Characters who get Un-Personed in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- The Bridge (MLP): After the Xilians blamed Controller 011 and Praetorian Guard 094 for Kaizer Ghidorah's rampage against their planet, they erased all records of the two from history.
- The Bridge: Humanity's Stand: Titanosaurus is angry at humanity after a Mad Scientist mind-controlled her. Zilla later informs her that after the scientist was stopped and arrested, he was imprisoned and all of his records and research was destroyed, and nobody is allowed to mention his name. Titanosaurus considers that more horrible than anything she can think off and drops her vendetta.
- The Chaotic Masters: After they were defeated and sealed, most information on the Chaotic Masters was erased to avoid any future evils being tempted to find and release them, with what little still exists having faded to myth and legend. Deconstructed however, when Xanatos points out that in doing this, it was made virtually impossible for people in the modern age to figure out how to fight the Masters upon their escapes.
- Hell is a Martial Artist
: After he's adopted by Hild, reality is rewritten so only those closest to Ranma remember him. Anything that involved him is changed, such as Cologne thinking she and Shampoo came to Nerima simply to open their restaurant and send money back to their village. It says volumes about his relationship with her, that Nodoka is one of the ones to forget Ranma. - Maria Campbell of the Astral Clocktower: When he was thirteen, someone tried to butter up the Third Prince by offering to have all his love rivals (which included his twin brother) killed. The Third Prince and his twin discussed it, then decided to actually go to their older brothers for advice for once. The next day, everyone swore that the person in question had never existed.They still weren't sure which of their brothers had been responsible.
They'd learned to take care of it themselves after that. - The Weaver Option:
- The entire Second Legion was subject to an Edict of Obliteration from the Imperium after it was annihilated in a one-sided battle at the Ymga Monolith, erasing all records of its existence except those stored in the Imperial Palace.
- Overlord Simut blundered headlong into Taylor's trap, getting his entire fleet destroyed without ever engaging the Imperial forces. Sobekhotep is so enraged at this failure that he orders all records of Simut be deleted and his titles and territories be redistributed to more worth individuals.
- Where the Sunlight Ends: At one point, Peter explicitly mentions that Strange's spell at the end of No Way Home wiped his records from the face of the earth, leading him to take residence in one of the Baxter Building's air vents while hunting for an apartment.
- "Family Reunion" by Sam & Mickey, and several videos released after it, reveal that no one in Mattel's domain must speak of Tutti and Todd. The video with their names in the title explains who they were, and the last anyone ever saw of them.note
- Angel of the Bat: Stephanie Brown's subplot is focused heavily on the events and fallout of the Batman miniseries War Games in which her death was faked. In particular, the fact that she feels like Batman considered her such a failure he tried to cover up the fact that she ever existed. These arguments ranging from her not being given a memorial in the Batcave to the fact that he claims to have believed she was still alive, but never acted on the belief to try and find her. Word of God is this this was intended as a huge Take That! regarding DC's own treatment of the character.
- Growing Up Black: Abraxas inflicted this upon basically every member of his family that he decided weren't living up to his lofty standards, such as all of the squibs. When they adopt Aries and pass him off as Sirius' son, he reluctantly accepts them back into the fold.
- Checkmate (Anla'Shok): She never gets to follow through with it, but as the rebellion approaches, President Coin vows to dismantle the Capitol brick by brick once she wins, scatter or kill the residents, and outlaw any mention of the Soiled City on a Hill’s name.
- Cheating Death: Those That Lived: Cold-hearted collaborator and Glory Seeker Elias Overwhill, the founder of District 2's Career aademy, fails in his efforts to get Rhyder, his own grandson, killed in the arena as part of a gambit to threaten the families of the victors. The Capitol promptly rewrites history and renames the Overwhill Academy to make it seem as if he never existed. Then Snow has him killed. It's hard to feel sorry for him.He would be an unperson for his failure. He would die and be forgotten, recalled only as deja vu of somebody else or simply discarded as a bad dream. His one failure invalidated his entire life of fascism and brutality.
