Line #146 ThatManIsDead/LiveActionTV


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6	ThatManIsDead in live-action TV.
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9	* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
10	** [[spoiler: After Mike Peterson has been forced to become the Centipede Group's cyborg assassin Deathlok, he's confronted by the SHIELD agents. Blake tries to reason with him that SHIELD can save him and his son, reminding him of his life as Mike Peterson. Deathlok responds with this line before nearly killing Blake.]]
11	** Inverted with Daisy Johnson, who decided that her fake identity of Skye was dead when she learned the truth about her parents and original name.
12	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
13	** More often an AvertedTrope than played straight with Angel; in general, you're more likely to see an emphasis on the fact that while Angel seems to be as much of a good person as any of the other characters, his dark side Angelus is always present and so is the possibility that Angelus would resurface and become dominant. Nor does Angelus have a particularly easy time getting over the unpleasant memories of rescuing puppies during his times as Angel.
14	** Played straight with Liam, the human who was turned to create Angelus. Restoring his soul did not result in Angel being the same person he'd been as a human. Liam was an immature, drunken hedonist with daddy issues. Being wracked with centuries' worth of guilt for the atrocities of Angelus makes Angel a very different person.
15	** Doyle feels this way about his old personality when he was the well-adjusted schoolteacher Allen Francis Doyle. "It's Doyle now. Just Doyle."
16	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Sara Lance, whom Oliver Queen thought had drowned in the same sinking that marooned him on Lian Yu, comes BackFromTheDead in Season 2. Oliver Queen calls her out for not contacting her family to let them know she's alive, instead of just [[MysteriousProtector prowling about as a masked vigilante]].
17	-->'''Oliver:''' What's your plan, Sara? Because right now, you just... Well, you're whipping across rooftops and keeping watch over your family like some sort of ghost.
18	-->'''Sara:''' We're both ghosts. We died on that island.
19	-->'''Oliver:''' No we didn't. We both lived. And... I get that you have been in pain so long that it probably just feels normal now. But you can let it go and come home.
20	** In Season 3, Oliver uses a curious variant in his pledge to join the League of Assassins: "Oliver Queen is alive only in the past. He's forgotten."
21	* ''Series/BabylonFive'': An InvertedTrope which keeps the same intent: After turning away from his old life as a petty criminal to take up a new calling, "Jinxo" responds to that nickname by politely but firmly declaring, "Thomas. My name is Thomas." (his given name)
22	* ''Series/TheBeautyQueenOfJerusalem'': Wanting to know if [[spoiler:David]] is dead or alive, Luna visits the witch Jilda and gives her two photographs of him. Jilda places both on the fire, and the old one from before he joined the army burns up. Jilda tells Luna that "that one is dead". Indeed, when he comes back he's a ShellShockedVeteran.
23	* Season 5 of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has Howard give a speech to this effect in reference to the lecherous creep he'd been for the first four seasons of the show.
24	--> '''Howard''': Tell her I'm really sorry. And if she doesn't want to marry me, I get it. But what I really want her to know is the guy that she is really disgusted by is the guy that I'm disgusted by, too. But, that guy doesn't exist anymore; he's gone. And the reason is because of her. So, if this relationship is over, let her know that she made me a better man, and tell her thank you.
25	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow, after going insane and evil, says "Willow doesn't live here anymore."
26	* ''Series/Charmed1998'': In one episode, the Halliwell sisters are being stalked by someone; Prue thinks it's a demon, but it turns out to be [[spoiler: Abbey, a bartender at P3 who's obsessed with taking over Prue's life. After Abbey temporarily blinds Prue, knocks her out and ties her up, they have this exchange]]:
27	-->'''Prue:''' [[spoiler: Abbey]]?\
28	'''[[spoiler:Abbey]]:''' No, you're wrong! [[spoiler: Abbey's]] gone forever! She's a loser and you're a winner. And now, I'm gonna be a winner too, as soon as I take care of you.
29	* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': PlayedForLaughs when Carla made her infamous [[GargleBlaster specialty drinks]] causing everyone to come back the next day with the worst hangover of their lives.
