History Main / RippleEffectProofMemory

** Not exactly averted. Kain still seemed to remember the original timeline, and that's what was causing his anguish and allowed him to give Raziel one last piece of advice to avert the change[[spoiler: , which Raziel didn't heed.]]

** The most commonly accepted theory is that it was done by The Entity in order to set the rest of the games events in motion. There's no WordOfGod on it though.

* Justified by Chronos in the IncarnationsOfImmortality series. As the Incarnation of Time, him and his memory would be impervious to any ripple effects. (Within reason: He isn't allowed to affect the past in a way that would prevent him from becoming Chronos.)

**** What if the reason it was a danger was that it created a paradox in an immutable timeline and destroyed the universe?

* I forgot what comic this was in, if anyone can help me out. Some time-traveling villians comes face to face with a super-heroine character. Said villain escapes in some time portal, back to her early years in grade school or something. He kills the school doctor and takes his place and calls the younger version of the heroine in for a 'psysical'. He then warps back to the exact same spot in the present time and smiles at the woman. The super heroine suddenly hit with new memories of being raped at a young age by the same man standing before him makes her collapse in tears.
** This was in TheAuthority, when The Doctor has to relinquish his powers to one of his predecessors (one who was stripped of them for being a depraved omnicidal maniac). The old Doctor stops in the middle of the fight to point out that he can freely travel through time, threatening them with "imagine fighting someone who could shoot you as you emerged from your moter's womb or hold a pillow over your face in a retirement home." He then adds "worse still, imagine the local doctor, back when you were in high school, giving you a funny feeling you'd carry around for the rest of your natural life". Consulting the tradepaperback, he doesn't kill the school doctor, and doesn't go as far as raping The Engineer (or if he does it's off-page, or has been changed in the reprinting) but the comic does take a panel to show him kissing her on the back of the neck. He asks her "Hello again, Miss Angela Spica of class 4B. Remember me?" which starts her crying and whispering "oh my god...".

**** If the timeline is immutable and you're still alive in the future, then YouAlreadyChangedThePast; your past self is not going to die because it already didn't. (Your time-traveling self, mind you, has no such assurances...unless you already remember having been visited by your future self and nothing bad happening to them during their stay, of course. [[YourHeadASplode Try not to think]] ''[[YourHeadASplode too]]'' [[YourHeadASplode hard about it]].)

* The 1980's time travel game "Timemaster" used a version of this. When history is changed, everyone including the PCs remember the changed version ... but if the PCs make their "Paranormal Memory" roll, they ''also'' remember the original timeline.

* TimeTravel stories are rife in the world of ''HarryPotter'' fanfiction. One almost univeral common factor is that no matter how much the timeline changes, Luna Lovegood remembers the old one and has no problem with the idea of multiple timelines existing.

** In the Japanese version of the Celebi movie no one remembered as well. The dubbers felt that it too closely mirrored the original, and elected to change it. They discuss the matter, and additional scene with Oak reflecting, in the commentary.

* In one episode of the revived TheOuterLimits, an already-unbalanced female scientist uses her time machine to go back and execute notorious serial killers before they hurt anyone. Each time history changes, and she remembers each and every change, driving her crazier and crazier. In the end, [[spoiler: a female homicide detective uses the machine to go back and save the scientist from the sexual assault which originally caused her problems. Then starts killing serial killers...]]

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* In ''{{Heroes}}'', "Five Years Gone", Future Hiro remembers the timeline where Claire wasn't saved, but nobody else does.

* In "SerialExperimentsLain" episode 11, [[spoiler: Lain's child-like incarnation (I think)]] alters history to remove some rumors around school about Arisu but leaves Arisu's memory intact. After all, memory is just data. Arisu finds the whole experience a bit unnerving.

* In ''Heroes'', "Five Years Gone", Future Hiro remembers the timeline where Claire wasn't saved, but nobody else does.

* In ''Primeval'' series 2, Nick and Helen Cutter are the only ones who can remember [[spoiler:Claudia Brown]].

* In ''{{Terminator}}: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', the memories of time-travellers are apparently unaffected by timeline changes, as Derek Reese has flawless memories of meeting Andy Good in the future -- despite the fact that, after travelling back to ThePresentDay, he ''murdered'' Andy, and their meeting thus never happened.