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Body Double

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Body Double	type	FeatureClass
Body Double	label	Body Double
Body Double	page	BodyDouble
Body Double	comment	When important figures feel they need extra insurance against assassins, someone takes on their appearance and role, especially in higher-risk situations. Though this is still used today by some leaders, before the advent of modern photography this was much easier to pull off, since the average person would probably not know what the leader looked like outside of a vague description or drawing, and would rely on clues from the Requisite Royal Regalia (wearing a crown, wearing a purple robe, riding in a golden carriage, etc) making any differences between the double and the real person less noticeable. In more modern works the close resemblance may be explained away by Magic Plastic Surgery or espionage agency-level disguise work, while science fiction settings may use Send in the Clones and have clones made with this purpose in mind. This is Truth in Television; generally, the more paranoid a leader, and the more people who want to kill them, the more doubles they will have. Saddam Hussein reportedly had over 50 doubles that he used at various times, and other notorious leaders like Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler have also had confirmed body doubles. Even if doubles don't "take an assassin's bullet", their deployment will at the very least complicate any assassination plots, as the planners will get intel about the leader being in many locations at once. Usually a job for a member of the Hero Secret Service. Related to Emergency Impersonation, I Am Spartacus. If the double is covering up for the fact that the leader is actually dead, it's an El Cid Ploy. See also Decoy Getaway for a practical application of a Body Double. See also Decoy Leader, when a leader uses someone else to pose as them, while not necessarily looking anything alike. The term itself may also show up being used for the practice of having a stand-in for film and television actors, which includes other tropes like Talent Double, Stunt Double or Obvious Stunt Double. For other types of impersonators, see Celebrity Impersonator. Ideal for this purpose would be an Identical Stranger, but This Is Reality, and those who don't live in a genre where such a convenient person exists will just use a person who looks passably similar. Since this trope is often part of a Reveal, be warned that there are inherently SPOILERS below.
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Body Double	isPartOf	DBTropes
Body Double / int_112ddf39	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_112ddf39	comment	The Game Changer has a rather depressing example (like so many Heroic Bloodshed movies) when Zi-Hao, in his Roaring Rampage of Revenge final shootout, guns down who he assumes is the Big Bad and the person responsible for his best friend Fang-Jie's demise. It turns out to be a double, and it is said Big Bad's daughter, Qin-Qin, who serves as Zi-Hao's love interest, hoping to atone for her father's sins by dying in his place. Oops.
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The Game Changer	hasFeature	Body Double / int_112ddf39
Body Double / int_12fc7d8c	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_12fc7d8c	comment	Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts: One of your targets employs a body double who carries a dead man's switch: if you shoot the double first, then the target will be alerted. If you search the body of your other main target for the level, you will find out that the target doesn't smoke.
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Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_12fc7d8c
Body Double / int_1367cea0	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, one of Bonesaw's tactics when being cornered is to capture civilians and modify them to look like the Slaughterhouse 9; the 9 can then use the confusion to attack or retreat. Even after the 9 leave Brockton Bay several surviving body doubles have to completely cover themselves to avoid being attacked.
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Worm	hasFeature	Body Double / int_1367cea0
Body Double / int_16d95182	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_16d95182	comment	This is the premise of Human Target; if you fear assassination and offer the right money (or at least the right thrill), Christopher Chance will assume your identity and deal with the threat personally. The Vertigo Comics series establishes that Chance has a pathological hatred of himself that motivates him to assume others' identities.
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Human Target (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_16d95182
Body Double / int_17fa5f0a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Order of the Phoenix try to smuggle Harry from Privet Drive to a safe house by using Polyjuice Potion to transform six of them into Harry, assigning each one a bodyguard, and going in seven different directions. They're attacked by an army of Death Eaters when they leave the house, but the plan works until something gives the real Harry away (Harry using his signature "Expelliarmus" spell in the book, Hedwig trying to protect him in the film).
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	hasFeature	Body Double / int_17fa5f0a
Body Double / int_18ce5aab	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_18ce5aab	comment	Used for Sakaki Joushiro's backstory in the Samurai Shodown games (more exactly, Warrior's Rage), with a twist: the body double was not him but his girlfriend Karen, an Action Girl who posed as a princess's double... but was killed by the Big Bad Oboro. Joushiro got wrongfully blamed for all of it and now he's a runaway.
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Samurai Shodown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_18ce5aab
Body Double / int_1beda93b	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance, when Torg or Riff want to get out of something, they have robot doubles which Bun-Bun and Kiki (due to their small size) can operate from the inside to impersonate the real Riff and Torg. Bun-Bun also has Mr. Sock-Lop, a sock puppet that looks just like him, which he brings out whenever he wants to avoid Kiki's overenthusiastic hugs.
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Body Double / int_1c1d7608	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_1c1d7608	comment	One chapter of Franken Fran is about a mobster who frequently makes use of Fran's services to create body doubles. Then his latest double tries to turn over a new leaf with his company, he assassinates him, and things get a bit hectic.
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Body Double / int_1c25dba1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_1c25dba1	comment	Suikoden V has Roy serve as this for the Prince after he loses their duel. It comes into play several times, with one of Roy's most awesome moments coming only if the player really screws up. While Roy bears an uncanny resemblance to the Prince in both face and body type (so long has he wears a good wig to conceal their different hair color), and can even convincingly copy the Prince's unique fighting style, but his Large Ham tendencies are a distinct flaw.
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Suikoden V (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_1c25dba1
Body Double / int_1d26524a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_1d26524a	comment	The Silver Eye: Walter's curse turned Thoth St. Claire into a perfect doppleganger of Bhatair Hollingsworth, the king of a faraway land. Bhatair somehow convinced Thoth to play the part of the king while Bhatair traveled. It was Thoth who was decapitated and chopped to pieces in the arena attack, not Bhatair, though the curse did transpose many of the injuries onto Bhatair.
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The Silver Eye (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_1d26524a
Body Double / int_1d290a5c	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_1d290a5c	comment	In Murder Princess, the maid Milano takes princess Alita's place during an invasion and dies, causing the body-swapped Alita to take on her dead maid's name and role.
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Murder Princess (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_1d290a5c
Body Double / int_1d43953c	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_1d43953c	comment	Usagi Yojimbo: Young lord Noriyuki had one who was identical in all but voice, and he never said a word even as he was dying; two other "doubles" turned out to be dolls. Usagi hated the idea of people dying because they didn't know they were only protecting a doll even though he understood how their ignorance helped keep the "original" safe; later he used the same trick which caused someone to die trying to protect a doll because he was trying to keep the "original" safe. Space Usagi used the same princess-handmaiden/bodyguard trick as The Phantom Menace, except that the only thing the pair had in common was that they were rabbit-women (it helped that no one on Usagi's side knew what the princess looked like).
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Body Double / int_2192aeb3	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2192aeb3	comment	There are two cases of this in Fire Emblem. First is Samto from Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, body double of Navarre, second is Shanam from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (cameo) and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (made playable), body double of Prince Shanan.
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Body Double / int_21edf764	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_21edf764	comment	In Dishonored 2, Duke Luca Abele has a body double living within his personal estate. If the player can find him... he'll agree to replace the duke by taking his medallion and have the real one arrested, telling the guards that his "body double" went mad and believes he's the real thing. Luckily, he proves to be a far better ruler than the real thing.
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Dishonored 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_21edf764
Body Double / int_23553960	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_23553960	comment	In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, this is the endgame twist. The player character in The Phantom Pain is not Naked Snake who was the protagonist in the previous prequels (including Ground Zeroes), but rather an MSF Medic (the same one who extracted the bomb from Paz in the closing sequence of Ground Zeroes) who become his double. While Naked Snake builds up the nation of Outer Heaven off-screen, Venom Snake lead the Diamond Dogs in order to build up his legend in your own way, in addition to seeking retribution for the events of Ground Zeroes. By the end, Naked Snake acknowledges that Venom is just as worthy of the title as he is, and it turns out that Venom did become the Big Boss of the original Metal Gear, whereas Naked Snake is the Big Boss in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_23553960
Body Double / int_247422c7	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_247422c7	comment	The Honor Harrington novel Crown of Slaves opens with Berry Zilwicki being offered the job of body double for Princess Ruth of Manticore.
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Honor Harrington	hasFeature	Body Double / int_247422c7
Body Double / int_25615740	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_25615740	comment	Parodied in Head of State when Presidential hopeful Mays Gilliam's campaign manager hires a guy who looks similar to him to precede him to all official functions. Mays half-jokes that Tupac Shakur could have used a guy like that. In the epilogue, after Mays wins, the body double is shot.
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Body Double / int_25a2d256	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_25a2d256	comment	In The Princes of the Air, Queen Rachel has several, of which at least one is an android and one is a male relative who has the same build and shares the distinctive family eye colour. At one point the protagonist goes to the palace with an important message, and has to observe several Queen Rachels before finding the one he's looking for.
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The Princes of the Air	hasFeature	Body Double / int_25a2d256
Body Double / int_261c8d3f	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Rainer Wolfcastle has one who looks 100% like him but with a different voice and without the accent. In "Homie the Clown", Homer is a licensed lookalike for Krusty (similar to Bozo's licensees) and unknowingly becomes mistaken for him when the latter is being targeted by the mob.note This also serves as a dual Lampshade Hanging of their similar physical appearances and a Development Gag, since Matt Groening originally intended to have Krusty and Homer be one in the same, the irony being that Bart worshiped Krusty but disrespected his dad not knowing they were the same person.
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The Simpsons	hasFeature	Body Double / int_261c8d3f
Body Double / int_26674ed5	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_26674ed5	comment	In an early version of the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty story, the events of the Plant Chapter were supposed to take place while Solidus Snake was still in office as the U.S. President. The events would've kicked off with the assassination of Solidus Snake's body double, allowing him to fake his death.
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Body Double / int_2a5791aa	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2a5791aa	comment	The main villain of Call to Arms, a ruthless warlord, is assassinated by the hero in the first 10 minutes of the film... except it's not the warlord. It's a double, and the real warlord then shows up in the immediate scene.
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Call to Arms	hasFeature	Body Double / int_2a5791aa
Body Double / int_2ba48a26	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2ba48a26	comment	In the Castle (2009) episode "A Dance With Death", Odette, a spoiled Upper-Class Twit, is found dead on a dancing show. However, various confusing bits such as how someone saw Odette shooting up but no drugs were in her system. It then turns out the prints match those of Barbara, a stripper who had died in a train crash a year earlier... a crash Odette barely escaped from. It finally clicks when Castle finds photos showing Odette doing court-ordered service at a soup kitchen yet able to attend a fancy brunch across town at the same time. It turns out Odette saw Barbara perform and realized that with a little surgery, they could be doubles. She thus hired Barbara to pose as Odette for stuff like community service and weekly meals with her wealthy grandmother while Odette could party like old times. When the crash happened and Odette was killed with her face horribly managed, Barbara realized that no one knew about the deal, so, as Castle puts it, "She saw her chance to go from understudy to leading lady" with no one the wiser. At first, Castle and Beckett think the killer was someone from Barbara's past blackmailing her. It soon turns out the killer was Odette's financial manager as he and Odette had conspired to kill her grandmother so they could control the fortune. When he yelled at Barbara over this, her shock made him realize she wasn't the real Odette, so he killed her to keep it quiet.
