History Main / EmotionBomb

* The heartbreaker in ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' is implied to do this. Marko says getting hit with it makes him “feel like his dog died”.

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* In the Phineas and Ferb fanfic ''Inator Anniversary Contest'', Isabella and Phineas get hit with the Depressinator, which causes this effect, and only lasts a day.

* The [[LadyInRed Girl in the Dress]] from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a certain psychic ability, Measure Heart: she can make any person feel towards her as if she was their most beloved, shattering their will to fight, giving them an extreme guilt complex and mercilessly confusing their feelings. However, she makes special note of that it only works on specific enemies: Those that wouldn't harm their beloved when betrayed. That is why she stays the fuck away from [[AntiHero Accelerator]].

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* When Eric and Linda Strauss were ComicBook/DoctorFate, they fought ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, and were losing badly. Then they cast one last spell on him, and he gets this look of utter confusion and despair on his face. He turns to them and plaintively asks "What have you done to me?" to which they reply that they've shared their love for one another with him. Feeling love so discombobulates him that he surrenders. [[spoiler:Then one of his footsoldiers [[DiabolusExMachina kills Eric with a spear]].]]

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* A less-publicized race on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' was the Deltans, a species that looked like hairless humans (they had eyebrows and eyelashes, but male and female were both completely bald). They naturally produce universally-recognized pheromones, and when in Starfleet have to take pheromone-production-inhibitors to keep everyone (of either gender, apparently) from trying to have sex with them.
** Polywater (featured in the TOS episode "The Naked Time" and the TNG episode "The Naked Now") surreptitiously replaces the water in any organic systems it comes in contact with, spreading like a disease. It puts humanoids into an intoxicated state when they're infected, and one of the most noticeable effects of a polywater outbreak is that suddenly EveryoneHasLotsOfSex.
* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Owen is shown using some sort of alien breath spray that causes anyone who gets a whiff of it to want to jump him right there and then.
** The following episode has an alien that possesses a human invokes OutWithABang coupled with driving people around it mad with lust.

* Tamami Kobayashi in ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'' has a Stand called The Lock. It manifests inside a victim when they experience guilt, passively amplifying the sense of guilt and physically weighing them down. The more guilt a person feels, the larger and heavier The Lock becomes. If the Lock becomes large enough, [[PsychicAssistedSuicide the victim can be driven to commit suicide under the weight of their guilt]]. Because Tamami is an experienced, amoral con man, he has no problem rigging scenarios to plant a seed of doubt about his targets' guilt, thus allowing The Lock to take effect.

* The Psycho-Man, a villain from Creator/MarvelComics, has three settings on his emotio-caster: Fear, Hate, and Doubt (the last of which has similar effects to Despair, but is less likely to produce suicides). Usually he is a serious villain who uses the 'caster to MindRape his foes, but on one occasion he attempted to get the rather stupid "hero" Drax the Destroyer to do his bidding and was brought to lament that he needed some new settings on the thing,--hate made Drax lash out at everything including him, while fear and doubt made him cower.
* Franchise/WonderWoman has an aura of truth, such that it's nearly impossible to lie to her face even when she's not using the magic lasso on you, and weaker minds are liable to just start spilling their guts from sheer proximity. [[DependingOnTheWriter Some writers]] extend this into a sort of aura of trust, making people calmer and more amenable in her presence to a supernatural degree even beyond what you'd expect from a hero of her stature. Genocide, a new foe introduced in ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Wonder Woman Vol 3]]'', being an [[BadFuture evil frankenstein version of Diana]], has traded in the aura of truth and trust for the more standard villainous aura of despair and loathing.
* The SevenDeadlySins from Franchise/TheDCU are demons who can make people fall under the influence of their respective sins. One villain Sabbac briefly merged with all seven demons and gained their powers. The first thing he did was to use Lust to make a prison complex have a massive orgy [[ForTheEvulz just for kicks]].
* From ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri,'' Scaredycat was able to broadcast emotions into everyone nearby; she typically used fear or disgust to incapacitate enemies, or excitement for her allies. Her teammate Scatterbrain could broadcast mental states, such as drunkenness, for a similar effect.

* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'', ''all of the above'' and more are used as weapons by the Inducer-type psychics, which are psychics who can manipulate human emotions. Lust, fear, and despair are used alternately on [[spoiler: River]] when she confronts one of the Inducers, and HatePlague is used on [[spoiler: a bystander to make him shoot and critically injure Mal.]]

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* The "blamethrower", from ''Film/MysteryMen'', produces not so much Anger as petty bickering.
* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' has a "Point of View" gun, which forces the person hit to suddenly understand the wielder's point of view. Generally just distracting, but utterly incapacitating when ''[[TheEeyore Marvin]]'' uses it, as you can imagine.
* The [[Franchise/StarWars Force]] power known as Battle Meditation works by bolstering the confidence, courage, and such of the practitioner's allies while at the same time sapping the enemy's will to fight and causing despair and a huge morale drop. It's a very difficult and complicated power, and is very rare; users include Oppo Rancisis, [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Bastila Shan]], and [[Literature/DarthBane Lord Kaan]].

