History Main / IAmOneOfThoseToo

* In the first chapter of ''Manga/FairyTail'', Natsu hears of a mage called "Salamander" and goes to investigate him, thinking that he could be a dragon he's looking for. He isn't, and he turns out to use illegal magic to charm women, but Natsu pretty much ignores him after meeting him in person. Then he learns that he's been passing himself off as a member of the titular wizard guild. It turns out, not only is Natsu [[ConfrontingYourImposter the actual "Salamander"]], but he really is a member of Fairy Tail, and he takes [[BerserkButton major offense]] to the insult to his guild.

* In a similar fashion, the framing device for ''Film/YTuMamaTambien'' is a road trip to the (fictional, as far as the protagonists know) beach of ''Boca de Cielo'' ("Mouth of Heaven"). It's actually just an excuse to try and get the female lead to sleep with one or both of them, but then they actually reach it...
* In ''Film/{{Maverick}}'', Bret Maverick wants to expose/embarrass the con woman "Mrs. Bransford".

** Well played on Maverick's part because her first response didn't answer the question. Had he said, "Oh, you're from there--" and tried to discredit her, she still could say she was not from there. So Maverick played dumb until she specifically says where she's from. Bam.

* In ''Film/KateAndLeopold'', Kate's boss is trying to impress her by claiming to either have an impressive manor in England or know someone who does (we don't hear this claim, only the reaction). Leopold immediately points out that such a manor doesn't exist. Kate tries to say that Leopold could be wrong, but Leopold is adamant. He grew up there, and he'd know. Leopold further shatters JJ's pretensions by pointing out the errors he made in trying to fake familiarity with ''Film/LaBoheme''.
** Even more ironic when you realize that the filmmakers themselves don't know the opera very well: it premiered in 1896, and Leo is from 1876.

* Speaking of Bruce Willis, in ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', he uses one of these to expose the fake dispatcher, giving her a code for naked people running around, and then calling her out on it...[[note]]Which wouldn't work in RealLife because nearly every police department (even ones in neighboring jurisdictions) in the US has its own unique coding system. It can make it a nightmare for different departments to work together.[[/note]]

* A RunningGag in Film/{{Coneheads}} has the titular aliens claiming to be from France as their [[PaperThinDisguise oddly effective cover]]. At one point, they mention it to [[BigBad INS Agent Seedling]] (currently disguised as a Jehovah's Witness), who then starts speaking in French, which causes them to briefly look nervous ... and then they continue the conversation in perfect French.

* Subverted in the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "Reunion." Jack is mistaken for a popular former student at Liz's [[ClassReunion high school reunion]], and after his initial denial is muffled, he plays along. Then he meets what appears to be the man's ex-girlfriend from high school. He manages fine in not giving away any details until the woman asks, "Say to me what you said that night." Jack looks her straight in the eye and says, "No." From her reaction, ''this was exactly what she wanted to hear''.
** The ruse only falls apart when [[spoiler: the ex-girlfriend decides that it's the opportune time for Jack to meet "his" son.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', the female FBI agents are out at a bar having a night out drinking. A guy tries to impress one of them by telling them he works for the FBI, but can't talk about his job. They ask him if it's a dangerous job, and generally puff him up with softball questions, before showing him their FBI badges and telling him to buzz off.
** This scenario also formed the basis of a series of British [[HomeGuard Territorial Army]] recruitment adverts.

* Captain Jack of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' took his identity from a deceased fighter pilot from WWII. When he finds himself in that time period, he starts to introduce himself according to his fictional backstory. This trope's subverted when he doesn't go into any more details, as he finds himself introducing himself to the real Captain Jack Harkness.
** Interestingly enough, the real Jack Harkness turns out to be gay, while the immortal one is of the AnythingThatMoves variety. The Jacks end up being attracted to each other, which "our" Jack finds painful, as he knows the real Jack is destined to heroically die the next day.

