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{{trope}}
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Characters often recall things when it would be just too late to actually use that information.
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'''Remember that this is forgetting something, not being given information one didn't know before.'''
A [[Sub
A [[Super
Compare [[Spanner in
Contrast [[Just in Time]], [[Photographic Memory]].
{{Forgetfulness Tropes}}
{{examples|Examples }}▼
* According to the first ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (
== Comic Books ==
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Under the Dome]]'' by [[Stephen King]]: As police chief Randolph and a detachment of officers are heading towards a meth lab in order to assault it and take the valuable propane stored there, Randolph realizes that they had forgot to grab body armor (i.e. bullet proof vests) before driving to the lab. He doesn't worry too much about it, since he figures the assault will be easy; he assumes the two men there will be too stoned out of their minds to fight back. How wrong he turns out to be.
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (
* Early in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (
▲== Manga and Anime ==
▲* According to the first ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Compilation Movie]], this is the [[Tragic Flaw]] of the [[Big Bad]] [[Evil Matriarch]] Precia Testarossa (this bit of her characterization differs from the original anime). {{spoiler|As she plummets to her death, she suddenly remembers that her beloved late daughter Alicia wished for a little sister--in other words, she wished for Fate, whom Presea treated like crap and rejected earlier.}} She then muses to herself on how she never notices things until it is too late.
== Theatre ==
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[
** Which leads to some [[Fridge Logic]] about why he ''kept walking out of the valley
* In ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[
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[[Category:Memory Tropes]]
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