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** The following episode has an alien that possesses a human invokes DeathBySex coupled with driving people around it mad with lust.
* Alisha's power in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' makes anyone she touches crazy with lust for her. This often does more harm then good.

* In ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'', this appears to be what happens to people infected with AIDA: it doesn't force an emotion on someone, but it amplifies their existing emotions to extreme levels. This is almost universally a bad thing, regardless of which emotion was amplified.

* The ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series has the Berserk skill, which inflicts Berserk on its target. It was limited to targeting allies in its debut in ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy3'', but it would gain the ability to target foes in ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy4''. ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' would add a multi-target version, called Raging Force.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the warlock class used to have a spell called Curse of Recklessness. It would drive the target into overconfidence, making them immune to fear effects (and ordinary fleeing, if an NPC) and hit harder but causing them to drop their defence (reducing their armour stat). The spell was recently removed and the armour reduction effect combined with another curse.
** The Sha in the latest expansion have this power and use it liberally to their advantage when they lack the power to simply manifest and attack things. The Sha of Anger will Emotion Bomb a village of nomads and send them all into a blind rage directed at anything nearby for any possible reason, Despair will bomb its opposition into depressed lethargy, Doubt will bomb its foes into frantic indecision, and Fear will bomb as expected and has even managed to mobilize an entire civilization into military action by instilling fear for their lives in the empress and her drones.

* Literally used in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' with the Confusion Grenade, which manifests as a green question mark of psychic energy before being primed and thrown by the player.
* In ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'', this appears to be what happens to people infected with AIDA: it doesn't force an emotion on someone, but it amplifies their existing emotions to extreme levels. This is almost universally a bad thing, regardless of which emotion was amplified.
* The Parabola Gun in VideoGame/MegamanLegends 2 causes the target to feel one emotion only: uncontrollable laughter. It's so potent that it works on both organic (Glyde) and non-organic (Glyde's birdbots) beings. The laughter is so bad that two of Glyde's birdbots start clubbing the bridge and blowing up Glyde's main ship just to get the laughter out while Glyde can do nothing but watch.
* Emotions is one of the core battle systems in ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', and thus there are various ways to inflict Emotions on either allies or enemies. Right off the bat, [[TheEeyore Omori]] has the skill Sad Poem to make a character Sad, [[CheerfulChild Aubrey]] can make a character Happy with the skill Pep Talk, and [[{{Keet}} Kel]] can Annoy someone to make them Angry. [[TeamDad Hero]] also learns Massage very early on, a skill that removes a character's Emotion. As the game progresses, you can find many more ways to inflict or remove Emotions.

* ''ComicBook/FingerGuns'':The finger gun ability that the kids have can control people's emotions. Two fingers (the ring and middle finger) together can make someone angry, pointing just one (ring finger) can calm them down. Wes is good at the first ability, Sadie is good with latter. [[spoiler: Crossing the middle and ring finger can apparently either make someone brave and/or make them feel good about themselves.]]

* The heartbreaker in ''Comicbook/{{Saga}}'' is implied to do this. Marko says getting hit with it makes him “feel like his dog died”.

* Used in the final Literature/InheritanceCycle book. [[spoiler:Eragon uses a spell to make Galbatorix feel every emotion he has ever caused anyone else to feel. Galbatorix blows himself up because [[DespairEventHorizon the pain is just too much]]. Doesn't qualify as AngstNuke because Galbatorix is well and truly killed by the explosion.]]

* ''Comic/FingerGuns'':The finger gun ability that the kids have can control people's emotions. Two fingers (the ring and middle finger) together can make someone angry, pointing just one (ring finger) can calm them down. Wes is good at the first ability, Sadie is good with latter. [[spoiler: Crossing the middle and ring finger can apparently either make someone brave and/or make them feel good about themselves.]]

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie has a "Point of View" gun, which forces the person hit to suddenly understand the wielder's point of view. Generally just distracting, but utterly incapacitating when ''[[TheEeyore Marvin]]'' uses it, as you can imagine.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1225 SCP-1225 ("The Worst Christmas")]]. Anyone who spends more than 4 hours per 24 hour period within 10-12 meters of SCP-1225 will express aggression, anger and irritability as well as decreased patience and tolerance for frustration.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-252-arc SCP-252-ARC]], a literal "Gay Bomb", that does exactly as described, with a cloud of pink smoke.

* General: If there are any HornyDevils who ''can't'' do this, they're very much in the minority.

