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* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': Soma's hunger and ability to become an ExtremeOmnivore, plus a memory about his mother's teachings, led him to decide to eat rotten food:
--> Soma looked at the former food, and remembered what his mother had always told him about wasting food.
--> Soma looked at the former food, and remembered what his mother had always told him about wasting food.
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* At the beginning of the TV Movie "[[https://youtu.be/T380WIPUtKg?si=XbW4eHXhiifLqEeY Shattering The Silence]]", the sight of her father giving her newborn daughter a stuffed horse--"Family tradition! All my little girls get horsies!"--is enough to trigger a woman's RepressedMemories of she and her sister being sexually abused by him, which he would always disguise as a game--"Let's play Ride The Horsey!". This, coupled with seeing her niece's own upset reaction to this is enough to make her realize that he's now abusing ''her''.
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* Used in several ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films to set up {{flashback}}s:
** One of the letter messages Rigg reads in ''Film/SawIV'' helps him remember how to progress in the game.
** Reminders of what they did to be tested:
*** The written text on William's skin under the bombs strapped to him in ''Film/SawVI''.
*** The environmental props and text Bobby comes across in ''Film/Saw3D''.
** ''Film/SawVI'':
** One of the letter messages Rigg reads in ''Film/SawIV'' helps him remember how to progress in the game.
** Reminders of what they did to be tested:
*** The written text on William's skin under the bombs strapped to him in ''Film/SawVI''.
*** The environmental props and text Bobby comes across in ''Film/Saw3D''.
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{{flashback}}s, usually involving the characters that are remembering.
**One The main trials of ''Film/SawIV'', ''Film/SawVI'' and ''Film/Saw3D'' have numerous clues left to the protagonists involved regarding past events in their life, either to make them figure where to continue with the game (e.g. one of the letter messages Rigg reads in ''Film/SawIV'' helps him remember how ''Saw IV'') or to progress in the game.
** Reminderssimply remind them of what they did to be tested:
*** Thetested (the written text on William's skin under the bombs strapped to him in ''Film/SawVI''.
*** The''Saw VI'', the environmental props and text Bobby comes across in ''Film/Saw3D''.
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*** Hoffman himself gets reminded when he finds a blackmail letter he had sent to Amanda back in ''Film/SawIII'', in the surveillance room for William's game. The ensuing flashback montage reveals the sequence when Hoffman wrote it and Amanda read it, using footage between ''Saw III'' and ''IV'', with some additional scenes establishing the circumstances. Said letter was left by Jill (after Pamela previously found it and gave it to her) in the surveillance room as part of her sneak attack on him, who was infuriated by the letter when she discovered that Hoffman was the one who wrote it.
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*** Hoffman himself gets reminded a Memory Trigger when he enters the surveillance room for William's game and finds a blackmail letter he had sent to Amanda back in ''Film/SawIII'', in with the surveillance room for William's game. The ensuing flashback montage reveals revealing the sequence when Hoffman wrote it and Amanda read it, it using footage between ''Saw III'' and ''IV'', with some additional scenes establishing the circumstances. Said letter was left by Jill (after Pamela (who had previously found it received the letter from Pamela, and gave it to her) was infuriated when she discovered that Hoffman was the one who wrote it) in the surveillance room as part of her sneak attack on him, who was infuriated by the letter when she discovered that Hoffman was the one who wrote it.him.
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SomeoneToRememberHimBy is not the JustifiedTrope version of this by making a deliberate trigger, unless the mother is strangely forgetful and has to be reminded by seeing their child.
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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The AxCrazy Pierrot le Fou's TroubledBackstoryFlashback starts with [[EyeRecall a zoom in on his eye]], since the trigger for his traumatic memories involves seeing anyone with heterochromatic eyes, causing him to involuntarily FlashBack to the similar-looking cat present during the painful experiments that empowered him and drove him mad.
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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The AxCrazy Pierrot le Fou's TroubledBackstoryFlashback starts with [[EyeRecall a zoom in on his eye]], eye]] since the trigger for his traumatic memories involves seeing anyone with heterochromatic eyes, causing him to involuntarily FlashBack to the similar-looking cat present during the painful experiments that empowered him and drove him mad.
