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* Linda Park, the wife of the third [[Flash]], was Ret-Goned by a supervillain at her ''wedding'', just before vows were exchanged. The groom found himself at home, confused and vaguely aware that something was missing, but unable to figure out what it was. Eventually (a year and a half later) she was restored to her proper place and the ceremony resumed.
** Although Bart Allen (Impulse) could still see and remember her. Of course, his grasp on reality is a [[Cloudcuckoolander|little]] [[Crazy Awesome|off]].
* In the ''[[She Hulk]]'' story "Time of Her Life", the [[Time Police| Time Variance Authority's]] method of execution is the Retroactive Cannon, AKA the RetCan, which does this to anyone shot with it. Including, in that very story, Knight Man and Dr. Rocket. [[Appeal to Obscurity|Who, you ask? Well, isn't that the point...]] Oddly, this method has a safety catch applied in order to prevent ''most'' [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right|temporal paradox scenario]], as it alters history to replace the victim with someone else - if it ''can''. The testimony at Jenn's trial was ''not'' to argue that the sentence was unwarranted or undeserved, but to prove that her role in history was irreplaceable.
* In a ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' storyline, the New Mutants (a group of teenage mutants being trained as the next generation of X-Men) were RetGoned by a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] called the Beyonder. The only one to remember their existence was Kitty Pryde, who had a magical connection to one of the New Mutants that [[God Mode Sue|even the Beyonder's godlike powers couldn't erase]].
* ''[[X-Men| X-Men: Legacy]]'' introduced a character named "Forget-Me-Not", a member of the X-Men whose mutant power made everyone forget he existed the second he moved out of their vision. That's right, this guy is ''a member of the core team'' of mainstream Marvel, and has been so since M-Day at least; his heroic actions include fighting the Brood, acting as a soldier during the Age of X, and saving the other members from death, enslavement, and many other horrid fates ''dozens'' of times, but due to his powers, nobody ever remembers him, and his contributions remain uncredited and ignored. To be frank, he was used tongue-in-cheek to [[Author's Saving Throw| explain why certain bad guys tend to have something happen to their super awesome weapons at the last moment]] and things like that. (Why did the team luck out and escape that death trap that seemed flawless? Forget-Me-Not sabotaged it. How could they have survived those rigged explosions that were strong enough to vaporize the island? Forget-Me-Not disarmed it. He seems to be the catch-all way to describe any confusing [[Deus Ex Machina]] in the Mutant Books.) The only one who remembered him was Xavier, who put in an "alarm clock" telepathically to remind him of his existence and the guy took it hard when Xavier died during ''[[Avengers vs. X-Men]]''
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