"All memory of your existence will be wiped from reality. You will die, and no one will mourn."
— Memnarch on Door to Nothingness
, Magic: The Gathering
, Magic: The Gathering
Retroactively gone.
A character seems to vanish off the face of the earth. Sometimes, people just disappear, but this is something more. People who should know about it aren't even sure who the person was. Photos look the same, but without them in it. Their Love Interests either don't exist at all, or are in love with someone else. They never existed. They're not just gone, they're Ret-Gone.
Of course, it's hard to write stories about people who don't exist, so there is normally at least one person who remembers the disappeared character's life. Mostly, this will be someone close to the character, such as a friend or family member (and it's often just one person) who will do their best to find evidence, while convincing themselves and others that they're not crazy.
Sometimes, without this character, the world is a notably different place, but sometimes, hardly anything has changed at all.
Occasionally, it'll be the character themselves, whose continued existence is the only evidence they've ever been alive. They may be Invisible to Normals, seeing what the world is like without them. Or they may be alive and well, just really, really annoyed. Cases like this can sometimes cause a Loss of Identity if the character fears that they will start to forget themselves.
Common methods of a Ret-Gone include killing them off at youth or somehow preventing their birth, shunting them into an Alternate History, and removing them from a metaphysical book of history, or rewriting the book itself in-story, although there are plenty of other Applied Phlebotinum tricks. If we actually see the character vanish and become Ret-Gone, then that character doubles as a Ripple Effect Indicator.
Named, of course, after the Retcon.
Cessation of Existence is the common result of this trope. As the events leading to the character's conception have been prevented, there's no afterlife for them. Because they were NEVER born to begin with.
A variant of this trope is when the target or targets are subjected to some sort of effect that wipes their existence from memory. They (usually) still exist and their actions have had an effect on the world, but no one remembers them, and the effect may even prevent them from being remembered.
When some shadowy but non-supernatural force erases the evidence of someone's existence in a more mundane manner, they've been Un-Personed. When the writers decide to simply "forget" a character's existence, that's Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, when a Delayed Ripple Effect is used as a story device this will often be used to perform a sort of half-hearted Story Reset which may inadvertently 'remove' some characters from creation. When a character actively does this on a large scale, it may be to retcon the universe into being more In Their Own Image. When a character appears out of nowhere, it's Backstory Invader.
Keep in mind that doing this to Hitler never works.
As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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Advertising
- An ad for DirecTV features a couple of parents watching TV while their kid draws on the walls. The husband bemoans the fact he forgot to record a show, whereupon Bon Jovi appears and sings to them the benefits of DirecTV's 72 Hour Rewind feature, and then starts making suggestions for other stuff they can do with the power to turn back time... beginning with changing their salsa from spicy to mild and somewhat distressingly culminating in him eliminating the nearby kid from existence with a lyric about choosing not to have a second child.
- Another commercial (from the "Get Rid of Cable" series) concerns a man who, bored after waiting forever for the cable guy, becomes addicted to cheddar after volunteering for lab experiments. In one of his bungled robbery attempts, he falls into a time machine and is teleported back to the time of his conception. He meets his would-be father, who chases him out of the house and into the path of an oncoming ice cream truck... only for him to fade out of existence anyways because his parents never ended up doing it that night.
Audio Plays
- Big Finish Doctor Who:
- In Neverland, the Time Lords are revealed to have a device called "The Oubliette of Eternity", which is a dispersal chamber combined with an erase-from-history device. The really horrifying thing that is that there is no Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory in effect: even a person who has authorized its use many times over is under the impression that it has never been used. When one Time Lady find she used it hundreds of times in horror she erases herself.
- Nazi scientist Dr Elizabeth Klein has this happen to her after she continues altering history to ensure Nazi power. However, a new Elizabeth Klein is created who has no memory of the actions of her previous self.
- The Light at the End has this happen to the Doctors when the Master uses a conceptual bomb to remove the TARDIS from existence.
- In the Last Great Time War, the War Valeyard succeeded in doing this to the Daleks. Not only it didn't take, the Daleks were well and truly pissed with the Time Lords.
