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* In the ''[[Alien]]''-esque [[Hentai]] ''[[Alien From The Darkness]]'', the lone survivor of a derelict ship pretends to have amnesia, and is thus unable to tell her rescuers what happened to the rest of her crew-mates. This is all to hide the fact that she is in fact the host to the alien being that killed them all.
* Inverted in ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]''. {{spoiler|Touma}} loses his memory but passes it off as a joke so Index doesn't feel bad.
* The water fairy Athena Glory in ''[[Aria (Manga)|Aria]]'' does this as a prank to her student, Alice.
* In the second series of ''[[Code Geass]]'', Lelouch adds this to part of his masquerade early on in order to throw off suspicion that he has regained his memories.
* In episode 26 of [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]], after a fight with some baddies, Hayate ends up with a blow to the head, rendering him unconscious. Ayumu, being there when it happened helped Hayate tend to his wounds. When Hayate woke up, Ayumu then asks whether he likes her or not. Hayate then ends up faking amnesia in order to avoid answering the question. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In an episode of [[Ookami-Sansan]], Ryoko suffers from [[Easy Amnesia|actual amnesia]], where she thinks she's thirteen. When she later get's better, she pretends not to remember the entire day due to being embarrassed. [[Deliberately Cute Child|Ringo]] catches her when she remembers eating.
 
 
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Mass Effect (Franchise)/Retribution|Mass Effect: Retribution]]'', when a rescue squad recovers a kidnapped character and asks for his name, he is unable to answer and claims that amnesia is the cause. {{spoiler|As it turns out, he has been implanted with alien tech by Cerberus, allowing his body to be remote-controlled by the [[Cosmic Horror|Reapers]]. The claim of amnesia was used by the Reapers to avoid the question as they were at that time unable to learn his name by reading his mind. It works horrifyingly well.}}
* The Titular character from the [[Robin McKinley]] novel ''[[Sunshine (Literaturenovel)|Sunshine]]'' pretends she has PTSD that made her forget or block her memories after escaping from being held captive by vampires. Mostly she ''does'' have PTSD but she hadn't forgotten anything, she just didn't want to talk about it or explain A) why she saved a vampire and B) ''how'' she saved a vampire. That is to say by using her magic that she hadn't used since childhood to make it so a certain vampire could walk under sunlight which everyone agrees is impossible
* The titular ''[[Papillon]]'' feigns having amnesia after being caught receiving contraband coconuts and cigarettes while in solitary confinement. The warden is frustrated by the inability to get a name and other details from Papillon and orders him to finish the final four months of his sentence without a dinner meal. Despite nearly dying of malnourishment, Papillon remembers to continue the game upon his release and "mistakes" the end of his solitary time as a pardon from the [[Penal Colony]] altogether.
* Bobby Pendragon, from [[The Pendragon Adventure]], feigns amnesia to get the Tribunal of Rayne to trust him. {{spoiler|He fails to trick them. It's later revealed that they played along for completely different reasons.}}
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* In a late-season arc of ''[[Wonderfalls]]'', Heidi Gotts gets bumped on the head and decides to fake amnesia because so many people think [[Easy Amnesia|that's exactly how amnesia works]].
* Used by Mrs. Slocomb in a later episode of ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'' when she pretended to have forgotten everything since early childhood and spent the majority of the episode acting like a schoolgirl. The ordeal was a ploy to scare the management with a possible lawsuit.
* In the [[Sentai]] show ''[[Kousoku Sentai Turboranger]]'', Pink Turbo decides to fake memory loss to join the bad guys after taking a blow to the head in a battle, in a gambit to acquire an antitode for the poisoned Blue Turbo.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': Dean fakes a case of [[Death Amnesia]] after being pulled out of hell by Castiel.
* Inverted in an episode of ''[[Human Target]]''. A client who has amnesia takes part in a sting to trick the bad guys by pretending not to have amnesia. To do this he has to convince them that he was faking it. It makes sense in context.
 
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