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* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'': Around halfway through Chapter 5's Class Trial, [[TheAtoner Shion Nanashi]] eventually remembers that [[CanonCharacterAllAlong she used to be]] [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Monaca Towa]]. Afterwards, a quick flashback to some of Monaca's more despicable and manipulative actions ensues.

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* ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'': During the show's last two episodes, [[spoiler: Taro's memories of the past year have been progressively resetting; his mission as Don Momotaro considered complete]]. The finale sees him forgetting everyone bit-by-bit until Kaito gives him a copy of Haruka's manga and asks him to read it. In the final battle later, Don Momotaro re-appears and orders everyone to start a role call. When his turn comes up, a period of tense silence follows before the memories return in-full; symbolized by text retroactively appearing on the manga he'd read earlier.

--> '''Dean:''' I'm sure it's just like riding a bicycle.
--> '''Emmanuel!Cas:''' I don't know how to do that either.
* In the [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode9TheSeriesFinale last episode]] of ''Series/WandaVision'', Wanda's magical construct of Vision unlocks the repressed memories of the real Vision (now repurposed into an emotionless weapon by S.W.O.R.D.). A brief montage of Vision's memories plays as this happens, using footage from ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.[[/folder]]

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* The ending of ''Manhua/MyBelovedMother'', where Sinbell remembers his past back when he was 4 years of age, and how he lost his mother, Aya, in a gas explosion when she [[MamaBear uses her body to shield him from the blast]].

* In the Atonement Arc of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', Keiichi gets a variation of this. Technically, the memories aren't his, but those of a Keiichi in a different timeline, but the result is that he remembers his actions in the Demoned Away Arc (i.e. murdering two of his best friends out of paranoia). What's more the memories that this Keiichi has are shorn of the hallucinations that Keiichi was dealing with (e.g. the "syringe" he's threatened with is shown to be a marker). He has a quick emotional breakdown upon remembering this.

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* The ending of ''Manhua/MyBelovedMother'', where Sinbell remembers his past back when he was 4 years of age, and how he lost his mother, Aya, in a gas explosion when she [[MamaBear uses her body to shield him from the blast]].
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* At the climax of ''Film/DarkCity'', the AmnesiacHero John Murdoch gets injected with [[ExpositionBeam a syringe containing his missing memories]], conveyed to the audience as a rapid-fire montage of flashbacks. Complicating matters is that these memories, and John's entire past, is completely fabricated as part of the Strangers' vast experiment, and even John knows by this point.

Compare EpiphanyTherapy, EurekaMoment, ExpositionBeam, EyeRecall, FlashbackMontageRealization, and MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes.

After struggling from EasyAmnesia or IdentityAmnesia for some time, a character is snapped out of it by TriggerPhrase or another event of some sort, regaining all memories at once. This is generally shown to the audience by a montage of visions (shots from previous scenes) quickly flashing through character's mind.

** Early in the show, the titular hero couldn't use his [[LiteralSplitPersonality Elemental Split]] for too long should he risk becoming forgetful. The villains Adu Du and Probe utilised this by kidnapping one of the elementals. His memory worsened to the extent that he easily believed the enemies were his friends. They trick him into [[CriminalAmnesiac attacking his actual friends]], which works until Probe says [=BoBoiBoy's=] CatchPhrase: "Awesome!", which triggers the rogue elemental to recall every time the hero had said that word, thus restoring his memory.

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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'' have Hachi the andromorphic dog regaining his memories in a quick series of flashbacks after both him and Nobita crashed into a stream - that Hachi is actually Ichi, the ''first'' generation of the dog people, having time-traveled a thousand years into the future in an attempt to locate his former master Nobita, only to accidentally hit a time warp, [[FountainOfYouth regress into a baby]] and get adopted by a family of cats.

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* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book, ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsTheForgottenWarrior The Forgotten Warrior]]'', after Cinderheart realizes she's a reincarnation of Cinderpelt, "long-buried memories surged through her like a river in full flood", and she relives them one by one, speaking her internal thoughts on each memory aloud.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In "[[WesternAnimation/OperationZERO]]", Numbuh One decides to try to recommission his father after discovering a hidden room in his treehouse. It works and while Monty regains his memories of being a member of "Kids Next Door", rapid-fire images of various places, events and items associated with the organization flash in his eyes.