History Main / PrinceAndPauper

* Played with ''VisualNovel/TheRoyalTrap'' - from the beginning, there are rumors that Princess Cassidy is an impostor, and there just happens to be a similarly-pink-haired commoner girl in the cast being treated unusually well by the King and Queen. The whole story is... complicated.

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* ''Disney/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' was a Disney adaption starring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and a look-alike as the prince and the pauper.

* The premise of ''Film/ThePrincessSwitch'', where Music/VanessaHudgens plays both Stacy, a middleclass baker, and Margaret, a European duchess about to enter into an ArrangedMarriage. Margaret asks Stacy to swap places with her so she can experience normal life before that happens.

* ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason 3'', where Boog the bear is accidentally mistaken for a Russian circus bear who looked exactly like him, while the real Russian bear simultaneously traded places with him so that he can live in the wild.

* ''Film/TradingPlaces'' plays with this; the people aren't physically identical. Instead, two really rich old guys are pulling the strings.
* ''The Series/LizzieMcGuire Movie'' has Lizzie impersonate an Italian pop singer, because another idol wants to ruin the real ones career.

Two [[{{Doppelganger}} physically identical people]] from different backgrounds swap roles and have to learn how to [[MockMillionaire fake being]] [[KingIncognito each other]]. Everyone has AnAesop before episode's end, usually something to do with the [[GrassIsGreener grass being greener on the other side]].

* The various versions of ''Film/TheParentTrap'', including a movie starring the Olsen Twins circa age 11, use a variant on this plot in which each of the swapped characters is both "prince" and "pauper" at the same time.
** And, in all versions ''except'' the Olsen Twin one (which was titled ''It Takes Two''), the protagonists were related. Incidentally, the only film versions to actually have twins playing twins were the original ''Das doppelte Lottchen'', and the 1953 UK version ''Twice Upon A Time''.
** And there's also the [[AdaptationDisplacement original book]] ''Das doppelte Lottchen'', published in English as ''Lottie and Lisa''.

* PlayedWith in ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. The heroes run into an alien princess identical to Umeko who is running away from a bunch of annoying ceremonies she has to go through before she can claim the throne of her planet. When they assume she might be the target of an assasination attempt, she doesn't bother to correct them just for the chance of switching roles with Umeko for her "protection". [[spoiler:Turns out there ''is'' an assasination attempt underway, and Umeko gets shot by a sniper, but she was [[CrazyPrepared wearing a bulletproof vest just in case]], and they manage to foil it.]] At the end of the episode, Umeko calls the princess out for not speaking her mind against things she doesn't want to do.

Combination of SwappedRoles, IdenticalStranger, PrincessForADay and FishOutOfWater. Two [[{{Doppelganger}} physically identical people]] from different backgrounds swap roles (either by fate or by arrangement) and have to learn how to [[MockMillionaire fake being]] [[KingIncognito each other]]. Everyone has AnAesop before episode's end, usually something to do with the [[GrassIsGreener grass being greener on the other side]].

* {{Subverted|Trope}} ''[[http://sapphixd.tumblr.com/post/47925499191/rosesakurax-elanorpam-amischiefofmice The Prince and the Princess]]'', where a prince who wants to be a princess meets a TomboyPrincess, and they attempt to switch lives. Their parents see through the ruse almost immediately.

* The ''WesternAnimation/JohanAndPeewit'' episode "The Prince And The Peewit" that aired on ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' cartoon show.

* ''Film/TheLizzieMcGuireMovie'' has Lizzie impersonate an Italian pop singer, because another idol wants to ruin the real ones career.

* ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'': [[spoiler: At the end of episode 2, it's revealed that several years ago, Ange and Princess Charlotte switched places, each imitating the other. This may be part of Princess's motivation to be a spy for the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth is planning "Operation Changeling", in which "Ange" is to replace "Charlotte", making this a ''recursive'' Prince And Pauper'']].

* ''Disney/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' was a Disney adaption starring Disney/MickeyMouse and a look-alike as the prince and the pauper.

* ''Film/[=TheLizzieMcGuireMovie=]'' had Lizzie impersonate an Italian pop singer, because another idol wanted to ruin the real ones career when he in fact lip syncs.