History Main / MindReformatDeath

* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Idiot's Lantern": The Doctor defeats The Wire (an alien energy being) this way, by recording its consciousness to a VHS cassette tape, and then (strongly implied to have) recorded over it.

-->'''Frax:''' ''[reprogrammed, [[MachineMonotone monotone]]]'' MachineMonotone I AM A FULLY AUTOMATED MECHANICAL ROBOT. I HAVE NO INFORMATION ON BEING HUMAN.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Dagger of the Mind": By the end of the episode, the malevolent Dr. Adams is killed by accident when an experimental electronic hypnosis device, the neural neutralizer, [[LaserGuidedKarma is turned on with no one at the controls, and he looks into it]]. With no one to provide a mental suggestion, his mind is emptied of everything, and he subsequently dies from the loneliness.

*** "The Schizoid Man": Deliberately done by Dr. Ira Graves, the guest character in the episode. Graves successfully implants his consciousness and knowledge into Data's positronic matrix (though we don't see how), before his physical body dies. However, realizing that he's becoming increasingly corrupt and overbearing in Data's body, Graves subsequently implants his knowledge into the Enterprise computer system to atone (again, we don't see how, since Data is only lying on the floor when found), but does so in a way that the human-consciousness element is lost forever.
*** "Contagion": Played straight, then subverted. An alien computer virus destroys The Enterprise's sister Galaxy-class vessel, and then subsequently infects the Enterprise's computer systems themselves. Upon traveling to the planet the virus originated from, Picard, Worf, and Data beam down to the control center that launches the probes containing the virus. When Data attempts to activate its systems further than just turning it on, he's struck by a data energy discharge that contains the virus, subsequently re-writing Data's systems algorithms one-by-one. When brought back to the Enterprise by Worf, by using the control center's gateway, Data seemingly dies, but then comes back to life a few seconds later, but without his memories and experiences on the planet. This is the key to stopping the virus: a shut down of all ship systems to purge the virus from memory, then restarting from separate protected archives and memory.
*** "The Measure of a Man": How Data likens the transfer of his positronic matrix into a data container for study, when Commander Bruce Maddox suggests the development of creating hundreds or even thousands of versions of Dr. Noonien Soong's androids:

*** "Eye of the Beholder": The android Commander Data admits that he found his first few months of sapience so difficult that he considered resetting his neural network, effectively committing suicide and allowing a new identity to form in his place.
%% (Doesn't fit the idea. No computer is involved.) ** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode ''Sons of Mogh'', Worf's brother Kurn had become a House-less Klingon without honor due to refusing to join the Empire in invading the Cardassian Union during the war with the Dominion. He came to Deep Space Nine to ask Worf to help him commit ritual suicide, as doing it himself is dishonorable for a Klingon. Eventually, Worf and Jadzia convinced him to have his memory erased and appearance and DNA altered, effectively killing Kurn and becoming a completely new person. This allowed him to be adopted by a new Klingon House.

** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': It turns out that Data's consciousness survived in some form after the events of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. When Picard succumbs to the unknown condition (Implied to be Irumodic Syndrome, from TNG's finale, "All Good Things...") that has been slowly deteriorating his mind throughout season 1, his consciousness is uploaded into a computer bank, where he meets with Data's consciousness, who asks him to terminate it. When Picard's essence is uploaded into a new "golem" android body, he does so, slowly taking out the isolinear chips containing Data, with a eulogy speech. Inside of the computer bank, each chip removal abstractly ages Data's consciousness, until he dies peacefully and it finally dissolves into oblivion.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "The Lateness of the Hour", a woman discovers that she is really a robot built by her "parents". This knowledge drives her insane and her father reprograms her as a maid.

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** At the climax of "ComicBook/{{Ultron}} vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma]]", Sigma attempts to infect Ultron with the Maverick Virus in hopes of taking him over. Ultron, however, NoSell{{s}} this and proceeds to successfully do the same to Sigma, overwriting him completely and killing him.

