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== Anime & Manga ==
* Dolls in ''[[
* Index Librorum Prohibitorum from ''[[
* {{spoiler|Lain herself}} in ''[[
* The Whispered in ''[[
== Fan Fiction ==
* In the [[
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* ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]''
* ''[[Flight of the Navigator]]'' was about a little boy that had all sorts of star charts from aliens temporarily stored in his brain, and was later picked up for retrieval when the alien robot accidentally lost its own copies.
* Used as the hook to bring Agent K back from being neuralyzed in ''[[Men in Black (
* In ''[[Star Trek III:
* ''[[
* Sebastian Rook does this on himself in ''[[Cypher]]''.
* The entire mission of the ''[[Inception]]'' is to do exactly this, though instead of information, the goal is to implant an idea. As well, Browning suggests that Fischer Sr. may have done this to his son in the first dream layer.
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* In ''[[Man Walks Into A Room]]'', a group of scientists attempt to implant a memory from one person into the protagonist's brain. The memory itself, to the scientists, is only important in that it's a strong, easily distinguished, distinctive memory, not in terms of its content: {{spoiler|a nuclear weapons test occurring too close to a group of soldiers}}.
* Haruki Murakami's ''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' is about a man whose subconscious is used to store classified data in a cyberpunk future.
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has its share of memory transfers, but specifically in ''Return af the Archwizards'' the wizard spy dropped lots of reconnaissance data (for all we know, it could be ''centuries'' worth of examining [[Sealed Evil in
* In ''The Search for Snout'', the third book in [[
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Citizen Of The Galaxy]]'', [[Obi Wan]] Baslim hypnotizes his foster son Thorby into memorizing a coded final report to the [[Space Police]], as well as a message to a ship's captain to help Thorby escape off-planet.
* This is pretty much the entire premise of ''One of Us'' by Michael Marshall Smith. The main character makes his living storing memories that others want to get rid of temporarily -- for instance, a businessman about to screw over his partner hands over a memory of a moral lesson from his father. (Permanently destroying a memory screws up [[The Force]].) Unfortunately for him, someone figures out that this can work as [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] for the giver, and that the [[Big Bad]] only wants to kill anyone who ''remembers'' a particular secret.
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* The whole premise of ''[[Chuck]]'' - the Intersect is an incredibly comprehensive espionage database so important it can't be trusted to a computer ([[Fridge Logic|or, apparently, spread among many computers]]) so it's uploaded to the mind of a master-spy. Unless it should accidentally be uploaded into that master-spy's college roommate...
* ''[[Dark Angel]]''
* ''[[
* Played for three years and [[The Movie]] of ''incredible'' dramatic effect in ''[[
* O'Neill frequently gets his head packed full of deadly amounts of [[Lost Technology|Lost Wisdom]] from [[Precursors|The Ancients]], barely surviving long enough to get it extracted by the Asgard on ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.
* Donna Noble on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is a variation on this trope. {{spoiler|She has Time Lord knowledge embedded in her brain, and for her own well-being she had to lose all her memories of the time spent with the Doctor. If she were ever allowed to remember him or her adventures all over the universe, it would destroy her.}}
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== Theater ==
* In ''[[The Thirty
== Video Games ==
* It's [[Fanon|commonly agreed]] that the player character in ''[[Marathon
* Similarly, Jake in the SNES ''[[Shadowrun]]'' game has some sensitive files in his head computer, which starts off locked until an attempt to repair it sets off a [[Why Am I Ticking?|Cortex Bomb]]. This is, of course, perfectly normal within the confines of the Tabletop Game.
** It's implied that Jake did not undergo the procedure willingly, as a character met earlier on notes that the head computer and datajack are new additions. Jake himself has complete amnesia, though.
* ''[[
** The Realian MOMO has the politically and functionally dangerous Y-Data stored in her head.
** ''Xenosaga'' does this a lot, actually; Canaan, another Realian, likewise has part of the Y-Data dropped into his head; he's blocked from accessing it, which makes him ''very grumpy''. He spends the better part of fifteen years trying to get it out and failing.
* Asimov, the hero of ''Mr. Robot'', saves his friends from being permanently scrapped by downloading their brainmaps into his system. Conveniently enough, this is also how you add members to your party for hacking missions.
* A variant in [[Knights of the Old Republic]]. Your character was getting Force visions and flashbacks of an allegedly-dead Sith Lord.Through those visions, you and Bastila were trying to find the Sith's hidden superweapon/base/Death Star prototype. [[Tomato in
== Web Comics ==
* The titular carbosilicate amorph [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080222.html pulled one of these] in ''[[
* ''[[The Order of the Stick
** He knew there was no [[Neuro Vault]]. Torturing O'Chul for information was [[Dragon
*** Hell, Redcloak himself has his own [[Neuro Vault]] with {{spoiler|the divine part of the ritual to 'control', really 'transfer control' of the Gate's position to his deity, imparted to him by the Red Mantle. It qualifies as it was never commited to paper.}} It's not that far of a stretch for him to expect opposing forces to use the same kind of trick.
* ''[[
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* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', "There's No Place Like Springfield": Plans for a deadly super-weapon are implanted into Shipwreck's head, and can only be retrieved if a certain code word is spoken to him. Cobra conducts an [[Faked Rip Van Winkle|elaborate ruse]] to try and figure it out.
** And even then, the code turns out to be a code ''phrase''. {{spoiler|("Frogs In Wintertime")}}
* In ''[[
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