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My Grandson, Myself
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You're immortal, or just extremely long lived, and you want to stay in one place for a long time without people noticing that you don't age. So what do you do? You reintroduce yourself as your own child, then grandchild, etc. This handily gets around the problem of having to explain how you could have served in World War II and still only be 25 years old. This can also be used as a way to hang on to your property, by having the new identity "inherit" it from the old one. Bonus points if you keep the same name — so John Smith becomes John Smith Jr, becomes John Smith III, etc. Bonus idiocy-points if you've ever allowed someone to paint your portrait or take your photograph while pursuing this strategy, as it will be discovered and expose your deception in future decades, unless if you (somehow) shapeshift over time. A special case of Identical Grandson where they are actually the same character. Not to be confused with My Own Grampa, where a character is literally their own biological ancestor. The inversion (a character claiming to be immortal is actually an identity passed down from mentor to student) is Legacy Immortality. Compare Julius Beethoven da Vinci (an immortal character takes on new identities without any family ties). |
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The Pendragon Adventure: In the third book, Bobby claims to be his own grandson when he meets the surviving gangster from First Earth, who returns his Traveler ring. | |
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Thursday Next: Inverted in The Eyre Affair. Thursday meets a member of the Chronoguard, the time-traveling police, who introduces himself as the grandfather of an ex-boyfriend of hers. However, after the man dies, Thursday learns that the man actually was her ex-boyfriend, who due to an accident in the timestream had been aged over sixty years. Not bearing that Thursday should meet him like that, he took on a false identity. | |
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Ultraviolet (1998): A variant is used where the death of a real grandson allows a code 5 to re-enter society using the deceased's identity. | |
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Hawkman started doing this after the Golden Age Hawkman from the 1940s was retconned into being the same character as the currently active Hawkman. | |
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Count Duckula: Many of Duckula's "ancestors" were actually his own prior incarnations, with subtle differences cropping up every time his servants resurrected him (even before they got the blood and ketchup mixed up). | |
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Icon: The title character started off as "Augustus Freeman" in Civil-War-Era America and as a result of actually being an Alien with a longer lifespan than humans, has been forced into doing this in order to avoid suspicion. By the time the comic started in the late 20th century, he is Augustus Freeman IV the great grandson of his original persona. | |
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Inverted in the DC/Marvel All Access crossover series. That old drifter who started helping Axel with his powers? Hmm... | |
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The Alias episode "Time Will Tell" features an unnaturally long-lived Renaissance clockmaker who, in the present day, pretends to be his own distant descendant. | |
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In The Belgariad, many Tolnedrans don't believe in Belgarath and Polgara's immortality (or at least, act like they don't on principle — their God, Nedra, is peculiarly secular), and think it's actually a dynasty of sorts, with Polgara observing in her prequel that there's apparently a major sub-section of the History faculty at the University of Tol Honeth in Tolnedra dedicated to their exploits and sorting out which 'member' of this 'dynasty' did what and where. She theorises that they're now probably up to 'Polgara the 113th'. | |
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Apex Legends: Torres Silva took his son's identity when the latter died of natural causes. He's pushing 100, and intends to live far longer with the best biotechnology money can buy or that his corporation can produce. | |
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In the IDW Back to the Future comic, one story line saw Marty travel to 1972 to figure out why his Uncle Joey ended up in jail. He runs afoul of Biff Tannen and his gang, who notice how similar he looks to "Calvin Klein" from the fifties, which Marty explains by claiming to be Calvin's son Kevin Klein, whose parents had to leave Hill Valley when they got pregnant out of wedlock. | |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe: The Doctor is occasionally referenced as doing this so he can continually visit places he likes. Of course, he has the advantage that he doesn't look the same every time. | |
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Heroes: In one of the graphic novels, Adam Monroe, an immortal man who's nearly 400 years old, states that during one of his innumerable marriages, he and his wife, to hide the fact that he's staying the same age and she's aging normally, first introduce him as her husband, then eventually their son, then grandson. | |
