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homogenized
Since: Oct, 2009
2023-10-04 20:29:11
Why can't that someone be you? This Is a Wiki after all, you can use that account you just made to ask this question to also edit pages.
Edited by homogenized

I'm hoping someone will add one of the earliest examples of this trope.
A CHUMP AT OXFORD (1940) reveals Stan Laurel's backstory: he was Lord Paddington, Oxford's greatest scholar and athlete. Then a falling window sash hit him on the head. He lost his memory and wandered off. Much later, the brainless amnesiac Stan and his pal Oliver Hardy are awarded tuition at Oxford, where the same window again falls on Stan's head, restoring his genius intellect and fighting skills. He then beats up a mob of bullies, becomes Albert Einstein's adviser, and acquires Hardy as a valet whom he condescendingly calls "Fatty." The very same window hits him a third time, restoring his Stan Laurel persona. For once this trope has a happy ending (at least from Ollie's perspective.)
Edited by DougMolitor