Faking Amnesia: Difference between revisions

 

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* In the ''[[Alien]]''-esque [[Hentai]] ''[[Alien from the Darkness]]'', the lone survivor of a derelict ship pretends to have amnesia, and is thus unable to tell her rescuers what happened to the rest of her crew-mates. This is all to hide the fact that she is in fact the host to the alien being that killed them all.

* The water fairy Athena Glory in ''[[Aria]]'' does this as a prank to her student, Alice.

* In the second series of ''[[Code Geass]]'', Lelouch adds this to part of his masquerade early on in order to throw off suspicion that he has regained his memories.

* In episode 26 of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', after a fight with some baddies, Hayate ends up with a blow to the head, rendering him unconscious. Ayumu, being there when it happened helped Hayate tend to his wounds. When Hayate woke up, Ayumu then asks whether he likes her or not. Hayate then ends up faking amnesia in order to avoid answering the question. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* In an episode of ''[[Ookami-san]]'', Ryoko suffers from [[Easy Amnesia|actual amnesia]], where she thinks she's thirteen. When she later get's better, she pretends not to remember the entire day due to being embarrassed. [[Deliberately Cute Child|Ringo]] catches her when she remembers eating.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] comic ''[[Agent X]]'', The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[Deadpool|Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. {{spoiler|This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real.}}

 

== Film ==

* ''[[While You Were Sleeping]]'' plays with this: Peter Gallagher's character, upon waking up from a coma, doesn't remember his fiancée (because they really aren't engaged, his family just thinks they are), so his family assumes that he's amnesiac. He figures out there's been some sort of mix-up, but he continues playing along with the amnesia story to avoid upsetting the family too much.

 

== Literature ==

* Bobby Pendragon, from [[The Pendragon Adventure]], feigns amnesia to get the Tribunal of Rayne to trust him. {{spoiler|He fails to trick them. It's later revealed that they played along for completely different reasons.}}

 

* Xander pulls this in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "The Pack", after being possessed by the spirit of a hyena. After Buffy and Willow save him, he tells them that he can't remember a thing and hopes he didn't do anything "too embarrassing". Giles, however, sees right through it.

{{quote|'''Giles''': "I've been reading up on my animal possession and I cannot find anything anywhere about memory loss afterward."

* Inverted in an episode of ''[[Human Target]]''. A client who has amnesia takes part in a sting to trick the bad guys by pretending not to have amnesia. To do this he has to convince them that he was faking it. It makes sense in context.

* One episode of ''[[The Wild Wild West]]'' had West get [[Easy Amnesia]] for a time. In the end, after his memory's been restored and the bad guys defeated, he fakes a relapse (not even trying to be convincing) and Gordon pretends to believe it, prescribing an evening of relaxation with good food and drink in the company of attractive women—with his friend along, of course, in case he takes a turn for the worse. Seems legit. The alternative is rushing off to the next crisis their boss has ordered them to fix.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Calvin once tried this as an excuse for his terrible grades. His dad wasn't fooled.

 

== Video Games ==

* At the end of ''[[Sly Cooper]] 3'' Sly pretends to have amnesia in order to get close to Carmelita Fox (and avoid arrest). She tells him that he's her partner.

 

* Played for laughs in ''[[Skin Horse]]'': when Animal Control shows up to capture Sweetheart, Unity panics and feigns amnesia. She's apparently done this before.

 

== Western Animation ==

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