History Main / SwitchedAtBirth

* In ''Literature/TokyoRavens'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:Harutora]] is the true child of [[spoiler:Yasuzumi and reincarnation of their ancestor, Yakou]]. In order to protect him, he was swapped with the DoorstepBaby [[spoiler:Natsume]] who was raised as a decoy for the conspirators pursuing the child. It worked right up until [[spoiler:Natsume's gender was revealed]] and the deception was realized.
* ''Manga/HenkyouNoRoukishiBardLoen'': Kaldus Coendera tries to claim that [[spoiler:the son King Windellan is looking for, Joulran, has been raised as Zeon Coendera after a switcheroo. It proves to be fruitless as Joulran Tersia has an unusual physical trait only the royal family members have.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': It was retconned that Barry Allen had a twin brother who was believed stillborn; however, the doctor actually switched his twin with another couple's dead baby to keep them from pressing charges for botching the delivery, and he was raised as Malcolm Thawne. When Malcolm realized this was one of the reasons for his [[AbusiveParents terrible childhood]], he [[StartOfDarkness killed the doctor in a rage]], demanding to know why ''he'' was the one to be taken.

* This was Mary Batson/Bromsfield's backstory in classic ''[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'' comics: a nurse faced with orphaned twins and a rich woman who'd lost her baby decided to give one of the babies to Mrs Bromsfield rather than actually tell anyone anything.

* Parodied in the film ''Delirious'', where a man trapped inside a soap opera is outraged with the changes its current head writer is making. One of them is the show's idealistic heroine being revealed to have been switched at birth with the daughter of the rich villainous family that runs the whole town, causing her to INSTANTLY become exactly like them.

* The Creator/EricIdle[=/=]Creator/RickMoranis vehicle ''Film/SplittingHeirs'' was a pretty straightforward take on this.

* The Italian movie ''Il 7 e l'8'' start in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy) where a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8 (is later revealed that he was angry because had lost a lottery for a single number, the 8 instead of 7). Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident and, after some events, they discover the truth.

* In Japanese drama ''Film/LikeFatherLikeSon'', a blood test reveals six-years-old Keita and another boy were switched at birth by a vengeful nurse which leads to two very different families being thrown together and forced to make a difficult decision. Ultimately, the film asks the question: Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending six years together?
* In ''Film/RelativeFear'', the autistic son of an insane SerialKiller is switched with the child of a perfectly normal middle-class couple.
* A flashback in ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' reveals that Leta Lestrange, switched her baby brother Corvus with a random baby because she didn't want to hear his cries anymore. The ship they were traveling on sank, resulting in Corvus' death, while the other baby grew up to become [[spoiler:Credence Barebone]].

* In "Lady Clare", a lengthy poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the titular noblewoman discovers that her nursemaid Alice is actually her biological mother, who had been the nursemaid of the real Lady Clare. When the earl's daughter died, Alice switched the infants and claimed the dead baby as her own so as not to deprive the noble family of their only child.

* At least two instances in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. In ''A Feast for Crows'', Mance Rayder's son is switched with Gilly's son in order to prevent Melisandre from taking advantage of his "royal blood" as a sacrifice to R'hllor. ''A Dance with Dragons'' reveals [[spoiler:someone who claims to be Aegon Targaryen and survived his apparent murder due to a baby swap.]]

* On ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' episode "That's My Boy?!" Rob was convinced that Richie had been switched with another baby at the hospital, because the the hospital kept confusing Richie Petrie with Richie Peters (delivering the wrong flowers etc.) and baby Richie didn't look like either parent. That is, until he met the Peters family, [[spoiler:who were black]] resulting in one of the longest laughs in TV history.

* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler:Rudolf Ushiromiya switched his wife's stillborn baby with his mistress Kyrie's to avoid a scandal. Kyrie's baby would grow up to be his son, Battler, while Rudolf was the only one who knew about his real parentage.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Not A Loud", has Lincoln suspecting this happened to him. This is further supported when he and Clyde encounter a family in which the parents both have white hair, but their daughter looks more like a younger version of Lori and has similar tastes in music and food to Luna and Lynn. When Lincoln confronts his parents with his discovery, and even accuses them of having bribed a doctor to make the switch, they debunk his theory and finally tell him the real story about his birth: [[spoiler: That his parents were given a lift to the hospital by the President of the United States, and Lincoln was born in the limousine and delivered by the First Lady]].

* Like in the book, the miniseries adaptation of ''Series/GoodOmens'' begins with a baby swap that doesn’t quite go to plan, resulting in the forces of Heaven and Hell monitoring the activity of a normal human child whom they believe to be the Antichrist, whilst the actual Antichrist is raised by a normal human family. It isn’t until 11 years later that they realize their mistake, and the race to get to the real Antichrist begins.