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Castle (2009)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_2ba48a26
Body Double / int_2c2a56e3	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Space Usagi used the same princess-handmaiden/bodyguard trick as The Phantom Menace, except that the only thing the pair had in common was that they were rabbit-women (it helped that no one on Usagi's side knew what the princess looked like).
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The Phantom Menace	hasFeature	Body Double / int_2c2a56e3
Body Double / int_2caa4368	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2caa4368	comment	Chris Ryan's Strike Back: An assassination attempt on Robert Mugabe fails because of this. Turns out the whole thing had been sent up to discredit British Intelligence, which meant the body double had been set up to be killed.
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ChrisRyansStrikeBack	hasFeature	Body Double / int_2caa4368
Body Double / int_2cad7105	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2cad7105	comment	In El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, Makoto reluctantly agrees to impersonate Princess Fatora (with whom he bears an uncanny resemblance, despite being the opposite sex) after she is captured. He's convincing enough that even Fatora's lesbian lover Aliellie is fooled... at least until she tries to get frisky.
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Body Double / int_2dfd87a4	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2dfd87a4	comment	The Rookie (2018): The cops are confused when a plane crashes on a street and the fingerprints match to a millionaire imprisoned for killing his wife. They go to see him as it becomes clear something is off, especially when they ask the name of the man's wife and he starts to answer before remembering "He" isn't married. It turns out it's a guy who got surgery and $10 million so he could take the millionaire's place.
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The Rookie (2018)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_2dfd87a4
Body Double / int_2e4b6e21	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_2e4b6e21	comment	Bodyguards and Assassins: The trishaw allegedly carrying Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the climax actually contains one of the titular bodyguards, and is planted there to misled the army of assassins into attacking the wrong target while the real Dr. Sun holds his important political meeting.
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Body Double / int_30a5ebfd	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In one Naruto Filler episode, Ino serves as the body double for a girl named Fuku, a princess who greatly resembled her... until she started binge eating out of stress in anticipation for meeting her fiancÃ© Chikara, and now doesn't want him to think she's fat. Ino finds Chikara obnoxious and refuses to continue setting Fuku up with her, so Naruto steps in to do things his way... inadvertently resulting in Chikara encountering the real Fuku and revealing that he's attracted to heavyset women, so everything works out.
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Naruto (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_30a5ebfd
Body Double / int_32625652	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_32625652	comment	Played with (in both versions) at the beginning of Dance in the Vampire Bund. In both cases, a tall, voluptuous, raven-haired beauty in vampish attire is initially introduced as the Princess of Vampires. Of course, when Mina Tepes makes her first actual public appearance, her aide Vera becomes completely useless as a decoy.
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Body Double / int_331e009	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_331e009	comment	In Borderlands 2, the player is required to kill a body double of Jack in order to snatch a piece of Jack's DNA for a disguise. Unlike the above however, this one is just a regular Engineer Mook using a holographic disguise, and doesn't sound at all like the real Jack.
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Borderlands 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_331e009
Body Double / int_34170b02	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_34170b02	comment	Tokugawa Ieyasu uses multiple body doubles while on the run in Samurai Warriors during the Battle of Mikatagahara, as five of his retainers pretend to be Ieyasu so he can escape. Often a tearjerker scene as he was against such an idea and swore to unite Japan so sacrifices like these will never have to be made ever again.
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Body Double / int_341c02e9	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_341c02e9	comment	One of the plot twists of Batman Begins is that the man identified as Ra's al Ghul was just a front for the real Ra's — the man who until this point had called himself Ducard. The fake Ra's is not a doppelganger but an older Asian man who would fit Bruce's preconception of what the leader of an ancient cult of ninja assassins would look like.
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Body Double / int_39c58bd6	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_39c58bd6	comment	After the first chapter of Rondo of Swords, the player learns that the main character, Prince Serdic, is in fact a double of the actual Prince Serdic.
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Rondo of Swords (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_39c58bd6
Body Double / int_3b5a21ac	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_3b5a21ac	comment	The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan: In the episode "To Catch a Pitcher", star baseball player Boo Blue (a loose stand-in for Oakland A's star Vida Blue) is kidnapped by some thugs — or so it seems. When the Chan Clan arrive to rescue him, they find he's a lookalike planted while the real Boo Blue was safe and secure in another location.
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The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan	hasFeature	Body Double / int_3b5a21ac
Body Double / int_3be307d1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_3be307d1	comment	Tenchi Muyo!: It's revealed in the GXP novels and later OVA series entries that Seto Kamiki Jurai Seto makes use of a woman named Kuis Panta as a double, but the two periodically sync their memories so both can be said to be Seto. They did this after Seto was injured in an accident so as not to tip off Jurai's enemies that the The Dreaded Demon Princess was out of commission. There's implication that the two are starting to undergo a Twin Desynch because Kuis is in love with Seina while Seto isn't, and the Seto seen in GXP is most likely actually Kuis due to her behavior around him.
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Tenchi Muyo!	hasFeature	Body Double / int_3be307d1
Body Double / int_3cd90f30	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: It turns out that the houses in Iraq that the Bluth company built were housing a group of Saddam doubles, though it may be that one of them was the real Saddam and a double was killed in his place.
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Arrested Development	hasFeature	Body Double / int_3cd90f30
Body Double / int_3d22c68b	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_3d22c68b	comment	It's not fully explained until a later series, but in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, the young ruler of Zeon, Mineva Lao Zabi, has actually been switched with a double by the end of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam by her regent Haman Khan as part of a Give Him a Normal Life, one of the few Pet the Dog moments Haman ever gets. No one knows what happened to the real one until Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, where we met her again now living under the alias Audrey Burne.
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Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ	hasFeature	Body Double / int_3d22c68b
Body Double / int_3db9a5f1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_3db9a5f1	comment	In Wishology, to protect Timmy from the Eliminators, Jorgen transforms himself into Timmy and lets them capture him so the real Timmy can escape because only Timmy can defeat the Darkness.
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Wishology	hasFeature	Body Double / int_3db9a5f1
Body Double / int_3e8c09b9	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, the Survey Corps use Jean and Armin as body doubles for Eren and Historia/Krista when necessary, due to the latter's Living MacGuffin status.
Body Double / int_3e8c09b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_3e8c09b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Attack on Titan (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_3e8c09b9
Body Double / int_3f4a104b	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert has a brief strip or three where the boss turns Asok into one of these to avoid decisions.
Body Double / int_3f4a104b	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_3f4a104b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dilbert (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_3f4a104b
Body Double / int_40b716af	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_40b716af	comment	In Assassin's Creed, Robert de Sable has Maria Thorpe impersonate him at a funeral after he (correctly) guesses that he's on the Assassin's hit list. Additionally, had he not done that Desmond would have never existed, as Altair and Maria end up marrying and conceiving Desmond's ancestor.
Body Double / int_40b716af	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_40b716af	featureConfidence	1.0
Assassin's Creed (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_40b716af
Body Double / int_40c8681	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: In book 2 (Blood and Honor), Jordan, an actor, is hired to serve as one for Prince Viktor of Redheart, so nobody will know the real Viktor is unavailable. The transformation into an exact physical duplicate proves to be so effective that it gives him the same royal Blood as the original Viktor, granting him Viktor's fire magic and letting him pass the blood test issued by the Stone of Redheart, thus letting him become king. In the Hawk & Fisher series, book 3 (The God Killer) reveals that homunculi can be illegally made to serve this role. When the sorcerer Bode's dead body is found, it's later revealed to have been just another of his doubles, and de-animating it just returned the animating spirit back into their original body.
Body Double / int_40c8681	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_40c8681	featureConfidence	1.0
Forest Kingdom	hasFeature	Body Double / int_40c8681
Body Double / int_41f610a1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_41f610a1	comment	In the Yoko Tsuno story "The Prey and the Shadow", a secretary named Margaret is blackmailed into becoming the double of Cecilia, her boss's unstable adoptive daughter. As time passes, she's more and more aware that something horrible will happen, but she's completely trapped in the web of lies that her boss extended around her. Once the titular Action Girl and her Power Trio spend a night in the boss's castle, Margaret confides on her so they can both save Cecilia from her "father" and free Margaret from him as well.
Body Double / int_41f610a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_41f610a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Yoko Tsuno (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_41f610a1
Body Double / int_43576f5	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In the finale of Season 7, Dick Roman knows the Winchesters are coming to kill him, so has his fellow shapeshifting Leviathans create copies of him so they won't know which one to kill.
Body Double / int_43576f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_43576f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Supernatural	hasFeature	Body Double / int_43576f5
Body Double / int_45a5656f	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_45a5656f	comment	A BattleTech Expanded Universe novel shows Joshua Marik, son of ruler of the Free Worlds League Thomas Marik, dying of leukemia on the capitol of Federated Commonwealth, New Avalon. Thomas' legitimized daughter Isis is betrothed to Sun-Tzu Liao, who has a massive chip on his shoulder towards the Commonwealth and (should the marriage go forward) would likely waste no time in mobilizing the Free Worlds' League and his own Capellan Confederation against the FedCom, distracting them from the still-present threat of the invading Clans. Victor Steiner-Davion, ruler of the Federated Commonwealth, goes through with a plan his father Hanse had initiated to replace Joshua with a body double, letting everyone think he's still alive. Notably, the plan was never for this imposter Joshua to assume the throne of the Free Worlds' League as a Puppet King, but rather just to buy time and keep Thomas Marik nominally an ally. Of course, once the plan comes to light, everyone assumes that's exactly what Victor had intended, half his own realm turns against him, and a not-so-minor war kicks up. Thomas Marik himself was an imposter installed by ComStar, with the real Thomas Marik still alive elsewhere, a fact which would have dire consequences for the BattleTech universe in the near future.
Body Double / int_45a5656f	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_45a5656f	featureConfidence	1.0
BattleTech Expanded Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_45a5656f
Body Double / int_468bebb0	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: A man who happens to look an awful lot like Lord Vetinari is crucial to a plot to discredit the real Patrician in The Truth. A later novel in the series mentions in passing that Vetinari occasionally hires the man to stand in for him when he needs a short holiday.
Body Double / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Body Double / int_468bebb0
Body Double / int_476c359a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_476c359a	comment	Princess of Thieves: Prince Philip has one to protect him from assassins. This pays off, as the double is killed in his place, with the enemy thinking initially that they got him.
