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* PlayedForDrma in ''Manga/{{Basilisk}} Kouga Ninpu Chuu'': [[spoiler: As Hotarubi loses her fight with the shapeshifter Saemon and is fatally injured, she mistakes him for her boyfriend Yashamaru, whom Saemon had been impersonating. Saemon [[LetThemDieHappy allows her to die thinking that he's Yashamaru]], who had died few ago.]]
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* After being poisoned in an botched assassination attempt in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5840836/1/Your-Son Your Son]]'', a delirious Edward mistakes Mustang for his father, thinking he finally came back. Mustang, already feeling guilty due to being the assassin's intended target, plays along.
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* After being poisoned in an a botched assassination attempt in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5840836/1/Your-Son Your Son]]'', a delirious Edward mistakes Mustang for his father, thinking he finally came back. Mustang, already feeling guilty due to being the assassin's intended target, plays along.
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* After being poisoned in an botched assassination attempt in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5840836/1/Your-Son Your Son]], a delirious Edward mistakes Mustang for his father, thinking he finally came back. Mustang, already feeling guilty due to being the assassin's intended target, plays along.
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* After being poisoned in an botched assassination attempt in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5840836/1/Your-Son Your Son]], Son]]'', a delirious Edward mistakes Mustang for his father, thinking he finally came back. Mustang, already feeling guilty due to being the assassin's intended target, plays along.
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* After being poisoned in an botched assassination attempt in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5840836/1/Your-Son Your Son]], a delirious Edward mistakes Mustang for his father, thinking he finally came back. Mustang, already feeling guilty due to being the assassin's intended target, plays along.
* After being poisoned in an botched assassination attempt in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5840836/1/Your-Son Your Son]], a delirious Edward mistakes Mustang for his father, thinking he finally came back. Mustang, already feeling guilty due to being the assassin's intended target, plays along.
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* ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington The Shadow of Saganami]]'': A minor character, severely injured after a Marine raid, mistakes a Manticoran doctor for his superior in the Kornatian resistance and tries to give him a report. While most of the report was incomprehensible even with Manticoran sound enhancement tech, they made out enough to blow the [[spoiler:Mesan Alignment's]] plot.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In "WesternAnimation/ShiftingGears", a delirious Mickey mutters "Is that you, [[Creator/WaltDisney Walt]]?"
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* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In "WesternAnimation/ShiftingGears", "Shifting Gears", a delirious Mickey mutters "Is that you, [[Creator/WaltDisney Walt]]?"
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* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In "[[WesternAnimation/ShiftingGears]]", a delirious Mickey mutters "Is that you, [[Creator/WaltDisney Walt]]?"
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* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In "[[WesternAnimation/ShiftingGears]]", "WesternAnimation/ShiftingGears", a delirious Mickey mutters "Is that you, [[Creator/WaltDisney Walt]]?"
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-->'''Nibbler:''' Negatory. *takes off*
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mommy?
-->'''Nibbler:'''Negatory. *takes off*Negative.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In "[[WesternAnimation/ShiftingGears]]", a delirious Mickey mutters "Is that you, [[Creator/WaltDisney Walt]]?"
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* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'', once Awakened, Yōkinshi can cause his enemies to become confused and whack each other using [[MusicalAssassin his music]].
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* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'', once Awakened, Yōkinshi can cause his enemies to become confused and [[SetAMookToKillAMook whack each other other]] using [[MusicalAssassin his music]].
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** And in the same series of the show, Roy calls a psychiatrist his mum after sleeping with her, which the psychiatrist finds "very interesting".
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** And in the same series of the show, Roy calls a psychiatrist his mum after sleeping with her, which the psychiatrist finds "very interesting". Earlier in the episode when he first met her he had commented on how much she looked like his mom. It became somewhat of a RunningGag for the episode.
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** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this. Four ''Mōryō no Hako'' (Box of Demons) ''mitama'' grant a 25% chance to give foes random debuffs and Delirious Misidentification is one of them.
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** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this. Four ''Mōryō no Hako'' (Box of Demons) ''mitama'' grant a 25% chance to give foes random debuffs StandardStatusEffects and Delirious Misidentification is one of them.
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** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this. Four ''Mōryō no Hako'' (Box of Demons) ''mitama'' grants a 25% chance to give foes random debuffs and Delirious Misidentification is one of them.
