History Main / CompellingVoice

* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Literature/{{Eisenhorn}} novels, Eisenhorn himself.
** Warmaster Varan from Creator/SandyMitchell's Literature/CiaphasCain novel ''Cain's Last Stand'' is a villainous example. He can force people to do whatever he says, and the effect persists, even [[NoOntologicalInertia after his death]]. Jurgen's blank abilities can free such a person but only while he is in range; when he leaves, they revert. [[spoiler:Although Donal realizes in time to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself instead]].]] At one point he tells his shuttle pilot to wait for him, and the pilot starves to death while waiting his return.
* Sol, the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series's resident ManipulativeBastard, seems to able to persuade anyone to do anything. The books constantly remind us of how powerful and unnatural his voice sounds, and most converstations with him seem like a struggle not to fall under his influence.

* In Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's novel ''Dances on the Snow'' (part of the ''Literature/{{Genome}}'' trilogy), [[Franchise/StarWars jedi]]-like special agents/knights of the planet Avalon called phages are, among other skills, trained to use the so-called "imperative voice", which acts very similar to the Voice in ''Dune'', making people obey their every command, although they tend not to abuse this ability. The [[CloningBlues clones]] of Ada Snezhinskaya are also trained in the use of this skill. It is not specified whether just anybody can learn this ability or only those who have been [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically-engineered]] (both the phages and the clones are ArtificialHumans). The novel even features a battle of sorts with opposing sides using the "imperative voice" to give conflicting commands to the main character, with the clone forcing him to jump into molten metal and the phage telling him to stay. The result of this "duel" remains unclear as the situation is resolved by a HeroicSacrifice from another character.

** Hitoshi Shinso has a power [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fittingly called]] '[[MindControl Brainwash]]'. It allows him to take control of people who verbally reply to his statements, until he either willingly relinquishes that control or they get shocked out of it. [[spoiler:Later on, as of the Joint Training Arc, Shinso uses a voice distorter to imitate other people's voices. This causes even more problems for his opponents as now they can't even reply to each other, out of fear they may actually be enabling Shinso to take control.]]

* The Dnyarri (those little brain-thingies) in ''VideoGame/StarControlIITheUrQuanMasters'' have this power -- fortunately, they're extinct by the time the story starts, so you only meet ONE. But that one's enough. Fortunately, you can acquire a telepathic blocker that prevents it from commanding you around, but even that is imperfect, meaning that you can deflect the more outrageous orders, but still easily gets manipulated if the critter uses his voice smartly.
** To illustrate how powerful they are, look at what happened when the [[MadScientist Umgah]] find one and [[spoiler: undo the genetic tampering that left it a mindless slave]]. That ONE Dnyarri [[spoiler: ''enslaves every Umgah in the system'']].

** [[Recap/SmallvilleS09E14Persuasion Persuasion]]": [[spoiler:Clark temporarily gets this. And he unwittingly controls [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois]] into becoming a [[StayInTheKitchen traditional]] {{Housewife}} and Chloe into "[[ExactWords protecting him at all costs]]". HilarityEnsues.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', the Princess has this in "The Tower" ending, achieved if [[CurbStompBattle you attempt to slay the princess but don't land a single hit]]. [[spoiler:The Princess has transformed into a towering goddess who [[PowerFloats floats in midair]], has glowing white eyes, and is in a room that's more of a shrine to the Princess than a prison. The Voice of the Broken even tells you that the shackle that binds her right hand "may as well be a toy" for all the good it will do to stop her. After entering, the Princess tell you to drop your pristine blade and [[KneelBeforeZod kneel before her]], all while [[VoiceOfTheLegion her voice echoes when she talks]]. You can try to resist her commands both times, but [[ButThouMust you'll just end up doing what she says anyways due to her overwhelming voice]].]]

* In ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', [[spoiler:the Princess has this in "The Tower" ending, achieved if [[CurbStompBattle you attempt to slay the princess but don't land a single hit]]. The Princess has transformed into a towering goddess who [[PowerFloats floats in midair]], has glowing white eyes, and is in a room that's more of a shrine to the Princess than a prison. The Voice of the Broken even tells you that the shackle that binds her right hand "may as well be a toy" for all the good it will do to stop her. After entering, the Princess tell you to drop your pristine blade and [[KneelBeforeZod kneel before her]], all while [[VoiceOfTheLegion her voice echoes when she talks]]. You can try to resist her commands both times, but [[ButThouMust you'll just end up doing what she says anyways due to her overwhelming voice]].]]

--->[[{{Catchphrase}} I am the Master, and you will obey me!]]

