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Note to Self
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Dear self, I know you may find this hard to believe, but it was actually you who wrote this page. Upon learning of a Government Conspiracy (though it could have very easily been an Ancient Conspiracy), you decided to investigate. Unfortunately for us (remember, I am you from the past), the local Big Bad found out and decided to make you forget everything through Laser-Guided Amnesia, even implanting Fake Memories to throw you off. As he warmed up his Applied Phlebotinum, you quickly scribbled this page on the first piece of available medium you found. It could have been yourself, a piece of paper, the floor, a videotape, or the back of a DNA-tracking device. If you're wondering why you chose a wiki where anyone can get at this note and alter it, well... it was there. As proof that this isn't some sort of elaborate hoax, I'll mention that weird dream you had when you were ten involving the Care Bears, even though that only works if you still have at least some memories left. There, now you know that I am you. Without this piece of evidence, you can't continue your battle against the big unknowing evil. Waking up with this message could be the beginning of a series (if you lived in a TV show, which you don't) or a defining trait of your character. Knowing of the existence of this conspiracy could very well turn you into Agent Mulder, as you will immediately believe it was you that wrote this, even if some people say those who suffer from amnesia have trouble accepting they DID write something. It's like a Memory Gambit, except it's a last ditch effort rather than premeditated as part of a convoluted plan. While you may not even know your own name, this is, for all we care, a Call to Adventure! Respectfully, Self. |
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Night Watch Discworld has Sam Vimes leaving a message to himself after the History Monks pull a Timey-Wimey Ball on him. | |
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In Kid vs. Kat, Burt does this while he has some of Coop's memories. | |
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In Twig this is combined with Dead Man Writing when Jamie leaves a series of coded messages for his future self coded in his journals, knowing that at some point he'll suffer a Death of Personality thanks to the experiments which give him his Photographic Memory and have to effectively start over. | |
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Doctor Balmer, the resident mortician at the Awful Hospital, leaves notes to himself all over his office, saying things like BALMER: Have this wall reinforced!!! love, Balmer and, immediately adjacent to the latter, <-DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! | |
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One of the more entertaining abilities on offer in time-travel RPG Continuum is the ability to send yourself advice from the future. Also possible in the out-of-print Timemaster RPG if you're using the "Timetricks" supplement. (Core rules, it's a violation of the Laws of Time.) Also featured in Chrononauts, where the "Memo From Your Future Self" card can be used to cancel any other card as it's played (the note apparently says that whatever that player was about to do was a bad idea). Hilariously, the rules do specifically state that the memo itself can be canceled by another memo, as the other players get in on the act as well. |
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Also featured in Chrononauts, where the "Memo From Your Future Self" card can be used to cancel any other card as it's played (the note apparently says that whatever that player was about to do was a bad idea). Hilariously, the rules do specifically state that the memo itself can be canceled by another memo, as the other players get in on the act as well. | |
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In the beginning of Bloodborne, after waking up in Iosefka's Clinic, you find an item nearby named Handwritten Scrawl, a note with the cryptic instruction "Seek Paleblood to transcend the hunt." While the English translation of the game doesn't make this very clear, the Japanese version refers to the note as an "autograph", indicating your character wrote it to themselves. | |
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Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians: The Series would make these, despite never actually having lost her memory (well, except that one time). | |
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Men in Black: A kid who saw the first contact between humans and aliens in the cartoon series. Also, Jay yelling a warning his past self not to use an invention that'd eventually made his head explode. |
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In the Miraculous Ladybug episode "Oblivio", Ladybug realizes that there's no way she can avoid being mind-wiped by the titular villain, so she uses the handful of seconds she has left to scribble on the nearest wall. Played with in that she doesn't have nearly enough time to explain the situation and how her powers work to herself. Instead, she makes a drawing instructing herself to call Master Fu, who she knows can fill her in. | |
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Chris Pratt in The Lookout, who has a bad short-term memory due to a serious head injury and needs to write everything down just to get through the day. | |
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Bennett from Heroes leaves himself a note saying "Claire's safe. She's with friends." after he sends Claire away to keep her safe from the Company and has the Haitian wipe his mind of any memories that could possibly lead them to her. His wife gives him the note, telling him he wrote it. | |