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* An episode of ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' revolves around Greg's lack of childhood memories, which Dharma encourages him to try to cure by going to his childhood home to find familiar scents, while Dharma's dad Larry finds an old bottle of Hai Karate cologne which conviniently helps him remember whatever he's trying to recall whenever he sniffs it.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': in the TV series, in every episode something triggers Duncan's memory of something, which leads to the every episode flashback scene(s) which is germaine to the rest of the episode.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': in the TV series, in every episode something triggers Duncan's memory of something, which leads to the every episode flashback scene(s) which is germaine to the rest of the episode.
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* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'':in the TV series, in In every episode episode, something triggers Duncan's memory of something, which leads to the every episode flashback scene(s) which is germaine germane to the rest of the episode.
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* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' utilizes this on a regular basis: Shawn recognizes a clue, flashes back to a relevant conversation / incident, and uses it to corner the culprit.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"]] has Captain Kirk check in on Federation researcher Roger Korby on planet Exo 3. Korby has discovered a device that can make a lifelike android duplicate of anyone, and insists on using it on Kirk. This leads to a fierce moral argument that triggers a memory in the alien machine tender Ruk. Ruk recalls that the same argument led to a RobotWar with their creators, which made "the Old Ones" extinct. Ruk is also a robot, [[spoiler:as is Roger Korby,]] and gets destroyed in the conflict.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"]] has Captain Kirk check in on Federation researcher Roger Korby on planet Exo 3. Korby has discovered a device that can make a lifelike android duplicate of anyone, and insists on using it on Kirk. This leads to a fierce moral argument that triggers a memory in the alien machine tender Ruk. Ruk recalls that the same argument led to a RobotWar with their creators, which made "the Old Ones" extinct. Ruk is also a robot, [[spoiler:as is Roger Korby,]] and gets destroyed in the conflict.
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* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"]] has Captain Kirk check in on Federation researcher Roger Korby on planet Exo 3. Korby has discovered a device that can make a lifelike android duplicate ofanyone, anyone and insists on using it on Kirk. This leads to a fierce moral argument that triggers a memory in the alien machine tender Ruk. Ruk recalls that the same argument led to a RobotWar with their creators, which made "the Old Ones" extinct. Ruk is also a robot, [[spoiler:as is Roger Korby,]] and gets destroyed in the conflict.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Link is an AmnesiacHero as a side effect of spending a century in the [[HealingVat Shrine of Resurrection]]. He can remember more about Princess Zelda and the Champions by seeing objects and places he associates with memories of them. For example, having Revali's Landing pointed out to him gets him to remember a meeting he had with Revali there, while seeing Riju wearing the Thunder Helm gets him to remember Urbosa when the helm belonged to her.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Link is an AmnesiacHero as a side effect of spending a century in the [[HealingVat Shrine of Resurrection]]. He can remember more about Princess Zelda and the Champions by seeing objects and places he associates with memories of them. For example, having Revali's Landing pointed out to him gets him to remember a meeting he had with Revali there, there while seeing Riju wearing the Thunder Helm gets him to remember Urbosa when the helm belonged to her.
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* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"]] has Captain Kirk check in on Federation researcher Roger Korby on planet Exo 3. Korby has discovered a device that can make a lifelike android duplicate of anyone, and insists on using it on Kirk. This leads to a fierce moral argument that triggers a memory in the alien machine tender Ruk. Ruk recalls that the same argument led to a RobotWar with their creators, which made "the Old Ones" extinct. Ruk is also a robot, [[spoiler:as is Roger Korby,]] and gets destroyed in the conflict.
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* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': The "Conditioning" to make the titular girls, [[RepressedMemories represses their memories]]. [[spoiler:Henrietta is]] on a mission, sees a man in a ski mask which triggers the memories of her past. She [[spoiler:flies into a fit of rage, accidentally shoots her handler, and this ultimately]] results in her death.
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The psychological concept of "association" connects sensations and memories, such as the scent of a perfume to its name or where you smelled it before. This trope is cataloguing when such remembering occurs in stories.
Thankfully, due to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail, if it's pointed out that a character points out that they remember something due to something else, the memory is likely important and not irrelevant to the story being told, so this is unlikely to be stuffed with insignificant examples.
A SubTrope is APlaceHoldsMemories, where the act of visiting a place makes someone remember things. Another SubTrope is RegainedMemoriesSequence, for amnesia victims, since those memories don't just come bursting out of nowhere, and that subtrope might be caused by a TriggerPhrase, which is a conditioned trigger for some action in general.
