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6	->''"I remember. I remember it all."''
7	-->-- '''Wu''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'', "[[Recap/NinjagoS9E92SavingFaith Saving Faith]]"
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9	After struggling from EasyAmnesia or IdentityAmnesia for some time, a character is snapped out of it by TriggerPhrase or another MemoryTrigger, 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.
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11	Compare EpiphanyTherapy, EurekaMoment, ExpositionBeam, EyeRecall, FlashbackMontageRealization, and MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes. Can be caused by listening to a MemoryRestoringMelody.
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13	'''As this trope often comes at a later point in a story, spoilers will be unmarked.'''
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15	!!Examples:
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20	* ''Manga/DeathNote'': In "[[Recap/DeathNoteEp24Revival Revival]]", Light Yagami regains his memories of being Kira after laying his hands on his original Death Note after a ''very'' convoluted MemoryGambit.
21	* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', near the end of the series, when [[spoiler:Nezuko undergoes the process of turning back into a human in her way to the final battle against Muzan, she regains her mental maturity which promptly acts as a rush of memories coming back to place in a sequence of events montage, with an added bonus where Nezuko recalls all the experiences and friends she made as a demon, feeling like memories of an infant but now Nezuko can process them properly thus she instantly likes all of her new friends, and feels the remainder rage she had for Muzan killing her family]].
22	* ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'': In ''Confession'', the heroic Digimon lose their memories as a result of the Digital World being rebooted to its original state. They finally remember their former lives in ''Our Future'', which is represented by their traveling through a white void while static images of their past adventures are displayed in the background.
23	* ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' begins with [[SpoiledBrat Catarina Claes]] regaining her PastLifeMemories. In the AnimatedAdaptation, this is presented by a montage of events of her past life.
24	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Yue suffers amnesia from a poorly timed memory loss spell (she was practicing), and while she regains some of her memories, there's still a large gap that more or less consists of the story's events. She finally confesses her feelings for Negi and triggers the gaps in her memory after she says he should wait until after graduation to give a reply (exactly what she told him to do about Nodoka much earlier in the story). Manga panels depicting various story events occur and she finally regains her entire memory.
25	* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': It happens to Usagi in the first episode of the second season when Luna restores her memories of being a Sailor Guardian. It happens again in the very next episode when Luna restores the memories of the rest of the Inner Guardians.
26	* ''Anime/TransformersVictory'': Victory Leo regaining Ginrai's memories and truly becoming his reincarnation is established when images of his past life flash on the screen.
27	* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': Happens twice to Sakura. First after she's hit by a truck which triggers her memories from life to return, but at the cost of her undead memories. Then during the Arpino concert, all of the time she spent with Franchouchou returns, completing her memories in their entirety.
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31	* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'':
32	** 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.
33	** In season 3, Adu Du desperately tries reviving his RobotBuddy Probe and eventually succeeds. However, Probe doesn't seem to remember him anymore, acting like an apathetic battle robot on default settings. It's when Adu Du throws a mug at his head, [[ChekhovsGag something that he always did when Probe screwed up]], that Probe regains his memories, complete with a flashback montage of various instances where a mug was thrown at him, while Probe's voice from past scenes played in the background.
34	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In season 2 episode 2, Careful S. is fighting with the other Supermen due to having developed amnesia and being convinced he is working for the villains. Mid-battle, Careful S. collides with a wall inside his Car Knight and some connectors inside his head are brought back together, leading to him remembering who he really is and causing a number of frames of the other Supermen and Doctor H. to quickly flash by the screen for a few seconds.
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38	* ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'': In ''ComicBook/IAmThePhantomBlot'', the titular antagonist seeks to regain his VillainCred by dousing all of Mouseton in [[HostileWeather rain tainted]] with an amnesia-inducing concoction. After the Nebulizzatrice Turbine is stopped, it's shown how everyone in town gradually regained their memories.
39	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
40	** After the first Genesis Wave reboots the universe, Sonic has a sense something is off. When he grabs Nicole, for whom the effect was different, his mind is flooded with memories of the way things were before the wave hit, including Sally being trapped in the World Roboticizer before it went off. Whenever he touches any of his friends in the end universe, they get treated to the same flood of old memories. This becomes a problem when they all realize that succeeding in their mission to restore their world means they might not like the world they're left with.
41	** Happens again after the second Genesis Wave hits, but as this one was company mandated by Sega, the old memories fade and are replaced by ones more in keeping with the new universe.
42	* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'', after going back home, Charlie Kweskill is put through a series of visions which remind him that he used to be a Kryptonian scientist and (framed) criminal called Quex-Ul. Nonetheless, Charlie convinces himself he is merely getting insane.
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46	* ''Fanfic/{{Amalgamate}}'': The Flashback Lights can trigger these; however, these "restored memories" are not always reliable. [[FakeMemories Or real]].
47	* ''Fanfic/TheBeastOfGusu'': Upon reuniting with Lan Wangji in ''Unstoppable'', Wei Wuxian rapidly regains several significant memories of their past together, helping him remember his own identity and return to his human form.