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In Spacetrawler, Pierrot, upon learning that he's to be brain-wiped by the subterranean Mihrrgoots, writes himself a letter containing some very important information about the Eeb liberation mission he's on. After the mind-wipe, he finds the letter in his pocket... and he dismisses it, assuming that he just had too much to drink. Later, the letter ends up becoming important anyway—the king of the Mihrrgoots gains Pierrot's trust by referring to the contents of the letter. | |
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Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), who was complicit in the memory wipe but left a message by burning his initials into his own brains. | |
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Haunter: Played with. Lisa (ghost) tries to warn Olivia (living) about the evil spirit in the house by writing on Olivia's arm while controlling her body, but this is quickly halted when the evil spirit catches her. | |
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In Blight Dream, Michiru keeps a notebook about her daily life to remind herself about everything that's happened since the car accident that caused her to suffer short-term memory loss. However, some of her notebook entries become mysteriously blacked out the morning after, so she starts keeping a second notebook in a hiding place only she knows about. | |
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Note to self: Don't kill Steve. "What have I done!?" | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition fanfic Walking in Circles, Redcliffe future!Solas gives Evelyn a note to deliver it to himself in the present. Most of it concerns future events such as Celene’s assassination, the eluvians’ locations and such, but the last line is to remind himself not to give Evelyn any red wine since it triggers her trauma. | |
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Rick and Morty: Attempted during Total Rickall, where mind-altering parasites were passing themselves as wacky characters that've always lived with the family by inserting fake memories of their times together. Rick tries to beat this by having written down the real amount of people in the family, but this fails when the parasites insert a memory of him writing the number down for pretty much no reason whatsoever as a joke. | |
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On Parker Lewis Can't Lose Parker had "Mental note...." as a catchphrase in his constant Internal Monologue. | |
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Cracked: In an article about smoking and addiction, John Cheese gives this advice: | |
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In Freefall, as part of a series of tests, Florence (an uplifted red wolf) was injected with a chemical which prevented her short term memory from being converted into long term. When it was activated, she used a Post-It pad and pen to remind her where she was going, what she was doing, and even the fact that her memory was affected. Included in the notes was a note saying "skip to the end" because her memory was only about three minutes long, and reading all the notes she'd accumulated at that point would have taken too long. | |
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The main character from the original Total Recall used two video messages. These set up some of the best lines and scenes in the movie. Turns out that he came up with the plan and is manipulating himself with the clues he left behind to function as the perfect mole. It's not every day you Mind Screw yourself on purpose. | |
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Done by the protagonist in the movie Memento, using pictures as well as tattooing information onto his skin. He also only trusts notes to himself that are in his own handwriting. At one point another character insists that he write something down that he doesn't believe is true, so he purposely writes it in different handwriting so that he won't believe it when he reads it later. | |
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Garfield: Jon tries to write himself a reminder but, since the reminder is to "get new pen, because this one is out of ink", he's unable to read it. | |
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Professor Denzel Crocker in The Fairly Oddparents. His obssession with fairies began when he wrote "fairy godparents exist" before getting his mind wiped by Jorgen. | |
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Discworld: In Soul Music, during an early demonstration of Susan's Perception Filter, Miss Butts has a note on her desk saying "You are interviewing Susan Sto Helit. Try not to forget it." After a while, she looks at the note, puzzled, throws it away, and gets on with her paperwork. Susan waits politely for a moment in case there's anything else, then leaves. Night Watch Discworld has Sam Vimes leaving a message to himself after the History Monks pull a Timey-Wimey Ball on him. |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship: When chasing the original holder of the Memory Stone, Clover the Clever wrote notes to himself to make sure he'd always know who to chase in case his memory was stolen. Before Sunset Shimmer confronts a classmate she suspects of possessing said Memory Stone, she turns on a nearby camera before confronting her and preemptively leaves a note in her own pocket telling herself to check it. The note and the footage do indeed help her when her memory gets wiped. |