30	--> '''Sam''': How ya doing Frasier?
31	--> '''Frasier''': I’m sorry Sam, your friend Frasier is dead. What you’re looking at is his undead corpse.
32	* ''Series/TheCoroner'': In "Perfectly Formed", Jane and Davey have worked out most of the details regarding the remains of the dead baby found in the cottage, including that the mother was Lisa Milar, and go to confront the remaining suspects. Once they learn the true circumstances of the birth and death [[spoiler:and that Lisa Milar has undergone a sex change and is now Lee Milar]], the group ask Davey what he intends to do. Davey answers "I came here to arrest Lisa Milar. There's no Lisa Milar here".
33	* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021'': Implied with Spike Spiegel, who refuses to be called Fearless even by those who knew him as a Syndicate soldier by that name. Tragically Julia, [[LovingAShadow the woman he loves, has also left her previous self behind]]. When Spike refuses her WeCanRuleTogether offer, she shoots him [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to cast aside her innocent self forever.]]
34	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': In this crime drama, there is a character in one episode named Adam with split personalities. His alternate personality is named Amanda, and her job is to protect Adam. In the end of the episode though, she becomes the dominant personality in order to protect him and tells Dr. Spencer Reid that Adam's gone and he (Reid) will have to wait a long time to get him back.
35	* In ''Series/TheCrown2016'', Anthony Eden, Foreign Minister, protegé and political Heir to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, feels that the 79-year-old Prime Minister's growing mental feebleness is creating permanent damage to the running of the state, turns to King George VI to help him convince Churchill to retire since he A) is the only person that out-ranks the Prime Minister and B) Is one of the few people that Churchill respects.
36	-->'''George VI:''' What do you suggest I do? \
37	'''Anthony Eden:''' Well, as Sovereign, of course, there is nothing you can do from a constitutional standpoint. But as a friend... as Albert Windsor, you are the one person I can think of to whom he might listen. \
38	'''George VI:''' ...Well, that is where we run into difficulties, I'm afraid. I no longer am Albert Windsor. That person was murdered by his elder brother... when he abdicated. And, of course, Albert Windsor would dearly love to say to his old friend, Winston Churchill, "Take a step back. Put your feet up. Let the younger generation have a go now." But he is no longer with us and that void has been filled by George VI who, it turns out, is quite the stickler, and no more allow the Sovereign to interfere with the Prime Minister than stand for Office himself.
39	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "[[Recap/CSINYS05E02 Page Turner]]," Stella and Flack question a Buddhist monk named Lhamo Vadhana as to the whereabouts of a suspect named Timothy Pram. The monk says "He no longer exists," so they ask when he died. The monk then admits that he had changed his name along with his whole personality when he converted to Buddhism and considers his former self to be gone.
40	* ''Series/DarkMatter2015'':
41	** The series begins with six people awakening from stasis on a starship called the ''Raza'' with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no idea who they are or how they got there]]. They call themselves [[YouAreNumberSix One through Six]] in order of awakening as a placeholder, and then it becomes permanent even after they (or rather, the five of them who are adults) learn their given names from the ship's database at the end of the pilot episode: Jace Corso (One, played by Creator/MarcBendavid), Portia Lin (Two, played by Creator/MelissaONeil), Marcus Boone (Three, played by Creator/AnthonyLemke), Ryo Tetsudo (Four, played by Creator/AlexMallariJr) and Griffin Jones (Six, played by Creator/RogerCross). Their reason for repudiating their former names? [[spoiler:They learn of them from Galactic Authority wanted files that make it clear they are career criminals who are among the worst of the worst, guilty of everything from kidnapping and piracy to mass murder]]. Two (the captain) in particular tells the ship's android [[DoNotCallMePaul not to call her]] "Portia" in the second episode. The only exception is EveryonesBabySister Five (played by Creator/JodelleFerland), a teenage girl with [[MysteriousWaif an even more mysterious past]] than the rest who doesn't have a profile and so doesn't know her original name in the first place and apparently isn't [[spoiler:a wanted criminal]].