48	* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'': Around halfway through Chapter 5's Class Trial, [[TheAtoner Shion Nanashi]] eventually remembers that [[CanonCharacterAllAlong she used to be]] none other than [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Monaca Towa]]. Afterwards, a quick flashback to some of Monaca's more despicable and manipulative actions ensues.
49	* ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'': During the climax of ''Hearts and Minds'', Danny and Sam regain all of their memories of their past relationship in this fashion, complete with lines from both the original show and past entires in the series.
50	* Done in the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11209836/chapters/25039899 we've already done that joke]]''. After having his memories erased by alien technology, Grif's memories are restored when Simmons tells him his name. [[OhCrap Grif promptly panics, since he revealed his massive crush in Simmons while he was amnesiac.]]
51	-->Simmons.\
52	Simmons.\
53	''Simmons.''\
54	Ohhhhhhhh fuck.
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58	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'' has 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.
59	* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': [[ForgetfulJones Dory]] gets separated from Marlin and forgets their adventures together, but then she finally meets Nemo and suddenly remembers everything.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': Throughout the film, Po has flashes of traumatic memories from his infancy, which he cannot identify. Finally, when he is told what happened, he stops to meditate and regains his memories of Lord Shen's genocide of his people and how his mother gave her life to ensure he escaped. The sequence ends with him achieving inner peace by coming to terms with his past.
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64	* At the climax of ''Film/DarkCity1998'', 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.
65	* In ''Film/SpiderMan3'', when Harry regains his memory of Peter being Spider-Man, whom he blames for his father's death, all his memories of discovering this and acting against Peter come back to him.
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69	* 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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73	* In the penultimate episode of the TV series adaptation of ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'', Sadie tries to help Jake regain his memories lost as a result of injuries from his attack in the previous episode. When the two visit Lee Harvey Oswald's apartment and talk to Oswald, memories from Jake's observations of and interactions with Oswald flash through Jake's mind, restoring his memory.
74	* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'':
75	** ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'': In [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5CrisisOnInfiniteEarthsHourFive Part Five]], after the multiverse has been destroyed and recreated, J'onn J'onzz returns several characters' memories of the original multiverse via ExpositionBeam. In all of these cases, the character remembers the events of the previous episodes of the crossover event, involving the crisis which ended in all earths being destroyed.
76	** ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
77	*** "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E1Flashpoint Flashpoint]]" first has an inverted version of this, where Barry loses memories in bursts because he's living in a timeline that's not his own. When the timeline gets fixed at the end of the episode, a montage of moments from the previous two seasons is shown, though it's possible this is meant to represent the timeline restoration in general and not specifically Barry's memories coming back to him.
78	*** In "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E21CauseAndEffect Cause and Effect]]", the team gives Barry amnesia in an attempted MemoryGambit to prevent a certain future. When an emergency calls for Barry's superhero knowledge, Iris snaps him back by recounting a childhood memory of her comforting Barry the night his mother died, resulting in all of Barry's memories flooding back to him at once.
79	* ''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.
80	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead Mawdryn Undead]]", the Brigadier has forgotten his entire history with the Doctor from the shock of [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet accidentally meeting his future self]] years ago. After the Doctor jogs his memories, they come flooding back as a ContinuityCavalcade stretching back to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]".
81	* ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': When Michael comes back after his [[DeathFakedForYou supposed "death"]], he is amnesic due to San Rosa/Rose and he can't remember Jane. When his memory returns in "[[JaneTheVirginS5E3ChapterEightyFour Chapter Eighty-Four]]", a montage of his falling in love with Jane and memories that she tried to trigger in him earlier flash before his eyes.
82	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS07E17TheBornAgainIdentity The Born Again Identity]]", Emmanuel's memories of being Castiel return as he gets back to smiting demons, even though he has no memory of how to do so.
83	-->'''Dean:''' I'm sure it's just like riding a bicycle.\
84	'''Emmanuel!Cas:''' I don't know how to do that either.
85	* 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''.
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89	* 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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93	* The ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card "[[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=497581 Flood of Recollection]]" depicts the formerly amnesiac Jace regaining all his memories at once, depicted in the card's art as phantoms of his backstory. Notably, this includes memories that he'd forgotten before his current AmnesiacHero stint.
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97	* In ''VideoGame/{{Enigmatis}}: The Ghosts of Maple Creek'', the player character suffers from mild amnesia throughout the game, thanks to a car crash. Throughout the game, she periodically regains a little memory of how her investigation was progressing and what happened prior to the crash, but not enough for her to really make sense of things. Only when she locates the place where she was almost murdered do all of the memories come rushing back and she remembers what happened and how she escaped.
98	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Good old Cloud Strife thinks he's a 1st class SOLDIER, then thinks he's a puppet. It's not until Tifa and the Lifestream get involved he realizes he's just a guy who never made it, and his powers come from being Hojo's experiment for 5 years.
