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* Jorgen Von Strangle of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' often uses this to erase kids' memories when they reveal the existence of their godparents. As [[TheProtagonist the main character]], Timmy Turner would never lose his fairies, so this is used to erase the memory of his friends and family in every episode that, for some reason, he is forced to reveal his fairies' existence (most of the times in an attempt to [[HeroicSacrifice save them]] and defeat the BigBad).

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* Jorgen Von Strangle of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' often uses this to erase kids' memories when they reveal the existence of their godparents. As [[TheProtagonist the main character]], Timmy Turner would never lose his fairies, so this is used to erase the memory of his friends and family in every episode that, for some reason, he is forced to reveal his fairies' existence (most of the times in an attempt to [[HeroicSacrifice save them]] and defeat the BigBad).BigBad of the episode, such as in ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'').
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* ''Webcomic/GhostKiss'''s power is to erase herself from the memories of those she kisses. Her coworkers think Carl is a jerk for never remembering her but he keeps discovering her secret, forcing her to erase his memories of her.
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* ''Film/FutureWorlde2018'': The Drug Lord's incensed after finding that Lei had had sex with Ash, whom she wanted for herself. She demands that Lei erase Ash's memory so she's "pure" again. This is subverted though as it doesn't happen, with the Warlord's raid letting them escape before Lei is forced into this.
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** The DLC case of ''VisualNovel/SpiritOfJustice'' features a very serious example as a major plot point. One of the most important witnesses is Sorin Sprocket, the defendant's fiancé, who suffers from severe anterograde amnesia after being in a nigh fatal car crash that killed his sister. Because of this he meticulously writes down everything that happens in his notebook so as not to forget it when he wakes up the next day. When it's discovered that the notebook might have been tampered with he understandably panics, frantically flipping through the notebook trying to figure out which of his memories are real and which are fake.

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** The DLC case of ''VisualNovel/SpiritOfJustice'' ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' features a very serious example as a major plot point. One of the most important witnesses is Sorin Sprocket, the defendant's fiancé, who suffers from severe anterograde amnesia after being in a nigh fatal car crash that killed his sister. Because of this he meticulously writes down everything that happens in his notebook so as not to forget it when he wakes up the next day. When it's discovered that the notebook might have been tampered with with, he understandably panics, frantically flipping through the notebook trying to figure out which of his memories are real and which are fake.
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* ''VisualNovel/AStarInHerEyes'': The DownerEnding [[spoiler:has Lyra brainwash Clodius and make him forget about her accepting his confession]].
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* ''Manhua/InfinityGame'':
** The previous DM erased all of Trishia's memories (which he created in the first place) and made her Dwarven Defender 00 (D.D.) so she could serve the next GameMaster. When Long Wei, the new GameMaster, keeps up his DM title so he can enter the game he created, he makes D.D. control the game and forget who the GameMaster is so the game is fair.
** At the end [[spoiler:Long Wei does this to the rest of the team. As the RPG Society are trying to take over the alternative world with their previous game (so the players who were [[RetGone erased]] could come back -- of course, doing this erases the current players, even if they're already dead) they froze the flow of time and the war between the them and Long Wei was slow, if he waited until after the war to bring them back to life and send them to the real world it'd be fifty years in the future. He hopes doing this will mean they aren't traumatised by all the events, but they're all vaguely aware something isn't right]].
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Ecosystems Unlimited developed a number of devices to induce retrograde and anterograde amnesia in [[UpliftedAnimal Bowman's Wolves]]. {{Justified|Trope}} as they created the species and specifically designed them to respond to the devices. A remote emits a sound that knocks the subject out and erases the last few minutes of her memory, while a drug paralyzes the hippocampus for several hours preventing the formation of long-term memory. HilarityEnsues when Florence is given the drug and ends up wandering the E.U. facility with no idea what she's doing, trying to keep track of thoughts with sticky notes.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Ecosystems Unlimited developed a number of devices to induce retrograde and anterograde amnesia in [[UpliftedAnimal Bowman's Wolves]]. {{Justified|Trope}} as they created the species and specifically designed them to respond to the devices. A remote emits a sound that knocks the subject out and erases the last few minutes of her memory, while a drug paralyzes the hippocampus for several hours preventing the formation of long-term memory. HilarityEnsues when Florence is given the drug and ends up wandering the E.U. facility with no idea what she's doing, trying to keep track of thoughts with sticky notes. Defied later by Henri Le Mer when it's suggested that he give one to Florence to keep the secrets she's learned at the South Pole hidden. He points out that one of the things she'd be likely to do upon realizing she lost a chunk of her memory is investigate what happened with her memory loss (which, unbeknownst to Henri, is exactly what she did in the above instance). He noted that simply ordering her to keep it secret (as Ecosystems Unlimited also programmed her to obey orders from recognized authority) would be more likely to work.
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* The central premise of ''Film/DarkCity''. A man wakes up with no memories of his identity, but has lingering emotional resonance with certain people and places. How much of his personality is truly his remains a mystery -- it's implied that his love for his wife is genuine, but at the same time, he's also driven to visit Shell Beach, a place everyone's visited but nobody can describe its location. [[spoiler: It doesn't exist, until the end when he makes it exist. He finds his mindwiped wife there, and the movie ends before revealing whether her feelings toward him were genuine or induced.]]

