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* ''ComicBook/AgentX'': Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
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** In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' Batman suspects that Kara is pulling this trick. [[spoiler:However it is subverted: she really suffers from memory loss owing to kryptonite poisoning]].
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** The [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-2]] ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} was revealed to have been suffering from AmnesiacDissonance the whole time she'd been Catwoman, and when she regained her original memories she forgot about her time as Catwoman. In a later {{retcon}}, she admitted to making this up in order to make her reformation easier.
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** ''ComicBook/AgentX'': The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': About [[EasyAmnesia half]] of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's amnesiac relapses are fake.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' Batman suspects that Kara is pulling this trick. [[spoiler:However it is subverted: she really suffers from memory loss owing to kryptonite poisoning]].
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** The [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-2]] ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} was revealed to have been suffering from AmnesiacDissonance the whole time she'd been Catwoman, and when she regained her original memories she forgot about her time as Catwoman. In a later {{retcon}}, she admitted to making this up in order to make her reformation easier.
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** ''ComicBook/AgentX'': The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': About [[EasyAmnesia half]] of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's amnesiac relapses are fake.
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* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' Batman suspects that Kara is pulling this trick. [[spoiler:However it is subverted: she really suffers from memory loss owing to kryptonite poisoning]].
%%** ''ComicBook/SuperboyNew52'': ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s cover story in the "small town" simulation.
**''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-2]] ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} was revealed to have been suffering from AmnesiacDissonance the whole time she'd been Catwoman, and when she regained her original memories she forgot about her time as Catwoman. In a later {{retcon}}, she admitted to making this up in order to make her reformation easier.
*''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** ''ComicBook/AgentX'': The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
**''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': About [[EasyAmnesia half]] of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's amnesiac relapses are fake.fake.
%%* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'': In ''ComicBook/SuperboyNew52'', Superboy's cover story in the "small town" simulation.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In the story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' Batman suspects that Kara is pulling this trick. [[spoiler:However it is subverted: she really suffers from memory loss owing to kryptonite poisoning]].
** In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' Batman suspects that Kara is pulling this trick. [[spoiler:However it is subverted: she really suffers from memory loss owing to kryptonite poisoning]].
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** ''ComicBook/AgentX'': The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
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%%* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'': In ''ComicBook/SuperboyNew52'', Superboy's cover story in the "small town" simulation.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In the story ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' Batman suspects that Kara is pulling this trick. [[spoiler:However it is subverted: she really suffers from memory loss owing to kryptonite poisoning]].
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Lucrezia [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061117#.VvrgLuIrLIU pulls this]] whilst [[GrandTheftMe possessing Agatha's body]], telling Agatha's rescue party that she's been drugged and can't remember any of them. She manages to pull it off for a while, too, since no-one imagines for a second that it could be anyone ''other'' than Agatha talking to them. It isn't until she encounters someone that knew the original Lucrezia and recognizes her mannerisms that it all goes downhill.
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Lucrezia [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061117#.VvrgLuIrLIU php?date=20061117 pulls this]] whilst [[GrandTheftMe possessing Agatha's body]], telling Agatha's rescue party that she's been drugged and can't remember any of them. She manages to pull it off for a while, too, since no-one imagines for a second that it could be anyone ''other'' than Agatha talking to them. It isn't until she encounters someone that knew the original Lucrezia and recognizes her mannerisms that it all goes downhill. What makes it especially believable is that Agatha ''was'' essentially kidnapped by the Prince of Sturmhalten, so Lucrezia claiming that she was drugged doesn't raise any undue suspicion.
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* ''Fanfic/ImNobody'': Roxas fakes having amnesia because it's easier to explain his genuine ignorance of the world that way - he is in a different dimension and was literally created a month ago. He drops the deception when his friends Axel and Xion join him in the new dimension and explain everything to the Normandy crew.
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* ''Webcomic/FateTypeRedline'': Kanata fakes amnesia to avoid having to explain that he's from the future and that Tsukumo [[KidFromTheFuture will one day be his grandmother]]. He eventually comes clean to Saber, and [[spoiler:Rider]] listens in the conversation, but nobody tells Tsukumo.
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* In French movie ''[[Film/LeGendarmeEnBalade The Gendarme to Stroll]]'', Gendarme Fougasse suffered only from a short amnesia after an accident, but he likes so much the convalescent home he's staying in, he pretends in order to remain longer.
