History Main / ForgetfulJones

* This is one of the characteristics of Special Agent Oso from the [[WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso series by the same name]] and one of the reasons why needs [[FakeInteractivity help from the viewers]]. He has a tendency to almost immediately forget things he's been told, such as in "Thunder Berries" when he forgets Dottie's instructions that the invisibility paint can be washed off simply with water.

* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has Akane Owari, who, in her Free Time Events, repeatedly forgets people's names, which is strongly implied to be related to [[DarkAndTroubledPast growing up in a place where people near her could be killed at almost any moment]]. In the third game's Talent Development Plan mode, she tells Himiko that she usually forget the name of anyone who seems too weak to survive, and in a later event, still has trouble with Himiko's name, even though they've been going to school together for three years.

Compare AbsentMindedProfessor, AttentionDeficitOohShiny, and ScatterbrainedSenior. For showrunners assuming their audience's memory is this bad, see ViewersAreGoldfish.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has Monotaro, one of the Monokubs, who's even worse than Akane. He repeatedly forgets important or obvious information, and when he does remember, it's usually because he forgot that he'd forgotten it. Crosses over into AchievementsInIgnorance where he spontaneously becomes a computer genius on par with Miu Iruma, the class's ''actual'' computer genius, just because he forgot that he was supposed to be HopelessWithTech. Of course, he forgets all of this sudden knowledge and goes back to being hopeless just as quickly.

* In ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'', Dagonnet doesn't even remember where the borders of his lands are. In TheMovie, ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'', he even has to be reminded that the Isle of Thanet belongs to him.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Can't remember didley."]]

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': Papi's memory borders on nonexistent. She forgets the protagonist literally five minutes after meeting him (she doesn't forget his ''name'', she completely forgets that she ever met him in the first place), and routinely has difficulty getting her own name and [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies species]] straight. This is mainly because her characterization is based on a Japanese legend that birds forget everything after taking three steps.

* Comicbook/MonicasGang has the dog Zé Esquecido (nearly the trope name: Forgetful Joe), whose faulty memory causes many problems to himself and Bidu\Blu.

* Bow the Gothorita, one of the supporting characters in ''FanFic/PokemonMysteryDungeonReflectingBalance'', is very forgetful, often forgetting to tell other Pokémon of her visions of the future until after they have already happened.

* Koishi of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' had become this as a side effect of her completely sealing her ability to read any minds, including her own. By ''Hopeless Masquerade'', she mentions that she tends to forget everything now, so she's surprised that she could still remember [[spoiler:the Mask of Hope that she found some time ago]].
** Yoshika is a far more basic example of this trope. She forgets things the second she was told them and part of her character is built entirely off her forgetfulness. It doesn’t help she’s a {{Jiangshi}}

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* ''Memento'': Leonard. It's the driving force behind the whole damn film.

* Film/Memento: Leonard. It's the driving force behind the whole damn film.

* ''Film/Memento'': Leonard. It's the driving force behind the whole damn film.

* ''Film/Memento'': Leonard. It's the point of the whole damn film.

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* Nangi from ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' is supposed to have an excellent memory [[AnimalStereotypes due to being an elephant]]. Yet, she cannot remember a single detail about Emmitt Otterton despite him coming to her yoga class for six years.

** Yoshika is a far more basic example of this trope. She forgets things the second she was told them and part of her character is built entirely off her forgetfulness. It doesn’t help she’s a [[ {{Jiangshi}} Zombie ]]

** Yoshika is a far more basic example of this trope. She forgets things the second she was told them and part of her character is built entirely off her forgetfulness. It doesn’t help she’s a [[Jiangshi]]

** Yoshika is a far more basic example of this trope. She forgets things the second she was told them and part of her character is built entirely off her forgetfulness. It doesn’t help she’s a [[Jiangshi Zombie]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/LostInOz'', Scarecrow sacrificed his own memory to protect Ozma's secrets (no one could force the information out of him if he couldn't remember it). However, this affected his ability to form new memories, and now he has trouble remembering anything.