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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb TheMovie: [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the Second Dimension]]'', it is revealed to the main characters that their pet platypus Perry is a Secret Agent. By his organisation's rules, this means that he'll have to move in with another family... unless their minds are wiped, which the family agrees to. This isn't where the trope comes in. It's where Phineas's [[ToyShip love interest]], Isabella, kisses him just ''seconds'' before their memories are erased, to take advantage of the trope.

* Then Creator/{{CLAMP}} does this again with the ElseWorld versions of Syaoran and Sakura in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. This time Sakura is getting ready to tell him, but then she has all memory of him erased, and every time she tries to do it her memory of it is removed as part of "the price" paid of their relationship. Ouch. Over 200 chapters later; [[spoiler:in chapter 217, Sakura finally tells Syaoran she loves him, and he returns it. 'Course, it was the clones, but still! {{Squee}}!!]]

* In ''Film/BrassedOff'', the brass band leader Danny has devoted his life to the Grimley Colliery Band, and wants nothing more than for them to win the brass band championship final at the Albert Hall; but the other band members are reluctant, because their colliery is about to be closed, leaving them all without jobs. At several points in the film, somebody is about to confess this to Danny, but is interrupted.

* In the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' light novels, it's revealed that Kyon told Haruhi all about the group and its weird entities immediately after the first time she [[spoiler:nearly unmade the universe]]. She didn't believe him, called him an idiot, and then used his stories to cast her group in the movie she made, which explains the uncanny accuracy of the movie in summing up the cast.

* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', the first season ends with Yuji and Shana [[spoiler:walking to their apparent doom]] and Shana admitting that she loves him. But come season 2? They're back to the Slap part of SlapSlapKiss. He did hear -- it just seemed so out of character (honestly, how would a ''real'' person think of a {{tsundere}} with a crush on them?) that he figures he must have been mistaken and asks for clarification.

** On another occasion Nick tells Schanke that he has an addiction as part of a Twelve Step program he tries to cope with his BloodLust. Given that Schanke has seen the bottles of 'wine' he keeps in his [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife otherwise empty fridge]], he naturally assumes that Nick is an alcoholic.

* In the ''Series/ForeverKnight'' episode "Be My Valentine", Nick and Natalie finally openly declare their love... except [=LaCroix=] doesn't like Nick being in love with a mortal because he had to give up his love for Nick's sister 800 years ago (which somehow never came up with any of Nick's previous mortal LoveInterests). By the end of the episode, Natalie has [[ResetButton lost her memory of the entire preceding day]].

** A more straight example is with {{Schoolgirl Lesbian|s}} Tomoyo, who tells Sakura how she feels about her, but Sakura [[TheDitz doesn't get it]].

It doesn't stick. The speaker started talking but couldn't spit out the ''really'' important part, the speaker suddenly recalls why it was and still is important to keep the secret, the speaker [[SoYouWereSaying decides not to confess after after being interrupted]], the listener remembered for a while but got EasyAmnesia, or they suffer from OneDialogueTwoConversations, or some other type of PoorCommunicationKills interferes.

** This first happens when Jim and Ernie are about to make this confession, and then the pretty Gloria suddenly walks into their practice hall, and becomes the only female member of the band.

---> ''(Phil is just about to confess, having mentioned that he has bad news)''
---> '''Danny:''' They won't let me out of hospital, for one sodding day. You'd best give these to Harry, then.
''(Gives him a vast wad of handwritten sheet music)'' I was up all night doing them.
---> ''(Phil looks at them, and remains silent)''

* In ''Film/BrassedOff'', the brass band leader Danny has devoted his life to the Grimley Colliery Band, and wants nothing more than for them to win the brass band championship final at the Albert Hall. Beside Danny's hospital bed, Danny's son Phil has the unenviable task of confessing that the band will not attend the final, because they can no longer afford to.
--> ''(Phil is just about to confess)''
--> '''Danny:''' They won't let me out of hospital, for one sodding day. You'd best give these to Harry, then.
''(Gives him a wad of handwritten sheet music)'' I was up all night doing them.
--> ''(Phil remains silent)''

* SoYouWereSaying: A subtrope of Un-Confession where a character is prompted to continue confessing and declines to.

* SoYouWereSaying: An Un-Confession is followed by the speaker being prompted to continue and the speaker declining to do so.

* SoYouWereSaying: An Un-Confession is followed by the intended listener prompting the speaker to continue and the speaker declining to do so.

* NotSoFinalConfession: A subtrope for an UnConfession while presumably dying.

* SoYouWereSaying

It doesn't stick. The speaker started talking but couldn't spit out the ''really'' important part, the speaker suddenly recalls why it was and still is important to keep the secret, the listener remembered for a while but got EasyAmnesia, or they suffer from OneDialogueTwoConversations, or some other type of PoorCommunicationKills interferes.