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{{quote|'''Saturn Girl:''' (as Supergirl removes her helmet) "Great rings of Saturn! ''Unknown Boy'' was really ''Supergirl!"''
'''Supergirl''': "Yes, I remember now... that ''is'' my name! ''Supergirl!'' Your speaking it has made me remember everything I had forgotten."
|'''[[Superman|Supergirl]]''' recovering}}
In the real world, amnesia is rare, and it can last anywhere from days to a lifetime.
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** Shinnosuke, a boy from the forest of Ryugenzawa, is forgetful to a crippling degree. Among the things he's forgotten: his own grandpa, the location of the traps he has set for the [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|animals of the forest]], people he's met only minutes ago and the conversations he's had with them, and having saved a young Akane's life ten years ago. When he meets her again (believing it's the first time) he endears himself to her by writing her name all over the house so he won't forget again. Unfortunately, he later forgets having {{spoiler|confessed his love to her}} also, but not {{spoiler|the love itself}}.
* ''[[Rumbling Hearts]]'': {{spoiler|Haruka}} suffers from anterograde amnesia after {{spoiler|being hit by a car.}} This is on top of {{spoiler|the three years she missed while comatose.}} This could be considered a subversion, as it takes most of the length of the series for her to recover.
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** Subverted when it comes to Index, whose memories are regularly wiped by a magic spell designed for the purpose. Played straight when {{spoiler|Touma has his memories wiped by being hit in the head by a spell meant to kill him (he negated it before it could do lethal damage)}}.
** Another example, featuring both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, is revealed to have happened to {{spoiler|Touma before the start of the series. He was badly injured, and Misaki (a telepath) used her ability as a substitute for anesthetic. This accidentally damaged his brain in such a way that he lost all his memories of Misaki, and is also unable to form new memories about her.}}
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* ''[[Words Worth]]'': This happens to Prince Astral after Maria uses her magic to banish him into the future in a fit of rape-induced rage, affecting him to the point where in later episodes he even participates in an attack against his former kingdom.
* In the 100th episode of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', everyone in the Hinata household at the time when a laser beam hit the house. They try to figure out who they are by trying out several identities. But the amnesia couldn't have come at a worse time as the Keroro Platoon's underground HQ has started the countdown to self-destruction.
* Ciel in ''[[
== Comic Books ==
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== Live
* A particularly infamous example occurred in the first series of ''[[24
** In a nice nod to realism, though (and the ''only'' good quality about that sordid plotline), {{spoiler|Teri gets amnesia after she gets out of a car parked on a narrow ledge, tells Kim to stay there while she tries to find help, and watches as the car goes rolling over the edge and explodes}}. One of the most common causes of retrograde amnesia is sheer brain-rending trauma that the sufferer feels primarily responsible for, so it's nice to see ''that'' happen instead of another coconut to the head.
* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', Captain Archer actually gets anterograde amnesia. Earth is destroyed by the Xindi, and Archer has been unable to form any new memories for years. Every morning he wakes up and thinks it's the same day, when in reality it's about 13 years after the event. Of course, Dr. Phlox eventually cures him (it's due to a virus), but because it's a time-based virus, curing it in the present also cures it in the past; meaning Archer never lost his memory and Earth was never destroyed.
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* Subverted on ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]''; after a car accident, Hutch apparently has amnesia, which is used as an opportunity for a [[Clip Show]] as Starsky reminds him of their past. Near the end of the show, it turns out that Hutch is fine; he's just taking revenge on Starsky for his reckless driving.
* In ''[[Weird Science (TV series)|Weird Science]]'' practically every episode ends with Lisa handing out free [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] for all implicated parties except for the main characters of course. Suverted when Lisa couldn't wipe Chett's memory because he developed a brain callous out of the absurd number of times his memory has been edited.
** In”The Time We Got To Woodstock” Lisa gets amnesia when she hits her head on the “You Must be This Tall to enter the Time Hole” while traveling back in time to Woodstock, and loses her memory and becomes a stereotypical hippie.
* ''[[Wonderfalls]]'', in a late-season arc, [[Subverted]] it: Heidi Gotts gets bumped on the head and decides to fake amnesia ''precisely because'' so many people think it works this way.
* Gibbs suffers a two-part amnesia arc {{spoiler|after being blown up}} in the third season finale of ''[[NCIS]]''. It's mostly an excuse to drag out the search for the bad guy while still allowing Gibbs to be conscious in many scenes. Also, to make Ziva cry.
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* ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'' has an episode, "Forget Me Nuts", where all the characters (including a mysterious one we have not seen before) wake up with no memory and have to try and work out who they are, what happened, and what they need to do next. By the end, they have {{spoiler|managed to get the [[Big Bad]] to lose his memory too}}, and convinced him that he is a travelling sandal saleswoman. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And then the narrator loses his memory.]]
* In the ''[[Andromeda]]'' episode "Music of a Distant Drum" [[Token Heroic Orc|Tyr]] gets this from some [[Nanomachines]], his Nietzschean immune system eventually fights them off but in the meantime he becomes somewhat attached to the fisherwoman who finds him.
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* One episode of [[Donkey Kong Country]], 'Ape-nesia' has DK lose his memory after slipping on a banana peel. It gets worse when his enemies convince him that he's working for them.
* On ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', Helga accidentally gets hit in the head with a baseball by the titular character. Cue sudden amnesia (though it wears off after a good night's sleep).
* Zigzagged in one ''[[Underdog]]'' story where Simon bar Sinister's Forget-me-Net causes the hero to forget who he is and think's he's an apple peddler. When Sweet Polly realizes this, she and several citizens try to hit him over the head to cure him, but seeing as he's invulnerable, none of it works; even attempting it ''with a steam shovel'' only breaks the machine. Eventually, Polly accidentally invokes the flaw in Simon's device (which is simply, saying his name when he can hear it) and he snaps out of it.
* Zigzagged in an episode of ''[[Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales]]''. Chumley is hit on the head and thinks he's a rich businessman; once Tennessee finds out what's wrong with him, he takes the smart option for once, and attempts to take him to a doctor. However, Chumley resists his attempts, and after [[Hilarity Ensues]], he knocks himself on the head again and is cured.
== Real Life ==
* The
* A soccer/football player suffered a minor fall, and suffered severe retrograde amnesia.
* Similarly, college basketball player [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7733704&page=1 Kayla Hutcheson] suffered a head injury during practice. A short time afterward, she had lost all of her memories up to that point.
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