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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has the potential for a female PC to end up in a foursome with two members of her party plus another, minor quest character. Should you succeed in [[IncrediblyLamePun pulling it off]], the following cut scenes has the female participants asking to "never speak of this again".

* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Japan, after getting a lesson in sex (and being ''very loud'' during it, to say the least) from his close friend Greece, furiously tries to write it off as "just a dream" the morning after. Apparently he was too panicked to realize that calling it AllJustADream just opens the door to a [[HomoeroticDream whole host of other implications...]]

** Vaarsuvius sort of pulled this (and revenge, lots of revenge) after Belkar kissed him/her in a drunken stupor during New Years. It helped that Belkar had no memory of 'The Event.'

* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Subverted in chapter 2. After kissing the night before, Asuka tells Shinji they get to stop. Shinji gets crestfallen, believing she has changed her mind about getting together, but she tells him that was not what she was getting at; she meant [[SecretRelationship they got to stop when other people is around]].

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* ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'': After the title characters, previously platonic, have sex without thinking, they try to pretend it never happened the next morning. Realistically, it doesn't work, and the resulting frustration nearly kills their friendship.
* ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'' establishes this early on as [[RichBitch Tracy's]] default response to anything crack in her "ivory goddess" self-image. So naturally, when she [[DoctorJekyllAndMisterJackDaniels gets drunk on the eve of her wedding]] [[WhatDidIDoLastNight and goes for a late-night swim with Mike]]...

* Happened in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold TheMovie'': Helga [[TheReveal revealed]] to Arnold that she loved him all along and proceeded to kiss him. In the end, they nervously decided that it was because of the moment and nothing serious had happened.

-->'''Avian:''' What was I thinking?!? I didn't want to get married!
-->'''Sparkman:''' Oh, boy... Wait until Spark''woman'' hears about this...
-->'''Both:''' Guy pact! This didn't happen, okay?
* In ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'', Taiga accidentally knocks Ryuuji unconscious into the pool during her competition with Ami, over who Ryuji would hang out with all summer. She's the only one who notices what happens and tries to save him. The screen cuts to Ryuuji regaining consciousness, where we see the whole class huddled far from him, except for Taiga. She's hanging over Ryuuji, not letting anyone else near him, screaming [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove "RYUUJI IS MINE!"]]. Later, when Ami teases her about the incident, she looks like she's gonna properly confess, but simply claims that Ryuuji's her dog and that it's natural to worry over your pet. Ryuuji smiles and Ami gives her an annoyed look.

If there was no excuse other than raw passion, however, there had better be ''some'' sort of change in their interactions or the believability breaks down. You can't [[StatusQuoIsGod hold on to the old relationship status quo]] after you've voluntarily swapped fluids. After all, SexEqualsLove. That doesn't stop many from trying however, as this a common tactic among [[{{Tsundere}} Tsunderes]].

If there was no excuse other than raw passion, however, there had better be ''some'' sort of change in their interactions or the believability breaks down. You can't [[StatusQuoIsGod hold on to the old relationship status quo]] after you've voluntarily swapped fluids. After all, SexEqualsLove.

* ''Manga/LoveHina'': Throughout the series, as well as the movies, whenever it seems like Keitaro and Naru have a RelationshipUpgrade, Naru will step back and [[{{Tsundere}}deny,]] [[TheObstructiveLoveInterest deny,]] [[CannotSpitItOut deny]] that anything's ever happened between the two. Kanako calls her out on this, [[IgnoredEpiphany more than once actually.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': We don't know [[NoodleIncident what exactly happened]] between [[color:gray:Karkat]] and [[color:#008282:Terezi]], and he isn't about to tell us.
--> [[color:#008282:[=GC: 1 GOT 4 CLOS3R LOOK=]]]
--> [[color:#008282:[=GC: R3M3MB3R >:]=]]]
--> [[color:gray:CG: NO]]
--> [[color:#008282:[=GC: PFFF YOU 4R3 PL4Y1NG SO DUMB, YOU KNOW 3X4CTLY WH4T 1 4M T4LK1NG 4BOUT =]]]
--> [[color:#008282:[=GC: PL34S3 K4RK4T, DO NOT PR3T3ND TH4T YOU FORGOT 4BOUT OUR L1TTL3 MOM3NT =]]]

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', after Aeryn and Crichton, thinking they're both going to die in a shuttle with no life-support, [[DyingDeclarationOfLove start ripping off each other's clothes]]. After they're rescued, they both excuse it as the stress of near-death conditions, etc. etc.

* In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', Japan, after getting a lesson in sex (and being ''very loud'' during it, to say the least) from his close friend Greece, furiously tries to write it off as "just a dream" the morning after. Apparently he was too panicked to realize that calling it AllJustADream just opens the door to a [[HomoeroticDream whole host of other implications...]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' with probably too many to list. The most obvious ones are Asuna's ForcefulKiss with Negi when he was [[KissingUnderTheInfluence under the influence]] of TheWorldTree, and an incident involving Akira and a kissing-obsessed golem [[ArtInitiatesLife created by Haruna]].

* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': Subverted. After sleeping together for first time Shinji wakes up and notes Asuka is not in the bedroom. He thinks Asuka has left his home and she is going to pretend nothing has happened but he is wrong on both counts.

* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': After Gendo and Naoko broke off, she insisted that they pretended that their relationship never happened.

* Variations on the phrase "this never happened" are ArcWords on ''Series/MadMen'' and sometimes fall into this trope. In season four, after Don sleeps with [[spoiler:his secretary Allison]] and then makes it clear he has no intentions of starting a relationship with her (adding insult to injury by [[spoiler:giving her her Christmas bonus the next morning in a manner that obviously makes her feel like a prostitute]]), she confronts him by telling him, "This ''actually happened''."

* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': Most of what happened in the ''[[BeachEpisode "Drifters of the Dead"]]'' OVA, ''[[Radar/HighschoolOfTheDead didn't happen]]'', since they'd all been hallucinating from breathing the smoke from hydrangea leaves. The same couldn't be said for Rei and Saeko, who wound up up [[spoiler: [[KissingUnderTheInfluence frenching each other, in the nude]] - while thinking they were making out with Takashi]]. After the effects had worn off and [[LesYay they realized what they'd done]], they both agreed that what happened on the island, '''[[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain STAYS]]''' on the island.

* In ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'', Howard callously did this to Vince Noir after their FakeOutMakeOut and the subsequent events in "Party". Howard took the kiss more seriously than Vince had intended, and declared himself gay, telling Vince that he has feelings for him. Vince did not reciprocate, however. Later Howard noticed that the girl that he had a crush on and quickly got over it, causing Vince to get jelous and berate him. Howard claimed it to be a 'momentary lapse of judgement.', and asks him not to mention it to anyone. Vince wasn't amused, but quickly got over it when he hooks up with another girl.

* A downplayed example occurs in the ''Franchise/EverAfterHigh'' episode "Legacy Orchard"; there's no confession, but while Alistair and Bunny are reading a book, their hands brush together- and they look at each other with identical expressions of shock. After a few seconds of mutual awkwardness, Bunny smiles and turns the page, saying nothing.

* Giles of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has twice done this: once with Joyce (de-inhibition spell) and once with Anya (amnesia spell convinced them they were engaged).
** It also happens, less supernaturally, with Cordelia and Wesley in "Graduation Day"-- after almost half a season's worth of flirting and romantic tension, the two kiss twice, passionately... and apparently ''terribly'', because they awkwardly and blatantly ignore it afterwards.

-->'''Xander:''' (points at her) That didn't just happen!\\