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Amnesiac Villain Joins the Heroes

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He used to be a villain, and he's now working for the heroes. However, the only reason he's in the good side or at least being friendly to the heroes is because he forgot his own identity and his past, and that he's supposed to be the enemy of the heroes.
If the villain remembers his past, he will suffer from an identity crisis, questioning his real identity, which may lead to several outcomes:
The villain suffers from a mental breakdown.
The villain immediately becomes evil again and turns against the heroes.
The villain realizes the damage he had done and decides to pull a fully-conscious Heel–Face Turn to redeem himself.
In some cases, especially if the amnesia happens toward the very end, the villain would never be able to remember his past, and this is often being considered to be a makeshift Heel–Face Turn due to amnesiac people are often treated as harmless, innocent people. Often a cause of Relationship Reboot, as long as the villain in question stays amnesiac.
There are several factors that can affect the outcome. If the villain in question is treated with kindness by the heroes, he may take The Power of Friendship into consideration, especially if he never felt love and friendship before. If he's treated badly by the heroes, either because they're not convinced that he's now on their side or by one person who repeatedly rejects his attempts to do good, he may decide that it's better off to stay evil, sometimes becoming exactly what they accused him of. In some cases, the villain will stay evil out of loyalty to his own organization, refusing to betray the other villains who trusted him. Last but not least, whether the villain would realize his past deeds were damaging.
Sometimes, the heroes will hope that the said villain won't regain his past memories. They will actively try to stop him from remembering anything, feeding him Fake Memories, or even brainwashing him into becoming good. Taking it one step further, they will even try to eliminate the villain before he can remember anything. If the heroes have different opinions on how to dispose of the said villain, it may lead to a conflict or even a flat-out infight between them.
Occasionally, some villains exploit this and pretend they suffer from amnesia — or even go so far as to inflict amnesia on themselves — so they can blend with the heroes and gain their trust.
Compare Amnesiacs are Innocent, where amnesiac people, in general, are treated as innocent. Contrast Amnesiac Hero, where the hero suffers from amnesia, and Criminal Amnesiac, where a hero suffering from amnesia is being convinced that they're supposed to be a villain.

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Littlewood: It turns out that the Evil Overlord that was defeated prior to the game's beginning fell victim to the unexplained phenomenon that made the Player Character an Amnesiac Hero. On top of this, it's revealed that some now-neutralized exterior factor had a hand in making the man into an Evil Overlord in the fist place, so the end result is effectively a guilt-ridden man wearing the Evil Overlord's face. Good thing the Player Character is in the middle of rebuilding and repopulating a village that is already harboring a couple of other outcasts. The Player Character can go as far as marrying the amnesiac former Evil Overlord.
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Super Robot Wars GQ: Sara Zabiarov's only clue to her true identity is her Bolinoak Sammahnnote Zeta is in Post-Script Season according to the series list and she has joined the Turbines before they met Tekkadan, but she didn't become one of Naze's women.
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This also occurs in The Candy Shop War, when Belinda White drinks waters from the Fountain of Youth that have unknowingly been spiked with Clean Slate. As a result, she turns into a sweet and adorable little girl who is horrified by her past upon discovering it in the sequel, and ends up becoming the newest member of the Blue Falcons.
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A variation occurs in The Outer Limits (1995) episode "Blank Slate". At the beginning of the episode, an amnesiac man asks a woman for help, because he's being pursued by some MIBs. Throughout the episode, as they're on the run he uploads some missing memories into his brain and discovers that at some point in the past he had been carrying out some questionable experiments. As he's about to upload his final memories, the woman tells him that maybe he shouldn't upload them, that maybe he erased those memories because he didn't want to remember them anymore, and he destroys them. Just, then the MIBs catch up to them, and tell the man that his experiment on erasing memories was a success, and to go back to the lab and continue his research. When they refuse, the MIBs overpower the couple, and the episode closes with the man having uploaded his memories and the woman strapped to a chair, begging him not to experiment on her, only for him to say she should be thanking him for making her forget something she doesn't want to remember anymore.
