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Trope · 41 series

Multiple Identities Short Dramas

Sixteen series where somebody is not who they claim. Runs longer than most trope shelves at a median of 53 episodes, which makes sense: the reveal has to land twice, once for you and once inside the story.

Series
41
Median length
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Ranked by our editor score; ties broken by whether the series is complete, then by length. How often this setup gets published, and how the median title in it performs, is mapped in the trope explorer.

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The extremes

 SeriesPlatformEpisodesRuntime
Shortest runShe Crushed the President’s HeartNetShort10—
Longest runCross-Dressed General Fights FoesNetShort78—
ShortestShe Crushed the President’s HeartNetShort10—
LongestCross-Dressed General Fights FoesNetShort78—
Most free episodesPanda FistNetShort30—
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Where to find them

41 of the 41 are on NetShort.

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Karma Payback ×25Revenge ×10Underdog Rise ×8Plot Twist ×5One Night Stand ×3Karma ×2

How this page was built

Editorial policy

The 41 series on this page carry Multiple Identities as a trope label in the catalogue of the platform that publishes them. We do not tag series ourselves, which means this page is exactly as complete, and as inconsistent, as the platforms' own labelling. Episode counts and runtimes are read from each platform's listing for that specific series. We do not score series and we publish no rating of our own, because nobody here has watched all 41 of them. One thing we cannot tell you: no platform publishes a dependable finished/ongoing flag, so a series that wrapped last year and one still posting episodes look identical to us. Where a card here says still releasing, read it as “we have not seen an ending”, not as a confirmed schedule.