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== Anime
* Masane Amaha in ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' plays this straight with #3 (classic trauma induced amnesia), but this is subverted later when she never gets her memories back.
* ''[[Strawberry Panic!|Strawberry Panic]]'': Amane falls from her horse and forgets that she was going to enter the Etoile election, and her relationship with Hikari. She remembers having been ''asked'' to enter, and the rest of the details of her life. (This is surprisingly similar to the post trauma memory loss that is ''actually'' but ''rarely'' incurred by some people.)
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* In an early ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' comic, Betty Ross is kidnapped by baddies and taken to their underground lair. Hulk goes down and rescues her (at the time, the Hulk was intelligent), beats the baddies and proves that he's not evil after all. During the tram back up the mine shaft it's revealed that Betty has forgotten the whole event due to stress. This is while she's still in the same room as the guy who just rescued her.
* Virtually all of [[Wolverine]]'s character and most of his plot arcs are based around his adventuring past which he cannot remember—or [[Fake Memories|remembers wrongly]].
** Post-''House of M'' continuity has finally wiped that away, almost as if Marvel themselves had finally had enough of writers using it to introduce new things. Logan himself stated "I can remember ''everything''. Right back to the day I was born." No more amnesia, yay!
*** Also fairly epic in that during the ''House of M'', this was actually a subversion. The Scarlet Witch was using her powers, {{spoiler|under Quicksilver's direction}}, to give everyone laser-guided amnesia by granting them their fondest wish... for Wolverine that was to get rid of his
* In the 1950s, this was used as the basis for a [[Heel Face Turn]] by Catwoman, in the same story that introduced her now-canonical civilian persona of Selina Kyle.
* The [[Backstory]] of the [[Retcon]] hero Sentry says that he erased the ''entire world's'' memory of his existence.
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* In ''[[Supergirl]]: Cosmic adventures in the 8th grade'' Belinda flicks a "memory erasure pressure point" on Lena Thorul's head, which makes her forget all about {{spoiler|Supergirl's secret identity}}. Supergirl [[Lampshade Hanging|refuses to believe it worked]]. {{spoiler|The actual amnesia was caused by Streaky the Super-Cat's psychic powers.}}
* [[Mandrake the Magician]] has had parts of his memory erased several times, usually by well-meaning, but condescending aliens and time-travellers who thinks it's too dangerous to let him remember all the fantastic things he has seen. The poor guy's had a lot of amazing adventures that he will never know about.
* Not so long ago{{when}} it happened in ''[[Thunderbolts]]'': {{spoiler|When they have to kill Songbird, Headsman, Ghost and Paladin betrayed and defeated Scourge and Mr. X, and left her escape. Then Ghost removes this even from Scourge's and X's short-time memory}}
* When {{spoiler|Maxwell Lord}} was resurrected in ''[[Blackest Night]]'', the first thing he did was to use his [[Psychic Powers]] to mindwipe ''everyone on Earth'' of all of their memories related to him {{spoiler|except for his old Justice League International teammates and the Blue Beetle scarab}}. He went even further to maintain the illusion by implanting [[Fake Memories]] {{spoiler|such as Ted Kord committing suicide and Ice trying to murder Guy}}.
** Which causes still-unexplained plotholes, as several people implied affected expressly would not be given the storyline. While it's unlikely that, for instance, Kilowog would bring Max up in casual conversation, or that an egomaniac like Manga Khan would give Lord a second thought, {{spoiler|Wonder Woman was expressly described as immune to his powers, which is why she was able to kill him in the first place. She's affected like all the rest.}}
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** Holy slayers (assassins) in ''Al-Qadim'' sometimes use a "Blade of Forgetfulness": everyone seeing it swung in a certain pattern suffers a complete memory lapse regarding everything that just happened and is about to happen (up to 3 rounds before and after). Not too hard to guess what sort of events tend to be forgotten this way, is it? Those attacked with such swords are very likely to shake off this effect, but usually this doesn't matter anymore.
** The Shadow that transports people, things and beings too monstrous to fall under the people category from undefined fantasy worlds to Earth in the ''Urban Arcana'' setting for [[D20 Modern]] as a side-effect also strips their memories of any details of those worlds - in effect, they know ''who'' they are, but not where they come from beyond Standard Fantasy Setting.
** In the 5th Edition of the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting, the illithids of Bluetspur will often abduct travelers in their domain to perform horrid mental and surgical experiments. Some die as a result, others are eaten or enslaved, but some are released after their memories of their captivity is purged. (Why? With illithids' [[Blue and Orange Morality]], it is impossible to tell.) Such victims might often discover "Dark Gifts" that they didn't have before (minor powers with a dark theme, like say, darkvision) but occasionally, these memories might slowly return, the victims having nightmares of being held captive in a cell, [[Strapped to An Operating Table]], witnessing the gruesome fate of another prisoner, and so on. Naturally, this is useful as a plot hook for PCs if the campaign has more to do with Bluetspur.
* In ''[[GURPS
* In ''[[Magic: The
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