This usually overlaps with a {{Flashback}} to display the recalled memory to the audience, instead of just summarizing the memory in a quick phase, such as "Alice remembered her first meeting with Bob".
ComfortFood explicitly says that it can trigger memories, and RepressedMemories are usually uncovered due to a trigger.
Actual physically retrieving memories by the use of {{Memory Jar}}s or getting a TransferableMemory aren't this trope, since in those cases, it's more the memory is being given to a character, instead of being remembered due to a sensation.
Compare EurekaMoment, which is an inspiration trigger, instead of a memory trigger.
SomeoneToRememberHimBy is not the JustifiedTrope version of this by making a deliberate trigger, unless the mother is strangely forgetful and has to be reminded by seeing their child.
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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The AxCrazy Pierrot le Fou's TroubledBackstoryFlashback starts with [[EyeRecall a zoom in on his eye]], since the trigger for his traumatic memories involves seeing anyone with heterochromatic eyes, causing him to involuntarily FlashBack to the similar-looking cat present during the painful experiments that empowered him and drove him mad.
* ''Manga/FoodWars'': Megumi Tadokoro specializes in ComfortFood. Her cooking has a relaxing quality that evokes childhood memories and the simple comforts of home.
* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'': Ranka Lee has RepressedMemories due to the trauma of being the SoleSurvivor (or so everyone thought) of a Vajra attack when she was five. Seeing the Vajra again begins bringing these memories to the surface.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': The "Conditioning" to make the titular girls, [[RepressedMemories represses their memories]]. [[spoiler:Henrietta is]] on a mission, sees a man in a ski mask which triggers the memories of her past. She [[spoiler:flies into a fit of rage, accidentally shoots her handler, and this ultimately]] results in her death.
* ''Manga/SchoolLive'': Yuki [[RepressedMemories represses the memories]] of zombies. For example, in the anime, she forgot [[WhatAreRecords what an instant camera is]] despite taking a photo a few days prior because [[spoiler:she is in denial over her teacher's death.]] In chapter 5, Yuki triggers the memories of [[spoiler:Megu-nee]] twice. The first time Kurumi reminded her of something [[spoiler:Megu-nee]] told her once, but Yuki had trouble remembering it clearly. The second time she triggers herself by saying something [[spoiler:that causes a severe headache.]] It's [[TheReveal revealed]] to us [[spoiler:that Megu-nee has been DeadAllAlong]] and what triggered Yuki was [[spoiler:that she said something similar during Megu-nee's death.]]
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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': After Ami raids Malleus's mind for information and had to relive snippets from that EvilOverlord's centuries-long life to get the information she wanted, Ami gets reminders of what she experienced while in his head at relevant times and she doesn't like how her body's copying his reactions, like when looking at his {{Sex Slave}}s, before she frees them.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}: How I Live Now''. When Tom smells kandrona in the tunnels leading to the ruins of the Yeerk Pool, it brings back awful memories of all the times his Yeerks forced him to swallow it.
* ''Fanfic/ViperSpiderPhoenix'': "Joan Watson" RepressedMemories of being O-Ren Ishii as just dreams or deja vu, until they were reawakened after seeing Moriarty (AKA, [[spoiler:the Bride]]).
* ''Fanfic/WitchesWizardsShadowsAndSouls'': In order to keep the nature of their Shadow Magic a secret, Bakura erases the memories of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but warns the others that if they see Shadow Magic performed again they will remember everything. It turns out to be a SelfFulfillingProphecy when circumstances force Bakura to summon Diabound in front of them, triggering the memories of the last time they saw the monster.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', Dowager Empress Marie has a SignatureScent of peppermint oil because she dabs it on her opera gloves. The scent triggers a memory in EasyAmnesia orphan Anya of spilling peppermint oil on the palace carpet. No matter how much servants scrubbed that spot, it continued to smell of peppermint. This statement convinces Empress Marie that Anya is, in fact, her long-lost granddaughter Princess Anastasia.
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* In ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'', Susan (posing as Sharon) smells her grandfather and tries to make his scent a SignatureScent to remember him with:
-->'''Charles:''' What are you doing?
-->'''Susan:''' Making a memory.
-->'''Charles:''' Making a memory?
-->'''Susan:''' All my life, when I'm quite grown-up I will always remember my grandfather and how he smelled of tobacco and peppermint.
