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* Alluding to this trope, when the [[Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Paranoia]] Fifth Edition'' was thrown to [[Canon Discontinuity]], it was officially declared an un-product.
** In the second edition's post-MegaWhoops period, there were still information terminals hooked up to The Computer's old personnel database, but due to data corruption, a few clones weren't recognized (the terminals would glitch and cough up random unrelated data instead, both a blessing and a curse).
* This happens from time to time with people the Inquisition of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' sweeps under the rug, depending on how dangerous they were and how much harm could come of other people learning of them. It's called "Edict of Obliteration", and is also known as "Damnation Memoriae". Sometimes it happens informally which is referred to as "de facto damnation memoriae". It doesn't always work, however. In some stories, a certain Warmaster is routinely referenced as a bogeyman ("Horus take the hindmost") while in others, his name and very existence are forbidden lore. This may be either because [[Doylist|GW has relatively low standards on]] [[Canon]] [[Watsonian|or because the Imperium of Mankind is a pretty large place with information often being non-digitalized, but written down and stored in huge datacrypts]]. Finding and eliminating every trace of a man that has affected multiple planets with a few trillion inhabitants isn't exactly easy. Also sometimes "Edict of Obliteration" is used for political reasons against high ranking government officials, in fact that it is why it is usually used.
** GW's actions regarding the Squats are eerily similar to this trope. The official stance is that the Squats ''never existed'' and to reinforce this the publishers have removed all mentions of the Squats from publications and even ceased distributing any works where the Squats played a significant role.
*** While it was still active, the mentioning of Squats on the GW forums would get your account banned and the thread shut down and subsequently deleted. Asking questions about Squats at GW-sanctioned events would have security remove you from the event. GW really, really did not like the Squats.
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** Let's not forget the card Door to Nothingness; "All memory of your existence will be wiped from reality. You will die, and no one will mourn."
* In the [[Points of Light]] D&D setting, [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Asmodeus]] erased the name of the god that he rebelled against from history. Very few people know the god existed, those who do know him only as He Who Was. This is because Asmodeus feared what would happen if [[Speak of the Devil|someone said the slain god's name even once]].
== Video Games ==
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