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Gwen Cooper in the first episode of Torchwood, but she wasn't very successful because she used a word program on her computer instead of a handwritten note, and Ianto remotely wiped it. Her memory ended up being triggered by the image of Suzie's knife later on, anyway. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: In "Zoom In Zadie," Zadie's photos advertising the square-painting class leads the neighbors to believe that it's a jack-in-the-box class or a face-painting class. Quique makes mental notes to start face-painting and jack-in-the-box classes. | |
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In the Relativity story "Sinkhole", Sara has lost her memory several times and is trying to figure out why. She begins to form a theory that someone is doing it to her deliberately. At one point, she receives a package from herself several weeks in the past. Her earlier self had realized that there was a very good chance that her memory might be wiped again, and her future self would need the contents of the package to help re-start the investigation. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: In the Kamen Sentai Gorider special, Emu wakes up in an abandoned amusement park in the middle of literal nowhere without any idea what happened. There he meets four dead riders and an undead one, who don't know any more than him. His memory gets reset everytime he dies, so one cycle leads to him writing down his findings before dying of a stab wound inflicted by an imposter among the dead riders. He then corrects the note in the next cycle before dying again, which becomes crucial in this next cycle over. | |
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Kamen Rider Geats: Due to being eliminated as a Kamen Rider, Ace loses his memories of being a Rider, but he had planned for this and left himself a series of notes indicating what to do to get his memories back, eventually getting back into the DGP just in time to help save the world. | |
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Adam and Jamie in Irregular Webcomic! wrote to themselves to remind that Elvis Presley is alive before erasing excessive memories (including the info about Elvis) from when they drink from Mnemosyne river. Naturally, they don't believe it. | |
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Kamen Rider Ryuki: The Dragon Kamen Rider Odin has the ability to reset the Rider War when things don't go in favor of the Big Bad Shiro Kanzaki, which includes erasing the memories of the Riders. The Hero Shinji finds a way to get around the memory resets by leaving himself notes on what to do, and this ends up with him managing to land a hit on Odin, something nobody else had managed to do before that point. | |
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At one point in Schlock Mercenary, when the entire crew was undergoing forced memory rewrites, Schlock used the properties of his Bizarre Alien Biology to store his real memories of the encounter inside a bit of himself, which he protected from the rewrite by shoving it inside one of his extra eyeballs. Schlock was smart enough to realize that he couldn't actually get the crew to remember what really happened—such an effort would most likely lead to them getting killed. Instead, he just made sure to tell himself to kill the bastard who did it to them so they wouldn't become a Karma Houdini. | |
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On The Angry Beavers, Norbert recorded a tape telling himself how to regain his memories under the presumption that he'd eventually be hit on the head by his accident-prone brother and get amnesia. It even contained a Shout-Out to Total Recall. His solution? Just let his brother hit him on the head again. | |
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StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops opens up with Nova undergoing a seemingly normal Ghost tactical gear assessment, until she puts on her visor and sees the message inside. Nova inputted the message into her combat suit just before she was memory wiped by the Defenders of Man, to warn her future self that she is in hostile territory. | |
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The X-Files. In "Monday", Mulder and Scully are killed by a bank robber who's wearing a bomb, only to reset in a "Groundhog Day" Loop. Having been tipped off as to what's happening, Mulder repeats to himself "He's got a bomb" in the hopes of invoking a Ripple-Proof Memory. | |
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Hank makes a video note in The Venture Bros. when he has to have his memory erased after he sleeps with a woman, finally losing his virginity, only to discover that the woman was the mother of his best friend Dermott... and that his own father, Dr. Venture, was Dermott's actual father. Hank's note to self is something where he reassures himself that he got laid. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Vala has her memory altered (so that she believes she was abandoned by SG-1) in a Batman Gambit to capture Adria. She leaves a Note To Self for after she is brought back, knowing she would be... rather upset with her teammates otherwise. Another episode, 2010, taking place in the then-future year of 2010, shows that the Goa'uld have been defeated by a benevolent and powerful alien race that SG-1 discovered. It is later revealed that the aliens have used their technology to secretly sterilize humanity so they can take over when everyone has died of old age. Jack is able to use the Stargate to send a message back in time warning his past self not to go to the star where they discovered the aliens. General Hammond immediately issues an order that the note's instructions be followed. |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, this is how Sorin Sprocket deals with the anterograde amnesia he developed after a car accident that killed his sister. He meticulously logs the events of his day in his personal notebook so as to remind himself of what he'll inevitably forget. This factors into the case, since his vengeful butler Pierce has been tampering with said notebook to manipulate his memories against his bride, who is your client. | |