-->'''Charles:''' Tobacco and peppermint. Well, I'll tell you what. I take the peppermint for my indigestion and as for the tobacco... to make your grandmother mad.
* Used in several ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films to set up {{flashback}}s:
** One of the letter messages Rigg reads in ''Film/SawIV'' helps him remember how to progress in the game.
** Reminders of what they did to be tested:
*** The written text on William's skin under the bombs strapped to him in ''Film/SawVI''.
*** The environmental props and text Bobby comes across in ''Film/Saw3D''.
** ''Film/SawVI'':
*** Hoffman telling Jill that he'll no longer see her once he's finished with all the tasks listed in the envelopes Jill left him makes the latter reminisce of the time John tried to show her that his "method of rehabilitation" works by showing Amanda (who had recently come out from her test back in the [[Film/SawI first movie]]) to her.
*** Hoffman himself gets reminded when he finds a blackmail letter he had sent to Amanda back in ''Film/SawIII'', in the surveillance room for William's game. The ensuing flashback montage reveals the sequence when Hoffman wrote it and Amanda read it, using footage between ''Saw III'' and ''IV'', with some additional scenes establishing the circumstances. Said letter was left by Jill (after Pamela previously found it and gave it to her) in the surveillance room as part of her sneak attack on him, who was infuriated by the letter when she discovered that Hoffman was the one who wrote it.
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* In the second book of the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, Stephen makes the mistake of purchasing a distinctive bottle of perfume for Diana, which makes it her SignatureScent since it never fails to remind him of her. Even when it shows up [[TwoGuysAndAGirl on his best friend]].
* ''Literature/InSearchOfLostTime'' by Creator/MarcelProust: In ''Swann's Way'', the Narrator describes how, once, after eating a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_(cake) madeleine]], he regained the memories of his childhood. To this day, in French, ''madeleine de Proust'' refers to something reminding someone from earlier times.
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* An episode of ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' revolves around Greg's lack of childhood memories, which Dharma encourages him to try to cure by going to his childhood home to find familiar scents, while Dharma's dad Larry finds an old bottle of Hai Karate cologne which conviniently helps him remember whatever he's trying to recall whenever he sniffs it.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': in the TV series, in every episode something triggers Duncan's memory of something, which leads to the every episode flashback scene(s) which is germaine to the rest of the episode.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': One of the episodes has many scenes where characters accidentally, through various means, come to remember things about their life they never were aware of. For example, two characters meet in a hallway, [[spoiler:start a conversation, they realize they had met before and unlock shared memories that were previously unavailable for them]].
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' utilizes this on a regular basis: Shawn recognizes a clue, flashes back to a relevant conversation / incident, and uses it to corner the culprit
* An early episode of ''Series/YoungSheldon'' centered around George trying to ask Meemaw for her brisket recipe, which she gleefully refuses to tell him. At one point, Missy plays with Sheldon's train set in front of him, causing him to recall a time when he was a baby and Meemaw told him the recipe.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" has Captain Kirk check in on Federation researcher Roger Korby on planet Exo 3. Korby has discovered a device that can make a lifelike android duplicate of anyone, and insists on using it on Kirk. This leads to a fierce moral argument that triggers a memory in the alien machine tender Ruk. Ruk recalls that the same argument led to a RobotWar with their creators, which made "the Old Ones" extinct. Ruk is also a robot, [[spoiler:as is Roger Korby,]] and gets destroyed in the conflict.
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The song "Lady Writer" by Music/DireStraits: The seeing the titular person on the TV reminds the singer about someone:
--> Lady writer on the TV
--> Talking about the Virgin Mary
--> Reminded me of you
--> Expectation left to come up to, yeah
--> Lady writer on the TV
--> Yeah, she had another quality
--> The way you used to look
--> And I know you never read a book
--> Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
* The song "Past Life" by Music/TameImpala:
--> I was picking up a suit from the dry cleaners
--> Which is standard for me, Thursday, 12:30
--> I've got a pretty solid routine these days
--> I don't know, it just works for me
--> Anyway, I was leaving, I was getting in my car
--> And I went to adjust the rear-view mirror
--> But, in its reflection, just for a second
--> I saw a figure, started to trigger
--> Memories flooded back, stopped me in my tracks
--> Who was that? It was my lover
--> A lover from a past life
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': A conversation ''about'' a ComfortFood is the trigger: If Gaius is Cynthia's father and speaks to [[spoiler:the Alternate Cynthia in the DLC ''Future Past'' map]], [[spoiler:Alternate Cynthia will politely refuse the sweets he offers her... but only because she wants to eat said candy ''after'' the fight is over, since]] she remembers [[spoiler:how her now dead actual father used to give her candy as a prize for doing good things.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Link is an AmnesiacHero as a side effect of spending a century in the [[HealingVat Shrine of Resurrection]]. He can remember more about Princess Zelda and the Champions by seeing objects and places he associates with memories of them. For example, having Revali's Landing pointed out to him gets him to remember a meeting he had with Revali there, while seeing Riju wearing the Thunder Helm gets him to remember Urbosa when the helm belonged to her.