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** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this. Four ''Mōryō no Hako'' (Box of Demons) ''mitama'' grants grant a 25% chance to give foes random debuffs and Delirious Misidentification is one of them.
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** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this.
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** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this. Four ''Mōryō no Hako'' (Box of Demons) ''mitama'' grants a 25% chance to give foes random debuffs and Delirious Misidentification is one of them.
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* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'', once Awakened, Yōkinshi can cause his enemies to become confused and whack each other using [[MusicalAssassin his music]].
** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this.
** Equipping a ''shikigami'' with at least four ''Miyō'' (Enchantress) ''[[RareCandy mitama]]'' gives them a 25% chance to accomplish this.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E09VisionsAndVoices "Visions and Voices"]], Ezra hallucinates a rebel soldier as [[spoiler:Maul]], and nearly kills him before Kanan manages to snap him out of it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E09VisionsAndVoices "Visions and Voices"]], Ezra hallucinates a rebel soldier as [[spoiler:Maul]], and nearly kills him before Kanan manages to snap him out of it.
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* The premise for ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' is that in an alternate reality, the Joker gassed Superman was a drug that made him see Lois Lane as Doomsday, whom he then proceeded to beat to death (offscreen). [[FromBadToWorse To make matters worse,]] the atomic bomb that the Joker rigged up was synced to Lois' heart rate. Once she died, the entire city of Metropolis was destroyed. This forces Superman past the MoralEventHorizon, turning the entire world into a police state where he believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.
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** Once Radar was trying to awake Klinger after the latter had done a long stretch on guard duty:
--->'''Klinger''': [half asleep] Ma, I don't wanna go to school today, I've got a headache.
--->'''Radar''': It's Radar.
--->'''Klinger''': Radar, I don't wanna go to school today.
--->'''Radar''': Klinger, you're dreaming!
--->'''Klinger''': Honey, let's get back in the front seat! Here come the cops!
--->[Radar leaves in disgust]
--->'''Klinger''': [half asleep] Ma, I don't wanna go to school today, I've got a headache.
--->'''Radar''': It's Radar.
--->'''Klinger''': Radar, I don't wanna go to school today.
--->'''Radar''': Klinger, you're dreaming!
--->'''Klinger''': Honey, let's get back in the front seat! Here come the cops!
--->[Radar leaves in disgust]
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** Once Radar was trying to awake Klinger after the latter had done a long stretch on guard duty:
--->'''Klinger''': [half asleep] Ma, I don't wanna go to school today, I've got a headache.
--->'''Radar''': It's Radar.
--->'''Klinger''': Radar, I don't wanna go to school today.
--->'''Radar''': Klinger, you're dreaming!
--->'''Klinger''': Honey, let's get back in the front seat! Here come the cops!
--->[Radar leaves in disgust]
--->'''Klinger''': [half asleep] Ma, I don't wanna go to school today, I've got a headache.
--->'''Radar''': It's Radar.
--->'''Klinger''': Radar, I don't wanna go to school today.
--->'''Radar''': Klinger, you're dreaming!
--->'''Klinger''': Honey, let's get back in the front seat! Here come the cops!
--->[Radar leaves in disgust]
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* {{Downplayed}} in an episode of ''Series/NYPDBlue''. The main character for the first season was John Kelly, who got PutOnABus partway through the second season. There is another character named John Irvin who is a PAA (civilain aide) working in another part of the 15th squad building. Detective Martinez has been shot and is going to go into surgery. John Irvin comes by the hospital and gives a cross to Martinez's partner Medevoy to pass along to him, saying it's good luck. When Medevoy gives the cross to Martinez and says it's from John, Martinez asks "John Kelly?" Medavoy replies no, it was Upstairs John.
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* {{Downplayed}} in an episode of ''Series/NYPDBlue''. The main character for the first season was John Kelly, who got PutOnABus partway through the second season. There is another character named John Irvin who is a PAA (civilain (civilian aide) working in another part of the 15th squad building. Detective Martinez has been shot and is going to go into surgery. John Irvin comes by the hospital and gives a cross to Martinez's partner Medevoy to pass along to him, saying it's good luck. When Medevoy gives the cross to Martinez and says it's from John, Martinez asks "John Kelly?" Medavoy replies no, it was Upstairs John.
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* Happens briefly on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' when Sam tries to hotwire Cliff's car and gets an electric shock for his efforts.
-->'''Frasier:''' Sam, are you alright?
