History Main / ForgottenFirstMeeting

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'': Back in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Sora and Kairi as children had met Aqua and Kairi had also met King Mickey. Lea as a child had met Ventus. By the time of this game, Sora and Kairi don't remember these encounters and Lea can barely remember Ventus. Aqua points out they ''were'' little kids at the time. King Mickey also did not realize the little girl he met was Kairi until Aqua pointed it out.

* Chapter nineteen of ''Manga/OmujoOmutsuJoshi'' flashes back to Shouta at age six, where he meets a little girl trying to hang a wish for Tanabata but being too short to get it hung up. Shouta offers to help, but the girl gets embarrassed, throws her wish in the trash, and runs away. Shouta digs it out, sees the wish, and hangs it up for her next to his own wish to meet her again. The PerspectiveFlip half of the chapter reveals the written wish to be from Ichigo, wishing her bedwetting would stop. Unfortunately, the goddess who grants these wishes is a {{Jerkass God|s}} who decides to make Ichigo's wetting problems ''worse,'' to the point that she needs diapers in the present day, because Shouta's wish triggered her bitterness at never being able to see ''her'' love.

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* In the original OAV animated version of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', Keiichi and Belldandy met when they were children. After Belldandy made a promise with him, it was considered as she made a contract when she didn't have her qualification yet. She had to erase Keiichi's memories of her and promised to return to him once she gained her qualification.
* In ''Manga/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 they were friends as kids together.
* Played for painful drama with Kouichi Sakakibara and [[spoiler:Izumi Akazawa]] in the anime adaptation of ''Literature/{{Another}}''. Though they only met a few years prior to the story, the forgetfulness is justified since [[spoiler:Kouichi was only in Yomiyama for the funeral of his aunt, a time erased from everyone's memories due to the events of the curse. Akazawa remembers seconds before her death, and right before dying she asks Kouichi if he remembers too. He doesn't and tells her so, and Akazawa calls him out on it.]]

* In ''Manga/CellsAtWork'', it turns out Red Blood Cell and Neutrophill already met each other when they were still an erythroblast and a myelocyte (basically children cells) when a bacteria attacked the bone marrow where they were at. However, they only met briefly that one time and don't see each other again until they are adults. In present time, Red Blood Cell briefly does contemplate if that myelocyte is Neutrophill but quickly dismisses it as too much of a coincidence.
* In ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland,'' [[MistakenForMurderer Ganta]] meets [[CloudCuckoolander Shiro]] in prison; she instantly starts acting like his friend and claims they've met before, but he has no idea what she's talking about. It takes a while for him to remember that they were actually friends when they were about four, prior to Tokyo's near-complete destruction.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku befriended [[Manga/DrSlump Arale Norimaki]] and was impressed by her strength. Many years later in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', the two briefly meet and don't recognize each other. Granted, this may be partially because Goku has noticeably aged, while Arale, being a robot, has not aged at all; it's also been roughly thirty years since the two of them last saw each other. Subverted when they run into each other in a later episode, and they eventually do recognize each other when Arale uses the same headbutt she defeated General Blue with on Vegeta.

* In ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', Mikiya Kokutou first met Shiki Ryougi as he was walking home in the snow and paused to talk to her, but when they met later once they started at the same high school she didn't recognize him. At the very end of the series we find out why, [[spoiler:since Kokutou was actually talking to Shiki's [[SplitPersonality third personality]], who was unknown even to her at that point in time.]]

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* Years before ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' first rescued Priestess from a horrible fate at the hands of goblins, it turns out that the two of them had met once before: [[spoiler:Goblin Slayer had gotten injured defending a town from a goblin raid and was brought to the temple of the Earth Mother. Priestess, upon seeing him hurt, found the necessary desire to cast her very first Miracle instinctively]].
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* In ''Third VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ: Jigoku-hen'', [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero]] relates that back before he was a proper assassin, he had a mission here to guard the Tiger of Helmajistan. Who was evidently the charismatic leader of a guerilla force some ten years ago. His name was Majid, the Tiger of Badakhshan. [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Setsuna's]] familiar with him too, since he was sent here once before to assassinate him. Prince Ali apparently didn't like the guy, and sent Setsuna and some other kids to assassinate him. [[Anime/FullMetalPanic Sousuke]] chimes him that he also was here to get rid of him. [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsZ Hibiki Kamishiro]] is shocked at the odds that ''three separate child soldiers might end up in the same region as enemies''.

* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'': Both Cures met briefly five years prior to the events of the series and forgot.

** Adela was a little girl that has been wounded and left in the wild to die following the Gwidon's attack on a caravan. Geralt found her and nursed back to health during his Trial of Mountains. She was raised as a witcher in another witcherschool, and came to visit Kaer Morhen just before Geralt's graduation. Geralt was able to remember her because he has already undergone mutations when he met her. However, she lost memories of him in the process of becoming a witcher.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Tim Drake and Dick Grayson met on the night Dick's parents were murdered. While Dick completely forgot the meeting Tim never did and it was a large part of why Tim was able to figure out Batman and Robin's secret identities. When Tim approached Dick years later to tell him Bruce needed help Dick was furious and scandalized at that some random kid presumed to know anything about him and Bruce and only later learned that Tim was the toddler sitting on his knee in his treasured final picture of himself with his parents.

* ''Manga/TheVanishingOfNagatoYukiChan'', which is set in an AlternateUniverse of the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series, changes Haruhi's first meeting with Kyon into this. Rather than Kyon {{Time Travel}}ing to help Haruhi [[spoiler:write a message to aliens]], she instead just meets the younger version of him. [[spoiler:It doesn't change the fact that he still introduces himself as [[TrustPassword John Smith]] though...]]

* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': Fujiwara notes that -in spite of her excellent memory- Kaguya has a bad habit of forgetting her first interactions with people, because she often didn't view them as being important enough to remember.

* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': In ''Killer Cruise'', Graham didn't recognize Emily as [[spoiler:a woman he dated long ago, who bailed on her when her father offered him money to dump her. But ''she'' recognized ''him'' alright...]]

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', the title character starts stalking Anne because Wolfram & Hart has gotten involved with the shelter she runs, and 'accidentally' bumps into her. The two have actually met before on [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer the mother show]] for a brief moment, but neither recognise each other due to it being three years ago (even longer for Angel, since he spent centuries in a hell dimension where [[YearInsideHourOutside time runs faster]]).

* ''ComicBook/Batman'': Tim Drake and Dick Grayson met on the night Dick's parents were murdered. While Dick completely forgot the meeting Tim never did and it was a large part of why Tim was able to figure out Batman and Robin's secret identities. When Tim approached Dick years later to tell him Bruce needed help Dick was furious and scandalized at that some random kid presumed to know anything about him and Bruce and only later learned that Tim was the toddler sitting on his knee in his treasured final picture of himself with his parents.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim Drake and Dick Grayson met on the night Dick's parents were murdered. While Dick completely forgot the meeting Tim never did and it was a large part of why Tim was able to figure out Batman and Robin's secret identities. When Tim approached Dick years later to tell him Bruce needed help Dick was furious and scandalized at that some random kid presumed to know anything about him and Bruce and only later learned that Tim was the toddler sitting on his knee in his treasured final picture of himself with his parents.

* ''ComicBook/Robin'': Tim Drake and Dick Grayson met on the night Dick's parents were murdered. While Dick completely forgot the meeting Tim never did and it was a large part of why Tim was able to figure out Batman and Robin's secret identities. When Tim approached Dick years later to tell him Bruce needed help Dick was furious and scandalized at that some random kid presumed to know anything about him and Bruce and only later learned that Tim was the toddler sitting on his knee in his treasured final picture of himself with his parents.

* ''ComicBook/Robin}}'': Tim Drake and Dick Grayson met on the night Dick's parents were murdered. While Dick completely forgot the meeting Tim never did and it was a large part of why Tim was able to figure out Batman and Robin's secret identities. When Tim approached Dick years later to tell him Bruce needed help Dick was furious and scandalized at that some random kid presumed to know anything about him and Bruce and only later learned that Tim was the toddler sitting on his knee in his treasured final picture of himself with his parents.

** Silver Age Superman first met Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} when his cousin's rocket landed on Earth in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton''... or so he thought. Since both characters had the ability to time-travel and were members of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', they had already met back when he was a teenager ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, but his first memory of her was wiped out to protect the future.

** [[ShrinkingViolet Yuri]] bumped into his idol [[LivingLegend Victor]] after the Grand Prix Finals Yuri bombed at. A year later, months after Victor becomes his coach, Yuri assumes Victor must have forgotten about that meeting. [[TheReveal However,]] the ''true'' example of this was [[spoiler:''after'' that at the closing banquet for the Grand Prix. And '''''Yuri''''' is the one who actually forgot. He got really drunk, danced with his fellow skaters (pole dance, break dance and tango), hit on Victor while begging at him to be his coach, in which heavily implied to be the event where the Russian fell in love with Yuri that would make all his touchy-feely acts towards him made sense throughout the series before Episode 7's TheBigDamnKiss and becoming an OfficialCouple. Unfortunately the next morning, Yuri didn't remember anything and it wasn't until nearly one year later that he learned anything had happened at all. By that banquet, Victor knew Yuri's existence beforehand even before the Nishigori triplets uploaded the [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube video that showed Yuri mimicking his latest routine]] that he used as a ticket to take off-season, go to Japan in order to become Yuri's coach and shaping him up for the Grand Prix, fulfilling Yuri's drunken plea back at the banquet as well as his personal reasons to become closer and win Yuri's heart. About the first meeting back after the Grand Prix and before the banquet? Turns out that the moment Yuri turned down Victor's offer of commemorative photo, Victor started to steal glances at the Japanese. The audience only lead to believe that Victor forget the encounter at the first episode due of Yuri being an UnreliableNarrator with a bad case of anxiety, while at the BreatherEpisode nine episodes later we have the true context of the scene (and the story in general) by Victor's perspective.]]

** Silver Age Superman first met Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} when his cousin's rocket landed on Earth... or so he thought. Since both characters had the ability to time-travel and were members of the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', they had already met back when he was a teenager Comicbook/{{Superboy}}, but his first memory of her was wiped out to protect the future.

* ''Comicbook/JusticeLeague2018'' reveals that Comicbook/LexLuthor and Comicbook/MartianManhunter were childhood friends, but that neither man remembered this due to their memories having been wiped.

* [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] and [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] met on the night Dick's parents were murdered. While Dick completely forgot the meeting Tim never did and it was a large part of why Tim was able to figure out Batman and Robin's secret identities. When Tim approached Dick years later to tell him Bruce needed help Dick was furious and scandalized at that some random kid presumed to know anything about him and Bruce and only later learned that Tim was the toddler sitting on his knee in his treasured final picture of himself with his parents.
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** ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'', if the arcs of [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]] follow the arcs of [[Series/GameOfThrones the show]]: While in Braavos, Sam encounters a young girl selling shellfish who recognizes that his black armor means he is a brother of the Night's Watch. When she declines to tell him her name, saying she once had one but now she is "no one", the reader instantly realizes that it's Arya.