Identity Amnesia/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character has amnesia of his/her identity.

• Straight: Bob gets knocked on the head and forgets he was ever Bob, the Cowboy Cop, and becomes Jason, a Genius Ditz.
• Exaggerated: Whenever Bob gets hit in the head, he will become Jason.
  • Bob was The Ditz; somehow being hit in the head turns him into a bona fide genius.
• Downplayed: Bob gets hit in the head, causing him to forget that he could play the piano.
• Justified: Bob's doctor explains exactly how his brain was damaged to cause such a loss.
• Inverted: A Tap on the Head causes an amnesiac character to remember their past identities.
• Subverted: Bob is merely acting like he doesn't know who he is so as to throw off his enemies.
• Double Subverted: Bob is passing off acting like he has no memory as some kind of ploy, when he really has lost his memory.
• Parodied: ???
• Zig-Zagged: Bob keeps getting hit on the head, alternately erasing and restoring his memory.
• Averted: Bob doesn't suffer from amnesia.
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• Invoked: ???
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• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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