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* The central premise of ''Film/DarkCity''.''Film/DarkCity1998''. A man wakes up with no memories of his identity, but has lingering emotional resonance with certain people and places. How much of his personality is truly his remains a mystery -- it's implied that his love for his wife is genuine, but at the same time, he's also driven to visit Shell Beach, a place everyone's visited but nobody can describe its location. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It doesn't exist, until the end when he makes it exist. He finds his mindwiped wife there, and the movie ends before revealing whether her feelings toward him were genuine or induced.]]
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# With very few exceptions, amnesia is always entirely retrograde: memory loss extends backward from the moment of injury. Anterograde amnesia (the inability to accumulate new memories) has only started to come up in recent years, usually in comedies. Amnesia usually extends back clean to birth. Real amnesia resulting from head trauma or drugs is usually confined to a short period on ''both sides'' (before and after) of the incident. In real life, if amnesia is long lasting then its almost always Anterograde Amnesia because memories are created in the hippocampus (more or less) but stored all over the brain, so Hippocampal damage can cause Anterograde, but it would take massive widespread damage to cause full Retrograde.

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# With very few exceptions, amnesia is always entirely retrograde: memory loss extends backward from the moment of injury. Anterograde amnesia (the inability to accumulate new memories) has only started to come up in recent years, usually in comedies. Amnesia usually extends back clean to birth. Real amnesia resulting from head trauma or drugs is usually confined to a short period on ''both sides'' (before and after) of the incident. In real life, if amnesia is long lasting then its almost always Anterograde Amnesia because memories are created in the hippocampus (more or less) but stored all over the brain, so Hippocampal damage can cause Anterograde, but it would take massive widespread damage to cause full Retrograde. ''Film/{{Memento}}'' is one of the few works to depict Anterograde Amnesia, and does so with a fair bit of accuracy.

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*** The "Erase-What-Was-On-My-Mind-Inator" from "Tip of the Day", which was intended by him to make everyone in the Tri-State Area forget about an embarrassing video of him roller-skating into a toilet that had recently gone viral. As these things go, he failed to do so and instead made people [[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet forget what the plastic bits on the end of a shoelace were]].

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*** The "Erase-What-Was-On-My-Mind-Inator" from "Tip of the Day", which was intended by him to make everyone in the Tri-State Area forget about an embarrassing video of him roller-skating into a toilet that had recently gone viral. viral; however, anyone who hasn't seen it or is unaware for any reason will not be affected. As these things go, he failed to do so and instead made people [[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet forget what the plastic bits on the end of a shoelace were]].were (except for Candace, who never bothered to learn it)]].


