History Main / ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "The American Dad After School Special", Stan develops anorexia and sees a therapist who believes he's a teenage girl (because, after all, [[SarcasmMode they're the only ones who can be anorexic]]).

** Stan's grandfather constantly calls him "Billy". But then again, ''his'' grandfather called him Billy when his ghost briefly appeared.
** In "Dances with Smurfs", some idiot murdered the 9-year-old morning announcer after he mistook him for the middle-aged man his wife was cheating on him with.

* Not quite a character, but in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', when you meet Raine's and Genis's mother, the poor woman has deluded herself into thinking that she's still pregnant with Genis and carries around a doll that she treats as baby Raine. When the real Raine and Genis appear, she refuses to believe they're who they say they are, and she orders them out of the house. What makes her especially deluded is that given the difference in her two children's ages, Raine would've been ten or eleven when their mother was still pregnant with Genis.

* The Desert Princess stage from ''{{VideoGame/Shantae}}'' has the senile adviser mistake Shantae (And then Sky, Risky Boots and Rottytops), all svelte attractive women (Not to mention the last two are purple and a zombie) for the rotund, fish-faced actual princess. According to her, this happens a lot.

* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'': one of the few male employees of Nerdrotica complains about one of his callers, an older gentleman who consistently calls him by the wrong name and talks as if the two are acquainted in real life; it's assumed that he's senile and is mistaking the employee for someone else. [[spoiler: Turns out that the caller is is so lonely that his one solace is calling a phone sex line and having a totally mundane conversation while he pretends the employee is his partner, whom he knows has been dead for years but [[TearJerker has never ceased to mourn for]]]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "The Once and Future King", Music/ElvisPresley mistakes Gary Pitkin, an ElvisImpersonator from 1986 who [[CelebrityResemblance looks just like him]], for his stillborn identical twin brother Jesse who has come BackFromTheDead. Gary allows him to believe this and tries to use the opportunity to convince Elvis that he has a very bright future ahead of him. [[{{Understatement}} It doesn't go according to plan]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "The American Dad After School Special", Stan develops anorexia and sees a therapist who believes he's a teenage girl ([[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped because, after all,]] [[SarcasmMode they're the only ones who can be anorexic]]).

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** The last time UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler visited the old and senile president Paul von Hindenburg the day before Hindenburg died, the latter believed he was Kaiser Wilhelm II. He called Hitler "Your Majesty" when he first walked into the room. The Kaiser (under whom Hindenburg had served as general) had been in exile since the end of World War I. Hitler had just passed a law that would give him absolute power after Hindenburg died. Everybody knows what happened after that...

* In ''Fanfic/NoHoper'' when [[Literature/TheHouseOfNight Neferet]] assumes [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] [[spoiler: has been possessed by Kalona, her lover and the BigBad.]] Light has no clue what's going on but for the sake of self-preservation plays along with it. [[TheBaroness When the scary vampire lady]] asks you if you're [[AGodAmI a God]], [[{{Film/Ghostbusters 1984}} you say yes.]]

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': Absolutely ''[[TearJerker heartbreakingly]]'' done with [[DarkIsNotEvil The Fair Lady]]. She is completely blind, in massive amounts of pain, and the only person who ''even speaks her language'' is her sister, Quelaag. The player can understand her using the Old Witch's Ring, but you are a HeroicMime and can't talk back, so she therefore assumes that you must be Quelaag. Unfortunately, Quelaag is dead. Because [[ButThouMust you killed her]] during a BossFight, likely without even knowing she was anything more than just another random monster. ''YouBastard''.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' a homeless woman convinces herself that [=DiNozzo=] Sr is her father. Over the course of the episode it gets revealed that the woman's father is long dead, and that the woman herself is suffering dementia as a result of a inoperable malignant brain tumor. At the end of the episode Sr walks into the hospital room that she's likely to die in in the very near future and plays along with her delusion so she could die believing that she'd finally reconciled with the father she hadn't spoken to in over a decade.
* There's an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' where Merlin repeatedly refers to the team and a few other characters present by the names of people he knew. He calls Mitchell "Percival", Jackson "Galahad", Carter "Guinevere" and Ba'al "Mordred".
* The third season's finale of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Graduation Day Part Two", has Willow watching over a poisoned and delirious Angel. Delirious, he mistakes her for Buffy and confesses how much he needs and loves her. She then leaves the room and tells Oz that he had thought she was Buffy. He replies "You too, huh?"

