History Main / ForgottenFirstMeeting

* The DrivingQuestion of ''VisualNovel/YandereChan'' (no, not [[Videogame/YandereSimulator that one]]) is when and where Mia and the protagonist allegedly first met. [[spoiler: The answer is never revealed in any of the routes, and remains a RiddleForTheAges.]]

* In the ''Series/Charmed1998'' fanfic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3562774/1/Once-and-Future-Witches Once and Future Witches]]", when circumstances force Prue of mid-Season Two and Piper and Phoebe post-Season Eight to go back to 1993 to find a powerful magical artefact, the three of them and Grams run into the teenage Paige of that time period, who unwittingly stole the very artefact they were searching for from a shop that she wandered into shortly before they arrived.

* One comic implies this occurred between ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and ComicBook/PoisonIvy. A page shows Dr. Harleen Quinzel at Arkham Asylum meeting Poison Ivy and attempting to befriend her. Just when Harleen leaves, though, ComicBook/TheJoker is being dragged by and he catches her eye. If not [[IncitingIncident for that one glance]], Harley could have been Ivy's psychiatrist, not the Joker's, and she would have never became Harley Quinn.
* A storyline in ''ComicBook/{{The Invaders|MarvelComics}}'' revealed that back during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] had battled against Comicbook/CaptainAmerica, [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] and the rest of the Invaders after having been manipulated by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. When Thor realized his mistake and returned to Asgard, the heroes lost all memory of the day's events, explaining why Cap and Namor never mentioned this encounter when they met Thor again decades later.
* ''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.
* [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]] didn't remember meeting [[ComicBook/MarvelBoy Noh-Varr]] before their sexual encounter, only after he reminded her of his name she remembered how they met before in opposing sides of a battle.
* ''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/SpiderMan'':
** When Mary Jane Watson revealed to Peter Parker that she knew he is Spider-Man, she also told him quite a bit of her life story, including that she had seen him raking leaves through the window of her aunt's house (May Parker and Anna Watson were neighbors) and thought he was cute even before he became Spider-Man.
** ComicBook/JessicaJones and Peter Parker went to high school together, which is revealed in her origin story, and when Peter unmasks in front of the ComicBook/{{New Avengers}}, she gets all excited because she used to have a huge crush on him. The funny thing is, this is the second time he's unmasked (he made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the devil]] to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia mindwipe]] the whole world into forgetting his identity), and she didn't say anything the first time!
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'' A non-romantic variation. Lanolin the Sheep has met Sonic many times before the events of the ''[[Recap/SonicTheHedgehogIDWUrbanWarfareArc Urban Warfare]]'' story arc, but Sonic doesn't remember their previous encounters (their first actual meeting being in the second issue of the comic book series). Lanolin replies that the blue blur was quite busy at each instance, with the mission to invade Eggperial City being their first time working together.

** A few stories over the decades depict Clark Kent and ComicBook/LoisLane meeting as young teens, sometimes with Clark becoming ComicBook/{{Superboy}}.
** A few stories also have young Clark meet young [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne.]]
** Silver Age Superman first met Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} when his cousin's rocket landed on Earth in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959''... 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.
** A half-example appears in one ''[[ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]]'' comic, Jimmy, arriving in Metropolis for the first time, [[TestSubjectForHire takes a job as a test subject for a scientist]] which ends up sending him to Krypton before the explosion. He spends the issue watching over baby Kal-El to give Jor-El and Lara time to complete the rocket. The time stream interferes with Jimmy's memory, meaning he has no idea this happened, but Superman remembers and befriends Jimmy [[IOweYouMyLife because the teen saved his life]].

** ''Action Comics'' #358 [[http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/review-action-comics-358-supergirl.html had Superboy in flashback having ended up in Argo City]] after being accidentally knocked unconscious and rendered amnesiac by a robotic resource scavenger for the city, he's later taken by an alien being intending to consume him and it erases everyone's memories of his time there to spare them the suffering. Superman only realizes something happened when she shows him a crystal she had from childhood but no idea where it came from because it was the crystal he'd carved just prior to being knocked out after planning to give it to his adoptive mother and had no idea what happened to it.
** Superman first met and fought ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} as Superboy in ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', but his memories of the meeting were blocked until he got involved in [[ComicBook/NewGods the New Genesis-Apokolips War]] as an adult hero.

