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Characters often recall things when it would be just too late to actually use that information.
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Contrast [[Just in Time]], [[Photographic Memory]].
{{Forgetfulness Tropes}}
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* 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. ▼
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* 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 (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'' Miracle Max has promised that the miracle pill he made for Westley will last for a full hour. Its only after our heroes have left that he realizes that he messed up the proportions of ingredients and if it lasts for forty minutes it'll be a miracle. This is what causes Westley to collapse during the confrontation with Humperdinck. This was altered in the movie because to the grandfather would have to give timestamps.
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▲== 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.
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* In ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', Pseudolus is trying to read a recipe for a potion, and then remembers that he can't read. Fortunately Hero is right there to do it.
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* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' Roy asked an oracle a question, and then [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0332.html realizes his question was poorly worded based on extraneous interactions with the Oracle], and worse, he immediately forgets even that the question was poorly worded, due to a memory spell in the oracle's home which erases all memories about the visit except one's question and the answer (including knowledge about the memory spell).
** Which leads to some [[Fridge Logic]] about why he ''kept walking out of the valley
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Annie's order for Reynardine to shut up is treated as [[Something We Forgot]], but it also stopped Rey from telling her about the possessed Robot.
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