Films — Animation
- Inside Out: Everything thrown to the Memory Dump goes through this, illustrating the fact that, although memories are usually stored within the long-term shelves (i.e. always in the back of your mind somewhere), there is only so much the brain can contain, so less important memories are periodically disposed of. When Joy and Bing Bong get trapped in the Dump, Bing Bong performs a Heroic Sacrifice so Joy can get out and is promptly forgotten. This not only ensures that Riley does not lose her ability to feel happy, but also flags a point in her coming-of-age story, as Bing Bong is her childhood imaginary friend and hence bound to be forgotten someday.
- In Lightyear, Buzz discovers that Zurg (or rather, his future self) is planning on going back in time to stop the ship everyone came on from being stranded on the planet in the first place. Buzz is initially on board with the idea, but then he realizes that by doing so, everyone who was born on the planet, like his friend Alisha's granddaughter, would never exist. Future Buzz doesn't care that his plan will lead to people being wiped from existence, resulting in the two fighting each other.
- Happens in Meet the Robinsons when Lewis wipes Doris from existence by vowing to never invent her. Also happens to Wilbur when the Delayed Ripple Effect catches up with him, though he's brought back when Doris' Bad Future is undone.
- In Shrek Forever After, Shrek is tricked by Rumpelstiltskin to give up the day he was born in exchange for a single day where he can act like a feared ogre. As a result, Shrek finds himself in an Alternate Timeline where his children don't exist, and neither Donkey nor Fiona remember him, because he was never born to begin with. Because he was promised a single day, he has until sunrise to break the contract with a True Love's Kiss, otherwise the altered timeline becomes permanent and Shrek ceases to exist completely.
Manhua
- In Infinity Game this happens when a player is in the alternative world when it's destroyed. The only people who remember are the players who weren't in the world at the time, aka. the RPG Society. They intend to do this to Long Wei and his group as erasing his world and returning their world would un-erase their friends. Instead Long Wei fights back and due to time being frozen in the alternative world, he's forced to erase himself from his friends' memories as he won't be able to return to the real world for fifty years and if they remain with him, they won't have anywhere to return to.
Music
- "Hands of Doom" by Manowar:
Nothing shall remain.
Not your memory, your name.
It will be as though you never, ever lived.
Theme Parks
- At Star Trek: The Experience, this is Korath's plot against Captain Picard in "Klingon Encounter" — by removing Picard's ancestor (one of the ride's guests) from the 20th century, he prevents Picard from having been born.
Toys
- The Kanohi Mohtrek, Mask of Time Duplication, has this as a potential side-effect in BIONICLE, though it never happens. The mask lets its users summon past versions of themselves into the present, but should any of these past-selves perish, that would retroactively change the universe's timeline from the point of time they had originated from, erasing or altering everything that has happened since then. Due to this, it is considered an "immoral mask" and its use is to be avoided if possible. The one user of a Mohtrek never suffers this as he always dispels the temporal duplicates once they receive sufficient damage, and ultimately, his present self is the one who gets killed off without any timeline screw-ups.
Visual Novels
- Amnesia: Memories has this performed on Ukyo for his Normal Ending, and out of his own volition. In this ending, the heroine survives, but any knowledge of Ukyo's existence is erased... but only for her. During the ending's party at the café, the manager actually asks her about Ukyo, who had been a regular customer, and wondering where he's gone off to. The heroine herself doesn't know who he's talking about.
- Date A Live: Rinne Utopia has the eponymous character herself. Because she doesn't exist in the original novels, fans know she'd have to disappear so as not to muck up the continuity. And she did get herself hit with this trope causing Shido to cry his heart out. This is the only time he even openly cries his heart out.
- A particularly horrifying example happens to Sayori in Doki Doki Literature Club! after her being Driven to Suicide in a sort of bad ending for the game. When you start the game again, it initially tries to render her interactions, but they all come out as broken sprites and garbage text, before the game resets and treats her as if she never existed. Though the player may easily not notice it, this correlates with her file being gone from the "Characters" folder. The same sort of thing can also happen to other characters if their files are removed and the game is restarted. It Makes Sense in Context, but to explain why would spoil the whole plot even more than this.
- The Visual Novel One: To the Radiant Season has this as the major plot. You are disappearing from everyone's minds and vanishing from the Earth. The only thing that can bring you back is if you've made a connection with a girl strong enough for her to remember you.