Body Double / int_476c359a	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_476c359a	featureConfidence	1.0
Princess of Thieves	hasFeature	Body Double / int_476c359a
Body Double / int_47f0eac3	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_47f0eac3	comment	The Metalocalypse episode "Dethdoubles" has Dethklok be given body doubles. The band ends up treating their doubles like best friends, which their manager discourages, since their entire purpose is to be killed in Dethklok's place. The doubles end up being horribly burnt and disfigured by a volcanic eruption of hot coffee, forcing Dethklok to retire their doubles.
Body Double / int_47f0eac3	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_47f0eac3	featureConfidence	1.0
Metalocalypse	hasFeature	Body Double / int_47f0eac3
Body Double / int_487743ee	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_487743ee	comment	Charby the Vampirate: The prince of Eldenlon has a body double who has made no attempts to recreate some of the prince's very noticeable injuries which he picked up in the same incident that killed his previous body double.
Body Double / int_487743ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_487743ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Charby the Vampirate (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_487743ee
Body Double / int_4885590d	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_4885590d	comment	A variant in the Forever Knight episode "Dying for Fame". The main plot involves Rebecca, a rock singer being stalked by an obsessed fan. Near the end of the episode, Rebecca is Bound and Gagged and hidden in a closet by one of her backup singers, so she can impersonate Rebecca on stage (that night's concert was on tape) and be the star herself. Unfortunately, that turns out to be the night Rebecca's obsessed fan is in the audience and pulls out a submachine gun.
Body Double / int_4885590d	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_4885590d	featureConfidence	1.0
Forever Knight	hasFeature	Body Double / int_4885590d
Body Double / int_4a0e0645	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_4a0e0645	comment	In The Death of Stalin, an early background detail concerns the secret police rounding up the now-redundant body doubles of the deceased dictator. This happens in the background while the principal characters joke about their suddenly being out of work and whether they have retirement plans.
Body Double / int_4a0e0645	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_4a0e0645	featureConfidence	1.0
The Death of Stalin	hasFeature	Body Double / int_4a0e0645
Body Double / int_4f82dd49	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_4f82dd49	comment	In The Empress Game, Kayla is recruited to be this for Princess Isonde. However, it's not "just in case" of attack — it's for a whole gladiatorial tournament, which Isonde needs to win despite having no fighting ability. When Isonde is put into a coma by a surprise attack, Kayla has to take over Isonde's political games as well.
Body Double / int_4f82dd49	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_4f82dd49	featureConfidence	1.0
The Empress Game	hasFeature	Body Double / int_4f82dd49
Body Double / int_538ba773	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_538ba773	comment	In The Machineries of Empire, Mikodez had all his siblings modded to look like him (including sex change when necessary) so that they might pretend to be him during various meetings and trips he doesn't have time or patience to attend.
Body Double / int_538ba773	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_538ba773	featureConfidence	1.0
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Body Double / int_538ba773
Body Double / int_55c20cb5	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_55c20cb5	comment	In Overlord (2012), one of Ainz's servants is Pandora's Actor, a Greater Doppelganger NPC Ainz created. As a Greater Doppelganger, Pandora's Actor has the power to shapeshift into any of the 41 guildmembers of Ainz's former guild, including Ainz himself. Pandora's Actor throughout the series has filled in for Ainz to help facilitate various plans. In volume 14, the "Ainz" that fights Platinum Dragon Lord's remote armor is actually Pandora's Actor.
Body Double / int_55c20cb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_55c20cb5	featureConfidence	1.0
Overlord (2012)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_55c20cb5
Body Double / int_5755b96a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick has several for Xykon, one of whose head Belkar uses as a weapon for a short time. This is also something of a subversion, as the doubles look like Xykon simply because they're all skeletons.
Body Double / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_5755b96a
Body Double / int_59151283	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_59151283	comment	Used several times in Metal Gear: In Metal Gear Solid, Decoy Octopus takes on the appearance of several different people, and has to be psychologically evaluated after each one to return to his core personality. In the Fan Webcomic The Last Days of FOXHOUND, set prior to the game, Revolver Ocelot expresses disappointment at Decoy Octopus' decision to stop impersonating him, because it meant that there was no longer a 50/50 chance that someone out to get him would kill Octopus instead. In an early version of the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty story, the events of the Plant Chapter were supposed to take place while Solidus Snake was still in office as the U.S. President. The events would've kicked off with the assassination of Solidus Snake's body double, allowing him to fake his death. In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, this is the endgame twist. The player character in The Phantom Pain is not Naked Snake who was the protagonist in the previous prequels (including Ground Zeroes), but rather an MSF Medic (the same one who extracted the bomb from Paz in the closing sequence of Ground Zeroes) who become his double. While Naked Snake builds up the nation of Outer Heaven off-screen, Venom Snake lead the Diamond Dogs in order to build up his legend in your own way, in addition to seeking retribution for the events of Ground Zeroes. By the end, Naked Snake acknowledges that Venom is just as worthy of the title as he is, and it turns out that Venom did become the Big Boss of the original Metal Gear, whereas Naked Snake is the Big Boss in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
Body Double / int_59151283	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_59151283	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_59151283
Body Double / int_59c615f1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_59c615f1	comment	In The Nevers, this turns out to be the case with Maladie, who switched places with her Psycho Supporter Clara intending to get captured and publicly executed. Mundi only figures it out after the execution when he sees three missing toes on the foot that Clara cut off herself. The fact that the original has Wild Hair and distinctive makeup helps disguise the switch.
Body Double / int_59c615f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_59c615f1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Nevers	hasFeature	Body Double / int_59c615f1
Body Double / int_5a5d6ab3	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_5a5d6ab3	comment	Stravaganza has this in the first book, as the Duchessa of Belleza uses different doubles for all the flashy ceremonies, such as the Marriage with the Sea. She began this procedure when she became pregnant with her daughter, Arianna. One such double thinks she can outsmart the Duchessa, rat out her secret, and throw her lot in with the di Chimici with no ill consequences; she's wrong.
Body Double / int_5a5d6ab3	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_5a5d6ab3	featureConfidence	1.0
Stravaganza	hasFeature	Body Double / int_5a5d6ab3
Body Double / int_5a9f209a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_5a9f209a	comment	In Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die, Keigo Kyogoku employs a body double to commit suicide when his coup fails at the end of chapter 8, allowing Kyogoku to summon Musashi as part of his evil plan.
Body Double / int_5a9f209a	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_5a9f209a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_5a9f209a
Body Double / int_5c72c3f4	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_5c72c3f4	comment	A rare non-human example was pulled off by Seabiscuit's handlers. His trainer Tom Smith, notorious for being a Troll to the press, purchased Seabiscuit's otherwise identical half-brother Grog (both foaled from the same sire, Hard Tack) and on multiple occasions brought out Grog when he knew the press would be hanging around to report on and photograph training sessions. On the few occasions Smith would uncharacteristically allow the press to sit on the back of the horse for bragging rights, it was usually Grog they sat on instead. And once they started to catch on, Smith would occasionally use the real Seabiscuit just to keep them guessing. To this day, there are some photos where no one's entirely certain if the depicted horse was really Seabiscuit or if it was actually Grog, and Smith took the truth to his grave. Besides trolling the press, Grog was also used in the more traditional way of confusing potential assailants since due to the high stakes of the races he participated in several rivals attempted to sabotage or injure Seabiscuit.
Body Double / int_5c72c3f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_5c72c3f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Seabiscuit	hasFeature	Body Double / int_5c72c3f4
Body Double / int_5eb3c0ea	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_5eb3c0ea	comment	The plot of Amakusa 1637 heavily leans on lead female Natsuki becoming one of these for a local swordsman, Shirou. Yes, she's one for THAT Shiro, who is actually dead in this story.
Body Double / int_5eb3c0ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_5eb3c0ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Amakusa 1637 (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_5eb3c0ea
Body Double / int_60f02ddb	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_60f02ddb	comment	In American Dad!, Stan Smith has a body double issued by the CIA. It gets squicky when the body double starts dating Stan's daughter Hayley.
Body Double / int_60f02ddb	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_60f02ddb	featureConfidence	1.0
American Dad!	hasFeature	Body Double / int_60f02ddb
Body Double / int_64c91236	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_64c91236	comment	The main villain of Vengeful Beauty has his cadre of Praetorian Guard disguised as himself in the final battle. All of them use the same weapon and are expert fighters, with each onscreen kill quickly revealed to be a double. Expectedly, the main villain is the last one to bite it once all his doubles are slain.
Body Double / int_64c91236	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_64c91236	featureConfidence	1.0
Vengeful Beauty	hasFeature	Body Double / int_64c91236
Body Double / int_677fd618	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_677fd618	comment	The "Doppleganger" character in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is a body-double for Jack. His real name is Timothy Lawrence, who took the job out of desperation because of his crushing student debt, and was surgically altered to look and sound like Jack (with implications that they also implanted a bomb in him that would explode if he ever tried to get the surgery reversed). However, he is very much his own person, and while he is required by law to act and talk like Jack (and even has a contractual clause that forbids him from using his real name), he proves to be far more morally sound compared to the real Jack, especially after he jumps off the slippery slope halfway through the game. The "Handsome Jackpot" DLC of Borderlands 3 reveals that Timothy actually survived past Jack's death and has been stuck in an abandoned casino built by Jack where he's hunted down by the survivors due to both his appearance and the fact that he has a VIP Pass grafted to his hand that can grant anyone full access to the casino's systems.
Body Double / int_677fd618	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_677fd618	featureConfidence	1.0
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_677fd618
Body Double / int_6c5e0560	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_6c5e0560	comment	Parodied, then played straight in Fushigi Yuugi. Hotohori needs to leave the Imperial Capital to help Miaka and the group, but since he's The Emperor he just can't go and step out. Chichiri offers to help and morphs into Hotohori with his Master of Disguise powers... but the extremely vain Hotohori is displeased because Chichiri can't flawlessly recreate his beauty. He does accept the offer after this hilarious moment, and as he goes off to give Miaka aid... poor Chichiri is bored as heck in the Court.
Body Double / int_6c5e0560	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_6c5e0560	featureConfidence	1.0
Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_6c5e0560
Body Double / int_6c9c0e27	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_6c9c0e27	comment	In Gyakuten Kenji 2, the Body Double of the President of Zheng Fa, conspiring with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Roland, hires Professional Killer Sirhan Dogen to kill the true president and takes his place. The truth is not discovered until after the double himself is murdered, twelve years later.
Body Double / int_6c9c0e27	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_6c9c0e27	featureConfidence	1.0
Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_6c9c0e27
Body Double / int_6ccb82e2	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_6ccb82e2	comment	The titular king in Henry IV, Part 1 has a number of doubles during the climactic battle.