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': The [[NonHumanUndead Wraith]] suffers from GhostAmnesia, so in order to regain his memories, Talion has to travel about Mordor, finding relics from his past in the form of metal-crafting tools. Every time Talion touches one of these tools, his body seizes up as the memories return to the Wraith, reminding him that he was [[spoiler:Celebrimbor, the UltimateBlacksmith of the High Elves, responsible for forging the Rings of Power, and who lead a revolution against Sauron before being imprisoned, tortured and killed for daring to [[DoNotTauntCthulhu steal the One Ring and use it against the Dark Lord]].]]
* ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: The Haunted Carousel'': Nancy has to order the ComfortFood hot fudge Fundae and grab the special spoon in order to rekindle Joy's RepressedMemories.
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* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series:
** ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'': In Case 4 of the second game, [[spoiler:Kay Faraday]] recovers from her amnesiac state when [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] bestows her [[spoiler:father's Promise Notebook to her.]]
** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'': In the second game's fourth case, "Twisted Karma and His Last Bow", Daley Vigil cannot remember [[spoiler:the true reason why he left his job at Barclay Prison]]. Presenting him with [[spoiler:the documents detailing why he was sacked]] results in him going light-headed and recounting this deep, dark mystery.
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Thankfully, due to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail, if it's pointed out that a character points out that they remember something due to something else, the memory is likely important and not irrelevant to the story being told, so this is unlikely to be stuffed with insignificant examples.
A SubTrope is APlaceHoldsMemories, where the act of visiting a place makes someone remember things. Another SubTrope is RegainedMemoriesSequence, for amnesia victims, since those memories don't just come bursting out of nowhere, and that subtrope might be caused by a TriggerPhrase, which is a conditioned trigger for some action in general.
This usually overlaps with a {{Flashback}} to display the recalled memory to the audience, instead of just summarizing the memory in a quick phase, such as "Alice remembered her first meeting with Bob".
ComfortFood explicitly says that it can trigger memories, and RepressedMemories are usually uncovered due to a trigger.
Actual physically retrieving memories by the use of {{Memory Jar}}s or getting a TransferableMemory aren't this trope, since in those cases, it's more the memory is being given to a character, instead of being remembered due to a sensation.
Compare EurekaMoment, which is an inspiration trigger, instead of a memory trigger.
SomeoneToRememberHimBy is not the JustifiedTrope version of this by making a deliberate trigger, unless the mother is strangely forgetful and has to be reminded by seeing their child.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The AxCrazy Pierrot le Fou's TroubledBackstoryFlashback starts with [[EyeRecall a zoom in on his eye]], since the trigger for his traumatic memories involves seeing anyone with heterochromatic eyes, causing him to involuntarily FlashBack to the similar-looking cat present during the painful experiments that empowered him and drove him mad.
* ''Manga/FoodWars'': Megumi Tadokoro specializes in ComfortFood. Her cooking has a relaxing quality that evokes childhood memories and the simple comforts of home.
* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'': Ranka Lee has RepressedMemories due to the trauma of being the SoleSurvivor (or so everyone thought) of a Vajra attack when she was five. Seeing the Vajra again begins bringing these memories to the surface.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': The "Conditioning" to make the titular girls, [[RepressedMemories represses their memories]]. [[spoiler:Henrietta is]] on a mission, sees a man in a ski mask which triggers the memories of her past. She [[spoiler:flies into a fit of rage, accidentally shoots her handler, and this ultimately]] results in her death.