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The Age of Adaline: Adaline doesn't typically do this, but when she finds out her current boyfriend is the son of a former boyfriend who recognizes her, she quickly claims to be her own daughter to explain the resemblance. It doesn't fool him for long. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Utrom Shredder pretends to be his own descendants, all named Oroku Saki. | |
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Justice League: Vandal Savage, as in the comics. The League first encounter him in "The Savage Time" after getting sent back in time to World War II; when he shows Martian Manhunter a video of himself from the future, J'onn can only remark how gracefully he aged — Savage remarks, "You have no idea." In "Maid of Honor", they run into him in the present, and it's mentioned that his "grandfather" was a Nazi war criminal, before his immortality is explained. | |
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The Sandman (2022): In "The Sound of Her Wings", the immortal Hob Gadling mentions having repeatedly used the trick of going away for a while and then coming back claiming to be his own descendant. | |
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The Phantom: One issue is about a queen who had achieved eternal youth (with the caveat that she never fall in love). She would regularly marry (strict convenience, no love), then have a 'daughter' during the honeymoon who would be raised and schooled abroad. A few decades down the line (before she got old enough that her lack of aging would make people suspicious), she'd go on a journey abroad, 'die' mysteriously, and her identical 'daughter' would return to claim the throne. | |
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Dance in the Vampire Bund: The ex-geisha Mamekishi managed to reside in the same Tokyo neighborhood for centuries using this trick. As she did not venture out in the daylight it was by her account easy to feign aging for a few decades with acting and minimal cosmetics before she 'died' and 'her granddaughter' moved in. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Pride has pretended to be the adopted son of an important government official as Selim Bradley ever since the founding of Amestris. What better way to innocuously keep tabs on what the government is doing? | |
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Eberron: King Kaius III is really his great-grandfather (and secret vampire) King Kaius I. Kaius II (and the real Kaius III) were really themselves, and it's strongly hinted that the latter has been locked up somewhere. | |
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Highlander: The Series: Duncan MacLeod sometimes has to resort to doing this when mortals from his past think they recognize him — naturally, they tend to suggest this themselves once they get over the stunning likeness. In one instance, he pretended to be his own lookalike son when meeting the aged leader of a French Resistance cell he worked with in WWII. (Or to be more accurate, just says "Duncan MacLeod!" when the two meet, and lets the guy jump to the obvious conclusion.) In the 18th century, he befriended a samurai in Japan who was forced to take his own life for honor. Duncan vowed that the man's family would always know that, if any of them ever needs help, they can come to Duncan MacLeod. Two hundred years later, the samurai's female descendant comes to Duncan and is surprised he knows of "the family legend". She doesn't expect him to honor a promise made by his "ancestor" but, of course, Duncan insists on helping. MacLeod, at one point, also claims to be his own grandson to access a bank account he'd set up in the previous century. Naturally, he had collected quite a bit of interest over the years. Katya states that as her adoptive daughter grew, Katya went from the girl's mother to her older sister to her younger sister. The original movie has what could be the page quote: "So what we're dealing with here is a guy who's been around since at least the year 1585, pretending to kick it every once in a while, then leaving all his money to some kid who's been a corpse for decades and taking their identity." |
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Vampire Cheerleaders: The bakertown cheerleaders. Since they're the eternally-young type, with each readmission to the school they pass themselves off as the "previous generation's daughters", claiming that they're from a long line of expert cheerleaders when in fact they've had over fifty years of cheerleading experience. It shows. | |
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Deverry: Nevyn was a close adviser to the first King in Cerrmor and the last King in Cerrmor over the course of a century long civil war. When his second King's wife remarks on the coincidence of his name (Nevyn is not a common name, as it means No One), Nevyn claims that the Nevyn who served as adviser to Glyn I was his grandfather. Of course, Neyvn made a point of spending the decades between the death of Glyn I and his becoming tutor of the future Maryn I a long way away from Cerrmor, to keep people from realizing that he didn't age. | |
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Supernatural: Subverted in "Everybody Loves a Clown": Dean and Sam think the circus leader may be a Rakshasa because he looks just like a picture of his father. As it turns out, it wasn't him. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Springheel Jak does this as Earl Jakben of Imbel. | |
