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** A subversion occurs in the episode "Lies My Parents Told Me", where the murdered family member actually ''isn't'' just another victim.

** Buffy herself is a heroic example of that trope: Riley is praised for single-handedly catching 17 creatures.

* ''Series/BlueBloods'': When Mayor Carter Poole tells Frank Reagan that he's keeping him on as Police Commissioner, he relates a story about how there was this certain white Irish beat cop who coached his basketball team. Naturally, Frank was said cop, and he only vaguely remembers doing this.[[note]]This is TruthInTelevision for both cops and firefighters. They see and do so many things that civilians think are extraordinary on such a regular basis that everything tends to blur together.[[/note]]

* ''Series/BlueBloods'': When Mayor Carter Poole tells Frank Reagan that he's keeping him on as Police Commissioner, he relates a story about how there was this certain white Irish beat cop who coached his basketball team. Naturally, Frank was said cop, and he only vaguely remembers doing this.

-->'''Al:''' Well, let's see, I had four elephants; uh, I had a rhino, wanted some flip-flops; had a manatee...nuh, nuh, don't remember any seals. Could you jog my memory? You know jogging? [[DeadpanSnarker It's that what you do when the ice cream truck is pulling out]].

* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': This Trope is mentioned by name in the DVD commentary for episode 2x11. Alvarr's confrontation with Uther before he is imprisoned is, for him, the culmination of years of fighting against his regime, but to Uther he is just another sorcerer to be executed.

--->'''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.

** Heroic example: 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.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Cole spends more than 12 years of his life hunting Dean after he [[spoiler:sees Dean murder his father]]. When he finally catches up with him in "Reichenbach", Dean [[spoiler:(who [[{{Understatement}} isn't]] [[GuiltComplex himself]] at the moment, being a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] and all)]] says:

* ''Series/WithoutATrace'': In the episode "Legacy", the events of the episode are set into motion after a family happens to run into the man who broke into their house, tied up the dad and brutally raped the mother ringing their shopping at the store...and he gives absolutely no indication of having recognized them. This, coupled with the fact that they tried to ignore the incident to a clearly-unhealthy degree, results in the father's disappearance [[spoiler:and the mother killing her son's drug dealer after the latter made an ill-timed pass at her. When the father is found, he had just murdered the rapist]].

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': Has an episode where [[spoiler:HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Belthazar is being hunted by a good witch because he killed her husband. Because he is currently face, he is helping her hunt down the demon he thinks is responsible]]. After the accusation, he doesn't even know for sure if she is right or not.

* On the pilot of ''The Outpost'', Talon is on the hunt for the pack of mercenaries who wiped out her entire village years earlier. She finds one in an alley, the man sounding almost bored as he hears her threat and "ah, sounds like vengeance." He openly asks Talon "so who was it?" although he does remember when she mentions her village's name.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes To War"]], the Doctor has a benevolent version, where he saved someone's life as a child and she devoted her life to meeting him. [[spoiler:As they don't come face-to-face until she's been mortally wounded helping him]], he pretends to remember them running together. It was a pretty safe bet. Being a time traveler, it's entirely possible the Doctor has yet to save her.

* ''Series/{{Blade}}: The Series'': [[MagnificentBastard Marcus Van Sciver]] has spent decades plotting revenge against the pureblood Damek, who brutally murdered his wife in front of him and then had Van Sciver sent to a bunch of feral [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], who ended up turning him. Eventually, Marcus confronts Damek and starts a fight. Right before Van Sciver kills him, Damek simply laughs, saying he doesn't even remember her; after all, he's a couple thousand years old and likely can't remember a hundredth of the people he's killed.

-->'''Annie:''' I saw a man get killed today, I lied to a federal agent, I was shot at...
-->'''Auggie:''' Or, as we call it, Thursday at the Agency.

-->'''Matt Murdock:''' You don't remember me? You killed my father.
-->'''Roscoe Sweeney:''' Well I hate to break it to you son, but I killed a lot of guys' dads.

** 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.

---->'''Doctor:''' There was a goblin, or a trickster, or [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor a warrior]]. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day, it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.