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Community: Chang fakes a condition called "Changnesia" for most of a season and slowly becomes a part of the study group (though he's still the Butt-Monkey). Abed figures out that he's faking it, but tells Chang he forgives him for his past actions.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS: Tagalong Kid Guruguru is the mysterious sixth Goha sibling whose memory was sealed away with Monster Reborn. Once he gets his memories back, he becomes the penultimate antagonist of the series.
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Xiaolin Showdown: The Season 2 finale has Jack Spicer accidentally turn himself good when he brought the Reversing Mirror into the Yin Yang World, reversing his own spirit in the process. He remains with the heroes until needing to enter the Yin Yang World again, resetting his spirit back to evil (but not before creating a good clone of himself in the meantime). He is eventually reunited with his good half, though.
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Part of the premise of Dark Matter (2015). Six people (a woman, four men, and a teenage girl) awaken from stasis on the spaceship Raza with no idea who they are or why they're there and name themselves One through Six as a placeholder in the order they woke up. The First-Episode Twist, once they're able to recover some of the files in the ship's database at the end of the pilot, is that apart from Five (the teenager), they learn their given names and that they were a crew of brutal mercenaries used as deniable enforcers by the corporate overlords. Most of them are appropriately horrified and help defend the mining colony they were hired to exterminate. From then on, they stick with the numbers and try to reform their ways as much as one realistically can when one is already a hunted criminal. Their revenue still usually depends on illegal activity, but they avoid the mass murdering sort, shifting into the "outlaws with a heart of gold" archetype and sometimes trying to save the galaxy with varying degrees of success. If Season Four had happened, the Raza crew would have accepted an offer to become agents of the Galactic Authority and have their records wiped clean, thus officially joining the heroes. Then again, the G.A. has been shown to have a mix of sincere and very corrupt officials and engage in some questionable practices itself.
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Supernatural: Happens in the space of one episode in Season 7 when Dean seeks out the help of a genuine faith healer named Emmanuel, who Dean immediately realizes is Castiel, who had previously gotten Drunk On The Dark side and was presumed dead. Emmanuel joins Dean and Meg on a road trip to help Sam, and he regains his memory when he smites some demons at the end of the episode. This results in a combination of outcomes 1 and 3.
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In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Blank-Headed Eagle", Scratch chases after Sonic with an Eagle-Copter kit he ordered from watching the Edgar Eagle TV show. After Sonic tricks him into shooting himself out of the sky, Scratch gets amnesia, and when Henrietta Peck finds him, Scratch thinks he's Edgar Eagle. Sonic takes advantage of this and uses Scratch to help him save Farmer Peck's farm from destruction from Dr. Robotnik's machines. Scratch ends up regaining his memories near the end of the episode.
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Steven Universe: The Movie: Big Bad Spinel is hit with her own rejuvenator early on in the movie, reverting her to her original form: a harmless (if eccentric) playmate for Pink Diamond, now Steven. She sticks around with Steven for most of the movie, but unfortunately Steven needs to restore her memory to deactivate the injector she planted on Earth.
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Uncanny X-Men had an example in their Utopia era when Rich Bitch villain Sebastian Shaw lost his memories and was taken in by the team led by Hope Summers. He played surprisingly well with Hope and the kids, but eventually the amnesia wore off and he returned to the life of a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi features a What If? saga titled "Fateful Brothers" in which Goku's evil brother Raditz suffered amnesia like Goku himself did in Dragon Ball and became a good guy for a while. Being an adult, the Easy Amnesia eventually wears off, and after waffling back and forth between his newfound heroism and original villainy, he ultimately leaves Earth and collides his Attack Ball with Vegeta's in a Heroic Sacrifice to protect his brother one last time.
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Mortal Kombat: Before the events of Mortal Kombat 3, Kabal was a member of Black Dragon who was a victim of Shao Kahn's extermination forces and left for dead. He was disfigured, the reason why he has to use a gas mask permanently, and with his memories gone joining the Earthrealm forces against Shao Kahn. He eventually regained his memories after MK3, as seen in his next appearance in Mortal Kombat: Deception, in which he not just comes back to the Black Dragon clan, he also wants to remake the organization from the ashes.