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* In the French movie ''[[Film/LeGendarmeEnBalade The Gendarme to Stroll]]'', Gendarme Fougasse suffered only from a short amnesia after an accident, but he likes so much the convalescent home he's staying in, he pretends in order to remain longer.longer.
* ''Film/MyAmnesiaGirl'': When Irene sees Apollo again in a grocery store three years after he abandons her at their wedding and attempts to make up with her, she claims that she has amnesia and doesn't know him, which drives the plot.
* ''Film/MyAmnesiaGirl'': When Irene sees Apollo again in a grocery store three years after he abandons her at their wedding and attempts to make up with her, she claims that she has amnesia and doesn't know him, which drives the plot.
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** In ''ComicBook/AgentX'', The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': About [[EasyAmnesia half]] of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's amnesiac relapses are fake.
** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': About [[EasyAmnesia half]] of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's amnesiac relapses are fake.
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** In ''ComicBook/AgentX'', ''ComicBook/AgentX'': The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
**''Franchise/SpiderMan'': ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': About [[EasyAmnesia half]] of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's amnesiac relapses are fake.
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* Inverted in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. Touma loses his memory but passes it off as a joke so Index doesn't feel bad.
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* Inverted in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''.''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''. Touma loses his memory but passes it off as a joke so Index doesn't feel bad.
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* In an episode of ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'', Ryoko suffers from [[EasyAmnesia actual amnesia]], where she thinks she's thirteen. When she later gets better, she pretends not to remember the entire day due to being embarrassed. [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Ringo]] catches her when she remembers eating.
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* In an episode of ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'', ''Literature/OkamiSan'', Ryoko suffers from [[EasyAmnesia actual amnesia]], where she thinks she's thirteen. When she later gets better, she pretends not to remember the entire day due to being embarrassed. [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Ringo]] catches her when she remembers eating.
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* ''[[Fanfic/SecondChanceMoDaoZuShi Second Chances]]'' eventually reveals that [[spoiler: Wei Wuxian]] was faking this.
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* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Nara [[https://mis.thecomicseries.com/comics/21/ recommends that Chiaki feign amnesia]] rather than claim to be an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Unbound]]. Chiaki obliges when [[https://mis.thecomicseries.com/comics/23/ introducing herself to her new classmates]].
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A sub trope of ObfuscatingDisability. Compare MemoryGambit, in which a character arranges to actually have their memories removed to further their plans. Not to be confused with AmnesiacLiar, in which an individual who truly has amnesia is fooled into believing a falsehood they told before acquiring the condition.
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A sub trope of ObfuscatingDisability. Compare MemoryGambit, in which a character arranges to actually have their memories removed to further their plans. Not to be confused with AmnesiacLiar, in which an individual who truly has amnesia is fooled into believing a falsehood they told before acquiring the condition.
condition. PhotoIdentificationDenial can also be a factor if the person faking amnesia is shown pictures of their family and friends.
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* On a 2006 episode of ''The Late Show With Conan O'Brien,'' Conan shows Harrison Ford clips from the ''Star Wars Holiday Special,'' asking if he remembers it. Ford has his head turned away, shaking his head at the questions like he was having a Vietnam flashback.
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* On a 2006 episode of ''The Late Show With Conan O'Brien,'' Conan shows Harrison Ford clips from the ''Star Wars Holiday Special,'' asking if he remembers it. Ford has his head turned away, shaking his head at the questions like as though he was having a Vietnam flashback.
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* Archer in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' claims to not remember which Heroic Spirit he is in order to carry out his plan to kill Shirou while making it seem like he was just another casualty of the Holy Grail War. (A Main/DoubleSubversion, as he mentions that at first he really didn't know who he was, but he remembered fairly quickly. He just never let on that he had.)
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* Archer in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' claims to not remember which Heroic Spirit he is in order to carry out his plan to kill Shirou while making it seem like he was just another casualty of the Holy Grail War. (A Main/DoubleSubversion, as he mentions that at first he really didn't know who he was, but he remembered fairly quickly. He just never let on that he had.)) [[spoiler: He's a Shirou Emiya who entered the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor after he had his ideals shattered.]]