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Discworld: The all-mighty High Priest Dios in Pyramids is an interesting case of this: not only has he been the high priest and chief adviser to the pharaohs of Djelibeybi for over seven thousand years by abusing a pyramid's age-reversing effects, he has always been that way (or at least for untold tens of thousands of years) as a result of being brought back to the moment of Djelibeybi's founding with all of his religious knowledge but no memory of his past, leading him to repeat the experience over and over. As far as we know, he never actually pretends to be his own descendant — people just assume, and the Djelibeybian tradition of feeding boat-rockers to crocodiles also discourages extensive inquiries into his genealogy. | |
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Chris Colorado: Herb Forsythe III, pretending to be the son of Herb Foresythe II, son of Herb Foresythe I, always head of a political party. Bonus point for being slow aging and not immortal, and retiring from social life each time, so that everyone forgot his face and he still doesn't look exactly the same. | |
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PandoraHearts: Played With. The immortal Jack Vessalius ages in a cycle, growing to adulthood and becoming a child again about every hundred years. His body ended up being taken over by part of Oz' soul, so while Oz believed Jack to be his ancestor the body was actually Jack's all along. | |
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In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Zobek hides his true nature by claiming to be a descendant of the original Zobek, who helped found the Brotherhood of Light. Anyone who played the first game first would know that they're the same person. An interesting detail is that he's been using his modern identity for just over a century by the time Gabriel awakens. | |
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Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness twice claims a historical photograph of himself as his own ancestor, in the episodes "Small Worlds" and "The New World". | |
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Mnemosyne: Rin uses this during a visit to an old acquaintance from WWII when the latter recognizes her. | |
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In Anno Dracula: Ten Thousand Monsters, Geneviève's backstory mentions that in the days when vampires hid their true natures, they would sometimes do this, generally if they were the sort who wanted to retain an aristocratic title. (Geneviève herself simply moved around a lot and tried to avoid being someone people would remember.) Eventually, someone would notice that the gallery of identical all-male ancestors who chose to have their portrait painted at exactly the same age was a bit suspicious and the trouble would start. | |
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Kingo from Eternals has pretended to be five generations of a Bollywood acting dynasty all by himself. | |
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In Silverblade, aging reclusive actor Jonathan Lord gains the power to become any character he has portrayed on the silver screen, and is physically restored to the age of 30: the age he was when he portrayed his most famous role of Silverblade. He then makes a grand return to Hollywood as Jonathan Lord, Jr. | |
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Faethor Ferency from Necroscope was a very territorial vampire who always lived on the outskirts of a certain village. Just before the people realized he was not getting older, he went traveling for a while. After a while, the villagers were informed that he had died during his journey, and that his son would move into his estate, and Faethor returned. The villagers had never seen a woman with him, but the family resemblance was so great that they believed he had to be his son. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Queen of the Nile", Pamela Morris did this and claimed that the old woman living with her was her elderly mother when it was really her daughter. As it turns out, she was actually Cleopatra and had discovered an ancient Egyptian magic that enabled her to stay immortal by sucking the youth out of people using scarabs. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Red Snow", the Communist Party secretary Ivan Povin tries to convince KGB Colonel Ilyanov that Valentina Orlova, who appears to be in her 30s, is the daughter of the woman of the same name who was exiled to the Siberian gulag in 1936. However, Ilyanov does not believe him as they are absolutely identical. He discovers that she is a vampire when he finds her feeding on a wolf in the forest that night. | |
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Blindfold: Done by the Big Bad, who uses a cryopod to become a Human Popsicle for a few years before re-emerging to see how things are progressing. Naturally, he uses this trick to fool everybody else, especially since the frequent freezings have rendered him sterile. It's also revealed that he is actually one of the original command crew of the first colony ship on Atlas. | |
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ClanDestine: Many of the Destines have done this. In the first volume, Kay has to establish her new host body as the daughter of the same name as her old one — somewhat complicated by the fact that she hadn't planned on the switch and therefore never mentioned having a daughter. The sequel miniseries establishes that Walter has also been repeatedly posing as his own son (under the same name), and a villain discovers that the family has a suspicious pattern of births and deaths in out of the way locales with conveniently poor documentation. | |