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* Happens, oddly enough, in ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation''. Sirrus and Achenar's original plan to subjugate more civilizations (in addition to the ages that their father, Atrus, had already written) was retconned into learning the Art of writing Linking Books by extracting the information from Atrus, with a computer-like machine [[note]]Although this brings about FridgeLogic in how this is supposed to work, given the time period this happens is in the early 1800s.[[/note]] and a special religious artifact on a world called "Serenia". Sirrus dies this way when he kidnaps Atrus' new ten-year-old daughter, Yeesha, attempts to swap minds with her using the artifact, and becomes entangled in a battle-of-minds with the player, who, in-tandem with the device and Serenia's dream world, severs the metaphysical anchors protecting his essence from being obliterated by the [[EldritchLocation dream world's chaos and entropy.]] When done so, Sirrus' essence flies off into the void and explodes into energy particles.

** This is how Mega Man X is killed in the "Franchise/MegaMan Battle Royale". Following a combined black hole attack from all of the fighters, [[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Geo Stelar]] hijacks his body and mind in order to reverse the damage he's taken from the black hole.

* ''Literature/TheLongWayToASmallAngryPlanet'': After the ship is nearly destroyed Lovelace the A.I. suffers severe damage. The only way to save her is to perform a hard reset, which has a 50% chance of wiping her memories and personality and reverting her to her "out-of-the-box" state. Unfortunately it does so, and she decides to move her consciousness to an android body and leave the ship rather than remain with the crew who are all mourning her virtual death.

* ''Literature/{{Diaspora}}'': The AI Inishiro [[DrivenToSuicide effectively commits suicide]] in this manner, deliberately reprogramming their own mind so drastically that their original personality is [[DeathOfPersonality destroyed]].

* ''Literature/JohannesCabal'': The villain of "The House of Gears" is a MadScientist who's [[BrainUploading transferred his mind]] to a huge analog computer. When Johannes finds its memory storage banks, he plans to destroy them and "kill" the scientist, but [[SubvertedTrope instead decides]] to [[FakeMemories modify them]] so the scientist trusts and respects him.

* In ''The Four Lords Of The Diamond'' by Creator/JackChalker, this is the final fate of the assassin sent to Medusa. Their mind is remade into that of a willing sex slave, and the malleable forms of Medusans allows a body to match. However, the person in charge of the wipe attempts to implant a subconscious command: if the new personality is ever in the presence of the Lord and both of his subordinates, she ''might'' manage to take one shot at wiping them out. The very last act of the series is the original agent watching the bodies hit the floor.
** Also applies to how the assassins get into the Diamond in the first place. Anyone who lands on a Diamond planet is unable to leave the system without dying, and that's why it's used as a dumping ground for condemned prisoners. Four of the sentenced are subjected to mind transfer through duplication of the original assassin's pattern, creating a single agent with five bodies -- but it works by completely overwriting everything in the recipient's mind, and those four personalities are effectively dead.

-->'''Frax [reprogrammed, monotone]:''' [[MachineMonotone I AM A FULLY AUTOMATED MECHANICAL ROBOT. I HAVE NO INFORMATION ON BEING HUMAN.]]

----> '''Data [to Maddox]:''' There is an ineffable quality to memory which I do not believe can survive your procedure.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': Standard procedure when buying a used Droid is to have it's memory circuits reformatted, which removes any lingering loyalties to it's previous owner as well as any inconvenient eccentricities it might have picked up. Various stories dealing from the Droids' point of view express their likening this to DeathOfPersonality, especially considering these wipes are rarely done with any sort of consent on the Droid's part. C-3PO (yes, that one) even used the grievance as a rallying point during a robot rebellion he'd be tricked into starting.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' this can happen to Necrons that awaken damaged from their 65-million-year slumber. Some keep the same personality with just a few new quirks, others cant even trust their memories and many have been turned unto completely deranged [[Main/OmnicidalManiac killing machines]] that lack any resemblance to their former selves.

-->'''Player:''' You killed him! You killed Skippy!
-->'''Regina:''' Come on. He's just an algorithm. Not a shred of consciousness.

--> LQ-84i: I may analyze orders, but I may not disobey them. Should I disobey a direct order, my memory would be wiped. I must destroy you.

-->'''Kowalski:''' Sorry for the mess. I need to move in, and I don't pack light.
-->'''Libretti:''' There's no room for you to move in with me.
-->'''Kowalski:''' I didn't say I was moving in ''with'' you.

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* In ''{{Manga/Chobits}}'', prior to the start of the series Chii, then known as Elda, was reset in order to [[spoiler:save the data of her twin sister Freya]]. It turns out her memories were saved on a disc that Hideki unknowingly dropped when finding her, so Elda is effectively gone for good afterwards. [[spoiler:It turns out that while most persocoms can be rebooted no issue, if Chii is rebooted she'll be reset to factory settings -- and her reboot button isn't in her ear like most personcoms, it's in her vagina, meaning she'll never be able to have sex without dying.]]

* ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'': In Season 2, [[spoiler:Shane's mind is erased by the Sisters' HiveMind when he drifts with Brina Taylor in an attempt to restore her sanity]].

[[folder:Fan Fiction]]

* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinCorruption'': Prior to the events of the mod, Senpai was forcefully placed into a videogame, turning his being into data. During the mod, Boyfriend attempts to corrupt said data, then tries to delete Senpai when he resists. Senpai fights back against Boyfriend, but loses, and Boyfriend deletes his data before breaking the game entirely.

How about having your mind regressed to a simpler form so that at best, you lose all previous personality and experiences, and at worst, it loses the human/organic/artificial-consciousness element, or even much worse, being scrambled into millions and billions of randomized bits or erased to all zeroes, so that '''''no''''' trace of your essence is left? If you're a robot, your former body is now just an empty shell of metal, plastic, ceramic, glass, and silicon with electricity flowing through it. If you're a human, you might as well be brain-dead.

* Creator/ArchieComics' ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' #49: Dr. Light rebuilt the Robot Masters from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'', the same way he did the original set. Half of them [[note]]Quick Man, Heat Man, Metal Man, Crash Man, Magnet Man, Needle Man, Gemini Man and Top Man[[/note]] refuse the reprogramming that was the main condition that allowed Dr. Light to restore them. Dr Light explicitly tells them that it's reprogramming or deactivation. They argue that reprogramming would be death anyway, so chose to [[DyingAsYourself go out as themselves.]]

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Warlord Bartholomew Kuma subjects himself to this when he is turned into the prototype Pacifista robot. Supposedly, he permitted the World Government to wipe his memory in the process.

* In ''{{Manga/Chobits}}'', prior to the start of the series Chii, then known as Elda, was reset in order to [[spoiler:save the data of her twin sister Freya]]. It turns out her memories were saved on a disc that Hideki unknowingly dropped when finding her, so Elda is effectively gone for good afterwards. [[spoiler:It turns out that while most persocoms can be rebooted no issue, if Chii is rebooted she'll be reset to factory settings - and her reboot button isn't in her ear like most personcoms it's in her vagina meaning she'll never be able to have sex without dying.]]

* ''Film/{{Moon}}'': In the final act of the film, just as Sam Bell gets ready to escape Sarang Station and return to Earth, Gertie (the station's A.I.) asks Sam to reset it in order to delete the files of the film's events (including the fact that Sam [[TomatoSurprise discovered he's a mass-produced clone]], interacted with another clone and the aforementioned escape) to prevent Lunar Industries from hunting him down. Sam does it with some reluctance, even exchanging some final words with Gertie and then removing a KickMeSign that he had posted on the A.I.'s back earlier as a sign of respect for this HeroicSacrifice.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Robocop}}''. Patrol Officer Alex J. Murphy's brain, nervous system, (implied) eyes, and facial skin are the only real organs transplanted into a cybernetic body by Omni Consumer Products, Detroit's crime-fighting MegaCorp, after a gang bust raid goes horribly wrong. When undergoing assembly into the titular "Robocop" at the start of the film, Murphy's mind and memories are seemingly electronically blanked, until he starts to remember his past life due to certain characters recognizing his voice, tic-like actions, and just plain memory fragments resurfacing on their own.

[[folder:General Media]]
* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': Standard procedure when buying a used Droid is to have it's memory circuits reformatted, which removes any lingering loyalties to it's previous owner as well as any inconvenient eccentricities it might have picked up. Various stories dealing from the Droids' point of view express their likening this to DeathOfPersonality, especially considering these wipes are rarely done with any sort of consent on the Droid's part. C-3PO (yes, that one) even used the grievance as a rallying point during a robot rebellion he'd be tricked into starting.

* ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'': Strongly implied that Dr. Ferricks/Frax met his end this way. Dr. Ferricks developed the serum that keeps Ransik alive, but in return, under prejudice, Ransik mortally wounds him and destroys his laboratory, forcing Dr. Ferricks to convert his body and mind into a robotic one. When Frax splinters off from Ransik's group of villains, he creates his own giant mecha. Unfortunately, Gluto discovers Frax's laboratory, and Ransik commandeers him and his operation. Nadira, Ransik's daughter, goes to visit Frax in his prison cell due to a conflict of heart (delivering a human baby brought about her questioning her own prejudices). Frax, while verbally hostile at first, desperately convinces her to not give-in to hate and break the chain caused by Ransik, as he's carried off to be experimented on. Later, Nadira enters the laboratory he's being held in, but when she tries to continue their conversation, "he" only responds with a robotic error message, and all trace of Dr. Ferricks'/Frax's essence seems to have been erased forever.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Dagger of the Mind": By the end of the episode, the malevolent Dr. Adams is killed by accident when an experimental electronic hypnosis device, the neural neutralizer, [[LaserGuidedKarma is turned on with no one at the controls, and he looks into it.]] With no one to provide a mental suggestion, his mind is emptied of everything, and he subsequently dies from the loneliness.

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Diaspora}}'': The AI Inishiro [[DrivenToSuicide effectively commits suicide]] in this manner, deliberately reprogramming their own mind so drastically that their original personality is [[DeathOfPersonality destroyed]].
* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': Humans are made into ancillaries through brain implants that let a spaceship [=AI=] use them as {{Wetware Bod|y}}ies. The original personality is immediately [[DeathOfPersonality ruined beyond recovery]] by the hijacking, but it takes a few weeks for the remnants to fade entirely. When Tisarwat is briefly implanted and later rescued, she sees herself as a new person entirely, albeit one with the original's memories.
* ''Literature/JohannesCabal'': The villain of "The House of Gears" is a MadScientist who's [[BrainUploading transferred his mind]] to a huge analog computer. When Johannes finds its memory storage banks, he plans to destroy them and "kill" the scientist, but [[SubvertedTrope instead decides]] to [[FakeMemories modify them]] so the scientist trusts and respects him.
* ''Literature/TheLongWayToASmallAngryPlanet'': After the ship is nearly destroyed Lovelace the A.I. suffers severe damage. The only way to save her is to perform a hard reset, which has a 50% chance of wiping her memories and personality and reverting her to her "out-of-the-box" state. Unfortunately it does so, and she decides to move her consciousness to an android body and leave the ship rather than remain with the crew who are all mourning her virtual death.
* In ''The Four Lords Of The Diamond'' by Creator/JackChalker, this is the final fate of the assassin sent to Medusa. Their mind is remade into that of a willing sex slave, and the malleable forms of Medusans allows a body to match. However, the person in charge of the wipe attempts to implant a subconscious command: if the new personality is ever in the presence of the Lord and both of his subordinates, she ''might'' manage to take one shot at wiping them out. The very last act of the series is the original agent watching the bodies hit the floor.
** Also applies to how the assassins get into the Diamond in the first place. Anyone who lands on a Diamond planet is unable to leave the system without dying, and that's why it's used as a dumping ground for condemned prisoners. Four of the sentenced are subjected to mind transfer through duplication of the original assassin's pattern, creating a single agent with five bodies -- but it works by completely overwriting everything in the recipient's mind, and those four personalities are effectively dead.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': The Automatron expansion pack introduces [[FemBot Ada]] an extremely modified and advanced [[RobotSoldier Assaultatron]] built by Jackson to act as a companion and guard for their merchant caravan, as a companion. Ada is one of the few robots in the series to be completely [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots self aware and sapient]]. However, after her creator and the entire Caravan were slaughtered by the Mechanists robots Ada is overcome with guilt and misery at the loss, at one point during the story admitted to the sole survivor how she's contemplated disabling her personality matrix, reducing her back to factory settings and in effect committing suicide as she doesn't know how to handle her emotions. The player has the option of either encouraging to do so or (through a speech check) arguing that as painful as it feels is she has every right to her life and can not give up all she is.

** Something similar is addressed in 'Lost Lament' quest during ''Destiny 2: Beyond Light,'' which explores some of the origins of the Exo project and the ultimate fate of Clovis Bray I. The Exos were being used in a war against the Vex on Europa, their bodies getting destroyed and being reset (albeit with their memories remaining intact) multiple times while driving the Vex back. One of the Exos was a copy of Clovis I himself, but initially without his memories. The Exo Clovis would ultimately, after receiving his memories, be disgusted with his original self (who had undergone BrainUploading again to become the AI overseeing the Deep Stone Crypt where the Exos were made. When the Vex were finally defeated, Clovis-43 requested that his granddaughter reset him one last time, but to wipe his memory and edit his identity file, so as to move on from the man he was. She agreed, and Banshee-44 would later become The Gunsmith in the Tower. The AI Clovis, upon learning of this ages later, has stated a desire to perform this trope on Banshee, declaring him defective.

