History Main / SurgicalImpersonation

* An assassin in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' does this by impersonating a photographer and stealing his identity to get through security.

* In ''Anime/DuRaRaRa'' [[spoiler:Mika Harima]] was badly injured and had her face remade to look like [[spoiler:Celty's original head, which she was trying to destroy at the time, so she could get closed to Seiji, who is obsessed with said head]]. Evidently [[spoiler:Seiji]] eventually figured it out but remained in the relationship regardless.

* The amnesiac variant is seen in the movie ''Shattered'': Tom Berenger's character wakes up after an accident with full amnesia, and later discovers he's not the person everyone thinks he is.
* In Creator/EdWood's ''Jail Bait'', a crook blackmails a plastic surgeon to change his face so the police won't recognize him. The plastic surgeon responds by giving him the face of his (the surgeon's) own son, who's been falsely accused of murder.

* The plot of 1966 Japanese movie ''Film/TheFaceOfAnother'' revolves around a surgeon replacing his patient's face with that of another person so the patient can escape his own identity. (The patient had his face burned off in a chemical accident and is not happy about it.)

* The plot of 1966 Japanese movie ''The Face of Another'' revolves around a surgeon replacing his face with that of another person in order to escape his own identity.

* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. Mack Bolan visits a fellow Vietnam vet who now works as a plastic surgeon, and among a number of suggested faces picks one who looks like an Italian-American soldier, then infiltrates the local Mafia family under that name. When the mob boss hears a rumor that that particular person died in the war, Bolan drops a hint that he was a substitute hired to take his place so he could dodge the draft.

* In ''GundamSEEDDestiny'', Meer Campbell, a Lacus Clyne {{fangirl}} who possessed a singing voice not unlike hers but was ''very'' different looks-wise, agrees to have surgery (and probable DNA manipulation) that turns her into an identical twin of Lacus. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be an attempt to abuse Lacus' political influence by Gilbert Durandal, since Lacus herself refused to work with him; Meer went along with it because [[IJustWantToBeLoved she is desperately lonely]].]]

* In the manga ''PrettyFace'', the protagonist is in an accident and the surgeon reconstructs his face with a picture of the protagonist's unrequited crush. His face ends up identical to the girl's long-lost twin sister.

* Even {{telenovelas}} doesn't scape of this: a recent one was ''El rostro de Analía'', whose plot could be described as ''Film/FaceOff'' crossed with ''PrettyFace'' [[RecycledInSpace AS A LATIN SOAP AND WITH A FEMALE DOING THE FACE EXCHANGE]]
* With the advanced technology in ''StarTrek'', this is used in place of LatexPerfection. [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Cmdr. Riker]] was turned into an alien for a recon mission, and Counselor Troi, Capt. Picard and Lt. Data were (willingly or not) changed into Romulans.

* In ''ArsenicAndOldLace'', one of the characters is a wanted criminal who had surgery to change his appearance; the surgeon, inspired by a horror movie he'd been watching, gave him the face of Creator/BorisKarloff. (This started out as an ActorAllusion: in the original production, the actor playing the character ''was'' Boris Karloff.)

* The entire ''KnightRider'' series starts off with the main character getting a new face, that just so happens look like the son of the man who paid for the operation.
* In the ''TheManFromUncle'' episode "The Double Affair," a THRUSH agent gets Magic Plastic Surgery and voice training to look and sound like Napoleon Solo so he can replace him and sabotage UNCLE affairs.

* In LoisAndClark, there was an attempt to use a double of Lois in order to convince her and others that she is insane... and then accuse her of murdering Superman.
* In Series/{{Highlander}}, there was a double episode where a villain tried to get to Duncan by changing a woman into an exact double of his long dead love, Tessa (although the double never pretended to be her, it was a bit more complicated).

* In one case in ''[[CaseClosed Detective Conan]]'', the murderer received surgery in order to make his face look like that of the protagonist's, in order to pin the murder on him and get revenge on him. He faked his voice by claiming that he was sick with a cold - ironically, The Hero actually was.

* BlackJack has done this at least twice: once to save the life of a guy who's been sentenced to death as a scapegoat for a car accident caused by a rich guy's asshole son (by making him look like the son in question), and once to help a nurse get revenge on the incompetent boss who ruined her career (by making her look like the singer the boss is obsessed with). In the latter case, Black Jack's [[MagicPlasticSurgery ability to perfectly replicate the singer's face]] is justified by saying that he'd done plastic surgery on the singer too.
** Or, to be more precise, he 'made her face' as well.

* In ''GundamSEEDDestiny'', Meer Campbell, a hopeless {{fangirl}} of Lacus Clyne, agrees to a surgery that turns her into an identical twin of Lacus, down to the vocal cords. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be an attempt to abuse Lacus' political influence by Gilbert Durandal, since Lacus herself refused to work with him.]]

* Timothy Lawrence, Jack's body double in ''Videogame/BorderlandsThePreSequel''.

* ''SaintsRowTheThird'' makes use of this in the mission, My name is Cyrus Temple. Interestingly enough, the mistakes the boss makes while under the disguise of Cyrus Temple are different for every voice of the boss.

* In one ''CryingFreeman'' story, an organization trying to infiltrate the 108 Dragons takes two agents and reconstructs them as identical clones of Freeman, down to his body tattoos, mannerisms and even ''[[BiggusDickus genitalia]]''. Freeman returns the favor by managing to get one of them killed and impersonating him so he infiltrates the other organization in return.

* One of the [[Literature/SweetValleyHigh ''Sweet Valley University'']] Thriller spin-offs was based around a girl obsessed with Jessica's current boyfriend. The girl had inherited a lot of money from her late parents, so after the guy took out a restraining order against her, she used this trope to assume the identity of a popular sorority girl from her university and continue stalking him.

* One of the [[''Literature/SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley University]]'' Thriller spin-offs was based around a girl obsessed with Jessica's current boyfriend. The girl had inherited a lot of money from her late parents, so after the guy took out a restraining order against her, she used this trope to assume the identity of a popular sorority girl from her university and continue stalking him.

* One of the [[''{{Literature/SweetValleyHigh}} Sweet Valley University]]'' Thriller spin-offs was based around a girl obsessed with Jessica's current boyfriend. The girl had inherited a lot of money from her late parents, so after the guy took out a restraining order against her, she used this trope to assume the identity of a popular sorority girl from her university and continue stalking him.

* Even {{telenovelas}} doesn't scape of this: a recent one was ''El rostro de Analía'', whose plot could be described as ''Film/FaceOff'' crossed with ''PrettyFace'' [[RecycledInSpace AS A LATIN SOAP AND WITH A FEMALE DOING THE FACE EXHANGE]]

* One of the [[''Literature/SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley University]]'' Thriller spin-offs was based around a girl obsessed with Jessica's current boyfriend. The girl had inherited a lot of money from her late parents, so after the guy took out a restraining order against her, she used this trope to assume the identity of a popular sorority girl from her university and continue stalking him.