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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': "Friendiversary" has Squidward literally use an eraser to erase [=SpongeBob's=] memory of him from both his memory book and his brain so he doesn't remember him and finally get peace. Unfortunately, this also erases [=SpongeBob's=] memory of the combination to the safe in Mr. Krabs' office which contains the secret formula, because he attached it to one of his memories with Squidward; thus Mr. Krabs chews Squidward out for what he did and forces him to help [=SpongeBob=] regain his memory so he remembers the combination.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRunDawnOfTheNugget'': The mind-control collars seem to suppress chickens' memories in addition to altering their emotions. Neither [[spoiler: Frizzle nor Ginger]] remember who Molly is after they've been collared, or anything else besides that they love the villain and being happy at Fun-Land Farms. The effect wears off as soon as the collar is removed, leaving the wearer unable to remember what they said and did while under the collar's influence.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', this is standard procedure for operatives that retire upon turning thirteen years old. (Referred to as "decommissioning".) This is not without justification, seeing as those who have refused the procedure and escaped (such as Numbuh Five's sister Cree) have become some of their worst enemies. [[spoiler: The process can be reversed, however, as it was in ''WesternAnimation/OperationZERO'']] Another episode reveals that [[spoiler:not every operative is decommissioned at age thirteen. Some, like Maurice, act as deep-cover agents who are still loyal to the K.N.D. despite not being kids anymore.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', this is standard procedure for operatives that retire upon turning thirteen years old. (Referred to as "decommissioning".) This is not without justification, seeing as those who have refused the procedure and escaped (such as Numbuh Five's sister Cree) have become some of their worst enemies. [[spoiler: The process can be reversed, however, as it was following Sector V's FrameUp in "Operation: E.N.D." [[spoiler:and in ''WesternAnimation/OperationZERO'']] ''WesternAnimation/OperationZERO'']]. Another episode reveals that [[spoiler:not every operative is decommissioned at age thirteen. Some, like Maurice, act as deep-cover agents who are still loyal to the K.N.D. despite not being kids anymore.]]anymore]].



** In "Six Minus Six" Agent Six loses six years of memory saving Rex from a machine that was going to delete Rex's instead (because Rex apparently goes crazy if he resets, and if that happens Six has to kill him). It was never fixed via ResetButton. That means not only does he not remember Rex, Holiday or Bobo, but he doesn't even remember the Event that caused the [=EVOs=] (heck, he barely knows what an EVO is). He only stayed with Providence and trying to be the man he used to be because of Rex's unwavering trust him, even as he was six years ago (an unrepentant, mercenary JerkAss).

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** In "Six Minus Six" Agent Six loses six years of memory saving Rex from a machine that was going to delete Rex's instead (because Rex apparently goes crazy if he resets, and if that happens Six has to kill him). It was never fixed via ResetButton. That means not only does he not remember Rex, Holiday or Bobo, but he doesn't even remember the Event that caused the [=EVOs=] (heck, he barely knows what an EVO is). He only stayed with Providence and trying to be the man he used to be because of Rex's unwavering trust in him, even as he was six years ago (an unrepentant, mercenary JerkAss).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}'', SatanicArchetype Black Hat subjects the employees of his EvilInc to this for reasons unknown. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Demencia]] was created to be the UltimateLifeForm by [[MadScientist Dr. Flug]], but because of the memory wipes neither of them remember how they know each other or even exactly how long they've been working for Black Hat. [[AllThereInTheManual In one of his research logs]] he tries to write down what he ''does'' remember, only for Black Hat to knock him out halfway through it and burn the page.
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* In ''Film/TheAmericanSocietyOfMagicalNegroes'', when Aren's budding romance threatens the existence of the society, he is threatened with having his memories erased if he continues.
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* ''WebAnimation/LoveOfTheSn'': When objects get recovered, they forget everything about the S*n to maintain the {{Masquerade}}.
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* This trope also appears in a series of fairy and folktales classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 313, "The Magic Flight". A subset of variants contain the episode of the "Forgotten Fiancée": after the hero and the villain's daughter return to his kingdom, she warns him not to be kissed by anyone, lest he forgets about her. However, he is kissed by a human (e.g., his mother) or licked by his pet dog (which counts as being "kissed"), and he forgets about his adventures and his helper/lover.

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* One of the more common side effects of ending a demonic possession in ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'', and so far it's never been clean. [[spoiler:Liv]] can't remember her brother at all, leaving her completely unable to process the overwhelming grief she still feels for his death. [[spoiler:Mica]] might have it even worse, since there are no pictures or other physical proof that [[spoiler:Red]] ever existed, making her feel like she's losing her mind ([[spoiler:the CuteLittleFangs she's developed [[MarkOfTheSupernatural due to Red's influence]] help a little]]). Both are tormented by an unusually dark form of WistfulAmnesia, as they're forcibly reminded that there ''used'' to be something extremely important to them that is now completely lost.



