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* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', [[spoiler: [[{{SecretCharacter}} Emmeryn]] loses most of her ability to speak and forgets almost everything of her life as [[{{TheHighQueen}} Exalt]] due to suffering brain damage after her attempted HeroicSuicide. If she dies [[FinalDeath in Classic Mode]], these are her last words.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', [[spoiler: [[{{SecretCharacter}} Emmeryn]] loses most of her ability to speak and forgets almost everything of her life as [[{{TheHighQueen}} Exalt]] due to suffering brain damage after her attempted HeroicSuicide. If she dies [[FinalDeath in Classic Mode]], these are her FamousLastWords.]]

* From ''[[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo 20XXV,]]'' we have a rather heartbreaking scenario with Renko, who, due to illness, suffers from a degree of blindness and memory loss, so she didn't remember that [[spoiler: Ren,]] the "puppy", had passed away, and neither did she remember him too much before his passing, due to said memory loss. When she does remember, she scrambles about the apartment building trying to find him and asks about where he is and when he'll come back, Reimu had to sit her down and explain, as only she could, that he's passed on. Ren is justifiably upset.

A SubTrope of {{Irony}}. A SuperTrope to ForgotICouldntSwim. Compare SpannerInTheWorks, SomethingWeForgot, YouAreTooLate, RepressedMemories, and RememberedICouldFly. Contrast JustInTime and PhotographicMemory.

* Brian is sometimes prone to this in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''. For example, one his plans to win a ''car wars'' style game culminated in him ejecting from his vehicle and flying away on a collapsible hang glider as his vehicle exploded in an enormous fireball, relying on his fireproof suit to keep him safe. One of the other players then pointed out that while his suit was fireproof, the hang glider wasn't. Cue Brian's character plummeting into the ground.

* From ''[[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo 20XXV]]'', we have a rather heartbreaking scenario with Renko, who, due to illness, suffers from a degree of blindness and memory loss, so she didn't remember that [[spoiler: Ren]], the "puppy", had passed away, and neither did she remember him too much before his passing, due to said memory loss. When she does remember, she scrambles about the apartment building trying to find him and asks about where he is and when he'll come back, Reimu had to sit her down and explain, as only she could, that he's passed on. Wren is justifiably upset.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': "[[ExplainExplainOhCrap Wait a minute... I just lit a rocket... ROCKETS EXPLODE]]!"

* In ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' by Creator/StephenKing: As police chief Randolph and a detachment of officers are heading towards a meth lab in order to assault it and take the valuable propane stored there, Randolph realizes that they had forgot to grab body armor (i.e. bullet proof vests) before driving to the lab. He doesn't worry too much about it, since he figures the assault will be easy; he assumes the two men there will be too stoned out of their minds to fight back. How wrong he turns out to be.
* In ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' Miracle Max promised that the miracle pill he made for Westley would last for a full hour. It's only after our heroes have left that he realizes that he messed up the proportions of ingredients and if it lasts for forty minutes it'll be a miracle. This is what causes Westley to collapse during the confrontation with Humperdinck. This was altered in the movie because to do it the grandfather would have to give timestamps.
* Early in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Sirius gives Harry a Christmas gift, telling him it can be used to contact him in an emergency (or if Snape gives him a hard time in Occlumency lessons). Harry, knowing Sirius is going stir-crazy and not wanting him to charge off, hides it away. He then forgets about it until well after [[spoiler: misinformation from Voldemort gets Sirius killed]], something which could have been easily prevented with the use of that gift.

* PlayedForLaughs in the third episode of ''Manga/ServantXService'', where Hasebe trying to, but keeps on forgetting to ask Yamagami for her email address -- he gave several favours to Yamagami which would be opportunities to do that, but he only remembered that after Yamagami left.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': "Wait a minute... I just lit a rocket... [[OhCrap ROCKETS EXPLODE]]!"

