History Main / NoInfantileAmnesia

* In ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'', Morgan le Fay magically causes Mordred's reincarnation to remember his previous incarnation's having almost been drowned by King Arthur as an infant.

* Lampshaded and justified in ''Series/BirdsOfPrey''; the character who says he remembers something from the age of 2 has superpowered memory.

* ''Anime/DennouCoil'': Yasako and Isako, the main characters, have gaps in their memory from a specific incident when they were around seven years old. There is some implied memory manipulation or repression involved, but the characters generally react as if they're simply remembering something that they had forgotten.

* ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'': Ashley Mizuki Robbins is able to recall events from a little before and up to the day of her third birthday with decent clarity, as she's implied to have some kind of super memory. It's not perfect, as she mostly remembers her third birthday as a FlashbackNightmare and the events before it were only restored once she got back to the areas where they happened.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''

* In ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'', Morgan le Fay causes Mordred's reincarnation to remember his previous incarnation's having almost been drowned by King Arthur as an infant.

* ''Series/SisterSister'' implies that Tia and Tamera actually remember being in the womb, as when Tamara tries to beg Tia to do something with her, she says "Remember the womb?", with Tia going "Oh no... not the womb." before consenting to Tamera's request.

* In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', it's probably caused by OurElvesAreBetter.

** In another episode, Chuckie describes a recurring nightmare which the viewer will realize is his birth. Oddly,as shown in ''Mother's Day'', even though he's about two, he doesn't have any memory of his mother [[spoiler: Melinda]] before she passed away but he does remember her as "the nice lady from his dreams"

* Ray from ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'' has this condition, which allowed him to figure out the truth of the orphanage. He also remembers [[spoiler:the song that his mother would hum to him while he was still in her womb, which eventually leads to him figuring out that Isabella is his mother.]]

Often associated with characters with an unusually, or even supernaturally, good memory or high intelligence.

* BattleForDreamIsland : Exaggerated; Eggy vividly remembers when she was, as she put it, "an egg inside of an egg."

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' starts with the main character dreaming about ''his own birth''.
* [[VideoGameRemake Remakes]] of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' add the Recall/Remember/Recollect skill, which lets the Hero remember anything they've memorized. Learning and casting the stronger spells allows the Hero to recall things from further and further back in time. Including the last time they heard their father's voice, back when they were ''very'' young.

* ''Discworld/SmallGods'': Brutha, the hero, has an eidetic memory. He reports that his first memory was a bright light, and then someone slapped him.

** In ''Mothers Day'', the babies discussed their earliest memories. Tommy's was being born or, rather, being in an incubator. Of course, Tommy is only a year old and the entire point of the show is babies with more cognitive skills than probable. Likewise, said episode,Phil and Lil reminisce on when their mother used to breastfeed them.

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* Like in canon, Dexter in ''Fanfic/InvisibleSun'' was a BrainyBaby who understood adults from a very, very young age. He still remembers much of his infancy. Unfortunately, he remembers things he wasn't supposed to understand, such as [[spoiler:how he was an unplanned pregnancy. He also remembers his parents frequently complaining about him]].

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* From Wiki/{{Killerbunnies}}, Snow is two and can remember almost anything as if it were yesterday, which would probably makes this a subversion, if anything, as she is already a toddler and what she remembers are probably her earliest memories.
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* A large part of ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'' is that the villain [[spoiler:Francis E. Francis was once a Boss Baby himself. He remembers everything since the day he was in essence “born” into a family after the Boss Baby formula stopped working on him, which fuels his motivation to destroy Baby Corp.. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as he kept his Baby Corp. pacifier which slowed him to retain his memories.]]

* A large part of ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'' is that the villain [[spoiler:Francis E. Francis was once a Boss Baby himself. He remembers everything since the day he was in essence “born” into a family after the Boss Baby formula stopped working on him, which fuels his motivation to destroy Babycorp.]]

* A large part of ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'' is that the villain [[Spoiler:Francis E. Francis was once a Boss Baby himself. He remembers everything since the day he was in essence “born” into a family after the Boss Baby formula stopped working on him, which fuels his motivation to destroy BabyCorp.]]

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* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'', Lewis specifically tries to recollect his baby memories with his invention to meet his MissingMom. [[spoiler:He never does so, so it's unclear if the machine would have let him]].

* Disney's ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' includes a scene in which [[spoiler:Rapunzel has an epiphany and remembers being the king's and queen's baby. The flashback is pretty blurry, though]]. The opening narration implies [[spoiler:she was one day old at the time. [[ThreeMonthOldNewborn She had a lot of hair and was very... active for a day old infant]], so it could be the magic of the flower or something.]]

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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' comic, Dilbert gave his life story, including "so there I am in my mom's fallopian tube..." (after apparently taking two hours to narrate that far).
* Averted in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. Six-year old Calvin gives up writing his autobiography because he can't remember the whole first half of his life.
** In a later comic where Calvin notes that he doesn't remember anything from before he was three, even freaking out and wondering if someone had brainwashed him to keep some secrets hidden, Hobbes comments that he remembers Calvin spending a lot of time burping up. If you take the view that Hobbes is a creation of Calvin's mind, then it's possible that Calvin still has his earliest memories but can't consciously access them. If you consider Hobbes a separate entity, however, it's a subtle retcon of how the two met as it implies he was always around from the start of Calvin's life in one way or another.
* In ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', Jason implies that he could remember some bits before age 5, as well as making advanced calculations. Likewise, in another comic strip, he once claimed that he wanted ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' since he was in the womb, with even Roger vouching for him, causing a {{squick}}ed Andy Fox to cancel the Dentist's appointment.
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when the implanting of the memories of an alternate-universe self gives Ellen near perfect recall of infancy. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-09-29 Ellen and Elliot discuss]] the fact that No Infantile Amnesia is not normal.
* In ''Webcomic/DragonTails'', Goldy's oldest memories are from ''within his own egg!'' Bluey's comments suggest he remembers that event, too.

* The ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' song "Red Like Roses Part II" is about Ruby's grief towards her mother's death. She remembers the very day she learned that Summer died. According to Yang, however, Ruby was very young when Summer died and didn't really understand what was going on.

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