Body Double / int_6ccb82e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_6ccb82e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Henry IV, Part 1 (Theatre)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_6ccb82e2
Body Double / int_7041cf12	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7041cf12	comment	Chapter 45 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has Hayasaka dress up as Kaguya so the latter can sneak out of the house to attend a fireworks viewing with her friends. They look nothing alike, but the fact that Hayasaka spends the entire time looking out the window in the dark (plus a wig and matching yukata) keeps the other servants from realizing their ruse.
Body Double / int_7041cf12	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7041cf12	featureConfidence	1.0
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7041cf12
Body Double / int_70814599	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_70814599	comment	In Stargate SG-1, Ba'al creates numerous clones of himself to act as decoys, and aid in some elaborate schemes of his.
Body Double / int_70814599	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_70814599	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Body Double / int_70814599
Body Double / int_7244e221	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7244e221	comment	In The Traitor Son Cycle, upon learning that the King is going to get ambushed and killed, Jean de Vrailly has the two of them switch armour (which is full plate, so you can't really see who's underneath it) and takes the should-be-killing blow for him.
Body Double / int_7244e221	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7244e221	featureConfidence	1.0
The Traitor Son Cycle	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7244e221
Body Double / int_73b74949	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_73b74949	comment	Borderlands: The "Doppleganger" character in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is a body-double for Jack. His real name is Timothy Lawrence, who took the job out of desperation because of his crushing student debt, and was surgically altered to look and sound like Jack (with implications that they also implanted a bomb in him that would explode if he ever tried to get the surgery reversed). However, he is very much his own person, and while he is required by law to act and talk like Jack (and even has a contractual clause that forbids him from using his real name), he proves to be far more morally sound compared to the real Jack, especially after he jumps off the slippery slope halfway through the game. The "Handsome Jackpot" DLC of Borderlands 3 reveals that Timothy actually survived past Jack's death and has been stuck in an abandoned casino built by Jack where he's hunted down by the survivors due to both his appearance and the fact that he has a VIP Pass grafted to his hand that can grant anyone full access to the casino's systems. In Borderlands 2, the player is required to kill a body double of Jack in order to snatch a piece of Jack's DNA for a disguise. Unlike the above however, this one is just a regular Engineer Mook using a holographic disguise, and doesn't sound at all like the real Jack.
Body Double / int_73b74949	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_73b74949	featureConfidence	1.0
Borderlands (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_73b74949
Body Double / int_73eb4b7e	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_73eb4b7e	comment	In Reflections on the River, depending on what route is taken, it may be revealed that the real Princess Yanyu is perpetually ill, and that the protagonist has actually just kidnapped a body double named Huineng. By that stage, Huineng is actually getting depressed about being considered so expendable. In one of the endings, however, the real Yanyu dies, and the king and queen have to beg Huineng to assume the role permanently.
Body Double / int_73eb4b7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_73eb4b7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Reflections on the River (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_73eb4b7e
Body Double / int_767bd4d8	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_767bd4d8	comment	In Cerebus the Aardvark, Lord Julius (a parody of Groucho Marx) hires several "Like-a-looks" to stand in for him (lampshading the fact that anyone with the right build, walk, fake mustache and attitude can look like Groucho Marx). It's never entirely clear who the real Lord Julius is after that, especially after a mob of increasingly absurd like-a-looks (including the Elrod the Albino!) invade the palace and all claim to be the real one. In a reprint, Sim mentioned that the story was inspired by the scene from Duck Soup in which Chico and Harpo both impersonate Groucho using greasepaint and the right props.
Body Double / int_767bd4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_767bd4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_767bd4d8
Body Double / int_7aaf9e41	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Starting in the Bronze Age and used intermittently, Batman and Superman have doubled for each other on occasion. In costume, it's merely a matter of switching outfits since they are pretty much identical in height and build. Out of costume, they're still close enough that skillful application of make-up, hair combing, and Bruce wearing Clark's glasses renders them pretty much identical. In one story, when Bruce doubles for Clark, a reporter at the Daily Planet who likes to pull cruel pranks on Clark (Clark always goes along to protect his secret identity) decides that it would be fun to humiliate Bruce/Clark and trips him while he's walking down a hallway. Clark would have gone along, but Bruce, who doesn't have to worry about his own secret identity, proceeds straight to laying down an ass-kicking.
Body Double / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7aaf9e41
Body Double / int_7afc24b0	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7afc24b0	comment	Samurai Deeper Kyo has two: One for Tokugawa Ieyasu (the real one turns out to be Hattori Hanzō) and one for Sanada Yukimura, who is actually a woman (the body double, not the guy, though it's an easy enough mistake to make).
Body Double / int_7afc24b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7afc24b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Samurai Deeper Kyo (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7afc24b0
Body Double / int_7f39a041	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7f39a041	comment	Gintama: Shigeshige has had many body doubles from when he was a child. He switched places with one to save the clan of bodyguards when he was injured.
Body Double / int_7f39a041	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7f39a041	featureConfidence	1.0
Gintama (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7f39a041
Body Double / int_7f8a38b6	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Dix-Neuf Noinheim from the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing sequel manga Frozen Teardrop was this for his brother-in-law, Milliardo Peacecraft aka Zechs Merquise. He was killed for it, but his sacrifice let Zechs escape safely.
Body Double / int_7f8a38b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7f8a38b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7f8a38b6
Body Double / int_7f9dbbce	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7f9dbbce	comment	Far Cry 4: Pagan Min has one named Eric, who apparently isn't even really (half) Asian; just a white Australian guy with hair loss, high cheekbones and a lot of plastic surgery. Pagan mostly uses him to pose as him for portraits and statues in his stead, probably out of sheer laziness. Ajay only finds out after he's killed Eric, at which point the real Pagan calls him up to taunt him.
Body Double / int_7f9dbbce	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7f9dbbce	featureConfidence	1.0
Far Cry 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7f9dbbce
Body Double / int_7ff1606c	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_7ff1606c	comment	As revealed in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, this was what led to the advent of Char Aznable. The real Char Aznable was a friend of Casval Rem Deikun, the exiled son of Zeon's founder, who at the time was living under the pseudonym of Edourad Mass. Casval wanted to enlist in Zeon's military academy in order to exact his revenge against the Zabi family, and Char was instrumental to his plan as the two looked practically identical except for their eyes. Casval tricked Char into swapping identities so that he could go to the academy under Char's name while Zabi assassins killed Char under the belief that he was Casval. From that point forward, Casval lived as Char Aznable, and would take to wearing sunglasses (then later, his iconic visored helmet) to hide the fact that his eyes were blue, instead of brown like the real Char.
Body Double / int_7ff1606c	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_7ff1606c	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_7ff1606c
Body Double / int_8125b468	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8125b468	comment	The leader of the Red Claw organization the Batfamily fight against in "Grudge Match" is revealed to be the right-hand woman and lover of the real leader, Nyssa Al-ghul. An example of this trope where the person and their decoy don't look anything alike, but it still works because no one knew who Nyssa was, much less what she looked like, aside from her sister Talia, who believed she was long dead.
Body Double / int_8125b468	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8125b468	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Franchise)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8125b468
Body Double / int_81fbcc95	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_81fbcc95	comment	In the second-to-last episode of Samurai 7, Ukyo uses other clones of the Emperor, who are all genetically and physically identical to him as his body doubles. It almost works.
Body Double / int_81fbcc95	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_81fbcc95	featureConfidence	1.0
Samurai 7	hasFeature	Body Double / int_81fbcc95
Body Double / int_836f3c1d	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_836f3c1d	comment	Shaolin Prince has a depressing example where the doubles are babies, during the opening scene where the two baby princes are being secretly hidden and several random babies purchased from poor families are used to mislead the villains intending on terminating the Emperor's bloodline. None of the baby doubles make it.
Body Double / int_836f3c1d	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_836f3c1d	featureConfidence	1.0
Shaolin Prince	hasFeature	Body Double / int_836f3c1d
Body Double / int_8459204b	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8459204b	comment	In Legend of the Seeker, back when Darken Rahl was in charge, one of his officers found a beggar who looked remarkably similar to him and brought him to Lord Rahl with this trope in mind. Rahl almost had the beggar (and the officer) executed, claiming that the guy looks nothing like him (despite being played by the same actor). The officer has the beggar physically altered (painfully) to look just like Rahl and provide voice coaching to have him sound like the Lord of D'Hara. After Rahl's death, the beggar and the officer (who have become friends) escape and engage in cons involving the beggar pretending to be Rahl. As it turns out, Rahl had a backup plan to have his spirit be brought back into the beggar's body. This works, although the beggar's spirit is put in another man's body, much to the beggar's delight (he hated having Rahl's face).
Body Double / int_8459204b	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8459204b	featureConfidence	1.0
Legend of the Seeker	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8459204b
Body Double / int_8646dce1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8646dce1	comment	In Hitman, Agent 47 kills Russian President Mikhail Belicoff in a public appearance, only to discover Belicoff is still alive and well. In a twist, it turns out that the living Belicoff is actually a body double who has usurped the murdered Belicoff.
Body Double / int_8646dce1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8646dce1	featureConfidence	1.0
Hitman	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8646dce1
Body Double / int_86814e56	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI, the wandering gambler Setzer sends a calling card to the Opera House, professing his intention to kidnap the opera singer Maria. The party needs to get on his airship to make their way to the Imperial continent, so they have Celes (who, strangely enough, looks a bit like Maria) act as a decoy and sing her part in the opera that night. She manages to fool Setzer until after he kidnaps her.
Body Double / int_86814e56	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_86814e56	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_86814e56
Body Double / int_885d3ce8	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_885d3ce8	comment	Once you kill the tyrant Dong Zhuo roughly halfway into Dynasty Wars, you realize you just killed a double and the real Dong Zhuo is getting away on horseback.
Body Double / int_885d3ce8	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_885d3ce8	featureConfidence	1.0
Dynasty Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_885d3ce8
Body Double / int_88b348e8	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_88b348e8	comment	A fairly innocent example occurs in Cardcaptor Sakura through Sakura's use of the Mirror card to stand in for her when she has to do some emergency card-catching. However, Sakura's spiritually sensitive brother Touya is fully aware that it's not really Sakura, but plays along anyway.
Body Double / int_88b348e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_88b348e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_88b348e8
Body Double / int_8954c942	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8954c942	comment	In one Golgo 13 story, Golgo is hired to kill a client's double so he can fake his death. The double arranges for the real man to take his place, taking over the mob boss's life after his death. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of turning Golgo into an enemy.
