Identity Amnesia: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Magical Project S]]'', Misao Amano's alter ego Pixy Misa likes to torment the main cast with her magical powers. When Misao reverts to her normal self she doesn't remember any of what she did while transformed.

* Patlabor has one of them with Ota who didn't remember anything after a big party and woke up with an terrible hangover not knowing who he is. Worse, {{spoiler|looking at the mayhem around him and his unconscious team-mate, he believes himself to be a murderer and runs away from every person who could have explained the jokes his friend played on him (in an attempt to make him avoid [[Violence Is the Only Option|unnecessary violence]])}}. Final Spoiler : {{spoiler|as you can expect, after a really deep introspection, he will completely forget any lesson he could have learned during his amnesia when he wakes up at the hospital.}}

** In an anime [[Filler]] episode, Ranma Saotome gets struck with something that's one part this, one part [[Loss of Identity]] after Akane knocks him into the koi pond with a frying pan, causing him to smack his head hard against one of the rocks on the edges. When Ranma regains consciousness, "she" remembers that she is Ranma Saotome and who everyone is... but "her" personality has done a complete 180, turning the gender-bending boy into a parody of an ultra girly girl.

* In episode 16 of ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'', Pacifica gets amnesia after being blasted out of the mobile fortress she was in, and spends most of that episode in town under the assumed name of "Pamela". She spends two more episodes like this, even insisting that her name is "Pamela" when her friends recognize her. She later regains her memory after being captured by Chris and later rescued again by Shannon, at which point she has no memories of her time as "Pamela".

* ''[[Overlord]]'': {{spoiler|The Overlord himself is one of the heroes who defeated the previous Overlord, but lost his memory after taking a nosedive of the nobody-could-survive-that variety. In a subversion on par with the theme of the series, the Overlord makes no efforts to redeem himself or return to his old self after the reveal.}}

* A controlled form of this process is used as an alternative to capital punishment in the world of ''[[Xenosaga]]'', erasing a killer's memories & personality & replacing it with a new one that will hopefully be less murderous. Needless to say, this doesn't always work.

* Sophie in ''[[Tales of Graces]]''. {{spoiler|She loses her memories ''twice'' during the story, and regains them gradually.}}

* [[Knights of the Old Republic]] {{spoiler|This is pretty much the premise of the player character, if intentionally invoked on the part of the Jedi Council.}}