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Oh, no, [[Dead Little Sister|your sister just died]]!
 
But you don't have the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to make a [[Replacement Goldfish]] to remember her by. Still, [[Half -Identical Twins|you look]] [[Twin Switch|kind of like her]], [[Identical Stranger|right]]? So your [[Dead Little Sister]] will live on through you!
 
The motives for this can vary a great deal. Sometimes there's a [[El Cid Ploy|tangible need for this level of deception]]- the dead sibling may have been the lynchpin in high-level government negotiations, and the surviving sibling is the only one who can plausibly play the role. It can also be a slightly misguided attempt to live your sister's dream's ''for'' her, since she didn't get the chance. This trope can also be exactly as disturbing as it sounds, and we end up with one [[Ax Crazy]] sibling convinced he really ''is'' her.
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Related to [[Kill and Replace]]. A subtrope of [[Dead Person Impersonation]]. A somewhat limited form of [[Batman Gambit]]. May include [[Settle for Sibling]]. For the literal version see [[Two Siblings in One]].
 
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]]/[[Manhwa]] ==
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* Happens rather literally in ''[[Psychic Academy]]''. After an incident in the backstory where Ren got killed and his sister Fafa ended up needing a heart replacement, Ren's heart was placed in Fafa. Since that point, whenever Fafa's pulse rises above a certain level, she turns ''into'' Ren. This isn't just a personality shift, her body literally changes gender.
* A textbook example in the hentai comic ''Secret Plot Deep'', Imada's sister died in a car crash, which devastated his parents. After a few weeks, they convinced themselves that Imada was his sister, and that Imada had been the one to die. Imada began dressing as his sister at that point because to not would deepen his parent's misery (and because his parents had thrown out all of his clothes).
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', this is part of the reason {{spoiler|Fai}} is so messed up. [[Eye Scream|As]] [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|well]] [[Deus Angst Machina|as]] [[Angsty Surviving Twin|other]] [[Stepford Smiler|things]].
* The real reason {{spoiler|Ringo Oginome}} from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum (Anime)|Mawaru Penguindrum]]'' is so obsessed {{spoiler|with the teacher Keiju Tabuki}}, because {{spoiler|her sister Momoka died the same day Ringo was born, and her death tore the Oginome family apart; young Ringo then started to aim to "become Momoka" in a heartfelt yet misguided attempt to bring her parents back together. Tabuki is also the person who taught Ringo about "destiny" as well as what Momoka meant to him and the Oginomes, so she started to follow the instructions written in Momoka's diary to further her "transformation" into her dead older sister.}}
* Lizzie attempts to do this for Ivan in ''[[Priest (Manhwa)|Priest]]'' since she just happens to look like his dead girlfriend for some reason. He's not very receptive, though.
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* This is the premise of a series of [[VC Andrews]] novels. The main character Celeste has a brother named Noble, who is the favorite of her New Agey, spirit-obsessed mother. When Noble drowns to death, the mom forces Celeste to dress like and act like Noble, in the hopes of having Noble's spirit live on through her. She even dresses up Noble's corpse like Celeste and tells the whole town that it was Celeste who died, not Noble. Needless to say, the whole thing comes off as [[Nightmare Fuel|downright creepy]]
* In ''Pirate Latitudes'' by Michael Crichton, the pirate Lazoo has an older brother who died in infancy. She was born shortly afterward after her father had been away at war for over a year and raised as her brother to hide her mother's infidelity.
* In the ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]'' books, would-be [[Non -Action Guy]] Neal starts training for his knighthood at fifteen (a late age) because his older brothers have all died, and his family/house is a pillar of the kingdom that's supposed to always have at least one knight serving the crown.
* The [[Wheel of Time]] has Vandene, who starts wearing the clothes that used to belong to her sister Adealas after Adealas is murdered.
* [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]] did this in {{spoiler|''A Murder is Announced.'' The dead sister was the heir to a large fortune, and by impersonating her, the other sister hoped to get the money.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Done in a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] to ''[[Tootsie]]'' in ''[[Family Guy]].'' In that episode, Stewie pretends to be a girl named Karina Smirnoff in order to land a part on the American Adaptation of his favorite television show - the only part available was playing a little girl named Mary. He then falls in love with one of his (female) costars, but the costar explains to her/him that she's not a lesbian ... so Stewie marches into the (conveniently live) taping of the episode, and in character (as Mary, not Karina/Stewie) explains that Karina was actually his sister who died, and he was Desmond - a perfectly normal little boy transvestite - who was trying to carry on her memory.
* [[Fairly Oddparents|Timmy]]'s mom has got a job as a weather girl and so Timmy's Dad got out a puppet looking just like Timmy's mom to be a mother to Timmy. He took it a little too far.
{{quote| Mom Puppet: I think you're being too harsh on Timmy.<br />
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