History ButForMeItWasTuesday / LiveActionTv

* On ''Series/{{Lucifer}},'' a pick-up artist who regularly lectures on how best to bed a woman finds himself falling in love with one for real. When she's kidnapped, he begs Lucifer to save her only to find she set the kidnapping up. It turns out she fell for his lines ''two years'' earlier and gave up her virginity to him but he never called her back. When she heard of his act, she went to see him only to realize that he literally didn't remember her. She thus decided to get him to fall in love with her for some payback and it escalated. Unlike many in this trope, the pick-up artist is deeply shaken to realize he slept with so many women he could forget the one he eventually fell for.

** When Arya Stark meets Polliver again, he doesn't recognize her as the prisoner he threatened before Tywin stopped him. He even gets several long, good looks at him but it still doesn't dawn on him. When she gets her revenge on Polliver, she starts by repeating the words he said to her friend Lommy when he killed him. Polliver has absolutely no recollection and just looks bewildered at the words spoken by the crazy child standing over him. It's not until she repeats his words about picking his teeth with her sword that he finally figures out who she is (because Polliver remembers stealing the CoolSword from Arya, not the murder).

** When Arya Stark gets her revenge on Polliver, she starts by repeating the words he said to her friend Lommy when he killed him. Polliver has absolutely no recollection and just looks bewildered at the words spoken by the crazy child standing over him. It's not until she repeats his words about picking his teeth with her sword that he finally figures out who she is (because Polliver remembers stealing the CoolSword from Arya, not the murder).

** The episode "One More Unto The Breach" reveals that Martok was denied an officer's rank by Kor because Martok was common-blood. Martok holds a grudge against Kor for this for years, but Kor doesn't remember the specific incident.

** An odd example: the demon Sahjhan spends a good chunk of the third season working against Angel, but when the two finally meet, Angel has no idea why Sahjhan hates him, driving the latter to disappear in fury. Of course, Angel was a bit justified in this: Sahjhan's beef was a ''future'' event that Sahjhan knew about from a prophecy. [[spoiler:A prophecy that he had even ''rewritten himself'' centuries before, so it was basically impossible for Angel to know about it]]. Granted, existing outside of time might mess with his perceptions a bit, but, really, Sahjhan's expectations just seem a little high.
** Subverted with Angelus, who generally ''does'' remember his victims, but if anything this is used to highlight his evil. At one point Angel and Spike contrast their approaches as evil vampires. Spike loved the act of fighting and killing and never thought twice about the victims, so he's forgotten a lot of them, while Angelus was interested in the suffering and destruction of a human being on a personal level.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': When Bruce Wayne [[spoiler:finally comes face-to-face with his parents' killer, the guy doesn't even remember killing them until Bruce jogs his memory by filling in some of the details.]]

** In "The Boiler Room Job," an arrogant con artist thinks he sees through the BigStore scam the team have set up with various people in an office setting. As it turns out, the whole thing is just a distraction for the team stealing the guy's money out from under him and setting him up on fraud charges. As the man is dragged off by the FBI, Nate reveals that all the people present aren't actors but rather the con artist's past victims who he honestly didn't recognize.

** Hook aids David when the latter is trying to find out who killed his father long ago, hearing the tale of where and how the man vanished. But it's not until he sees a drawing of the man in a book that Hook realizes ''he'' killed David's father during his pirate days.

** Occurs to Ashildr, aka Me, an immortal girl with [[FogOfAges a mortal sized memory]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': This mentality really gets under the Doctor's skin. In "The Vampires of Venice", he promises to take apart Rosanna's empire piece by piece, not just because she killed one of the Doctor's friends, but because she hadn't even bothered to learn her name. Note that Rosanna probably remembers killing that person, she just never knew the girl's name to begin with.

*** He fakes it by saying "We ran. Didn't we run?" as if confirming his memory and she dies thinking "He ''does'' remember me!" Chances are the Doctor has done this with so many people that it was a safe bet he'd do it with her as well.

---->'''Doctor:''' How many people have you killed?\\

----> '''War''': Did you ever count?
----> '''Eleven''': Count what?
----> '''War''': How many children there were on Gallifrey that day.
----> '''Eleven''': ''[stops his task, blindsided]'' I've absolutely no idea.
----> '''War''': How old are you now?
----> ''Cut to a shot of Ten looking disapprovingly''
----> '''Eleven''': Oh, I don't know, I lose track. Twelve-hundred-and something, unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age -- that's how old I am.
----> '''War''': Four hundred years older than me, and in all that time, you never even wondered how many there were? You never once counted?
----> '''Eleven''': ''[Angrily stopping what he's doing]'' Tell me, what would be the point?
----> '''Ten''': 2.47 Billion.
----> '''War''': You ''did'' count!
----> ''[Eleven shakes his head ruefully and continues his work]''
----> '''Ten''': ''[to Eleven]'' You ''forgot''! Four hundred years, is that all it takes!?
----> '''Eleven''': I moved on.
----> '''Ten''': WHERE!? Where can you be now that you can forget something like ''that''!?

