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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheActress'', Latraviata, when she is impersonating Panacea, does this as an excuse to justify why she is visiting the village, and why she fails to recall past events or recognize people the real Panacea should know.
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* In the Creator/{{Marvel comic|s}} ''ComicBook/AgentX'', The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
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* In the Creator/{{Marvel comic|s}} ''ComicBook/AgentX'', The Taskmaster accuses Alex Hayden of being [[{{Deadpool}} [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] pulling this trick. [[spoiler:This ends up being a subversion, as while it's unclear whether he is Deadpool or not, the amnesia is very real. Then, it turns out Alex Hayden isn't even Wade!]]
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* In ''Film/{{Tron}}'', Flynn, when befriending Ram and Tron, uses the excuse that he suffered some memory disorientation while being transported to the Game Grid to hide the fact that he's actually a User that got beamed into the computer world by the MCP.
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* The [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-2]] Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} was revealed to have been suffering from AmnesiacDissonance the whole time she'd been Catwoman, and when she regained her original memories she forgot about her time as Catwoman. In a later {{retcon}}, she admitted to making this up in order to make her reformation easier.
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* ''Manga/{{Arisa}}'' has the titular character pretend to have developed [[TraumaInducedAmnesia amnesia after she]] [[DrivenToSuicide threw herself out of a window]].
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* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX'', [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Tobia]] fakes amnesia to avoid explaining his situation to the others, more specifically the ones who come from Tobia's past in the UC Gundam timeline.
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** Seemingly subverted but actually played straight by Xehanort. [[It's assumed that he lost his memory after the fight against Aqua at the end of Birth By Sleep, but Braig in a flashback in Dream Drop Distance thinks he never lost his memory at all. The truth is he did lose his memory, he just recovered it quicker then people think.]]
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** Seemingly subverted but actually played straight by Xehanort. [[It's assumed that he lost his memory after the fight against Aqua at the end of Birth By Sleep, but Braig in a flashback in Dream Drop Distance thinks he never lost his memory at all. The truth is he did lose his memory, he just recovered it quicker then people think.]]
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->'''Mrs Burns''': "Right, what's this about losing your memory?"
->'''Bertie''': "Um ... yes. It just seems to keep um ... going."
->'''Mrs Burns''': "Really? So you don't remember Angela's invitation?"
->'''Bertie''': "What invitation?"
->'''Mrs Burns''': "That's a pity, because there's a film you wanted to see at the weekend. I expect you've forgotten that too?"
->'''Bertie''': "''Pirates of Blood Island''!"
->'''Mrs Burns''': "Ah, so your memory ''is'' working!"
->'''Bertie''': "I ... um ... remember some things. But other things I forget."
-->'''''Literature/DirtyBertie''''', "Worms"
->'''Bertie''': "Um ... yes. It just seems to keep um ... going."
->'''Mrs Burns''': "Really? So you don't remember Angela's invitation?"
->'''Bertie''': "What invitation?"
->'''Mrs Burns''': "That's a pity, because there's a film you wanted to see at the weekend. I expect you've forgotten that too?"
->'''Bertie''': "''Pirates of Blood Island''!"
->'''Mrs Burns''': "Ah, so your memory ''is'' working!"
->'''Bertie''': "I ... um ... remember some things. But other things I forget."
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* In the ''Literature/DirtyBertie'' story "Worms!", Bertie pretends to have a very selective form of amnesia to try and get out of going to [[NosyNeighbour Angela]]'s party, but it doesn't work.
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* In the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "Fallen Idols", a high school cheerleader goes missing after a DeadlyPrank on her cheating boyfriend. When she's found heavily injured later, she pretends not to remember anything, but Grissom quickly calls her out.
-->'''Grissom''': I wish I could get selective amnesia. There's a lot in my past I'd like to forget about.
-->'''Grissom''': I wish I could get selective amnesia. There's a lot in my past I'd like to forget about.
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* During the Nuremberg Trials and the lead-up to it, former Nazi Party deputy Rudolf Hess pretended that he had lost most of his memories, making a show out of not recognizing the other defendants. None of the prosecutors nor any of his former colleagues were buying it.
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* In ''Series/TheXFiles'', Mulder jokingly pretends to not know who Scully is for a brief moment in the episode "Deadalive".
