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* The Memory Police in UltramanNexus, who erased the memories of people who saw the SpaceBeast and Ultraman Nexus.
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* The Memory Police in UltramanNexus, who erased the memories of people who saw the SpaceBeast and Ultraman Nexus.
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* ''HunterTheVigil'': As Task Force VALKYRIE are effectively the {{MIB}}, there's a good number of members dedicating to dosing witnesses of supernatural events with "Munin Serum," a chemical cocktail that clouds memories.
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* ''HunterTheVigil'': ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': As Task Force VALKYRIE are effectively the {{MIB}}, there's a good number of members dedicating to dosing witnesses of supernatural events with "Munin Serum," a chemical cocktail that clouds memories.
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* ''HunterTheVigil'': As Task Force VALKYRIE are effectively the {{MIB}}, there's a good number of members dedicating to dosing witnesses of supernatural events with "Munin Serum," a chemical cocktail that clouds memories.
* ''HunterTheVigil'': As Task Force VALKYRIE are effectively the {{MIB}}, there's a good number of members dedicating to dosing witnesses of supernatural events with "Munin Serum," a chemical cocktail that clouds memories.
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* In ''Memento Nora'' by Angie Smibert, there is a memory wiping ''company'' to erase memories of the frequent terrorist attacks. The book revolves around the main characters trying to remember those memories.
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* In ''RedHanded'', the Alien Investigation and Removal agency does this to recruits who don't make the cut.
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** Then there was the episode "Conundrum", in which the Enterprise crew itself was stricken with amnesia to make them unknowing pawns in an alien war.
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ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. When something dramatically outside of normality happens, and the {{Muggles}} are able to see past the {{Masquerade}}, a team (or at the least, a special go-to guy) is often dispatched to erase and/or alter the memories of any witnesses to cover up the abnormality of their mundane lives and keep the existence of the weird stuff a secret (often by using some sort of LaserGuidedAmnesia).
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* Professor X often plays this role in early versions of the XMen, wiping memories when TheMasquerade has been irrevocably blown. It was the go-to DeusExMachina for ''XmenEvolution''.
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* Professor X often plays this role in early versions of the XMen, XMen such as ''XMenEvolution'', wiping memories when TheMasquerade has been irrevocably blown. It was During an episode of ''Evolution'' where the go-to DeusExMachina for ''XmenEvolution''.Brotherhood show off their powers in the middle of a school football game, he dangerously overexerts his powers by modifying the memory of every spectator. Naturally, the one person whose mind he doesn't ''completely'' wipe is Principal Kelly...
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* One episode of ''The Night Stalker'' had Kolchak narrating the events into a tape recorder, because the government had done this to him, and it hadn't quite taken, or rather not all at once. His memory of the incident ''was'' fading rapidly, and he had to make the recording while he still remembered most of the details.
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* ''MenInBlack'' is probably the best example. Individual MIB teams had the neuralizer, which could wipe memories for a set amount of time and leave them in a hypnotic state so that new memories could be implanted. While they could often do the jobs themselves, and indeed it was part of their function, for larger memory fixing they could call in special tasks forces that would come out, neuralize large numbers of people, plant evidence, etc.
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* ''MenInBlack'' is probably the best example. Individual MIB teams had the neuralizer, which could wipe memories for a set amount of time and leave them in a hypnotic state so that new memories could be implanted. While they could often do the jobs themselves, and indeed it was part of their function, for larger memory fixing they could call in special tasks task forces that would come out, neuralize large numbers of people, plant evidence, etc.
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* In ''SamAndMax'' season 2, Agent Superball will emphatically deny time travel, even though the machine is parked right in the room. Any continued discussion of it will provoke him to employ his hypnotic, memory wiping powers. This is used for a puzzle later.
* In ''SamAndMax'' season 2, Agent Superball will emphatically deny time travel, even though the machine is parked right in the room. Any continued discussion of it will provoke him to employ his hypnotic, memory wiping powers. This is used for a puzzle later.
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*In the ArtemisFowl series, the fairies can wipe the memories of any humans who learn about them, as they do to Artemis and his friends at the end of the third book (they all get better). There are even two different techniques they use. One is a block wipe, which just takes out a huge chunk of memory, but the longer the interval of time taken out, the greater chance there is for permanent mental damage. The other is a fine-tuned wipe which removes specific events, people, etc., but takes a lot longer than a block wipe.
