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A character (usually, but not always, a hero) gets a good bump on the head and promptly forgets that they're a character in an action-packed adventure. Ends up doing something mundane and pastoral for a while. Their buddies have first got to find them, then convince them that they're a Super Hero with a higher calling. Or, whack them on the noggin again to restore their memory. Occasionally, the new friends they've made while living the simple life will try to keep them from remembering the past, because they like having them around, or because they think they're happier or more fulfilled staying with them. Sometimes, especially in comedic series, this will be one of the antagonists, and their new friends will be secondary, comic-relief characters. In the mean time, we get to laugh at a powerful or menacing character struggling with the mundane annoyances of daily life. A form of Easy Amnesia or Amnesia Danger (but typically without the ticking time bomb). The morality-free form of Criminal Amnesiac. A subtrope of Identity Amnesia. |
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Both The Adventures of Superman and Lois & Clark had an episode where Superman loses his memory just as a giant meteor is hurtling towards the Earth, as did My Hero (2000). | |
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One episode of Samurai Jack had the Scotsman discovering Jack working as a waiter on a cruise ship and talking like a totally chill surfer dude with an American accent, after apparently losing his memory. The rest of the episode involved the Scotsman dragging the reluctant former samurai along as the duo retraced Jack's steps in an effort to get to the bottom of things. | |
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Ranma of Ranma ½ once hit his head on a rock in the Koi pond while dodging Akane's attempt to brain him with a frying pan and woke up (in girl form) thinking that "she" was just an ordinary cute little girl. | |
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When the team was scattered after passing through the Siege Perilous, Colossus of the X-Men was later found living as an artist in New York with no memory of his mutant powers or past as a hero. | |
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In Thunderstruck, magical beings can "disappear", which means forgetting and losing their magic. Most of the time, this is one-way and they live the rest of their lives as normal humans. | |
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Happened to everyone but Lorne in one episode of Angel, reverting them to their memories from before any of them had met. | |
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Mimori Togo in Yuki Yuna is a Hero, as a side effect of activating Mankai during her first stint as a Hero in Washio Sumi Is a Hero. She not only can't remember having been a Hero, but she can't remember her former best friend Sonoko. | |
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Possible example in Heroes when Peter Petrelli has his memory wiped by the Haitian and winds up in "Ireland". Any semblance of a normal life goes out the window when he falls in with a bunch of crooks with a burning need for some stolen iPods and a dialogue coach. | |
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Power Rangers Turbo: Divatox spends an episode as a pizzeria waitress after losing her memory because she used Porto's teleporter device and got blasted with a ricochet. How's THAT for Laser-Guided Amnesia? | |
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Several early Wonder Woman stories seemed to love playing with this trope. One issue had Wonder Woman get a Tap on the Head while rescuing Steve Trevor from an airplane crash and wind up in an isolated mountain town that never heard of her. In a subversion, while she takes the more normal job of a blacksmith, she still uses her powers to help people around the town and basically becomes the local superhero. Another issue had her get caught in a bomb blast and forget about her identity as Wonder Woman, believing she was only Diana Prince, with Steve Trevor having to try and restore her memory. The problem, of course, was that she was currently wearing her Wonder Woman costume; fortunately, she had made an excuse previously that distracted Steve from figuring out the truth. Inverted in one issue, where she forgot her civilian identity after a blow to the head, and had to figure out who her secret identity was. |
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Wheeler of Captain Planet and the Planeteers probably had the worst luck — he lost his memory and became homeless, spending his time in a slum that soon was almost destroyed by one of the Eco-Villains. He barely escapes with his life, with the street people that sheltered him when amnesiac, and his returned memories. | |
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Supernatural: In "It's a Terrible Life", Dean and Sam begin the episode as ordinary office workers, with Dean a middle manager/executive who drives a Prius and Sam a tech support specialist who tells people to reboot most of the day. They have no memory of their real lives or each other, outside of some dreams Sam has. The two "strangers" eventually team up to hunt an angry spirit that is haunting the office. It turns out to be a Secret Test devised by the angel Zachariah. Castiel wakes up confused, lost, and amnesiac on the side of the lake where he'd just exploded. A woman finds him and he marries her, living a generally timid home life for a while. As he is an angel, which is sort of hard to ignore, they do recognize that he has some superhuman abilities, which he uses to become a faith healer. |
