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* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2202'': Partway through the series, Yuki Mori regains all the memories she had lost in her backstory, at the cost of all the memories she had gained since the moment she had originally gotten amnesia. This includes all her memories of her fiance Kodai, as they didn't know each other before the incident that cost her her original memories.

* ''Fanfic/DividedRainbow'': Rainbow Dash.
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fic "[[http://www.chosenfics.com/sunlightshadow/jill/thenightremembers1.html The Night Remembers]]" basically makes Buffy one when she is brought back to life with total amnesia and quickly develops an attachment to Angel even before she learns that they used to be together. Many of her early recollections actually focus on Angel; even her first flashback, which featured Angel ''and'' Riley, features Buffy recalling that she was more focused on Angel over Riley.
* This happened to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny and Sam]] in the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'' when [[spoiler:Nocturne trapped them in a dream world and sealed away their memories of each other. However, they ended up falling in love again before recovering their memories]].

* In chapter 38 of ''Fanfic/AStarstruckPhantasmicRomance'', Vlad [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erases a year's worth of memories]] from [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Starfire]], which unfortunately means that she has forgotten her relationship with Danny.

** Edmund had to do this with wife Maria when she returned from the dead. It didn't help that of course, she'd fallen in love with someone else while she was away.

* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': [[spoiler:Every time Riki tries to ask her out, Kurugaya turns up the next day as if nothing happened. Even after they start going out, she forgets every night and has to remind herself with a NoteToSelf. In this case, though, the amnesia is specifically caused by the fact that they're lovers - the world they are in didn't expect that and so can't cope with it, causing it to break down.]]

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'''s Casca has a severe, [[TraumaInducedAmnesia trauma-induced]] case of this as a result of the horrible events of the Eclipse which drove her insane and [[DumbStruck rendered her mute]]. One can hardly blame [[HeartbrokenBadass Guts]] for being madder than hell at [[spoiler:Griffith]] for driving her into this state, but [[spoiler:leaving her to deal with her trauma alone for two years to pursue vengeance against him]] did not help matters for her at all.

* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': It is eventually revealed that Touma Kamijou and Misaki Shokuhou used to be best friends with Misaki wanting it to become more. One day, Touma suffered brain damage in a fight that destroyed his memories of her. Even worse, his brain is incapable of forming new memories of her, and only her. Whenever they talk to each other, he automatically forgets about her as soon as they separate. Misaki is still deeply in love with him and says she will wait as long as it takes for him to remember her. She finds some hope when he out of nowhere remembers smelling her favorite perfume. [[spoiler:Eventually, Misaki gives in to despair and joins forces with an evil clone of Touma because he does remember her, as she is so [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest desperate to be with a Touma who knows her]]. Then the clone gets destroyed and she is forced to make amends for the people she hurt while on his side.]]

* While Kushina was pregnant with Manga/{{Naruto}} in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5016858/1/Seal-Shatter Seal Shatter]]'', Minato went on a mission that resulted in him losing his memory. Due to their relationship being a [[SecretRelationship secret]], many of Minato's admirers tried to take advantage of his amnesia to claim Minato for themselves. While Kushina was sorely tempted to reveal her relationship with him, she ultimately decided against it; Minato wouldn't get get his memories back until more than a decade later.

* The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheRingingInMyEarsGetsViolent'' has Leon Kennedy, in much the same vein as the ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' fics, as a BrainwashedAndCrazy amnesiac going up against his almost-lover Chris Redfield. Chris is initially unaware of this trope being in play, but once he is, he's deeply heartbroken.
* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaReimagined'': A major revelation is that [[spoiler:Makoto Naegi and Sayaka Maizono were dating before the Tragedy, and that they got married before Junko stole their memories and forced them into the Killing Game. Not only that, but Sayaka is currently pregnant with her and Makoto's child, conceived before the Killing Game]].

* ''Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonTrueColours'': Rico and Terry's relationship is complicated when Rico is attacked by a Nihilego, making him forget everything about Terry. They try to continue their romance, but Rico eventually breaks up with Terry, finding it too strange, and goes into a relationship with Lupe. It isn't until Rico's memories are eventually restored that their love is able to be salvaged.

* Louise Cooper's ''Aisling'' inverts this trope: a DoggedNiceGuy lies to the heroine after she loses her memory due to head injury, claiming that she's engaged to marry him. They'd known each other, but she was uninterested and engaged to someone else anyway. He's treated [[KarmaHoudini surprisingly sympathetically for someone who takes advantage of her in that way]].

* In ''[[Creator/PeterSBeagle The Innkeeper's Song]]'', Lukassa can't remember anything of her life or her lover Tikat, [[GhostAmnesia because of her recent death and subsequent revival.]]