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* ''Fanfic/MyLittleWesker'' has the titular villain do this to keep the ponies from finding out about his DarkAndTroubledPast, and more importantly, his former status as the BigBad of his [[Franchise/ResidentEvil home series]].
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* In ''Series/{{iZombie}}'', Blaine takes the second version of the zombie cure and loses his memory. He becomes a much more pleasant person, and Peyton falls for him again. Ravi's attempt to cure the amnesia fails to work, but Don E suspects that Blaine is lying and tells Ravi. Ravi tells Peyton, who asks Blaine. He admits that he did lose his memories for a few days, but then everything came flooding back. He decided that he liked who he was as an amnesiac far more than his typical persona. Unfortunately for him, Peyton doesn't buy it and leaves, setting Blaine back onto the dark path. Of course, at that point, he can't hide the truth any more, as Major has also taken the cure, which means that everyone will know anyway in a few days.
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* In French movie ''[[Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez The Gendarme to Stroll]]'', Gendarme Fougasse suffered only from a short amnesia after an accident, but he likes so much the convalescent home he's staying in, he pretends in order to remain longer.
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* Played with in ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward''. K [[spoiler: can be one of two people, depending on the timeline. Kyle really is amnesiac, but on one particular timeline Akane pretends to be Kyle and in her case amnesia was a lie.]]
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* Archer in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' claims to not remember which Heroic Spirit he is in order to carry out his plan to kill Shirou while making it seem like he was just another casualty of the Holy Grail War.
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* Archer in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' claims to not remember which Heroic Spirit he is in order to carry out his plan to kill Shirou while making it seem like he was just another casualty of the Holy Grail War. (A Main/DoubleSubversion, as he mentions that at first he really didn't know who he was, but he remembered fairly quickly. He just never let on that he had.)
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* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'' Batman suspects that Kara is pulling this trick. [[spoiler:However it is subverted: she really suffers from memory loss owing to kryptonite poisoning]].
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Lucrezia [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061117#.VvrgLuIrLIU pulls this]] whilst [[GrandTheftMe possessing Agatha's body]], telling Agatha's rescue party that she's been drugged and can't remember any of them. She manages to pull it off for a while, too, since no-one imagines for a second that it could be anyone ''other'' than Agatha talking to them. It isn't until she encounters someone that knew the original Lucrezia and recognises her mannerisms that it all goes downhill.
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** One episode features the "recovers but keeps it secret" variant with a witness who had been mentally stuck in the 1970's.
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FakingAmnesia is usually more believable to others when the individual has recently gone through some kind of trauma, like a [[EasyAmnesia blow to the head]] or DemonicPossession. A suspicious character may attempt to trick the faux amnesiac into mentioning something about the events to prove that they remember it after all. If the faker accidentally slips up and gives themselves away, they may make a big show about their "miraculous recovery." A character who really had amnesia at some point may recover but keep it secret and feign to still have amnesia, to take advantage of it (for example, because AmnesiacsAreInnocent).
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* The {{New52}} version of ''Comicbook/{{Superboy}}'''s cover story in the "small town" simulation.
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* In "Series/BreakingBad'', Walt pretends to not remember anything so he won't have to explain where he's been or what he's done for a period of time. He ''does'' admit to his psychiatrist that he's faking it (so that he can be released from the hospital rather than being held for evaluation), but also points out that doctor/patient confidentiality prevents the psychiatrist from telling anyone else.
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* In "Series/BreakingBad'', ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walt pretends to not remember anything so he won't have to explain where he's been or what he's done for a period of time. He ''does'' admit to his psychiatrist that he's faking it (so that he can be released from the hospital rather than being held for evaluation), but also points out that doctor/patient confidentiality prevents the psychiatrist from telling anyone else.
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The viewers are aware that Walt is faking and why from the moment he starts doing it; unless you think Skyler or Hank is reading this, there\'s no point in the spoiler tags, Also, the fact that a work appears on this page at all is a spoiler unless there are multiple \"amnesiac\" characters and the audience is not sure which are real and which are faking.
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* In ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaRebirth1'', while pursuing the defeated Black Heart, Neptune runs into Noire (who is really the un-transformed Black Heart). When Neptune realizes Noire is badly hurt, Noire pretends [[BlatantLies very badly]] to have amnesia and not to remember what happened to her. [[OnlySaneMan IF]] sees straight through it, but [[TooDumbToLive Neptune]] and Compa both fall for it.