* One of the more common side effects of ending a demonic possession in ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'', and so far it's never been clean. [[spoiler:Liv]] can't remember her brother at all, leaving her completely unable to process the overwhelming grief she still feels for his death. [[spoiler:Mica]] might have it even worse, since there are no pictures or other physical proof that [[spoiler:Red]] ever existed, making her feel like she's losing her mind ([[spoiler:the CuteLittleFangs she's developed [[MarkOfTheSupernatural due to Red's influence]] help a little]]). Both are tormented by AmnesiacResonance, as they're forcibly reminded that there ''used'' to be something extremely important to them that is now completely lost.
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* There was once an English [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball footballer]] named Mills who spent the night in his rival player's house after getting hit on the head. He very specifically couldn't remember the events of the match in which the accident happened...or what team he played for. Everything else was absolutely fine. Fortunately, this didn't last long.

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* There was once an English [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball footballer]] named Mills who spent the night in his rival player's house after getting hit on the head. He very specifically couldn't remember the events of the match in which the accident happened... or what team he played for. Everything else was absolutely fine. Fortunately, this didn't last long.
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** ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'': It's {{re|tcon}}vealed that one of the reasons the JLA has been able to keep their identities secret over the years is by having Zatanna strategically erase the knowledge from the minds of any villains who find out. The story was set into motion years before when they attempted to forcibly reform Dr. Light via this method, and it went horribly wrong.

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** ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'': ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'': It's {{re|tcon}}vealed that one of the reasons the JLA has been able to keep their identities secret over the years is by having Zatanna strategically erase the knowledge from the minds of any villains who find out. The story was set into motion years before when they attempted to forcibly reform Dr. Light via this method, and it went horribly wrong.
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* Invoked in the Korean ''Film/LostAndFound''. After a car accident reunites her with her high school crush, the protagonist pretends to have amnesia so that he'll have to take of her. Her doctor lampshades it, saying she seems to have gotten "TV amnesia" that wiped her memory but left all her other skills intact.

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* Invoked in the Korean ''Film/LostAndFound''.''Film/LostAndFound2008''. After a car accident reunites her with her high school crush, the protagonist pretends to have amnesia so that he'll have to take of her. Her doctor lampshades it, saying she seems to have gotten "TV amnesia" that wiped her memory but left all her other skills intact.

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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Beautie can't remember anything from before a time when she was flying over a meadow. If she learns anything about herself before that time, she forgets it too, often within moments. [[spoiler:Turns out her creator ordered her to forget it. Sometimes, her distress at her ignorance is strong enough to pre-empt it.]]

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** Part of the reason the Broken Man has no allies against the Oubor is because it erases any and all evidence it was around, including visual records.
** This is why [[RobotSuperhero Beautie]] cannot
remember anything from before a time when she her origins, because [[spoiler:Beautie was flying over a meadow. If she learns anything about herself before that time, she forgets it too, often within moments. [[spoiler:Turns out ''ordered'' to forget, after her creator ordered was shamed by her creation]]. Worse, if Beautie ''tries'' to forget it. Sometimes, remember or uncover her distress at origins, she soon forgets her ignorance is strong enough to pre-empt it.]]quest.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** In various episodes, primarily "The Man From Jupiter", Malory makes a threat of having someone wake up in a mental institution with total amnesia under a fake name if they do not do as she tells them.
** In the episode ''Fugues and Riffs'', Krieger has a drug that has wiped Cyril's memory of his own parents' name. And also the memory of the process of being drugged.

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* Parodied mercilessly on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' whenever Calculon and the cast of ''All My Circuits'' take the stage.
** Also played somewhat-straight in "The Why of Fry," when Nibbler wipes Fry's mind clean of the Brainspawn incident.
** In "I, Roommate," [[DoAnythingRobot Bender]] can do this to himself with the press of a button.

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Parodied mercilessly on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' whenever Calculon and the cast of ''All ''[[SoapWithinAShow All My Circuits'' Circuits]]'' take the stage.
** Also played somewhat-straight in "The Why of Fry," when Nibbler wipes Fry's mind clean of the Brainspawn incident.
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In "I, Roommate," "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E3IRoommate I, Roommate]]", [[DoAnythingRobot Bender]] can do this to himself with the press of a button.



** "Fun On a Bun" introduces a "Forgettery" where clients can lose their memories of specific persons or events, ''[[Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind Eternal Sunshine]]''-style. It's not a foolproof treatment, since it doesn't erase the memories but disconnects them from the client's consciousness, meaning that they can be brought back with a sufficiently strong reminder.

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** "Fun On In "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E10TheWhyOfFry The Why of Fry]]", Nibbler wipes Fry's mind clean of the Brainspawn incident.
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a Bun" Bun]]" introduces a "Forgettery" where clients can lose their memories of specific persons or events, ''[[Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind Eternal Sunshine]]''-style. It's not a foolproof treatment, since it doesn't erase the memories but disconnects them from the client's consciousness, meaning that they can be brought back with a sufficiently strong reminder.



* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Society of the Blind Eye" gives us a memory-erasing gun, which the titular society uses to erase anyone's memories of an encounter with one of the town's anomalies, because they think IgnoranceIsBliss. It's shown that whenever they erase a memory, one's thoughts can get a bit scrambled in general; Lazy Susan, after having her memory of the gnomes erased, apparently forgot which gender she was. [[spoiler: Old Man [=McGucket=] erased his memory so many times that he eventually became the 'local kook' he is in the present. However, in the end, the memory gun becomes the only thing that can destroy Bill Cipher... by erasing the current mind he's inhabiting.]] Memories ''can'' be restored by reminders of those memories, though this can take time.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Society "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E7SocietyOfTheBlindEye Society of the Blind Eye" Eye]]" gives us a memory-erasing gun, which the titular society uses to erase anyone's memories of an encounter with one of the town's anomalies, because they think IgnoranceIsBliss. It's shown that whenever they erase a memory, one's thoughts can get a bit scrambled in general; Lazy Susan, after having her memory of the gnomes erased, apparently forgot which gender she was. [[spoiler: Old [[spoiler:Old Man [=McGucket=] erased his memory so many times that he eventually became the 'local kook' he is in the present. However, in the end, "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E20WeirdmageddonPart3TakeBackTheFalls Weirdmageddon Part 3]]", the memory gun becomes the only thing that can destroy Bill Cipher... by erasing the current mind he's inhabiting.]] Memories ''can'' be restored by reminders of those memories, though this can take time.



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** Also invoked by Homer in one episode, who wakes up with no memory of only the night before because he drank a special cocktail that erased the last 24 hours from his memories [[spoiler: so he could forget the planning his family was doing to create a surprise party for him]].

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** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': This is used to explain how Peter was able to rehide his secret identity after ''ComicBook/CivilWar''. In ''ComicBook/OneMomentInTime'', he convinces ComicBook/IronMan, [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]] and ComicBook/DoctorStrange to help him fix this. A combination of Strange's magic, Reed's nanobots and Tony's Extremis link allow them to erase everyone's memories of Spidey's identity... except for Mary Jane's, which Peter makes sure doesn't happen and Kaine because the spell thinks he is Peter. Peter later broke the spell, unwittingly, during ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'', when he revealed he was one of the many who had spider powers. The knowledge of who he is remains wiped from everyone's memory, but now others can find out.

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** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': This is used to explain how Peter was able to rehide his secret identity after ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.''[[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Civil War]]''. In ''ComicBook/OneMomentInTime'', he convinces ComicBook/IronMan, [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]] and ComicBook/DoctorStrange to help him fix this. A combination of Strange's magic, Reed's nanobots and Tony's Extremis link allow them to erase everyone's memories of Spidey's identity... except for Mary Jane's, which Peter makes sure doesn't happen and Kaine because the spell thinks he is Peter. Peter later broke the spell, unwittingly, during ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'', when he revealed he was one of the many who had spider powers. The knowledge of who he is remains wiped from everyone's memory, but now others can find out.out.
**Following Doctor Octopus’s time as the ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan, he is [[spoiler:restored to his original body following a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Mephisto]]. While Octavius had full access to Peter Parker’s memories during his time as Spider-Man and after he transferred his mind into an altered clone of Peter’s body, a side-effect of his deal is that Octavius has lost his memories of Spider-Man’s personal identity; even when he has an opportunity to analyse Norman Osborn’s memories, Octavius finds that he literally cannot perceive any memories of who is under Spider-Man’s mask]].
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* One of the more common side effects of ending a demonic possession in ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'', and so far it's never been clean. [[spoiler:Liv]] can't remember her brother at all, leaving her completely unable to process the overwhelming grief she still feels for his death. [[spoiler:Mica]] might have it even worse, since there are no pictures or other physical proof that [[spoiler:Red]] ever existed, making her feel like she's losing her mind ([[spoiler:the CuteLittleFangs she's developed [[MarkOfTheSupernatural due to Red's influence]] help a little]]). Both are tormented by AmnesiacResonance, as they're forcibly reminded that there ''used'' to be something extremely important to them that is now completely lost.

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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Happy Birthday Isabella", it seems like the OWCA has become more frivolous about using memory-erasing technology. [[spoiler:Stacy almost fell victim to this.]]