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Power Rangers: Power Rangers Zeo: For half a season, Goldar and Rito, having lost their memories and powers as punishment for forgetting the Zeo Crystal when they destroyed the Command Center, serve as flunkies for Those Two Guys Bulk and Skull. When Rita and Zedd are ready to counterattack the Machine Empire, they promptly restore everything and bring them back. And then again in Power Rangers Wild Force: Cole loses his memory to a monster and ends up in a farm with a pretty girl; when the other Rangers find him they are torn between making him remember he is a Ranger (and an orphan) or leaving him there where it looks like he is happy. Power Rangers Turbo: Divatox spends an episode as a pizzeria waitress after losing her memory because she used Porto's teleporter device and got blasted with a ricochet. How's THAT for Laser-Guided Amnesia? |
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The Final Fantasy VII fanfic Stranger Highways is the tale of a normal guy living in the real world who starts having terrible nightmares about living through the game, trying and failing to save Aerith at the Forgotten Capitol. Then one night a girl who looks just like her shows up, insisting that he knows who she is... | |
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In the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Amnesio", a brainwashing experiment temporarily caused Lilo and her nemesis, Gantu, to forget who they were. They temporarily became friends until they were un-brainwashed. | |
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In The Return of Captain Invincible, the captain drinks heavily in order to forget the call. | |
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In the post-Batman: Endgame Batman series, Bruce Wayne reappears fully healed from fatal wounds given to him by the Joker, but with no memory or drive of being Batman. Alfred attempts to jog his memory, but ultimately decides to let someone else be Batman and persuades others to not jog Bruce's memory (further justified as Bruce's resurrection had completely 'rebuilt' his brain so that he had literally no memory of being Batman whatsoever). | |
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In one episode of Sonic Underground, Sonia bumps her head while the triplets are visiting Tashistan, wanders the marketplace, and is almost tricked into selling her Transformation Trinket. | |
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Happened to Ken in the first sequel series to Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman II. (In Eagle Riders, based on Gatchaman II, this happens to Hunter Harris.) | |
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In the latter half of Scrapped Princess, Pacifica loses her memory due to a combination of physical and mental trauma, and settles down in the area under the care of a young man who resembles her adoptive brother. One gets the sense over the next couple episodes that she doesn't want to remember she's running for her life. | |
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Happened to Scrooge McDuck in an episode of DuckTales (1987) where a whack on the noggin causes him to lose his accent, start working at his own plant as a menial laborer, organize a labor strike protesting the unfair business practices he himself imposed, and begin a relationship with Fenton Crackshell's mother. | |
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The premise of The Long Kiss Goodnight: Imagine The Bourne Series if Jason Bourne's amnesia was caused by Becoming the Mask rather then a nasty boating incident. Particularly funny in that when she starts to recover her memory while preparing vegetables, instead of realizing she was a CIA assassin, she thinks she was a chef. (Of course, because all chefs know how to throw knives.) | |
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There was a Marvel Team Up issue featuring the heroic character Black Bolt suffering from amnesia. Black Bolt's voice is extremely powerful so he tends not to talk very often. When he got amnesia, a child asked him his name. He muttered "I ... " and promptly destroyed a harbor. | |
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Happened twice to Clark Kent on Smallville. The first time, Chloe had to tutor him in relearning his powers. The second time, just like the Lois and Clark example above, it took a while for Chloe to convince him that he had powers in the first place. | |
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Stargate SG-1: "Beneath the Surface" features all of SG-1 having their memories erased, and replaced with fake, alien memories. They then have to use The Power of Friendship to regain each other's memories, without actually remembering anything themselves. Slightly subverted in that they were enslaved in the mines and so their current situation wasn't exactly an idyllic one. For several months prior to being found by SG-1 in Season Seven, Daniel Jackson was living the simple life as an amnesiac on a primitive planet, having forgotten about the SGC, or that he'd been a godlike being for the previous season. Much later in "Memento Mori" in the final season, Vala gets amnesia while on Earth and thinks she's an Earth person — complete with a refusal to believe in aliens, which is the equivalent of someone refusing to believe in cars because he got amnesia without having his car with him at the time. |
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Minor subversion in Gintama: Gintoki hits his head and loses all memory of who he is... and, after seeing what other people think of him, decides that he is better off working in a small factory for an actual wage. Except it turns out that his boss is manufacturing explosives to take over the government, and then tries to use Gin as a hostage... which, in retrospect, was a stupid idea. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Trowa Barton develops amnesia after surviving an exploding mobile suit and is found by Catherine, his surrogate big sister figure in the circus he used as a cover. Fearing for his safety, she tries her hardest to keep him at the circus and rebuffs his fellow Gundam Pilots when they come looking for him. | |
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This is the premise of the Tim Drake-centric Batman fanfic Retrograde, where Tim loses his memory of being Robin after getting shot in the head. | |
