Jean Grey deals with memories she gained from her copies.
"Let me get this straight. Does anybody here not have amnesia?"
Memory and amnesia in TV, movies, and video games works a bit differently than in Real Life... Why? Because memory often makes for an interesting storyline involving one or more characters, and can be used to make a powerful argument on questions such as identity, destiny, betrayal and love. The usefulness of this trope is tricky, as memory loss isn't as common in Real Life as it is in fiction. Don't worry about it too much, as Tropes Are Tools.
Compare Stay Ahead of This Index (as our memories are stored there) and Psychology Tropes.
Not to be confused with Please Reflect on This Index.
— Calculon, All My Circuits, Futurama
Remember these tropes
- Absent-Minded Professor
- Aesop Amnesia
- Alternate Identity Amnesia
- Amnesia Danger
- Amnesia Loop
- Amnesia Missed a Spot
- Amnesiac Dissonance
- Amnesiac God
- Amnesiac Hero
- Amnesiac Liar
- Amnesiac Lover
- Amnesiac Resonance
- Amnesiacs Are Innocent
- Awesomeness-Induced Amnesia
- Bag of Spilling
- Brainwash Residue
- Congruent Memory
- Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story
- Crazy Memory
- Criminal Amnesiac
- Damn You, Muscle Memory
- Death Amnesia
- Death of Personality
- Demoted Memories
- Easy Amnesia
- Eat Brain for Memories
- Eye Recall
- Fake Memories
- Faking Amnesia
- Fighting Down Memory Lane
- Flashback Fail
- The Fog of Ages
- Forgetful Jones
- Forgets to Eat
- Forgettable Character
- Forgot About His Powers
- Forgot the Call
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten
- Gameplay-Guided Amnesia
- Genetic Memory
- Ghost Amnesia
- Ghost Memory
- House Amnesia
- Human Notepad
- Identity Amnesia
- Laser-Guided Amnesia
- Legend Fades to Myth
- Loss of Identity
- Manchurian Agent
- Memory Gambit
- Memory-Wiping Crew
- Mind Virus
- Missing Time
- My Art, My Memory
- My Skull Runneth Over
- Neural Implanting
- Neuro-Vault
- Never-Forgotten Skill
- The Nicknamer
- No Infantile Amnesia
- Note to Self
- NPC Amnesia
- Paralysis by Analysis
- Past-Life Memories
- Photographic Memory
- Protagonist Without a Past
- Quest for Identity
- Remembered Too Late
- Remembered I Could Fly
- Remember That You Trust Me
- Repressed Memories
- Ripple Effect-Proof Memory
- Scatterbrained Senior
- Secret Word
- Selective Memory
- Self-Serving Memory
- Super Intelligence
- Transferable Memory
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia
- Trigger Phrase
- Victory-Guided Amnesia
- What Did I Do Last Night?
- Wistful Amnesia
- You Remind Me of X
