History Main / AllegedLookalikes

* NonIdenticalTwins, for when the subjects are supposed to be biologically identical
* EasyImpersonation, for when it's a villain being mistaken for a hero

** Something similar happens Yugioh Arc V. Yuzu comes across an unnamed duelist who looks exactly like Yuya does...except not really. They have similar faces, but their hair, voices, clothes, and mannerisms are completely different. Despite this, Yuzu stays uncertain for a long time that they're really not the same person.

* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' Sonomi comments on how much Sakura looks like her mother, to the point of being surprised at the resemblance before she even knew who Sakura was. Yet there is no noticeable resemblance between them (Touya actually looks much more like their mother than Sakura does).

* In ''{{Gattaca}}'', the fact that Vincent is able to disguise himself as Jerome using his DNA samples is believable, but, looks wise, they aren't that similar. Jude Law and Ethan Hawke just don't look alike, at least not enough to confuse one for the other.

** At least until the [[SpotTheImposter inevitable fight]] where they both get the overalls ripped off, leaving two Stewies in diapers.

* In ''DigimonFrontier,'' people marvel at the near-identical Koji and Koichi, who like Kagome and Kikyo, don't particularly resemble beyond the things everyone has in common due to having the same art style (meaning they resemble about as much as any one person resembles anyone else with the same hair color.) ''Maybe'' you could handwave the totally different skintones as one spending more time in the sun than the other. (It leads up to their being revealed as each other's long-lost twin. Fraternal twins ''do'' exist, but again, we get "they look exactly alike!" OnceAnEpisode.)

!!Examples

* Happens in ''KamenRiderTheFirst'', where the woman only spots one of the two Hopper operatives in night time, making it harder to distinguish their PaletteSwap. On top of that, she's seen Hopper no. 1 without the helmet once, but because of aforesaid problems with color perception, she doesn't know that it him who saves her later since he keeps the helmet on this time, AND she comes across Hopper no. 2 in the daytime and thinks ''that's'' the one who saved her. That would make sense in the show, where for the longest time, only small details kept them from being 100% identical. But this being the big-budge remake, the producers knowingly pimped out the suits with heavy detailing just to make sure you weren't counting arm-stripes to tell them apart.

* In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', everyone initially compares Kagome to Kikyo. They may technically have the "same" face (as it turns out [[spoiler:they have the same soul]]), but when the series suffers from OnlySixFaces and Kikyo and Kagome purposefully differ in hair style, habitual facial expressions, and age, they don't look much more alike than most characters, if at all. The anime has it worse, so that it's almost an AdaptationInducedPlotHole there.

* Happens in ''KamenRiderTheFirst'', where the woman only spots one of the two Hopper operatives in night time, making it harder to distinguish their PaletteSwap. On top of that, she's seen Hopper no. 1 without the helmet once, but because of aforesaid problems with color perception, she doesn't know that it him who saves her later since he keeps the helmet on this time, AND she comes across Hopper no. 2 in the daytime and thinks ''that's'' the one who saved her. This being the big-budge remake, the producers knowingly pimped out the suits with heavy detailing just to make sure they weren't mere palette swaps this time.

* In ''Manga/YuGiOh'', no-one ever seems to see a difference between short, moe, [[TaremeEyes Tareme]]-eyed, soft-voiced Yugi and his not-quite-so-short, bishonen, [[TsurimeEyes Tsurime-eyed]], deep-voiced [[SuperPoweredEvilSide alter ego]]. Some fans have tried to explain the (apparently not so) obvious changes as audio-visual cues to the audience that do not actually exist in-universe. Since every once in a blue moon somebody ''will'' mention one of the changes in passing, this explanation has not been widely accepted. Maybe the others just can't stop staring at the hair.

* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' Sonomi comments on how much Sakura looks like her mother, to the point of being surprised at the resemblance before she even knew who Sakura was. Yet there is no nticeable resemblance between them (Touya actually looks much more like their mother than Sakura does).

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Brian is in a SpotTheImposter situation between Regular Stewie and [=EvilerThanUsual=] Clone Stewie. We can tell which is which because they have reversed color schemes on their clothes: Regular!Stewie has red overalls with a yellow shirt and ETUC!Stewie has yellow overalls with a red shirt.

