History Main / ForgottenFirstMeeting

Related to AlreadyMetEveryone and ChildhoodFriends. Contrast ForgottenFriendNewFoe.

* In "{{Frineds}}" Ross finds out that Phoebe robbed him when they were kids.

* In ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'', Nowaki recalls the day he found out the orphanage owners weren't his real parents and tried running away. He stops at a park when his tires go flat, only to have his [[CuteShotaroBoy future lover]] walk by, inquire, and then start dishing out life lessons about the obstacles kids must get through before tattling to the patrolman. Years later Nowaki remembers the encounter and mentions it to Hiroki, but neither realizes it was each other.

* In ''AiYoriAoshi'' there's a broken ChildhoodMarriagePromise but she wants to find him. When she does he doesn't remember her at first. There are flashbacks, not to the first time they met but while the were friends as kids together.

* In ''SpiritedAway'', MysteriousProtector Haku knew Chihiro's name even though he couldn't remember his. Chihiro kept having a feeling that she met Haku from before but couldn't remember when. [[spoiler: It was only when they were flying through the air together that Chihiro remembered she fell into a river as a little girl, only to be saved by the spirit residing there. By remembering, this caused Haku to remember his identity.]]

* ''FruitsBasket'''s Tohru met Yuki when they were younger. Yuki remembers that first meeting, but think that Tohru doesn't (in actuality, she does).

* The SilverAge ''{{Superboy}}'' series kept retconning these in. As well as revealing Lex and Clark were at school together, it also included, at one time or another, Young LoisLane, Young [[{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], Young [[GreenArrow Ollie Queen]], and Young [[{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]].

* The SilverAge ''{{Superboy}}'' series was notorious for this. As well as {{Retcon}}ning in that Lex and Clark were at school together, it also shoehorned in, at one time or another, Young LoisLane, Young [[{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], Young [[GreenArrow Ollie Queen]], and Young [[{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]].

* The old ''{{Superboy}}'' series was notorious for this. As well as {{Retcon}}ning in that Lex and Clark were at school together, it also shoehorned in, at one time or another, Young LoisLane, Young [[{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], Young [[GreenArrow Ollie Queen]], and Young [[{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]].

* In ''FireEmblemTellius'', Ike and Soren had met years ago, and Ike did not remember the first time that he met Soren, although Soren remembered in vivid detail. It was not until near the end of ''Path of Radiance'' that Soren bothered to remind Ike how they met, and it wasn't until ''Radiant Dawn'' that Ike finally remembered it first-hand. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that their first meeting was right before Ike saw [[spoiler: Greil killing Elena]], for which [[spoiler: Sephiran gave him amnesia]] which wasn't cured until being in the tower, where [[spoiler: Ike and Sephiran's]] memories come to the fore.

* ''{{Pokemon}}'': Barry doesn't remember that he and Dawn met when they were younger. Granted, they're probably only ten or eleven...

* In ''{{Fringe}}'' Peter met Olivia as a kid, but seems to have amnesia about this ever happening even though he is Olivia's boyfriend now.

* In the ''SaintBeast'' drama cds, Rey reveals to Shin that he had met Luca long before the day he actually introduced himself, and felt guilty for hiding it. In their adolesence Luca led found Rey crying and lost in a forest and led him out. After searching out his rescuer, Rey was too embarassed to introduce himself until many years later when he received wings and felt he had something to bond over. Shin remarks that Luca probably knew all along and was too gracious to say anything.

* ''TheSimpsons'': Marge & Homer met when they were circa 10 years old at summer camp and shared their first kisses together. When they met again in high school neither recognized the other (in part because one had very different hair and the other had an eye-patch when they first met).

* In ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'', Subaru meets Seisshirou as he [[CradleYourKill cradles his kill]], and they end up making a promise. Years later Subaru only remembers this as a vague dream, and has little idea why Seisshirou has suddenly appeared in his life as a suitor. Unfortunately the memory isn't a very happy one, once it's revealed.

* ''TheSimpsons'': Marge & Homer met when they were circa 10 years old at summer camp and shared their first kisses together. When they met again in high school neither recognized the other.

* This happened in the new ''NightmareOnElmStreet'' remake to the protagonist. I don't know if that happened in the original.

* In ''{{Fringe}}'' Peter met Olivia as a kid, but seems to have amnesia about this ever happening even though he is Olivias boyfriend now.