* One episode of ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' has Dharma and her friend pretending to be German tourists, speaking faux-German. When Dharma learns [[spoiler:her niece shoplifted from that store]], she has to return to the store, but can't drop the masquerade. Eventually, the clerk gets tired of not being able to communicate with the "tourists", and asks, "Does anyone here speak German?" Naturally, someone does.

* In his stand-up show "The award winning mince pie", Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert says that he made up a home town called Llanbobl. There follows a five minute rant against people who claim to have been there, including a rugger-bugger type, who said that his team beat Llanbobl 64-17. Rhod is impressed 15 imaginary rugby players scored 17.
** Gilbert eventually produced a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] radio sitcom called ''Rhod Gilbert's Leaving Llanbobl'', set entirely in the fictional town. His production company is Llanbobl Productions.

* In the fourth ''[[WesternAnimation/BibiUndTina]]'' movie, an Albanian girl who ran away from home pretends to be a Syrian refugee. It falls apart when she runs into a family of ''actual'' Syrian refugees.

* ''Film/TheATeam'' movie has a scene where Face accidentally switched BA and Murdoch's fake passports. BA manages to bluff his way past his customs official but the one Murdoch went up to is also from Zimbabwe and asks him a question in Swahili. It ends up working out for the better as Murdoch turns out to know enough Swahili to answer the question while BA wouldn't have.

* Subverted in ''Film/OceansEleven'', when Terry Benedict challenges Linus, who is posing as a Nevada Gaming Commission inspector, by asking if he knows Hal Lindley NGC. Linus calls his bluff, pointing out that Hal died last year.

** A variation is used when for complicated reasons Ross is at the wedding reception for complete strangers and is posing for a picture at the rostrum. People start clinking their glasses to demand a speech. Ross pretends to be working for the hotel, saying that a certain car will be towed. A guy rushes up nervously. He has that ''exact'' make, model, and color of car. What are the odds?

* The novel ''58 Minutes'' (which helped inspire ''Film/DieHard2'') has a terrorist posing as a priest meeting another priest in the men's room. When the other priest asks where he's from, the terrorist says he's a bishop of "Portland" then adds "Maine" as he figures that's less cliche that "Oregon." The other priest is confused...because ''he's'' the bishop for Portland, Maine. The terrorist quickly kills him while lampshading the one-in-a-million coincidence they just had to run into each other.

* Subverted in {{Ocean's Eleven}}, when Terry Benedict challenges Linus, who is posing as a Nevada Gaming Commission inspector, by asking if he knows someone else at the NGC. Linus calls his bluff, pointing out that the person Benedict mentioned died two years ago.

In creating a false identity a character has invented a piece of backstory. Perhaps, when asked about their hometown or high school, they blurt out a fake name, sometimes inventing it [[LineOfSightName out of whole cloth]]. Too bad that, not only does that place actually exist, but one of the first people they run into has actually been there, and [[CommonalityConnection excitedly]] wants more details. The pretender has found himself quite a pickle of a problem, which only [[SnowballLie more and more lies]] can get them out of.

** ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'' does a Reverse on this trope. Rincewind runs into someone from the place he's pretending to be from, and being smart enough to know that his challenger is going to try to trip him up by asking him about a fictional person or location, calls him on it -- only instead the man asked him about a real person whose identity would be very obvious if Rincewind's story was true.
** In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', some thieves have taken Angua hostage only to [[MuggingTheMonster be confronted with her wolf shape]]. So they're confessing to ''everything'' Carrot and Reg are suggesting in order to be let out. This happens:

* In a ChooseYourOwnAdventure style book where you time travel back to medieval times to figure out the meaning of the Order of Garter's motto, "Evil to those who think evil of it" (naturally ignoring questions of hygiene, health, height, and ... hlanguage), one of your excuses for your oddness is that you come from Navarre. However, one of your rivals has a friend, actually from Navarre, who asks you how the king is doing...

'''[[TheDitz Homer:]]''' Wait a minute! There's no Angus [=McLeod=] in North Kilttown! [[RefugeInAudacity Why, you're not from Scotland at all!]]

