Talk:Daring Do/@comment-29037366-20160827005734/@comment-26423071-20161023173930

"Any scenario where a character is: a celebrity, a Super Hero with a Secret Identity, a magical, non-human creature, or something to that effect. Said character gets mistaken as someone posing as (or performing something created by) himself, and furthermore, criticized or laughed at for his lame impersonation and costume. Picture this: Elvis really is Not Quite Dead after all. He decides to surprise the world by showing up at one of those Elvis-impersonator conventions in full iconic Elvis regalia. What does he hear when he shows up? His outfit is the poorest recreation anyone has ever seen, his accent sounds totally fake, his hair style is all wrong, and he's much too tall. Nice try, newbie, but you would never pass as the real Elvis. Yes, this does happen in Real Life because Reality Is Unrealistic (also because actors who are going to work have cosmetics and costume people to get them ready to look good under the bright lights, unlike when they're going out grocery shopping, and some quite wealthy people perform tasks like that for themselves). It helps that impersonations are usually not judged on how much they look and act like the real celebrity in general, but how faithfully they can recreate a small number of recorded performances that are all the onlookers know about how the celebrity should look and sound. Those same recordings are available for the impersonator to practice on again and again, whereas for the real Elvis the recording that made it to vinyl was only one out of hundreds of performances, practice takes and so forth he's ever done. Many of the small details in the canonical recording that the impersonators lovingly reproduce would be unimportant accidents to the real guy, or at best just one point on an entire scale of ways he can perform. One example: The Mamas and The Papas did a song "I saw her again" where at one point there is a section, in which one person sings "I saw her..." and stops because someone else was about to sing, then they don't so the person continued with "I saw her again." Later, Paul McCartney got to meet with the band, and said that part of the song was an accident. When asked how he knew it was a mistake, he said, "Nobody is that good on purpose."