* ''Manga/SchoolLive'': Yuki [[RepressedMemories represses the memories]] of zombies. For example, in the anime, she forgot [[WhatAreRecords what an instant camera is]] despite taking a photo a few days prior because [[spoiler:she is in denial over her teacher's death.]] In chapter 5, Yuki triggers the memories of [[spoiler:Megu-nee]] twice. The first time Kurumi reminded her of something [[spoiler:Megu-nee]] told her once, but Yuki had trouble remembering it clearly. The second time she triggers herself by saying something [[spoiler:that causes a severe headache.]] It's [[TheReveal revealed]] to us [[spoiler:that Megu-nee has been DeadAllAlong]] and what triggered Yuki was [[spoiler:that she said something similar during Megu-nee's death.]]
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': After Ami raids Malleus's mind for information and had to relive snippets from that EvilOverlord's centuries-long life to get the information she wanted, Ami gets reminders of what she experienced while in his head at relevant times and she doesn't like how her body's copying his reactions, like when looking at his {{Sex Slave}}s, before she frees them.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}: How I Live Now''. When Tom smells kandrona in the tunnels leading to the ruins of the Yeerk Pool, it brings back awful memories of all the times his Yeerks forced him to swallow it.
* ''Fanfic/ViperSpiderPhoenix'': "Joan Watson" RepressedMemories of being O-Ren Ishii as just dreams or deja vu, until they were reawakened after seeing Moriarty (AKA, [[spoiler:the Bride]]).
* ''Fanfic/WitchesWizardsShadowsAndSouls'': In order to keep the nature of their Shadow Magic a secret, Bakura erases the memories of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but warns the others that if they see Shadow Magic performed again they will remember everything. It turns out to be a SelfFulfillingProphecy when circumstances force Bakura to summon Diabound in front of them, triggering the memories of the last time they saw the monster.
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', Dowager Empress Marie has a SignatureScent of peppermint oil because she dabs it on her opera gloves. The scent triggers a memory in EasyAmnesia orphan Anya of spilling peppermint oil on the palace carpet. No matter how much servants scrubbed that spot, it continued to smell of peppermint. This statement convinces Empress Marie that Anya is, in fact, her long-lost granddaughter Princess Anastasia.
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[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'', Susan (posing as Sharon) smells her grandfather and tries to make his scent a SignatureScent to remember him with:
-->'''Charles:''' What are you doing?
-->'''Susan:''' Making a memory.
-->'''Charles:''' Making a memory?
-->'''Susan:''' All my life, when I'm quite grown-up I will always remember my grandfather and how he smelled of tobacco and peppermint.
-->'''Charles:''' Tobacco and peppermint. Well, I'll tell you what. I take the peppermint for my indigestion and as for the tobacco... to make your grandmother mad.
* Used in several ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films to set up {{flashback}}s:
** One of the letter messages Rigg reads in ''Film/SawIV'' helps him remember how to progress in the game.
** Reminders of what they did to be tested:
*** The written text on William's skin under the bombs strapped to him in ''Film/SawVI''.
*** The environmental props and text Bobby comes across in ''Film/Saw3D''.
** ''Film/SawVI'':
*** Hoffman telling Jill that he'll no longer see her once he's finished with all the tasks listed in the envelopes Jill left him makes the latter reminisce of the time John tried to show her that his "method of rehabilitation" works by showing Amanda (who had recently come out from her test back in the [[Film/SawI first movie]]) to her.
*** Hoffman himself gets reminded when he finds a blackmail letter he had sent to Amanda back in ''Film/SawIII'', in the surveillance room for William's game. The ensuing flashback montage reveals the sequence when Hoffman wrote it and Amanda read it, using footage between ''Saw III'' and ''IV'', with some additional scenes establishing the circumstances. Said letter was left by Jill (after Pamela previously found it and gave it to her) in the surveillance room as part of her sneak attack on him, who was infuriated by the letter when she discovered that Hoffman was the one who wrote it.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In the second book of the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, Stephen makes the mistake of purchasing a distinctive bottle of perfume for Diana, which makes it her SignatureScent since it never fails to remind him of her. Even when it shows up [[TwoGuysAndAGirl on his best friend]].
* ''Literature/InSearchOfLostTime'' by Creator/MarcelProust: In ''Swann's Way'', the Narrator describes how, once, after eating a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_(cake) madeleine]], he regained the memories of his childhood. To this day, in French, ''madeleine de Proust'' refers to something reminding someone from earlier times.