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Agarest Senki: Vashtor is the second-in-command of the armies of darkness. However, after his defeat at the end of the First Generation, he is thrust off a cliff and gets washed ashore on a different continent with none of his memories. After that, the heroes stumble upon him and nurse him back to health, not knowing his true identity. He then joins the heroes in their fight against the darkness, becoming a party member in the process. He does betray the heroes once he regains his memories, but you still have a chance to redeem him later.
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In Kings of the Wyld, this happens to Larkspur/Sabbatha after she was injured fighting Saga. It's ambiguous whether she was pretending all along or if she was actually amnesiac and then regained her memories, but she does have a genuine Heel–Face Turn at the end.
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Class of the Titans: After Big Bad Cronus and all the team fall into the River Lethe and lose their memories, Cronus becomes totally amicable and joins the gang in trying to work out what's going on.
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Inverted in Transformers: Prime. After Optimus Prime sacrifices the Matrix of Leadership — the MacGuffin that makes him Optimus Prime — to defeat Unicron, he consequently loses all memory of being Optimus Prime and reverts to the librarian Orion Pax. As this chunk of memory includes the entire Autobot/Decepticon war, Megatron quickly plays on their old friendship to recruit Orion to the Decepticons. Fortunately, Orion is a pacifist who doesn't know how to fight, but his skill at data analysis is just as useful to Megatron at the time. Finding a way to restore Optimus's memories forms the Autobot side of the three-parter.
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Light Yagami of Death Note does this as part of his Memory Gambit, having given up his memories of being Kira and joining the Kira taskforce, even working together with his nemesis L. Light without the Death Note is actually a pretty decent guy, but we know that this cannot last, and sure enough, after a very convoluted Gambit Roulette, Light reclaims the Death Note and regains his memories and everything goes to hell.
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Curaçao from Case Closednote specifically the twentieth movie was a Black Organization operative and right-hand agent of Rum who was responsible for the deaths of three spies in the Organization. She lost her memories after being sniped off the highway while being pursued by the authorities and was found by Conan and the Detective Boys. Their decency towards her as she helps Conan and the Detective Boys with the case that she started convinces her to defect from the Organization for good, even after regaining her memories. She dies saving them and other civilians from a collapsing Ferris Wheel.
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Happens temporarily in One Piece to Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin (or "O-Lin" as she goes by on Wano) after King sinks her ship. Without her memories, Big Mom reverts to the genuinely kind personality she had as a young child, though she keeps her monstrous strength (leading to a few hilarious moments). It doesn't last long, as her memories return when Queen sucker punches her (much to the poor guy's horror). Big Mom afterward retains the affection she had for Tama (a young girl she'd befriended while amnesiac), but unfortunately the adult Big Mom is very possessive and considers it a betrayal that Tama is also friends with her hated enemies the Straw Hats.
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Fate/Grand Order: Lostbelt 7 starts with the Big Bad U-Olga Marie attacking the hores before they even arrive, only for a giant green entity popping up out of nowhere and destroying both the Big Bad and Chaldea's ship. The impact resulted in the Big Bad having amnesia, and joining the heroes for answers. The protagnist and Mash treat her as a friend, because U-Olga Marie is the probably brainwashed and already amnesiac Olga Marie, and the two regard not being able to save her life in the beginning of the game as their greatest failure. Another villain calls out the Chaldea crew on not telling the truth to the Big Bad, and once she does regain her memories, she has quite the morality crisis, especially once Eldritch Abomination ORT makes her realize how her invasion on Earth looks like from the victim's perspective.
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In the Skylanders Academy episode "Sheep(ball) Dreams", the Skylanders attempt to have an amnesiac Dreamcatcher leave the Doom Raiders and rejoin them.