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xkcd: Implied by the Alt Text of this strip, which claims that "Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union — he just started going by 'James'." (Jimmy Hoffa's son James P. Hoffa is the actual current head of the Teamsters Union.) | |
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Time Enough for Love: Lazarus Long mentions doing this. Since he effectively doesn't age, he uses makeup to make himself slowly look older over time. After he's been in an area for long enough, he comes back without the makeup as his "son". | |
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Pathfinder: Gold dragons often take on humanoid guises to blend into other species' societies; however, since most dragons will outlive even the most long-lived elves by millennia, they generally need to at least put on a pretense of aging. While golds will generally fake their own deaths once their "lifetimes" are up, ones particularly attached to their guises will pose as their own children, grandchildren and so on. While this tends to work fine at first, their neighbors tend to catch wise to there being something fishy going on after a few generations of single people suddenly producing grown children out of nowhere. | |
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Batman Beyond: A variant in "Out of the Past". After Talia invites elderly Bruce Wayne to use the Lazarus Pit, it is revealed that she is actually her father Ra's al Ghul, who had transferred his mind into her body. He plans to take over Bruce's body and pass himself off as the previously unknown son of Bruce and Talia, claiming both the al Ghul and Wayne fortunes. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Eberron: King Kaius III is really his great-grandfather (and secret vampire) King Kaius I. Kaius II (and the real Kaius III) were really themselves, and it's strongly hinted that the latter has been locked up somewhere. Forgotten Realms: Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun the Elder took on the identity of his actual grandson Khelben "Ravencloak" Arunsun the Younger. Ravenloft: Strahd von Zarovich, the setting's most infamous vampire, has been pulling off this gambit for the past eleven generations, feigning his own death and leaving ruling of Barovia to his identical "son". A stock tactic for players in 3, 3.5 and Pathfinder when epic levels are reached. Somewhere between level 12 and level 25 it goes from being possible to become immortal to being essentially inevitable, whether you just took full levels in Monk or Druid or whether you did something alignment-intensive like becoming undead, a ghost, etc. Disguising oneself as a close relative ("minor details") grants a substantial bonus to disguise and bluff checks to stay in character, so this deception can make piercing your clever disguise essentially impossible for any character that isn't substantially more powerful than you. Also from the Realms, played with a bit in the case of Shamur Karn (later Shamur Uskevren), who after being transported forward in time fifty years was persuaded by her family to take the place of her recently deceased namesake neice ... but this only worked because she really did look identical to the younger Shamur. |
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In Medusa's Web, people who use the "black geometry" can extend their lifespans potentially indefinitely. One of the characters reinvents herself after a while as her own daughter. It's not all smooth sailing; she has to deal with a blackmail attempt from someone who finds an old photograph of her and then digs out the evidence that her current identity is faked. | |
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Moonlight: Mick St. John tries this trick in an episode, although he is actually pretty young by vampire standards (only 90). The only reason he does this is because a criminal he helped put away decades before (and revealed his Game Face to) has been released on parole and is out for revenge (having brushed up on his vampire lore in prison). When Beth mentions that Mick's name came up in relation to the criminal, Mick claims it was his late father, Mick St. John, Sr. Later on, Beth interviews a retired blind cop who personally knew Mick back in the day (and still does, as Mick still visits him) and mentions Mick's "late father". The cop is confused, as the Mick he knows is alive and well... and never had children. By next episode, though, this is no longer necessary, as Beth knows the truth. | |
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Fallout 4 has the Cabot family, who became immortal after their father discovered a ruin in the Middle East built by Ancient Astronauts, and found therein a Clingy Macguffin that made him immortal (and also crazy and telekinetic), at which point his son made a serum from his blood that prevents or reverses aging as long as you take it regularly. For the next 200 years or so they regularly left the country for a decade or two, "died", and came back as their cousins and heirs. They stopped having to do this after the bombs fell, and are thus pretty much the only people in existence whose lives were made more convenient by a nuclear apocalypse. | |
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Shadow of the Conqueror: Daylen accidentally makes himself about six decades younger via magic, and so constructs a false identity as Daylen Namaran Jr. | |