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The Troop: Gus once told the heroes they could erase his memory since he had hidden reminders. They instead sent him to a mental institution where his tales about monsters will be disregarded as delusions. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Doofenshmirtz once turned Perry the Platypus into his butler. Before being brainwashed, Perry wrote to himself a reminder on his chest that, when reflected on a mirror, read "I fight evil". | |
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Played rather chillingly in the Flash episode Null And Annoyed when the Thinker's wife finds out he's been drugging her to make her forget things he doesn't want her to know. She records a message to herself, saves it...and finds dozens of previous messages saying the exact same thing. | |
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In Cypher, Sebastian Rooks, the Magnificent Bastard playing two security companies against each other, leaves his notes to self through a Femme Fatale. Morgan almost screws the plan by being Wrong Genre Savvy and turning on her before she can turn on him, but in the end hears a recording addressed to him from himself. | |
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In The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time, you, Agent 5, meet your future self who's been framed for tampering with history. He then gives you his Jumpsuit which teleports you 10 years forward in time, where an action figure contains a holographic message providing details on the current time period and how to clear your name. | |
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Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Ryuki: The Dragon Kamen Rider Odin has the ability to reset the Rider War when things don't go in favor of the Big Bad Shiro Kanzaki, which includes erasing the memories of the Riders. The Hero Shinji finds a way to get around the memory resets by leaving himself notes on what to do, and this ends up with him managing to land a hit on Odin, something nobody else had managed to do before that point. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: In the Kamen Sentai Gorider special, Emu wakes up in an abandoned amusement park in the middle of literal nowhere without any idea what happened. There he meets four dead riders and an undead one, who don't know any more than him. His memory gets reset everytime he dies, so one cycle leads to him writing down his findings before dying of a stab wound inflicted by an imposter among the dead riders. He then corrects the note in the next cycle before dying again, which becomes crucial in this next cycle over. Kamen Rider Geats: Due to being eliminated as a Kamen Rider, Ace loses his memories of being a Rider, but he had planned for this and left himself a series of notes indicating what to do to get his memories back, eventually getting back into the DGP just in time to help save the world. |
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In The Adventure Zone: Balance, the Red Robe has a coin that allows him to record messages for himself once he enters a new body, which causes him to lose memories. | |
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Used by several time-travelling characters in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. | |
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In Looper, this happens twice. First, Old Joe pins a paper note on an unconscious Young Joe's jacket, warning him to skip town before the mob figures out he didn't kill his older self. Later, Young Joe carves the name of his favorite waitress into his arm. Old Joe reads the scars that appear on his arm and meets his younger self at the diner, then dryly comments that there was another waitress with a much shorter name that Young Joe could've used. | |
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Daniel Faraday apparently did this at some point on Lost. He's surprised to find the note "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant" in his journal. It's later revealed that Daniel suffered from memory loss due to a botched time travel experiment, and his past self who wrote the journal knew about Desmond and the other information there due solely to the Stable Time Loop created in that episode. |
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Groundhog Day. When Phil is trying to use the "Groundhog Day" Loop to romance Rita, he's shown memorizing things that she hates to avoid doing them in the next loop. In one loop she overhears him and is not happy, realising that he's trying to manipulate her even if she doesn't understand how. | |
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This trope is the main premise of the novel The Rook. Fortunately, the main character is Crazy Prepared, since she knew this was coming -but she has a job to do, and she has to do it as though her memories are completely intact. | |
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Upon waking up in Shibuya with Laser-Guided Amnesia, Tsuyoshi finds a note in his mouth written in blood that simply says, "LEAVE SHIBUYA. - RAVE". After the Restore, he pulls the same trick by swallowing one of Ema's fake fingernails, which is significantly more successful in jogging his memories. | |