- SOON: One of Atlas' less-than-noble motivations to build a time machine is to get rid of their academic rival, Dr Fang, by preventing her parents from getting together. Atlas can actually accomplish this by time traveling to Fang's parents first meeting and revealing that Mr. Fang is a Billy Ray Cyrus fan. Fang's mother is horrified and leaves in a hurry.
- Naturally as a time travel story, this sort of thing was bound to happen in Steins;Gate. In the True End route, Suzuha, her mission complete, creates a timeline where Daru theoretically never has her, therefore Ret-Goning her out of existence. And there's only a vague inference that anyone will ever remember she existed aside from Kyouma. Naturally, her fans like to state her ending as the best end.
- The anime adaptation's exclusive 25th episode OVA shows, however, that Daru will eventually meet up with Suzuha's mother and she'll be born 7 years later in 2017. Her disappearance in the series is because only that particular version of her (a Shell-Shocked Veteran of World War III) never comes to be.
- This trope is the basis for the plot of The Movie, where Okabe's leaping across time is starting to do this to him.
- Sola from Sunrider Academy experiences a drawn-out version of this in her route. She suffers from "distortions", episodes where parts of her body will randomly (and painfully) fade out of existence. The people who know her lose some of their memories of her whenever a distortion occurs: if she were to disappear completely, they would forget her entirely and it would be like she never existed. The plot of her route involves figuring out why this is happening and finding a way to prevent it.
- In Sunrider Liberation Day's [RE]turn mode, this is almost inevitable. Kayto has been sent back in time to prevent a horrible incident that happened in the main storyline from taking place, and if he succeeds the resulting paradox will erase him from existence. Not counting the bad endings where he dies, exactly three of [RE]turn's eighteen endings do not have Kayto getting erased.
- Pretty much the entire plot of Time Hollow. The villain messes with events in the past in order to cause something to disappear in the present, and the protagonist has to find and undo these changes.
Web Animation
- In Bonus Stage, Phil travels back in time to episode 1 and kills his past self with an axe, in doing so causing himself to be "McFlyed" and erasing him from existence. With nothing else to do now that his foil is gone, Joel hangs himself, causing every episode of the series to be erased from existence (including the previous episode, which, as a result of Joel's death, was erased in mid-episode).
- DEATH BATTLE!:
- At the end of the fight between Wally West and Archie Sonic, Sonic tries to erase Wally from existence, but Wally resists the attack and punches Sonic so hard, Sonic relives his entire life and explodes out of existence.
- At the end of the fight between Rick Sanchez and The Doctor, Rick suffers this fate when The Doctor redirects a shot from his own D-Mat Gun (at the time being wielded by Rick) through one of Rick's portals so that it hits Rick instead. The result is all the damage that Rick did to The Doctor and the TARDIS being undone, and Morty doesn't know or recognize who Rick was.
- Dreamscape: Keedran, in her true form, can just straight-up wipe you from existence by imploding you in light.
- Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction hangs a lampshade on this concept: after the Reds delete the Blues from the Command database, Caboose disappears. Simmons panics, thinking he may have deleted Caboose from existence. Turns out Caboose was just using the bathroom.
Grif: Come on dude, tell us more about the reality-bending computer. I'm hanging on your every word.
Simmons: I don't wanna talk about it. - In the Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers video "The Weegee Uprising", Mario's descendant, New Super Duper Mario Plus Ultra, is erased from time due to the Bad Future where the Weegee Dolls took over being undone.
- According to Yatzhee of Zero Punctuation, Duke Nukem Forever, DNF was such a massively transcendental work of awesomeness that reality itself couldn't handle it and the timeline it was in collapsed. Sadly, the DNF of our reality was far worse.
- "Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two": After Gaty signs the deal from One to stop the timeline from crumbling in the episode "Seasonal Shift", Gaty demands One to send her back. One then snaps her toes, and everything seems to be back to normal, but after Two realizes a few changes were carried over, they rushed to the Hotel's kitchen, and had horrified reaction when they found out Gaty was not there. It was later revealed in "Last One Standing" that Gaty was erased from existence by One. In the same episode, when Donut refused to give up his powers to One, both Barf Bag and Basketball were also erased before Donut gave up his powers to One.
