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* During the brief period of time Franchise/SpiderMan's enemy the Vulture was a young man due to use of stolen technology, he was determined to do this to ''himself'', and delete any evidence that his Adrian Toomes identity existed. (The experience had [[AxeCrazy caused Toomes to go off the deep end in the process.]]) Unfortunately, this plan included murdering every person who knew about it (Spider-Man included). He offered to help fellow criminal the Owl (who was having quite an identity crisis at the time and could have benefited from such) do the same, but the Owl eventually decided against it and broke off their partnership.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} becomes (or always was?) this in ''Batman: Year 100'' as [[IdenticalGrandson James Gordon III]] tries to find any information about him. Arkham Asylum and the Bat's vaudevillians all exist and are widely-known... but Lieutenant Gordon can only find 3 [[MythologyGag witness reports]] from wildly different [[ArtShift periods]] of a strange cloaked figure who was once famous enough to attend charity functions. [[spoiler:He later burns all the evidence after reading his grandfather's secret laptop, proving [[Creator/FrankMiller the Gordons are ALWAYS hardcore about protecting Bruce Wayne]]... whatever he is after over a century of crime fighting.]]

* In early issues of ''Comicbook/XFactor'', Mr. Sinister did this to Cyclops' estranged wife [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]] -- records were altered, people who knew her disappeared, etc. It was never clear exactly why he bothered, since Cyclops knew perfectly well that she'd existed, and the whole thing was infinitely more suspicious than a faked death would have been.

* ''X-Men: Legacy'' and ''Comicbook/XForce2013'' introduced a mutant called [=ForgetMeNot=], whose power basically made him this. His power alters people's visual perception of him, making him difficult to shoot at or even notice, and the second they look away from him they immediately forget he ever existed. He was present for the fight against the Brood, the relocation to Utopia, the fight during the Age of X, and memorializing Professor X, but everyone forgot he was there. Professor X was the only person who remembered him, but after he died he tried to have Omega take away his powers but was talked out of it.

* In ''Comicbook/NightmaresAndFairyTales'', the ''Beauty and the Beast'' chapter has Beauty's father giving her to the Beast to save himself. He then tells her younger sister that Beauty was ungrateful and ran away from and thus should be forgotten. [[spoiler:When the sister later expresses concern for Beauty's well-being and begs her father to forgive Beauty and try to find her, he hits her for not listening to him.]]

* This was done hilariously in ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' towards ComicBook/HowardTheDuck. When he attempts to register for the Superhuman Registration Act, he's told that he's such a legal quagmire (which is true in real life; [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope long story]]) that the government's decided to just pretend he doesn't exist. Howard's overjoyed at this, mostly because he doesn't need to pay taxes anymore.

* ''ComicBook/XMenRed2022'' reveals this is the Shi'ar policy toward [[TheCaligula Vulcan]] and his reign. Easy enough when the guy was presumed dead, far harder when he's alive and screaming in peoples' faces.

* It happens in the 2020 ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'' series. By the time Amy comes back to Gemworld from her adventures with Young Justice, this fate has somehow befallen her entire House.

* In a weirdly {{Meta Fiction}}al case, the DCU actually has a realm of this, with ComicBookLimbo, where characters go when nobody remembers them and they're not written about in stories anymore. Creator/GrantMorrison introduced this as an actual place in his ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' run, and later revisited it during ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' in the Superman Beyond tie-in.

* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'', it's established that after TheEmpire took over they erased the accomplishments of the Jedi generals in the Clone Wars and reattributed them to their new officers. When an Imperial captain questions Sidious' decision and his allegations about the supposed attempt on his life, [[TheDragon Vader]] proceeds to Force choke him to death in front of everyone to send the message that TheEmperor's word was absolute.

** Taken to an absurd extreme by [[ExecutiveMeddling Marvel's editorial]] in a Meta-action of LifeImitatesArt, in that for nearly six years after doing [[HateSink Character Derailment]] and MurderTheHypotenuse on Pryor [[ComicBook/{{Inferno}} in 1989]], it was absolutely forbidden to have her name mentioned anywhere in the X-books, and scripting Cyclops and all other X-Men behaving as if Pryor never, ever existed. Especially ridiculous about that was Marvel producing numerous reprint books which include all her earlier appearances, but treating Marvel's readers as being ViewersAreMorons.

* In early issues of ''Comicbook/XFactor'', Mr. Sinister did this to Cyclops' estranged wife Madelyne Pryor -- records were altered, people who knew her disappeared, etc. It was never clear exactly why he bothered, since Cyclops knew perfectly well that she'd existed, and the whole thing was infinitely more suspicious than a faked death would have been.

** Taken to an absurd extreme by [[ExecutiveMeddling Marvel's editorial]] in a Meta-action of LifeImitatesArt, in that for nearly six years after doing CharacterDerailment and MurderTheHypotenuse on Pryor [[ComicBook/{{Inferno}} in 1989]], it was absolutely forbidden to have her name mentioned anywhere in the X-books, and scripting Cyclops and all other X-Men behaving as if Pryor never, ever existed. Especially ridiculous about that was Marvel producing numerous reprint books which include all her earlier appearances, but treating Marvel's readers as being ViewersAreMorons.

* In ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'', Max Lord did this to himself with his PsychicPowers. Anybody sees a photo of him? They see someone else. They are asked about anything from his past? Whatever it was, they don't remember him. When confronted with what the man did? They blame someone else. In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'', the reformed JLI has been shoved into confrontations with the biggest guns of the DCU as a direct result of this, and they still couldn't prove anything... until Batman came back, and he wasn't around at the moment of the mindwipe... Amusingly, about halfway through his master plan, Wonder Woman, who Max wanted revenge on, was herself Un-personed in an unrelated plotline, and only Max could remember she ever existed. He noted the irony of this.

* [[ComicBook/BrightestDay Max Lord]] did this to himself with his PsychicPowers. Anybody sees a photo of him? They see someone else. They are asked about anything from his past? Whatever it was, they don't remember him. When confronted with what the man did? They blame someone else. The reformed JLI has been shoved into confrontations with the biggest guns of the DCU as a direct result of this, and they still couldn't prove anything... until Batman came back, and he wasn't around at the moment of the mindwipe... Amusingly, about halfway through his master plan, Wonder Woman, who Max wanted revenge on, was herself Un-personed in an unrelated plotline, and only Max could remember she ever existed. He noted the irony of this.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The Chitauri planned to do this with the soldiers that died in Micronesia. As they are black op soldiers, nobody will even know about the explosion.

* ComicBook/WonderWoman supervillain the First-Born was subjected to this in his backstory. After being exiled from Mount Olympus shortly after his birth, he tried to take revenge on his parents for abandoning him. He founded an barbaric kingdom from the peoples he conquered and rose an massive army to lay siege to Olympus itself only for the gods to destroy it with a tidal wave. Zeus imprisoned his son beneath the earth and practically erased all remnants of his existence, including his kingdom. Until the First-Born re-emerged 7,000 years later, only four people knew his existence: his parents Zeus and Hera, and his uncles Poseidon (who sent the tidal wave that destroyed his army) and Hades (who took the souls of his warriors to his realm).