History Quotes / RetGone

-->-- '''[[Characters/MortalKombatKronika Kronika]]''', ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' Towers mode

->'''Yuji''': This is what it means to be [[CloningBlues a torch]]?\\

-->-- ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana''

'''Bad Future Candace:''' Oh, darn. ''(Vanishes out of existence)''

-->-- ''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]''

'''Bad Future Candace: Oh, darn. ''(Vanishes out of existence)''

'''Past Phineas: Well, if it doesn't exist, shouldn't Candace from the bad future cease to exist, too?\\

->''"Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but ''worse'': had never been. What kind of hell would that be?"''
-->--'''Dr. Rosen''', ''Film/ABeautifulMind''

->''What isn't remembered never happened. Memory is merely a record. You just need to re-write that record.''

->'''Lister:''' We don't exist here anymore!\\
'''Kryten:''' Actually sir, we don't ever have existed here anymore, but this is hardly the time to be conjugating temporal verbs in the [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble past impossible never tense]].
--> --''Series/RedDwarf'', "Inquisitor"

->''"When the shadow people take you, they take all of you. Past, present, future. They reach back and rip you out of the past, like tearing up a plant by the roots. If a man kills you, you're gone. If a shadow man kills you, you never were."''
-->-- '''David Wong''', ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd: John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu''

->''"Say goodbye to the universe, Maximals. [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight The future has changed]], yes. The Autobots '''lose'''. Evil '''[[TheBadGuyWins triumphs]]''', and you... '''you no longer exist!'''"''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Megatron]]''', ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' Season 2 Finale

->''"Never existed!"''
-->-- '''Chrono Legionnaire''', ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2 Red Alert 2]]''

->'''Yuji''': This is what it means to be [[CloningBlues a torch]]?\\
'''Shana''': Yes.\\
'''Yuji''': And I will vanish in the same way?\\
'''Shana''': Yes. The remaining scum will eventually burn out. Nobody remembers it existed, and nothing remains. That's why all continues smoothly.\\
'''Yuji''': No! [[RippleEffectProofMemory I know! I know that Hirai existed!]]
-->-- ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana''

->''"If you return your memories to him, you'll disappear. And since everything about you was built on those memories...no one will remember you when you're gone. There won't be any "you" to remember. I can't save you, Xion--even a memory of you."''
-->--'''Naminé''', ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''

->'''Sabrina:''' ''Fido'', if you don't go in there and stop this ''right now'', I am going to make you never born.\\
'''Fido:''' D... don't you mean "Wish I was--"\\
'''Sabrina:''' ''No''.
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}''

->Time warped in on itself, doing everything possible to keep [[ScienceHero Vargo]]'s act from ever taking place. It's like a wave rolling through time: as we get further from the event, the shockwave rolls further and further back through time. During the Great War, it was like he had just disappeared off the face of the earth and had never [[AvoidingTheGreatWar tried to stop the war]]. But after the war, I found that people who had attended the ceremony officially welcoming the Etherites into the Council could no longer agree on whether or not Vargo had been there. During the Great Depression, I met an Etherite who swore he'd attended Vargo's funeral after he'd died in a lab accident before the turn of the century. After World War II, I found an article in ''Paradigma'' - the Etherite science journal - written by the man reputed to be Vargo's mentor, claiming that he'd had no such student. I was in Odessa once during the Cold War, and met an old fisherman who was trying to drink himself to death because he'd come back from fishing one evening to find that his village was gone, and everyone he'd asked had told him that the only village there had been destroyed back in the time of the Tzars. [[RippleEffectProofMemory I still have vivid memories]] of sitting in a Paris cafe, seeing Vargo's ship appear in the sky; others have similar memories. But as the years pass, more and more of them see to forget, and those who remember can't agree on the details. ''That'' is the power of [[MagicMisfire Paradox.]]
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Guide To The Traditions''

->''"Everything you've done, everything you are... It will be as if you never existed."''
-->-- '''Squares''', ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris2''

->''Retroactive erasure. While striking you down will merely deny your future, an exorcism will deny your past. All memory of you will be removed from the Realground and the Underground alike. You will never have existed - not as a Reaper, not as a Player, not as a living human. And your efforts of sabotage against your fellow Reapers will become the whims of fate, that no one has ever opposed the Reaper's Game. A fate more cruel than any Player has suffered.\\
If you will not let your voice be heard, nor will you hear the voices of others, then [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou the world ends at your borders]], and all the potential your life or death could hold will vanish into the aether.''
-->-- '''[[BigGood Black Rock Shooter]]''', ''[[Fanfic/TheReapingOfHatsuneMiku The Precedent of Hatsune Miku: Ghost Town]]''

->''The Blanks' energy is about to run out. And everything related to Senna will disappear from our memories. One can't remember something that shouldn't have existed in the first place.''
-->-- '''Rukia Kuchiki''', ''Anime/BleachMemoriesOfNobody''

->''The Blanks' energy is about to run out. And everything related to Senna will disappear from our memories. One can't remembers something that shouldn't have existed in the first place.''

-->-- '''Squares''', ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo Tetris 2]]''

-->-- '''Squares''', ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo Tetris 2''

-->-- '''Squares''', ''{{VideoGame/PuyoPuyo}}''

->''"Say goodbye to the universe, Maximals. [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight The future has changed]], yes. The Autobots '''lose'''. Evil '''[[TheBadGuyWins triumphs]]''', and [[FourthWallPsych you...]] '''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you no longer exist!]]'''"''

-->-- '''Sarkhan Vol''' after revising history, ''MagicTheGathering''

-->-- '''David Wong''', ''JohnDiesAtTheEnd: John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu''

->Time warped in on itself, doing everything possible to keep [[ScienceHero Vargo]]'s act from ever taking place. It's like a wave rolling through time: as we get further from the event, the shockwave rolls further and further back through time. During the Great War, it was like he had just disappeared off the face of the earth and had never [[AvoidingTheGreatWar tried to stop the war]]. But after the war, I found that people who had attended the ceremony officially welcoming the Etherites into the Council could no longer agree on whether or not Vargo had been there. During the Great Depression, I met an Etherite who swore he'd attended Vargo's funeral after he'd died in a lab accident before the turn of the century. After World War II, I found an article in ''Paradigma'' - the Etherite science journal - written by the man reputed to be Vargo's mentor, claiming that he'd had no such student. I was in Odessa once during the Cold War, and met an old fisherman who was trying to drink himself to death because he'd come back from fishing one evening to find that his village was gone, and everyone he'd asked had told him that the only village there had been destroyed back in the time of the Tzars. I still have vivid memories of sitting in a Paris cafe, seeing Vargo's ship appear in the sky; others have similar memories. But as the years pass, more and more of them see to forget, and those who remember can't agree on the details. ''That'' is the power of [[MagicMisfire Paradox.]]