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They've been doing the [[Will They or Won't They?]] dance for a while, or maybe they've always been [[Star -Crossed Lovers]]. Now finally they've actually [[Relationship Upgrade|gotten together]]. What does this mean? It means that something's about to happen so that for one--and only one--of them, their relationship never happened. Usually that "something" will either be a form of [[Easy Amnesia]], a suspiciously convenient [[Cosmic Retcon]] combined with [[Ripple Effect Proof Memory]], or some brand of [[Literal Split Personality]].
 
This can be a useful if [[Wangst]]-ridden way of ensuring that [[Status Quo Is God]] while still [[Ship Tease|throwing a bone to fans who want to see their favorite couple together]]. A relationship that ''neither'' party remembers might also fulfill those conditions, but is also much more likely to be subjected to [[Fridge Logic|nagging doubts]] of the "[[Law of Conservation of Detail|Why does it matter that this happened at all?]]" variety.
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Compare [[That Didn't Happen]], where the characters are only pretending by mutual agreement that they weren't involved. Not to be confused with [[Relationship Reboot]].
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
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* ''[[Ga Rei]]'' gives [[Easy Amnesia]] to Kagura after Kensuke rescues her from the [[Eldritch Abomination|Kyubi]].
* The first season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' ends with everyone losing their memories of everything relating to the Moon Kingdom and their time as heroes, including Darian forgetting his relationship with Serena. Serena remembers everything before anyone else in the next season, leading to her having restart their relationship from scratch.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]: The Dark Signer arc placed quite a bit of focus on the development of the relationship between [[The Rival|Jack]] [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Atlas]] and [[Intrepid Reporter|Carly]] [[Cute Clumsy Girl|Nagisa]], going as far as {{spoiler|mutual [[Love Confession|Love Confessions]] and ''attempted'' [[Together in Death]] when Carly dies and [[Back From the Dead|becomes]] a [[Love Makes You Evil|Dark]] [[Brainwashed and Crazy|Signer]] and Jack is [[Kill the Ones You Love|forced to kill her.]] At the end of the season, however, a [[Deus Ex Machina]] [[Death Is Cheap|brings Carly back to life]], [[Laser -Guided Amnesia|stripping her of her memories]] of her time as a Dark Signer in the process.}} Their relationship is never developed or brought up again in the later arcs--Carly is reduced to [[Comic Relief]] on the same level of significance as the other [[Fan Girl|Fan Girls]] in Jack's newly-acquired harem, and Jack essentially ignores her for the rest of the series, as if he forgot the whole thing, too. No wonder the shippers are mad.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Fifty First Dates]]'': [[Laser -Guided Amnesia|Every]] [[Overly Long Gag|single]] [[Dude, Not Funny|day]] [[It Got Worse|for]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|the]] [[Tear Jerker|rest]] [[Babies Ever After|of]] [[Bittersweet Ending|their]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|lives.]]
* The French film ''[[A Very Long Engagement]]'' is about a woman who tries to find out what happened to her fiancé after he is seemingly killed in World War I. At the end she discovers that he has amnesia and doesn't know who she is but it is implied that she will stay with him because he is still the same person sans memory and she still loves him.
* ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]'': The time-resetting hero knows that no matter what he does, his girlfriend will always be miserable if she's with him, so he goes back to his childhood and scares her off. Years later, he crosses her in the street, but of course she has no idea who he is.
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