* In ''ComicBook/RoadqueenEternalRoadtripToLove'', it turns out Leo completely forgot her and Boots' fateful first meeting that sparked the start of the weekly races with the other Princess Andromeda girls. [[spoiler: This serves as foreshadowing for the reveal that the entire events of the comic sparked from Leo and Vega's first meeting as children (which Leo, once again, completely forgot).]]
* ''X-Men'': In ''X-Men: The Hidden Years'' (an early-2000s book by John Byrne, filling in the reprints of the original X-Men book between issues #66-93), after another trip to the Savage Land, Cyclops, Beast and Jean Grey end up in Africa and meet a local African teenager named Ororo, whom the locals worship as a goddess for her weather-manipulation powers. They help each other, and the trio depart back to New York. However, their first on-panel interaction was in ''Giant Size X-Men'' #1 (1975), when the original X-Men team (among which, Beast, Cyclops and Jean Grey) was captured by Krakoa and Xavier had to hurriedly assemble a new team, which included Storm (Ororo).

* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicsUniverse: In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', a young Scrooge befriended a young Flintheart Glomgold and was betrayed by him. After humiliating Flintheart, Scrooge swears to never trust anyone again, while an angry Glomgold vows to be richer than Scrooge. However, "canonically", Scrooge meets Flintheart for the first time in "Second Riches Duck in the World", and they only know about each other from newspapers. Although this is somewhat justified on Scrooge's part since Flintheart never told Scrooge his name during their earlier meeting.
* One comic implies this occurred between ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and ComicBook/PoisonIvy. A page shows Dr. Harleen Quinzel at Arkham Asylum meeting Poison Ivy and attempting to befriend her. Just when Harleen leaves, though, ComicBook/TheJoker is being dragged by and he catches her eye. If not [[ForWantOfANail for that one glance]] Harley could have been Ivy's psychiatrist, not the Joker's, and she would have never became Harley Quinn.

* ''X-Men'': In ''X-Men: The Hidden Years'' (an early-2000s book by John Byrne, filling in the reprints of the original X-Men book between issues #66-93), after another trip to the Savage Land, Cyclops, Beast and Jean Grey end up in Africa and meet a local African teenager named Ororo, whom the local worship as a goddess for her weather-manipulation powers. They help each other, and the trio depart back to New York. However, their first on-panel interaction was in ''Giant Size X-Men'' #1 (1975), when the original X-Men team (among which, Beast, Cyclops and Jean Grey) was captured by Krakoa and Xavier had to hurriedly assemble a new team, which included Storm (Ororo).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'': Dimitri used to work as a servant in the Winter Palace when he was a boy, and saved an eight-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia from being captured in the Revolution. They meet again as adults when "Anya" has TraumaInducedAmnesia and doesn't remember anything about her childhood, while Dimitri for his part remembers the meeting well but doesn't realize she's Anastasia. [[spoiler: Anastasia/Anya later recalls a vague memory of "a boy who worked at the palace" saving her - though she doesn't know it was Dimitri - which tips him off about her true identity. She later regains all her memories properly, although by then Dimitri is devastated because a former kitchen boy could never be good enough for a Grand Duchess.]]

** Two of these occurred in ''Film/ANewHope'' due to new information [[{{Retcon}} revealed in the prequel movies.]] First of all, [=C-3PO=] didn't know who Obi-Wan Kenobi was, but [=R2-D2=] did, and he didn't remember them, although he clearly knew them both when he was younger, making his interactions with them in the prequels somewhat confusing. This was partially explained at the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', where Bail Organa orders Threepio's memory wiped, which erases his memories of the entire prequel trilogy. In Obi-Wan's case, it's possible he ''did'' recognize them and just didn't say anything. This would be consistent with his characterization in the first trilogy because he's an old Jedi Master familiar with the mysterious ways of the Force, and he was trying to shield Luke from the [[LukeIAmYourFather dark secret about his father.]]

