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* In ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', "Lord" Celia Mauser looks exactly like [[spoiler:Pacifica Casull, only her hair is lighter blonde]].

* In season three of ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', Geneus's cloak is eventually torn down to reveal that his features match almost exactly that of The Great Sage.

** Likewise, near the end of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], Ed is fighting Envy who keeps shapeshifting into his loved ones. Eventually Envy decides to reveal his true form [[spoiler:which looks a lot like Hohenheim, his and Edward's father]].

* In Anne[=McCaffrey=]'s short story "The Greatest Love," a new implantation technique makes it possible for Pat Kellogg to carry children for her brother Peter and his wife Cecily, who has a defective uterus. (The story was written and published before surrogacy became possible.) However, Cecily's mother refuses to believe the children are her biological grandchildren; she has Pat and Peter charged with incestuous fornication and reproducing within the limits of consanguinity. When the case comes to trial, the doctors involved of course produce all of their records of the procedure. What really makes their case, though, is a little detail not revealed until the very end of the story: the infant twins have an uncanny resemblance to Cecily's mother, thus demonstrating decisively that she is their biological grandmother, and therefore Cecily is their biological mother.

* In season three of ''LightNovel/KyouKaraMaou'', Geneus's cloak is eventually torn down to reveal that his features match almost exactly that of The Great Sage.

* A borderline example in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'", there is an [[TheMenInBlack Man In Black]] who keeps to the shadows throughout the episode, but is eventually revealed to look like [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Alex Trebek]] (because he was played by him). Trebek is not particularly important in-story, but the fact that a Man In Black looks like a popular TV host further discredits [[UnreliableNarrator Mulder's account of the encounter]].

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* In the episode of ''Series/TheAvengers'' that writes out Mrs. Peel, her husband (a pilot who was lost in a plane crash some years before her entry into the series) turns out to be still alive. He doesn't appear in person until the final scene, at which point he is revealed to look exactly like Steed. (What this might imply about Mrs. Peel's reasons for hanging around with Steed is left as an exercise for the viewer.)

* ''OnePiece'' has a character named Duval who is introduced masked, and it turns out that he looks almost exactly like one of the protagonist's FacialCompositeFailure WantedPoster, which lead to a lot of grief for him and is why he started out as an antagonist.

* In TheStinger to ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''' Volume 2, the mysterious figure who saved Yang from being killed by Neo does a DramaticUnmask [[spoiler: and reveals that her face is a PaletteSwap of Yang's. It's only until the third volume that we learn this woman's identity; It's Raven, Yang's MissingMom.]]