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', [[spoiler: [[{{SecretCharacter}} Emmeryn]] loses most of her ability to speak and forgets almost everything of her life as [[{{TheHighQueen}} Exalt]] due to suffering brain damage after her attempted HeroicSuicide. If she dies [[{{KilledOffForReal}} in Classic Mode]], these are her FamousLastWords.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'', Cavin takes some Gummi Berry Juice to fight some trolls, and when nothing happens, Zummi just remembers that the juice only works for humans once a day.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'', Sarah tells the team a plan to help scan rare creatures for an upcoming battle. Later,Kaz forgets the plan while busy with schoolwork and lets a BigNo out when he gets back to Chaotic.

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* Brian is sometimes prone to this in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''. For example, one his plans to win a ''car wars'' style game culminated in him ejecting from his vehicle and flying away on a collapsible hang glider as his vehicle exploded in an enormous fireball, relying on his fireproof suit to keep him safe. One of the other players then pointed out that while his suit was fireproof, the hang glider wasn't. Cue Brian's character plummeting into the ground.

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* In ''Film/GoodByeLenin'', the mother of the main character says she hid her life savings but can't remember where, this is after the fall of the Berlin Wall and everybody was changing their East Germany money for the Deutsche Mark. Later in the movie she remembers where she hid the money, but when they went to the bank they were told the window for making the change expired two days before.
* In ''Film/TimeChasers'', protagonist Nick Miller is being chased by the BigBad's minions and [[HeroStoleMyBike takes a nearby man's car]] in order to get away. [[EpicFail He flips the car not even a minute later]] and admits to the horrified owner "I don't drive."

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' Roy asked an oracle a question, and then [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0332.html realizes his question was poorly worded based on extraneous interactions with the Oracle]], and worse, he immediately forgets even that the question was poorly worded, due to a memory spell in the oracle's home which erases all memories about the visit except one's question and the answer (including knowledge about the memory spell).
** Which leads to some FridgeLogic about why he ''kept walking out of the valley'' instead of turning around immediately (since he hadn't had his memory affected yet since learning about the memory spell).

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': "Wait a minute... I just lit a rocket... [[OhCrap ROCKETS EXPLODE]]!"

--> '''Baron Ghoulash:''' I just remembered. [[spoiler: Mrs. Claus]] is the Head Vampire!
--> '''Mandy:''' That information would have been useful five seconds ago!

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': In a much more tragic twist on this trope, [[spoiler: the protagonist begins dying, and holding on by [[HeroicWillpower sheer willpower alone.]] He holds on for two entire months, just to fulfill a promise to his friends that they would meet on the rooftop on the day of their graduation, so they can look back on the world they saved. However, after the battle with the [[InvincibleVillain final boss, and he seals it away,]] the protagonist's teammates and closest friends forget the previous year they spent together, saving the entire world. In the final moments, the protagonist waits on the roof with Aigis, probably sad that they couldn't be there, and barely hanging on to life. His friends suddenly remember their promise, and rush to the roof to meet him. [[CruelTwistEnding However, the protagonist slips away only seconds before they reach the rooftop.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry'' has this little gem during the raid on Mundus' HQ:

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'': In a much more tragic twist on this trope, [[spoiler: the protagonist begins dying, and holding on by [[HeroicWillpower sheer willpower alone.]] He holds on for two entire months, just to fulfill a promise to his friends that they would meet on the rooftop on the day of their graduation, so they can look back on the world they saved. However, after the battle with the [[InvincibleVillain final boss, and he seals it away,]] the protagonist's teammates and closest friends forget the previous year they spent together, saving the entire world. In the final moments, the protagonist waits on the roof with Aigis, probably sad that they couldn't be there, and barely hanging on to life. His friends suddenly remember their promise, and rush to the roof to meet him. [[CruelTwistEnding However, the protagonist slips away only seconds before they reach the rooftop.]]]]

* After ''VideoGame/UltimaIV'' Smith the horse became a running gag for this for the rest of the [[VideoGame/{{Ultima}} series]]. Due to a bug, he failed to deliver a critical clue in IV, and every later appearance he would remember something important he had to tell the Avatar: information that would've shortened the previous game had he relayed it then.