42	** It turns out it isn't the only time Two, specifically, has done this. [[spoiler:She was created as an ArtificialHuman prototype, [[PhlebotinumRebel who escaped]],]] and her original name was Rebecca. She created the identity of Portia Lin when she embarked on her career as a [[spoiler:ruthless mercenary]].
43	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
44	** Generally, the Time Lords that go renegade or are exiled seem to forfeit their names and take up titles instead: the Doctor, the Meddling Monk, the War Chief, the Master, the Rani, [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho the Scaramancer, the Sonomancer, the Collective]], and the Corsair. ''Why'' they do this has never been explained or elaborated on. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]], when a group of paranoid passengers demand that the Tenth Doctor tell them his real name, he replies that he can't.
45	*** A couple of expanded universe sources suggest that this might be because a Time Lord's name is the property of their family, and that it may also change over time – so the Doctor can't use his name because not only does it no longer belong to him since [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresLungbarrow his family disowned him]]]], ''but because he's not sure any more what it should even be''.
46	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]] has this exchange after Professor Yana opens the [[SoulJar fob-watch]]:
47	--->'''Professor Yana:''' That is '''not''' my name! "The Professor" was an ''invention!'' So perfect a disguise that I forgot who I am!\
48	'''Chantho:''' [[VerbalTic Chan]] — And who are you? — [[VerbalTic Tho]]\
49	'''Professor Yana:''' [[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Am. The Master!]]]]
50	** In a less obvious way, the Doctor's parental side:
51	--->'''Tenth Doctor:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter When they died, that part of me died with them.]]
52	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]: "Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a very long time."
53	** The climax of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], when the Doctor disavows [[spoiler:the War Doctor, because of the actions he took during and at the end of the Time War]]. [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]] reveals that the [[spoiler:War Doctor himself disowned the title of "the Doctor" upon his regeneration from the Eighth Doctor, owing to the latter's desire to regenerate into a warrior to fight in the Time War]].
54	** Clara does this in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]] when confronted by the Cybermen. She's bluffing, but it certainly throws the audience, never mind the Cybermen, for a brief loop.
55	--->'''Clara:''' You see, I’m not Clara Oswald. Clara Oswald has never existed... I'm the Doctor.
56	** When faced with Clara being [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]] and trying desperately to negotiate a way out of it in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]], the Doctor experiences a brief but terrifying FreakOut during which he momentarily renounces his name.
57	--->'''The Doctor:''' The Doctor is no longer here, you are stuck with me! And I will destroy you and everything you love.
58	* ''Series/{{ER}}'''s Mark Greene struggled with trauma following a brutal assault, finally telling his best friend Doug, "I don't know who I am anymore. The person I was died in that bathroom. And I don't know who's going to take his place."
59	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Happens in the episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E22DieMeDichotomy Die Me, Dichotomy]]" after the neural clone completely takes over John's body. First, he refers to himself as "John Crichton" but then starts referring to John in the third person.
60	* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': "[[Recap/FireflyE14ObjectsInSpace Objects in Space]]":
61	-->'''River/''[[SpaceshipGirl Serenity]]'':''' I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.\
62	'''Simon:''' River--\
63	'''River:''' River's gone.\
64	'''Early:''' Then who exactly are we talking to?\
65	'''River:''' You're talking to ''Serenity''. And Early? ''[[CreepyMonotone Serenity is very unhappy]]''.
66	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
67	** The ArcVillain of the third season only refers to himself as Savitar or [[spoiler:the Future Flash]]. Upon being called [[spoiler:Barry]], he screams "THAT'S NOT MY NAME!"
68	** Played with in regard to Caitlin, who is eventually taken over by her SuperpoweredEvilSide, Killer Frost. At first, the others decide to only refer to her as Killer Frost, believing the Caitlin they knew and loved to be dead (Well, just before Killer Frost took over, she ''was'' almost dead), however, they can't help but be bothered by the fact that she was once their friend and that she might still have a good side. In the season finale, Caitlin regains some control, and seems to have fully regained it by the fourth season, [[JekyllAndHyde though not without some difficulties]].