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Wapsi Square: Stuck in a time loop, Brandi writes a book to her future self detailing how to get out of the time loop. | |
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In Mulan the title character writes the final admonition on her arm to help her remember it during her matchmaker interview. Unfortunately she's forced to take a bath soon after and the ink runs, whilst she can still just about read it the matchmaker grabs her arm soon after and the ink gets transferred to said matchmakers hand - then onto her face in a beard like pattern. | |
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ef: A Tale of Memories: Chihiro's memory only lasts for around 12 hours, so every night before she goes to bed she writes in a diary what she did that day, and every day when she wakes up she reads all the diary entries she's written to remind herself of her life. | |
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The Bureau of Magical Things: Kyra predicts that she'll be stripped of her magic and memories soon after the DMI starts questioning her, so she records a message for herself and leaves it with Peter to give to her after it happens. Sure enough, it does, and the message causes future Kyra to regain her missing memories. | |
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Subverted in Cheeky Angel, where one character comes to a confrontation with the genie ready to secretly take notes. He discovers a vital secret about the genie during the meeting, but their group gets Laser-Guided Amnesia at the very end. Shortly afterward, he discovers and pulls out the Note To Self... which contains not the secret but rather some other perverted fact he had witnessed at that time, which given his character got the higher priority. | |
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The first season of The Good Place ends with Eleanor writing one of these after she realizes they're actually in the Bad Place and Michael is about to wipe their memories and separate them. When she receives it, we see it says "Find Chidi". | |
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A variation happens in Code Geass. After finding out Zero's identity, Shirley Fenette is shown writing in her journal about everything that's happened lately, but ends up tearing it out and throwing it away. Later, after she's been mindwiped, she finds the page under her desk. | |
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In the second issue of The Order of the Black Dog the MIB wipe Julia and Melissa's memories, and erase the video on Julia's phone, but neglect the remote backup on her home computer. | |
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Reah: Face the Unknown has one near the end of the game. A partial audio recording of the journalist's voice that contains clues to a puzzle he found along the way. When the journalist himself hears this in-game, he assumes he's suffering from amnesia. | |
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Kurt Mendel in the Odyssey 5 episode "Time Out of Mind" | |
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In Questionable Content, Hannelore wakes up after getting drunk and finds a mysterious and slightly disturbing note from herself, which she rips up, saying "Sorry, past me, but I'm going to forget I ever saw this." Past Hanners has anticipated this and the next note reiterates the points. The third one just says "Stop crumpling up these notes!" And then she realises the apartment is full of them. | |
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Paycheck has the protagonist willingly receive Laser-Guided Amnesia to protect proprietary secrets in exchange for an 8-figure sum. Instead of this huge paycheck, he's shocked to find an envelope containing twenty innocuous items left by himself before he was mindwiped. While mostly it's a Chekhov's Armoury, others are clues that he's meant to follow, though unlike usual for this trope nothing is spelt out for him. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3, the heroes are attacked by a Stand-using baby who can attack and kill them in their dreams, and even if they survive, they won't remember the attacks after they wake up, because people quickly forget their dreams. Kakyoin warns himself about this by carving the message "BABY STAND" into his arm. Part 6 had Jolyne sewing notes on her own skin using her own stand when she was under the effects of Jailhouse Rock which makes her unable to take in more than four pieces of information. |
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Generator Rex: Rex suffers from chronic amnesia (as in he'll suddenly blackout and forget everything about his life up to that point.) During one of his "lives", he compensates by making a comprehensive journal for this purpose. However, Rex destroyed the journal upon realizing what an ass that past self was, though he's since started a new one. | |
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A Master of Djinn: Fatma and Haida write notes to themselves telling them to remember Sulayman's ring, which has a spell making it very difficult for humans to remember. | |
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One of the protagonist's envelopes in Push is addressed to himself. Kira also leaves a short message for herself written in her lipstick on a mirror. She even checks to make sure it's her own handwriting. |