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[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
* An episode of ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' revolves around Greg's lack of childhood memories, which Dharma encourages him to try to cure by going to his childhood home to find familiar scents, while Dharma's dad Larry finds an old bottle of Hai Karate cologne which conviniently helps him remember whatever he's trying to recall whenever he sniffs it.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': in the TV series, in every episode something triggers Duncan's memory of something, which leads to the every episode flashback scene(s) which is germaine to the rest of the episode.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': One of the episodes has many scenes where characters accidentally, through various means, come to remember things about their life they never were aware of. For example, two characters meet in a hallway, [[spoiler:start a conversation, they realize they had met before and unlock shared memories that were previously unavailable for them]].
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' utilizes this on a regular basis: Shawn recognizes a clue, flashes back to a relevant conversation / incident, and uses it to corner the culprit
* An early episode of ''Series/YoungSheldon'' centered around George trying to ask Meemaw for her brisket recipe, which she gleefully refuses to tell him. At one point, Missy plays with Sheldon's train set in front of him, causing him to recall a time when he was a baby and Meemaw told him the recipe.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" has Captain Kirk check in on Federation researcher Roger Korby on planet Exo 3. Korby has discovered a device that can make a lifelike android duplicate of anyone, and insists on using it on Kirk. This leads to a fierce moral argument that triggers a memory in the alien machine tender Ruk. Ruk recalls that the same argument led to a RobotWar with their creators, which made "the Old Ones" extinct. Ruk is also a robot, [[spoiler:as is Roger Korby,]] and gets destroyed in the conflict.
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The song "Lady Writer" by Music/DireStraits: The seeing the titular person on the TV reminds the singer about someone:
--> Lady writer on the TV
--> Talking about the Virgin Mary
--> Reminded me of you
--> Expectation left to come up to, yeah
--> Lady writer on the TV
--> Yeah, she had another quality
--> The way you used to look
--> And I know you never read a book
--> Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
* The song "Past Life" by Music/TameImpala:
--> I was picking up a suit from the dry cleaners
--> Which is standard for me, Thursday, 12:30
--> I've got a pretty solid routine these days
--> I don't know, it just works for me
--> Anyway, I was leaving, I was getting in my car
--> And I went to adjust the rear-view mirror
--> But, in its reflection, just for a second
--> I saw a figure, started to trigger
--> Memories flooded back, stopped me in my tracks
--> Who was that? It was my lover
--> A lover from a past life
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': A conversation ''about'' a ComfortFood is the trigger: If Gaius is Cynthia's father and speaks to [[spoiler:the Alternate Cynthia in the DLC ''Future Past'' map]], [[spoiler:Alternate Cynthia will politely refuse the sweets he offers her... but only because she wants to eat said candy ''after'' the fight is over, since]] she remembers [[spoiler:how her now dead actual father used to give her candy as a prize for doing good things.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Link is an AmnesiacHero as a side effect of spending a century in the [[HealingVat Shrine of Resurrection]]. He can remember more about Princess Zelda and the Champions by seeing objects and places he associates with memories of them. For example, having Revali's Landing pointed out to him gets him to remember a meeting he had with Revali there, while seeing Riju wearing the Thunder Helm gets him to remember Urbosa when the helm belonged to her.
* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': The [[NonHumanUndead Wraith]] suffers from GhostAmnesia, so in order to regain his memories, Talion has to travel about Mordor, finding relics from his past in the form of metal-crafting tools. Every time Talion touches one of these tools, his body seizes up as the memories return to the Wraith, reminding him that he was [[spoiler:Celebrimbor, the UltimateBlacksmith of the High Elves, responsible for forging the Rings of Power, and who lead a revolution against Sauron before being imprisoned, tortured and killed for daring to [[DoNotTauntCthulhu steal the One Ring and use it against the Dark Lord]].]]
* ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: The Haunted Carousel'': Nancy has to order the ComfortFood hot fudge Fundae and grab the special spoon in order to rekindle Joy's RepressedMemories.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series:
** ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'': In Case 4 of the second game, [[spoiler:Kay Faraday]] recovers from her amnesiac state when [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] bestows her [[spoiler:father's Promise Notebook to her.]]
** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'': In the second game's fourth case, "Twisted Karma and His Last Bow", Daley Vigil cannot remember [[spoiler:the true reason why he left his job at Barclay Prison]]. Presenting him with [[spoiler:the documents detailing why he was sacked]] results in him going light-headed and recounting this deep, dark mystery.
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