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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-Guided Amnesia|conveniently specific]]. A taste of [[Applied Phlebotinum]], a particularly shocking [[Trauma
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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* Senri from ''[[Plus Anima (Manga)|Plus Anima]]'' {{spoiler|gets this. TWICE. Once while he was young and went berserk}},({{spoiler|This prompted Crystala to give him his pressed flower book to remember people}}.) {{spoiler|the other time he goes berserk with Husky, Nana, and Cooro there. He can't remember them and tries to attack. He is eventually stopped when Cooro slaps his [[Eyepatch of Power]] on}}.
* ''[[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
* Maze suffers from this at the start of ''[[Maze Megaburst Space]]'', the only thing about her identity she remembers is the name Maze.
* In the ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' movie ending, it is widely believed that when Eureka offered up her memories to Image, she lost all her memories and even basic fundamental knowledge like language (she became unable to speak any language, only making noises). Thus for her case, it is 100% memory wipe, and poor Renton has to live with this fact.
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* This was used in a skit on ''[[In Living Color]],'' with one of the [[Camp Gay]] "Men on Film" taking a blow to the head, and becoming outrageously heterosexual.
* In one episode of ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'', alien [[Space Pirate]] Divatox got hit on the head, and completely forgot that she wasn't from Earth, as well as forgetting all of her criminal tendencies.
* In the ''[[
** Also happens in "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", where some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] causes the Doctor to forget that he is a Time Lord and for his DNA to be rewritten as human so as to hide from The Family.
** The Doctor himself is prone to this as a side effect of regeneration, and will often spend large amounts of the post-regeneration story wandering around not knowing who he is. Particularly guilty of this are the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 8th Doctors.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: [
** Much like many dramatic real-life events, this one was considerably exaggerated over the years, in part because Phineas was able to make good money as a side-show attraction so long as his personality appeared altered.
** Even if Gage experienced a real shift in personality, it's a questionable example of this trope. He might have simply gotten irritable and started drinking heavily in response to chronic pain from the accident, not any sort of "amnesia".
*** Phineas was described by his (past) friends as being "no longer Gage" and it is pretty much universally recognised that his identity changed due to the large amount of brain damage he suffered, the same areas have been shown to directly affect personality. Also the pain he may have felt would actually be less severe than you might think due to the brain not being able to feel pain.
*** 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]]: [
** And had nothing whatsoever to do with a [[Timey-Wimey Ball]], giant shapeshifting wasps or, y'know, ''[[Doctor Who
*** Of 'course' not. None of them knew what really happened, remember? 'Sides, it would have caused widespread panic.
* [
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