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* Used by name in ''VideoGame/FaithTheUnholyTrinity'' in Chapter 3. The seventh floor of an apartment building simply ''does not exist'': the stairs leading up from the sixth floor and down from the eighth floor are just not there. You can only access it by [[spoiler: playing the elevator game successfully]] and going to [[spoiler: Beyond]]. Once you've taken care of your business there, you have to drop down into a hole explicitly labeled "Damnatio Memoriae" to reach the seventh floor and find out what happened there.

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* Pictured above has the ending of "Tirailleur" in ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV'' [[spoiler:showing Deme Cisse and his fellow tirailleur comrades erased from the photo, covering up their involvement due to the French Army's discrimination.]]



* The ending of "Tirailleur" in ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV'' (pictures) [[spoiler:shows Deme Cisse and his fellow tirailleur comrades erased from the photo, covering up their involvement due to the French Army's discrimination.]]
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* The ending of "Tirailleur" in ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV'' (pictures) [[spoiler:shows Deme Cisse and his fellow tirailleur comrades erased from the photo, covering up their involvement due to the French Army's discrimination.]]
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** In the backstory of [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI the first game]], Gwyn's firstborn, an unnamed WarGod, had his name stricken from history and his altars destroyed for unknown reasons. ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' all but states that [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss the Nameless King]] is Gywn's son, and his offense was siding with the dragons in the war that lead to the Age of Fire]]. It's implied that he was [[ProudWarriorRace Forossa]]'s war god, Faraam, but if he is, that's most likely not his original name.

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** In the backstory of [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI the first game]], Gwyn's firstborn, an unnamed WarGod, had his name stricken from history and his altars destroyed for unknown reasons. ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' all but states that [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss [[spoiler:[[{{Superboss}} the Nameless King]] is Gywn's son, and his offense was siding with the dragons in the war that lead to the Age of Fire]]. It's implied that he was [[ProudWarriorRace Forossa]]'s war god, Faraam, but if he is, that's most likely not his original name.
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* The opening scene of ''VideoGame/ColdWinter'' have the player hero, Andrew Sterling, arrested by Red Chinese intelligence, and Andrew's superiors in the M16 choosing to erase all files about Andrew's existence to prevent an international incident, effectively making him a man without identity. After he escapes, Andrew became a freelance mercenary instead.
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* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': [[spoiler:This is Ragna's ultimate fate by the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'', he made the world forgot that he ever existed to allow it to move forward, as it was what made The Origin constantly resetting the world with Amaterasu Unit.]]
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** If you convince the Great Khans to break their alliance with the Legion & side with the NCR [[DownerEnding but side with the Legion yourself]], Caesar has them wiped out for their treachery and forbade any mention of them with the narrator noting that their legacy was "swiftly forgotten".
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* In ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', PosthumousCharacter Isidora Morganach was a WellIntentionedExtremist who defied the BigGood Percival Rackham and [[TheOrder his Keepers]], getting DrunkOnTheDarkSide and attempting to create a WorldOfSilence. After killing her in self-defense, the Keepers attempted to erase her VillainousLegacy and destroyed her [[VirtualGhost enchanted portrait]] to try to keep her from [[TheCorrupter corrupting future generations]]. It's up to the PlayerCharacter to determine whether their efforts were AllForNothing or not.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'' has the forced disappearance and the deletion of all the records of anyone that had something to do with alien artifacts. Juni finding this out is the moment that kickstarts the UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory plot.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'' has the forced disappearance and the deletion of all the records of anyone that had something to do with alien artifacts. Juni finding this out is the moment that kickstarts the UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory conspiracy theory plot.
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* One NonStandardGameOver in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' has this happen to PlayerCharacter Harry. [[spoiler:In the Moralist VisionQuest you make contact with a [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Moralintern]] DreadZeppelin, and if you reveal that you [[HeKnowsTooMuch know too much]] about [[EldritchLocation the hole in reality]], they send a task force to collect you. It's then revealed that you're never seen again, and the officials refuse to comment on your status.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'', Kale Vandelay does this to [[spoiler:his sister Peppermint]] so he can take over Vandelay Technologies unopposed. His PropagandaMachine claims that Kale is an only child that developed the idea of Project Armstrong all on his own, when in reality, [[spoiler:his mother and founder of the company, Roxanne Vandelay, came up with the idea after making Peppermint a robotic leg to replace one she lost in an accident]].

