It's an interesting possibility, but there have been regimes that have employed body doubles to confuse the enemy. Especially if the leader was dead, or gravely ill.

[Uh, no, Ironfist. Now is not the time to turn on the Nerd.]

Who doesn't know Impactor? He made the Wreckers what they were! Well, I mean, he didn't actually start them, but he was the one who really, you know, made them famous.