Body Double / int_8954c942	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8954c942	featureConfidence	1.0
Golgo 13 (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8954c942
Body Double / int_8ac4e993	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: It's not fully explained until a later series, but in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, the young ruler of Zeon, Mineva Lao Zabi, has actually been switched with a double by the end of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam by her regent Haman Khan as part of a Give Him a Normal Life, one of the few Pet the Dog moments Haman ever gets. No one knows what happened to the real one until Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, where we met her again now living under the alias Audrey Burne. Dix-Neuf Noinheim from the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing sequel manga Frozen Teardrop was this for his brother-in-law, Milliardo Peacecraft aka Zechs Merquise. He was killed for it, but his sacrifice let Zechs escape safely. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, aspirant singer Meer Campbell fills this role for Lacus Clyne, though she's actually working for the Big Bad, who has told her that she'll be able to help keep the fragile peace if she poses as Lacus. Meer eventually begins to crack under all the stress and self-esteem problems, deciding that she doesn't care that she's being used to further Durandal's goals and only wants to continue to pretend being Lacus since nobody loves Meer herself. Lacus herself faces Meer and manages to talk her out of it... only for poor Meer to be shot to death while Taking the Bullet for Lacus and perish in her arms. As revealed in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, this was what led to the advent of Char Aznable. The real Char Aznable was a friend of Casval Rem Deikun, the exiled son of Zeon's founder, who at the time was living under the pseudonym of Edourad Mass. Casval wanted to enlist in Zeon's military academy in order to exact his revenge against the Zabi family, and Char was instrumental to his plan as the two looked practically identical except for their eyes. Casval tricked Char into swapping identities so that he could go to the academy under Char's name while Zabi assassins killed Char under the belief that he was Casval. From that point forward, Casval lived as Char Aznable, and would take to wearing sunglasses (then later, his iconic visored helmet) to hide the fact that his eyes were blue, instead of brown like the real Char.
Body Double / int_8ac4e993	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8ac4e993	featureConfidence	1.0
Gundam (Franchise)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8ac4e993
Body Double / int_8cb272f4	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8cb272f4	comment	Unknown Soldier: Playing body double for various Allied VIPs is a frequent task for the original Bronze Age incarnation of the Soldier. Typically, this is just the framing device for the story, and he must then track down a would-be assassin's collaborators.
Body Double / int_8cb272f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8cb272f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Unknown Soldier (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8cb272f4
Body Double / int_8dd8ec81	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8dd8ec81	comment	Sailor Moon: It looks like a part of Minako's job description as Minako "Sailor Venus" Aino is being Usagi "Sailor Moon" Tsukino's body double, explaining both their extreme resemblance (Minako has the white cat)◊ and Minako's ability to change appearance. In the manga, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, and Sailor Moon Crystal, Venus even explicitly poses as the Moon Princess before The Reveal, making this a rare case where even the person who the double is standing in for isn't aware of it, as Usagi hadn't yet recovered her Past-Life Memories. In the first season of the first anime, the Senshi thought Venus was the Princess but she denied it when asked, though in the third season she actually had to sub in for a kidnapped and temporarily depowered Moon (which was almost completely Played for Laughs). A popular fan theory is that this explains CereCere/Sailor Ceres's resemblance to Chibiusa: she's meant to be Chibiusa's decoy should the need arise.
Body Double / int_8dd8ec81	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8dd8ec81	featureConfidence	1.0
Sailor Moon (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8dd8ec81
Body Double / int_8df5521b	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The Silver Age Superman used robot doubles to help him conceal his Secret Identity. These were phased out by the Bronze Age. Starting in the Bronze Age and used intermittently, Batman and Superman have doubled for each other on occasion. In costume, it's merely a matter of switching outfits since they are pretty much identical in height and build. Out of costume, they're still close enough that skillful application of make-up, hair combing, and Bruce wearing Clark's glasses renders them pretty much identical. In one story, when Bruce doubles for Clark, a reporter at the Daily Planet who likes to pull cruel pranks on Clark (Clark always goes along to protect his secret identity) decides that it would be fun to humiliate Bruce/Clark and trips him while he's walking down a hallway. Clark would have gone along, but Bruce, who doesn't have to worry about his own secret identity, proceeds straight to laying down an ass-kicking.
Body Double / int_8df5521b	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_8df5521b	featureConfidence	1.0
Superman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_8df5521b
Body Double / int_908a5cc	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_908a5cc	comment	In "The Tercentenary Incident", the ineffectual President of the United States (now part of a Global Federation) disappears in a glitter of dust, only to reappear shortly thereafter, giving belief that what turned into dust was a body double. However, two years later, former Secret Service agent bodyguard Lawrence Edwards, who witnessed said attack, tells the President's personal secretary Francis Janek that he suspects it was actually the President that was killed, and his robotic body double the one to replace him, based on his post-attack O.O.C. Is Serious Business. Unknown to him, he's completely right — only that Janek was the one who pulled the trigger.
Body Double / int_908a5cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_908a5cc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Tercentenary Incident	hasFeature	Body Double / int_908a5cc
Body Double / int_90a3a7f4	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: In "Attack of the Killer Bebes", Ron uses his "Movie Magic Kit" to impersonate Kim's dad so that the Bebes kidnap him instead.
Body Double / int_90a3a7f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_90a3a7f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Kim Possible	hasFeature	Body Double / int_90a3a7f4
Body Double / int_90b916ba	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: In "The Laughing Fish", Batman disguises himself as one of the Joker's targets and has the actual target wear a spare Batsuit. It doesn't work; the Joker sends in the target's cat, who recognizes its human and delivers a dose of Joker venom.
Body Double / int_90b916ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_90b916ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: The Animated Series	hasFeature	Body Double / int_90b916ba
Body Double / int_963d9065	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_963d9065	comment	S.H.I.E.L.D. has created LMD (Life Model Decoys) which can fill in whenever needed. Handy for retcons as well. Nick Fury, among others, has used them.
Body Double / int_963d9065	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_963d9065	featureConfidence	1.0
S.H.I.E.L.D. (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_963d9065
Body Double / int_97a70962	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals: In "Dead Reckoning", a Double Agent handed over by the Bulgarian secret police is poisoned while under CI5 protection. They suspect that his daughter did the deed, even wondering if someone did a Kill and Replace on her. Turns out the dead man was an imposter who somewhat resembled the spy and had been surgically implanted with his fingerprints years before. The daughter was convinced to play along but had no idea the imposter was meant to be killed, so her father could fake his death and continue his spying under another identity.
Body Double / int_97a70962	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_97a70962	featureConfidence	1.0
The Professionals	hasFeature	Body Double / int_97a70962
Body Double / int_98037c5	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_98037c5	comment	In the second Quiller novel, the British shadow executive is sent to counter-snipe a Professional Killer out to assassinate an unnamed British royal VIP in Bangkok. It's only after he shoots his target and the VIP is kidnapped that Quiller realises he's been set up. He's just shot a double while the real killer fired from elsewhere at the VIP's driver, sending the car off the road. In this case the deception was helped by the decoy shooter firing from inside a darkened building, so he didn't have to look much like the assassin. The real assassin had also shown up in the same location earlier, as if to scout it out, to further the deception.
Body Double / int_98037c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_98037c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Quiller	hasFeature	Body Double / int_98037c5
Body Double / int_9a67b688	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: In an early case, Kogoro is given the supposedly easy work of spying on a certain man in exchange for a large sum of money... but in a subversion, said man turns out to be a Body Double. The guy that said actor is impersonating? He's found dead some days later — and the dude who hired Kogoro not only is the killer, but he he had used Kogoro to have an alibi for said murder. Kogoro really hates being lied to, so he's understandably pissed off but has no evidence to get to him. Of course, the murderer ultimately doesn't pass through Conan's deducing skills. Subverted in a Filler case in which the Body Double is the killer. She's an aspiring actress who worked as the double for a famous idol until her envy and jealousy peaked to the point of killing her boss, hiding her body, and then impersonating her until the dead woman was found and everyone believed she had committed suicide. Again, Conan easily sees through her. Played straighter in the "Fake Wedding" case, in which Yumi and Takagi have to be body doubles for a soon-to-be married couple who have been threatened by a Serial Killer. Then Yumi's best friend/Takagi's girlfriend Sato switches places with Yumi, having deduced the killer's identity and fearing that he will harm Yumi... and since said culprit is soon found out and he attacks her while she's still posing as the bride, it's a good thing. Sato does this again in a later case, where she covers up for her Identical Stranger and Shiratori's soon-to-be girlfriend Sumiko Kobayashi, who is being targeted by a killer who wants to silence her because she knows too much. In the "Heiji Hattori in the Vampire Mansion" case, Kazuha Touyama switches places with the maid Hikaru so she and Ran can catch the culprit that is after her. In another case, Kogoro is the one who gets an impersonator: a guy named Tatsuo Mori, who looks a bit like him save for a different shaped moustache. Kogoro decides to go along with it and find out what's going on... but later Tatsuo is found dead, so he and Conan have to find out who did him in.
Body Double / int_9a67b688	featureApplicability	-0.3
Body Double / int_9a67b688	featureConfidence	1.0
Case Closed (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9a67b688
Body Double / int_9ab32c13	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9ab32c13	comment	Pony POV Series: During the Wedding Arc, the group tries to attack Chrysalis during an opera she's attending in the guise of Cadence (Chrysalis, due to knowing how things are supposed to go, managed to take over Canterlot for a few days rather than being defeated as quickly as in canon). Unfortunately for them, this was a trap and the Chrysalis they were fighting was a Changeling shapeshifted into her (though Chrysalis was still controlling them). Ironically, Cadence was using an Avatar as well, so neither of them were actually present. The Mane Six have several of their allies disguised as Cadence during the Wedding Arc's Final Battle as a diversion so they can escort the real Cadence into the castle to fight Chrysalis herself.
Body Double / int_9ab32c13	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9ab32c13	featureConfidence	1.0
Pony POV Series / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9ab32c13
Body Double / int_9b87b11c	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9b87b11c	comment	A Better Tomorrow 2 does this in the final shootout. All the Mooks wears black suits, while the main villain, Ko Ying-pui, wears white. The heroes Ken, Tse-Ho and Lung managed to corner Ko Ying-pui and empty their guns into him, only to realize that was a decoy — cue the real Ying-pui sneaking up from a corner and shooting Lung In the Back.
Body Double / int_9b87b11c	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9b87b11c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Better Tomorrow	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9b87b11c
Body Double / int_9bb59653	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9bb59653	comment	An episode of The Blacklist has the team tracking a man who specializes in providing rich killers with airtight alibis. Part of this involves giving a random "actor" a big payday in exchange for wearing a special mask likeness of the killer and be photographed at specific places at the time of the crime.
Body Double / int_9bb59653	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9bb59653	featureConfidence	1.0
The Blacklist	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9bb59653
Body Double / int_9d34190a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In the series' backstory, the more "heretical" tales of Tiber Septim's life state that he was served by a powerful Mysterious Backer known only as the Underking, believed to have possibly been the ancient Nordic king and Shezarrine, Wulfharth Ash-King. In addition to protecting Septim (then known as the Breton Hjalti Early-Beard) in the form of a great storm, the Underking is also believed to have been able to impersonate Hjalti, allowing them to conquer and govern in two places at once.
