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An innovative class of drive-response systems that are composed of Markovian reaction–diffusion memristive neural networks, where the drive and response systems follow inconsistent Markov chains, is proposed in this article. For this kind of nonlinear parameter-varying systems, a suitable gain-scheduled controller that involves a mode and memristor-dependent item is designed, so that the error system is bounded within a finite-time interval. Moreover, by constructing a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and employing the canonical Bessel–Legendre inequality and free-weighting matrix method, the conservatism of the finite-time synchronization criterion can be greatly reduced. Finally, two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the feasibility and practicability of the obtained results.