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* Played with in ''[[To Heart 2]]'' Takaaki an Iron Claw so severe that he gets amnesia, cue every girl within earshot hearing about it and trying to convince the Lucky Bastard that they were lovers.
* ''[[Berserk]]'''s Casca has a severe, [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia|trauma-induced]] case of this as a result of the horrible events of the Eclipse which drove her insane and [[Dumb Struck|rendered her mute]]. One can hardly blame [[Heartbroken Badass|Guts]] for being madder than hell at {{spoiler|Griffith}} for driving her into this state, but {{spoiler|leaving her to deal with her trauma alone for two years to pursue vengeance against him}} did not help matters for her at all.
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', {{spoiler|Neo Roanoke}} ends up in this position once he's taken prisoner by the crew of the ''Archangel'', who confirm that he's actually Captain Murrue Ramius's presumed-dead lover Mu La Flaga - at least in body. [[Amnesiac Dissonance]] sets in immediately, to the point that when Murrue tries to set him free, he comes back of his own accord to help the ''Archangel'' in battle, even though he doesn't recover his memories until the finale.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Back in the olden days (like the '70s) on ''[[As the World Turns]]'', heroine Kim lost her memory, including those of her love Dan. Scheming Susan worked this to advantage, even going as far as to attempt erasure of Kim's answering machine message proclaiming that she did ''indeed'' remember Dan and their love. Susan failed and Kim and Dan were reunited.
* The plot of an episode of ''[[Doc]]'', made more complicated by the fact that the fiancée ''did'' remember him, just as her ''boss'', not her lover.
* Happens towards the end of ''[[Dollhouse]]'' to {{spoiler|Paul}} specifically. Victor and Sierra, being Dolls, have their memories wiped constantly and yet still gravitate towards each other regardless of imprint.
* Occurs in an episode of ''[[Castle]]''. The man suffering from the amnesia never really gets his memories back, but since he can't remember why he and his wife divorced, they are able to get back together.
* In an episode of ''[[Medium]]'', Ariel flashes forwards to being married with a child and not remembering anything beyond high school. This is what it looks like to her husband. Then she flashes forwards ''again'' and he tells her that she ''never'' recovered her memories the last time. [[Fridge Horror|Yikes]].
* An episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' featured a patient who turned up in the ER with no memory of who she was. The team pieces enough together to figure out who she is and upon showing up at her home to do their usual search (with the patient in-tow IIRC), they find out she is married. Her husband spends the rest of the episode trying to help her remember their life together, only alienating her in the process (she also had forgotten the traumatic death of her brother which catalyzed her to make many changes in her life years earlier, and she is shocked to learn many details of her life contradict her naturally reckless attitude). At the end of the episode she still lacks her memories, but the husband shows up with flowers and simply begins courting her again (per House's off-screen suggestion) and she seems very receptive.
* Darkly darkly subverted in a ''[[One Life to Live]]'' storyline. Todd rescues an amnesiac Marty from a car wreck and nurses her back to health. He convinces her that they were friends in college and that he was secretly in love with her from afar. She [[Rescue Romance|falls in love]] with him based on this "friendship" and seduces him while in his care. It's only afterwards she learns that not only did he neglect to tell her that she had a son who was convinced she was dead, but that when they were in college together, he was the ringleader of her [[Complete Monster|gang rape]].
* Used in ''Chinese Paladin 3'' between Changqing and Zixuan, due to two previously failed [[Reincarnation Romance|Reincarnation Romances]]. In this case, it's the "I don't know why this person is bugging me (but I kind of like it)" version. Changqing eventually regains his memories, but doesn't stay with her. {{spoiler|Initially.}}
* Occurred in an episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' that parodied daytime soaps. Sabrina's beau Harvey was knocked out and lost his memory. [[Alpha Bitch|Libby]] tried to pretend she and Harvey were in a relationship, but eventually Sabrina got through to him.
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* A non-romantic instance in [[The World Ends With You]]. Rhyme has suffered [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], and fails to remember that her partner Beat {{spoiler|is her older brother}}. However, Rhyme is such a pure, happy little girl that she still remembers what a good person her older brother was, and talks about him and his good deeds endlessly to Beat. {{spoiler|However, Most of that was either lies told by Beat for Rhyme's benefit, or instances from several years ago, back before he grew away from her and began to hate her just as much as the rest of his family.}}
** Wait, what? {{spoiler|Beat died trying to save her, how did he hate her? Not to mention that apparently her memories of him were his most important thing, since they were taken as his entry fee.}}
* {{spoiler|Becoming an Eternal}} in [[Eien no Aselia]] causes everyone to forget that person ever existed. Only similar people will remember the way things were before. Which means that if it happens to you, your lover isn't going to remember. {{spoiler|Except while they don't remember, their emotions will still be there. They'll just be very confused.}}
* ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' makes an extremely unconventional twist of this trope. It turns out that Jennifer {{spoiler|swore everlasting true love with Wendy when they were children, but Wendy went [[Yandere]] when Jennifer got a puppy on the side, eventually leading to the deaths of everybody in the orphanage except Jennifer who lost her memory from the trauma, and the game is set in her muddled memories trying to reclaim what she lost, even though both subjects of her love are long since dead.}}
* In the [[Dating Sim]] ''[[Always Remember Me]]'', Amy's boyfriend Aaron [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia|loses his memory]] of the past few years (including their relationship). [[Break the Cutie|She goes through a lot of stress and a couple of emotional breakdowns]] [[Earn Your Happy Ending|while trying to help him regain his memories]]. That is, if you choose to stay with Aaron instead of pursuing [[Bishounen|other eligible bachelors in town]].
* In ''[[Frozen Essence]]'', the protagonist Mina suffers from [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]] after she's freed from her [[Crystal Prison]] and hence has no memory or clue that {{spoiler|the Oracle who rescued her and the mysterious voice that occasionally comforts or helps her is actually Zareh, her childhood friend who's in love with her and has worked hard for a long time to be able to help her}}. {{spoiler|Zareh}} chooses not to tell Mina about this in most story paths because he believes [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|that she'd be happier not remembering anything about her past and/or being with someone else]], but his own story path has Mina regain her memories and choose to either accept or reject him.
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