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Eidetic memory in fiction
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In many books of the fiction genre, characters have extraordinary memories,
usually eidetic in nature. For example, Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci
Code can solve anagrams by only looking at them once, then memorizing
the words he has seen, and `unscrambling` the letters in his head.
The short story Sucker Bait by Isaac Asimov features the
character of Mark Annuncio, who has been trained from a young age to develop
an eidetic memory and find correlations between seemingly unrelated pieces of
data by absorbing as much knowledge as possible. Another Asimov story, " Lest
We Remember," features a man named John Heath who gains perfect memory recollection
after having a new, experimental drug tested on him.
Brutha in the Discworld novel Small Gods has eidetic
memory and is able to memorize a portion of the books of a whole library, without
being able to read.
The narrator in Will Self`s novel My Idea of Fun (1993) has
an eidetic memory.
Severian, the narrator of Gene Wolfe`s Book of the New Sun
has an eidetic memory, though this is often intentionally misleading; for example,
he describes the tower he grew up in without ever realizing it is the remains
of an ancient spaceship.
Barbara Gordon, a fictional character in DC Comics, has eidetic memory,
which she puts to use as the information broker Oracle. [ citation needed]
Bart Allen, a fictional character in DC Comics and the current Flash,
has eidetic memory. When he became the second Kid Flash, he read the entire
San Francisco Public Library.
Betty Brant, supporting character in the Spider-Man comics, has
photographic memory, which she reveals while under oath in She-Hulk #4 (vol
1., August 2004)
Lesley and Gordon in the book A Cage of Butterflies by Brian Caswell.
Their eidetic memory allows them to play chess without a chessboard.
Mentats in the Dune series by Frank Herbert were genetically bred
humans who possesed the abilities of a computer after all thinking machines
were outlawed after the Butlerian Jihad
Winter, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, has a perfect
memory.
Film
In the movie Hackers, "Lord Nikon" claims to have a photographic memory
(His handle Nikon refers to the camera company).
Television
Ingrid Third, the partner of the title character in the TV show Fillmore!
has photographic memory.
Spencer Reid, a fictional FBI agent character in the show Criminal
Minds has eidetic memory.
Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, a fictional character in the TV show Prison
Break, claims that he has photographic memory. But Charles "Haywire" Patoshik
has eidetic memory.
Seven of Nine, a fictional character on Star Trek: Voyager,
has eidetic memory due to being a former Borg drone.
Commander Susan Ivanova, a fictional character on Babylon 5, claimed
to have eidetic memory. She recalled a once-heard Minbari phrase perfectly.
Adam Rove, a character from the television show Joan of Arcadia, possesses
eidetic memory.
Dr. Sam Beckett, the main character of Quantum Leap, is stated to have
possessed a photographic (eidetic) memory in the episode "Catch A Falling Star".
[ citation needed]
Charlie, a waitress featured in the NBC series "Heroes" suddenly
exhibits eidetic memory as a functional superpower.
Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle indicates that he has photographic
memory when he recalls every single item stolen from a home robbery after inadvertently
abetting the thief in the episode "Block Party."
Jimmy Neutron from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, has photographic memory.
TJ Henderson from the Smart Guy tv show, has photographic memory.
Gibson Kafka, a friend of Helena Kyle, a metahuman in the show Birds
of Prey has eidetic memory. He also runs`s the metahuman bar "No Man`s
Land"