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In the Persona 4/5 crossover fanfic series Forewarned is Forearmed, Akira cuts an important message into his arm because he knows he's going to have a case of Laser-Guided Amnesia once he leaves the area he's in, having lived this event once before because of Time Travel shenanigans and noticing wounds and scars wont fade, even if the memories will. | |
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At the end of the Invader Zim episode "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy", Zim desperately throws a note into his time machine and back into the past after severely screwing up the timeline. This somewhat works as the note switches places with his brain, leaving him a drooling moron holding a brain (and thus repairing the timeline). What it said? "ZIM, DON'T USE THE TIME MACHINE! LOVE, ZIM!" | |
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In Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure, the title characters find a note left by their future selves at the police station. More often, this trope is evoked throughout the movie in a fashion similar to the Norm MacDonald example above. | |
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Most characters in Ruby Quest, if not all, are suffering from amnesia, and at least two people have attempted to counter this by leaving notes to themselves: Tom discovers writing inside his locker, advising him not to trust #7, i.e. Ruby - the reason is revealed soon, and results in a temporary break-up between the two. Meanwhile, the head doctor, Filbert, wrote a note that simply told that he has amnesia, which is why he can't remember things - as well as reassuring him that he is still clean. | |
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The Magic Book of Spells: Rhina the Riddled's chapter of the Book of Spells is full of "notes to me" she left for various reasons. | |
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One episode of Dans Une Galaxie Près De Chez Vous involves the male members of the Romano-Fafard systematically losing their memories, due to a device planted by an alien. When Brad Spitfire wakes up from regenerescence, he notices their degrading amnesia and worries that he'll be next, so he begins writing down everything about himself in his journal before he eventually realizes that he's not affected. That said, he does start to lose his memories for real when the alien uses the device on him. After he scares off the alien, he leaves a note to himself so that he can alter the device and restore everyone's memories, which comes in handy when he gets distracted. | |
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In Doctor Who series 6, when Team TARDIS faces an alien group called the Silence that you can't remember the moment you look away, they leave notes to themselves (often all over their body) telling them what to do. Paranoia Fuel at its finest. Even earlier, in "The Beast Below", Amy leaves a video recording for herself telling herself to get the Doctor off the ship after she learns about (and then erases her memories of) the Star Whale. Liz 10 leaves herself a recording in the same situation. During the 7th Doctor adventure "Battlefield", the Doctor finds a note from his future self in what was supposed to be King Arthur's tomb warning that Morgaine was going to summon an Eldritch Abomination. In "Time Heist", the Doctor and Clara leave themselves messages explaining that they had to have their memories wiped of why they're breaking into a bank, but they have agreed to do so, and they have a really good reason. |
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Penelope to her past self in Atomic Betty episode "The Future is Now". Past!Penelope didn't believe. | |
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In Jasper in Deadland, Gretchen mentions that she tried to fight off Deadland's Ghost Amnesia by writing down a notebook of all her positive memories— but wound up throwing the book away because trying to think about people she'd probably never see again was more painful than just letting the memories go. | |
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Tally Youngblood had to write her future self a note in Uglies, because after she underwent the traditional surgical procedure that made her a Pretty, she would forget all the plans she had made beforehand to eventually reverse the process. | |
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In Little Busters!, Kurugaya starts leaving notes to herself when she realises that, because the world they're in is breaking down, she is losing her memory of Riki trying (and succeeding) to ask her out. The jig is up when Riki discovers a note saying 'You're going out with Riki.' | |
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In the film 50 First Dates, the main character Lucy keeps a journal (later a video tape) since she loses her memory every day. | |
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When Mork, from Mork & Mindy, has his first birthday, he has to hit himself with his egg-shaped "gleek" to recharge. Problem is as he gets closer to the time, his memory lapses. While at the music store, his watch alarm goes off, while strapped to his ankle. | |
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent starts with the player character waking up close to one of these, informing him that he wiped his own memory willingly, and now has to kill a certain baron of the castle he finds himself in. As the player character progresses, he will find more notes from his pre-amnesia self explaining who he is, why he ended up here, who the castle baron is, their relationship, why he erased his memories in the first place, and what he hopes his current self will do with the knowledge now that he knows. | |
