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* With enough mods and hacks, you can do this in [[The Sims]] 2. However, if you do it the wrong way, it backfires horribly and ruins your game.

* This ''almost'' happens to Mario/Luigi, Peach, Bowser, and the Lumas at the end of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', thanks to the universe being destroyed (and recreated) by Bowser's black hole.

* A cruel variation happens in ''[[Maple Story]]''. When the Six Heroes fight the Black Mage, one of them (later called Shade) makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to seal the villain away. But he doesn't die; all memories of him are instead purged from Maple World, along with all documented evidence of his existence. To drive the point home, the player is shown photographs of the team in happier times - at a birthday party, graduation ceremony, and other fun events - with Shade's image vanishing from all of them. Even worse, while its possible for memories of him and his actions to be reestablished in the present and thus friendships started, if he travels from one world to another, all residents of the world he left will forget those memories again. And worst of all, the one person not affected by this - who can remember him perfectly - is the Black Mage himself, who taunts him many times about it in his nightmares.

* Naturally as a time travel story, this sort of thing was bound to happen in [[Steins;Gate]]. In the True End route, {{spoiler|Suzuha, her mission complete, ends up with a timeline where Daru theoretically never has her}}, therefore Ret Gone-ing her out of existence. And there's only a ''vague'' inference that ''anyone'' will ''ever'' remember she existed aside from Kyouma. Naturally, her fans [[Fanon Discontinuity|like to state her ending as the best end.]]

* The sequel to ''[[I.M. Meen]]'' called "Chill Manor" has the villain take over history. If you get a game over; the player character [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o9GumafGKg is erased from history. Forever. And she villain even cackles as she erases you.]