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** [[spoiler:During Oberyn Martell and Ser Gregor Clegane's fight, Oberyn reminds Gregor that he raped and murdered Elia Martell, Oberyn's sister, and killed her children. Gregor replies with "Who?" Thanks to Oberyn's [[StopSayingThat constant, incessant reminders]], Gregor eventually does remember, and before he kills Oberyn he acknowledges that he murdered Elia's chldren, ''then'' raped her, and then killed her. [[InThatOrder He wants Oberyn to know the order it happened]].]]

** [[spoiler:During Oberyn Martell and Ser Gregor Clegane's fight, Oberyn reminds Gregor that he raped and murdered Elia Martell, Oberyn's sister, and killed her children. Gregor replies with "Who?". Before Gregor kills Oberyn, he does acknowledge that he murdered Elia's chldren, ''then'' raped her, and then killed her. He wants Oberyn to know the order it happened.]]

* In ''Literature/{{A Storm of Swords}}'':
** [[spoiler:during Oberyn Martell and Ser Gregor Clegane's fight, Oberyn reminds Gregor that he raped and murdered Elia Martell, Oberyn's sister, and killed her children. Gregor replies with "Who?". Before Gregor kills Oberyn, he does acknowledge that he murdered Elia's chldren, ''then'' raped her, and then killed her. He wants Oberyn to know the order it happened.]]

* The Literature/{{Dune}} Encyclopedia names House Washington (AKA the US) as the first user of atomics in a "provincial war."

* The original title of ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' is ''Im Westen nichts Neues'' ("Nothing New in the West"). It ends with the last surviving character getting shot by an unseen sniper followed by a TitleDrop. For him it was the day he was killed, regarding the war, it was just an ordinary day with nothing to report.

-->'''Franks:''' "Can you narrow it down?"

*** Amusingly, Xizor hates Vader because he blames him for the death of his family. Vader is utterly oblivious until one of his spies informs him.

* In ''[[Literature/MonsterHunterInternational Monster Hunter Nemesis]]'', this is Franks reaction when [[spoiler: Earl]] accuses him of killing his LoveInterest:

* TheFarseerTrilogy takes place in a fantasy kingdom composed of six duchies- four coastal, two inland. The royal family is based in a coastal duchy. In one throwaway conversation in the first book, Chade grumbles to Fitz that the people blame the king for everything from "bad weather to fires". In the third book, Fitz travels inland and discovers that, years ago, huge swaths of vital farmland were ravaged by fire and have never recovered, causing widespread hardship and economic depression. Fitz then realises just how out of touch the coast and inland are with each other- for the coast the fire was a minor annoyance, but to the people living there, "it must have seemed like the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]]"

** Usually almost all villains never bother to remember who their slaves/prisoners/murder victims are are unless they either "Stand out by how strong they are" or "The slave/prisoner escapes, and the villain immediately goes berserk to get said slave/prisoner back" (not because s/he is personally worth anything to the villain, but simply because s/he defied the leader)

** Usually almost all villains never bother to remember who their slaves/prisoners/murder victims are are unless they either "Stand out by how strong they are" or "The slave/prisoner escapes, and the villain immediately goes berserk to get said slave/prisoner back, not because s/he is personally worth anything to the villain, but simply because s/he defied the villain"

** [[spoiler:Tyrion used to have a wife, Tysha who truly loved him. Tywin convinced Tyrion that she was a paid whore only to break his spirit. Not only that, but he made his entire garrison violently gang-rape the poor 13-year old girl before Tyrion's eyes. And then forced Tyrion to participate as well. When Tyrion finds out the truth, he attacks Tywin, and holding him at crossbow-point, asks him about Tysha. Tywinn doesn't remember the name, and when Tyrion tells him who Tysha was, Tywin can't recall what happened to her after the gang rape.]]

* In ''Literature/{{A Storm of Swords}}'', [[spoiler:during Oberyn Martell and Ser Gregor Clegane's fight, Oberyn reminds Gregor that he raped and murdered Elia Martell, Oberyn's sister, and killed her children. Gregor replies with "Who?". Before Gregor kills Oberyn, he does acknowledge that he murdered Elia's chldren, ''then'' raped her, and then killed her. He wants Oberyn to know the order it happened.]]

** ''[[Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire]]'': Prince Xizor is attacked by a young man named Hoff, who yells "YouKilledMyFather" to him, to which Xizor replies, "I'm sorry. Have we met?". It's averted, however, since Xizor remembers the father once Hoff tells him the father's name.

* In ''Literature/{{A Storm of Swords}}'', [[spoiler:during Oberyn Martell and Ser Gregor Clegane's fight, Oberyn reminds Gregor that he raped and murdered Elia Martell, Oberyn's sister, and killed her children. Gregor replies with "Who?". Before Gregor kills Oberyn, he does acknowledge that he did rape and murder Elia and killed her children.]]

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': Harry momentarily forgets that several books ago, Ginny was possessed by Lord Voldemort for an entire year. For Harry, this was just one bit of yet another adventure. For Ginny, it may well be the most significant event of her entire life. He says he forgot about it, and her reply is [[WhatTheHellHero a cool "lucky you"]]. Harry feels sincerely sorry and apologizes, a rare break from the EmoTeen persona he has for most of ''Phoenix''.

