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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 (manga)|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-Conspicuous Uniform|dressed weirdly]]. {{spoiler|Eventually, he fesses up to someone about it.}}

* ''[[A Certain Magical 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-Conspicuous Uniform|dressed weirdly]]. {{spoiler|Eventually, he fesses up to someone about it.}}

* ''[[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.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

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* One [[Archie Comics]] story had Veronica bump her head in an airplane due to turbulence, and wake up believing herself to be the heroine of a novel she was reading.

* An [[Elseworlds]] comic, ''Batman: Hollywood Knight'', has an actor who plays Batman (here a fictional character) in film serials barely surviving getting shot in the head by mobsters, only to start thinking he really ''is'' Batman and proceed to run around fighting crime.

== [[Film]] ==

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* In ''Blackout'', Keith Carradine's character is in a car accident that leaves him an amnesiac and the other man who was in the car dead. As only one of the men's identities is known, Keith takes on that one, and becomes a sweet guy who marries his nurse, adopts her kids, and has a baby with her. Everything is going swimmingly until {{spoiler|everyone, including Keith, suddenly realizes he's actually the other guy - a crazed serial killer.}} Oops.

* [[Arashi no Yoru ni|''One Stormy Night'':]] {{spoiler|When Gabu gets caught up in an avalanche, he forgets all about his experiences with Mei. When they meet, he knocks him out and drags him away to eat him, just like any other wolf would. He only remembers when Mei repeats the phrase [[Title Drop|'one stormy night']] to him.}}

== [[Literature]] ==

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* In ''[[The Bourne Series (novel)|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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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* One of the foes from the ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV show was King Tut, a meek and mild-mannered Egyptology professor who became a [[Criminal Amnesiac|criminally inclined]] Pharaoh whenever he got hit on the head.

* One episode of ''[[The Addams Family]]'' involved Gomez becoming an ordinary '50s-style breadwinner whenever he took a blow to the head.

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* [[WWE]] wrestler Perry Saturn, via a series of blows to the head, went from a hard-nosed brawler/submission expert to a [[The Ditz|ditz]] who was in love with a mop with a crudely drawn face on it.

* [[CHIKARA]] wrestler Tim Donst received a double underhook piledriver from UltraMantis Black, leader of the NeoSolar Temple - then woke up, and was convinced by UltraMantis that he had been a member of the Temple all along. {{spoiler|Tim was faking it, after the initial few days after the bump on the head.}}

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Happens to anyone who enters the [[Ravenloft]] domain of Darkon and stays there longer than a month or so. Someone "claimed by Darkon" remains essentially the same person, but forgets having ever lived anywhere else, believing that they are native-born Darkonians.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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* [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]] has a rather interesting case of this. {{spoiler|At the end of ep 8 it is revealed that Battler actually survived the Rokkenjima incident but lost his memory. He was then found by Ikuko Hachijo with whom he stayed with and adopted the name Toya Hachijo. He slowly regained his memory but interestingly even when his memory was fully back he still couldn't think about himself as Battler and so kept his new name.}}

* ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' has a cruel variant of this with [[Troubled but Cute|Fenris]], a bitter fugitive slave who hates the former master who used him as a bodyguard and personal warrior. His earliest memory is of the horribly painful ritual that gave him the ability to phase through objects and erased his previous memories. {{spoiler|As it turns out, he was raised in slavery as Leto...and he asked for and ''fought'' for the "privilege" of having this done to him. He is utterly horrified to find out that he essentially destroyed his OWN identity, willingly.}}

== [[Web Animation]] ==

* In the unfinished ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon "Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True", Homestar believes himself to be a minstrel in medieval times after taking a blow to the head.

* After the Alpha AI from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Reconstruction'' severed its memories of torture from itself, it completely forgot what it was. Using the few memories it retained, it adopted the [[Living Memory|identity of a younger version]] of its [[Brain Uploading|creator]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Leonard Church}}.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

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* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': At one point, Zimmy forgets who she is and takes on the identity of someone else she knows. (And for extra [[Mind Screw]], the comic portrays this from Zimmy's perspective, so when Gamma tries to help Zimmy remember who she is, the audience is more likely to interpret it as someone else being brainwashed into believing they're Zimmy.) Gamma's response implies that [[Blessed with Suck|this is not a rare occurrence]] for a [[Reality Warper]] for [[Power Incontinence]].

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', Lil Evil drinks from the Lethe. Reaction? [https://web.archive.org/web/20111020215313/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4035 Agh! Who's that weirdo in the river?]

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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* ''[[Generator Rex]]'': {{spoiler|Rex himself. Not much is known about the circumstances surrounding his amnesia, but one thing we ''do'' know is that his personality has changed between blackouts. For example, when he led a small gang of EVOs in Hong Kong, he was a backstabbing traitor, a far cry from the hero he currently is. It is unknown right now whether the Rex we see in the present is at all like the Rex from before his blackouts.}}

* An episode of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' had Scratch losing his memory and thinking he was TV superhero Edgar Eagle.

== [[Real Life]] ==

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