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The Vampire Diaries: Stefan and Damon Salvatore pretend to be descendants of "the original Salvatore brothers" from Mystic Falls' founding families. However, when Elena discovers that both Stefan Salvatores are identical, she realizes the truth. | |
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The Vampire Files: Bloodlist has a short-term variant when Jack Fleming rises as a vampire looking a decade younger than his real age, so he poses as his own near-identical younger brother while pursuing the gangsters who murdered him. | |
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Forgotten Realms: Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun the Elder took on the identity of his actual grandson Khelben "Ravencloak" Arunsun the Younger. | |
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In the 'Vampires' expansion pack for The Sims 4, the city of Forgotten Hollow was founded 400 years ago by a vampire named Vladislaus Straud. In order to hide his vampiric nature, he poses as his own descendant, Vladislaus Straud IV. | |
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Dark Shadows: In the original series, Barnabas Collins did this when he was first released, and during his travels through time. | |
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Supreme: The title character, aka Ethan Crane, due to his powers, ages very slowly, and, despite being born in 1920, looks to be in his early-to-mid thirties. When he met the universe's now elderly Expy of Lana Lang inhabited by the spirit of the Lex Luthor Expy, in the late 90s, she briefly recognises him as her old friend Ethan Crane, but then assumes he must be Ethan Crane's son since Ethan couldn't possibly look the same as he did decades ago. For the rest of the series he goes by the name "Ethan Crane Jr.", posing as his own son. It's helped by the fact that Supreme, and therefore "Ethan Crane Sr." disappeared into space in the late 60s, and only returned over twenty years later. Although we later learn he never bothered to make up a name for his mother. His adopted sister Suprema, aka Sally Crane, who looks all of nineteen despite being a schoolgirl at the outbreak of World War 2, is currently using the identity of Sally Crane II, Ethan Sr's daughter and her own niece. |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: "Requiem for Methuselah" deals with one Mr. Flint, who was born in ancient Mesopotamia. He went to war and was killed on the battlefield, but didn't die. By the 23rd century he claimed to have been King Solomon, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, and other famous and not-so-famous figures, and to have known Moses, Jesus, and Galileo. Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Trill ambassador poses as his own son to avoid letting the Federation know that the Trill are a race of Puppeteer Parasites. |
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Gargoyles: While it was never shown on-screen (as he was still a baby when the show ended), Alexander Xanatos will apparently be pulling this in the future to hide his immortality, as the planned spinoff Gargoyles 2198 has him under the name Alexander Xanatos the Fourth. | |
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Zidane Tribal in the Final Fantasy IX fanfiction Prince of Thieves is the immortal boss of Ultima Express. Every so often, he leaves the company for a couple years and comes back as the late owner's son; he faked his last death by deliberately crashing an airship. Nobody noticed because a) he's a Genome, a race of similar-looking recluses, and b) he doesn't like being photographed. | |
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Dark Shadows: Angelique has been pulling this trick for at least 200 years to be able to continue running her fishery. | |
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Necronomicon: In "The Cold", the now immortal Emily is posing as her own daughter. | |
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Superman: Lex Luthor, dying from radiation poisoning (because it turns out that Kryptonite is just like any other radioactive substance to humans), fakes his death by plane crash, then has his brain transferred to a clone body, introducing himself to the world as his own son. After the reveal (which involves Clone Degeneration and him levelling Metropolis), he pulls a Karma Houdini by selling his soul for a cure and then blaming everything on an insane clone who faked his death and took his place. | |
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The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: Some of the immortals are mentioned as doing this at least once in their immortal lives. | |
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Magellan has the case of elderly superhero Gola Beh pulling this after being exposed to a forced Fountain of Youth. She pretends to be a grand-niece named Olga Beh. | |
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Dr. Itohiro Nakami (of Dark•Matter/d20 Modern fame) pretends to be his own son to maintain his uninterrupted leadership of the Hoffmann Institute without making other personnel suspicious about his unusually long lifespan. He's thinking of introducing his grandson in a few years. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: "Requiem for Methuselah" deals with one Mr. Flint, who was born in ancient Mesopotamia. He went to war and was killed on the battlefield, but didn't die. By the 23rd century he claimed to have been King Solomon, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, and other famous and not-so-famous figures, and to have known Moses, Jesus, and Galileo. | |
