Amnesiac Hero: Difference between revisions

Amnesiac Heroes are common in [[RPG|RPGs]] and horror games, and are always the heroes in [[Ontological Mystery|Ontological Mysteries]] and [[Quest for Identity]]. Even if those plots aren't being used, it's a easy way to get the player up to speed, as they're just being introduced to the setting, while the character lives there and [[As You Know|should otherwise know about it already]].

 

 

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* [[Little Miss Badass|Alice]] from ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' fits this to a "T". She's the most powerful [[Our Monsters Are Different|chain]] in the [[Eldritch Location|Abyss]] who knows only her name, and she inevitably goes on a quest to find her lost memories ({{spoiler|though she soon discovers that [[Repressed Memories|she may have forgotten them]] for a [[Dark and Troubled Past|good reason]]}}).

* Mikage from the manga ''Torikago Gakyuu'' is this as well, although he doesn't even remember his name. {{spoiler|He's given only the surname "Mikage" by a teacher who promptly reveals to him that he is from a parallel world.}}

 

 

 

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* Slayn Wilder, the protagonist of ''[[Growlanser]]: Dual Darkness'' begins the game with amnesia.

* In ''[[Neko Kawaigari]]'', the player is a dog-man named Jack who, you guessed it, has amnesia. He's rescued by the head of a clinic for [[Catgirl|catgirls]]. In order to repay her, he becomes an odd-job man at the clinic, helping with the patients.

* This has almost become a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Rune Factory]]'' games, with one character in ''[[Rune Factory 3]]'' saying that "[[Lampshade Hanging|amnesiacs are a dime a dozen around these parts.]]" The only protagonists so far ''not'' to be amnesiacs are [[Rune Factory Oceans|Aden and Sonja]], perhaps because [[Sharing a Body]] would be too awkward for two people who hadn't [[Childhood Friends|known each other for quite some time]].

* Raz from ''[[Overblood]]''.

 

 

== Web Comics ==

* Trace of ''[[Two Kinds]]'' is this. We've been told some choice details of his past, and his current goals are so drastically different from his old ones that the world may be better off if he stays this way.