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{{quote|''Hang on a minute, girls. You have a busy day ahead of you. You need to keep track of your time and your things.''|'''Mrs. Mouseling''', ''[[Angelina Ballerina]]: The Next Steps''}}

 

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* ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' - after a hijacked plane trip, the students of Cromartie wonder what they could have forgotten. They deduce that their money from the trip hasn't come back yet, but completely forget about Takenouchi; an impostor fills his place in the school while he is gone. When the impostor is asked if he has any idea of what's missing, he claims that everything's fine.

* The ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movie ''Fusion Reborn'' ends with an annoyed Shenlong asking if anyone was going to make a wish. He was summoned near the beginning of the film, but when it wasn't within his power to fix things, he was forgotten about.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Kizaru teams up with a Pacifista to fight Urouge, X Drake and Hawkins. After the Pacifista hurts Urouge, X Drake attacks it. It is a gripping fight between these two, [[Cool Versus Awesome|a T-Rex vs a Robot!]] After they both let out their brutal attacks, neither side seems to be winning. Oh yeah, did you forget that KIZARU is still here? Urouge lets out an 'Oh Crap' face before getting sent flying into three buildings.

* In the ''[[Tenchi Universe]]'' episode, "No Need for Runaways!", after the gang got back Kiyone's stolen spaceship and successfully escaped from the Galaxy Police, Tenchi realized that they forgot to pick up Ayeka and Sasami, who were left at the diner, [[Work Off the Debt|washing dishes to pay for their dinner]].

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

== [[Literature]] ==

* Happens in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', to a trio of actors in witch costumes who were mistaken for Granny, Nanny, and Magrat and thrown in the dungeons.

* Subverted in the [[Dale Brown]] novel ''Act of War''. When making their escape from Brazil, the team notices that Manuel Pereira has disappeared, but ultimately his fate is not resolved.

* At the beginning of the [[Robert A. Heinlein]] novel ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'', the main characters discover that their abstract mathematical research actually holds the key to traveling between different universes - and there are some strange creatures masquerading as humans (which the characters decide to call Beasts) that are out to kill them because of it. So, to protect themselves, they use that research and start traveling to parallel universes, at which point the Beasts that seemed to have been driving the plot are never mentioned again. Until the epilogue, in which all the main characters from lots of different Heinlein novels have all met up for a party and a Beast appears for no apparent reason, and someone remarks, "Quick - get his Number!"

* Near the end of ''[[Prince Caspian]]'', Edmund says "I've left my new torch in Narnia!" It doesn't become a plot element in a later book, though it ''could'' have.

 

* Used in the first season finale of ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Since this is Babylon 5's first [[Wham! Episode]], it's not a signal that the good ending isn't as good as it seems, it's a signal that the bad ending is about to get worse.

* A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch where a white, ghetto-speaking pizzeria waiter named Mark Payne (played by feature player Bobby Moynihan) has a part where just as a couple leave their table, Mark realizes that he left his kid on a bus and runs out (but not before yelling at the couple who just left about not leaving a tip). It doesn't help that [[What Happened to the Mouse?|the next time Mark appears, the kid was never mentioned]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* "Have you forgotten something" was a phrase used in the ending of ''[[Wizardry]] IV'', to indicate that the ending you got really wasn't the best ending. If you got the real ending it said it followed by "You laugh, for you know that you have not."

* In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', Banjo, Kazooie, Mumbo and Bottles are enjoying a BBQ having escaped from Gruntilda's lair and rescued Tooty. Then Tooty turns up and points out that they didn't actually defeat Gruntilda, who is still at large, and Banjo has to sprint back to the top of the lair for the [[Final Boss]] fight.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0072.html this strip] of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Elan mutters this as they all leave Durkon behind paralyzed on the ground.

* The last panel of [http://www.thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2005-01-12 this edition] of ''[[The Wotch]]'', with the owner of a local magical bookstore who was wounded [http://www.thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2004-09-06 in a previous strip] and [http://www.thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2004-09-10 left behind].

* In ''[[Rhapsodies]]'' this happens to Kevin [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=313 once] or [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=742 twice].

* One arc of ''[[Nodwick]]'' has the title character captured by an evil priest hoping to use him as a sacrifice. After thwarting the villain, the party forgets to release Nodwick, who mentions that he'll probably need to find a way to break the top off the altar he's shackled to and roll the coin-shaped top back home.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Used in an episode of ''[[Tale Spin]]'' - they forgot Wildcat at a mansion at the end of an episode.

* Used in an episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' - they forgot to free a bunch of supporting characters from a dungeon.

* In an episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', Grim sends Billy and Irwin to a [[Dungeon Crawling]] game world, and then he and Mandy have to go in to retrieve them. After much adventuring, Billy, Mandy and Grim finally return home safe and sound, but Grim can't shake the feeling that they're forgetting something. Cue a final shot of Irwin, still [[Literal Cliff Hanger|hanging precariously onto a branch]] where Billy had left him several scenes before and complaining that he's starting to get hungry.

* In an episode of ''[[Back at the Barnyard]]'', the dog is left in the cage of a dog catcher.

* Twice on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' in the same episode: Lucius gets [[Buried Alive]], who then calls [[The Dragon|Molotov]] to arrest the ones responsible. He does so and leaves...without digging his boss up.

* A ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode had Garfield trap the mailman by using a snare trap. Just when Jon and Garfield are going somewhere, Garfield [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it by stating that he forgot something. Cue the mailman still hanging in the snare. In the end of the episode, Garfield is then openly upset that the mail has not come yet and demands to know why it's taking forever, having completely forgotten about the mailman still in the snare trap.

* Used in ''[[Angelina Ballerina]]: The Next Steps'' episode, "Angelina's Lost Ice Skates where Angelina and her best friend, Alice, are excited of going to the ice skating show that they become absent-minded of their things. First, when they left the former's house, they almost forgot their lunches and ice skates if it wasn't for Polly and Mrs. Mouseling retrieving it at the time they left. Next, they left the park without their lunches, resulting in the birds gobbling it with their mouths full. They almost forgot their skates again if it wasn't for the two getting it. When they left Mrs. Thimble's shop for smoothies, Angelina ended up forgetting her ice skates there. Luckily, she gets it, but when she comes back in the rink, she missed her opening solo. Nevertheless, she could still perform with Alice.

* At the end of [[The Rescuers (Disney film)|''The Rescuers Down Under'']], Cody, Jake, and Marahute fly both Bernard and Miss Bianca back to the United States, but leave Wilbur Albatross behind. The last thing we hear before the film finally ends is Wilbur realizing that he was left behind and starts wondering where everyone went.

* [[Harmless Villain|Abis]] [[Punny Name|Mal]] at the end of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|''Aladdin: The Return of Jafar'']].

* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Stewie beats up his babysitter's boyfriend and looks him in the trunk of a car so he can make a move on her himself. After failing to win her over, we see him sitting on the couch with Meg during the credits:

{{quote|'''Stewie''': I guess neither of us is really cut out for love, and we should OHMYGOD Jeremy's still in the trunk! Oh god, how long has it been? Let's see, two... two weeks. Yeah, he's dead. Definitely dead.}}

 

== [[Real Life]] ==