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* Inspector Kagami in ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' is a minor character assisting with the SerialKiller investigation, although [[PlayerCharacter Detective Date]] can never remember his name [[ButtMonkey which annoys him to no end]]. Initially it could be attributed to him being a bit of an IdiotHero, but later on it's shown [[BigGood the Boss]] can't either.

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* Inspector Kagami in ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' is a minor character assisting with the SerialKiller investigation, although [[PlayerCharacter Detective Date]] can never remember his name [[ButtMonkey which annoys him to no end]]. Initially it could be attributed to him being a bit of an IdiotHero, but later on it's shown [[BigGood the Boss]] can't either. By the end of the game the back-and-forth has become something of a ritual for Date and Kagami whenever they see each other, and Date's surrogate daughter Mizuki interrupting the bit seems to annoy the both of them.
** The joke continues in ''[[VideoGame/AITheSomniumFilesNirvanaInitiative AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative]]'', with both protagonists can't ever remember Kagami's name, one of which being the aforementioned Mizuki.
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* Creator/DCComics: Copper of the ComicBook/MetalMen was introduced as a brand new member to the team post-''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and was featured as a main character in their spinoff miniseries from ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''. However, when the Metal Men received a back-up feature in ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Copper was downgraded into a running gag where the team would regularly forget she was there (especially the egotistical Gold).
* The Creator/MarvelComics character [=ForgetMeNot=], who, thanks to the nature of his powers, was a member of the Franchise/XMen for six years without anyone noticing.
* In the IDW ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, Rung the Autobot psychologist is constantly being forgotten and overlooked, even by his own allies, and by his own admission he's forgotten much of his own past. Finally it's revealed that long ago, he was exposed to some sort of memory-altering phlebotinum which made him eminently forgettable, as well as erasing his own memories, specifically of the fact that he's actually [[spoiler:Primus, the first Transformer.]]

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* Creator/DCComics: ''ComicBook/MetalMen'': Copper of the ComicBook/MetalMen was introduced as a brand new member to the team post-''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and was featured as a main character in their spinoff miniseries from ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''. However, when the Metal Men received a back-up feature in ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Copper was downgraded into a running gag where the team would regularly forget she was there (especially the egotistical Gold).
* The Creator/MarvelComics character [=ForgetMeNot=], who, thanks to the nature of his powers, was a member of the Franchise/XMen for six years without anyone noticing.
* In the IDW ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics,
''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'': Rung the Autobot psychologist is constantly being forgotten and overlooked, even by his own allies, and by his own admission he's forgotten much of his own past. Finally it's revealed that long ago, he was exposed to some sort of memory-altering phlebotinum which made him eminently forgettable, as well as erasing his own memories, specifically of the fact that he's actually [[spoiler:Primus, the first Transformer.]]]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': [=ForgetMeNot=], who, thanks to the nature of his powers, was a member of the X-Men for six years without anyone noticing.
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* The crime comedy ''Series/PrettyHardCases'' makes the two main characters this. A RunningGag is how often main Guns & Gangs cops Sam and Kelly will run into homicide detectives Swallows and Chase. ''Every time,'' Swallows will introduce themselves with Sam and Kelly pointing out they've met before. Sometimes, this happens two or three times ''in the same episode.'' Every time, Swallows just gives a reaction of "nope, doesn't sound familiar," walks off and the next time, once more treats the two women like total strangers.

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* The crime comedy ''Series/PrettyHardCases'' makes the two main characters this. A RunningGag is how often main Guns & Gangs cops Sam and Kelly will run into homicide detectives Swallows and Chase. ''Every time,'' Swallows will introduce themselves with Sam and Kelly pointing out they've met before. Sometimes, this happens two or three times ''in the same episode.'' Every time, Swallows just gives a reaction of "nope, doesn't sound familiar," walks off and the next time, once more treats the two women like total strangers. This becomes a BrickJoke in Season 2 when Swallows and Chase meet Sam and Kelly and are thrown when the pair instantly recognizes them right off.

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