-->'''Sam:''' Diane?
-->'''Frasier:''' Sam, are you alright?
-->'''Sam:''' Diane?
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* In a ''Anime/CodeGeass'' gag comic[[note]]in the Knight anthology[[/note]], Suzaku, half asleep at a school slumber party, mistook [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Rivalz]] in a Zero costume for the actual Zero. Rivalz ends up [[AmusingInjuries in the hospital]].
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]", the titular child, mortally injured by a bomb and [[CameBackWrong brought back wrong]] by alien nanotechnology, can only say "Are you my mummy?" while transforming anyone he touches into a copy of himself. This case is more than it seems, however- in the next episode it turns out that one of the people he's haunting really is his mother.
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E9TheEmptyChild "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]", the titular child, mortally injured by a bomb and [[CameBackWrong brought back wrong]] by alien nanotechnology, can only say "Are you my mummy?" while transforming anyone he touches into a copy of himself. This case is more than it seems, however- in the next episode it turns out that one of the people he's haunting really is his mother.
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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': The old man in the boat rental shop mistakes Phoenix and Maya for his children Keith and Meg respectfully. He asks them to take over his pasta shop (that also rents out boats).
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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': The old man in the boat rental shop mistakes Phoenix and Maya for his children Keith and Meg respectfully. He asks them to take over his pasta shop (that also rents out boats). [[spoiler: However, it turns out that he was faking his dementia the whole time.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Gil misidentifies ''everything'' for a while after being thrown against a wall by a clank and being in pain from a number of previous injuries. He spends a number of pages convinced that he's in Paris, rescuing DamselInDistress Zola from a number of deadly traps [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090722#.Vv1QBOIrLIU without realising.]]
--> '''Gil:''' ''[to a suit of armour]'' Pardonnez-moi, monsieur, mais où est la catastrophe?\\
--> '''Gil:''' ''[to a suit of armour]'' Pardonnez-moi, monsieur, mais où est la catastrophe?\\
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Aizen once subtly traps Hitsugaya in his illusion shikai, making the latter believes that his subordinate Momo is Aizen. It didn't end well.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Aizen once subtly traps trapped Hitsugaya in his illusion shikai, making the latter believes believe that his subordinate Momo is Aizen.was Aizen himself. It didn't end well.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** In the episode "Shadow Dancing", Stephen Franklin is delirious from loss of blood and hallucinates that the medical orderlies wheeling his stretcher into Medlab are Delenn and Sheridan.
** The first season episode "And the Sky Full of Stars'' has Sinclair being kidnapped and forced into a drug and cyber induced hallucinogenic state which forces him to relive his missing 24 hours after the Battle of the Line. When he finally breaks free of it, he starts wandering around the station, but whenever he sees anyone, he thinks they're robed Minbari, causing him to shoot at anyone he encounters, [[spoiler: except for Delenn, who he realized was there as part of the Grey Council when he was captured by the Minbari, and gives him the clarity of mind to snap out of it]].
** In the episode "Shadow Dancing", Stephen Franklin is delirious from loss of blood and hallucinates that the medical orderlies wheeling his stretcher into Medlab are Delenn and Sheridan.
** The first season episode "And the Sky Full of Stars'' has Sinclair being kidnapped and forced into a drug and cyber induced hallucinogenic state which forces him to relive his missing 24 hours after the Battle of the Line. When he finally breaks free of it, he starts wandering around the station, but whenever he sees anyone, he thinks they're robed Minbari, causing him to shoot at anyone he encounters, [[spoiler: except for Delenn, who he realized was there as part of the Grey Council when he was captured by the Minbari, and gives him the clarity of mind to snap out of it]].
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* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': In "The Longest Wedding", Celestia loses a BeamOWar and gets blasted. Twilight Sparkle rushes over to her side, and Celestia says, "Santa? Is that you?"
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': In "The Longest Wedding", Celestia loses a BeamOWar and gets blasted. Twilight Sparkle rushes over to her side, and Celestia says, "Santa? Is that you?"
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* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', Quelaag's nameless IllGirl sister mistakes you, the PlayerCharacter, for her, because she is continuously wrecked by a horrific decease to the point of blindness. To make matters worse, you have to have killed Quelaag to meet her sister, and the game doesn't miss a chance to [[YouMonster rub it in]].