Webcomics
- 8-Bit Theater once had a comic that suggested there was a fifth Light Warrior named Bard that Sarda erased from existence for some (likely stupid) reason.
- In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, we find out this is the reason he can't reveal his own first name: His name was used as a sacrifice to seal a dangerous Ghost Wizard. Doc was the only person on Earth who still remembers it (later joined by his clone "Old McNinja"). If either of them reveals the name in any way, the seal is broken and the Ghost Wizard will be free.
- Used as a subtle punchline in one Awkward Zombie strip based on Mario Kart 8: Wario runs Baby Mario off the road, sending him to his death. He then crosses the finish line which now reads "Luigi Kart" due to Mario's adult self no longer existing, leaving Luigi as the star of the franchise in his stead.
- Cheer!: Four bullying jerk jocks get turned into cheerleaders. Nobody much notices or cares. The few who do know all decide not to rock the boat since everyone seems happier.
- Ennui GO!:
- The climax for Volume 9 has Ashley traveling back in time to prevent Akihiro's Start of Darkness since he's become too powerful in the present day to stop, resulting in a Close-Enough Timeline where he was never evil. Since Ashley's entire reason for coming to the present in the first place is directly tied to the actions of his future self, her current self ends up being wiped from the timeline, and the volume ends with her present day self being born (and the implication that the original ended up reincarnating as herself).
- Inverted with Andi, as she apparently didn't exist in any of the five iterations of the timeline that Akihiro went through prior to the one seen in the story proper.
- In an arc of Gaming Guardians, two new recruits are visiting the Guardians' facilities when one is snatched away by an enemy... and no one remembers him being there in the first place. Except for the other recruit, who has hazy memories but don't know why the other person isn't there. The others thinks it's cute that he has an imaginary friend...
- Goblins:
- The Psionic Minmax intends to do this to every version of his party that has entered the maze, creating holes that Ret-Gone anything that falls into them. It quickly turns out that while people will have no memory of the object thus removed, they can notice something's going on. As "our" Minmax starts throwing his clothes into the hole, Kin considers the unlikelihood of someone going on an adventure without shoes or pants, and realizes what it must be doing. Kin realized that, while she could not remember Minmax ever having pants, she had no idea what he looked like without them, so he must have had them.
- And in a Wham Episode, a non-lethal version of this occurs. Because of Kin #80, the bonding between Minmax and our Kin was completely undone when #80 tossed a Memento MacGuffin into one of the holes, causing Kin to forget why she trusted Minmax to begin with.
- In Homestuck, the whole point of the Scratch is to reset the entire universe and modify the lives of the players- by switching them with their ancestors- to better prepare them for the game. However, in both canonical instances of the Scratch, the players who initiated it managed to escape its Ret-Goning influence.
- Lord English is also explicitly immune to getting erased this way due to Stable Time Loops. He is already here. He is always already here.
- In Housepets!, Sabrina once threatened her boyfriend, Fido, with erasure from existence.
- The titular Misfile in the webcomic of that name Ret-Gones Ash's male life and identity to everyone except themself and the stoner angel that did it to them. Emily's last two years (and acceptance into Harvard) were also wiped.
- Part of the concern for our heroes is some of the positive changes that this change has wrought. Ash has a better relationship with both parents, and Emily barely avoided being in a severe car accident that could very well have killed her (and this is before getting into their attraction to each other).
- Inverted in Myth: Distillation. Athena writes herself into existence the moment she comes out of Zeus' mind, to the point everyone already knows her from a long time ago. Even Zeus has vague memories of knowing her before but he's not sure until Prometheus assures him of them. Officially, Athena is a girl that Zeus took in from Cronus' castle after Metis' death. The only one who knows the truth behind Athena's existence is Prometheus, being the one who took her out of Zeus' head.
- Downplayed in My My Tenshi Life. Because people coming back from the dead is supposed to be impossible, Emily is not allowed to make contact with people who previously knew her. To this end, Emily was replaced with Amy, someone who had her exact life but a different name and face, to stop her from doing so anyway.
- In Narbonic this happens to Dave Davenport's smoking habit. In the Director's Cut re-run of the strip, the comments section ran with this as a joke for a while, insisting that 'Dave Davenport has never smoked'!