** In "A Good Man Goes To War", the Doctor has a benevolent version, where he saved someone's life as a child and she devoted her life to meeting him. [[spoiler:As they don't come face-to-face until she's been mortally wounded helping him]], he pretends to remember them running together. It was a pretty safe bet. Being a time traveler, it's entirely possible the Doctor has yet to save her.
** According to Gareth Roberts, an early draft of "The Lodger" featured the classic series monster Meglos as the villain--the punchline being that the Doctor would have no idea who he was, even when reminded.
** 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. It was also a meta reference to most of the original story being lost (it was recovered the next year). Unusually, the other party has no memory of the Doctor either, due to [[TimeyWimeyBall not having met him yet.]]
** And another variant in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]''. The Doctor meets a group of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace organ-harvesting clockwork automatons]], and finds the whole situation horribly familiar, but he can't quite connect the dots even after finding that the automatons' base is the ''S.S. Marie Antoinette'', a starship from the distant future named for a French noblewoman. In this case, it serves more to highlight how old he has become: His adventure aboard the ''S.S. Madame de Pompadour'' took place over a thousand years earlier from his perspective.
** Occurs to Ashildr, aka Me, an immortal girl with [[TheFogOfAges a mortal sized memory]].
--->'''Doctor:''' How many people have you killed?\\
'''Ashildr:''' You'll have to check my diaries.
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, when the Eleventh tries, [[BadLiar badly]] to invoke this trope to calm his guilt over the destruction of Gallifrey:
---> '''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?\\

'''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!\\

'''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''!?

** In "The Snow Job," Nate uses a list of names as supposedly dead people he uses in cons as part of the scam to take down a family of corrupt developers. When the marks go down, Nate calls up the son who handles the business and asks if he even bothered to read the names on the list...which were all the people the family had ripped off.
** 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 (not exactly this trope since he ran his scam over the phone, so there was no reason why he should have remembered his victims' faces).

-->'''Flynn''' An immortal magician from Shakespeare's plays has teamed up with a super villan genius that he's pulled from literature to take advantage of the fact that magic has returned to the world to restore his power and [[TakeOverTheWorld to accomplish some sort of unknowable and yet terrifying plot for world domination]].
-->'''Baird''' So, Tuesday, then?

-->'''Ginsberg:''' What do I care? I got a million of them. A million.
-->'''Draper:''' Good, I guess I’m lucky you work for me.
-->'''Ginsberg:''' I feel bad for you.
-->'''Draper:''' I don’t think about you at all.

-->'''Stacey:''' Remember me?
-->'''Ned:''' I'm not sure.
-->'''Stacey:''' Then let me remind you. I'm the person you exploited without a trace of conscience.
-->'''Ned:''' You're gonna have to be more specific.

** Appears in another episode, as a form of BlackComedy. Rumpelstiltskin, who has destroyed more lives than Regina or her mother, is forced to ask other members of the town for help. David is only one willing to help him, and the following (paraphrased) conversation takes place:
--->'''David:''' Do you remember turning a butcher into a pig?
--->'''Rumpelstiltskin:''' ''[genuinely taken aback]'' No, I can't say I do.
--->'''David:''' Well, that man does. [[YouKilledMyFather It was his father]]. I'm beginning to see why no one wants to help you.

--> '''Regina:''' Can you blame me? She's awfully vanilla!

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Invoked by Charlie in Episode 2, but it's Monday, not Tuesday.

** This used to be a running joke when Norm [=MacDonald=] did the news. One example: "Tomorrow marks the beginning of Chanukah, or the Festival of Lights, in which Jewish people around the world celebrate the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem...or as non-Jews would call it, Wednesday."

** 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 because the elderly man was loved by so many, 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.

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': What does London Tipton call a cruise around the Mediterranean?
-->'''London:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZ8t2RnaRA#t=1m37s Tuesday]].

* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': The episode "Drug Testing" has an example of a subversion. At one point Dwight is chatting with the urine tester, and asks if she remembers one time when he was tested. She starts to invoke this trope, but then Dwight points out that his was ''green''. She immediately remembers him.