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Kale Vandelay does this to [[spoiler:his sister Peppermint]] so he can take over Vandelay Technologies unopposed. His PropagandaMachine claims that Kale is an only child that developed the idea of Project Armstrong all on his own, when in reality, [[spoiler:his mother and founder of the company, Roxanne Vandelay, came up with the idea after making Peppermint a robotic leg to replace one she lost in an accident]].accident]].
** This also begins to happen to [[spoiler:Korsica following her HeelFaceTurn]]; when Chai arrives at the Vandelay museum, all of their portraits have been removed from the exhibit halls and can be found dumped unceremoniously in the back rooms.
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* In ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'', Kale Vanderlay does this to [[spoiler:his sister Peppermint]] so he can take over Vanderlay Technologies unopposed. His PropagandaMachine claims that Kale is an only child that developed the idea of Project Armstrong all on his own, when in reality, [[spoiler:his mother and founder of the company, Roxanne Vanderlay, came up with the idea after making Peppermint a robotic leg to replace one she lost in an accident]].

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* In ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'', Kale Vanderlay Vandelay does this to [[spoiler:his sister Peppermint]] so he can take over Vanderlay Vandelay Technologies unopposed. His PropagandaMachine claims that Kale is an only child that developed the idea of Project Armstrong all on his own, when in reality, [[spoiler:his mother and founder of the company, Roxanne Vanderlay, Vandelay, came up with the idea after making Peppermint a robotic leg to replace one she lost in an accident]].
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* In ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'', Kale Vanderlay does this to [[spoiler:his sister Peppermint]] so he can take over Vanderlay Technologies unopposed. His PropagandaMachine claims that Kale is an only child that developed the idea of Project Armstrong all on his own, when in reality, [[spoiler:his mother and founder of the company, Roxanne Vanderlay, came up with the idea after making Peppermint a robotic leg to replace one she lost in an accident]].
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* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': It's revealed during the climax of the game that this is ComicBook/TheJoker's greatest fear: that he will fade into obscurity and be forgotten by everyone in Gotham. The novelization reveals that even his ''ashes'' were dispersed via Gotham's sewer system.

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* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': It's revealed during the climax of the game that this is ComicBook/TheJoker's the Joker's greatest fear: that he will fade into obscurity and be forgotten by everyone in Gotham. The novelization reveals that even his ''ashes'' were dispersed via Gotham's sewer system.

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* It never actually happens, but in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris2'', Ringo and her friends are threatened with being erased from existence [[spoiler:by Squares, who sees them as hinderances in keeping his idea of "order"]].



* An interesting aspect of ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'' as if you end up dying, your save file is erased completely. No matter how far along you are, once you're dead, that's it.
* Hardcore Mode in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' does the same thing, although it forces you to press the button to do it...or just spectate the spot where you died from a fixed camera angle until you do.
* It never actually happens, but in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris2'', Ringo and her friends are threatened with being erased from existence [[spoiler:by Squares, who sees them as hinderances in keeping his idea of "order"]].

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* An interesting aspect of ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'' as if you end up dying, your save file is erased completely. No matter how far along you are, once you're dead, that's it.
* Hardcore Mode in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' does the same thing, although it forces you to press the button to do it...or just spectate the spot where you died from a fixed camera angle until you do.
* It never actually happens, but in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris2'', Ringo and her friends are threatened with being erased from existence [[spoiler:by Squares, who sees them as hinderances in keeping his idea of "order"]].
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** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'''s final DLC, ''The Ringed City'', reveals [[spoiler: this wasn't Gwyn's only use of the trope - the whole mess that was the Undead Curse began with the Pygmy Lords, loyal servants of Gwyn who participated in the dragon slaughter. However, they and their knights wielded the power of the Dark Soul, which Gwyn feared. To keep them sealed, Gwyn had the splendid Ringed City built to house the Lords and the Knights, branded them all with the flame sigil that would become the Darksign, used his youngest daughter Filianore to seal the city in a bubble of frozen time, expurgated their memory, taught a sanitized version of history to the Pygmies' descendants, humanity, and taught them to fear the dark, robbing them of the knowledge they could have used to master the Abyss and overthrow him. All of this ultimately contributed to the creation of the Undead Curse and aided in the death of the First Flame Gwyn so feared.]]

