* The [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] version of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'' retcons Shao Kahn's apparent death at the beginning of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'' into this in order to explain his canonical [=GameCube=]-exclusive playable appearance.

* This ends up becoming a plot point in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesHajimariNoKiseki'' where [[spoiler:clones of [[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki Arios MacLaine]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel McBurn, and Rufus Albarea]] are running around wrecking havoc while their true selves are trying to fix things. Both Rufus and Arios are even playable with Rufus being the BreakoutCharacter of the game.]]

** In ''ZX Advent'', [[spoiler:Prometheus betrays and seemingly murders Master Albert for all the suffering he put him and his sister Pandora through in the penultimate level. After Grey/Ashe fight Prometheus and Pandora, however, it's revealed "Albert" was all along just a dummy body the real one worked through his entire time as both a member of the Sage Trinity and with all his interactions with his creations. There's actually {{Foreshadowing}} for this in one of the earlier levels, where Grey/Ashe are in a lab where they find Prometheus and Pandora's capsules (labelled DAN-001 and DAN-002), and then find another capsule further in labeled "Prototype" (DAN-000), which Albert reveals is ''his'' serial number and himself the genuine article.]]

* This ends up becoming a plot point in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfOrigins'' where [[spoiler:clones of [[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki Arios MacLaine]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel McBurn, and Rufus Albarea]] are running around wrecking havoc while their true selves are trying to fix things. Both Rufus and Arios are even playable with Rufus being the BreakoutCharacter of the game.]]

* In the original NES ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'', you face off and kill the antagonist Jacquio. In ''Ninja Giaden II'' Jacquio makes a return. According to him, when you fought and killed "Jaquio" in the first game, you were just killing a puppet of his.

** He has, of course, taken this to the natural conclusion of creating whole [[MesACrowd armies of Doombots]] as well as using it for impersonation.

* Something similar was done in the Bronze Age with the Mad Hatter, whose appearances in the Silver Age were revealed as the result of an imposter, and the now-famous Jervis Tetch version was (re)introduced and explained in the Bronze Age.

* A fairly literal example from ''Big Bang Comics'' -- Ultiman hints that he has never actually met his archenemy Cortex, and that Cortex commits all his crimes by way of a series of robotic doubles. This isn't a secret on Cortex's part, and he tends to destroy the doubles himself by having them self-destruct upon their capture.
* In the fan-loved "Fragments of Autumn" issue of ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures, [[RobotGirl Lyla]] accidentally shot a policeman.Since droids were recently given legal rights,she was [[DeconstructedTrope put on trial for that,rather that just going through a check up]]. However it was revealed that the policeman was actually another robot and that the whole incident was staged by a corrupt politician.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Wonder Woman uses her telepathy to know which "Blue Snowmen" are actually robots she can tear through without concern, instead of PoweredArmor since Byrna Brilyant made them identical to hide whether or not people are interacting with the real villain or not and help her maintain her SecretIdentity.