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'''Dr. Tenma''': For now, but that wasn't your name back when you were brought into my hospital.|''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]''}}
[[Easy Amnesia|Amnesia comes easy in fiction]]. It is also [[Laser
In most cases, the character has simply lost his memories, no longer remembering his name, [[Amnesiac Lover|loved ones]] or where he came from. This is often the cause for a [[Quest for Identity]].
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* [[Criminal Amnesiac]] - The character goes from his heroic or noble life to an evil or self-serving one.
* [[Amnesiacs Are Innocent]] -- the new character is child-like and innocent.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Kirika Yumura of ''[[Noir]]'' starts out with this. She only knows what her name is due to it being printed on her student ID, and a comment from Chloe towards the end of the series implies that not only is 'Kirika Yumura' not her real name, it was entirely possible that nobody remembered what her real name was.
* ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'' has Johan's good-hearted twin sister, Nina Fortner, can't remember she's Anna Liebert after {{spoiler|he forced her to shoot him in the head}}.
* [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|Kamijou Touma]] forgot a lot about who he was when he took a feather of St. George’s Sanctuary to the face and it is irrecoverable. He forgot a lot of people he knew; he forgot why he said people were indebted to him; school; he even forgot what his parents looked like ({{spoiler|plot point}}). While a thank you letter had allowed him to obfuscate competence and convince everyone that he's fine, at least twice he had to gamble that he should have known someone because they [[Highly
* ''[[Noein]]'s'' resident [[Ax Crazy]] psychopath Atori gets amnesia after nearly dying in combat, and becomes a gentle, if somewhat out of it, young man who enjoys spending time with Miho, since she reminds him of his [[Dead Little Sister]] Sarah. He does regain his memories later on, but by that point, spending time with Miho and the rest of the group has softened him and reawakened his sense of morality.
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* In ''[[The Majestic]]'', Jim Carrey plays a screenwriter, Peter Appleton, who gets drunk and crashes his car and wakes up with amnesia. He wanders into a nearby town and adopts the identity of Luke Trimble when he is mistaken for a local boy who died in WWII. He later regains his memory after watching one of his own movies.
** A big part of the movie is him escaping from a McCarthyist persecution because someone ({{spoiler|an old crush of his}}) named him to the commission. His amnesia could have been his mind trying to escape the reality of his life and career in ruins over a witch hunt.
* In the [[So Bad
* In ''American Dreamer'', after an accident the main character thinks that she is the heroine from the book series she writes - a sort of female [[James Bond]].
* In the [[Laurel and Hardy]] film ''A Chump at Oxford'', while our heroes are visiting Oxford University Stan gets hit on the head and becomes a snob with an English accent, much to Ollie's disgust. Not surprisingly he later gets hit on the head again and returns to his old self.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''The Recognition of Shakuntala'', an episode from the [[Older Than You Think|Ancient]] [[Indian Languages|Sanskrit]] epic ''[[Mahabharata]]'' that was later [[Ascended Extra|Expanded]] into a theatrical drama by the Indian playwright Kalidasa around the 1st century BC, is probably the [[Ur Example]] of this trope. It's a [[Boy Meets Girl|Girl Meets Boy]] story about a woman named Shakuntala who meets Dushyanta and marries him, only for him to get cursed with [[Lase Guided Amnesia|Amnesia]] and completely forget her. The only way to lift the curse is to show him the ring that he gave her, but she loses the ring in a river. She eventually finds the ring by the end of the story, makes him remember, and then they live [[Happily Ever After]].
* Subverted in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''Father Time''. It seems that the Eighth Doctor, of whom it was once said that "he [[Why
* In ''[[The Bourne Series (Literature)|The Bourne Identity]],'' Bourne loses his memory and becomes convinced he was a freelance assassin. The book revolves around his search for the truth, which is much more complicated.
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*** Actually, Amnesia in the sense of forgetting everything has little to do with this case. The iron bar with through his frontal lobe, which is what largely controls on inhibiting socially reprehensible behavior. It's what (usually) keeps you from saying or doing something you know you shouldn't. Having three-feet of solid steel go through that part of the brain destroyed much of this inhibiting brain-matter.
* [[Truth in Television]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_christie Agatha Christie] (September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976) disappeared for eleven days in 1926 and was widely believed to have been killed by her husband. She was found in a health spa under another name and later diagnosed with amnesia. To all appearances, a classic psychotic break, caused by an emotionally trying year including her mother's death and her husband's infidelity.
** And had nothing whatsoever to do with a [[Timey
*** Of 'course' not. None of them knew what really happened, remember? 'Sides, it would have caused widespread panic.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Bourne Reverend Ansel Bourne] is a famous case study in psychology because he had this happen to him during a disassociative fugue.
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