History Main / MissingTime

** ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941'': As Joe Meach's powers fade, his memory of his time as the Composite Superman also vanishes. Eventually, Joe returns to his janitor job, with no memory of what he did over the past few days, and assuming that he wandered away for a while after getting shock-induced amnesia.

* Anya in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' suffers from this periodically, and has made it a habit of keeping a blog of pictures from her daily activities so she knows what she has been doing. This is revealed to be a result of [[spoiler:Marianne actively possessing her body, during which Anya has no memories]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/ThePlanetEaterTrilogy'', the Man of Steel engages a planet-sized mechanical world-devourer. During one space battle, though, the Planet-Eater blasts Superman back to Earth, simultaneously wiping his memories out. When he comes around, Superman cannot remember anything he did since he left Earth, and has completely forgotten about his battle against a mechanic horror.

* ''ComicBook/{{CyberSix}}'': If her withdrawal gets bad enough, Maura starts finding herself in alleys with a fix and only vague memories of whatever nasty thing she had to do to get the money for it.

** Played for BlackComedy when Dean is apparently abducted by a UFO. On his return he's rather annoyed to find [[TheSoulless Soulless Sam]] in bed with a GirlOfTheWeek [[Not Himself instead of desperately searching for his missing brother]]. Sam has to explain that Dean has been gone all night, not just for the past hour as he believes.

** Played for BlackComedy when Dean is apparently abducted by a UFO. On his return he's rather annoyed to find Soulless Sam in bed with a GirlOfTheWeek instead of desperately searching for his missing brother. Sam has to explain that Dean has been gone all night, not just for the past hour as he believes.

Quite simply-- When a character's life seems to 'jump'. They are at work and then suddenly they are at home (or perhaps even right in the middle of some really weird, inexplicable, and/or disturbing event), with no memories of what happened in between and no context for what they are currently doing. Sometimes the memories will come back in the form of {{flashback}}s. In essence, this is basically when a JumpCut is treated as [[InUniverse a diegetic event]].

* ComicBook/MarvelsVoices'': This happens to Silk in "An Unraveling Web": She starts suddenly jumping from moment to moment in her life without remembering the time in between. One moment she's fighting bad guys, the next she's at therapy, the next she's on a date, the next she's at dinner with her parents. She initially thinks a villain might be messing with her, but eventually concludes that these bouts of missing time are caused by overworking herself and takes her therapist's advice to step away from superhero work for a bit.