** Back in the olden days (like the '70s) on ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'', heroine Kim lost her memory, including those of her love Dan. Scheming Susan worked this to advantage, even going as far as to attempt erasure of Kim's answering machine message proclaiming that she did ''indeed'' remember Dan and their love. Susan failed and Kim and Dan were reunited.
*** When Jack was presumed dead, he had actually been rescued and nursed back to health by a woman who shared a name with his crazy ex-wife Julia. The FlorenceNightingaleEffect took place, to the point where he all but loathed his true love Carly when she tracked him down. It took intense work on her part to get him to remember her.
** Sadly averted when ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Jason developed amnesia following a car accident. Despite her best efforts, he never remembered his feelings for his girlfriend Keesha, to point of becoming verbally abusive in response to her overtures.
** ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Edmund had to do this with wife Maria when she returned from the dead. It didn't help that of course, she'd fallen in love with someone else while she was away.
*** Once on ''Series/AllMyChildren'', Ryan got amnesia that made him forget the past four-or-so years of his life. He couldn't even remember meeting his current wife, much less anything about her, and instead believed he was still seeing and in love with one of his ex-girlfriends. Also he had a child with another woman (which was a botched surrogacy, not another romantic relationship) he didn't remember to complicate it even further.
** Subverted in a ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' storyline. "Todd" (actualy the real Todd's brother) rescues an amnesiac Marty from a car wreck and nurses her back to health. He convinces her that they were friends in college and that he was secretly in love with her from afar. She [[RescueRomance falls in love]] with him based on this "friendship" and seduces him while in his care. It's only afterwards she learns that not only did he neglect to tell her that she had a son who was convinced she was dead, but that when they were in college together, he was the ringleader of her gang rape.

* Happens towards the end of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' to [[spoiler: Paul]] specifically. He remembers [[spoiler:Echo]] but his feelings for her are wiped because Topher had to re-purpose his most active neural pathways to get [[spoiler:Paul's]] limbs working again after [[spoiler:Alpha left him brain-dead]]. By the post-TimeSkip series finale, [[spoiler:they're together again anyway]].

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Series/TheNanny'' episode "Where's The Pearls?" when Fran gets amnesia and thinks she's Maxwell's wife.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': In "Abyss", [[spoiler:Chloe completely forgets about Jimmy due to ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s influence.]]

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': In "Adam", the titular Adam is actually a memory altering alien which infiltrates the facility. While inserting memories of himself into Gwen, he accidentally erases those of her fiancé Rhys. When she gets home, not only does she not remember who is he, but thinks he's some psychopathic stalker who wants to rape her. However, once she gets over the initial shock (and her friends try to jog her memory), she is perfectly willing to let Rhys remind her of their relationship.

* In ''Webcomic/BinaryStars'', Anastasia has lost her memory of her life before being possibly shot in the head, but even in her dream flashbacks the name of her husband is specifically pixelated out.

* The episode "Betty" in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' ends like this -- [[spoiler: once Betty restores the [[ArtifactOfDoom Ice]] [[AmuletOfDependency Crown's]] magic [[EmergencyTransformation in order to save her fiance]], Simon/Ice King, [[EmergencyTransformation from succumbing to]] NoImmortalInertia, it erases his memories and he once again has no idea who she is. [[BittersweetEnding However, she is still in Ooo searching for a cure for him, so there may be hope yet.]]]]
* In the episode ''Sandswich'' of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', everyone but the animals sidekicks is rendered amnesiac, and believe Sadira is the princess- and Aladdin's fiancee. Thus Aladdin and Jasmine fall both under the trope; and it rings a bell to the both of them when they meet again. They finally break the curse with a spontaneous TrueLovesKiss.
** In ''Forget me lots'', Jasmine's new memories of a CriminalAmnesiac are so strong that even after seeing her loved ones, she is still trying to kill them. Still, when Aladdin reminds her that they met and fell in love exactly a year ago, it cures her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Fun on the Bun", Leela undergoes literal LaserGuidedAmnesia after thinking she ate Fry, who was presumed to have fallen into a sausage maker. Fry however fell down a chasm, hitting his head, and discovered a hidden society of Neanderthals who assumed he was one of them because of his swollen forehead and natural stupidity. Fry eventually leads the Neanderthals to battle against the Homo Sapiens, and just has he and Leela are about to kill each other, they both regain their memories and unite the two species.
* WesternAnimation/KimPossible suffers {{Phlebotinum}}-induced amnesia in the fourth season episode "Clean Slate". After a night of reviewing childhood memories, she soon remembers that Ron is her BestFriend, but finds it laughably unlikely that they had got a RelationshipUpgrade. It takes seeing [[RunningGag his pants fall down]] to remember that she gave him a belt for their "half-a-versary" and that she does love him in that way.

** The trope is the main focus on the episode "Regarding Margie", in which Marge got amnesia from bumping her head on a stool.
** Creator/DonHertzfeldt's [[CouchGag/TheSimpsons Couch Gag]] for "Clown in the Dumps" posits a particularly horrifying scenario: as the show continues to air for century after century, the [[ArtEvolution art design changes radically]], with increasingly abstract versions of Marge struggling to tell Homer that she loves him and will never forget him. But by the year 10,535, the characters have mutated beyond all recognition -- confronted with grotesque, catchphrase-spouting children and a vacant wife who can only shout alien propaganda, Homer utters a rather forlorn version of his trademark [annoyed grunt].

Bob may not even ''want'' to love Alice back (at least at first). Complicating matters, he may instead start falling for someone else - or even worse, perhaps in the past he was in love with somebody else and thinks he's still with them.

* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' has a case of someone inflicting the amnesia on purpose on their loved one. When Charles and Moira reunite 21 years after the events of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he has trouble acting like they've never met before.