69	* ''Series/FrontierCircus'': In "The Shaggy Kings", RetiredGunfighter Tom Jace is living under the name Jeb Randall. Every time someone accuses him of being Jace, he replies, "Tom Jace is dead."
70	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
71	** This is played with this quite a bit in several side-plots. Arya's refusal to say this leads to her rejection of the [[MurderInc Faceless Men]]. Jorah Mormont says a version of this when Jon Snow offers him Longclaw, indicating that his [[HeelFaceTurn redemption]] is complete (and thus his [[HeroicSacrifice dramatic death]] is imminent). Notably, however, while several characters literally do return from the dead, they actually don't change dramatically in terms of personality. The only character that this actually happens to is Bran. Meera Reid says exactly this about Bran, when he fails to show anything resembling gratitude for her help getting him to the Three-Eyed Raven's cave.
72	** While Sandor Clegane may have survived the fight and the fall at the end of Season 4, Brienne killed "the Hound", until the Brotherhood Without Banners unintentionally resurrected it.
73	** Bran Stark also claims this, as in season 7 Meera Reed realizes that he died in the Three-Eyed Raven's cave. While he'll still answer to Bran, he's no longer the boy he once was.
74	* Following a car accident that left him with complete amnesia, ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Jason struggled for several months to adjust to life with his family before finally blowing up at everyone and trashing everything in his room. When his distraught mother tearfully declares that he's destroyed everything that she had left of "him", he coldly declares ""He's" ''dead''!" before storming out, never to return and using a new surname from then on. Even months later, when his parents gently tried to reach out to him by sending him presents for his birthday, he just as coldly reaffirms this by refusing them, saying "Your son died last year."
75	* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': The first eerie words spoken by what ''used to be'' Gerald Crane's son, who'd been locked in a closet overnight with an actual scarecrow that his damaged brain perceived as a terrifying bogeyman?
76	--> '''The Scarecrow:''' ''Jonathan Crane isn't here anymore...''
77	* In the ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episode "[[Recap/GrimmS5E7EveOfDestruction Eve of Destruction]]", the resurrected [[spoiler:Juliet]] tells Nick she's Eve now. Later, Nick tells Trouble and Adalind that he met Eve. When Adalind asks who Eve is, he replies "[[DeathOfPersonality I have no idea]]." [[spoiler:It turns out that Eve remembers everything, but she no longer considers herself the same person as Juliet. She's now colder, more decisive. In the final season, though, Eve is much more like Juliet thanks to a side effect of the stick. Despite this, both she and Nick know that what they once had is gone, and they're happy to remain good friends.]]
78	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Sylar becomes furious when Bennet insists on calling him "Gabriel." Inverted in "I Am Become Death", when Future-Sylar insists that Peter call him Gabriel. The name he prefers usually indicates which side of the FaceHeelRevolvingDoor he's currently on.
79	* ''Series/{{House}}'': Has an example in its GrandFinale. [[spoiler:When Wilson discovers that House faked his death and tells him the consequences of his survival coming to light, House responds by saying he's officially dead and can now pursue a new life.]]
80	* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Kilgrave [[DoNotCallMePaul refuses to go by his birth name]] of Kevin Thompson, insisting that Kevin died in the experiments that gave him his powers.
81	* ''Series/JustShootMe'': When an old acquaintance of Nina's calls her by her birth name Claire, she explains that "I pushed Claire down a well and shaved eight years off her life."
82	* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': A rare heroic variant: after Carl Lucas escapes from Seagate, he changes his name to Luke Cage. To show how far he's gone to disassociate himself from his past life, he says at one point "Carl Lucas died in Seagate."
83	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
84	** ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'': Tsurugi claims this during his FaceHeelTurn, [[spoiler:when he recovers his original identity as the Scorpio Worm mimicking the original Tsurugi. He's also lying, and once his ruse has played out, lets the Scorpio identity die first so he can spend his final moments as Tsurugi.]]
85	** ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'': Genta provides a rare heroic example, choosing to abandon his former identity as the vengeance-driven Junpei and reaffirm himself as the father to his children.
