History Main / NameAmnesia

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' The Detective starts the game waking up with little memory of anything, including his name. You are given a few options to find a name for yourself: You can introduce yourself as "Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau" to Kim by failing a check, you can learn you used to go by "Tequila Sunset" when drunk by talking to people you interacted with while drunk, and some characters and even some of your own intrusive thoughts keep calling you "Harry". The only way to get your full name [[spoiler:is to retrieve your police badge from the wreck in the ice, which gives you your birth name: "Harrier [=DuBois=]"]]. The Detective can accept this as his name, [[ThatManIsDead or can reject that name and keep using another one instead]].

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' The Detective starts the game waking up with little memory of anything, including his name. You are given a few options to find a name for yourself: You can introduce yourself as "Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau" to Kim by failing a check, you can learn you used to go by "Tequila Sunset" when drunk by talking to people you interacted with while drunk, and some characters and even some of your own intrusive thoughts keep calling you "Harry". The only way to get your full name [[spoiler:is to retrieve your police badge from the wreck in the ice, which gives you your birth name: "Harrier [=DuBois=]]"]]. The Detective can accept this as his name, [[ThatManIsDead or can reject that name and keep using another one instead]].

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' The Detective starts the game waking up with little memory of anything, including his name. You are given a few options to find a name for yourself: You can introduce yourself as "Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau" to Kim by failing a check, you can learn you used to go by "Tequila Sunset" when drunk by talking to people you interacted with while drunk, and some characters and even some of your own intrusive thoughts keep calling you "Harry". The only way to get your full name [[spoiler:is to retrieve your police badge from the wreck in the ice, which gives you your birth name: "Harrier [=DuBois=]]"]. The Detective can accept this as his name, [[ThatManIsDead or can reject that name and keep using another one instead]].

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' the player character wakes up with no memory of anything including his name. If you fail a conceptualization check early in the game you can make up a new name for yourself - Raphael Ambrosius Cousteau but your real name is Harrier du Bois

* In WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus, when asked about her name, Pomni realizes that she forgot her name seconds after entering the Digital Circus, and ends up needing her name to be randomized.

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* In WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircu when asked about her name, Pomni realizes that she forgot her name seconds after entering the Digital Circus, and ends up needing her name to be randomized.

This is a SubTrope to both IdentityAmnesia (they cannot recall who they are) and TheNameless (they have no name). SuperTrope to TakeAwayTheirName, where a character's name has been stolen, generally using magic. Can also be a DownplayedTrope to Identity Amnesia, if the character remembers everything about their past ''except'' their name.