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** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'''s final DLC, ''The Ringed City'', reveals [[spoiler: this [[spoiler:this wasn't Gwyn's only use of the trope - the whole mess that was the Undead Curse began with the Pygmy Lords, loyal servants of Gwyn who participated in the dragon slaughter. However, they and their knights wielded the power of the Dark Soul, which Gwyn feared. To keep them sealed, Gwyn had the splendid Ringed City built to house the Lords and the Knights, branded them all with the flame sigil that would become the Darksign, used his youngest daughter Filianore to seal the city in a bubble of frozen time, expurgated their memory, taught a sanitized version of history to the Pygmies' descendants, humanity, and taught them to fear the dark, robbing them of the knowledge they could have used to master the Abyss and overthrow him. All of this ultimately contributed to the creation of the Undead Curse and aided in the death of the First Flame Gwyn so feared.]]

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* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', Gwyn's firstborn, an unnamed WarGod, had his name stricken from history and his altars destroyed for unknown reasons. ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' all but states that [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss the Nameless King]] is Gywn's son, and his offense was siding with the dragons in the war that lead to the Age of Fire]]. It's implied that he was [[ProudWarriorRace Forossa]]'s war god, Faraam, but if he is, that's most likely not his original name.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'''s final DLC, ''The Ringed City'', reveals this wasn't Gwyn's only use of the trope - the whole mess that was the Undead Curse began with the Pygmy Lords, loyal servants of Gwyn who participated in the dragon slaughter. However, they and their knights wielded the power of the Dark Soul, which Gwyn feared. To keep them sealed, Gwyn had the splendid Ringed City built to house the Lords and the Knights, branded them all with the flame sigil that would become the Darksign, used his youngest daughter Filianore to seal the city in a bubble of frozen time, expurgated their memory, taught a sanitized version of history to the Pygmies' descendants, humanity, and taught them to fear the dark, robbing them of the knowledge they could have used to master the Abyss and overthrow him. All of this ultimately contributed to the creation of the Undead Curse and aided in the death of the First Flame Gwyn so feared.]]

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In the backstory of ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI the first game]], Gwyn's firstborn, an unnamed WarGod, had his name stricken from history and his altars destroyed for unknown reasons. ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' all but states that [[spoiler:[[BonusBoss the Nameless King]] is Gywn's son, and his offense was siding with the dragons in the war that lead to the Age of Fire]]. It's implied that he was [[ProudWarriorRace Forossa]]'s war god, Faraam, but if he is, that's most likely not his original name.
** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'''s ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'''s final DLC, ''The Ringed City'', reveals [[spoiler: this wasn't Gwyn's only use of the trope - the whole mess that was the Undead Curse began with the Pygmy Lords, loyal servants of Gwyn who participated in the dragon slaughter. However, they and their knights wielded the power of the Dark Soul, which Gwyn feared. To keep them sealed, Gwyn had the splendid Ringed City built to house the Lords and the Knights, branded them all with the flame sigil that would become the Darksign, used his youngest daughter Filianore to seal the city in a bubble of frozen time, expurgated their memory, taught a sanitized version of history to the Pygmies' descendants, humanity, and taught them to fear the dark, robbing them of the knowledge they could have used to master the Abyss and overthrow him. All of this ultimately contributed to the creation of the Undead Curse and aided in the death of the First Flame Gwyn so feared.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/TriangleStrategy'', Narve's grandfather, the archsage Grandante, was erased from Norzelia's history books for publicly opposing the Goddess' teachings. Narve seeks to spread the word about him and carry on his legacy.
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* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', [[spoiler:Brotherhood Paladin Danse]] is discovered to be a synth (artificial human with mechanical innards), and you are dispatched to execute him, since the Brotherhood views synths as an example of gross misuse of technology. If you convince Elder Maxson, the commander in chief of the Brotherhood to spare [[spoiler:Danse]], he is unpersoned by the Brotherhood, declared officially dead and all his belongings including his PoweredArmor are transferred to you. You even get his rank and his position in the Brotherhood command structure.

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* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', [[spoiler:Brotherhood Paladin Danse]] is discovered to be a synth (artificial human with mechanical innards), who are used as sleeper agents), and you are dispatched to execute him, since the Brotherhood views synths as an example of gross misuse of technology. If you convince Elder Maxson, the commander in chief of the Brotherhood to spare [[spoiler:Danse]], he is unpersoned by the Brotherhood, declared officially dead and all his belongings including his PoweredArmor are transferred to you. You even get his rank and his position in the Brotherhood command structure.

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