86	* ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'': PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Wild Cards." Deacon convinces a reluctant Doug to accompany him to [[{{Joisey}} Atlantic City]] to enjoy the casinos. Once they're there, Doug ends up extremely hyped about gambling. Deacon wonders "What happened to the Doug who was saying to slow down?" to which Doug retorts "That Doug is dead!"
87	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Repeatedly invoked for laughs.
88	** When a relative promised an inheritance to a couple who had a child named after him, nine months of non-stop sex with Peg left Al completely grey and confined to a wheelchair.
89	---> '''Lawyer''': I’m looking for Al Bundy.
90	---> '''Al''': I was Al Bundy.
91	** Another time Al met a young man who went to the same high school as him.
92	---> '''Aaron''': Al Bundy! I thought you died in ‘Nam.
93	---> '''Al''': Yeah, I started that rumor. The truth is I died here at home. Victim of Agent Red.
94	* The fictionalized TV-movie biography ''Norma Jean & Marilyn" depicts Norma Jean Dougherty (Ashley Judd) and Creator/MarilynMonroe (Mira Sorvino) as almost separate people. Marilyn even imagines backing her car right over her younger self at the moment she decides on her stage name. (Her agent responds with "Long live Marilyn Monroe" - the corollary, of course, being "Norma Jean Dougherty is dead.") When Norma Jean later returns (now as a grown woman) to haunt Marilyn, the latter is incredulous.
95	-->'''Marilyn:''' [[ThisCannotBe No! You're dead!]] ''[[ThisCannotBe I killed you!]]''
96	* In the finale of ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', [[spoiler:Darth Vader says this to Obi-Wan over Anakin when Obi-Wan apologizes for what happened to his former student. This justifies the MetaphoricallyTrue comment Kenobi tells Luke in ''Film/ANewHope'']].
97	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': (In which dwarves take their names from the inscriptions on their pickaxes), the dwarf Dreamy breaks his pickaxe and declares that he is now Grumpy after being forced to break up with his one, true love.
98	** The flashbacks in "The Evil Queen" show Queen Regina discovering what her subjects think of her, and decides to embrace the title they have given her.
99	-->'''Regina''': The queen is dead. Long live the Evil Queen.
100	** ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': [[spoiler:Will treats the Red Queen and Anastasia as two separate people.]]
101	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
102	** ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': In the final episodes, Master Org becomes enraged when Princess Shayla refers to him by his former human name, Dr. Adler. It's also a literal example, as Viktor Adler ''did'' die [[DisneyVillainDeath when he was thrown off that cliff by Mandilok]], [[CameBackStrong only to resurrect as the]] ''[[WasOnceAMan true]]'' [[WasOnceAMan Master Org]].
103	** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Tommy attempts to appeal to Zeltrax, who was once his old friend, Terrence "Smitty" Smith:
104	--->'''Tommy''': Smitty, stop!\
105	'''Zeltrax''': Smitty's gone!
106	** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'': A legally-true example: By law, when a ninja is banished, they officially cease to exist. Thus, the traitor Kiya vanished, and was replaced by [[BigBad Lothor]]. Because of this, [[spoiler: neither we nor the Rangers know he's the Sensei's brother until mid-series, since according to their laws he doesn't have one anymore.]]
107	** In ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Power Rangers Dino SuperCharge]]'', the Rangers attempt to ask Heckle, who has performed a HeelFaceTurn, to help them with dealing with a last-ditch plot to destroy the Earth. Heckle [[RefusalOfTheCall blows them off]], telling them that the good Heckle disappeared when he touched the Dark Energem, but Shelby isn't convinced.
108	** In ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'', once [[spoiler:[[BigBad Evox]] fully takes control of Mayor Daniels and replaces him]], he tells the team he's not him and it's best to forget all about him.
109	* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Miles Matheson says this in the episode "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E5SoulTrain Soul Train]]" in reference to his pre-catastrophe nicer self. SubvertedTrope at the end of the episode he admits that he isn't dead, he just can't be him under the present circumstances.