- The plot of Unlinked, with this effectively happening to Amelia. Since she was clinically dead for several minutes, the train's system had her number removed and the tape recording her life moved into storage. Without either of these things, the train's conductor is incapable of comprehending that Amelia isn't dead; when she and her "daughter" Hazel go to visit them, the conductor assumes she's a clone. Undoing this status is Hazel's goal in the story.
- Ambience: A Fleet Symphony:
- The Battle of Baltimore is left out of official records by the Feds, leaving almost all the dead undocumented.
- In chapter 108, following Suzukaze's dishonourable discharge from the fleet, Sanford deletes all records of her and officially forbids any discussion of her existence.
- Cellar Secrets: Ryuuko, who, due to being the secret, is a legal version of this, as she wasn't born in a hospital, thus she wouldn't have been registered or have a birth certificate. However, as we find out in chapter 21, Souchiro had obtained a delayed birth certificate for her, making this not to be the case. Later, it turns out that she's more than this, she was also Legally Dead, as, while she had paperwork, she didn't have a social security number and Ragyo, on a population survey, stated that she had died at birth. Thankfully, this wasn't hard to sort out.
- The Outside implies that Satsuki, to a fair degree, has made their mother, Ragyo, to be this, as, she hid any photos of Ragyo in them and the letters she was sent, erasing almost whatever trace she could from her and Ryuuko's lives, out of upset for her leaving. However, this case is odder than most, considering that Satsuki did tell Ryuuko why she left ("Mom and Dad had a big fight") and, while she didn't remember her too well, Ryuuko knew she had a mother, so Ragyo wasn't completely un-personed.
- Long Lost Loud: A self-inflicted example. Early in the story, Lincoln apparently destroyed any evidence of himself being a part of the Loud family. For example, cutting himself out from group pictures with him in them or replacing his name tag on the family's trophy cabinet with his parents' names.
- Missing: People begin to realize that Hawkmoth must be connected to Marinette's disappearance in some fashion when objects related to her start vanishing. This range from things her friends and classmates own that are connected to her, to her own possessions disappearing right out of her room.
- Nymph and the Corrupted Miraculous: The Null once took over a Chinese Emperor who'd just ascended to the throne. Said Emperor was killed when the Guardians defeated the Null. To keep the Null a secret, the Emperor was erased from history. Wayzz says even they don't remember his name and Plagg adds that he has a small tomb in the middle of nowhere to appease his family and it doesn't have his name.
- Crimson and Emerald: Despite being a founding and vital member of Endeavor's agency, Inko was written completely out of its history after she tried calling social services against her former friend. This was extensive enough that Hawks wasn't aware of the role she's played despite being a massive Endeavor fanboy.
- Karma in Retrograde: Endeavor removed all evidence of his wife's presence from his home and office after he institutionalized her for pouring boiling water on Shouto's face. He did the same thing when Touya disappeared, but was unable to erase the scorch marks Touya's Quirk left on the ceiling or the few pictures Fuyumi hid away.
- Deja Vu: Hizashi is hit by a quirk that has elements of this. People only remember him while looking at him but also there are other things: His phone has no service, his directional speaker serial number brings up a blank page in the hero database, his radio show billboard has a large white area where his picture was, and he can’t get onto the U.A. campus because his card won’t work. He has to get Aizawa’s attention by screaming and it works but damages Gym Alpha. Aizawa was frustrated all day because he had forgotten Hizashi and didn’t know why he was unsettled and feeling like something was missing.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Aftermath of the Games: In Integration, pony Cinch is revealed to be just as obsessed with her reputation and legacy as her human counterpart was. She's eventually assassinated and her killers erase the legacy that she cared so much about by removing all records of her. She was so disliked that nopony cared when she was killed or tried to find out who did it, not even her own daughter Fleur.
- In All-American Girl (Shinzakura), this is the fate of anyone who gets exiled from Equestria.