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*** The "Erase-What-Was-On-My-Mind-Inator" from "Tip of the Day", which was intended by him to make everyone in the Tri-State Area forget about an embarrassing video of him roller-skating into a toilet that had recently gone viral. As these things go, he failed to do so and instead made people [[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet forget what the plastic bits on the end of a shoelace were]].
*** The "Forget-About-It-Inator" from "A Real Boy", intended to make the person it is used on forget about something that had happened in the last couple of minutes. This causes Doof to briefly forget who Norm is and think Norm is his son, and later [[OverlyLongGag repeatedly]] hit Linda as she is bearing witness to the giant toy popper the boys created, causing her to forget she saw it and (re-)see it several times.

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* When Elsa in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' accidentally hits her sister, Anna, in the head with her ice magic, her parents bring them to a troll colony to save her. The oldest troll then alters Anna's memories of Elsa's magic so she won't remember her sister has powers "to be safe". The grown up Anna later learns of Elsa's powers and accepts them, but she never regains her old memories.

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* When Elsa in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' accidentally hits her sister, Anna, in the head with her ice magic, her parents bring them to a troll colony to save her. The oldest troll then alters Anna's memories of Elsa's magic so she won't remember her sister has powers "to be safe". The grown up Anna later learns of Elsa's powers and accepts them, but she never regains her old memories.



* Literal example in Pixar's ''Jack-Jack Attack'', and explicitly shown in a cut scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Plays a little like mind rape, since Huph is trying to hold on to the original version of the events.
** It proves to be not quite laser-guided enough at the start of [[WesternAnimation/Incredibles2 the sequel]] when Agent Dicker does the same thing to Tony, after Bob had told him that Tony had inadvertently seen Violet in costume but out of her mask. Dicker removes Tony's memory of having discovered Violet's identity, but in the process also inadvertently wipes his memory of agreeing to go on a date with her that Friday, resulting in her getting stood up. This causes some conflict between Violet and Bob when she realises what happened.

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Literal example in Pixar's ''Jack-Jack Attack'', ''WesternAnimation/JackJackAttack'', and explicitly shown in a cut scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''. Plays a little like mind rape, MindRape, since Huph is trying to hold on to the original version of the events.
** It proves to be not quite laser-guided enough at the start of [[WesternAnimation/Incredibles2 the sequel]] ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' when Agent Dicker does the same thing to Tony, after Bob had told him that Tony had inadvertently seen Violet in costume but out of her mask. Dicker removes Tony's memory of having discovered Violet's identity, but in the process also inadvertently wipes his memory of agreeing to go on a date with her that Friday, resulting in her getting stood up. This causes some conflict between Violet and Bob when she realises what happened.



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* ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'': When Johnny had his brain implant installed, only the memories of his childhood were removed.
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** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', [[spoiler:all the students were ([[AmbiguousEnding supposedly]]) ordinary people who wanted to become part of the [[TrumanShowPlot Danganronpa show]], and willingly accepted FakeMemories to become entirely different people. Though how much of this is true or false is open-ended]].
* In ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' for the resolution of [[spoiler:Mia Touma]]'s route, she has her memories wiped at the end so that she doesn't have to bear the weight of events that occurred in her story line.
* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Heavens Feel route, Shirou gets a form of anterograde amnesia when he [[spoiler:loosens the binding on Archer's arm.]] It becomes more typical retrograde amnesia later on.

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** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', [[spoiler:all the students were ([[AmbiguousEnding supposedly]]) ordinary people who wanted to become part of the [[TrumanShowPlot Danganronpa show]], ''[[TrumanShowPlot Danganronpa]]'' show, and willingly accepted FakeMemories to become entirely different people. Though how much of this is true or false is open-ended]].
* In ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' for the resolution of [[spoiler:Mia Touma]]'s route, she has her memories wiped at the end so that she doesn't have to bear the weight of events that occurred in her story line.
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* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Heavens Feel route, Shirou gets a form of anterograde amnesia when he [[spoiler:loosens the binding on Archer's arm.]] arm]]. It becomes more typical retrograde amnesia later on.
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* ''WebVideo/NightmareTime:'' A clause of Miss Holloway's deal with the devil causes any memories of her backstories to be laser-erased from people's memories. When she tries to tell someone about her past, they remember everything before and after the story, it's just the period of time where they were hearing about her past that is erased.

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