99	* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': When the PlayerCharacter regains their memories late in the main storyline, they see several scenes from before and after their memory loss, culminating in a flashback of [[PredecessorVillain Darth Revan]] removing their iconic mask to reveal [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes the protagonist's face underneath]].
100	* In a Solstice playthrough of ''VideoGame/OneShot'', the main character Niko remembers nothing about previous playthroughs except for the player's name. When instructed by Proto to imagine what the top of the Tower looks like, a brief flashback plays out showing Niko going through the latter half of the Tower as they regain most of their memories of past playthroughs.
101	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilSurvivor'': The first game follows its AmnesiacHero, Ark Thompson, who for most of the game assumed he was a villain due to losing his memories from barely surviving a helicopter crash. But near the end of the game, Ark finally meets his contact, the child Lott Klein, who told him who he is, at which point Ark remembers ''everything'' -- he was a government agent investigating the T-Virus outbreak in Sheena Island, and the villain is actually Director Vincent Goldman, the Umbrella Branch Leader overseeing operations in Sheena Island.
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105	* 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 have been a marker). He has a quick emotional breakdown upon remembering this.
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109	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': The Toughs agree to have their memories modified by the UNS in exchange for liberty rather than be pursued and killed by them (fortunately, Schlock manages to keep the knowledge of the memory wipe itself, who did it, and why due to his BizarreAlienBiology and later eats the man responsible to follow up on a threat/promise he'd made). Petey later restores them all (via simulated approximations of the actual events), with the fake memories being modified to black and white (including in-universe) so the Toughs can tell the difference. It hits the doctor and the reverend particularly hard when they discover the memory of their wedding was faked, although ironically they ''did'' get married (by the Admiral who struck the deal with them just before the wipe), but Petey had no way to know that.
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113	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': At the end of "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E36TheNobody The Nobody]]", an amnesiac Rob is inadvertently reminded of what happened to him when Gumball suggests he be "the villain", accompanied by a montage of Rob stuck in and escaping from the Void during a [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E12TheVoid previous episode]].
114	* ''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.
115	* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': In "[[Recap/Invincible2021S01E07WeNeedToTalk We Need to Talk]]", Immortal flashes through various points in his life, including the time [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy he was Abraham Lincoln]], as he is brought BackFromTheDead by the Mauler Twins.
116	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
117	** In the two-part episode "The Return of Harmony," the villainous [[MadGod Discord]] [[TheCorruption corrupts]] all of the Mane Six except Twilight into their opposite selves through MindControl--the honest Applejack becomes a liar, the kind Fluttershy becomes cruel, and so forth. Twilight eventually perfects a memory spell that she uses like a laser beam; when it hits one of her corrupted friends, they see flashbacks of all of the events of Season 1, which cures them.
118	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]", Twilight accidentally causes her friends' cutie marks to swap, thus altering their lives entirely and making them forget who they are. During the song "A True, True Friend", she helps her friends get their memories and cutie marks back one by one. Each time one of them returns to normal, there's a close-up shot, showing rapid-fire images of themselves flash in their eyes.
119	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'':
120	** In "[[Recap/NinjagoS9E92SavingFaith Saving Faith]]", the ninja and Wu are being shocked with electricity by the Dragon Hunters. Wu, who is currently a teenager and who has been steadily aging throughout the season, suddenly recalls all the memories of his original elderly self, accompanied by some of his own words of wisdom playing in his mind. This gives him the motivation to break out of his chains and take on all the Dragon Hunters at once.
121	** In the season 11 finale, "[[Recap/NinjagoS11E128Awakenings Awakenings]]", Zane finally breaks free of his CriminalAmnesiac Ice Emperor persona when he hears the word "protect", which reminds him of his father's words, "You were built to protect those who cannot protect themselves", a recurring staple of Zane's character throughout the series. He then flashes through his memories of the season.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Zig-zagged in the series finale "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLastDayOfSummer Last Day of Summer]]". Isabella and Baljeet regain their memories of Phineas and Ferb when they are sucked into the alternate dimension. Buford expects it to happen to him, but it doesn't.
123	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Friendiversary", Squidward is unpleased when [=SpongeBob=] is celebrating his (one-sided) friendship anniversary with him, and erases his memories of him as a last resort; however, this also erases his memory of the combination to the Krusty Krab safe which holds the secret formula. Squidward tries in vain to get [=SpongeBob=] to remember him by reenacting their past times, and when he brings out the pain device from "Life Insurance", [=SpongeBob=] finally remembers Squidward, which in turn treats us to a close-up which shows flashbacks of [=SpongeBob=]'s times with Squidward flashing through his eyes.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS3E3TheInvisibleHandOfFate The Invisible Hand of Fate]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback prompted by a Regained Memories Sequence in the ColdOpen. After slipping in his bathroom and falling, Billy Quizboy recovers several lost memories, revealing events that transpired in which Billy took part but also others that were happening or were a result of those events.
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