* ''Series/RaisingHope'' has ''Creator/ClorisLeachman'' as Maw Maw, who thinks her great-grandson Jimmy is her dead husband. Traumatizing Frenching and ass-slapping ensue.

* Averted or inverted in one episode of ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', a slightly senile old lady is sure that Duncan is her old lover. Her handler convinces her she is mistaken, as he's far too young. She later convinces herself that he must be her lover's grandson, and he doesn't undeceive her until she's about to die.
* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' has Meredith's mother, who has Alzheimer's Dementia, mistake George for her ex-husband Thatcher. She also believed Meredith was still a child, so [[InvertedTrope she didn't recognize her]] when she saw her.
* {{Invoked}} in ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' by Paul Ryan in order to distract Dusty. He hires a woman named Josie who [[IdenticalStranger bears a striking resemblance]] to Jennifer, his sister and Dusty's recently deceased wife. After getting to know her, Dusty begins to believe that Josie has a connection to Jennifer rather than thinking she is really her, as Josie is pretending to have amnesia and "remembers" former events that actually happened to Jennifer.
* ''Series/EastEnders'': In an episode aired on 18th July 2016, Ian gets a phone call from the hospital to say his half-brother, Ben has been involved in a fight and is in a critical condition. At the hospital, Ian and Phil are told by a doctor that Ben has died. Phil sort of breaks down, leading to Phil and Ian identifying "Ben's" body. In a shock twist, [[spoiler: it turns out to be Paul's body, Ben's boyfriend.]] Phil and Ian come out of the morgue, with Phil yelling "that ain't my son!" Later, it's revealed by Ben that Paul and Ben got their coats and phones mixed up when coming out of a night club in Soho.

* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': In "Old Friends", one old man is convinced that it's 1945, and Jack is his friend Duncan Ingleheart who was wounded in Normandy.
* ''Series/GetKrackin'': In the final episode of season 2, Indigenous actress (and temporary host) Miranda Tapsell is continually mistaken for being Deborah Mailman (a completely different Indigenous actress).

* In the French satirical puppet show ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'', Liliane Bettencourt (one of France's richest women) is portrayed as quite senile (and nicknamed "Mamie Zinzin"), and is always confusing Nicolas Sarkozy for someone else, like the General de Gaulle or Creator/JacquesCousteau.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has the old woman, assuming you sent her to Oedon Chapel. As the night progresses, she'll start taking sedatives. They keep her (somewhat) sane, but will take her toll on her wits, to the point where she assumes the Good Hunter is her child. On one hand, this does cause her to give them sedatives, which are a useful resource. On the other, she'll soon run out and go out to find more, with predictable results.

* In ''Webcomic/The10Doctors'', a group of Renegade Daleks mistake the Sixth Doctor for their ally, "The Keeper". He decides to run with it for the moment. When a Dalek leader demands that he proves his identity, he accuses it of being an undercover Imperial Dalek with a paintjob, and demands that it proves ''its'' identity by explaining who "The Keeper" is.

