Basic Trope: A character can't remember their own name.
- Straight: Bob forgets his name.
- Exaggerated: Every character in the story forgets their name.
- Downplayed: Bob only forgets his full name, Robert Troperson - he's still able to remember that his name is Bob.
- Justified:
- Bob is experiencing memory loss.
- In the case of the downplayed example, Bob has been Only Known By His Nickname for so long that he forgot that he had a real name.
- Inverted:
- Bob forgets everything about himself except for his name.
- Bob forgets other people's names, but can remember his own.
- Subverted: Bob realizes he has amnesia and wonders if he's forgotten his name. But then it turns out he remembers it.
- Double Subverted: Only it then turns out that "Bob' isn't actually his real name.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Bob sometimes forgets his name, and sometimes is able to remember it.
- Averted: Bob is able to remember what his name is.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob is subject to Laser-Guided Amnesia so that he'll forget what his name is.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob has a document with his name displayed somewhere he can easily see it often, just in case he forgets it.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Name Amnesia... I think that's what it was called.