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The DCU: Hawkman started doing this after the Golden Age Hawkman from the 1940s was retconned into being the same character as the currently active Hawkman. Icon: The title character started off as "Augustus Freeman" in Civil-War-Era America and as a result of actually being an Alien with a longer lifespan than humans, has been forced into doing this in order to avoid suspicion. By the time the comic started in the late 20th century, he is Augustus Freeman IV the great grandson of his original persona. In the 2006 Mystery in Space miniseries, Captain Comet finds himself reborn on Hardcore Station in a 20-year-old body and claims to be the original Captain Comet's nephew. His new irreverent attitude means that even heroes who've worked with him before are fooled... and prefer his "uncle". Superman: Lex Luthor, dying from radiation poisoning (because it turns out that Kryptonite is just like any other radioactive substance to humans), fakes his death by plane crash, then has his brain transferred to a clone body, introducing himself to the world as his own son. After the reveal (which involves Clone Degeneration and him levelling Metropolis), he pulls a Karma Houdini by selling his soul for a cure and then blaming everything on an insane clone who faked his death and took his place. |
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Münchhausen: The 1943 Baron Münchhausen shows a portrait of his illustrious 18th century ancestor, the famous Baron Münchhausen, and tells stories of his ancestor's many adventures. The ending reveals that they are the same guy, that the 18th century Baron has lived to 1943 after being given the gift of immortality by Cagliostro the magician. | |
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The Haunted Mansion (2003) has Master Gracey who poses as his own grandson. | |
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Ravenloft: Strahd von Zarovich, the setting's most infamous vampire, has been pulling off this gambit for the past eleven generations, feigning his own death and leaving ruling of Barovia to his identical "son". | |
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Countess Dracula: Elisabeth passes her youthful self off as her own daughter Ilona. Some people do acknowledge that they remembered Ilona differently. | |
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In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mina Harker and Allan Quatermain drink from the Fountain of Youth, restoring both to their late-20s selves. Mina lives on as herself and is noted to be "remarkably well-preserved," while Allan invokes this trope and poses as "Allan Quatermain Jr." | |
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In Dracula 2000, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing uses Dracula's blood to keep himself immortal, in order to continue research on how to kill the vampire king for good. In the modern day, he passes himself as his grandson, "Matthew Van Helsing". This has the side effect of allowing Dracula to track down his daughter, who has some of his blood within her. | |
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Good Omens (2019): It’s implied that Crowley pulled this with Shadwell to disguise his immortality over the 50 years of their acquaintance — in a throwaway line in Episode 3, Shadwell inquires after Crowley’s “father”, and says “you resemble him very much, you know”. | |
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The Dead Boy Detectives 2004 miniseries spinoff: Charles becomes suspicious of the marquis when he notices that all the men in the portraits of the Marquez ancestors are identical. The marquis is the immortal Gilles de Rais, posing as his own descendants. | |
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In Freedom City: Daniel Daedalus, a Gadgeteer Genius who is a member of the modern day Freedom League under the name Daedalus, allows people to believe he's the son of the Daedalus who was a member of the Silver Age Freedom League. It's simpler than explaining he's actually Daedalus. Lucius Cabot, a 200 year old demonologist and lawyer, has repeatedly posed as his own descendent to rentain both control of the Cabot, Cunningham and Crowley law firm, and ownership of Cabot House, a very nice colonial manor house that may be the only thing he truly cares about. Cassandra Vale, who hasn't aged since she became the vessel of the loa Siren in 1962, has since re-established her secret identity as Cassandra Vale Jr. |
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Neo Angelique has Nyx, who reveals to an old friend that he is in fact in old friend instead of the grandson of his friend. | |
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NOS4A2: When Manx gets recognized as similar to his younger self at a road stop he's frequented, he says that's his grandson. | |
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Baccano!: Subverted — as part of the original 1711 contract, all immortals are rendered incapable of establishing long-term false identities, which means all of them will eventually have to give that awkward explanation as to why their passport claims they're six or seven times older than they look. According to Ronnie in the prologue of The Rolling Bootlegs, there's a mental block against setting false IDs: | |
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When the Birdy the Mighty remake manga began, it seems like Hikawa from the OVA series, who was added to the remake manga, was a Decomposite Character, but it's later revealed he was pulling this off instead, posing as his own grandson. | |