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The mostly forgettable Super Mario Bros. comic series had one instance where, instead of taking on an innocuous identity, Mario became convinced he was his super-powered idol, Dirk Drainhead. He then proceeded to trounce Bowser in his sleep. | |
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A strange example occurs in Teen Titans (2003), where Terra appears to have come Back from the Dead but without her powers or any memory of being a Teen Titan/minion of Slade's. At the end, she implies that she DOES remember, but wants no part in being a superhero anymore, and we are left with no clue what precisely happened. | |
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Light in the Death Note AU fic Seigikan after he's hit by a car he gets Easy Amnesia and has forgotten all about being Kira and knowing L and therefore he sees no more reason to put up with L or his antics and leaves, much to L's dismay. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Monk. He is hit on the head, and a woman finds him and tries to trick him into believing that he is her husband. Atypically for this trope (although typically for his character) he doesn't fit in at all in his new setting, maintains his phobias, and continues to solve mysteries even without his memory. | |
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Knight Rider: Michael loses his memory of the past several years, and tries to go back to being an ordinary cop. | |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: In Rescue Team, the player character and Gardevoir agree to inflict amnesia on the former, to test whether they are really the hero. In Explorers, the player character's amnesia leads them to go on many amazing adventures, yet they've still forgotten their very important mission. Their partner on said mission doesn't even realize that they've forgotten the call, leading to a near Heroic BSoD when the truth is revealed by a villain's Evil Gloating. |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Forgotten", Bruce goes undercover as a homeless man and suffers from amnesia after being kidnapped and forced to work in a mine with a bunch of other prisoners. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Paradise Syndrome", Kirk loses his memory and becomes a simple farmer, living on a planet with a bunch of displaced Native Americans. | |
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The last episode of the Pretty Sammy OVA has Rumia wandering around as a friendly amnesiac due to her meeting an alien and it taking her drive to destroy Pretty Sammy. | |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: An episode is a Whole-Plot Reference to Shane, where Buzz goes native on a Western-style world, not because of amnesia but because of his disillusionment with Star Command (in a Flashback when he's in similar circumstances to the ones he was disillusioned in a criminal getting off the hook because of his own Cowboy Cop tendancies as a youth). Another episode has an evil computer genius brainwashing him into thinking he's an accountant named Flip Faxtoner, and his crew has to figure out how to jog his memory. |
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The second season of Code Geass starts with protagonist Lelouch back to being an Ordinary High-School Student with no memories of leading La Résistance. In the second episode we learn that his father, the Britannian Emperor, did it to him in order to draw out Lelouch's partner C.C.. | |
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The Greatest American Hero banged his head (the only thing not protected by the suit) and even threw away his costume for a few episodes. | |
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One episode of Wonder Woman (1975) had the Villain of the Week hypnotize Diana into forgetting she was Wonder Woman. | |
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In the Scooby-Doo fanfic In A Flash Velma loses her memory after being struck by lightning and winds up becoming a beekeeper. | |
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Happens to Kermit in The Muppets Take Manhattan. He gets knocked on the head, forgets about his friends and the show they're putting together and becomes an advertising executive with some boring frogs. | |
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And then again in Power Rangers Wild Force: Cole loses his memory to a monster and ends up in a farm with a pretty girl; when the other Rangers find him they are torn between making him remember he is a Ranger (and an orphan) or leaving him there where it looks like he is happy. | |
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Doctor Who: "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood": The Doctor turns himself human with Fake Memories to avoid a group of villains. Atypically, the Doctor doesn't want to remember when it comes time to restore his true self, as it would amount to the death of his new, human self and come with no small amount of guilt for the danger he'd inflicted on his new friends. "The Next Doctor": Inverted. The title character isn't actually an incarnation of the Doctor with memory problems. He's a human with Trauma-Induced Amnesia who thinks he's the Doctor thanks to Imported Alien Phlebotinum. |
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At the end of Men in Black, Agent Kay deliberately wipes his own memory of being a secret agent for an organization watching over aliens on Earth. In the sequel, when he is needed again, his former colleague Jay finds him working at a post office and, trying to recruit him back, is forced to go through a long argument just to prove aliens exist... in that post office! | |
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In Explorers, the player character's amnesia leads them to go on many amazing adventures, yet they've still forgotten their very important mission. Their partner on said mission doesn't even realize that they've forgotten the call, leading to a near Heroic BSoD when the truth is revealed by a villain's Evil Gloating. | |