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* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', Quelaag's nameless IllGirl sister mistakes you, the PlayerCharacter, for her, because she is continuously wrecked by a horrific decease disease to the point of blindness. To make matters worse, you have to have killed Quelaag to meet her sister, and the game doesn't miss a chance to [[YouMonster rub it in]].
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* A PlayedForLaughs example from ''Series/GilligansIsland.'' The Skipper poses as a hostile native to get the Howells back together after they have a fight and gets hit on the head. He staggers off. Gilligan goes after him and asks him twice if he's all right. The second time he says, "For the last time, I'm all right, Mary Ann!"
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* A PlayedForLaughs example from ''Series/GilligansIsland.'' ''Series/GilligansIsland''. The Skipper poses as a hostile native to get the Howells back together after they have a fight and gets hit on the head. He staggers off. Gilligan goes after him and asks him Skipper twice if he's all right. The second time he says, "For the last time, I'm all right, Mary Ann!"
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* ''DawnOfWar II'': After being interred in a Dreadnought, Davian Thule mistakes Thaddeus for Gabriel Angelos, telling him "the secrets of Cyrene lie safe with me". Once he gets better used to it, he no longer gets anyone mixed up.
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* ''DawnOfWar ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar II'': After being interred in a Dreadnought, Davian Thule mistakes Thaddeus for Gabriel Angelos, telling him "the secrets of Cyrene lie safe with me". Once he gets better used to it, he no longer gets anyone mixed up.
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* VideoGame/DiabloII: Marius, who has gone completely insane, is telling of the events that occured in the backstory of the game to a visitor, who he thinks is the [[BigGood Archangel Tyrael]], culminating with the ruined man entrusting Tyrael with [[BigBad Baal's]] soulstone. Then he discovers his visitor isn't Tyrael--[[spoiler:it's none other than Baal himself.]]
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* VideoGame/DiabloII: ''VideoGame/DiabloII'': Marius, who has gone completely insane, is telling of the events that occured in the backstory of the game to a visitor, who he thinks is the [[BigGood Archangel Tyrael]], culminating with the ruined man entrusting Tyrael with [[BigBad Baal's]] soulstone. Then he discovers that his visitor isn't Tyrael--[[spoiler:it's none other than Baal himself.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', an Alzheimer’s-afflicted Fred mistakes PeeJee for his [[spoiler: late]] wife, Faye. [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming She plays along to give Fred one more moment with his beloved]].
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* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', an Alzheimer’s-afflicted Fred mistakes PeeJee [=PeeJee=] for his [[spoiler: late]] [[spoiler:late]] wife, Faye. [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming She plays along to give Fred one more moment with his beloved]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', a delirious Fry invokes this trope towards Nibbler (who's coshed him) as he comes to in the later's spaceship.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', a delirious Fry invokes this trope towards toward Nibbler (who's coshed him) as he comes to in the later's latter's spaceship.
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When a character is ill, delirious, hurt, drugged or otherwise mentally compromised, they will often assume another person coming close to them as someone recognizable to them:
* '''Mistaken for Loved One:''' The person may mistook him/her for their family, friends, comrades, a mentor or student. Often, the implication is that they think said loved one is there to help them. The "helper" will either [[SureLetsGoWithThat play along]] to comfort them (especially if they're dying), or try to explain their real identity. It becomes dangerous if they mistook an ''enemy'' for a loved one.
* '''Mistaken for Enemy:''' This usually happens when they got delirious in the midst of battle, often mistaking their comrades coming to help for a foe trying to finish him off. Or when the delirious is suffering BrainwashedAndCrazy or FaceMonsterTurn or similar, their newly conditioned mind will make him think that everyone's coming to get him.
Oftentimes the confused person will be so out of it they won’t pay any attention to whomever it is the person says they are.
When the "delirious" is caused by hypnotism/illusion (often a common tactic for a MasterOfIllusion) or hallucinogens, there could be a plot on how to stop these influences.
A common variant of this trope is for a ghost (or other type of [[HauntedIndex undead character]]) who has UnfinishedBusiness to mistake living people for someone they knew when they were alive. Ghosts are often found harassing people who bear a vague resemblance to someone they knew while alive, people who share other qualities, or just flat-out everyone they encounter.
May involve with WakingNonSequitur or NonSequiturThud.
See also SetAMookToKillAMook for when this is exploited - by making the mook think the other mooks are their enemies.
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* The PsychopathicManchild Miata in post-{{Time Skip}} ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' comes to view her partner Clarice as her surrogate mother (after Clarice is forced by awkward circumstances to breast-feed her).
