Identity Amnesia: Difference between revisions

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'''Dr. Tenma''': For now, but that wasn't your name back when you were brought into my hospital.|''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]''}}

 

* The recent ''Taskmaster'' mini reveals that Tasky suffers from this because of his photographic reflex ability. When he finally does remember who he was(A SHIELD agent named Tony Masters, oddly enough a named he used as an alias in the Agent X days) and thet he has a wife named Mercedes Merced. He loses his memories again when he's forced to copy the abilities of another fighter to save Mercedes' life.

* In an issue of ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'', Impulse takes a pretty severe blow to the head and comes to believing himself to be Batman. Unfortunately for Robin, he's more a Silver than Modern age Batman, and is perplexed that his "old chum" doesn't recognize him. He's quickly cured when...

* 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.

* On ''[[Family Matters]]'', several episodes revolved around Steve Urkel's cool, sophisticated alter-ego, Stefan Urquelle. He was created via [[Applied Phlebotinum]], not accident, but the plot is the same. Eventually, a clone of Urkel was transformed into a permanent Stefan.

* Parodied/subverted in a sketch from ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'', where a rural rube (Dave Foley) is kicked in the head by a cow as he reaches for a penny. He becomes a bit "off" from the experience, so his brothers try to re-create the accident. Unfortunately, the second blow to the head kills him.

* On ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'', a bump on the head made Mary Ann think she was Ginger, meaning Ginger must be Mary Ann. This resulted in Mary Ann shortening all of Ginger's dresses and trying to put on a show.

* In an episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', Rob Petrie was demonstrating a breakaway violin to Buddy and Sally, but accidentally smashed a real violin on his head. Later we discover that he was missing the whole evening, because he was hanging out at some party with a girl under the name "Strativarius".