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** Interestingly, Nova (one of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful, Terran psychics ever) actually ''chose'' to have her memory wiped, unable to cope with the memory of {{spoiler|her parents being murdered in front of her and living a year as a slave to a psychopath}}.
* In ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 5'', {{spoiler|the antagonist Dr. Regal gets his memory erased and becomes a nice guy. No repercussions. Less of a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] since it was done by Wily not the heroes}}.
* In ''[[Space Quest|Space Quest V]]'', Roger is pursued by the [[Killer Robot|terminoid]] assassin W-D40, a female android sent by the [[Mega Corp| Gippazoid Novelty Company]] who claims Roger [[Disproportionate Retribution| didn't pay for a Labion Terror Beast Mating Whistle]] he ordered via mail, which had been advertised as free. After Roger manages to outsmart and defeat W-D40 via his usual methods (mostly dumb luck) his engineer Cliffy manages to rebuild and reprogram her, and she becomes Roger's loyal science officer.
* In {{spoiler|Legion}}'s loyalty mission in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', the heroes find out a way to turn the {{spoiler|Heretic}} [[Cyber Cyclops|Geth]] against the Reapers by introducing a computer virus into their network, essentially overwriting their thoughts. Given that the 'verse features several villains (including the Reapers) and [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] trying or succeeding in [[Not So Different|doing the same]] for their less-than-noble purposes, the parallels are made quite clear.
** Interestingly, this [[Grey and Gray Morality|isn't treated like the obvious good option]], with several characters pointing out that if you alter the geths' thoughts, you're still "killing" who they used to be. The alternative is to kill all those geth outright, but...it's still a strange moral issue.
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