History Main / IWasNeverHere

* For that matter, this is standard ''Film/MenInBlack'' operating procedure.
-->'''Zed:''' You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born.

* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'': the TropeNamer.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.'': "None of this ever happened, gentlemen. [[IronicEcho And I don't want to see any paperwork on this]]."

* Nicely subverted in ''Film/BlueThunder''. One of the conspirators concludes their plotting with "This conversation never happened. If it gets back to me, I'll deny it." He then pulls open the drapes to find [[OhCrap Blue Thunder hovering outside their window]] in Stealth Mode, recording the entire conversation.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': After Roger is framed for murder, he hides out in Eddie Valiant's office, to Eddie's chagrin. When he sees the Toon Patrol showing up to search the place for him, he hides inside a drawer in Eddie's desk and tells him "Remember, you never saw me!".

* Skipper from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' series with his CatchPhrase: "You didn't see anything."

* Sgt. Schultz on ''Series/HogansHeroes'' has ''"I know NUSSINK! I see NUSSINK!"'' as a CatchPhrase - he's smart enough to realize that investigating would just make things worse for him. Sometimes he goes further and tells the heroes, "I know nothing! I see nothing! I was not here! I didn't even get out of bed this morning!"

* Practically Archie's CatchPhrase in ''Radio/AbsolutePowerBBC''. He has never met the partners of Prentiss [=McCabe=] Media Relations, they don't have a lucrative government contract, and there isn't a large check in this unmarked envelope.

** In ''Film/Transformers2007'', Agent Simmons (who you're going to like a lot better in following installments) is part of a we-do-not-exist [[TheMenInBlack MIB]] organization. However, we find the folly of such organizations: Lennox tells him "I don't take orders from people who don't exist." at a climactic moment. You need to exist a bit more than Simmons does to be able to bring official pressure on members of lower organizations to obey you if you intend to be an ObstructiveBureaucrat.
** Noah evokes this in ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'' after arriving in an abandoned warehouse with Mirage, trying to convince Optimus that he never even saw the Autobots and even closes his eyes to prove it. Optimus is not amused.

* In the first of ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', Agent Simmons (who you're going to like a lot better in following installments) is part of a we-do-not-exist [[TheMenInBlack MIB]] organization. However, we find the folly of such organizations: Lennox tells him "I don't take orders from people who don't exist." at a climactic moment. You need to exist a bit more than Simmons does to be able to bring official pressure on members of lower organizations to obey you if you intend to be an ObstructiveBureaucrat.

* Parodied in ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'', when the titular spider accidentally destroys an enitre Ohts Kingdom fortress (one of several times she underestimates how much more powerful she is than humans), she scampers away declaring "I was never here!" Despite the fact that she's only imagining saying it, since as a spider she has no vocal cords to actually talk.

* In ''Film/HouseOfGames'', Margarete makes this clear to the con artist, Mike, [[spoiler:before she kills him.]]

* The SelfInsert in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12923462/4/A-Twelve-Step-Program-to-Omnipotence A Twelve Step Program to Omnipotence]]'' is busy filling a shipping container with his and Dr. Sterns lab equipment when he gets spotted by a trio of criminals on their way to a drug deal. When the seven foot Hulk clone with literally burning eyes tells them "You saw nothing. Move along." they wisely decide to keep on walking.

* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'': In the first Steve Martin reboot film, a british secret agent who goes by "006" can't let anyone know he was ever in the city, so after [[InstantSedation shooting a whole gang with sleeping darts]], he hands Clouseau all the credit for stopping the Gas Mask Bandits, a crew of criminals that all Europe is looking for, but who have [[OutsideContextProblem nothing to do with the plot of the film]].

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Davos Seaworth, sent as an emissary by the rebel Stannis Baratheon, is captured by the Lord of Sweetsister, who ponders whether he should hand Davos over to the ruling King for execution. He knows however that doing so could bring the wrath of King Stannis down on his head if the rebellion succeeds. He lets Davos go on his way with the promise that "If you are caught, you were never here."

* In the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' novel ''Solo Command'' Warlord Zsinj concocted a plan to brainwash dozens of New Republic citizens into unwittingly carrying out terrorist attacks throughout the galaxy. Fortunately the New Republic figured out the pattern of the sleeper agents and their targets and the plots were thwarted. At each incident a New Republic Intelligence agent assisted in halting the attacks but officially there were never any intelligence agents present at any of the events and every sleeper agent was foiled by ordinary citizens.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the sixth episode, Dr. Fareed Bhansali was never at the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers to administer a levodopa transfusion to Daniel Molloy, who has Parkinson's disease.