* Professor Farnsworth from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has done this at least once. In the episode "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", he drives to Florida (he is trying to catch his escaped gargoyle) then stops at a cafeteria (it's implied he had been here before). He walks up to the counter and calls the cashier "Mavis" and says "surprised to see me back so soon" but then the cashier (who's actual named Wanda) explains that "Mavis" had died years ago.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "King Worm," the Ice King addresses Finn and Jake as [[GenderSwap Fionna and Cake]]; both a reference to a previous episode and a hint that he's just part of the dream.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Abracadaver", the zombie of Al Lusion mistakes Blossom for the little girl who accidentally killed him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', as Maximilian Zeus becomes more unhinged, he starts referring to Batman as Hades. By the time he's put into Arkham at the end of the episode, he believes it's Olympus and his fellow super-villains are various other Greek gods.
* In the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', [=BoJack=]'s mother Beatrice has succumbed to dementia and seems to believe that [=BoJack=] is a maid named Henrietta. The second-to-last episode of the season, "Time's Arrow", reveals that [[spoiler:she and her husband Butterscotch did have a maid named Henrietta, who Butterscotch had an affair with, resulting in the birth of [=BoJack=]'s long-lost half-sister Hollyhock]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "The American Dad After School Special", Stan develops anorexia and sees a therapist who believes he's a teenage girl ([[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped because, after all,]] [[SarcasmMode they're the only ones who can be anorexic]]).

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': "My name is NOT Kikyo. It's Kagome. KAH. GOH. MAY." (Kikyo is Inu-Yasha's ex-girlfriend, Kagome being her reincarnation.)
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Tohru's grandfather calls her Kyouko. Kyouko was the name of Tohru's (dead) mother. He ''is'' aware of who she is, he just (in his words) "wants to tie them together", as everyone in his life ultimately ends up leaving him.
* In an early episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', a random woman mistakes Ash for her missing son and calls him "Arnold."
* In ''Anime/StarBlazers'', Queen Starsha initially mistakes Nova for her own sister Astra, who died in the first episode. (She's not the only one to notice the resemblance, which is very strong, but unexplained.)

* Something similar to this happened in ''Secret Plot Deep'', where the main male character's twin sister died in an accident, and his parents were so shaken up about it that they started believing he was his sister. Apparently, they got rid of all the photos of him and forgot he existed. To keep them content, he cross-dressed when at home. [[{{Hentai}} This leads to transvestite sex with a girl from school. And a female teacher.]]
* In ''Manga/KongohBancho'', [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots Machine Banchou]] mistakes little Tsukimi for "Dr. Tsukina", whose orders supersede all others, and she unintentionally alters his personality by giving him suggestions on how to be cooler. This is played for NightmareFuel when she realizes the one thing she can't make him do is [[spoiler:not kill Kongou.]] Also an unusual case of it, as, being a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin machine]], it is frequently pointed out that Machine Banchou identifies people with speech and retina recognition devices instead of, [[FridgeLogic you know]], ''[[DittoAliens looking at them]]''.

* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' special ''[[Anime/DragonBallEpisodeOfBardock Episode of Bardock]]'', Bardock mistakes Chilled for Frieza.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has Serpico's mother succumb to dementia. Their final encounter is when she no longer recognizes him, believing him to be his father, and has [[spoiler: been accused of heresy and witchcraft and Serpico must burn her at the stake]]

* Ryousuke's mother in ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'' underwent a SanitySlippage after her daughters death. He [[MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe pretends to be Yui]] to soothe her. Ryousuke's status as TheUnfavorite combined with her deteriorating mental health causes his mother to mistake him for someone else occasionally. Right before his mother [[spoiler:is sent for mental health treatment]] Ryousuke calls out to her dressed as Yui however [[spoiler:due to his voice changing he doesn't recognize him at all. This trope is later subverted with the reveal that she [[ObfuscatingInsanity knew it was him the entire time]], though she did have genuine mental health issues as well.]]
* In ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'' episode 8, a man named Ernest mistakes Dante for his childhood friend Anthony, and won't believe Dante when he says he's never heard of him.

