My Art, My Memory: Difference between revisions

m
Mass update links
m (Mass update links)
 
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
Line 1:
{{trope}}
A Character has [[Memory Tropes|Amnesia]] of some sort but is also good at drawing. Unknowingly they start incorporating things from their past into their works of art.
{{examples|Examples:}}
 
== [[Anime]] ==
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi Forever]]'', Tenchi is being held in an alternate reality with an altered memory so that he doesn't remember any of other main characters. However, he unknowingly paints Ryoko twice.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Tangled]]'' has a pretty good example of this, but major spoilers: {{spoiler|After visiting the kingdom, she realizes that she has subconsciously incorporated their distinctive sun motif into all of her paintings, because it was on the mobile above her bed. The connection causes her to remember that she is the missing princess.}}
* ''[[Fifty50 First Dates]]'' has the female lead unable to create any new memories, each time she falls asleep she'll forget everything that's happened during the day. However after Adam Sandler has gone off convinced there is no future for them, we find out that she's been drawing his face, over and over again.
* ''[[Dead Again]]'' - The recurring theme of scissors in Grace's art is a clue to a murder that happened [[Reincarnation|before she was born]].
* Related: In ''[[Waterworld]]'' Enola, a girl with a fabled map to dry land tattooed on her back, draws exotic things like trees and horses...which of course nobody has seen in a few hundred years.
Line 19:
* One of the episodes of ''[[John Doe]]'' had a "psychic" drawing pictures that lead the police to rape/murder victims. Turns out she was a survivor, and was just remembering her own attack.
** The protagonist later {{spoiler|becomes truly psychic through art}} in the last episodes.
* Another variation: On one ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode [[Angel (TV)|Amy]] [[Dollhouse|Acker]] guest starred and her traumatized son barely speaks about the [[Monster of the Week]] he's seen, but draws clues to it.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
Line 25:
 
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'': Fei Fong Wong paints {{spoiler|Sophia, the lover of his [[Reincarnation|previous incarnation]] Lacan}}. He wonders how the unknown woman he paints is so familiar to him.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
Line 33:
[[Category:Pages Needing Wicks]]
[[Category:Memory Tropes]]
[[Category:My Art, My Memory]]