Impersonating the Evil Twin: Difference between revisions

** Subverted in ''The Chase''. The Daleks have made a robot double of the Doctor, which he pulled the plug on. The travellers discuss having the Doctor pretending to be the robot, and conclude that it's an absurd idea because the Daleks should know that their own robot isn't working. The Doctor sneaks off in the middle of the conversation to do it anyway... and is caught in around five seconds.

** In ''The Enemy of the World'', the Doctor visits Earth during the year 2030, and is discovered to bear a shocking resemblance to a South American dictator named Salamander. The "good guys" ask him to impersonate Salamander and infiltrate his organization. At the end of the story, with his evil plans in ruins, Salamander makes an unsuccessful attempt to escape in the TARDIS by impersonating the Doctor.

** Done by the Doctor in the story ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E2 Meglos|Meglos]]''; discovered only when Meglos is shot in the belief that he's the Doctor and replies, "satisfied?"

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Dopplegangland," Willow pretends to be evil vampire Willow. She gets caught due to being insufficiently evil, which one supposes you could call an error in the impersonation. However, it initially works well, and has an effect on helping the Scoobies' strategy, because the [[Mirror Universe]] [[Evil Twin]]'s mooks don't know her much either and also are scared of her.

* In ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'', the [[Big Bad]] creates [[Evil Twin]] versions of the heroes; when this is discovered, Prince Dick impersonates one of them to discover what they are up to. Notably, his fake [[Beard of Evil]] is slightly ''more'' convincing than the doppleganger's real one, probably because the [[Big Bad]] is [[Stupid Evil|not very competent]].

* This trope is retty much the entire plot of [[Ringer]], although Bridget doesn't know that Siobhan is still alive {{spoiler|until the last episode of the first season.}} Bridget gets away with it most of the time, although {{spoiler|if on the occasions she's had to go to the police they'd thought of ''just taking her fingerprints'' the game would have been up a lot sooner...}}

 

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