* The Queen of Fables, an evil sorceress [[RefugeeFromTVLand from a story book]] believes that Franchise/WonderWoman is her arch enemy, Literature/SnowWhite. No matter what evidence is presented to her, she refuses to believe otherwise, and seems completely unaware of the passage of time, as the ''real'' Snow White lived and died centuries ago. She also mistakes Franchise/{{Superman}} for PrinceCharming.
* Effie in the Ernie/''ComicStrip/PiranhaClub'' newspaper comic regularly mistakes people for one of her many ex-husbands. (Except [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Arnold]], which she thinks is one of her ''old dogs''.)
* Enrico La Talpa, from the Italian comic strip ''ComicStrip/LupocAlberto'', [[BlindMistake has addressed the eponymous protagonist as "Beppe"]] ever since his first appearance. As years went by, Alberto went from his initial bemusement to desperate frustration and eventually to wry resignation. The real "Beppe" (supposedly a friend of Enrico's) has never actually appeared in the strip, while Enrico eventually admitted he now ''knows'' that Alberto isn't Beppe, he's just using it as a nickname.

* In ''Fanfic/NoHoper'' when [[Literature/TheHouseOfNight Neferet]] assumes [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] [[spoiler: has been possessed by Kalona, her lover and the BigBad.]] Light has no clue what's going on but for the sake of self-preservation plays along with it. [[TheBaroness When the scary vampire lady]] asks you if you're [[AGodAmI a God]], [[{{Film/Ghostbusters 1984}} you say yes.]]
* Several Franchise/{{Harry Potter}} fics have Luna, her father or both firmly convinced that Sirius is "really" Stubby Boardman of the Hobgoblins. In ''Fanfic/InThisWorldAndTheNext'' he admitted having used his resemblance to the latter to pick up women.
* ''Fanfic/BitterRepercussions'': Mistaken identity caused the elderly Graypool to accidentally reveal to Tigerstar that two [=RiverClan=] warriors were [=ThunderClan=]-born. She mistook him for the deceased-but-similarly-looking Oakheart. Graypool realized her error too late.

* In the western ''Film/QuigleyDownUnder'', Crazy Cora keeps calling Matthew Quigley 'Roy'. (Roy turns out to be [[spoiler:Crazy Cora's first husband, who left her after she accidentally killed their child.]]) Which is what made it so significant [[spoiler:when she called him by his full name in the final moments of the film]].

* In the final scene of ''Film/{{Smoke}},'' Augie poses as a blind old lady's grandson rather than let her spend Christmas alone. Subverted in that she probably realizes that he isn't actually her grandson but goes along with the act rather than admit that she has been abandoned.
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks'', senile old Grandma Norris calls both of her grandsons "Thomas". Strangely enough, she does remember their names in some capacity, as she tells Ritchie that "Ritchie" was always her favorite... while still calling him Thomas.
* In the Music/{{Madonna}}[=/=]Creator/SeanPenn movie ''Film/ShanghaiSurprise'', when Penn's character, Glendon, goes to a fancy restaurant he's mistaken by all and sundry for another character named Phil -- who is never mentioned before or after this scene, nor is Glendon's resemblance. Nonetheless, the fact that Glendon looks like and is mistaken for Phil is a vital plot point without which the movie makes no sense (it's the reason Glendon was picked for the mission, it's how he gets an entree with a lady named China Doll, etc.).
* The film ''Film/{{Spider}}'' is told [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness from the perspective of its protagonist, a paranoid schizophrenic]] who has been released from a mental hospital. We see him reliving his childhood where it's revealed that [[spoiler:he killed a woman who he was convinced had replaced his mother, who murdered her in conjunction with his father. He is, of course, [[SelfMadeOrphan wrong]].]]

* Seymour in ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' spends the whole movie pretending he's Creator/RogerMoore ''in-character'', not just played ''by'' him. This allows him to pick up a whole series of women... at least, until one of them reveals that she joined him in his car because thinks he's George Hamilton. (No dementia involved, the woman is evidently just clueless.)
* In ''Film/TheDry'', Mal Deacon, who is going senile, keeps thinking that Aaron Falk is actually his father Eric Falk, who hasn't lived in the town for 20 years.