* Heroic example on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': A villain explains the origin of his vendetta as being one of the Mooks who went up against SHIELD in one of Phil Coulson's previous operations. While Coulson does remember the mission itself, he does not remember the details of why he did it nor does he care because for him it was just another day of saving the world.
-->'''Coulson:''' All of these things that you've done. All of the energy spent, the hatred...and you know what the funny thing about it is? I have no idea who the hell you are. I've been on hundreds of missions in my time. This one you're so upset about? I was sent to retrieve an object. If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what it was. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another redshirt, like so many others, who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. 'Cause that's what I do. So. Cool origin story, bro. But this means ''nothing'' to me.

** In the 2012 Christmas Special ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]'', the villain is revealed to be the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen Great]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear Intelligence.]] The Doctor knows he should remember that name from somewhere, but he can't put his finger on it. Unusually, the other party has no memory of the Doctor either, due to [[TimeyWimeyBall not having met him yet.]]

* ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'' has a heroic example: one episode opens with Todd and the gang [[InMediaRes in the middle]] of dealing with another [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book]]-related situation. In the process, they completely trash the AV Club's equipment, causing the club's leader to swear revenge, using the Book to edit reality around Todd like a movie, making it look like he's going evil. When Curtis and Hannah figure out what's going on, they confront the club leader, who is shocked to realize that neither of them remember him or the situation in question.

** Bonus points for the fact that Coulson was on the mission in question with Melinda May, who is portrayed by Creator/MingNaWen, the recipient of the original ButForMeItWasTuesday - and she was the one who beat up all the Mooks and allowed Coulson to get away with the object in question.

** Occurs to Ashildr, aka Me, an immortal girl with [[JustifiedTrope a normal sized memory]].

** It turns out that Teal'c killed the man's father so that Apophis wouldn't wipe out the tribe. The tribe runs and hides when the Goa'uld come, but are slowed down because they take care to help the slower members--the elderly, the crippled, etc.--escape as well. When Apophis ordered Teal'c to execute one, he chose to kill the elderly, one-legged gentlemen, because his death would make it easier for the rest to run away and hide next time. While Teal'c knows he killed the crippled man to allow the rest of the tribe to escape, Apophis thought Teal'c did it ForTheEvulz, was satisfied, and didn't order any more killings. When you see the flashback in its entirety, the man is quite clearly signaling Teal'c to kill him. Teal'c did that kind of thing quite often in a mostly unsuccessful attempt to moderate his master's evil (as Bra'tac did before him), before being convinced that an open rebellion against the Goa'uld could succeed. Hence his inability to remember this specific instance.

* Heroic example on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': A villain explains the origin of his vendetta as being one of the Mooks was thwarted by one of Phil Coulson's previous operations. While Coulson does remember the mission itself, he does not remember the details of why he did it nor does he care because for him it was just another day of saving the world.

* Heroic example on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': A villain explains the origin of his vendetta as being from one of Phil Coulson's previous operations. While Coulson does remember the mission itself, he does not remember the details of why he did it nor does he care because for him it was just another day of saving the world.

** Bonus points for the fact that Coulson was on the mission in question with Melinda May, who is portrayed by Creator/MingNaWen, the recipient of the original ButForMeItWasTuesday.

** Ironically enough, Wee-Bey may not even have been responsible for that crime. When Wee-Bey was caught, his lawyer got the prosecutor to agree to take the death penalty off the table in exchange for a full confession...and Wee-Bey then tried to take responsibility for ''every'' killing ever committed by anyone in the Barksdale gang. While the cops definitely know that some of those were committed by others, it's never made clear how many murders Wee-Bey took the fall for. [=LaDonte's=] murder could have been one of those.

** [[spoiler:All of these things that you've done. All of the energy spent, the hatred...and you know what the funny thing about it is? I have no idea who the hell you are. I've been on hundreds of missions in my time. This one you're so upset about? I was sent to 'retrieve an object.' If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what it was. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another redshirt, like so many others, who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. 'Cause that's what I do. So. Cool origin story, bro. But this means nothing to me]].

** [[spoiler:All of these things that you've done. All of the energy spent, the hatred...and you know what the funny thing about it is? I have no idea who the hell you are. I've been on hundreds of missions in my time. This one you're so upset about? I was sent to 'retrieve an object.' If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what it was. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another redshirt, like so many others, who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. 'Cause that's what I do. So. Cool origin story, bro. But this means [i]nothing[/i] to me]].

* Heroic example on ''Series/MarvelsAgentsOfSHIELD'': A villain explains the origin of his vendetta as being from one of Phil Coulson's previous operations. While Coulson does remember the mission itself, he does not remember the details of why he did it nor does he care because for him it was just another day of saving the world.