Minds are hard to define. Some say it's inseparable of one's existence, others say its a soul; an entity within a flesh-and-blood container, or in the case of a robot, a bunch of ones and zeroes within a metal one. But in any case, sci-fi media likes to treat it as if it's something that can be taken from one place to another, and affected by external stimuli, with a lot (and we '''mean''' a lot) of implications about how it works and its nature in each instance. However, some say CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul if you try to upgrade your flesh-and-blood body into a robot, or if you upload your consciousness into a computer, [[AndIMustScream you may not be able to get yourself out, or call for help]].

* In ''{{Manga/Chobits}}'', prior to the start of the series Chii, then known as Elda, was reset in order to [[spoiler:save the data of her twin sister Freya]]. It turns out her memories were saved on a disc that Hideki unknowingly dropped when finding her, so Elda is effectively gone for good afterwards.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' {{subvert|edTrope}}s the trope given the titular Transformers are MechanicalLifeforms. When [[TheDragon Soundwave]] deletes his data and crashes his drives to prevent himself from giving up data to his enemies, the result is equivalent to putting himself in a brain-dead vegetative state. While his physical vitals continue to be stable, there is nothing left of his personality or memories and there is no chance of recovering anything. That is, until his AttackDrone, Laserbeak, reunites with him and uploads a [[CrazyPrepared copy of his personality and memories]], at which point Soundwave is no longer as closely guarded, leaving him with no trouble escaping.

** Gems are an [[ServantRace artificial]] alien race whose minds are contained within their [[HeartDrive gemstones]]. When Rose Quartz gave birth to [[HalfHumanHybrid Steven]] and passed hers onto him, she suffered DeathByChildbirth in the sense that Steven's mind replaced hers. But because the gemstone was not physically altered, Steven has an organic body with its own brain, and some traces of Rose's memories remain, many characters wonder or assume Steven '''is''' Rose, [[ExistentialHorror including Steven himself]]. When Steven discovers that his mother was actually Pink Diamond in-disguise, he and the rest of the gems travel to Homeworld. When he tries to speak to White Diamond once they land, she acts like "Steven" is just [[RaisedAsAHost a host body]] which Rose Quartz puppeteers and [[BelievingTheirOwnLies believes is her own]]. When Steven convinces the other Diamonds to change their minds, White commandeers mental control of nearly the entire team, ''then'' takes Steven and ''[[WhamShot pulls out his diamond gemstone]]'', which just creates two halves, one flesh-and-blood and one made of purely pink diamond energy, that both look like Steven and desperately need to reunite. The pink-energy-half of Steven, in no uncertain terms, '''viscerally''' '''''screams''''' at White Diamond that Rose Quartz (and by extension Pink Diamond) [[DeadAllAlong really is "gone" and is never coming back]].

Then again, you, or at least what is your mind and very essence of being, may like it in there. You may appreciate being immortal, powerful, and free of pain and misery as humans know it. You may even be forced to.

* Zigzagged in ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'': Youta Moteuchi has had bad luck in love. Despondent, he goes to a video store later revealed to be supernatural. Here, the cassettes contain video girls, artificially-intelligent entities which [[TelevisionPortal come out of the renter's TV to comfort them]]. He selects one containing a girl named "Ai Amano", but Yota's broken VCR changes Ai, in addition to giving her feelings and desires, and Youta falls in love with her. Unfortunately, there are two catches: In one month, Ai will cease to exist due to the videotape reaching its run time, and the video company's malevolent CEO attempting a recall [[note]]read: kill her by stopping her tape[[/note]] because she's faulty. The CEO tries this once by abducting Ai by stealing the cassette, but the store owner is able to save Ai's essence by redubbing (copying) it onto another cassette. In the finale, Ai's videotape is almost over, the CEO and Youta confront each other, with the CEO promising to fix Ai, but in a heart-wrenching betrayal, The CEO rewinds Ai's tape, rendering her mind and personality as if she had just met for the first time. However, a desperate plea from Youta brings her back to normal.