* In a ''Literature/{{Hoka}}'' story by Creator/PoulAnderson and Creator/GordonRDickson, the Hoka Franchise/SherlockHolmes persists in calling Alex Jones "Watson" -- the real, which is to say Hoka, Watson is not there, and he can't avoid the pattern. This is a particular variation on this trope. The basic premise of the ''Hoka'' stories is that the Hokas (a highly intelligent race that just happen to resemble teddy bears) have trouble distinguishing fact from fiction, so whenever they come across a human novel they end up acting it out and HilarityEnsues. It's never entirely clear when they do so whether they are conscious of the fact that it's just a re-enactment.
* Professor Binns in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is constantly mistaking everyone for the students of centuries past. It's implied that he's so out of it, he doesn't even realize he died.

* In Creator/DanAbnett's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''Straight Silver'', some Ghosts find an old woman in the [[LostWoods woods]], and a deserter that she apparently thinks is her son.

* In the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' a particularly old and addled man at a museum confuses [[DeepCoverAgent Lara Notsil]] for someone else he once knew. In typical ''Franchise/StarWars'' fashion, he actually confused her ''for her mother'', [[spoiler: an Imperial Intelligence agent, like [[IHaveManyNames Lara/Gara/whatever-her-name-is-today]] herself. This confusion puts another Wraith on the trail to discovering her identity, no less]]. Initially made extremely funny, before the dramatic fallout happens later, by Face afterward pretending to 'recognize' her too, using increasingly-ridiculous names.
* In ''Literature/{{Choke}}'', the protagonist's mother spends most of the book confusing him for someone else, and one of her fellow patients in the nursing home is convinced that he is her brother who molested her as a child.

* Caster of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Gille de Rais, cannot be convinced that Saber isn't Joan of Arc. Also counts as something of a FandomNod since that's often readers' first guess as to her true identity too.
* A woman named Bertha mistook Creator/EphraimKishon for the guy who made the drawings her dead husband liked so much, in the weekly newspaper he read. Kishon wrote for a daily, non-illustrated newspaper. That is, in the story. It tends to overlap.
* The Literature/FiveFindOuters (well, minus Fatty) once mistook Ernest Goon for Fatty, thinking he was in a clever disguise, and his repeated claims that he didn't know them and wasn't their friend just was a part of the disguise.
* In Angie Sage's ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' books, several ghosts always call Jenna Esmeralda. In ''[[Literature/SeptimusHeap Physik]]'', she ends up in Esmeralda's time and everyone takes her for her.
* ''Literature/InHeroYearsImDead'' features a poignant take on the trope. An old, long-since retired hero-- once one of the greats-- takes the protagonist for his oldtime archnemesis. Unusually, he's quite friendly despite this-- the protagonist's behavior gives him the impression that said archnemesis has reformed. [[spoiler: When he is killed in an ensuing supervillain attack, his last words are to his supposed archnemesis, "[[CatchPhrase Be Good]]." The protagonist [[LetThemDieHappy agrees on his behalf]]. It later turns out that there's even more to this-- the mistaken identity was because the protagonist [[LukeIAmYourFather looks just like his supervillain father]], and his agreement to "Be Good" is deeply meaningful to him because the elder hero [[DefusingTheTykeBomb turned him from his father's path]] with that injunction.]]
* In ''Literature/BigTrouble'', after Arthur accidentally crashes into Enemy Toad and its hallucinogenic eye glands, he starts raving wildly under the impression that Roger is a demonic form of Elizabeth Dole, impervious to the fact that Roger is a ''dog''.
* Played initially for somewhat tension-filled humor, then for tragedy in the first ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' novel, ''Dragons of Autumn Twilight''. The children of the very much human captives/slaves at Pax Tharkas are being used as hostages for their good behavior and "guarded" by an ancient, notionally "evil" but in reality very much senile dragoness who has come to think of them as ''her'' children (whom she lost centuries ago when she couldn't convince them to stay out of the war going on at the time). It ultimately leads to [[spoiler:her {{Heroic Sacrifice}} when the slaves' escape attempt is discovered and the local {{evil overlord}} announces his intent to kill them all]].