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld''. Shiki sometimes mistakes his subordinate Scarlet for his mother.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Aizen once subtly traps Hitsugaya in his illusion shikai, making the latter believes that his subordinate Momo is Aizen. It didn't end well.
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* This is a RunningGag running gag throughout the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' film series, with Marty blearily waking up in a number of strange beds and saying "Mom? Mom, is that you?" Subverted in that at least once the person with him ''was'' his mother - albeit somewhat younger than he'd anticipated.
* In ''Film/{{Atonement}}'', Briony, working as a nurse during World War II, is asked to sit with a dying soldier to keep him company. The soldier mistakes her for a girl he'd met years earlier, and she struggles to play the role for him.
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* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward's constantly drug-addled (to the point that one can assume her brain is damaged) mother mistakes him for his own father. In a more dramatic example, Oreg, who has been a slave to Ward's male ancestors for ''centuries'' mistakes him for a man that had treated him very badly, while he is having a PTSD-triggered flashback to the time when it happened. He can't hurt Ward physically, but this moment is when [[spoiler: Ward realizes that this nasty ancestor was his worshipped idol, the one he wanted to be like. Not anymore. Oreg later tries to comfort him by pointing out that the guy wasn't ''all'' bad, but it doesn't help much, as that was Ward's only role model.]]
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Robert Baratheon, very drunk after his own wedding, misidentified his new (arranged) wife Cersei Lannister as his true love interest, Lyanna Stark. This made Cersei hate him and totally ruined their chance to build anything resembling a loving family... which later led to very serious political consequences, because, you know, they were king and queen of Westeros.
* In ''Literature/HurricaneGold'', Manny hits his headly badly and becomes delirious because of it. This causes him to think that Bond is his long-dead brother, which Bond uses to his advantage.
* In ''[[Literature/SwordOfTruth Temple of the Winds]]'', when Cara is rendered catatonic by [[BigBad Jagang]], a hooded healer comes to treat her. Once Cara opens her eyes, she looks at him and asks "Lord Rahl?" (that is, Richard). The man immediately lowers his hood and announces himself to be Drefan, Richard's half brother. At first, Kahlan is confused why Cara would mistake him for Richard (the family resemblance is strong, but not ''that'' strong), but then realizes she mistook Drefan for Darken Rahl, Richard's EvilOverlord father, whom Drefan resembles much more.
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* In the British mini-series ''Series/ToTheEndsOfTheEarth'', protagonist Edmund Talbot receives a concussion and spends a considerable amount of time in bed dreaming/hallucinating. He wakes up briefly at one point with one of his fellow passengers bathing his forehead and mistakes her for his old governess.
* British comedy ''Series/TheITCrowd''
** In the very first episode the character Roy receives a major head wound and proceeds to call fellow character Moss his mum, before thinking a phone is ringing, picking up and answering something that wasn't a phone, then lying down on the floor.
** And in the same series of the show, Roy calls a psychiatrist his mum after sleeping with her, which the psychiatrist finds "very interesting".
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]", the titular child, mortally injured by a bomb and [[CameBackWrong brought back wrong]] by alien nanotechnology, can only say "Are you my mummy?" while transforming anyone he touches into a copy of himself. This case is more than it seems, however- in the next episode it turns out that one of the people he's haunting really is his mother.
* In an episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Willow is unconscious in a hospital room and Xander is sitting with her, finally telling her how much he loves her. Then she wakes up, and thinks that it was her boyfriend Oz talking to her.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Clark is very sick with a fever. Chloe comes over and pours her heart out to him in a letter. He says just one word - [[spoiler: Lana]], the one he is in love with. Crushed, Chloe leaves.
* One episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' had a dying patient mistake Nurse Kellye for his girlfriend from home.
** Another episode plays this for laughs when a sick and delirious Frank mistakes his lover for his wife.
* An episode of ''Series/TheDumpingGround'' has Gina, one of the careworkers, bring her mum, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, to Elm Tree House. At one point, Hattie (Gina's mum) is giving a shopping list and grabs hold of Faith's arm (one of the kids), mistaking her for Gina, telling her where not to buy the food. Faith, however, keeps her cool and tells Hattie she understands. Later in the episode, Hattie goes missing from Elm Tree House and is found at a bus stop. Faith pretends to be Gina in front of Hattie, which she falls for, to convince her to come back to Elm Tree House.
