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** For a show whose protagonist has a [[Secret Identity]] and which involves a [[Masquerade]], ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' uses this trope admirably rarely. This may be because maintaining the pretense of normalcy through shaky excuses and the [[Weirdness Censor|willful delusion of Sunnydale residents]] is funnier.
** Used for serious effect in Season 6 when Willow attempts this on Tara to make her forget Willow's growing addiction to magic. Tara eventually realizes what happened and leaves Willow.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' examples:
** ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'': Divatox gets amnesia and starts acting like an ordinary, if uncouth, human—and she isn't even human, nor has she ever lived like one. Her amnesia was the side-effect of a ''laser'' beam.
** ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' has Dillon, whose memory was wiped as one of the [[Big Bad]]'s unwilling test subjects prior to the series.
** ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'': Cole gets amnesia in one episode. He forgets who he is and that he's a Ranger but nothing else.
** ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': In one episode, Lord Zedd turned a caleidoscope into a monster with memory-erasing powers to make the Rangers forget who they are and how to use their powers. They were saved by Bulk and Skull, who tricked the monster into making the monster hit two prisms with his memory-erasing beam, (by passing a prism, it becomes a memory-restoring beam) and restoring the Rangers' memories. The monster made Bulk and Skull forget their recently-acquired knowledge of the Rangers' identities.
** ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]''; at the end of the crossover episode where [[Time Travel]] leads to a team-up with the [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|Dino Rangers]], Cruger has to use a device on the latter team to erase their memories of the event, to prevent any time-related inconsistencies. The SPD Rangers are upset about this, saying it isn't fair that their allies aren't allowed to remember what happened; Cruger agrees with this, and then uses the device on them. Finally, once he is certain their craft is programmed for the return trip, he uses it on himself.
* In the [[Super Sentai]] series ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'', a [[Monster of the Week]] puts a spell on [[The Chick]], causing her to forget not only the plot she'd stumbled upon, but ''everything'' to happen since she became a Ranger. Every hour, all new memories are erased, too. Thanks to the broad amnesia, nobody suspects that the intent was to erase ''one specific memory''. Still this trope, since the cutoff point for her memories seems pretty precise.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': Vala loses her memory when a memory-enhancing device malfunctions. Despite the fact that it's mentioned pretty directly at the beginning of the episode that she has very little experience with "normal" Earth-bound human life, her memory loss isn't so severe that she "forgets" how to pass for an earth-born human, or that she ought to have a hard time believing the actual circumstances of her life.
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