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* Sango of ''[[Inuyasha]]'' takes this a step further; after declaring that she would rather stay and die with Miroku than save herself, when it turns out that Miroku is not about to die after all, Sango's response to his gentle teasing about it is to go into complete denial: "Did I say something? What did I say?"

* At the end of the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' manga, Ranma appears to completely forget his [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] to Akane, though whether it's due to deliberate denial or [[Selective Obliviousness]] isn't exactly clear.

** Not quite the same thing, but in the [[Spin-Off]] sequel ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]'', one of Morinaga's major frustrations is that Souichi seems dead-set on keeping their relationship at a standstill by pretending after any revealing incident that they're still nothing more than friends. Even after having sex, saying out loud that [[If It's You It's Okay|he can have sex with Morinaga only]], kissing Morinaga of his own volition, and ''moving in together'', Souichi appears determined to willfully block from his mind any implications that [[Hypocritical Humor|his homophobia may be misplaced.]]

* Played with in ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]''. Makoto performs several time leaps to make sure that {{spoiler|Chiaki asking her out}} ''literally'' does not happen. Nevertheless, her relationship with him is still affected to the point that she might as well not have bothered.

* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Japan, after getting a lesson in sex (and being ''very loud'' during it, to say the least) from his close friend Greece, furiously tries to write it off as "just a dream" the morning after. Apparently he was too panicked to realize that calling it [[All Just a Dream]] just opens the door to a [[Homoerotic Dream|whole host of other implications...]]

* One-sided version where it's only a confession that happens, in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', after spending an enjoyable [[Not a Date|not-a-date]] with Hayate, Hinagiku confesses that she's in love with him, just as a train goes by not allowing him to hear it. His response is equivalent to "What did you just say?" her response is clearly this trope.

 

== Comics ==

* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'': Spider Jerusalem & Yelena Rossini get drunk one night. Next morning, Spider wakes up to find himself and her naked in the same bed. Spider contemplates it for a while afterwards and decides to go with the flow, but Yelena goes straight to the trope, and keeps up the charade until the end of series 2 when (in another bout of drunkenness) she loudly confesses to the affair (and to the fact that she wasn't really the niece of Spider's editor) in front of a sizable number of people. The relationship slowly builds again from there.

 

== Film ==

* '''[[Star Trek (film)|DON'T TELL ME IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!]] [[Subverted Trope|IT DID HAPPEN!!!]]''' '''''[[Villainous Breakdown|I SAW IT HAPPEN!!!]]'''''

 

* In ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'', Howard callously did this to Vince Noir after their near relationship upgrade. Howard brushed it off, claiming the kiss was a 'momentary lapse of judgement.' [[Relationship Reset Button|Vince was not amused.]]. Neither were the shippers

* Tasha says this to Data in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' after an intoxication virus gets them to demonstrate how "fully functional" he is. Subverted in that Data clearly still holds that memory dear, even after Tasha dies.

* ''[[Farscape]]'', after Aeryn and Crichton, thinking they're both going to die in a shuttle with no life-support, [[Dying Declaration of Love|start ripping off each other's clothes]]. After they're rescued, they both excuse it as the stress of near-death conditions, etc. etc.

* Giles of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has twice done this: once with Joyce (de-inhibition spell) and once with Anya (amnesia spell convinced them they were engaged).

** Likewise when Xander and Willow kiss in "Homecoming".

{{quote|'''Xander:''' (points at her) That didn't just happen!

LOGAN: I'm glad we talked about it. }}

* Subverted on ''[[Northern Exposure]]'': It looks like O'Connel and Fleischman are going to get together on a trip out of town, but O'Connel, running on two days without sleep, falls asleep before they can do the deed. It looks like she's going to forget that the "almost did it" never happened, but she wakes up... and thinks they did it. Then {{spoiler|[[Double Subversion|Double Subverted]] when they return and O'Connel says that she wants them to pretend it never happened.}}

* Variations on the phrase "this never happened" are [[Arc Words]] on ''[[Mad Men]]'' and sometimes fall into this trope. In season four, after Don sleeps with {{spoiler|his secretary Allison}} and then makes it clear he has no intentions of starting a relationship with her (adding insult to injury by {{spoiler|giving her her Christmas bonus the next morning in a manner that obviously makes her feel like a prostitute}}), she confronts him by telling him, "This ''actually happened''."

* ''[[Moonlighting]]'': After David and Maddie's first (non-dream) kiss, this exchange ensues...

BOTH: It didn't happen. }}

* [[Mary Tyler Moore Show]] has both Mary and her boss Lou become completely squicked out after kissing, leading to this.

 

== Music ==

* The [[Gin Blossoms]] did an entire song about this. It's titled "Whitewash" and can be found on the album "Congratulations, I'm Sorry".

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' has the potential for a female PC to end up in a foursome with two members of her party plus another, minor quest character. Should you succeed in [[A Worldwide Punomenon|pulling it off]], the following cut scenes has the female participants asking to "never speak of this again".

 

** Subverted later, though, because Jon remembers just enough to be able to tell that Sarine erased his memory (but he doesn't exactly know why), pressing her to admit that they've "just" done it. Of course, that's more a subversion of [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] than this trope, but still...

** Vaarsuvius sort of pulled this (and revenge, lots of revenge) after Belkar kissed him/her in a drunken stupor during New Years. It helped that Belkar had no memory of 'The Event.'

 

== Western Animation ==

* On ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', when Tucker and Sam say this after their [[Accidental Kiss]], it's believable:

{{quote|'''Sam''': Uh, that never happened.

{{quote|'''Chris:''' But it all seemed so real...

'''Peter & Lois''': [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|IT WAS A DREAM!!!]] }}

 

== Real Life ==

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