a while.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Matsuri and Suzu first met Haya when she's impersonating her brother Soga by [[CaptureAndReplicate capturing the real thing, stealing his exorcist ninja suit]], and saying he'd been [[GenderBender turned into a girl]] by an ayakashi (even threatening Ponosuke into playing along). All of it was just a way to get Matsuri to tell Haya what it was like when he actually ''had'' been turned into a girl.

* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'': When Saruyama fell in love with "Riko", [[LovesMyAlterEgo who's actually Rito]] [[GenderBender turned into a girl]], Lala claims they're relatives to explain their resemblance and how she found a random girl Saruyama saw in the street.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the episode "Old Man Dexter", Dexter uses one of his inventions to age himself up so he can watch a mature movie, but accidentally turns himself into an old man. Everyone in the house ends up mistaking him for Dexter's grandpa. He denies it initially, but eventually he [[SureLetsGoWithThat goes along with it]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS4E16AngelicaOrdersOutLetItSnow Angelica Orders Out]]", Angelica uses the Pickles Voice Frequency Modulator 5000, an invention from her uncle Stu, to imitate her mother Charlotte over the phone to order sweets from Zippy's Deli against Didi's wishes (Didi threatened to take Lou's teeth away if Angelica was caught eating sweets), trick Drew into buying her an expensive Cynthia playhouse, and trick the other adults into throwing her a surprise party.

* In ''Shadow of the Conqueror'', Daylen Namaran/Dayless the Conqueror is supposed to be dead, but has reverse aged himself by falling through the barrier at the bottom of the world. He's also the most hated person in the world (his reappearance as himself would be like Adolf Hitler coming back from the dead in our world). So he poses as his own son to explain why he looks like his younger self.

* Early on in the ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' series, Matt, to throw people off the scent that he was the title hero, engaged in a FakeTwinGambit and posed as his own twin brother named Mike, though he'd ultimately fake "Mike's" death. [[spoiler:That said, events in ''ComicBook/DaredevilCharlesSoule'' and Creator/ChipZdarsky's [[ComicBook/DaredevilChipZdarsky subsequent run]] resulted in a CosmicRetcon that made Mike Murdock an actual, separate, and still-living person.]]