delusion of being someone one is not theme
A character is portrayed as having the crazy delusion that they are someone they are not. Typically this happens when a person believes themself to be someone famous, like Jesus or Napoleon.
Notes
This theme is typically not applicable in fantastical stories where magic or technology is used to alter a person's mind in such a way that it arguably has been transformed into the mind of that person they now think they are.
9 total · 4 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh3x11 | major | The all-female society medical professionals tried to convince Jane that her memories of a two gender world were all some sort of elaborate delusion. |
| ahp4x32 | major | The viewer is led to believe that Howard was suffering from the delusion of thinking he was a Martian named Yangan. But it is later revealed that he, in fact, was. Alfred Hitchcock pretended the same in the epilogue. |
| movie: KPAX (2001) | major | The story centered around Prot being institutionalized after claiming to be an extraterrestrial from the planet K-PAX. |
| tftc1989e4x07 | major | The going hypothesis up until the end was that the strange woman, Nora, suffered from a kind of delusion that she was also the problematic child. |
| ahh2x01 | minor | The old (mostly bedridden) woman suffered from various peculiar delusions. She thought she was a famous person, had cavorted with famous people, and later that she was pregnant and had been so for five years. |
| ahp5x23 | minor | It was revealed at the end that Judy may have been under the delusion that she was a dog. |
| futurama3x11 | minor | A Bicorne hat wearing Bender utter the phrase "Je suis Napoleon" in jest while visiting Fry in the robot lunatic asylum. |
| rd1988e8x01 | minor | The ship psychiatrist thought Kryten was crazy in insisting he was a robot. |
| tftc1989e3x03 | minor | Lou's mother thought herself Eleanor Roosevelt. [Eleanor Roosevelt] |