->'''Homer:''' Uh, buh, buh, we're new foreign exchange students from ... uh, um ... Scotland!
->'''Willie:''' Saints be praised, I'm from Scotland! Where do ya hail from?
->'''Homer:''' Uh ... North ... Kilttown.
->'''Willie:''' No foolin'! I'm from North Kilttown! Do you know Angus [=McLeod=]?
->'''Homer:''' Wait a minute! There's no Angus [=McLeod=] in North Kilttown! Why, you're not from Scotland at all!

--->'''Homer:''' Uh, buh, buh, we're new foreign exchange students from ... uh, um ... Scotland!\\\

* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', because Lt. Aldo and his men don't know enough German to replace the spies originally chosen to attend a Nazi movie premiere, they confidently decide they can pass for Italian instead. The first Nazi they're introduced to is the CunningLinguist Colonel Hans Landa, who greets them in perfect Italian.

-->'''Homer:''' Uh, buh, buh, we're new foreign exchange students from ... uh, um ... Scotland!
-->'''Willie:''' Saints be praised, I'm from Scotland! Where do ya hail from?
-->'''Homer:''' Uh ... North ... Kilttown.
-->'''Willie:''' No foolin'! I'm from North Kilttown! Do you know Angus [=McLeod=]?
-->'''[[TheDitz Homer:]]''' Wait a minute! There's no Angus [=McLeod=] in North Kilttown! [[RefugeInAudacity Why, you're not from Scotland at all!]]

-->'''Chalmers:''' I thought we were having steamed clams.\\

** He even did the "revealing it to the liar" thing; when the bouncer said he trained nearby, Seanbaby asked which of the local Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu schools he goes to, referring to them by name. The bouncer quickly changes his story and continues to lie about his fighting experiences.

* [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32145277 Man impersonating police officer pulls over a real undercover cop car]]. Some people have all the luck.

* In the novel ''The Proteus Operation'', one of the heroes is taking a train through Nazi occupied territory. Someone else on the train asked him what his profession was and he replied with his cover of an archaeologist. At that point, the other person responded that he, too, was one and what did the hero think about the xxx controversy? At that point the hero [[spoiler:got on his high horse and announced that ''he'' was only interested in the archeology that proves the superiority of the Aryan race and that all other studies of lesser races was not proper National Socialist thinking. The passenger archaeologist immediately decided they really didn't have anything to talk about]].

'''Skinner:''' Oh, not in Utica, no; it's strictly an Albany expression.\\

** In "22 Short Films About Springfield", Skinner ruins some steamed clams, then tries to replace them with hamburgers:

* The ''Series/VeronicaMars'' episode "The Wrath of Con" sees Veronica and Wallace infiltrating a college party posing as prospective students. Wallace claims to be a math major and finds himself having to come up with plausible-sounding answers to questions like: "The Poincaré conjecture or FermatsLastTheorem: which one do you think better defines the geometry of three-dimensional space?"

* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Cookie's attempt to pass himself off as a [[{{Fauxreigner}} British transfer student]] for a new class falls apart when he meets an actual British transfer student in the class, who exposes him as a fraud. [[spoiler:He later deduces that the "Brit" was also a fake because [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage he kept using American terms such as 'soccer' and 'fries'. When Cookie asks him how he saw through his own attempt, the other kid replied that he was just bluffing and Cookie caved.]]]]

'''Chalmers:''' You call hamburgers "steamed hams".\\

'''Chalmers:''' Uh-huh. What region?\\

'''Chalmers:''' Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "steamed hams."\\

This situation can be part of a {{Spot|TheImposter}} or BluffTheImpostor scene. See also ConfrontingYourImposter, which is going one step further: an impostor meets the very person he's masquerading as. If it actually works, consider SeamlessSpontaneousLie.

* In ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland'', Stephen makes up the name "Ned Q. Sorcerer, D.D.S." on the spot when attempting to crash a class reunion at Center of the Earth University. The ''real'' Mr. Sorcerer shows up a few strips later (but is catapulted away.) Stephen must later do a presentation in front of all the university alumni entitled "Ned Q. Sorcerer answers trivia questions about his life." He attributes the real Ned showing up to bilocation.