- In Scary Go Round, Erin Winters was sucked through a portal to Hell as an unintended result of her sister Shelley saving the universe. She was confident that Shelley would rescue her, but Bob Crowley explained that she was "no longer part of the universe we knew" and everyone would soon forget her. This state of affairs persisted even after she became ruler of Hell and returned to the mortal world, with Erin eventually meeting and telling her story to an old boyfriend; she mentioned that she hadn't tried contacting her family, as it would be too painful. Indeed, when she did meet Shelley face to face soon after, the latter didn't recognize her at all... until after Tim accidentally opened another portal to Hell and Erin had to trade her soul for boyfriend Eustace's life, which somehow let Shelley remember and recognize her dear sister right through the latter's "queen of Hell" persona.
- In Sluggy Freelance, in the Torg Potter parodies of Harry Potter, it is eventually revealed that the reason everyone keeps talking about "You-probably-don't-know-who" and such is because the character in question accidentally erased himself from history and everyone's memories, so that no-one really did know who even though they knew there had been someone.
- Played for Laughs with one character in Super Stupor, who has the ability to punch through time — he uses this power to abort criminals in the womb.
- In TRU-Life Adventures, Scarlett places Jack in a coma-like stasis so he won't exist in the new timeline she's constructing''. It works.
Web Originals
- One of the extradimensional artifacts that appears in anachronauts is Oblivion, a large and ornately-decorated revolver which never runs out of bullets and does this to anything it shoots. It's lampshaded several times in the text that its "edits" are relatively clumsy, as these things go; it's a freakin' Hand Cannon, it doesn't do "subtle". The full Nightmare Fuel potential of such a weapon comes up a couple of times, such as when Carrie realizes why the current owner has no parents (an accident; it's implied the thing is more than a little cursed), and when he brings it to school and opens fire in an empty library. Eventually disposed of by having Carrie literally invoke "faster than a speeding bullet" to make it shoot itself, undoing all of its previous edits in a spectacular (and again, very unsubtle) flurry of people and things appearing out of thin air.
- The Book of Stories (OCT), where the Book's Unwriting could make not only individuals go Ret-Gone, but also to worlds and possibly to reality itself.
- In The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, this is the Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles' favorite modus operandi for dealing with people who inconvenience them. Other beings and entities, such as Chronon Fleas, the Decade Stone or the Imperium, are also capable of this, with different rules depending on the source and circumstances. However, despite appearances, individuals who are retconned out of existence don't completely cease to exist, as their consciousnesses remerged in the Oblivion, from which, with considerable effort, it is possible to retrieve them.
- In Curveball, the entire island of Esperanza was erased from history. This was the only way to undo something even worse.
- In the Creepypasta "Disappear Hole" by Slimebeast, while anything that falls into the titular hole is not physically erased from existence, it is erased from everyone's memories. The three boys in the story discover this when they decide to drop a flashlight into the hole to see how deep it is, but then realize they didn't bring one. Then they look back down into the hole and see a flashlight falling down it, and conclude that they actually did bring one and dropped it in, but immediately forgot it existed after doing so. Eventually, they decide to head home for the night, only to be very confused when they return to the spot where they parked their bikes and find four of them parked there.
- In the Paradise setting, humans are randomly, permanently changed into Funny Animals by causes unknown—and some are gender-switched at the same time. As the "Reality Distortion Field" that keeps these changes Invisible to Normals begins to wind down, gender-bent Changed discover all extant documentation about themselves is retconned as reality itself is edited to reflect their new gender. Their driver's licenses and other identification have newly-feminine names, and all photos all the way back to when they were babies will show a girl instead of a boy (or vice versa). Hence, as far as the world is concerned, the character's original gender is Ret-Goned—records will show that the former "he" has always been a "she" (or vice versa). (Memories of those who knew them before are not affected, however. Also, while people who already know them will continue to see them as their original gender, strangers they meet will see them as the new one.)
- SCP Foundation:
- The series of online Microfiction has SCP-268, which is half this trope, half Un-person. Instead of only erasing records or removing people from history, the wearer is erased from all memories after prolonged use AND becomes practically invisible to everyone, but paper and digital records remain.
- SCP-343 may have done this to a researcher who resisted its psychic properties.
- SCP-1310 is a room which does this to everyone who remains inside. The twist is that they don't themselves disappear, and must hereafter live in a world where they've never actually been born.