* One episode of ''Series/SpaceCases'' saw Radu and Bova trapped on a shuttle and running out of oxygen. Suffering from oxygen starvation, Radu starts hallucinating that Bova is Suzee, who's back on the ship.
* A PlayedForLaughs example from ''Series/GilligansIsland.'' The Skipper poses as a hostile native to get the Howells back together after they have a fight and gets hit on the head. He staggers off. Gilligan goes after him and asks him twice if he's all right. The second time he says, "For the last time, I'm all right, Mary Ann!"
* {{Downplayed}} in an episode of ''Series/NYPDBlue''. The main character for the first season was John Kelly, who got PutOnABus partway through the second season. There is another character named John Irvin who is a PAA (civilain aide) working in another part of the 15th squad building. Detective Martinez has been shot and is going to go into surgery. John Irvin comes by the hospital and gives a cross to Martinez's partner Medevoy to pass along to him, saying it's good luck. When Medevoy gives the cross to Martinez and says it's from John, Martinez asks "John Kelly?" Medavoy replies no, it was Upstairs John.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'': ''Ties That Bind'' features a drug addict kid (suffering withdrawal) mistaking the protagonist for his father. Unlike most examples it's played for drama rather than laughs (you have the choice between letting him die or escorting him to his friend's stash).
* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland''
** One of Guybrush's go-to NonSequiturThud lines is, "My name is Bobbin. Are you my mother?" This is a reference to ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}''.
** More seriously, in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', when Guybrush is mortally wounded in Elayne's arms, he mumbles, "Is that you, mother? I washed my hands..."
* Early in the first ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'', after getting [[HopelessBossFight knocked out]] in a fight against [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall]], Sora thinks he sees Kairi talking to him about the Heartless when he wakes up, but it's actually [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Yuffie]].
* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': The old man in the boat rental shop mistakes Phoenix and Maya for his children Keith and Meg respectfully. He asks them to take over his pasta shop (that also rents out boats).
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' you fight a [[HeavilyArmoredMook Heavy Trooper]] that Walker perceives as [[spoiler: his dead squadmate, Lugo.]] This only happens once per game; if you die while fighting him, the game will spawn a normal Heavy Trooper when you're revived at the last checkpoint.
* ''DawnOfWar II'': After being interred in a Dreadnought, Davian Thule mistakes Thaddeus for Gabriel Angelos, telling him "the secrets of Cyrene lie safe with me". Once he gets better used to it, he no longer gets anyone mixed up.
* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', Quelaag's nameless IllGirl sister mistakes you, the PlayerCharacter, for her, because she is continuously wrecked by a horrific decease to the point of blindness. To make matters worse, you have to have killed Quelaag to meet her sister, and the game doesn't miss a chance to [[YouMonster rub it in]].
* VideoGame/DiabloII: Marius, who has gone completely insane, is telling of the events that occured in the backstory of the game to a visitor, who he thinks is the [[BigGood Archangel Tyrael]], culminating with the ruined man entrusting Tyrael with [[BigBad Baal's]] soulstone. Then he discovers his visitor isn't Tyrael--[[spoiler:it's none other than Baal himself.]]
[[AC:{{Webcomics}}]]
* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', an Alzheimer’s-afflicted Fred mistakes PeeJee for his [[spoiler: late]] wife, Faye. [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming She plays along to give Fred one more moment with his beloved]].
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', a delirious Fry invokes this trope towards Nibbler (who's coshed him) as he comes to in the later's spaceship.
-->'''Fry:''' Are you my mummy...?
-->'''Nibbler:''' Negatory. *takes off*
* '''Mistaken for Loved One:''' The person may mistook him/her for their family, friends, comrades, a mentor or student. Often, the implication is that they think said loved one is there to help them. The "helper" will either [[SureLetsGoWithThat play along]] to comfort them (especially if they're dying), or try to explain their real identity. It becomes dangerous if they mistook an ''enemy'' for a loved one.
* '''Mistaken for Enemy:''' This usually happens when they got delirious in the midst of battle, often mistaking their comrades coming to help for a foe trying to finish him off. Or when the delirious is suffering BrainwashedAndCrazy or FaceMonsterTurn or similar, their newly conditioned mind will make him think that everyone's coming to get him.
Oftentimes the confused person will be so out of it they won’t pay any attention to whomever it is the person says they are.
