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Immortality Through Memory
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The fear of death is one of the most common fears known to man. Many will try whatever they can to avoid it, but it comes to us all the same. Of course, there are those who will try to find a way to escape this natural part of life, but plans like those often don't pan out. But then, there's another group of people, the ones who accept that they or their loved ones will die, but do not fear that fact. They don't care that they will eventually meet their end, because they know that so long as they aren't forgotten by those who still live, they will never truly be gone. Compare Remember the Dead, which takes a more literal case of this trope in regards to the afterlife. Could potentially overlap with Fame Through Infamy, if a character attempts to achieve this by being remembered as a horrible person. Often overlaps with Legacy Seeker, since those who wish to leave behind a great legacy often do so specifically because of this belief. This trope is the opposite of the Un-person, who is not only dead but also forcibly forgotten. |
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In Genshin Impact Sumeru arc, the leaders of Sumeru still venerate the late Rukkhadevata and reject her replacement goddess Kusanali. Turns out Rukkhadevata has been corrupted by 'Forbidden Knowledge', a Mind Virus that causes the Eleazar plague through Sumeru for hundreds of years. She has done a lot to mitigate its effect, but there is one last thing to do: have Kusanali, her designated replacement erase the very last trace of her, because as long people remember Rukkhadevata, Forbidden Knowledge will remain along with her. The effect of this act in-game is one of the most profound. | |
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The Last Unicorn has this as a Central Theme: Mommy Fortuna keeps the harpy Celaeno captive, knowing full well that the creature will break free and kill her. The reason being, Celaeno is an immortal being, and will always remember the one who bested her. Lady Amalthea sacrifices her chance at happiness with Prince Lir by defeating the Red Bull and turning back into a unicorn; Schmendrick consoles Lir by telling him that she will remember him and his love for her "when human beings are fairy tales told by rabbits." |
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Stanza 77 of the Gestaþáttr, the first section of the Hávamál, which is a collection of poems and sayings attributed to Odin in the Poetic Edda, concerns this trope, telling the reader that they will die one day, but what will never die is the memory of their deeds. | |
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Westworld: Alluded to by one of the hosts in Season 2: | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Deconstructed in the episode "Cold Comfort": the actions of the Big Bad of the episode (a humanitarian who orders the assassination of the daughter of a recently deceased senator in order to prevent her from putting said Senator in a cryogenic facility so he can harvest the brain and see if his doctors can find a potential medicine for an Alzheimer’s-like disease his son has) are all led by his decision to make his humanitarian foundation outlive him come hell or high water (if his son is found unable to carry on his duties, the foundation will be shut down, so he had kept it secret even from his own son). Detective Goren is more than a little disgusted that the humanitarian is so damned petty and makes it known to him in the denouement. Goren and ADA Carver even point out the worthlessness of his scheme now that he is going to jail. | |
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In a similar vein to how this trope is used in his book, Going Postal, after Terry Pratchett's death, many messages carried the mention "GNU Terry Pratchett", and the phrase even made it into one of Minecraft's splash texts. | |
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In the Gargoyles episode "The Price", Immortality Seeker Xanatos captures Hudson to test whether a magical cauldron can truly grant eternal life. Hudson spends the entire time deconstructing Xanatos' motivation, by pointing out the pitfalls of immortality and that Xanatos deep down is afraid of death. At the end, Hudson leaves Xanatos with an Armor-Piercing Question concerning Xanatos' legacy. | |
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Glass Onion: Miles Bron's great ambition in life is to be mentioned in the same breath as The Mona Lisa and thanks to Helen Brand he will be; as the complete idiot who destroyed the Mona Lisa. | |
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To Your Eternity: Fushi is physical manifestation of this trope. When someone important to him dies, he earns a vessel that allows him to assume their shape and abilities at the time he last saw them. However, the Nokkers can steal the vessel form he is in by killing him in that form. This also gives Fushi a partial Death of Personality with regards to who that vessel once was. Only by defeating the Nokker who took his vessel can Fushi regain the vessel and his memories of who the vessel was. If Fushi loses all of his vessels, he ceases to be and The Bad Guys Win. | |
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Red vs. Blue: In the Recreation trailer, as Church and Tex watch the others, apparently from the afterlife, the latter tells the former, "They say you're never completely dead if someone still remembers you." | |
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In One Piece, right before performing his Heroic Suicide, Dr. Hiriluk declared his belief in this idea, stating that a man does not truly die when they are physically killed, but rather, when they are finally forgotten. | |
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King Hyperion from Immortals built his entire plan around this trope. His end goal is to become an immortal, by destroying the gods and having his named passed down through generations. Despite dying, Hyperion still managed to accomplish his goal of unleashing the Titans to destroy the gods in a second war which results in the deaths of several of the major ones as revenge. He also manages to kill the hero and become "immortal" through his deeds and numerous offspring. Granted, he's remembered as a Dirty Coward who killed helpless women and children and used the Titans to do his dirty work, so it's not that much of a victory since he will live forever on a legacy of infamy and ridicule. | |
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From Life's Little Instruction Book: | |
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Alluded to in one of the loading screen quotes in Might and Magic: Heroes VI | |
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This is Liu Bowu's goal in Beware of Chicken. Due to his broken meridians he is unable to attain imortality the normal way, through cultivation, so his plan is to instead invent something so world-changing that nobody will ever forget his name. | |
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In a cut portion of The Essential Guide to Warfare, Hu Jibwe, scholar of military history at the Salmagodro Grand Academy, theorizes that the Mandalorian war chant Dha Werda Verda or "Rage of the Shadow Warriors" in Basic, dates back to the reign of Mandalore the Ultimate, the penultimate Taung Mandalore, as the Taungs were on their way out as a result of the bloody Mandalorian Wars, and was a plea by the Taungs to not be forgotten by primarily non-Taung Mandalorian culture they knew would outlive them. | |
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Coco: While the dead themselves have Remember the Dead immortality, for those who are still living, the dead live on through this trope. Once the last person who remembered someone dies or forgets, the person who died experiences a "second death" in the real world and they also die in the afterlife. | |
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One of the companion books to Titan A.E. featured the Hodrians, who believe that as long as a person's name is still out there, they endure. So they create "memory spheres", basically glass capsules with the name written on a slip of paper inside. Much of their activity consists of finding new places to stash the things; their original planet is buried in them. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts, this belief is the origin behind Lea/Axel's catchphrase, "Got it memorized?". As Lea explains in Birth by Sleep, he wants everyone he meets to remember him, as through people's memories, he'll live forever. | |
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After the death of Technoblade, one YouTube comment declared the following: | |
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Death Becomes Her ends with Ernest's funeral, where it's established in the eulogy that through his children (both biological and adopted) and various charitable works, his memory will go on as long as there are people to know about it. It's contrasted with Helen and Madeline's literal immortality, which will be spent in rotting, useless bodies shut away from all others, with only each other for company (and they loathe each other). | |
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