Many years ago, Alice and Bob met each other by random chance, and the meeting left a deep impression on at least one of them. But years have passed, and now they're grown up (or at least in High School), and all unknowing, they have been pulled back together by the RedStringOfFate. Friendship, romance and/or adventure will see them rekindle a long-lost friendship long before they realize that they've met before. The realization that their new friend is the same kid they met years ago may come slowly with heavy foreshadowing, or be a sudden twist.

* ''[[Webcomic/TooMuchInformation Too Much Information]]'': The latest addition to Ace's UnwantedHarem is a very tall Ainu girl who ran away from home because she was always being mocked for [[HugeSchoolgirl her size]], determined to find the only boy who'd ever called her pretty - a young Gaijin boy she'd found lost back in Hokkaido, and helped to find a police-box. Cue the revelation that Ace had gotten lost during a trip to Hokkaido with his mom when he was a kid, and had been helped by a pretty redhead...
* In ''{{Fringe}}'' Peter met Olivia as a kid, but seems to have amnesia about this ever happening even though he is Olivias boyfriend now.
* The second ''BlazBlue'' reveals that as a student [[TheHero Ragna]] met [[CatGirl Taokaka]] while she was still a kitten (although he ''might'' remember, she doesn't). In this case their relationship is strictly platonic, however.
* In ''{{Community}}'' Jeff and Shirley realize that when they were children Shirley humiliated him in a game of foosball. Jeff moved away soon after and they did not meet again until they were adults. The humiliation turned Jeff into the JerkWithAHeartOfGold he is today and Shirley's HeelRealization made her a very passive person.
* ''TheSimpsons'': Marge & Homer met when they were circa 10 years old at summer camp and shared their first kisses together. When they met again in high school neither recognized the other.
* ''TheOddCouple'': in one of the several versions of how Felix & Oscar first met, it was when Oscar's father ran a speakeasy in 1920s [[TheWindyCity Chicago]] and Felix's father was an optomitrist who fitted Oscar's father with glasses.
* ''MyNameIsEarl'': Randy goes to meet his childhood crush "Pinky," who it turns out was Earl's ex-wife Joy.

* GilbertAndSullivan gives us ''Patience'' - Patience and Archibald were best friends when they were children; they are adults and meet again. RomanceEnsues.
* In ''[[{{Deryni}} King Kelson's Bride]]'', Kelson is reminded (by Rothana) that he had not only met his cousin Araxie when they were children, he also played with her and they got along very well with each other. Though their marriage is arranged, Kelson and Araxie decide to use those happy memories to build upon when forging their relationship.
* In one episode ''DrakeAndJosh'' discover that they met when they were nine (rather than in high school as they previously thought).

* A sequence in ''FinalFantasyVIII'' shows that either all or virtually all of the party members spent time in the same orphanage as children, and most of them don't remembered it - much less the fact that the person running said orphanage was [[spoiler:Sorceress Edea, whose husband is Cid, headmaster of their mercenary training school]]. Irvine is the only one who remembers it all, due to not having used Guardian Forced until he joins the party - as it turns out, they can cause memory-loss with sustained use.
* ''KevinAndKell'' does this with Rudy and Fiona, who find out after dating for some time that they were in the same preschool - and hated each other.
* In ''{{Iljimae}}'', one of his love interests figures out who he was by a piece of jewelry the boy who saved her life carried. The other love interest also figures out who he was because he continued a story he never finished when they were children.
* Brian Allen and Christina Roberts in ''BlowDry''. They knew each other as very young children because their fathers were business partners. But then the partnership broke up, Christina's parents divorced (and she went to live with her mother in Michigan), Brian's parents divorced and he moved in with his dad in York, and the two lost touch with each other for twenty years. Cue the events of the film...
* The prologue to the movie ''Adam and Steve'' features the two main characters hooking up in the 80s and having spectacularly bad drugged-out sex. They meet, sober and professional, 20 years later and don't realize it's the same guys till almost the end of the film.
* ''DharmaAndGreg'' first saw each other as children when they barely missed meeting each other on a subway. Twenty years later they met on the same subway and fell in love.
* This happened in the new ''NightmareOnElmStreet'' remake to the protagonist. I don't know if that happened in the original.

* In ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' the hero and his love interest meet for the first time in the first story arc, until Lee Falk wrote the story of "The Childhood of the Phantom" and included a scene where they met briefly years before when they were both children.

* ''FruitsBasket'''s Tohru met Yuki when they were younger. Yuki remembers that first meeting, but think that Tohru doesn't (in actuality, she does).