* ''Series/{{Underground}}'': In the episode "Firefly", John Macon says this about Josey, a runaway slave: "the worst day of that man's life was just another Tuesday in the office for me." Subverted in a sense because this isn't a villain being indifferent to his victims' suffering but a cause of shame, guilt and motivation to do good for him.

* ''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.
** The title character does this a lot, being the Devil and all. Lampshaded when he's told that Maze is angry with him, Lucifer cheerfully asks if it's Tuesday already.
-->'''Chloe:''' He had a drug problem?
-->'''Lucifer:''' Well, only if you consider it a problem if you habitually stuff your face with millions of dollars of cocaine. For me that's Tuesday, but apparently it's frowned upon.
** Happens a lot with his mother too.
-->'''Lucifer:''' What did you do to her?\\
'''Charlotte:''' You'll have to be more specific. I've done things to a lot of people by now.
* Inverted in ''Series/{{Slasher}}''. When [[BigBad the Executioner]] reveals to Sarah that [[spoiler:he's been obsessed with her ever since they first met when she was a teenager]], Sarah replies that she has no memory of it and for her it was just a Saturday. She does, however, remember [[AndThisIsFor all the people murdered by the Executioner]].
* ''Series/InspectorMorse''. In "The Day of the Devil", a serial rapist escapes from prison by hiding in the trunk of his female psychiatrist, then tracks down several former associates and murders them [[spoiler:before being shot by police. By that point Morse has discovered the psychiatrist has engineered the whole thing. She was one of the women raped by his gang, but as he had no empathy for his victims he never bothered to remember her. She used her position to convince him the other members of his gang had been responsible for his capture by police.]]
* ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'' has a heroic example: one episode opens with Todd and the gang [[InMediasRes 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.

* ''Series/BlueBloods'': When Mayor Carter Poole tells Frank Reagan that he's keeping him on as Police Commissioner, he relates a story about how there was this certain white Irish beat cop who coached his basketball team. Naturally, Frank was said cop, and only vaguely remembers doing this.

* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': In one episode, a doctor is brought in with the stones to perform an operation. She is increasingly unnerved by the primitive equipment, the use of alien venom as an anesthetic, and the ongoing alien attack which it seems they neglected to mention.

* ''Series/{{Blade}}: The Series'': [[MagnificentBastard Marcus Van Sciver]] has spent decades plotting revenge against the pureblood Damek, who brutally murdered his wife in front of him and then had Van Sciver sent to a bunch of feral [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], who ended up turning him. Eventually, Marcus confronts Damek and starts a fight. Right before Van Sciver kills him, Damek laughs and tells him that he can't even remember Marcus's wife or him. Justified in that he is centuries old and, presumably, has been killing people all this time.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In ''The Hidden Memory'', Aeryn confronts Crais, reminding him of how he declared her "irreversibly contaminated," thereby practically ruining her life. He does not remember the incident, and it is not until he sees her face that he recalls who she is, albeit with some difficulty. A bit more justified than many cases, since he was following standard procedure and it was the same day his brother died and he went rogue to avenge him.

-->'''Van Helsing:''' You don't recognize me?
-->'''Browning:''' Should I?
-->'''Van Helsing:''' Abraham Van Helsing. [[YouKilledMyFather You slaughtered my family]].
-->'''Browning:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Well, that hardly narrows it down]].

* ''Series/InspectorMorse''. In "The Day of the Devil", a serial rapist escapes from prison by hiding in the trunk of his female psychiatrist, then tracks down several other people and murders them [[spoiler:before being shot by police. By that point Morse has discovered the psychiatrist has engineered the whole thing. She was one of the women raped by his gang, but as he had no empathy for his victims he never bothered to remember her. She used her position to convince him the other members of his gang had been responsible for his capture by police.]]

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' gives us "Death's-Head Revisited", where a Nazi officer revisits a concentration camp seventeen years after the war. He runs across a former inmate, and a battle of wills begins. At the end, the officer remembers killing the inmate the night the Allies raided the camp - the implication being that he'd killed so many people that he simply ''forgot'' until then.