People are constantly pretending to be others or being mistaken for other people. Impersonation attacks try to gain access by pretending to be someone else. Alicia concludes that he was merely pretending to love her as part of his job. John later discovered that Victor was only pretending to be ill and he was annoyed. Yongqi escapes after pretending that he is sick. Up until this point, Nimrod was pretending that he himself was a god. Howard opens his eyes and reveals that he was just pretending to faint. The con lies in that the weavers are actually only pretending to manufacture the clothes. It's not pretending to be realistic. His nose is already pretending to be a human being. He got the part by pretending he was British. A girl I was pretending to be. GLaDOS panics and insists that she was pretending to kill Chell as part of testing. However, Rushdie later said that he was only "pretending". Also, that his mother has been pretending from his childhood that his father has died.