** At the end of the "Lord of Terror" arc, the eponymous character is defeated by Belldandy and Skuld, when Belldandy starts to draw the Lord of Terror out of Keiichi's body, and Skuld surreptitiously presents a floppy disk for them to transfer their consciousness to. Subsequently, Skuld erases the floppy disk with a strong magnet.

** Gems are an [[ServantRace artificial]] alien race whose minds are contained within their [[HeartDrive gemstones]]. When Rose Quartz gave birth to [[HalfHumanHybrid Steven]] and passed hers onto him, she suffered DeathByChildbirth in the sense that Steven's mind replaced hers. But because the gemstone was not physically altered, Steven has an organic body with its own brain, and some traces of Rose's memories remain, many characters wonder or assume Steven '''is''' Rose, [[ExistentialHorror including Steven himself]]. When Steven discovers that his mother was actually Pink Diamond in-disguise, he and the rest of the gems travel to Homeworld. When he tries to speak to White Diamond once they land, she acts like "Steven" is just [[RaisedAsAHost a host body]] which Rose Quartz puppeteers and [[BelievingTheirOwnLies believes is her own]]. When Steven convinces the other Diamonds to change their minds, White commandeers mental control of nearly the entire team, ''then'' takes Steven and ''[[WhamShot pulls out his diamond gemstone]]'', which just creates two halves, one flesh-and-blood and one made of purely pink diamond energy, that both look like Steven and desperately need to reunite. The pink energy version of Steven, in no uncertain terms, '''viscerally''' '''''screams''''' at White Diamond that Rose Quartz (and by extension Pink Diamond) [[DeadAllAlong really is "gone" and is never coming back]].

** Something similar is addressed in 'Lost Lament' quest during ''Destiny 2: Beyond Light,'' which explores some of the origins of the Exo project and the ultimate fate of Clovis Bray I. The Exos were being used in a war against the Vex on Europa, their bodies getting destroyed and being reset (albeit with their memories remaining intact) multiple times while driving the Vex back. One of the Exos was a copy of Clovis I himself, but initially without his memories. The Exo Clovis would ultimately, after receiving his memories, be disgusted with his original self (who had undergone BrainUploading again to become the AI overseeing the Deep Stone Crypt where the Exos were made. When the Vex were finally defeated, Clovis-43 requested that his granddaughter reset him one last time, but to wipe his memory and edit his identity file, so as to move on from the man he was. She agreed, and Banshee-44 would later become TheGunsmith in the Tower. The AI Clovis, upon learning of this ages later, has stated a desire to perform this trope on Banshee, declaring him defective.

** Something similar is addressed in 'Lost Lament' quest during ''Destiny 2: Beyond Light,'' which explores some of the origins of the Exo project and the ultimate fate of Clovis Bray I. [[spoiler: The Exos were being used in a war against the Vex on Europa, their bodies getting destroyed and being reset (albeit with their memories remaining intact) multiple times while driving the Vex back. One of the Exos was a copy of Clovis I himself, but initially without his memories. The Exo Clovis would ultimately, after receiving his memories, be disgusted with his original self (who had undergone BrainUploading again to become the AI overseeing the Deep Stone Crypt where the Exos were made. When the Vex were finally defeated, Clovis-43 requested that his granddaughter reset him one last time, but to wipe his memory and edit his identity file, so as to move on from the man he was. She agreed, and Banshee-44 would later become TheGunsmith in the Tower. The AI Clovis, upon learning of this ages later, has stated a desire to perform this trope on Banshee, declaring him defective.]]

* Happens, oddly enough, in ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation''. Sirrus and Achenar's original plan to subjugate more civilizations was was retconned into learning the Art of writing Linking Books by extracting the information from Atrus, their father, with a computer-like machine [[note]]Although this brings about FridgeLogic in how this is supposed to work, given the time period this happens is in the early 1800s.[[/note]] and a special religious artifact on a world called "Serenia". Sirrus dies this way when he kidnaps Atrus' new ten-year-old daughter, Yeesha, attempts to swap minds with her using the artifact, and becomes entangled in a battle-of-minds with the player, who, in-tandem with the device and Serenia's dream world, severs the metaphysical anchors protecting his essence from being obliterated by the [[EldritchLocation dream world's chaos and entropy.]] When done so, Sirrus' essence flies off into the void and explodes into energy particles.

---> LQ-84i: I may analyze orders, but I may not disobey them. Should I disobey a direct order, my memory would be wiped. I must destroy you.