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".

** One particularly [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious]] doujin had Shirou and Rin switch bodies. Rin completely believed she was Shirou Emiya because {{spoiler|Saber [[Tap on the Head|whacked her/Shirou's body on the head]] with a kendo stick to wake her/him up}}.

* Elie, one of the main characters in ''[[Rave Master]]'' is actually {{spoiler|[[Dark Magical Girl]] Resha Valentine, who faked her death and put herself into a deep magic induced sleep to defeat an enemy predicted to appear 50 years in the future}}. Not that she remembers this thanks to either {{spoiler|possibly erasing her own memories as a side effect of her deep sleep}} or Sieg Hart blowing up the building she was in. When she's introduced she tells Haru that she's actually looking for someone who knows her.

* ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]'''s Tooya is the victim of this trope. {{spoiler|A plot point, as he is later revealed to be the [[MacGuffin Girl|personification of the highly-coveted hagoromo]].}}

* Averted in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Although {{spoiler|Asuna Kagurazaka}} is shown to have a drastic shift in personality between her self-induced amnesia at the conclusion of the backstory and the kicking off of the plot (she went from [[Emotionless Girl]] to a [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Tsundere]]), it is shown to have happened over the course of several years, implied to be the consequence of frequent interactions with a [[Rich Bitch]] [[Ojou]].

* In [[The Addams Family]] film, {{spoiler|"Gordon", the son of the film's [[Big Bad]], who was posing as Fester, is revealed to actually be an amnesiac Fester}}.

* The whole plot of ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Identity]]'' revolves around Jason Bourne who lost all memory of his previous life (although he has some flashbacks).

** And in the ''2006'' film ''Unknown'', the entire cast awaken in a warehouse with no memory after they were exposed to a toxic gas. Figuring out who's who becomes a pressing matter when they discover that A) they're all locked inside, B) some of them are kidnappers who'd abducted the others, and C) the kidnappers' armed and ruthless accomplices will be arriving in a few hours.

* 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.

* In the [[Donald Duck]] cartoon ''Donald's Dilemma'' (1947), Donald is hit on the head by a flowerpot knocked off a high windowsill and instantly becomes a [[The Fifties|50's-era]] crooner, and goes on to become famous. But he forgets about and ignores poor Daisy, who eventually goes to a psychologist and explains the whole thing in flashback. He tells her to choose between the two Donalds, and she chooses to drop another flowerpot - complete with the flower from the original blow - on his head while he's onstage singing to cure him.

* Related to the above: An episode of ''[[DuckTales]]'' involved Uncle Scrooge coming down with Identity Amnesia after tripping over a skateboard and believing himself to be an unemployed blue-collar worker (even going so far as to lose his [[Just a Stupid Accent|accent]]); he goes on to get a low-paying job at his own factory and begins a crusade to improve working conditions.

* A ''Pith Possum'' segment of ''[[The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show]]'' was based around this.

* ''[[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.}}