- Background Pony has a character un-personed while still alive and well. The main character's un-personing is a curse — anypony who interacts with her will completely forget the interaction shortly after. She's not the only one with this curse... but how was she to know that?
- How I Lost My Mother: Princess Celestia inflicted this fate upon her own daughter while attempting to prevent a prophecy. Upon realizing that she had likely just turned it into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, she chose not to try and correct her mistake, hoping that her daughter would simply live out the rest of her life in quiet obscurity rather than seeking revenge.
- Lost Cities: After the seapony emperor's reign ended, his subjects toppled his statues, destroyed or defaced most of them, and chiseled out and erased every mention of his name that could be found.
- The Lunar Rebellion shows Pegasopolis using this as punishment for a grievous dishonor, even calling it "damnatio memoriae" after the Roman practice.
- In The Negotiations-verse, Celestia's Secret Police did this to anyone who disapproved of the war and the forcible conversion of humans.
- Pony POV Series:
- Certain beings like the Alicorns, Draconequi, and those Immune to Fate can still remember beings who have suffered a Ret-Gone. However, for his heinous crime, Havoc and Entropy's eldest son was erased and cannot be mentioned by name. Anyone who knows about him refers to him as _____ or D___t.
- Venus killed the murderer of her son Cupid, then asked Pandora to erase the memory of the murderer's name and appearance from everyone's mind, including the killer herself. All anyone knows about the murderer is that she was a Pegasus filly. Eventually revealed out-of-universe to be the Series' version of Cozy Glow.
- Shining Armor mentions the Hooviet Empire erases records of enemies after killing them.
- While recounting her origin story, Queen Chrysalis mentions that her predecessor, Queen Cocoon, erased the records of the previous Changeling rulers. Chrysalis herself thought that was stupid and made a point to not erase Cocoon after killing her, so that her people could learn from her mistakes.
- At the end of A Mother's Love, the Uchiha clan has become this. In the Distant Finale, all that is known about them is that they led a revolt against the Sixth Hokage, and the latter purged all records of their existence.
- Legacy of Valor: It's revealed that this is basically the fate of Charlie, the A-Squad Red Ranger; after she was revealed to have sided with Grumm, her status as the first female Red Ranger has been stricken from the record, and that honour now officially goes to Elizabeth Oliver, the daughter of Tommy Oliver and Kimberly Hart (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers).
- When Fall Comes Around: This is used in the 13th drabble. GUN doesn't have Maria Robotnik listed under the causalities of the ARK massacre because they don't want the public to know a child was killed. This enrages Shadow.
- Limpet AU: There are (almost) no existing records of Anakin Skywalker when Piett tries to find out more about his superior's former identity on the holonet. According to the author’s comments, Vader himself deleted the records, wishing to purge everything of his past from living memory. However, a clip from the Clone Wars is found in a back archive that even Vader missed.
- Long-Term Memories: Garnet is not only missing, everyone except Steven, Connie and Amethyst either forgot about her existence or remembers her getting killed in Fake Memories that Spinel planted in their heads.
- Homemade Happy Ending: As soon as Terra decides to rejoin the Teen Titans, Mad Mod erases all records of her attending Murakami High School, hypnotizing everybody there into forgetting about her.
- Warriors Redux: "Name Erasure" and exile is the worst punishment a cat can receive. It's reserved for traitors and murderer, and involves the Clan leader ritually removing their name and the Clan chasing them out of their camp; they will be killed if they show themselves again, and the rest of the Clan will never talk about them again and only refer to them as "the Rogue", and in the past tense, if they have to.This is the worst possible punishment for a living cat, reserved for traitors and criminals whose plans could have killed someone (or were intending to). The leader will forcibly erase the cat's name and declare them dead to the Clan before a patrol chases the cat out of the territory, with the order to kill them should they try to return. The cat will never be discussed or mentioned by name again, and if brought up by the neighbors, will be referred to as "the rogue" in past tense. It works just fine — since Clan cats are suited only to living in groups, the cat might as well be dead anyway. Without their name being honored by their family, they are refused from entry into StarClan.