The power is most often tied to the voice of the character, but there are a few variations, such as the JediMindTrick. A frequent cause of {{Brainwashed}}, BrainwashedAndCrazy and creepy PowerPerversionPotential. This is usually the main power of [[OurSirensAreDifferent a siren]]. Heroes tend to get CharmPerson rather than a Compelling Voice. See also HypnoticEyes for a SisterTrope.

* OlderThanFeudalism: The Sirens of Myth/GreekMythology sing so beautifully that anyone who hears them is compelled to try to get closer, regardless of any ship-destroying rocks in between.

* The second ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' book, ''The Sea of Monsters'', features Percy and Annabeth going through many of the same events Odysseus went through in ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' (Charybdis and Scylla, Circe's island, Polyphemus the Cyclops, the Sirens, etc.). One of them is going past the island of the Sirens. Percy stuffs his ears up with wax, while Annabeth does Odysseus' role and has Percy tie her to the ship mast so she can hear their voices but not be able to swim towards them. Unfortunately, this fails. Annabeth ends up swimming towards the Sirens, and Percy has to jump out to save her.

* ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'': Yuu never speaks because her voice is so compelling that ''reality will distort to obey her words''. The first time she spoke was to say "Die"; everything within several yards died instantly.

* Volume 3 of ''LightNovel/OthersidePicnic'' has Runa Urumi, the cult leader obsessed with Satsuki Uruma. Runa has this ability and uses it to gather and brainwash loyal cultists. She also uses it to interrogate Kozakura and forcibly put Sorawo to sleep. [[spoiler: When Sorawo views it with her Magical Eye, it manifests as some kind of tentacle that attaches to the target, which Toriko can remove to destroy the voice's hold on the victim.]]

* This is also seen with the werewolves in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. They cannot disobey a command given in the "Voice of the Alpha".

** In the episode "Pusher", Robert Patrick Modell, nicknamed "Pusher", was a hitman whose voice could make people do anything, including kill themselves. He could even control things you normally couldn't even if you wanted to -- if he tells you your heart is stopping, it will stop.
** In the sequel episode, "Kitsunegari", Modell's sister had the same ability.

* In the Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''The Magic Voyage of Sinbad'', the heroes capture a blue phoenix with a human head that has the ability to put whole armies to sleep with its voice. (Joel and the bots referred to it as the "Garrison Keillor effect.")

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Sigyn can make people obey her suggestions, with the bonus of her victims' strength increasing while under her control.

* In ''LightNovel/DateALive'', the Spirit Miku Izayoi has this power. She's very arrogant and likes to use it to get whatever she wants. It doesn't work on other Spirits (unless their powers have been sealed, like Tohka, Yoshino and the Yamai twins) or people with a Spirit's power, like Shido.

* Kurogiri Satsuki a.k.a. "God's Word" from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' is, indeed, ''the god'' of this trope, though in his case, it's less about his voice and more about the language he speaks, namely, the Unified Language. The Unified Language, a.k.a. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamic_language Adamic language]], was the original language spoken by the entire humanity before the Confusion of Tongues that followed the building of the Tower of Babel. Because of its connection to reality itself, it's impossible to disobey an order given in it and not be [[{{Unperson}} Erased From Existence]].
* ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'': Yuu never speaks because her voice is so compelling that ''reality will distort to obey her words''. The first time she spoke was to say "Die"; everything within several yards died instantly.

* In ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', all the Peacemakers need to do to control people is to look at them. The only person in the world they can't control is the title's princess [[spoiler: and Shannon after he becomes a D-Knight.]]
* Sa Shunki in ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'' has this power. Because of the potential for tragedy if her power was used carelessly or by accident, Shunki's grandmother Hyou Eiki made her promise that she would only use her power for the sake of the man she loves, Sa Kokujun. Eiki then sealed Shunki's voice, rendering her a CuteMute for her initial appearances until the time came to use her power on Kokujun's behalf.
* Dee from ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'' has a low-level version of this. [[CuteGhostGirl Being a ghost]], she can secretly whisper suggestions to people as a way of manipulating them. This has earned her the names "Whisper" and "Witch of the West."

* ''Literature/DarkestPowers'' very horrifyingly showcases the power of necromancy, in which spirits are forced back into their rotting corpses. Even worse, they have no choice but to obey whoever it is that called them back unquestioningly. It’s a mortal fear of most ghosts to be brought back by an AxCrazy necromancer and used as part of an undead army and released only when their usefulness has run out. Luckily, necromancers with that kind of power are implied to be very rare.

* Volume 3 of ''{{LightNovel/OthersidePicnic}}'' has Runa Urumi, the cult leader obsessed with Satsuki Uruma. Runa has this ability and uses it to gather and brainwash loyal cultists. She also uses it to interrogate Kozakura and forcibly put Sorawo to sleep. [[spoiler: When Sorawo views it with her Magical Eye, it manifests as some kind of tentacle that attaches to the target, which Toriko can remove to destroy the voice's hold on the victim.]]

