from dreams
Real life: Ru Pauls Drag Race winner Bob The Drag Queen talked about how he once logged into Grindr as his normal male self only to be have his profile flagged for using a "fake" photo. Of himself.
...Because Jeb Bush is all in my house with disease.
During a screening of Brian Flemming's Nothing So Strange, a viewer asked Flemming how he got permission from Warner Brothers to use clips of Denzel Washington in Malcolm X. Flemming replied that no, they were clips of actual news reels of Malcom X.
Anyone think this would be a good illustration (picture) for the main page?
Difference between this and Mistaken for an Imposter?
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Just by looking at the names. When someone thinks you're wearing a costume, it's a subtle insult at your appearance (though they still don't think you're the real deal). Mistaken for Imposter will usually lead to an arrest scenario.
Don't make me destroy you. @ Castle Series
Removed re:Charlie Chaplin - doesn't appear to be true:
- The contest Chaplin famously lost was specifically a competition over resemblance to the "Little Tramp," Chaplin's most distinctive character, and he just competed As Himself, without the Little Tramp's usual props and stuff.
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Pulled this from the Monstrous Regiment entry.
- Of course, throughout the book, we were being told how much like men these troops were becoming. So much so that by the end of the book, the main character is so out of touch with 'acting' like a woman, that she shaves her head again and rejoins the army at her old, promoted rank, albeit as an official woman this time. And she gets a lower ranking male officer to swap his pants for her long skirt uniform, too.
The point of the ending is that joining the army and acting like a man aren't, and shouldn't be, synonymous. There's no mention of her cutting her hair again, much less "shaving her head", and she wears her own trousers ... under her skirt.
If she's "out of touch with acting like a woman", then so is Angua.
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There is this article.
http://blog.cmt.com/2008-11-04/michael-jackson-attends-dixie-chicks-halloween-party/
It said that Michael Jackson attended a Dixie Chick's Halloween party as himself, but a couple of people mistake him as someone in a Michael Jackson costume. Would that be a good example for this trope?
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I hypothesize that Jesus would fit into this trope; if he ever rose again, he'd be killed because he wasn't the Jesus of the Bible's and the Church's idolizations of him. In fact, I further hypothesize that this has already happened, probably around the time of the Nicean Creed.
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There's an example in The Good Place when Michael pretends the real Jason is just a skin suit and Shawn goes "Went a little overboard on the cheekbones, but still."
But is he a CUTE evil overlord?