Body Double / int_9d34190a	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9d34190a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls (Franchise)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9d34190a
Body Double / int_9d7264f	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9d7264f	comment	CSI: Miami uses this twice. In "Triple Threat", a wealthy real-estate developer is killed during a party with his wife (Leslie Bipp) in attendance. It turns out the developer had hired a body double for protection and that was the man who was murdered. The ironic part is that his wife was behind it with her triplet sisters, each taking turns pretending to be just one womannote to the point that when the 'primary' triplet proved infertile, one of her sisters impersonated her in the marriage bed until she conceived and bore a child to sucker the guy in and unaware that he was still alive until the end. In "Show Stopper", a singer (Lucy Hale) burst into flames during a concert and is declared dead. It turns out the real singer had quit the business and this was one of her dancers in disguise to keep the tour going. The team then has to track down the missing real singer.
Body Double / int_9d7264f	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9d7264f	featureConfidence	1.0
CSI: Miami	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9d7264f
Body Double / int_9e10fbb4	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9e10fbb4	comment	Inverted in the H.I.V.E. Series when Otto masquerades as his own clone, killing the clone and pretending it was himself who died.
Body Double / int_9e10fbb4	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9e10fbb4	featureConfidence	1.0
H.I.V.E. Series	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9e10fbb4
Body Double / int_9e2f90f4	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Captain Kuro of One Piece hypnotized one of his crew members to think that he was Kuro. After a good get-up, Captain Morgan took him in, and Kuro was assumed captured while he went on to put together a three year long plan.
Body Double / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9e2f90f4
Body Double / int_9f19f7b1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9f19f7b1	comment	In Lone Wolf and Cub, each member of the Yagyu clan has their own double. One of them cheerfully commits Seppuku so that Retsudo can tell the shogun his son is dead (and show his severed head as proof).
Body Double / int_9f19f7b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9f19f7b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Lone Wolf and Cub (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9f19f7b1
Body Double / int_9fa7d06a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_9fa7d06a	comment	One chapter of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei has the title character's family butler recruit a small squad of body doubles for him. He is later thanked for a variety of things he didn't do, including dating one of his students.
Body Double / int_9fa7d06a	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_9fa7d06a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_9fa7d06a
Body Double / int_a3496fb1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a3496fb1	comment	Yakuza: Like a Dragon reveals that Joon-gi Han from Yakuza 6 has one whose real name is Yeonsu Kim — although it wasn't by choice, as Yeonsu's father drugged him and forced him to undergo plastic surgery to get on his good graces.
Body Double / int_a3496fb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a3496fb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a3496fb1
Body Double / int_a4a6b86a	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: C.C. occasionally stands in for Zero/Lelouch when he needs to keep up the Masquerade of being a normal student. Given that C.C. is also immortal, there's also a practical application of this, as if she were to take a bullet for Lelouch she could just walk it off. In R2, Sayoko masquerades as Lelouch while he's off doing his Zero thing. It actually causes some minor problems for him; upon his return, he has to deal with the repercussions of Sayoko mistakenly playing him as The Casanova. That and Sayoko is a highly athletic ninja and Lelouch gets tired from running a block.
Body Double / int_a4a6b86a	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a4a6b86a	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Geass	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a4a6b86a
Body Double / int_a57cf54d	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a57cf54d	comment	Darths & Droids: The Player Character Senator Amidala gets blown up by a Booby Trap in the first scene of Episode II due to a vindictive player, so the Game Master crossly retcons it to be a body double who died.
Body Double / int_a57cf54d	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a57cf54d	featureConfidence	1.0
Darths & Droids (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a57cf54d
Body Double / int_a64766f5	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a64766f5	comment	The Spear: Heinrich Himmler's suicide in British custody is depicted to have been committed by Feldpolizei corporal Heinz Hintzinger.
Body Double / int_a64766f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a64766f5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Spear	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a64766f5
Body Double / int_a683820e	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a683820e	comment	The Deception series loves having the villains sent these into your dungeon before themselves.
Body Double / int_a683820e	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a683820e	featureConfidence	1.0
Deception (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a683820e
Body Double / int_a73dab0d	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a73dab0d	comment	Body Double, of course. The fact is that it's actually a Spoiler Title giving away the Plot Twist! Interestingly, Brian De Palma came up with the basic idea for this movie while working with an actual body double: for Angie Dickinson in the infamous shower scene in Dressed to Kill.
Body Double / int_a73dab0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a73dab0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Body Double	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a73dab0d
Body Double / int_a796bde8	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a796bde8	comment	In Metal Gear Solid, Decoy Octopus takes on the appearance of several different people, and has to be psychologically evaluated after each one to return to his core personality. In the Fan Webcomic The Last Days of FOXHOUND, set prior to the game, Revolver Ocelot expresses disappointment at Decoy Octopus' decision to stop impersonating him, because it meant that there was no longer a 50/50 chance that someone out to get him would kill Octopus instead.
Body Double / int_a796bde8	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a796bde8	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a796bde8
Body Double / int_a81325d3	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy VI, the wandering gambler Setzer sends a calling card to the Opera House, professing his intention to kidnap the opera singer Maria. The party needs to get on his airship to make their way to the Imperial continent, so they have Celes (who, strangely enough, looks a bit like Maria) act as a decoy and sing her part in the opera that night. She manages to fool Setzer until after he kidnaps her. In Final Fantasy VIII, a small rebel faction's Zany Scheme to capture President Vinzer Deling alive succeeds... only for him to turn out to be an undead body double who TaLKs liKE TorGO.
Body Double / int_a81325d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a81325d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a81325d3
Body Double / int_a92653e1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_a92653e1	comment	The Executioner: The novel Tehran Wipeout opens with Mack Bolan assassinating the Ayatollah Khomeini! Sure enough, this trope is in play, but the true twist is that Khomeini has been dead for years and the Iranian government is using the doubles to maintain their power.
Body Double / int_a92653e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_a92653e1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Executioner	hasFeature	Body Double / int_a92653e1
Body Double / int_ab524b1e	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_ab524b1e	comment	Iron Chain Fighter has the main villain, Black Leopard, who escaped custody, changed his facial appearance, and had a legion of his followers pretending to be him for most of the film. The titular hero's mission in the film is to hunt down Black Leopard, by killing his doubles one at a time in a series of fights — he knew whom to kill because the real Black Leopard has a tattoo of said animal.
Body Double / int_ab524b1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_ab524b1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Iron Chain Fighter	hasFeature	Body Double / int_ab524b1e
Body Double / int_b0cf0ed6	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse: When Danger Mouse is held captive by the motorcycling Mongols in "The Spy Who Stayed in with a Cold", Master of Disguise Agent 57 changes himself into DM and bluffs the Mongols into a mass retreat.
Body Double / int_b0cf0ed6	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_b0cf0ed6	featureConfidence	1.0
Danger Mouse	hasFeature	Body Double / int_b0cf0ed6
Body Double / int_b17c0f96	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_b17c0f96	comment	Kagemusha has a convicted criminal offered the role of warlord Takeda Shingen in exchange for sparing his life.
Body Double / int_b17c0f96	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_b17c0f96	featureConfidence	1.0
Kagemusha	hasFeature	Body Double / int_b17c0f96
Body Double / int_b2397a21	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_b2397a21	comment	In Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen, the titular Nikki pulls this for her Identical Stranger Bai Jinjin, when her dad's envoys try to kidnap her back into her rich home and take a hold of some very important items that she supposedly took with her when she ran away.
Body Double / int_b2397a21	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_b2397a21	featureConfidence	1.0
Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_b2397a21
Body Double / int_b3697e66	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_b3697e66	comment	The entire premise of Dave is the snide President getting a mild-mannered civilian to be his body double for a function while the President is with his mistress. When the President suffers a stroke, his Chief of Staff forces Dave to keep playing the role for real.
Body Double / int_b3697e66	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_b3697e66	featureConfidence	1.0
Dave	hasFeature	Body Double / int_b3697e66
Body Double / int_b36a4699	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_b36a4699	comment	The CEO in Exam has one for public appearances. The marketing department considered him not fit to make public appearances.
Body Double / int_b36a4699	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_b36a4699	featureConfidence	1.0
Exam	hasFeature	Body Double / int_b36a4699
Body Double / int_b63df301	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_b63df301	comment	Pay Me, Bug!: In A Rake by Starlight, the coup that's been brewing against Baron Tyrelos finally comes to a head when her body double gets vaporized by a nuclear bomb during a speech the Baron herself was originally supposed to give.
Body Double / int_b63df301	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_b63df301	featureConfidence	1.0
Pay Me, Bug!	hasFeature	Body Double / int_b63df301
Body Double / int_b78ed0d4	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_b78ed0d4	comment	Star Island has Ann DeLusia, an unsuccessful young actress hired by Cherry Pye's Stage Mom to stand in for her daughter when she's too wasted to appear before the public, though the Paparazzi are only sometimes fooled. Their physical resemblance is close but not quite perfect: whereas Cherry's eyes are green, Ann is brown-eyed and disdains contacts. Ann's role is well-paying but of course utterly thankless, with even Cherry being unaware of her existence.
Body Double / int_b78ed0d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_b78ed0d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Island	hasFeature	Body Double / int_b78ed0d4
Body Double / int_bcadd7cb	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Every Trueborn member of Dark Eldar Archon Vhane Kyharc's Kabal has been surgically altered to look exactly like him, and the lower orders wear masks of his face. In theory, this is to prevent assassinations (always a good idea with Dark Eldar), but the truth is, the aptly-named Vhane really is that much of a narcissist (he once bombarded an entire planet with a virus that gave every living thing his face). The Alpha Legion of Chaos Space Marines does the same thing also exaggerating it so that each Legionnaire is the leader, the Primarch Alpharius, partly for this trope, but more to confuse opponents to who the leader is. Despite being supersolders, the Alpha Legion prefers to work as operatives and covert agents, and when they do go to battle their combat doctrine relies on a heavily decentralized command structure in combat so that each element is effectively running itself. Their greatest weapons are secrecy and deception. Lastly, the actual Alpharius had been known to pose as one of his soldiers and have them take his place. To even greater confuse the matter, Alpharius had a twin named Omegon, something unique amongst the Primarchs, and something nobody outside of the Alpha Legion knew.
Body Double / int_bcadd7cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_bcadd7cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_bcadd7cb
Body Double / int_bd2505b9	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_bd2505b9	comment	In All Hail King Julien, Julien decides to hire a body double to handle a potentially risky dangerous meeting with the crocodile kingdom, but due to the body double's low self-esteem from constantly being mistaken for Julien, he tries to take Julien's place instead.
Body Double / int_bd2505b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_bd2505b9	featureConfidence	1.0
All Hail King Julien	hasFeature	Body Double / int_bd2505b9
Body Double / int_bf370d59	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_bf370d59	comment	In Gate of Hell, the lead female is disguised as the queen and sent away from the royal palace, in order to lure away the rebels that are attacking the palace.