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** In ''MenInBlack'' II they even use a gigantic neuralizer hidden in the Statue of Liberty, capable of wiping the memories of all New York City.
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* ''MenInBlack'' is probably the best example. Individual MIB teams had the neuralizer, which could wipe memories for a set amount of time and leave them in a hypnotic state so that new memories could be implanted. While they could often do the jobs themselves, and indeed it was part of their function, for larger memory fixing they could call in special tasks forces that would come out, neuralize large numbers of people, plant evidence, use a gigantic neuralizer capable of wiping the memories from all New York, etc.
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* ''MenInBlack'' is probably the best example. Individual MIB teams had the neuralizer, which could wipe memories for a set amount of time and leave them in a hypnotic state so that new memories could be implanted. While they could often do the jobs themselves, and indeed it was part of their function, for larger memory fixing they could call in special tasks forces that would come out, neuralize large numbers of people, plant evidence, etc.
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* ''{{Bleach}}''. Soul Reapers have a device that can erase memories, used to prevent humans from finding out about the spirit world. Rukia uses it on Orihime to make her forget about her brother becoming a hollow, and some Soul Reaper uses it on Ichigo's classmates to make them forget about Rukia when she's taken back to the Soul Society.
* ''{{Bleach}}''. Soul Reapers have a device that can erase memories, used to prevent humans from finding out about the spirit world. Rukia uses it on Orihime to make her forget about her brother becoming a hollow, and some Soul Reaper uses it on Ichigo's classmates to make them forget about Rukia when she's taken back to the Soul Society.
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Note: This is ''not'' about [[LaserGuidedAmnesia the amnesia, or about what causes it]]. It's about ''WHO'' causes it. (No, not ''that'' [[UnitedNations WHO]], either. ''[[ParanoiaFuel Or is it...]]'')
Compare {{MIB}}, CleanupCrew.
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*''{{Bleach}}''. Soul Reapers have a device that can erase memories, used to prevent humans from finding out about the spirit world. Rukia uses it on Orihime to make her forget about her brother becoming a hollow, and some Soul Reaper uses it on Ichigo's classmates to make them forget about Rukia when she's taken back to the Soul Society.
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*''MenInBlack'' is probably the best example. Individual MIB teams had the neuralizer, which could wipe memories for a set amount of time and leave them in a hypnotic state so that new memories could be implanted. While they could often do the jobs themselves, and indeed it was part of their function, for larger memory fixing they could call in special tasks forces that would come out, neuralize large numbers of people, plant evidence, etc.
*In ''TheIncredibles'', the government had a team like that, that would come in and wipe memories and implant new ones when an undercover Super would screw up and use his powers in the open.
*In the HarryPotter stories, if a wizard lost control and accidentally used his powers, the Ministry of Magic would dispatch a special group called Obliviators to see to it that people's memories of the event were altered.
*Lacuna Inc, from ''EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' are a non-MIB version, removing memories of bad relationships. They would even set up in the client's home so they would wake up without any idea that something had happened.
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*The Temporal Corps of Simon Hawkes' ''TimeWars'' do this
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*Occasionally on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' when the crew would accidentally expose themselves (so to speak) to races that weren't ready for interstellar communication, the doctors would somehow do a little surgery to make those memories go away - basically an AlienAbduction. Dr. Pulaski was more prone to doing it than Dr. Crusher.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magical_beings_in_Charmed#Cleaners Cleaners]] in ''{{Charmed}}''. In order to keep magic a secret from humanity they remove the memories of anyone who sees a supernatural event.
* ''{{UFO}}''. The SHADO organization captures people who see real [=UFO=]s and has its medical department use a drug to erase their recent memories, thus preventing the public from learning about UFO attacks.
* ''TheTroop'' has a little alien whose song causes short-term memory loss so they can cover breaches of TheMasquerade. However, ordinary ear plugs can protect one from the effect.
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*Professor X often plays this role in early versions of the XMen, wiping memories when TheMasquerade has been irrevocably blown. It was the go-to DeusExMachina for ''XmenEvolution''.