* Rose, who is going senile, is convinced that Casey is her grandson Charlie, and Casey winds up being forced to play along with the delusion

* Enrico La Talpa, from the Italian comic strip ''LupocAlberto'', [[BlindMistake has addressed the eponymous protagonist as "Beppe"]] ever since his first appearance. As years went by, Alberto went from his initial bemusement to desperate frustration and eventually to wry resignation. The real "Beppe" (supposedly a friend of Enrico's) has never actually appeared in the strip, while Enrico eventually admitted he now ''knows'' that Alberto isn't Beppe, he's just using it as a nickname.

* In ''Film/BatteriesNotIncluded'', the elderly and possibly senile Faye persists in addressing one of the other characters by the name of her (dead) son. And in a heartbreaking scene in the end, when said character decides to play along for once and pretends that he is her son, [[spoiler:(because he set the house on fire, and is trying to save her)]] it causes her to break through her denial and realize the horrible truth....

* The whole point of the old {{vaudeville}} joke "I'm not Rappaport".

* ''Literature/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood''. After Mole dies, Badger is pretty old and out of it by this time, so when he encounters Mole's son, Mossy, he mistakenly believes that Mossy is his father. Weasel, wanting to be kind to Badger is his last few years, asks Mossy to keep up the charade to spare his feelings.

* ''Series/EastEnders'' In an episode aired on 18th July 2016, Ian gets a phone call from the hospital to say his half-brother, Ben has been involved in a fight and is in a critical condition. At the hospital, Ian and Phil are told by a doctor that Ben has died. Phil sort of breaks down, leading to Phil and Ian identifying "Ben's" body. In a shock twist, [[spoiler: it turns out to be Paul's body, Ben's boyfriend.]] Phil and Ian come out of the morgue, with Phil yelling "that ain't my son!" Later, it's revealed by Ben that Paul and Ben got their coats and phones mixed up when coming out of a night club in Soho.

* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': In "Old Friends," one old man is convinced that it's 1945, and Jack is his friend Duncan Ingleheart who was wounded in Normandy.

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Damage", Dana is both mentally unstable and experiencing the collective memories of the previous Slayers, so she mistakes Spike for the man who murdered her family and tortured her, even though Spike doesn't look anything like him, and seeks revenge. Spike eventually convinces her she has the wrong guy, but she decides to kill him anyway for the crimes he ''is'' guilty of before Angel rescues him.
* ''Series/RaisingHope'' has ''Cloris Leachman'' as Maw Maw, who thinks her great-grandson Jimmy is her dead husband. Traumatizing Frenching and ass-slapping ensue.

* ''Fanfic/BitterRepercussions'': Mistaken identity caused the elderly Graypool to accidentally reveal to Tigerstar that two [=RiverClan=] warriors were [=ThunderClan]-born. She mistook him for the deceased-but-similarly-looking Oakheart. Graypool realized her error too late.

* An episode of ''Series/CSINewYork'' drew upon a story from Real Life below. Two girls were in an auto accident. One was killed, while the other survived, albeit badly injured. However, the survivor was later murdered in the hospital. [[spoiler: It turns out her killer was her own mother, who, like everyone else, believed her identity to be that of the other girl, whom she blamed for the accident. Her mother kills her in a misguided act of revenge, believing her to be someone else.]]

** In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'', Old Mrs Gammage has been going to the same pub for decades. Now deaf, blind and senile, she's completely failed to realize it's become an undead hangout. The "monsters" are too nice to tell her the truth, so when we see her she's cheerfully calling a bogeyman "Charlie", and asking about his plumbing business.
** In ''Discworld/AHatFullOfSky'', old Mr. Weavall keeps calling Tiffany "Mary" after his daughter, who died years ago. He eventually wises up, though, hinting his use of this trope is less senility and more wishful thinking.

* The player in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' is approached by someone is certain that they recognize you, so certain that they suspect you of being on drugs when you don't recognize them. The only clue that they might actually know who you were is that [[StoryAndGameplaySegregation if you let her phone other friends about you, you lose Masquerade points]]. An alternate interpretation is that the PC only denies knowing the person because they don't wish to associate with their old life now that their vampire form demands a very different lifestyle. The game does make the point that people who associate with vampires often meet misfortune of one kind or another.