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* According to the first ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' CompilationMovie, this is the TragicFlaw of the BigBad EvilMatriarch Precia Testarossa (this bit of her characterization differs from the original anime, where she was just a total monster). [[spoiler:As she plummets to her death, she suddenly remembers that her beloved late daughter Alicia, who she had done many of her more evil things to bring back, [[SiblingsWanted wished for a little sister]] -- in other words, she wished for Fate, whom Precia treated like crap and rejected earlier for not being exactly like Alicia.]] She then muses to herself on how she never notices things until it is too late.

** An episode of has Charles using this as a ploy to yank Col. Flagg's chain. Hawkeye is accused to be a traitor by an infirmed colonel for giving priority to a wounded North Korean soldier. Col. Flagg arrives and retrieves a notice which Charles happens to notice first. The notice tells of a meeting in the Swamp with Hawkeye, Col. Potter and two Korean officials. Col. Flagg bursts through the meeting, thinking a plan is afoot for North Korea to overtake South Korea and that Hawkeye and Potter are in cahoots ("Caramba! The fish stinks from the head down!"). It turns out to be a poker game, and the two Koreans happen to be the Mayor and Chief of Police of Panmunjam. Charles conveniently now recalls who the two Koreans are and embarrasses Flagg.

* In the first season of ''LightNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', Shion, in full psychotic {{Yandere}} mode, realizes that she forgot the last request of her beloved Satoshi, which was "I leave Satoko in your care." She realizes this just as [[spoiler:she's finished tearing the poor girl apart with a knife]]. No, it is NOT pretty.

* From ''[[Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo 20XXV]]'', we have a rather heartbreaking scenario with Renko, who, due to illness, suffers from a degree of blindness memory loss, and didn't remember that [[spoiler: Ren]], the "puppy", had passed away, and neither did she remember him too much before his passing, due to said memory loss. When she does remember, she scrambles about the apartment building trying to find him and asks about where he is and when he'll come back, Reimu had to sit her down and explain, as only she could, that he's passed on. Wren is justifiably upset.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Shadow's driving motivation is his promise to avenge the death of his friend Maria by destroying humanity. When the ARK's been activated and is on a collision course for the planet, Amy tries to convince Shadow to help them stop it. It's then that Shadow remembers that what Maria had actually asked of him was to do what he could to make the people of the world happy. Kind of an important distinction there, Shad.
** It is justified since Shadow's creator implanted him with FalseMemories. What happened in that case is less "forgot until now" and more "was overwritten by something else until now".
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', [[spoiler: [[{{SecretCharacter}} Emmeryn]] loses most of her ability to speak and forgets almost everything of her life as [[{{TheHighQueen}} Exalt]] due to suffering brain damage after her attempted HeroicSuicide. If she dies [[{{KilledOffForReal}} in Classic Mode]], these are her FamousLastWords.]]
--> ''[[spoiler: "I...I finally remember...But alas...I am too late... Lissa...Chrom...forgive me..."]]''

* An episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has Charles using this as a ploy to yank Col. Flagg's chain. Hawkeye is accused to be a traitor by an infirmed colonel for giving priority to a wounded North Korean soldier. Col. Flagg arrives and retrieves a notice which Charles happens to notice first. The notice tells of a meeting in the Swamp with Hawkeye, Col. Potter and two Korean officials. Col. Flagg bursts through the meeting, thinking a plan is afoot for North Korea to overtake South Korea and that Hawkeye and Potter are in cahoots ("Caramba! The fish stinks from the head down!"). It turns out to be a poker game, and the two Koreans happen to be the Mayor and Chief of Police of Panmunjam. Charles conveniently now recalls who the two Koreans are and embarrasses Flagg.

* In the first season of ''LightNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Kai'', Shion, in full psychotic {{Yandere}} mode, realizes that she forgot the last request of her beloved Satoshi, which was "I leave Satoko in your care." She realizes this just as [[spoiler:she's tearing the poor girl apart with a knife]]. No, it is NOT pretty.

This can overlap with NowYouTellMe if someone forgot information they need to tell someone else.