History Main / RetGone

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSteelTroops'' have Riruru, the RobotGirl who's initially serving the hostile robot army of Mechatopia, eventually pulling a HeelFaceTurn after becoming friends with the heroes. With a RobotWar about to break out, Riruru instead follows Shizuka on TimeTravel (via the TimeMachine in Nobita's desk) to Planet Mechatopia 30,000 years ago, when the first generatin of robots, Amu and Emu, are being created. They managed to reprogram Amu and Emu and remove their competitive tendencies, thereby turning the robots of Mechatopia peaceful and preventing the war in the future... but Riruru ends up being erased at the same time. Riruru agrees anyway, essentially performing a HeroicSacrifice - as back at the present, the thousands of thousands of hostile robots quickly dissappears after history rewrites itself.

** Sadly, this happens to a hero from the same part, as well. F.F. refuses [[TheHero Jolyne's offer to take the Foo Fighters disc when she dies, on the grounds that even if it were inserted into something else, it wouldn't be her.]] As such, in line with that request, there is no counterpart for F.F. in the new reality. It wouldn't be possible for her to exist anyway, as Pucci created her by putting the Foo Fighters disc into a patch of plankton, and he's gone too.

** At the end of the fight between [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] and [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Archie Sonic]], Wally punches Sonic so hard, Sonic relives his entire life and explodes out of existence.

** When Superman and Wonder Woman kissed, it had the side-effect of erasing Booster Gold from existence. People still remember, but they only think he has disappeared. As a man from the future, Booster Gold disappearing is quite ominous... He ended up getting collected by Brainiac, leading into the events of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}''.

* ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'': Donna Troy's ([[ContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy again]]) {{Retcon}}-ed origin involved her being cursed by a character called the Dark Angel to live [[DiabolusExMachina a life full of pain and suffering]], with her life being restarted and erased from the world's memory --again-- when Donna was at her lowest. (In the most recent case, the death of her ex-husband, stepdaughter and infant son, coupled with the loss of her powers). Hippolyta (the Wonder Woman at the time) and her Teen Titans teammate Wally West (Franchise/TheFlash) remembered her due to being outside the timestream when it was rewritten, and Donna was restored to her previous form, complete with powers (because they used Wally's memories to restore her, and he remembered her best with her Wonder Girl powers).
** The tragic part turned out to be that Wally didn't have much memory or knowledge of the (well-written and positive for both of them) relationship she had had with Green Lantern Kyle Rayner before her latest Ret-Gone -- and so of course she came back with only the vaguest memories of her time with him. Then again, that could just be the writers playing with the readers.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* At the end of the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' between [[Franchise/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]] and [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], Rick suffers this fate when The Doctor redirects a shot from his own D-Mat Gun (at the time being wielded by Rick) through one of Rick's portals so that it hits Rick instead. The result is all the damage that Rick did to The Doctor and the TARDIS being undone, and Morty doesn't know or recognize who Rick was.

** And it's been clarified that those characters have since lost those memories of the old world, so there are no ties to the old continuity. The removed characters have been cut off completely. This was because of Archie [[ScrewedByTheLawyers losing ownership of those characters]] to former head writer Creator/KenPenders.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Last Day Of Summer", the Do-Over-Inator causes a persistent GroundhogDayLoop, but also causes sporadic rifts in the space-time continuum that swallow up things, causing people to forget those things ever existed; after a spoon (and, somehow, ''all'' spoons) is taken, people resort to eating cereal out of the bowl, whereas when Phineas and Ferb are taken away, they're completely forgotten. Since Doofensmirtz and Candace were right by the Do-Over-Inator when it activated, [[RippleProofMemory they remember everything that was taken]], and also remember the previous time loops.

A character seems to vanish off the face of the earth. Sometimes people [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome just disappear]], but this is something more. People who should know about it aren't even sure who the person was. Photos look the same, but without them in it. Their LoveInterests either don't exist at all, or are in love with someone else. They never existed. They're not just gone, they're Ret-Gone.

* [=ErasUr=] in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' removes all memories and records of anything it eats. This even applies to the text itself: the reader sees Blake and Rose go after the demon alone, but partway through the encounter, there are bloodstains and scraps of meat around that weren't there before yet obviously didn't come from them. They reason they must have taken allies into the battle and the demon ate them. Sure enough, from another character's perspective, we later see that they did take several goblins with them... but the reader was never given any indication of these goblins' existence, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou because they were erased by the demon]].