Body Double / int_bf370d59	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_bf370d59	featureConfidence	1.0
Gate of Hell	hasFeature	Body Double / int_bf370d59
Body Double / int_bfd7c6e0	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	It's revealed in chapter 30 of Drowtales that the "Val'Sharess Diva'ratrika" seen in a parade is actually a double. Slightly different than most examples in that the double isn't there to protect Diva — it's to hide the fact that she's been dead for 16 years, and it was her own daughters that did it. Needless to say, the real Diva, who in fact is Not Quite Dead and took over the body of her servant, is pretty shocked to hear that "she's" holding a parade. After a 15-year Time Skip, both the Sarghress and Vloz'ress clans put a large amount of effort into assassinating the various doubles that have been brought out since in an attempt to publicly expose the deception, with Kiel'ndia Vloz'ress succeeding in killing one and having it publicly announced, in a chapter appropriately titled "End of Charades".
Body Double / int_bfd7c6e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_bfd7c6e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Drowtales (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_bfd7c6e0
Body Double / int_c10462bc	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_c10462bc	comment	Occasionally used as a diversion in Butler Parker, especially in the time shortly after Parker switched his employer. Kathy Porter went as a body double in several issues of the series.
Body Double / int_c10462bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_c10462bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Butler Parker	hasFeature	Body Double / int_c10462bc
Body Double / int_c4a1d59e	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty: Call of Duty: Black Ops: The first level has the player unknowingly assassinating Fidel Castro's body double. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Hades has a body double whom he uses to host a meeting with several KVA supporters/officials. The team sent in to assassinate him don't figure this out until after the imposter has been shot, and right before a bomb goes off in the room they're in.
Body Double / int_c4a1d59e	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_c4a1d59e	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Duty (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_c4a1d59e
Body Double / int_c6325e26	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_c6325e26	comment	In the first issue of Death of the Family, Batman takes on who he thinks is the Joker wearing a red hood at the ACE Chemical Plant. He pulls the hood off to reveal Harley Quinn!
Body Double / int_c6325e26	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_c6325e26	featureConfidence	1.0
Death of the Family (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_c6325e26
Body Double / int_c694d5e1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_c694d5e1	comment	To Hell and Back (Arrowverse): Barry manages to create technology that replicates Christopher Chance's impersonation abilities. This is pivotal to the three leads' return to modern civilization, as it allows the League of Assassins to send three body doubles of their vigilante alter-egos months ahead of their returns, making it impossible for them and their civilian identities to be connected; indeed, throughout the first two arcs of the story, none of their loved ones, which include two experienced detectives, suspect that Oliver, Barry, and Kara are one of the three vigilantes. Even Malcolm Merlyn remains fooled, and he spends months researching for clues to the Hood's identity during the second arc. The only people to see through the ruse are Eobard Thawne (who's from the future), A.R.G.U.S. (who makes it a point to keep track of all the League's actions), and Astra and her forces (who have insider knowledge regarding the emblem on the Girl in Blue's suit).
Body Double / int_c694d5e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_c694d5e1	featureConfidence	1.0
To Hell and Back (Arrowverse) / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Body Double / int_c694d5e1
Body Double / int_c832776	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_c832776	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, aspirant singer Meer Campbell fills this role for Lacus Clyne, though she's actually working for the Big Bad, who has told her that she'll be able to help keep the fragile peace if she poses as Lacus. Meer eventually begins to crack under all the stress and self-esteem problems, deciding that she doesn't care that she's being used to further Durandal's goals and only wants to continue to pretend being Lacus since nobody loves Meer herself. Lacus herself faces Meer and manages to talk her out of it... only for poor Meer to be shot to death while Taking the Bullet for Lacus and perish in her arms.
Body Double / int_c832776	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_c832776	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny	hasFeature	Body Double / int_c832776
Body Double / int_ca5ee264	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_ca5ee264	comment	In The Bloody Red Baron, Dracula deploys a number of decoy body doubles during the climactic battle (one of whom, in an Allohistorical Allusion, is implied to be Bela Lugosi). It backfires once the decoys start being killed, because the news that "Dracula's dead" travels faster than the news that there are decoys in play, and his troops are demoralized by their leader's apparent death (and then also bewildered by the arrival of multiple conflicting accounts of his death).
Body Double / int_ca5ee264	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_ca5ee264	featureConfidence	1.0
The Bloody Red Baron	hasFeature	Body Double / int_ca5ee264
Body Double / int_ca92edf1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_ca92edf1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops: The first level has the player unknowingly assassinating Fidel Castro's body double.
Body Double / int_ca92edf1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_ca92edf1	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_ca92edf1
Body Double / int_cac23d96	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_cac23d96	comment	In V.I.P., the gang befriend a Cuban man vacationing in L.A. While clean-shaven, his voice and mannerisms are strikingly like Fidel Castro. His being attacked by a Cuban hit squad adds to it. Tasha meets a KGB contact who tells her that every few years Castro tests the loyalty of his inner circle. He makes it known he's going on a secret trip and then sends out a double "disguised" as an "incognito" Castro to see who takes shots at him. When attacked, the double comes up with a smart battle plan, claiming he read it in a book. The episode ends with it up in the air whether this is a double or, in fact, the real Castro taking a real vacation.
Body Double / int_cac23d96	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_cac23d96	featureConfidence	1.0
V.I.P.	hasFeature	Body Double / int_cac23d96
Body Double / int_cae652c	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter: Diego, the dictator of East Gorteau, uses a body double for his safety, but we don't know about it until he's seen alive at the end of the Chimera Ant arc.
Body Double / int_cae652c	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_cae652c	featureConfidence	1.0
Hunter Ã— Hunter (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_cae652c
Body Double / int_cba3559b	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_cba3559b	comment	In Survival of the Fittest, Ken Lawson was Burton Harris' body double — and ended up being put into V2 for his pains. Burton, of course, then managed to land himself in V3 too. Both ended up getting killed.
Body Double / int_cba3559b	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_cba3559b	featureConfidence	1.0
Survival of the Fittest (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_cba3559b
Body Double / int_cd2291d2	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_cd2291d2	comment	Legendarily Popular: Hunter J swoops in and snatches up her target Riolu just before Ash can reach it, and then, when she's gone, "Ash" pops and reveals Zorua. The real Ash had already found Riolu and is busy teaching him Sacred Sword in a safe location. Hunter J has instead picked up Delta Purrloin, which proceeds to float through the walls of her airship and slice all the power cables.
Body Double / int_cd2291d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_cd2291d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Legendarily Popular (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_cd2291d2
Body Double / int_cede3f7	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_cede3f7	comment	The Eagle Has Landed is about a group of Nazi paratroopers who sneak into England in an attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill. The last member of the team succeeds in doing so before being shot, but after he dies, it is revealed that the Prime Minister was out of the country at a secret conference in Teheran — the man who was just killed was actually a vaudeville comedian and impressionist whose turn as Winnie was good enough that he ended up on the government's payroll. The double could have revealed this to save his life, but chose to maintain his role to the end.
Body Double / int_cede3f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_cede3f7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Eagle Has Landed	hasFeature	Body Double / int_cede3f7
Body Double / int_cfa07f59	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_cfa07f59	comment	In Sonny with a Chance, Sonny is on a date with Chad, biking on the lot, when she suddenly sees another Chad nearby. It turns out that Chad's contract prevents him from doing stuff that might be dangerous as it could hurt his show, so he got a lookalike to be on this date. At first, Sonny understands... but then realizes that Chad has been interpreting "risk" as everything from dart playing to eating Mexican food and Chad has been using his double on almost every other date he and Sonny have had.
Body Double / int_cfa07f59	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_cfa07f59	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonny with a Chance	hasFeature	Body Double / int_cfa07f59
Body Double / int_d1449385	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_d1449385	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer has Buffy using body doubles to spread misinformation. It helps that all the doubles have her durability and healing powers as well.
Body Double / int_d1449385	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_d1449385	featureConfidence	1.0
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_d1449385
Body Double / int_d1bf110e	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_d1bf110e	comment	In Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Princess Syalis recruits Bussy the succubus as her body double after noticing how much they resemble each other. The training includes all of the princess's usual activities, like slaughtering ghost shrouds and even attacking high-ranking demons. The rememblance is strong enough to even fool Syalis's mother, Queen Aurora Nem Lis Goodereste during an excursion to the human capital. This is pretty much always played for laughs, as it's mostly Syalis and Bussy who are convinced they're doubles. While having the same height, build, facial structure, and similar hairstyles, their eyes, hair colors, skin tone, body language, and personalities are all quite different. Bussy can pass for the princess while wearing her clothes, addressing a crowd at a distance (lip-synching) and in the company of somebody vouching for her, but there's only one time anybody who knew either of them was clearly fooled, and it's developed that most of Syalis's family are surprisingly okay with her kidnapping so Queen Aurora was almost certainly entertaining herself at Bussy's expense and helping her get away with it.
Body Double / int_d1bf110e	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_d1bf110e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_d1bf110e
Body Double / int_d29e22a2	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_d29e22a2	comment	An episode of Sanctuary (2007) set during D-Day has Watson confronting sometime enemy Druitt, who claims he is trying to help the war effort. When Watson snorts that if Druitt wanted to help, he would kill Hitler, Druitt matter-of-factly reveals he did... six months earlier at an opera. Watson realizes the Reich has been using body doubles to hide the fact that the Fuehrer is dead.
Body Double / int_d29e22a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_d29e22a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Sanctuary (2007)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_d29e22a2
Body Double / int_dad01e0f	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_dad01e0f	comment	The "shadows" in Kyoumen no Silhouette, including Teshio, who becomes one for the heir princess Elnavista (who ironically who Does Not Like Men).
Body Double / int_dad01e0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_dad01e0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Kyoumen no Silhouette (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_dad01e0f
Body Double / int_dcf7d02e	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_dcf7d02e	comment	In Private Actress, being hired as body doubles is a rather common task for private actors like Shiho and her boyfriend/co-worker Tomoomi, so both of them do it quite frequently.
Body Double / int_dcf7d02e	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_dcf7d02e	featureConfidence	1.0
Private Actress (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_dcf7d02e
Body Double / int_dd6c417	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_dd6c417	comment	In Acts 44 and 45 of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, it's revealed that Takeru is a kagemusha for the true 18th head, Shiba Kaoru. He is later adopted by Kaoru and made her official successor in Act 48. Power Rangers Samurai copies this, with Jayden taking the Red Ranger role on behalf of his older sister Lauren.
Body Double / int_dd6c417	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_dd6c417	featureConfidence	1.0
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger	hasFeature	Body Double / int_dd6c417
Body Double / int_e034f402	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e034f402	comment	In Bruno the Bandit, Queen Xantippa once uses a double to get out of attending a party celebrating her engagement to Bruno.
