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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' gives us another heroic example:
-->'''Chemistro:''' How can you not know who I am!? You punched me in the face!\\
'''Hawkeye:''' Sorry, that doesn't narrow it down much.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE33RobinsReckoningPart2 Robin's Reckoning: Part 2]]":
-->'''Zucco:''' Don't tell me what I gotta worry about. I'm not back in town five minutes -- five minutes -- and [[TheDreaded he's]] on my tail. You don't know the Bat. He don't let up! He's the dark angel of death, man, and he wants me!\\
'''Mook:''' Why does he want you, boss?\\
'''Zucco:''' How should I know?!
** Because Zucco killed Dick Grayson's parents and earned a RoaringRampageOfRevenge from Batman and Robin. Of course, Zucco's a member of TheMafia, he's killed plenty before. Zucco also doesn't know that the Graysons' son had grown up to become Robin, so he could not have made the connection even if he knew it was over those two people specifically.
** Subverted in ''The New Batman Adventures'' episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE7JokersMillions Joker's Millions]]". ComicBook/TheJoker throws a party that Bruce Wayne attends, Joker offers Wayne some champagne, which Wayne refuses, citing the fact that the last time the two met, Joker threw him off a building. Despite only happening a month ago (in-universe), The Joker doesn't seem to remember the incident at all. It turns out [[spoiler:the Joker that Wayne was talking to was a body double in the real Joker's employ]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''
** In [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS1E7Meltdown "Meltdown"]] a reformed Victor Fries, having been given a cloned body without the condition to need freezing temperatures to live in, is confronted by an elderly man whose family Mr. Freeze destroyed years ago in the original Batman series. Fries cannot even recall the event. However, moved by this, he sets up a foundation based on the money from his legitimate earnings and the accrued interest to pay back all the victims of his crimes, though admitting it is still no excuse.
** From [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS1E13Ascension "Ascension"]], Batman and his nemesis have a chat, throwing in a little BlackComedy for good measure. This exchange eventually became an internet meme.
--->'''Blight/Derek Powers''': Who are you?!\\
'''Batman/Terry [=McGinnis=]''': ...You really want to know?\\
'''Blight:''' Yes!\\
'''Batman''': {{You killed my father}}.\\
({{beat}})\\
'''Blight:''' ''(irritated)'' [[MemeticMutation Do you have the]] ''[[MemeticMutation slightest]]'' [[MemeticMutation idea how]] ''[[MemeticMutation little]]'' [[MemeticMutation that narrows it down?]]\\
'''Batman:''' Too bad. It's all you get.
** Later, in [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS3E5SpeakNoEvil "Speak No Evil"]], a newly-sentient, speech-capable gorilla named Fingers tracks down the poacher, Van Dyle, who captured him and his mother when he was a baby. Given that Van Dyle is cowering and all but begging for his life (and wouldn't you be?) it's considerably less badass.
--->'''Fingers:''' Where is my mother?!\\
'''Van Dyle:''' I p-probably sold her.\\
'''Fingers:''' ''Probably''?\\
'''Van Dyle:''' I don't know, I don't keep track!\\
'''Fingers:''' She was my ''mother''!\\
'''Van Dyle:''' ''(clearly terrified)'' To me it was just another gorilla...
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman:''
** Zigzagged when Clayface broke into Arkham to get revenge on the Joker, the Joker had no idea who he was. (The Joker had [[MindRape Mind Raped]] Ethan Bennett, and his Joker Putty formula had turned him into a monster, but the Joker had no idea this had happened.) However, later in the episode, when he finds out that Clayface is Bennett, ''then'' the Joker remembered. (And in his sick mind, he was pleasantly surprised that what he had done had turned out so well.)
** The show's version of the Cluemaster was a former boy genius who was the reigning champion on a quiz game show, until he got a question wrong but [[NeverMyFault was convinced]] the producer and host engineered his loss to a more marketable girl prodigy champ. Decades later he abducted all three people he blamed for his loss to punish and kill them, and none of them had any idea who he was at first (To be fair, it was decades later, and Cluemaster didn't look remotely like his childhood self, including becoming morbidly obese on his consolation prize of a lifetime supply of chocolate). Even Batman pointed out that he could have been anything he wanted with his brains, instead of wasting his life obsessing over something the rest of the world neither remembered nor cared about.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In the episode "Chill of the Night!", Batman furiously confronts Joe Chill, the man who [[YouKilledMyFather killed his parents]] and [[CreateYourOwnHero set him on the path to becoming the superhero he is]]. While Chill ''does'' remember killing the Waynes when Batman confronts him, it clearly had much less effect on him than it did on Bruce; his immediate response to Batman's accusations is "That was a lifetime ago!"

* ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019:'' In "Detention Club", Kara tries recalling what exactly has landed her in detention this time, but by her own admission does so much stuff she can't recall what specifically it was, only that it must've been stupid.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E6DeadReckoning Dead Reckoning]]", Deadman, possessing Wonder Woman, beats the crap out of Devil Ray, telling him that he killed his mentor and friend.
-->'''Devil Ray:''' You'll have to be more specific, lady. I've killed a lotta people.
** Although Devil Ray is kind of justified in being confused, since he didn't kill ''Wonder Woman'''s mentor.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Mysterio is disappointed that Spider-man doesn't remember him.
-->'''Mysterio:''' Don't pretend you've forgotten. I was the Chameleon's right-hand man!\\
'''Spider-Man:''' Oh, right. On the boat! You were...You were dressed as the crewman!\\
'''Mysterio:''' As the ''waiter''!
* Speaking of whom: The version of Quentin Beck from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' became Mysterio to get revenge on Spidey for exposing an unethical stunt he pulled while shooting a movie. He doesn't mention it at first, but when he does, Spidey has no idea what he's talking about until Lieutenant Terri Lee looks it up.
-->'''Beck:''' ''(in flashback)'' They'll arrest me for this, and it's all your fault! I will get you, I swear!\\
'''Lee:''' ''(in present) This'' is something you have trouble remembering?\\
'''Spidey:''' Hey, I hear that kinda thing...two, three times a week!

* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman finally ends up fighting {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} and gives him an AndThisIsFor punch for Dan Turpin, the man he killed during the Apokolips invasion. Darkseid has no idea who he is talking about and merely retorts, "Had I known one human's death would pain you so, I would have killed more."

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' before Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch [[LukeIAmYourFather find out the real truth]]:
-->'''Scarlet Witch:''' We're here to get revenge for one who has fallen in your path.\\
'''Magneto:''' You will need to be more specific. There have been many.\\
'''Quicksilver:''' ''It was our mother!'' ''(LetsYouAndHimFight ensues)''
** In fairness to Magneto while he may not remember all that "have fallen in his path", he '''does''' remember Magda. He was paying a visit to her grave right before being ambushed, so this really is just on them for not being more specific.

** From [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS1E13Ascension "Ascension"]], Batman and his nemesis have a chat, throwing in a little BlackComedy for good measure. This exchange eventually becoming an internet meme.