History Main / IdenticalTwinMistake

* ''Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu'': Nana and Nono from ''The Story About Twins'' get mistaken by sight alone. [[invoked]] [[FridgeLogic Despite them having different haircolors]].

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} mistakes Rodney Marlowe for his twin brother Derek. Much to her confusion because Derek was reported dead.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': The Heyday triplets (three of the Holliday Girls) are identical and are commonly mistaken for each other even when they're not pulling a TwinSwitch, which leads to them being ordered to wear name tags. They generally avoid the name tags, which comes in handy when their vile elder brother abducts them to make them sign over their inheritances. It doesn't work because he can't tell which one should be signing which name.

* Before the events of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', Raigh stole one of Hugh's spellbooks. Before the beginning of their support conversation, Hugh mistook Lugh, Raigh's identical twin brother, for Raigh, and grabbed him by the collar; to his credit, Hugh realizes his mistake and starts said conversation to apologize.

* Before the events of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', Raigh stole one of Hugh's spellbooks. In a support conversation, Hugh mistakes Lugh, Raigh's identical twin brother, for Raigh. Hugh realizes his mistake and apologizes.

* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' novel ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy,'' protagonist Shasta is suddenly grabbed off the street by the Narnian royalty, who think that he's Prince Corin of Archenland. Shasta stays with them and hears some plot-significant information before being left alone...at which point the identical Prince Corin climbs in through the window, having sneaked out to explore the city. By this point we've established that Shasta know nothing about his birth family, so you can probably figure out the twist.

* ''Film/TwinDragons'' stars Creator/JackieChan as twins, SeparatedAtBirth. One is raised in a wealthy family and grows up as a music conductor, the other is adopted by a homeless woman and becomes an asskicking badass, typical Jackie Chan style. For the climax, guess ''which'' Jackie gets captured by baddies and ''which'' gets mistaken as a musician and forced to perform onstage, in front of a thousabd audiences.

---> '''Alisaie Leveilleur''': I... am ''not''... '''ALPINAUD!'''

** Whilst they go through a TwinDesynch over the course of the second expansion ''Stormblood'' expansion which prevents this for most people - this doesn't stop Estinen, who met Alphinaud alone in the first expansion from mistaking them when he meets Alisaie for the first time between the fourth and fifth expansions. He was trying to complement Alphinaud [[DudeLooksLikeALady looking more manly than he used too]], so the tomboyish but still proudly female Alisaie does ''not'' [[BerserkButton take this well]].

** Whilst they go through a TwinDesynch over the course of the second expansion ''Stormblood'' expansion which prevents this for most people - this doesn't stop Estinen, who met Alphinaud alone in the first expansion from mistaking them when he meets Alisaie for the first time between the fourth and fifth expansions. He was trying to complement Alphinaud [[DudeLooksLikeALady looking more manly than he used too]], so the tomboyish but still proudly female Alisae does ''not'' [[BerserkButton take this well]].

---> '''Alisaie Leveilleur''': I... AM ''NOT''... '''ALPINAUD!'''

* PlayedForDrama in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40609707 Airplane Mode]]''. After going missing for years, Subway Boss Ingo returns to Gear Station, where he is mistaken for his identical twin brother, the other Subway Boss Emmet. Specifically, a senior Depot Agent thinks that Emmet pretends to be Ingo to cope with his death, and begs him to take the week off. Ingo proves that he's not Emmet by having the agent call his phone.

* ''VideoGame/HerStory'': Suggests that the trigger for the murder was [[spoiler:Hannah posing as Eve and Simon falling for the deception, giving her another "unique" mirror to show his love]]. At least that's [[NameDrop her story]].