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

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). All unknowing, they have been pulled back together by the RedStringOfFate - friendship, romance and/or adventure will see them rekindle a long-lost connection 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.

* In one episode ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' discover that they met when they were nine (rather than in high school as they previously thought).

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

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Volume 9's extra chapter shows the origins of Momiji Momi's love for touching soft and squishy things. She's loved it ever since she was a toddler, but what really cinched it was encountering Hahari and Hakari at a bouncy castle. Momiji grabed Hahari's breasts and experienced the very same "Zing" that accompanies encountering one's soulmate. Aside from the "Zing", which is burned into her mind clear as day, Momiji was too young to remember the encounter, as was Hakari, and there's no indication that Hahari recalls it either.

** Likewise, Owen and Beru Lars didn't seem to remember [=C-3PO=] either, although he had worked for their family for years in the time between ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Owen may not have been telling Luke the truth about that, however, much like he was lying to Luke about the fate of his father in order to keep him sheltered. (The hologram of Leia probably made him decide against mentioning that he knew where the droids had come from.) Of course, it's just as likely that they simply didn't recognize [=C-3PO=]; it ''had'' been over 20 years and the protocol droid didn't have his iconic gold finish when he left their service.

* ComicBook/KateBishop didn't remember meeting Noh-Varr before their sexual encounter, only after he reminded her of his name she remembered how they met before in opposing sides of a battle.

** Played with in season . It might be the case that [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Crowley]] doesn't remember his [[spoiler:real]] [[MeetCute first meeting]] with [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Aziraphale]], when [[spoiler:Crowley was still an angel]].

** In season 2 it is heavily implied that [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Crowley]] doesn't remember his [[spoiler:real]] [[MeetCute first meeting]] with [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Aziraphale]], when [[spoiler:Crowley was still an angel]].

** In season 2 it is heavily implied that Crowley doesn't remember his [[spoiler:real]] first meeting with Aziraphale, when [[spoiler:Crowley was still an angel]].

* In the second season of ''Series/GoodOmens2019'' it is heavily implied that Crowley doesn't remember his [[spoiler:real]] first meeting with Aziraphale, when [[spoiler:Crowley was still an angel]].

* In ''Manga/MaidenRose'', Klaus and Taki meet briefly in the middle of a forest by chance when they are young and make something of a {{Promise}}. Years later, they meet again and Klaus recalls but continually dismisses the memory, until their RelationshipUpgrade, when he realizes from Taki's scent that it ''was'' him.

* ''Literature/HarukaNogizakasSecret'': It eventually turns out that Yuuto was the one who got Haruka into anime and manga in the first place when, as a kid, he found her crying in a playground on his way home from a shopping-trip with an {{Otaku}} friend, and gave her a manga magazine. The incident didn't leave a huge impression on him, but it essentially changed her life - arguably for the better. (Though her OverprotectiveDad might disagree...)

* ''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.]]

* ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'': It eventually turns out that Yuuto was the one who got Haruka into anime and manga in the first place when, as a kid, he found her crying in a playground on his way home from a shopping-trip with an {{Otaku}} friend, and gave her a manga magazine. The incident didn't leave a huge impression on him, but it essentially changed her life - arguably for the better. (Though her OverprotectiveDad might disagree...)

* In episode 2 of ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'', the first thing Yuki does when introduced to Basara after he transfers to her and Mio's school is to give him TheGlomp. In front of the entire class and Mio. She then reminds him of who she was, and he then vaguely remembers her. [[ClingyJealousGirl Mio]] then tries to force the two apart, and Basara is instantly hated by all the guys at the school because the two girls are considered to be untouchable idols, and yet both of them seemed to be fighting over him.

* In ''LightNovel/VenusToMamoru'', it gradually becomes clear that the Beatrice-user who saved Mamoru during a disaster when he was small, was Ayako's uncle -- and what's more, she was there too. Neither one of them remembers at first due to having been quite young and traumatized to boot, but that event was the reason why Mamoru decided to become a Beatrice-user himself, which led to him joining the Beatrice Academy, where he, of course, met Ayako again...

* 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]].