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* This is the premise of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'', which deals with the experiences of a young woman who receives a knock on the head while boarding a train and subsequently passes out. When she comes to and looks for the kind lady who tended to her in her injury, she finds that no one on the train remembers the woman existing. When she insists that the woman was real and searches for her, things begin to take a sinister turn.

* In ''[[Eraser]]'', the participants in the Witness Protection Program acquired a new identity and had all the fixings of their old one destroyed.

* In the ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' series, after it became known that Krueger grows more powerful based on how much he is feared and by how many people know of him, the town of Springwood tried to erase all knowledge of his existence and his murder spree to spare their children. But anyone who already came in contact with Freddy was put in Westin Hills Asylum and kept on Hypnocil permanently. There's even a ward for those who were put in comas from overdoses of the medication.

* In ''[[Coco]]'', much effort was made to erase the name and existence of the titular character's father, who allegedly abandoned the family back when she was a child, to the point that Miguel, her great-grandson, upon stumbling into the only photographic proof that the men existed (albeit with its head [[Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation|conveniently ripped]]) can believe {{Spoiler|falsely}} that the man was his musical hero and no one of his immediate preceding generation can correct him because they aren't sure either.

** This is circumvented on occasion when guards decide to do target practice by shooting at the space which "just happened to be occupied by us nonexistent people", and when Grainger tells a captive he can pass the time by talking to his "imaginary" guard.

* In a few ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' books, this was the worst, and most disturbing, fate.

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' the Seachan strike the names of all damane from the records upon discovery.

* Happens in the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' novel, ''Crocodile Tears''. A journalist investigating the titular spy has this done to him by [[MI 6]], before it is reversed. This just makes him more bitter.

 

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