Body Double / int_e034f402	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e034f402	featureConfidence	1.0
Bruno the Bandit (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e034f402
Body Double / int_e10d2c9	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e10d2c9	comment	Queens of Mewni: The bastard Hilda Blade bears a strong enough resemblance to Vesper the Morning Star that she sometimes poses as Vesper so the queen can have some downtime. Most notably, its alleged that it was Hilda-posing-as-Vesper that competed in a tournament that had re-admission to Elfendor University as the prize at stake. And apparently, even Vesper's husband Caspian can be psyched out into thinking they switched.
Body Double / int_e10d2c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e10d2c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Queens of Mewni (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e10d2c9
Body Double / int_e21878a1	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e21878a1	comment	In Honoo no Alpen Rose, Toulonchamp's Batman Gambit relies on using his daughter Mathilda as one of these, acting as the stand-in for the lead female Jeudi. Jeudi herself went missing as a little girl in a horrible accident that left her mother Helene Durant with severe physical and psychological consequences, and Mathilda's mission is to make the almost blind Helene believe that she is the real Jeudi; meanwhile, Toulonchamp forces the Durant family to do whatever he wants on the threat of taking Mathilda away, which would send Helene into a Death by Despair. Unfortunately, Jeudi shows up anyway.
Body Double / int_e21878a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e21878a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Honoo No Alpen Rose (Manga)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e21878a1
Body Double / int_e287ae8e	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e287ae8e	comment	As detailed in BioShock: Rapture, this is how Frank Fontaine managed to fake his death. It was actually Fontaine's longtime henchman Reggie, made to look like Fontaine with surgery by Dr. Steinman, who was killed in the Fontaine Futuristics shoot-out. The real Fontaine went on to become Atlas.
Body Double / int_e287ae8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e287ae8e	featureConfidence	1.0
BioShock: Rapture	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e287ae8e
Body Double / int_e2a6983b	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e2a6983b	comment	In Rakuin No Monshou, Fedom claims that Orba is acting as a body double for Prince Gil due to the danger of assassination as the royal wedding approaches. Orba sees through this excuse fairly quickly, given the political dangers of having a body double standing in for Gil so often and that Fedom's people are the only ones aware of it.
Body Double / int_e2a6983b	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e2a6983b	featureConfidence	1.0
Rakuin No Monshou	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e2a6983b
Body Double / int_e3349241	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e3349241	comment	Happens once in a while in Diabolik, but with a twist: the double is almost always unwilling, being a poor shmuck that Diabolik has kidnapped and drugged up because he needs a double for himself or Eva (the willing ones are extremely rare, and Diabolik wouldn't trust them unless there are mitigating circumstances). The resemblance is normally justified with Diabolik's perfect masks or getting a lookalike (even searching them across the world), but on one occasion when Diabolik needs to fool Ginko while Faking the Dead, it's simply a stolen body who he beheaded (with a swap of the genetic samples to fool the DNA test).
Body Double / int_e3349241	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e3349241	featureConfidence	1.0
Diabolik (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e3349241
Body Double / int_e84a9b3	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e84a9b3	comment	Last Alert: Chairman Steve uses one to speak for him at a corporate banquet. It doesn't really matter much since Guy Kazama blows up the double in the same cutscene he's introduced.
Body Double / int_e84a9b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e84a9b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Last Alert (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e84a9b3
Body Double / int_e885c808	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e885c808	comment	Played with in Spaceballs:
Body Double / int_e885c808	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e885c808	featureConfidence	1.0
Spaceballs	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e885c808
Body Double / int_e996c9bb	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_e996c9bb	comment	In Ashita no Nadja, Rosemary becomes Nadja's body double and the accomplice of Smug Snake Hermann.
Body Double / int_e996c9bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_e996c9bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Ashita no Nadja	hasFeature	Body Double / int_e996c9bb
Body Double / int_ea6d04fc	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_ea6d04fc	comment	In Vantage Point, it turns out that the President who was assassinated was actually his body double, which sucks for the guy, but is good news for the rest of the American population. Seeing as the double was shot on camera some skilled maneuvering is used when the President is revealed to be alive, so they make it look like he was only wounded. It helps that the President actually was hurt in a subsequent kidnapping.
Body Double / int_ea6d04fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_ea6d04fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Vantage Point	hasFeature	Body Double / int_ea6d04fc
Body Double / int_eb6719f6	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_eb6719f6	comment	In Final Fantasy VIII, a small rebel faction's Zany Scheme to capture President Vinzer Deling alive succeeds... only for him to turn out to be an undead body double who TaLKs liKE TorGO.
Body Double / int_eb6719f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_eb6719f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_eb6719f6
Body Double / int_ebac92a0	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_ebac92a0	comment	In Jeanne d'Arc, Jeanne's childhood friend Lianne is forced to do this for Jeanne after she disappears and is believed to be dead. Ultimately, Liane is the one who is burned at the stake, much to Jeanne's horror.
Body Double / int_ebac92a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_ebac92a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Jeanne d'Arc (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_ebac92a0
Body Double / int_ecc94716	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_ecc94716	comment	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Hades has a body double whom he uses to host a meeting with several KVA supporters/officials. The team sent in to assassinate him don't figure this out until after the imposter has been shot, and right before a bomb goes off in the room they're in.
Body Double / int_ecc94716	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_ecc94716	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_ecc94716
Body Double / int_ef7b3325	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Doctor Doom, of course, has his Doombots, which can pass for him so well that writers use this to retcon story arcs they don't care for, to the point that the practice occasionally undergoes Lampshade Hanging.
Body Double / int_ef7b3325	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_ef7b3325	featureConfidence	1.0
Fantastic Four / Comicbook	hasFeature	Body Double / int_ef7b3325
Body Double / int_f03f3383	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_f03f3383	comment	The Devil's Double is based on the Real Life Latif Yahia, a body double for Saddam Hussein's son Uday.
Body Double / int_f03f3383	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_f03f3383	featureConfidence	1.0
The Devil's Double	hasFeature	Body Double / int_f03f3383
Body Double / int_f39c217d	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_f39c217d	comment	Used at least twice in Aldnoah.Zero: First, Princess Asseylum was apparently killed in the first episode, but the one who died was her body double and she managed to get away to safety, reappearing very soon afterwards. Much later, after Asseylum is shot in the back at the end of the first season, she is in a Convenient Coma for a good part of the second one... and the one who goes around in a wheelchair and makes speeches is her half-sister, Princess Lemrina. There's also kind of a subversion: rose-haired Lemrina does not look like Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Asseylum, so she uses holographic disguises to fix that.
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Body Double / int_f39c217d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Body Double / int_f95eaabe	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_f95eaabe	comment	The MLP Loops: Used in one snippet to explain how the Equestria Girls Rainbow Dash can supposedly be the head of every sports team at Canterlot High, while also doing all the things the EG cast get up to. She just uses Substitute Rainbow Dashes (namely, other girls pretending to be her).
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Body Double / int_f95eaabe	featureConfidence	1.0
The MLP Loops / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Body Double / int_f95eaabe
Body Double / int_fb9c177d	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_fb9c177d	comment	In some incarnations of Transformers, Megatron has one named Megaplex.
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Body Double / int_fb9c177d	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers (Franchise)	hasFeature	Body Double / int_fb9c177d
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Body Double / int_fe647721	comment	Prior to the climax of Secret Service of the Imperial Court, the hero, Zhao Bu-Fan, has been marked for death by Imperial assassins, anticipating him to attend the anniversary of his mother's death by sending a number of Mooks to hide in the graveyard. Zhao's wife and brother-in-law (who got him into the mess the first place) decides to drug him, and attend the anniversary with the brother-in-law serving as a double. The brother gets killed via Off with His Head! as a result.
Body Double / int_fe647721	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_fe647721	featureConfidence	1.0
Secret Service of the Imperial Court	hasFeature	Body Double / int_fe647721
Body Double / int_fee760db	type	Body Double
Body Double / int_fee760db	comment	The Last King of Scotland: Amin uses one to briefly to trick Nicholas when he comes to talk to him.
Body Double / int_fee760db	featureApplicability	1.0
Body Double / int_fee760db	featureConfidence	1.0
The Last King of Scotland	hasFeature	Body Double / int_fee760db

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Elephantmen (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Human Target (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Plasmer (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Secret Warriors (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Spirou & Fantasio (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Superior Spider-Man (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Victorian Undead (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Internship / Fan Fic / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Halkegenia Online (Fanfic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Legacy of the Enginseers (Fanfic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Legendarily Popular (Fanfic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Queens of Mewni Spinoffs (Fanfic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Trump Card (Fanfic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Attack of the Clones / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Azumi / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Batman Begins / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Bodyguards and Assassins / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Call to Arms / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Dave / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Diamonds Are Forever / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Exam / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Farewell, My Queen / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Fifty Shades of Grey / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Gate of Hell / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Hanna / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Immortals / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
International Guerillas / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Iron Chain Fighter / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Kagemusha / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Leonard Part 6 / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Lust in the Dust / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Miami Vice / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
OSS 117: From Africa with Love / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Princess of Thieves / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Shaolin Prince / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Death of Stalin / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Dictator / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Eagle Has Landed / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Emperor's New Clothes / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Game Changer / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Hidden Fortress / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Last King of Scotland / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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The Phantom Menace / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Promise (2005) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Warrior's Way / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
They Saved Hitler's Brain / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Vengeful Beauty / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Wild Wild West / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Rakuin No Monshou / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
A Dance with Dragons / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Albert Campion / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
All the Light We Cannot See / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Butler Parker / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Cryptid Hunters / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Deathbound Duke's Daughter / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Heavy Object / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
I, Claudius / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Nero Wolfe / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Pay Me, Bug! / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Rakuin No Monshou / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Say Cheese, Medusa! / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Stravaganza / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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The Bloody Red Baron / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Doorbell Rang / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Familiar of Zero / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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The Road To Gandolfo / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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The Traitor Son Cycle / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Trouble In Triplicate / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Up in the Air / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Vatican Miracle Examiner / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Xenos / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Dorohedoro (Manga) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Fire Force (Manga) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Samurai Deeper Kyo (Manga) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Takeru (Manga) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Batang Quiapo / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
CSI: Miami / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Campion / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Chōjinki Metalder / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Daybreak (2019) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Frank Herbert's Dune / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Henry Danger / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Legend of the Seeker / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Outrageous Fortune / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Profiler / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Running Man / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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The Two Ronnies / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Witcher (2019) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
To Tell the Truth / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Sera Myu (Theatre) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Commander Keen (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Dead Connection (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Final Fantasy X-2 (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Ratchet & Clank (2002) (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Warriors All-Stars (Video Game) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star / Videogame / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Visual Novel) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Red Carpet Diaries (Visual Novel) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Siblings (Web Animation) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Captain SNES: The Game Masta (Webcomic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Darken (Webcomic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Drowtales (Webcomic) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Blue Eye Samurai / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Danger Mouse / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Galactik Football / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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Ashita no Nadja / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
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