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* In {{Videogame/Resonance}}, Anna has repressed the memory of Javi, her real father (previously believed to be an uncle) killing the man she believed was her father.
* Ashley Riot of ''VagrantStory'' has repressed all his memories of his experience as a Riskbreaker. Sydney forces him to relive the experience that caused this, causing the memories to begin emerging again, and it's used to justify your gaining abilities automatically with each level - "Ashley has recovered this ability from repressed memory."

* In ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', this apparently the case for Rosa, which is why we only learn in Episode 3 that [[spoiler:she had found Beatrice II in [[GildedCage Kuwadorian]] many years ago and helped her escape, only for Beatrice to fall off a cliff and die.]] It seems it takes a lengthy talk about an unknown woman secretly living on the island to make her exhume her memories of the event (as foreshadowed early in Episode 2).

* In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney: Dual Destinies'', the black psyche-locks seen in the final case (as well as the last case of the game before it) are revealed to indicate these. [[spoiler:In Dual Destinies, they're protecting Athena from remembering discovering her mother's dead body with her killer still standing over her, then stabbing the killer herself. No one's yet sure what they mean for Kristoph, the only other character seen to have them...or if we'll ever find out for certain.]]

* In ''SluggyFreelance'' Torg represses/alters his memories so he doesn't have to face the fact that [[spoiler:Zoe and Riff most likely died in the Mark-19 explosion]].

* It's shown in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' that 'conditioning' does not erase your memories, it simply heavily represses them. Claes once beat up Petra when she touched her glasses, because the glasses were given to her by the handler, despite the fact she doesn't remember his existence. [[spoiler:When Henrietta is on a mission against the Five Republics Factor she sees a man in a ski-mask which triggers the memories of her past. She flies into a fit of rage, accidentally shoots her [[TheHandler handler]], and this ultimately results in her death]].

* In [[Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo20XXV]], chapter 46, it was noted Reimu actually did remember what had happened in Gensokyo 20XXIV with Ran and Chen's suicide attempts and it wasn't made all that clear up until then, then again, her age regression age was three, if not four, an age in which permanent memories can be formed.However, it is noted that her lack of comprehension and innocence at the time said memories were formed left her unable to cope with them in the future.

* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', Komari regularly has dreams of an older brother she doesn't remember. These turn out to be memories she repressed because [[spoiler:his death traumatised her so greatly, compounded by the fact that, just before he died, he tried to convince her that it was all just a dream. Whenever the memories are triggered, she undergoes a HeroicBSOD for which the only cure is to repress the memories once more. Until Riki comes along, anyway.]]

* Subverted in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Retrospect when [[spoiler:Seven's supposed repressed memory of being violated turns out to have been reconstructed from having watched people being assimilated when she was a borg]]

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* In ''SluggyFreelance'' Torg represses/alters his memories so he doesn't have to face the fact that [[spoiler:Zoe and Riff most likely died in the Mark-19 explosion]].

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* Subverted in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Retrospect when [[spoiler:Seven's supposed repressed memory of being violated turns out to have been reconstructed from having watched people being assimilated when she was a borg]]

* In ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', this apparently the case for Rosa, which is why we only learn in Episode 3 that [[spoiler:she had found Beatrice II in [[GildedCage Kuwadorian]] many years ago and helped her escape, only for Beatrice to fall off a cliff and die.]] It seems it taes a lengthy talk about an unknown woman secretly living on the island to make her exhume her memories of the event (as foreshadowed early in Episode 2).

* Subverted in StarTrekVoyager: Retrospect when [[spoiler:Seven's supposed repressed memory of being violated turns out to have been reconstructed from having watched people being assimilated when she was a borg]]

* Subverted in Star Trek Voyager: Retrospect when [[spoiler:Seven's supposed repressed memory of being violated turns out to have been reconstructed from having watched people being assimilated when she was a borg]]

* In {{Resonance}}, Anna has repressed the memory of Javi, her real father (previously believed to be an uncle) killing the man she believed was her father.

Naturally, this controversy has shown up in fiction. And since [[DidNotDoTheResearch not everyone does the research]], there are some common mistakes made.

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