* In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', everyone initially compares Kagome to Kikyo. They may technically have the "same" face (as it turns out they have the same soul), but when the series suffers from OnlySixFaces and Kikyo and Kagome purposefully differ in hair style, habitual facial expressions, and age, they don't look much more alike than most characters, if at all. The anime has it worse, so that it's almost an AdaptationInducedPlotHole there.
* In ''Manga/YuGiOh'', no-one ever seems to see a difference between short, moe, [[TaremeEyes Tareme]]-eyed, soft-voiced Yugi and his not-quite-so-short, bishonen, [[TsurimeEyes Tsurime-eyed]], deep-voiced [[SuperPoweredEvilSide alter ego]]. Some fans have tried to explain the (apparently not so) obvious changes as audio-visual cues to the audience that do not actually exist in-universe. Since every once in a blue moon somebody ''will'' mention one of the changes in passing, this explanation has not been widely accepted.

* In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', everyone initially compares Kagome to Kikyo. Since the series suffers from OnlySixFaces and that's the only real physical similarity between the two, one might suspect everyone in the first episode or two is nearsighted.
** Something of an [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole adaptation-induced plot hole]], as Kagome and Kikyo looked much more similar in the manga.

* TheSwanLake: The daughter of the Bad Guy goes to a dance disguised as the white swan. We know it's her because she's dressed in black.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII,'' the members of Organization XIII keep calling Sora "Roxas". This is... confusing, since to some degree they seem to actually believe he is Roxas, but they're also messing with his head, and it's hard to tell which is happening.
* In ''YuGiOh'', no-one ever seems to see a difference between short, moe, [[TaremeEyes Tareme]]-eyed, soft-voiced Yugi and his not-quite-so-short, bishonen, [[TsurimeEyes Tsurime-eyed]], deep-voiced [[SuperPoweredEvilSide alter ego]]. Some fans have tried to explain the (apparently not so) obvious changes as audio-visual cues to the audience that do not actually exist in-universe. Since every once in a blue moon somebody ''will'' mention one of the changes in passing, this explanation has not been widely accepted.
* Happens in ''KamenRiderTheFirst'', where the woman only spots one of the two Hopper operatives in night time, making it harder to distinguish their PalleteSwap. On top of that, she's seen Hopper no. 1 without the helmet once, but because of aforesaid problems with color perception, she doesn't know that it him who saves her later since he keeps the helmet on this time, AND she comes across Hopper no. 2 in the daytime and thinks ''that's'' the one who saved her. This being the big-budge remake, the producers knowingly pimped out the suits with heavy detailing just to make sure they weren't mere pallete swaps this time.
* ''FamilyGuy'': Brian is in a SpotTheImposter situation between Regular Stewie and [=EvilerThanUsual=] Clone Stewie. We can tell which is which because they have reversed color schemes on their clothes: Regular!Stewie has red overalls with a yellow shirt and ETUC!Stewie has yellow overalls with a red shirt.

* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' Sonomi comments on how much Sakura looks like her mother, to the point of being surprised at the resemblance before she even knew who Sakura was. Yet there is no nticeable resemblance between them (Touya actually looks much more like their mother than Sakura does).

* In ''{{Inuyasha}}'', everyone initially compares Kagome to Kikyo. Since the series suffers from OnlySixFaces and that's the only real physical similarity between the two, one might suspect everyone in the first episode or two is nearsighted.

* In ''KingdomHeartsII,'' the members of Organization XIII keep calling Sora "Roxas". This is... confusing, since to some degree they seem to actually believe he is Roxas, but they're also messing with his head, and it's hard to tell which is happening.

* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' Sonomi comments on how much Sakura looks like her mother, to the point of being surprised at the resemblance before she even knew who Sakura was. Yet there is no nticeable resemblance between them (Touya actually looks much more like their mother than Sakura does).

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* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' Sonomi comments on how much Sakura looks like her mother, to the point of being surprised at the resemblance before she even knew who Sakura was. Yet there is no nticeable resemblance between them (Touya actually looks much more like their mother than Sakura does).

* In CardCaptorSakura Sonomi comments on how much Sakura looks like her mother, to the point of being surprised at the resemblance before she even knew who Sakura was. Yet there is no nticeable resemblance between them (Touya actually looks much more like their mother than Sakura does).