* The original title of ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' is ''"Im Westen nichts Neues"'' ("Nothing New in the West"). It ends with the last surviving character getting shot by an unseen sniper followed by a TitleDrop. For him it was the day he was killed, regarding the war, it was just an ordinary day with nothing to report.

* The {{Dune}} Encyclopedia names House Washington (AKA the US) as the first user of atomics in a "provincial war."

* ''{{Redwall}}'''s ''Lord Brocktree'': Bucko Bigbones confronts Karangool, the fox who killed his family and left him for dead, and Karangool has no idea who he is. Bucko corners him and explains before taking his revenge. And then he ''[[OhCrap does]]'' remember.

* Used in JamesSwallow's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''Faith & Fire''.

* OlderThanTelevision: In the short story ''The Procurator of Judea'' (published in 1902) by Anatole France, the last line is spoken by a retired Pontius Pilate:

* Inverted (somewhat) in ''SoonIWillBeInvincible'' in which the HeroAntagonist doesn't remember the VillainProtagonist or his reasons for seeking vengeance.

* In [[IainBanks Iain M Banks]]' novel ''[[TheCulture Inversions]]'', the Lady Perrund becomes courtesan to the King after a rival warlord's soldiers killed her family and raped her. [[spoiler: It is only at the end of the book after she has murdered the King that we discover it was actually him and his men that committed the atrocity. The King had never recognised her and had most likely forgotten the incident, allowing her to get her revenge.]]
* Non-villainous example in TamoraPierce's ''[[TortallUniverse Protector of the Small Quartet]]''. [[TheHero Kel]] has a fear of heights due to her brother dangling her over the edge of a tall tower when they were kids. When speaking about it, she says that the worst part was when she spoke to him about it: he didn't remember.

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** ''Star Wars ShadowsOfTheEmpire'': Prince Xizor is attacked by a young man named Hoff, who yells "YouKilledMyFather" to him, to which Xizor replies, "I'm sorry. Have we met?". It's averted, however, since Xizor remembers the father once Hoff tells him the father's name.

* ''Sisterhood'' series by FernMichaels: Played with rather oddly in the book ''Sweet Revenge''. Reporter Ted Robinson, who is not quite a hero at that point, asks Rosemary Hershey a question about two people. Rosemary says in a genuinely puzzled tone "Who?" Her soon-to-be ex-husband, Bobby Harcourt, pokes his head into the room and states that those are the two people she killed, along with their young daughter. She killed three people and she is the only one who apparently did not even bother to remember them. However, she ends up remembering the name of the young daughter - Diana. She actually blocked that out and presumably other details of her killing them. Once she remembers, however, she is unable to stop thinking about it!

* In {{A Storm of Swords}}, [[spoiler:during Oberyn Martell and Ser Gregor Clegane's fight, Oberyn reminds Gregor that he raped and murdered Elia Martell, Oberyn's sister, and killed her children. Gregor replies with "Who?". Before Gregor kills Oberyn, he does acknowledge that he did rape and murder Elia and killed her children.]]

* OlderThanTelevision: In the short story ''The Procurator of Judea'' (published in 1902) by Anatole France, a retired Pilate doesn't remember {{Jesus}}.

** In "Payback", a story from the ''{{Tales of the Bounty Hunters}}'' anthology. The bounty hunter Dengar hates Han Solo with a passion because one of the few incidents his traumatically injured brain remembers was when Han cheated to defeat him in a swoop (basically the ''Star Wars'' equivalent of a lowrider motorcycle) race, in the process causing Dengar's bike to veer off course and forcing him to crash into a crystalline swamp, impaling him on several shards of crystal and directly causing aforementioned injuries, which in turn necessitated life-saving surgery on Dengar during which unethical Imperial doctors used the opportunity to burn away parts of Dengar's brain - leaving him incapable of all but a few human emotions - and fit him with implants that turned him into a cyborg assassin-for-hire. Now, whenever Dengar is contracted to kill someone, he motivates himself by picturing his target as Han Solo, and in his mind he sees Han callously smirking and declaring: "Hey, it was a fair race. And the better man won - me!" This causes Dengar to gesture at himself and scream: "You call ''this'' fair?!" - leaving Dengar's terrified victim-of-the-moment with no clue what he is raving about.

* ''HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': Harry momentarily forgets that several books ago, Ginny was possessed by Lord Voldemort for an entire year. For Harry, this was just one bit of yet another adventure. For Ginny, it may well be the most significant event of her entire life. He says he forgot about it, and her reply is [[WhatTheHellHero a cool "lucky you"]]. Harry feels sincerely sorry and apologizes, a rare break from the EmoTeen persona he has for most of ''Phoenix''.

* In the Creator/StephenKing short story "Dolan's Cadillac", the wife of the protagonist/narrator (Robinson) is killed by a crime lord she was going to testify against (Dolan). For a few years or so, Robinson follows Dolan to learn his habits and routine, all while plotting his revenge. During one harrowing incident, however, Dolan's car breaks down on the road, and Robinson is forced to pass him. He's angered when Dolan doesn't even recognize the man who's wife he had ordered blown to smithereens in her car. This is then subverted when, after Robinson says the first few words of his BestServedCold speech, Dolan immediately identifies him.