110	* ''Series/RiseOfEmpiresOttoman'': Mehmet is initially reluctant to take up arms against Vlad Dracula in spite of the latter's increasing defiance against the Ottomans since he still considers him a brother. After Vlad captures and executes Hamza Bey, an important ally of Mehmet and father to his favorite consort Gülbahar Hatun, she states that Vlad is a monster and no longer Mehmet's brother.
111	* On ''Series/TheRookie'', Bradford is thrown to find some detectives are planning to use his wife, Isabel, in an undercover job. They use Isabel's past experience as one of the best narcotics operatives on the LAPD. Bradford tries to warn them that his wife is now a massive drug addict herself and is no longer anything like the professional cop she once was. They ignore him and she ends up making a rookie mistake that blows the entire op.
112	* ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': In "The Other Woman", Quinn comes to terms that her life as Lindsay Dwyer is over. Huck even tells her that eight people died in that bombing, not seven. In "Hunting Season", she becomes very insistent that Abby calls her Quinn, not Lindsay.
113	* ''Series/{{Skins}}'': In Series 4 Episode 7, Effy (proper name Elizabeth), brainwashed by her counsellor, asks Cook "Eff? Who's Eff?"
114	* In the Lifetime Movie Of The Week ''Sleeping With The Devil'', (BasedOnATrueStory) a man hires a hitman to kill his ex-girlfriend after she leaves him. She survives but has to go into hiding to recover, which includes changing her name. Her father slips up and refers to her with her previous one, but she gently tells him, "That girl died with six bullet wounds to her back."
115	* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
116	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E23Exodus Exodus]]":
117	--->'''Clark''': [[SecretIdentityIdentity The Clark Kent you know is a lie.]]
118	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E01Exile Exile]]":
119	--->'''Clark:''' ''[on red kryptonite]'' My name is ''[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kal]]''.
120	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E01Crusade Crusade]]":
121	--->'''[[BecauseDestinySaysSo Kal-El]]''': Clark Kent is dead.
122	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E13Velocity Vessel]]":
123	--->'''[[spoiler:Zod]]''': Lex is dead.
124	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E11Legion Legion]]":
125	--->'''[[spoiler:Brainiac]]''': Chloe Sullivan died the moment she entered the Fortress.
126	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E21Injustice Injustice]]":
127	--->'''Bette''': It's [[StuffBlowingUp Plastique]] now.
128	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E22Doomsday Doomsday]]":
129	--->'''Clark''': [[IronicEcho Clark Kent is dead.]]
130	** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E06Harvest Harvest]]":
131	--->'''[[spoiler:Alexander]]''': My name is Lex.
132	* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
133	** Goa'uld symbiotes, who usually operate by SymbioticPossession, often utter [[CatchPhrase their variation of the line]]: "[[BlatantLies nothing of the host survives]]." A major plot point between seasons 1 and 2 [[spoiler: is O'Neill refusing to believe this and having a few verbal [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight I Know You're In There Somewhere Fights]] with Skaara.]]
134	** It also shows up in the second episode after [[spoiler: Teal'c kills the Goa'uld-possessed Major Kawalsky by holding his head in the Stargate when it was shut down.]]
135	--->'''Teal'c''': He was your friend.\
136	'''O'Neill''': My friend died on the table.
137	** One early episode has Teal'c [[KangarooCourt put on trial]] by the son of someone he killed in the course of [[TheDragon his old job]]. He's found guilty and [[TheAtoner wants to submit to the execution]], but naturally more Jaffa show up, Teal'c saves the village and so on, leading his accuser to declare he was mistaken and that Teal'c must have killed the man who murdered his father.
138	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
139	** This happens in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]", although explaining how spoils the episode: [[spoiler:Marritza, during the breakdown of his Gul Darhe'el deception, insists "It's Marritza who's dead! Marritza! Who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman! Who every night covered his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming for mercy of the Bajorans..." before breaking down and weeping.]]
140	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime Hard Time]]", Chief O'Brien has the memories of being imprisoned for twenty years implanted in his mind. He can't cope with it, and when Bashir finds him, he's pointing a phaser under his chin.