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** In ''Series/JessicaJones2015,'' [[Creator/DavidTennant Kilgrave]] simply has to give an instruction, and his subjects are immediately compelled to obey. Those receiving his orders ''cannot'' directly invoke ExactWords, they'll try to obey the command in the spirit it was given -- though someone else not under his control can convince a controlled individual that an order has technically been fulfilled. [[note]]For example, he tells one character to "put a bullet in your head". Not having a loaded gun, she tries to physically force a bullet into her skull -- but Jessica forces the victim's mouth open and pops a bullet in, then tells her that a bullet is now in her head, ending the compulsion.[[/note]]
* Series/{{Lucifer}} has the ability to make people tell him their deepest desires simply by asking them. The only people that are able to [[NoSell resist]] are Chloe Decker and one woman in the third season who already had everything she wanted in life. Lucifer's twin brother [[ArchangelMichael Michael]] has a similar ability that compells people to tell him their greatest fear.
* ''Series/Millennium1996''. In "Siren", a Chinese refugee woman has this power. When several men try to kill her, they wear headphones playing music to drown out her voice, but one of the headphones gets knocked off in the struggle so the man concerned turns on the others at her command.

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* In ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', Ruler has this ability. It only works on one person at a time, so if she faces multiple people, she's in trouble.

* Glorious Godfrey, one of the minions of {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} has this as his main power. In his original appearances he poses as an evangelist and uses his powers to convince people to follow Darkseid, turning them into mindless {{Mooks}} called Justifiers who constantly chant [[MadnessMantra "Anti-Life justifies my hate!."]] Later in the CrisisCrossover event "Legends" he [[VillainWithGoodPublicity poses as a psychiatrist and pundit]] and used his powers to turn a large portion of the United States against superheroes.
** And his [[SarcasmMode sweet sister]] Amazing Grace. She has the same powers, but to a lesser degree. [[spoiler:More than enough to sucker an amnesiac Superman, though.]]
** In the original ComicBook/NewGods, this ''was'' the power of the Anti-Life Equation, with a bit of BrownNote on the side.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'': Lord. With mechanical assistance (including blood transfusions, since he has a nosebleed whenever he uses his powers), he mindwipes the entire world into forgetting he even existed.
* A Creator/MarvelComics supervillain, Jason Cragg, AKA The Voice, originally appeared in the story "The Voice of Doom" from ''Tales to Astonish #42'' (April, 1963). He is a man whose dull, droning voice was changed by a beam of radioactive electrons from a nearby research lab. After using his new voice to get whatever he wants, Cragg decides to use it to TakeOverTheWorld, and tries to get ComicBook/AntMan out of the picture. Ant-Man eventually defeats him by giving him laryngitis, courtesy of microbes implanted on the microphone Cragg was using in a nationwide televised broadcast.
* Max Lord was originally given the ability to subtly influence minds by an alien "gene bomb" that activated latent powers. This has since become full-on mind control able to create illusions powerful enough to make Franchise/{{Superman}} kill on command.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': After she {{came back wrong}} Darla Aquista was able to compel people to believe her and do things for her. The strength of this ability is never fully examined and she was unable to compel Tim to run off and start a new life with her though that may be because he'd been turning down her advances for months before she gained the ability.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': All Sparks have the ability to unconsciously layer their voices with powerful harmonics. The first hint that they're falling into a full spark-induced fugue state is when everyone around them starts feeling a strong combination of dread and obedience for reasons they can't always explain. Agatha's mother, Lucrezia Mongfish, is one of the more notable examples, in that she specifically built her monsters to be unable to resist commands made with her voice.

* In ''Webcomic/APOC'', this is the power granted by the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Horseman of Conquest]]. It allows its host ([[spoiler:the info broker Annabelle]]) to issue commands to anyone nearby, and they have no choice but to obey despite any objections they might have.

-->'''Xander:''' Come on, puffy shirt. Pucker on up, 'cause you can kiss your pale ass good--
-->'''Dracula:''' Silence.
-->'''Xander:''' Yes, Master.

--> [[{{Catchphrase}} I am the Master, and you will obey me!]]

--> ''Shall you kneel down to me...\\

-->"Sometimes fame just isn't worth the price."

--->"Hey, maybe you should try that thing Chie was talking about. Hm..."
--->'''[+[[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} "THOU ART THEE ART THOU STICK YOUR HAND INTO THE TV DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!"]]+]'''

-->'''The Lich:''' ''[[SoftSpokenSadist Fall.]]''

--> '''Music Meister:''' As I regale you with my story, you'll know you have no choice\\