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The Avengers: Kang, when he's not conquering, occasionally pretends to be the mayor of a small town in the late 1800s called Victor Timely. To avoid much suspicion, he ducks out after a few years and then returns as a new Victor. At the last time, he was his grandson, Victor Timely III. | |
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In Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean, there are a couple of references that indicate that Professor Medeous, aka the Queen of Faerie, has done this at least once. | |
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Superbook: This is how our time-traveling protagonists explain still looking like children when they meet Rebecca again, in an adventure set at least forty years after they last saw her. | |
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Jem Carstairs explains in The Infernal Devices that many vampires use this trick to keep their lands and possessions when they are very rich. They just move on for a while, and come back after a few decades, posing as their nephew/niece. The mundanes does not notice that a certain person lives unusually long. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Hob Gadling/Sir Robert Gadling/Bobby Gadling mentions he has done this several times. (He also mentions that it gets more difficult after the invention of photography.) He has to conceal old family photographs to make sure nobody notices that he looks exactly like his uncle or grandfather did fifty years ago. Although he also talks authoritatively about the past when confronted with The Theme Park Version, no one ever seems to notice that he's talking about it firsthand. The "Hob's Leviathan" chapter implies that this is a fairly common practice among immortals in the Sandman mythos. The Dead Boy Detectives 2004 miniseries spinoff: Charles becomes suspicious of the marquis when he notices that all the men in the portraits of the Marquez ancestors are identical. The marquis is the immortal Gilles de Rais, posing as his own descendants. |
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The Man from Earth: John claims that he has passed himself off as his own son multiple times. | |
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Rivers of London: It's mentioned that DCI Nightingale, who suffers from Merlin Sickness, has posed as his own son to attend some funerals of people he used to know. | |
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Chakona Space: Contributing author Allen Fessler gives us the Tales of the Folly series. The Folly's captain, Neil Foster is somewhere north of 200 and due to his teleporters having been Touched by Vorlons, he gets occasional "fountain of youth" makeovers and is able to pull off this trope convincingly. Other characters assume that the older version of foster they knew / see pictures of and the one they now see are grandfather and grandson respectively. At least one non-human character is convinced it's the same man. | |
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Highlander: Connor faked his own death, left his estate to fake sons and took their identities repeatedly so he could cover up being immortal. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Mayor Richard Wilkins III, aka Mayor Richard Wilkins and Mayor Richard Wilkins Jr. | |
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In Shadow of Destiny, it is implied that the main character, Eike, has been this, though without his knowledge. | |
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GURPS 4e has this in Baron Janos Telkozep, an iconic vampire character. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Seti Ashgad presents himself as Seti Ashgad Jr. in Planet of Twilight. | |
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Unknown Armies: Sebastiao dos Prazeres is a variant. His body actually is that of his grandson Joao, whose identity he is using, thanks to a permanent Grand Theft Me. | |
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The Misenchanted Sword by Lawrence Watt-Evans gives the main character immortality. Once he solves the problems with it, he does just this by telling all his friends he's leaving his business to a long lost relative. Then he gets himself youthened and comes back as the relative. The epilogue indicates he's continued with this swap every few decades for generations. | |
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Charmed (1998): In "Saving Private Leo", Leo Wyatt poses as his own grandson to attend a 60th-anniversary reunion of World War II veterans. | |
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In Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart, the current Duke is revealed to be the same man as his alleged "ancestor" who became emperor many centuries ago. | |
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Played with in Sunday in the Park with George: although late 20th-century artist George is actually a different person from late 19th-century artist Georges Seurat, the final scene has him effectively turn into the famous painter, as he reconciles with his estranged mistress, Dot (who is actually his great-grandmother) from beyond the grave. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Trill ambassador poses as his own son to avoid letting the Federation know that the Trill are a race of Puppeteer Parasites. | |
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