History Main / SurgicalImpersonation

* In the ''Series/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.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} foe Killer Moth once decided to kidnap a millionaire and use plastic surgery to take over his identity. The millionaire her decided to kidnap? [[BruceWayneHeldHostage Bruce Wayne]]. At the end of the story, bullet wounds damaged his face and the new reconstructive surgery removes his resemblance to Wayne.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' also gives us [[spoiler:Venom Snake--the former Militaires Sans Frontieres medic who was in the helicopter crash in ''Ground Zeroes'', given cosmetic surgery and hypnotherapy to be a body double for Big Boss. He's the one who Solid Snake kills at Outer Heaven in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'']].

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' also gives us [[spoiler:Venom Snake--the former Militaires Sans Frontieres medic who was in the helicopter crash in ''Ground Zeroes'', given cosmetic surgery and hypnotherapy to be a body double for Big Boss. He's the one who Solid Snake kills at Outer Heaven in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'']]

* ''OurManFlint''. Flint kills several Z.O.W.I.E. guards and is arrested.

* A subplot in ''LAConfidential'' involves a ring of prostitutes who received plastic surgery to make them look like famous actresses.

* Julius Grief from ''Literature/AlexRider'' accidently recieved Alex Rider's face rather than somebody else's. [[spoiler:It causes him to go insane and try to kill Alex.]]

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', 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, strongly implied to be a war orphan, went along with it because [[IJustWantToBeLoved she is desperately lonely]].]]

* In the second case of ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All]]'': the murderer is revealed to be a woman who was believed to have died in a car accident, when it turned out that the one who died was actually her sister. She took her sister's identity by presenting the girl's picture while she was in surgery in order to impersonate her to take her revenge.

* One of the two toad spies who undergoes "species reassignment surgery" in the BuckyOHareWebSeries is made to look like Bucky O'Hare so he can assassinate Chairman Dogstar.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' also gives us [[spoiler:Venom Snake--the former Militaires Sans Frontieres medic who was in the helicopter crash in ''Ground Zeroes'', given cosmetic surgery and hypnotherapy to be a body double for Big Boss. He's the one who Solid Snake kills at Outer Heaven in the original ''MetalGear'']]

* The amnesiac variant is seen in the movie ''Film/{{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.

* Even telenovelas doesn't escape this: a recent one was ''El rostro de Analía'', whose plot could be described as ''Film/FaceOff'' crossed with ''Manga/PrettyFace'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace As a Latin Soap with a Woman Doing the Face Exchange!]]]]

* Manga/BlackJack has done this at least twice:

* In {{LightNovel/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.

* 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 ''Manga/PrettyFace'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace as a Latin soap with a woman doing the face exchange!]]]]

* 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 ''Manga/PrettyFace'' [[RecycledInSpace [[AC:as a Latin soap with a woman doing the face exchange!]]]]

* 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 ''Manga/PrettyFace'' [[RecycledInSpace AS A LATIN SOAP AND WITH A FEMALE DOING THE FACE EXCHANGE]]

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', 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]].]]

** ''MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' also gives us [[spoiler:Venom Snake--the former Militaires Sans Frontieres medic who was in the helicopter crash in ''Ground Zeroes'', given cosmetic surgery and hypnotherapy to be a body double for Big Boss. He's the one who Solid Snake kills at Outer Heaven in the original ''MetalGear'']]

* In ''Series/{{Medium}}'', there was a plot where a man murders his female relative, but nobody realises that she is dead because his mistress has plastic surgery to make her look exactly like the dead woman. The makers of the show liked this plot so much they used it TWICE! (s3e12 and s5e9). And, the second time, the mistress impersonates the murderer's SISTER!

* In Series/{{Medium}}, there was a plot where a man murders his female relative, but nobody realises that she is dead because his mistress has plastic surgery to make her look exactly like the dead woman. The makers of the show liked this plot so much they used it TWICE! (s3e12 and s5e9)

* Julius Grief from ''Literature/AlexRider'' accidently recieved Alex Rider's face rather than somebody else's. [[Spoiler:It causes him to go insane and try to kill Alex.]]