History Main / AmnesiacHero

** Terra from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. As a result of being under the Slave Crown for a long time, she only knows her name, and even ''that'' is considered to be pretty lucky. (The {{Past Experience Nightmare}}s less so.) Much of the game's first half is figuring out just who and what she is, since her natural magic made her a valuable weapon of the Empire (and to LaResistance, but they ask first). [[spoiler:The remnants of her father restore her memories and explain how she came to be.]]

* The protagonist of ''{{VideoGame/Gingiva}}'', whose was decapitated and had her head replaced with a turnkey device, removing all of her memories of her life from before.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', Duster is this for a while after the timeskip. He forgets who he is and everything that happened before, including his own name (the rock band who "adopts" him names him Lucky). We never know exactly ''why'' he loses his memory--one can only guess he hit his head or something. The first part of Chapter 5 revolves around [[QuestForIdentity getting his memory back]], which is done by [[spoiler:retrieving the Egg of Light]].

* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'': Most of the human protagonists are amnesiac, the only apparent exception being the hero of ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity''. However, unlike a normal Amnesiac Hero who is an inherently good fighter, they do have to slowly learn fighting skills (Pokemon moves) the same way any other Pokemon does: by DungeonCrawling and LevelGrinding.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam'', it turns out [[spoiler:you wiped your own memory when you were transported to the Pokemon world in order to test yourself to see if you really could save it]].

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', resident ChildProdigy Muichiro Tokito, the Mist Hashira, has partial amnesia, he remembers his name and who he is to an extent, but the full scope of his life before joining the Demon Slayer Corps was lost to him which also stunned his personality, turning him into an expressionless person.

* Detective Kaname Date in ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' has no memory past six years ago, with his earliest one being wandering around aimlessly with a missing eye before being found by [[BigGood his boss]] and offered a job. The SerialKiller he's investigating also was active around this time before stopping, [[GenreSavvy causing him to worry]] about a potential TomatoInTheMirror situation.

* In ''Film/{{Dark City|1998}}'', John Murdoch wakes up in a hotel bathtub, not knowing how he got there, what his name is, or why there is a mutilated hooker on the floor. He only finds out his own name when he tracks down his wallet at a nearby automat. [[spoiler: The reason that John has no memory is because his and everyone's memories have been manufactured by the cabal that runs the city.]]

* In ''Film/DarkCity'', John Murdoch wakes up in a hotel bathtub, not knowing how he got there, what his name is, or why there is a mutilated hooker on the floor. He only finds out his own name when he tracks down his wallet at a nearby automat. [[spoiler: The reason that John has no memory is because his and everyone's memories have been manufactured by the cabal that runs the city.]]

* Warren Peace in satiric SF novel ''Who Goes There?'' by Creator/BobShaw[[note]]no relation to [[Literature/WhoGoesThere Campbell's novella]][[/note]] wakes up in an infirmary and finds that he has just joined the Space Legion and as any other recruit had [[LaserGuidedAmnesia all his troubling memories erased]]. Most people forget only a single misdeed and a few related episodes of their life, but Warren has forgotten everything, from childhood to his decision to join the Legion. [[LineOfSightName Even his name is fake]]. Everybody assumes he lived a life of crime and every moment of it should either be atoned for or erased. [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble Later]] he finds he wasn't a criminal, but [[spoiler:a career military officer, and]] he ''[[TheAtoner really]]'' wanted to forget how many kinds of wrong his life turned out to be.

* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'':
** In "The Menace From the Stars" (''World's Finest'' #68), Superman gets amnesia from deflecting a meteor containing kryptonite, and wanders around Metropolis wondering if he was at a costume party. He changes into Clark Kent and goes to the Daily Planet where his friends try to help him regain his identity ... as far as they know. Everyone thinks Superman is dead, but Clark discovers he has super-powers ''when wearing the costume'', and uses this to give everyone hope that Superman is alive again. Just as he's about to come clean, he discovers he has powers ''without'' the costume, and that triggers his memories to return. This story was loosely adapted into the ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "Panic in the Sky" and the ''Series/LoisAndClark'' episode "All Shook Up".