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In Soul Music, during an early demonstration of Susan's Perception Filter, Miss Butts has a note on her desk saying "You are interviewing Susan Sto Helit. Try not to forget it." After a while, she looks at the note, puzzled, throws it away, and gets on with her paperwork. Susan waits politely for a moment in case there's anything else, then leaves. | |
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In the episode of Lois & Clark, when Lois is in 1966 and finds out that Clark is Superman, she writes a note to herself when she finds out H.G. Wells will cause her to forget this. Luckily, Clark sees the note before she does and the secret is kept until later in the series. | |
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Happy Endings: In the episode "The Storm Before the Calm", Dave is giving himself reminders on a tape recorder. At the end of the episode, the gang yoinks his recorder away and plays it for their amusement. |
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Rodney McKay in Stargate Atlantis used a video message when everyone in Atlantis lost their memories in "Tabula Rasa". Later it turns out Lorne has a picture of Sheppard with a note saying "This man is your commanding officer. Trust him." which becomes critical at a certain point. | |
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The first log you find in System Shock is this, from just before you went in to get a military-grade neural implant, which requires a six-month-long healing coma. You, having freed SHODAN of her ethical restraints by Edward Diego's request, acknowledge that you don't know what'll happen after that, and leave yourself some tools and reminders for when you wake up. | |
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In Liberty Meadows, a Running Gag punchline has a character recording a note to themselves via tape recorder. No amnesia is involved. It's just a reminder for the future. | |
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Pretty much the entire point of Marble Hornets, along with other works in The Slender Man Mythos which take a similar vein. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager In "Unforgettable", Chakotay falls in love with a beautiful alien from a species that fades from memory after a while. To ensure this they also implant a virus that destroys all computer records. To make sure he doesn't forget, Chakotay writes out what happened on paper. In "Timeless", there's a Bad Future where Voyager was destroyed when its experimental slipstream drive malfunctioned mid-flight, killing everybody aboard. Chakotay and Harry are the sole survivors and they, along with the newly-reactivated Doctor, set out to prevent the accident from happening. During the story, we see Future Harry recording a message before being interrupted by the Doctor. In the end, after the accident gets averted, we see that this was a message from Future Harry to the present-day Harry, who's understandably shocked to see this. |
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How I Met Your Mother: It doesn't involve amnesia, but a Running Gag is that the characters occasionally write letters to themselves addressed "Dear Future Ted" and signed "Past Ted". It also has this little gem: Ted has a habit of of writing letters to himself after his breakups so that in the future, if he is tempted to start dating one of his exes, he can go back to the letter and be reminded of why they broke up to avoid making the same mistake. Some of the previous episodes become Hilarious in Hindsight after this revelation as Ted's first letter of this type is about Karen, the pretentious Jerkass and notorious cheater who was Ted's college girlfriend who he kept getting back together with, even after the relationship kept ending the same way. |
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In the film The Machinist, the main character unknowingly leaves post-it notes of a game of hangman to unearth the suppressed memory of his fatal hit-and-run. | |
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Artemis Fowl puts together a slightly more complicated version of this (involving a video-message, among other things) as part of a Memory Gambit in his own book series after being mind-wiped in the third book. It comes to fruition in the fourth. | |
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The Histeria!! version of Christopher Columbus wrote one: "Never again hire anyone from Cabin Crews R Us." | |
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In the Persona 5/Jojo's Bizarre Adventure crossover Vanishing Act, Shizuka (and later Ryuji) are fighting against a Stand-user with the ability to rewind time within a localized area, with only the enemy Stand-user's own memories and the heroes' physical condition carrying over across loops. Shizuka manages to warn herself about the Stand's time-looping, and later leave a clue as to how to disable it, by carving a message into her own arm. | |
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Avatar: The Way of Water: Recombinant Quaritch starts the movie watching one he made prior to getting his memories and personality digitized and sent back to Earth to be put in an Na'vi avatar. It also helps bring the audience up to speed and understand that since Quaritch made the video after Jake Sully Going Native, there's no Alternate Personality Punishment involved. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode "Cause and Effect" has the Enterprise destroyed before resetting in a "Groundhog Day" Loop. The crew have a vague sense of what's happening, so Data sends a very short (single character) message to the past as a clue to avert their destruction and stop the loop. | |
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