141	--->'''O'Brien:''' I'm not your friend! The O'Brien that was your friend died in that cell!
142	** Dr. Julian Bashir pulls this in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E16DrBashirIPresume Dr. Bashir, I Presume?]]" when his mother calls him by his childhood nickname "Jules":
143	--->'''Julian Bashir:''' I stopped calling myself "Jules" when I was fifteen and I'd found out what you'd done to me. I'm Julian!
144	*** To clarify, Bashir had [[spoiler:been genetically modified by his parents to be smarter after being born with a mental impairment, a decision that he had to hide for the rest of his life]]. In this case, he sounded regretful, but Julian was never portrayed as a bad person compared to Jules. He never goes back to his old name. Except in one of the ExpandedUniverse novels, in which an alien MacGuffin undoes [[spoiler:the modification]].
145	** Ezri does the same thing when she is confused with Jadzia. However, in this situation, it is entirely justified, as Ezri, though she carries Jadzia's memories through the symbiont, is a different person, and Jadzia is in fact dead.
146	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
147	** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E9TheVengeanceFactor The Vengeance Factor]]":
148	--->'''Yuta:''' Five [Tralestas] survived the last Lornak raid. But on that day, a century ago, my life ended... and my search began.
149	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E3ElementaryDearData Elementary, Dear Data]]", Data and Geordi are playing Literature/SherlockHolmes and Dr. Watson in the holodeck, and ask the computer to create an opponent capable of defeating Data. [[GoneHorriblyRight That opponent turns out to be a holographic Professor Moriarity]] who's aware of both being a holographic program and the ''Enterprise'' itself. He gets defeated, but [[TheBusCameBack when he comes back]] in the later episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E11ShipInABottle Ship in a Bottle]]", he tells Picard that because of his self-awareness, he is no longer the literary foe of Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's creation.
150	* ''Series/Supergirl2015'':
151	** Leslie Willis is given powers after a helicopter accident. When she reappears as a villain, she gives this line:
152	--->'''Livewire''': Leslie Willis is dead. D-E-A-D. Dead. She died in that [=CatCopter=] of yours. This is Leslie 2.0. Livewire.
153	** In [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E7TheDarkestPlace "The Darkest Place"]], [[spoiler: the real]] Hank Henshaw declares that "Hank Henshaw" is dead, he is now [[spoiler: the [[{{Cyborg}} Cyborg Superman]].]]
154	** In the third season premiere, "Girl of Steel", [[spoiler: Kara herself attempts this, dealing with her grief over losing Mon-El in the second season finale by throwing herself into being Supergirl full time, quitting her job at [=CatCo=] and generally distancing herself from her humanity, at one point declaring, "Kara Danvers was a mistake!". By the end of the episode she starts to reconnect to her normal life and retakes the name Kara Danvers.]]
155	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': After [[AGodAmI proclaiming himself a god]] and [[FaceHeelTurn becoming evil]], [[spoiler:Castiel]] tells the Winchesters that the [[spoiler:Castiel]] they knew is gone.
156	* A real-life instance of this occurs in the reality show ''Series/TattooNightmares''. Jasmine gets a client with a dainty tribal tattoo on the small of his back (i.e., a "tramp stamp"). He explains that he got this tattoo "for a girl who is no longer in my life." While Jas works on his coverup, he elaborates: [[spoiler:he is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans man]], and the "girl" no longer in his life is ''himself'', pre-transition]].
157	* ''Series/{{Wings}}'' does another humorous version, when Helen suffers a concussion and has to stay awake for an extended period of time. She starts getting loopy from sleep deprivation, and finally goes with the "Helen doesn't live here anymore" version.
158	* In the ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' episode "[[Recap/XenaS02E01OrphanOfWar Orphan of War]]", Xena and Gabrielle visit a centaur village that Xena had attacked during her Conqueror period:
159	-->'''Kaleipus:''' Xena, destroyer of nations. You promised you’d never return.\
160	'''Xena:''' That Xena never will.

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