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The Demigod Files: In a side story of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Titan Iapetus falls into the river Lethe while fighting the heroes (well, Percy used his water powers to submerge him, but the effect is the same) and loses his memories. Percy tells him his name is Bob and he's a friend of theirs, and he ends up working as the Underworld's janitor. He later becomes an important character in The House of Hades, where Percy and Annabeth are wandering through Tartarus trying to escape.
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In Lolirock, Praxina lost her memory during a fight, and Iris used her amnesia to try and reform her. She actually winds up succeeding, but Praxina willingly restores her memory and becomes evil again after seeing how heartbroken her brother Mephisto was over her joining the good guys.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V: Pendulum's Fifth Swing: The premise of the fic is that Zarc, the Big Bad of Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, is found in a park and hit with amnesia early in the series. Without any memories of the events that led him to becoming the bloodthirsty Demon Duelist in the first place, he becomes a geniunly friendly and honorable entertainer. However, much of his bloodlust remains, which horrifies him and he's actively trying to push down.
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The postgame of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky has you defeat Darkrai, The Man Behind the Man of the main plot. After his defeat, Darkrai loses his memories, and can be found wandering random dungeons where he can then be recruited into the team.
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 95, an amnesiac Wolffy, fully convinced he's Weslie the goat, not only acts friendly towards the actual goats but tries to defend them from the other wolves. It doesn't end well for him, as the other wolves win the fight and drag him off.
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The twist of the emotional rollercoaster known as MySims SkyHeroes is that the player character used to be the chief enforcer for the evil Morcubus, before getting shot out of the sky and left amnesiac to be unwittingly picked up by the resistance against Morcubus.
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The Phoenix has this as its premise. Zuko, having been scarred and banished by his father the Fire Lord, ends up nearly drowning with a head-injury saving one of his crewmen during a storm. He washes ashore with amnesia and is found by Team Avatar, the very group he was looking for for all of these years. He joins them, unaware of his past or mission, and by the time he remembers who he is, he has decided that helping the Avatar defeat his father would be the best course of action for everybody.
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Doom Patrol (2019): Madame Rouge, who sold out her friends and fellow metahumans to the Bureau of Normalcy, voluntarily erases her memory for a chance at redemption and joins the Doom Patrol.
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At the end of Kubo and the Two Strings, after the Moon King/Raiden is brought down into human form, he loses all memory of who he is or any of the things he's done, despite having tried to kill Kubo only minutes earlier. Despite this, Kubo and the townspeople decide to respect Raiden and tell him that he was a great person. He is very happy to hear this and decides to devote himself to "continuing" his generous lifestyle.
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The Caligula Effect 2: Marie Mizuguchi in the previous game was an outright sociopath who jumped at the chance to kill the Go Home Club simply for her own amusement. One memory wipe later, Marie Amabuki is a kindhearted, loyal member of the group. One pivotal choice determines whether or not she goes off the deep end again once she remembers who she was. And one optional scene heavily implies that the original actually wanted this outcome as a full Death of Personality would be the only way to free her from her misanthropy and allow for her to finally experience some genuine happiness.
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In Super Robot Wars Advance, Axel Almer was an Ace Pilot of the invading Shadow-Mirror army, but lost his memories in the transition to the heroes' dimension and got picked up by them first.
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Heavily implied in AI: The Somnium Files. Kaname Date lost his memories six years before the game began, which is also when the Cyclops Killings took place. His boss and coworker both insist that the events are a coincidence and that he has nothing to do with the case. It's ultimately subverted. He inhabits the body of the Cyclops Killer due to a case of Grand Theft Me that caused him to lose his memories. His original identity was a Killer Cop, but he was already on the heroes' side when the body swap and memory loss took place.
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Happy Heroes has at least two examples.
The first couple of episodes of Season 2 (which form a Multi-Part Episode) inverts this trope by having Careful S., one of the heroes, lose his memory and end up working for the villains Big M. and Little M.
Speaking of Big M., episode 50 of that same season plays the trope straight by having him forget he's a villain and help the heroes defeat a shark that he himself sent out earlier.
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