Discussion Theatre / MartinGuerre

This redirect should not be cut. Redirects are primarily for ease of searching, and Martin Guerre is a searchable redirect.

I don't really see how, as Martin Guerre isn't an example of this trope. It's difficult to envision a situation where someone would use his name to try and search for it.

The original Martin Guerre page referring to a version of this trope where the person wasn't dead does make a lot of sense- but at the same time it becomes completely illogical since the title Dead Person Impersonation implies that, well, the person being impersonated is dead (I really hope no one's going to dispute this). I'm puzzled why a merge was considered the correct source of action here, as a rename would have made more sense.

In lieu of the fact that we can't unspill milk, I could take the examples here that are not about dead people, put up a YKTTW, and then redirect Martin Guerre to this new trope, assuming it's not simply called Martin Guerre. Sound like a plan?

Well in the Martin Guerre case, wasn't the fact that he wasn't dead The Reveal? It's the same until the third act. The plan relied on the idea that the person wasn't coming back. There's also the fact that the story forms the basis for further use and awareness of the trope.

Until I read that I didn't realize that Martin Guerre was also the name of a stage musical. That kind of renders the whole thing a moot point anyway- the work title gets priority over a redirect in any case. I'll just make a skeleton page and call it a day. Hopefully someone will come along at some point that knows more about its tropes than me.