- The original SCP-2454 is a cruise ship that retroactively erases anyone on board every nine minutes. It caused the Foundation to send over 600 personal to the ship before they finally realize what was happening, and only because it doesn't erase the victim's clothes.
- SCP-2747 has this effect (mild level) not on humans, but narratives. Books, music, video games, websites... They all get destroyed and all that's left are references to them.
- SCP-3088 is a town where every law the mayor made became objective law of reality for the town (for example, a law banning litter deleted all litter within the town's borders and no one was able to even to try to litter). One of the first laws made upon realizing his power is that no one could leave the town. However, tired of the Mobile Task Force Unit, the mayor made a law said that all military personnel must leave immediately, conflicting with the prior law saying no one could leave. So the entire town vanished from existence.
- SCP-3264 is the result of an experimental device meant to remove objects "from space and time itself."
- SCP-3930 is a Void Between the Worlds lacking shape, dimension, or any potential quality that could be attributed to it. Because of the human mind's tendency to create patterns where there are none, anyone who enters it believes they're in a lush forest in the Russian wilderness, not realizing that it doesn't exist (and now, neither do they). The more people know of this void and subconsciously overwrite it with their own patterns, the more lingering remnants of consciousness within it there are. If there's too much of these thoughts together, too many of these inventions of the mind piling up at the edge of nothingness, they start to merge into one thing, it becomes complex, gains sentience, and realizes what it actually is. It exists now, and it would very much like to go back to not existing. That little thing is what's known as a Pattern Screamer, because it's born from seeing nonexistent patterns, and it screams in hatred of thought that brought it to be. The only way to erase it is to erase the inventions that made it happen; the only way to make that happen is to send the ones who thought them into this nothingness, so they'll stop existing. The threshold is around ten people; any more than that knowing of this void, and the screaming starts.
- SCP-240-JP comprises of zero instances of anomalous locusts. When a locust dies, it warps reality to erase all traces of it ever having existed, which is why there is/are/was/were always zero instances of them.
- SCP-6871 is a ritual that causes a person or object to be retroactively erased from existence, along with any impact it had on the world. A dollar bill used to buy a cup of coffee getting erased makes it so the coffee was never purchased or drank, while using it on the Red Right Hand task force also wiped out the Chaos Insurgency. Ultimately, the Administrator uses it on the Foundation itself, completely erasing its presence from the world and history as a whole.
- Some of the entities and devices the Antimemetics Division deals with can do this, first by erasing all memories and records of the person, and then slapping a Perception Filter on the person. If the person is still alive, no one will hear their pleas for help. If the person is dead, people will step over their rotting corpse without even noticing it's there. The same effect can also be applied to buildings and locations, forcing people to unknowingly make detours around acres of land that they don't even realize exists.
- The series of online Microfiction has SCP-268
Web Videos
- Happens to everyone in Demo Reel, as it turns out none of them are real and their tragic backstories, whether it's rape, sending your father to jail, maternal suicide, war crimes and so on, were just ways of teaching The Nostalgia Critic an Aesop Amnesia lesson. As one might imagine, it was a Downer Ending.
- Doctor Robotnik attempts to erase Sonic from history in the Mean Time Machine, as seen on Sonic's official Youtube Channel. He undoes his attempts because the alternatives were worse for him.
- In Dragon Ball Z Abridged Super Android 13, the titular android grabs Goku and hits him so hard in the groin that the scene skips to the beginnings of the Buu Saga and Goten suddenly disappears from existence in front of Gohan's eyes. Luckily, Goku later takes several Senzu Beans to recover, thereby undoing the retcon. (To make this even more amusing, in an earlier movie Vegeta got kicked in the dick a minimum of 500 times and yet Bra didn't get erased.)
- Fan Battle: The Scarlet King's fate for all of the suffering he has caused is to be erased from existence via a Megaton Punch by Superman.
"I see... Thus even my pain can be consigned to oblivion..."
- A fate suffered by several characters in Twitch Plays Pokémon. Has been caused intentionally by the streamer after accidentally starting a new game (Crystal and possibly Black), the Voices managing to soft reset the game multiple times through chat inputs (Emerald), as well as the few times the game crashed (Platinum and Black 2.)