When the "delirious" is caused by hypnotism/illusion (often a common tactic for a MasterOfIllusion) or hallucinogens, there could be a plot on how to stop these influences.
A common variant of this trope is for a ghost (or other type of [[HauntedIndex undead character]]) who has UnfinishedBusiness to mistake living people for someone they knew when they were alive. Ghosts are often found harassing people who bear a vague resemblance to someone they knew while alive, people who share other qualities, or just flat-out everyone they encounter.
May involve with WakingNonSequitur or NonSequiturThud.
See also SetAMookToKillAMook for when this is exploited - by making the mook think the other mooks are their enemies.
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[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* The PsychopathicManchild Miata in post-{{Time Skip}} ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' comes to view her partner Clarice as her surrogate mother (after Clarice is forced by awkward circumstances to breast-feed her).
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld''. Shiki sometimes mistakes his subordinate Scarlet for his mother.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Aizen once subtly traps Hitsugaya in his illusion shikai, making the latter believes that his subordinate Momo is Aizen. It didn't end well.
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* This is a RunningGag running gag throughout the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' film series, with Marty blearily waking up in a number of strange beds and saying "Mom? Mom, is that you?" Subverted in that at least once the person with him ''was'' his mother - albeit somewhat younger than he'd anticipated.
* In ''Film/{{Atonement}}'', Briony, working as a nurse during World War II, is asked to sit with a dying soldier to keep him company. The soldier mistakes her for a girl he'd met years earlier, and she struggles to play the role for him.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward's constantly drug-addled (to the point that one can assume her brain is damaged) mother mistakes him for his own father. In a more dramatic example, Oreg, who has been a slave to Ward's male ancestors for ''centuries'' mistakes him for a man that had treated him very badly, while he is having a PTSD-triggered flashback to the time when it happened. He can't hurt Ward physically, but this moment is when [[spoiler: Ward realizes that this nasty ancestor was his worshipped idol, the one he wanted to be like. Not anymore. Oreg later tries to comfort him by pointing out that the guy wasn't ''all'' bad, but it doesn't help much, as that was Ward's only role model.]]
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Robert Baratheon, very drunk after his own wedding, misidentified his new (arranged) wife Cersei Lannister as his true love interest, Lyanna Stark. This made Cersei hate him and totally ruined their chance to build anything resembling a loving family... which later led to very serious political consequences, because, you know, they were king and queen of Westeros.
* In ''Literature/HurricaneGold'', Manny hits his headly badly and becomes delirious because of it. This causes him to think that Bond is his long-dead brother, which Bond uses to his advantage.
* In ''[[Literature/SwordOfTruth Temple of the Winds]]'', when Cara is rendered catatonic by [[BigBad Jagang]], a hooded healer comes to treat her. Once Cara opens her eyes, she looks at him and asks "Lord Rahl?" (that is, Richard). The man immediately lowers his hood and announces himself to be Drefan, Richard's half brother. At first, Kahlan is confused why Cara would mistake him for Richard (the family resemblance is strong, but not ''that'' strong), but then realizes she mistook Drefan for Darken Rahl, Richard's EvilOverlord father, whom Drefan resembles much more.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* In the British mini-series ''Series/ToTheEndsOfTheEarth'', protagonist Edmund Talbot receives a concussion and spends a considerable amount of time in bed dreaming/hallucinating. He wakes up briefly at one point with one of his fellow passengers bathing his forehead and mistakes her for his old governess.
* British comedy ''Series/TheITCrowd''
** In the very first episode the character Roy receives a major head wound and proceeds to call fellow character Moss his mum, before thinking a phone is ringing, picking up and answering something that wasn't a phone, then lying down on the floor.
** And in the same series of the show, Roy calls a psychiatrist his mum after sleeping with her, which the psychiatrist finds "very interesting".
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]", the titular child, mortally injured by a bomb and [[CameBackWrong brought back wrong]] by alien nanotechnology, can only say "Are you my mummy?" while transforming anyone he touches into a copy of himself. This case is more than it seems, however- in the next episode it turns out that one of the people he's haunting really is his mother.
* In an episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Willow is unconscious in a hospital room and Xander is sitting with her, finally telling her how much he loves her. Then she wakes up, and thinks that it was her boyfriend Oz talking to her.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Clark is very sick with a fever. Chloe comes over and pours her heart out to him in a letter. He says just one word - [[spoiler: Lana]], the one he is in love with. Crushed, Chloe leaves.