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In Rescue Team, the player character and Gardevoir agree to inflict amnesia on the former, to test whether they are really the hero. | |
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Power Rangers Zeo: For half a season, Goldar and Rito, having lost their memories and powers as punishment for forgetting the Zeo Crystal when they destroyed the Command Center, serve as flunkies for Those Two Guys Bulk and Skull. When Rita and Zedd are ready to counterattack the Machine Empire, they promptly restore everything and bring them back. | |
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In Sailor Moon the girls and Tuxedo Mask all lose their memories in the first Season Finale. In the Japanese version Usagi wished on the Silver Crystal for all of them to be resurrected as normal teenagers, while in the Canadian dub — where all their deaths were censored — they appeared to have lost their memories for no reason. | |
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In Weaveworld, one of the protagonists falls victim to this via a super-powered Weirdness Censor. Despite having gone on an exciting and personally fulfilling adventure in a magical world, he completely forgets all the fantastic things he participated in within a few months of getting back to ordinary life. | |
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In Unknown (2011), Martin Harris awakens from a Convenient Coma with memories only of his cover story as a scientist, rather than remember he was in Berlin on an assassination mission. | |
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This is the basis of the episode "Tabula Rasa" in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After a botched amnesia spell by Willow (intended to just erase a couple of specific events), everyone is forced to re-establish their identities from what they can figure out. While Buffy and Dawn correctly deduce that they're sisters despite only knowing Dawn's first name, Anya and Giles assume they're a couple because they own the shop together, Xander and Willow assume they're a couple because they woke up side-by-side with Willow wearing Xander's jacket, and Spike mocks Giles for being British until he realizes he is, too. He also doesn't know he's a vampire until they're attacked and Buffy spots the Game Face he unconsciously puts on. And to top it off, Spike and Buffy don't even remember their own names, as neither has any ID on them — Spike believes himself to be Giles' son, and Buffy chooses the name "Joan" for lack of a better option. | |
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Asuna of Negima! Magister Negi Magi did this to herself intentionally because she just wanted to be normal, and she knew that would never happen if she could remember being a magical princess. Subverted when she manages to end up back in the thick of things anyway, now without memory of important details that would now be kinda helpful. Then the Dragon forcibly undid the amnesia, and caused her a massive Heroic BSoD. Yue, who instead of doing something mundane and pastoral Took a Level in Badass while under amnesia (This still counts because in the Magical World this is normal). Her memories did return but very slowly: at first she didn't remember anything but her name and her Magical World experiences, then she recalled almost everyone but Negi, and in the end she remembered him as well. |
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In the Dragon Ball Z fanfic Self Be True, Vegeta develops Easy Amnesia after surviving an explosion and is nursed back to health by the people of a modest village who found him unconscious. He ends up living the simple life for a few weeks, having forgotten all about his family and friends. Even rebuffing them at first when they finally find him. | |
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An early Fantastic Four story had the Human Torch stumble across the Golden Age hero, Namor the Sub-Mariner. He found him living as a homeless man with no memory of who he was before. When the Torch eventually brought his memory back, Namor proceeded to try and beat the crap out of him and everyone else, in no particular order. | |
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There is an episode of The Mentalist where Patrick Jane gets amnesia, forgetting the last few years of his life and going back to just being a con man. It doesn't last. | |
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In the Men in Black: The Series episode "The Neuralyzer Syndrome", Agent Kay loses all of his memories of being an MIB agent when the "flashy thingy" accidentally goes off in his direction. Reverting to his teenaged self, "Kevin" promptly drives Agent Jay nuts by still insisting on driving the Cool Car. Played for tearjerking and when K insists on going to see his dad - K had told J the man was dead. | |
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Sam in Wormtooth Nation, as a result of being "nixed" by the titular wormtooth gas. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: This happens to Data in the episode "Conundrum". He happens to be behind the bar in Ten-Forward when the entire crew gets hit with an amnesia ray and ends up staying there and bartending until the command staff finds the personnel records and retrieves him. Happens again to Data in the episode "Thine Own Self", but with the added twist that when his memory was lost, he was carrying a case with radioactive material inside, and so was putting the primitive village in which he now lived in great danger without realizing it. His incredible intelligence allows him to deduce the harmful effects of the metals he was carrying, demonstrate their radioactive properties, and devise a way to counteract their effects on the population's health with the materials removed. |
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