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* In "The Only One" by David S. Garnet, the protagonist uses time travel to go back to when he first met his wife, only to find that random fluctuations mean events don't quite happen the same way, and he doesn't meet her at all, so he goes back again, several times. While he's aware of ''this'' difference, he ''doesn't'' realise that every time he travels back, society and technology somehow move ''forwards'' (he started out in the Victorian era, and it advances to a {{Cyberpunk}} future) remembering this as being the way it happened. The story ends with him checking his recording (which was originally a phonograph strapped to his back and is now an internal memory chip) to make sure he's not forgetting anything, and getting a cyberpunk version of the story's opening lines.

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* In "The Only One" by David S. Garnet, Garnett, the protagonist uses time travel to go back to when he first met his wife, only to find that random fluctuations mean events don't quite happen the same way, and he doesn't meet her at all, so he goes back again, several times. While he's aware of ''this'' difference, he ''doesn't'' realise that every time he travels back, society and technology somehow move ''forwards'' (he started out in the Victorian era, and it advances to a {{Cyberpunk}} future) remembering this as being the way it happened. The story ends with him checking his recording (which was originally a phonograph strapped to his back and is now an internal memory chip) to make sure he's not forgetting anything, and getting a cyberpunk version of the story's opening lines.
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* In "The Only One" by David S. Garnet, the protagonist uses time travel to go back to when he first met his wife, only to find that random fluctuations mean events don't quite happen the same way, and he doesn't meet her at all, so he goes back again, several times. While he's aware of ''this'' difference, he ''doesn't'' realise that every time he travels back, society and technology somehow move ''forwards'' (he started out in the Victorian era, and it advances to a {{Cyberpunk}} future) remembering this as being the way it happened. The story ends with him checking his recording (which was originally a phonograph strapped to his back and is now an internal memory chip) to make sure he's not forgetting anything, and getting a cyberpunk version of the story's opening lines.
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* Also by Asimov "Left to Right" is a RealPersonFic starring his friend Creator/RobertLForward. He's created a device that will convert anything into "mirror matter", but when he [[ProfessorGuineaPig tests it on himself]], he's disappointed to find that his heart's still on the same side, as is his appendectomy scar. He's as sure that nothing's changed as he is that his name is Robert L. Backward.
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This is just a bog-standard Perception Filter, and has nothing to do with ripples.


* The aborted anime ''Usagichan De Cue'' has Mimika, a bunny-girl formed from skilled fighter Mikami Inaba merging with a pet rabbit. When Mimika appears in the home of Haru, the rabbit's keeper, nobody seems surprised, not even noticing that Mimika has rabbit ears and a powderpuff tail. Mimika explains that she can project thought control similar to a PerceptionFilter, so that people regard her as perfectly normal.
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* ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'': The second season begins with a recap of the first season that gets progressively less consistent with what actually happened but none of the characters are aware that anything changed except for [[spoiler:Malshina]], who doesn't reveal that she remembers the previous season until much later. Additionally, the activities of the show's new BigBad are causing other changes to reality which the main characters do notice and have to figure out how to reverse. The new character Luna initially does not have the RippleEffectProofMemory that the others have and so her memories change whenever the heroes undo the villain's changes.
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** The episode "Nihilism" opens with Dean owning a bar alongside Pamela Barnes, despite her being dead for a decade at that point (and for that matter, she can see, despite having been blinded some time before her death). When a quick sequence of events involving the two of them play out repeatedly, it quickly becomes apparent that Dean's stuck in a LotusEaterMachine, placed there by Michael after being possessed by him at the end of the previous episode.

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** The episode "Nihilism" opens with Dean owning a bar alongside Pamela Barnes, despite her being dead for a decade at that point (and for that matter, she can see, despite having been blinded some time before her death). When a quick sequence of events involving the two of them play out repeatedly, it quickly becomes apparent that Dean's Dean is stuck in a LotusEaterMachine, placed there by Michael after being possessed by him at the end of the previous episode.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The Hobby-Hobby Fruit can turn living beings into 'living' toys. Anyone who's a victim will be ''completely'' forgotten by everyone who ever knew them, including family and friends. They're also [[AndIMustScream trapped in their new bodies]] since the fruit's user can force them into a contract of complete obedience but still allows them to think and feel. [[spoiler: Once the user is defeated, the transformations and amnesia is entirely undone.]]
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StargateSG1S5E4TheFifthMan The Fifth Man]]" starts with the team in a crisis situation, with only 3 of the team's members able to escape, and the other two trapped on the other side of the gate. Except that the team only has four members.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StargateSG1S5E4TheFifthMan "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E4TheFifthMan The Fifth Man]]" starts with the team in a crisis situation, with only 3 of the team's members able to escape, and the other two trapped on the other side of the gate. Except that the team only has four members.
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': "The Fifth Man" starts with the team in a crisis situation, with only 3 of the team's members able to escape, and the other two trapped on the other side of the gate. Except that the team only has four members.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': "The "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StargateSG1S5E4TheFifthMan The Fifth Man" Man]]" starts with the team in a crisis situation, with only 3 of the team's members able to escape, and the other two trapped on the other side of the gate. Except that the team only has four members.
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* The "Endless Eight" arc in the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' anime was like this during the beginning of the GroundhogDayLoop.

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* The "Endless Eight" arc in the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' anime was is presented like this during the beginning of the GroundhogDayLoop.
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** Another episode has Sam & Dean Winchester leading completely different lives as unrelated people [[MeaningfulName Dean Smith and Sam Wesson]], an executive and an IT guy working at the same firm who get sucked into a supernatural mystery. Turns out it's a ploy by some angels.

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** Another episode has Sam & Dean Winchester leading completely different lives as unrelated people [[MeaningfulName Dean Smith and Sam Wesson]], an executive and an IT guy working at the same firm who get sucked into a supernatural mystery. Turns out it's a ploy SecretTestOfCharacter by some angels.angels to prepare them for the intensifying war between Heaven and Hell.
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** "My Heart Will Go On" features a fallen angel going back in time and changing the timeline, preventing the ''Titanic'' from sinking, and causing all sorts of ripple effects. Sam and Dean are blissfully unaware that they're living in an altered timeline until they discover it over the course of the episode.

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** "My Heart Will Go On" features a fallen angel going back in time and changing the timeline, preventing the ''Titanic'' from sinking, and causing all sorts of ripple effects. Sam and Dean are blissfully unaware that they're living in an altered timeline until they discover it over the course of the episode.episode because of the actions of another supernatural being who is trying to undo the changes made by the angel.

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