* One episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' had a dying patient mistake Nurse Kellye for his girlfriend from home.
** Another episode plays this for laughs when a sick and delirious Frank mistakes his lover for his wife.
* An episode of ''Series/TheDumpingGround'' has Gina, one of the careworkers, bring her mum, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, to Elm Tree House. At one point, Hattie (Gina's mum) is giving a shopping list and grabs hold of Faith's arm (one of the kids), mistaking her for Gina, telling her where not to buy the food. Faith, however, keeps her cool and tells Hattie she understands. Later in the episode, Hattie goes missing from Elm Tree House and is found at a bus stop. Faith pretends to be Gina in front of Hattie, which she falls for, to convince her to come back to Elm Tree House.
* One episode of ''Series/SpaceCases'' saw Radu and Bova trapped on a shuttle and running out of oxygen. Suffering from oxygen starvation, Radu starts hallucinating that Bova is Suzee, who's back on the ship.
* A PlayedForLaughs example from ''Series/GilligansIsland.'' The Skipper poses as a hostile native to get the Howells back together after they have a fight and gets hit on the head. He staggers off. Gilligan goes after him and asks him twice if he's all right. The second time he says, "For the last time, I'm all right, Mary Ann!"
* {{Downplayed}} in an episode of ''Series/NYPDBlue''. The main character for the first season was John Kelly, who got PutOnABus partway through the second season. There is another character named John Irvin who is a PAA (civilain aide) working in another part of the 15th squad building. Detective Martinez has been shot and is going to go into surgery. John Irvin comes by the hospital and gives a cross to Martinez's partner Medevoy to pass along to him, saying it's good luck. When Medevoy gives the cross to Martinez and says it's from John, Martinez asks "John Kelly?" Medavoy replies no, it was Upstairs John.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'': ''Ties That Bind'' features a drug addict kid (suffering withdrawal) mistaking the protagonist for his father. Unlike most examples it's played for drama rather than laughs (you have the choice between letting him die or escorting him to his friend's stash).
* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland''
** One of Guybrush's go-to NonSequiturThud lines is, "My name is Bobbin. Are you my mother?" This is a reference to ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}''.
** More seriously, in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', when Guybrush is mortally wounded in Elayne's arms, he mumbles, "Is that you, mother? I washed my hands..."
* Early in the first ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'', after getting [[HopelessBossFight knocked out]] in a fight against [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall]], Sora thinks he sees Kairi talking to him about the Heartless when he wakes up, but it's actually [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Yuffie]].
* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': The old man in the boat rental shop mistakes Phoenix and Maya for his children Keith and Meg respectfully. He asks them to take over his pasta shop (that also rents out boats).
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' you fight a [[HeavilyArmoredMook Heavy Trooper]] that Walker perceives as [[spoiler: his dead squadmate, Lugo.]] This only happens once per game; if you die while fighting him, the game will spawn a normal Heavy Trooper when you're revived at the last checkpoint.
* ''DawnOfWar II'': After being interred in a Dreadnought, Davian Thule mistakes Thaddeus for Gabriel Angelos, telling him "the secrets of Cyrene lie safe with me". Once he gets better used to it, he no longer gets anyone mixed up.
* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', Quelaag's nameless IllGirl sister mistakes you, the PlayerCharacter, for her, because she is continuously wrecked by a horrific decease to the point of blindness. To make matters worse, you have to have killed Quelaag to meet her sister, and the game doesn't miss a chance to [[YouMonster rub it in]].
* VideoGame/DiabloII: Marius, who has gone completely insane, is telling of the events that occured in the backstory of the game to a visitor, who he thinks is the [[BigGood Archangel Tyrael]], culminating with the ruined man entrusting Tyrael with [[BigBad Baal's]] soulstone. Then he discovers his visitor isn't Tyrael--[[spoiler:it's none other than Baal himself.]]
[[AC:{{Webcomics}}]]
* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', an Alzheimer’s-afflicted Fred mistakes PeeJee for his [[spoiler: late]] wife, Faye. [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming She plays along to give Fred one more moment with his beloved]].
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', a delirious Fry invokes this trope towards Nibbler (who's coshed him) as he comes to in the later's spaceship.
-->'''Fry:''' Are you my mummy...?
-->'''Nibbler:''' Negatory. *takes off*
