History Main / UnPerson

** Jandek is a particularly unusual case: While the man himself has almost certainly been identified, his musical collaborators prior to his live debut in 2004 remain unknown. Take into account that this man has been making records ''since 1978...''

** Applicable to a number of ex-members of British post-punk group The Fall, albeit less due to conscious whitewashing than "losing count": The Fall have, since their formation in 1976, gone through over ''fifty members'', most for very short stints. The most notable of these mysteries was their first drummer, "Dave", a man so briefly tenured - and disliked by his band-mates - that no-one is even sure of his real name (it may have been Steven).
** From the release of his first record in 1978 until his live debut in 2004, outsider musician Jandek essentially ''was'' this, as are, to this day, any and all individuals who collaborated with him on any one of his numerous albums.

** Don't be so sure. This troper certainly didn't know who destroyed the Temple of Artemis until reading this article. Most average people won't know either. But just ask them who took the Roman republic and turned it into an empire and whos name now means "Emperor" because of it.
*** Okay, so most average people won't know this either, since the average person is TooDumbToLive. But a higher percentage of relatively educated people will know, compared with identifying that guy who did the thing with the burning down of the temple.

* The Syndicate in ''[[The X-Files]]'' is fond of this to cover it's tracks with people who give Mulder too much information or people who are no longer of use.

* In Stephen Baxter's ''Xeelee Sequence'' novels, the alien Qax attempt to do this to the entire history of humankind, in a project know as the extirpation, in order to make them better slaves

* In SailorMoon, when [=ChibiUsa=] is kidnapped and taken back to the future, the spell cast on Usagi's family by Luna-P is lifted. All their memories of her are wiped and noone can remember the cute little girl. Except a [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] scene where Usagi's mother accidentally brings out an extra teacup. A little pink one enscribed ''Chibi''.

* After the Chris Benoit PaterFamilicide, he was essentially unpersoned from the WWE, aside from some mentions in their Title Histories. Though his matches are popping up again on Official Compilation DVDs.

* Additionally, WWE tends to forget about any former employees who are working in TNA. This has caused a slight problem since a good number of TNA employees are WWE legends (Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, the list goes on.)

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-->-- '''[[TreacherousAdvisor O'Brien]]''', ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]''

*** [[Lain]] does basically the same.

* In ShakuganNoShana, a large amount of people have had their power of existance consumed and turned into torches. When a torch's flame dies out, they disappear completely, and no-one ever remembers they existed.

By the way, the {{trope namer}} is [[TruthInTelevision Josef Stalin]]... SoYeah....

-->-- '''[[TreacherousAdvisor O'Brien]]''', ''NineteenEightyFour''