** Literature/CiaphasCain ('''[[InHarmsWay HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]''') has had a fair bit of trouble with Slaaneshi cultists. First there was that [[CharmPerson witch]] he just managed to fight off and kill (before she could [[FateWorseThanDeath sell his soul to Slaanesh]])... then later on more cultists [[spoiler: summoned her back as a [[HornyDevils Daemonette]]]], and again he managed to fight it off with HeroicWillpower ([[SpannerInTheWorks and]] [[PowerNullifier Jurgen]] [[spoiler: and more [[BigDamnHeroes Imperial Guardsmen]]]]). Naturally, these folks have been a lovely source of his {{Past Experience Nightmare}}s.

* This is the schtick of the [[EmotionEater White Court vampires]] in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. The most common emotional affinity is lust, especially among House Raith, which is why they're often called [[HornyDevils succubi and incubi]]. Other branches specialize in fear or despair. (Though, interestingly, real, pure emotion can actively injure them; [[ThePowerOfLove True Love]] burns lust-feeders, for example.) In addition, there's Vittorio Malvora: because he decided to do some finagling outside of the traditional PlanetOfHats line, he has the ability to use despair, plus lust, plus fear, ''all at the same time''. It takes [[spoiler:the HeroicSacrifice of a freakin' fallen angel]] to keep it off Harry.

* Tamami Kobayashi from part 4 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a Stand called The Lock. It manifests inside a victim when they experience guilt, passively amplifying the sense of guilt and physically weighing them down. The more guilt a person feels, the larger and heavier The Lock becomes. If the Lock becomes large enough, [[PsychicAssistedSuicide the victim can be driven to commit suicide under the weight of their guilt]].

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* One of the sets of Allomantic powers in ''{{Franchise/Mistborn}}'' is the ability to Push (suppress) or Pull (inflame) specific emotions. Even Mistings who only have one of the two powers can ''very'' deftly manipulate those around them with practice. A Mistborn with [[UpToEleven duralumin]] even managed to force a pseudo-{{VillainousBSOD}} by literally completely suppressing ''all'' emotion. The [[EvilOverlord Lord Ruler]] uses his powers of Soothing to deaden the emotions of anyone within about a mile radius of him, sapping them of the will to resist him (though a skilled Mistborn can counteract the effects to a degree by Rioting the emotions of those in his or her immediate vicinity). Later on, Vin learns to do a similar trick, though because she's much weaker than the Lord Ruler she can only affect a few people at a time.

* Amped UpToEleven in ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear -STRIVE-]]'' with [[spoiler:I-No's ascension to godhood]], which causes everyone in the world to cry. Not even [[TheStoic Zato]] is immune.

* Firecrafters in the Literature/CodexAlera series can inflame the emotions of others. Senators and Lords of the realm that can firecraft generally use this ability during their speeches to influence the listeners. Also, Earthcrafters can create lust, which many exotic dancers use to their advantage - though being able to throw your clientele farther than you trust them doesn't hurt, either!
** While politicians use firecrafting subtly, it goes UpToEleven. In the first book Count Gram creates a fear strong enough to drive back a barbarian horde, and Gauis Sextus can knock entire legions of veteran soldiers unconscious through sheer mind-breaking terror.

* One of the sets of Allomantic powers in ''{{Franchise/Mistborn}}'' is the ability to Push (suppress) or Pull (inflame) specific emotions. Even Mistings who only have one of the two powers can ''very'' deftly manipulate those around them with practice. A Mistborn with [[UpToEleven duralumin]] even managed to force a pseudo-{{VillainousBSOD}} by literally completely suppressing ''all'' emotion. The [[EvilOverlord Lord Ruler]] uses his powers of Soothing to deaden the emotions of anyone within about a mile radius of him, sapping them of the will to resist him (though a skilled Mistborn can counteract the effects to a degree by Rioting the emotions of those in his or her immediate vicinity). Later on, [[ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl Vin]] learns to do a similar trick, though because she's much weaker than the Lord Ruler she can only affect a few people at a time.

* The Habbalah from ''TabletopGame/InNomine'' are able to impose anger, hatred, depression, love/attraction, fear, or nearly any other emotion upon others, they can also impose "emptiness" which is essentially a state of total emotionless apathy. However if the target successfully resists the emotions will sometimes backlash upon the demon, who can either accept them, and be affected by their own power, or absorb them and eat dissonance. If the demon is subjected to his own emptiness, though, there is a small chance that he may instantly realise he is a demon... since Habbalah by default are deluded into thinking they are angels.
* The Psychic Powers sourcebook for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' includes a literal emotion bomb--when it goes off, everyone in range experiences the emotion preset into it. The MindControl skill can be taken with an "Emotions Only" limitation, and the Terror advantage produces fear or "awe".

[[caption-width-right:350:For god's sake, someone get her some [[HeartbreakAndIceCream ice cream]] before we all kill ourselves!]]

* Amped UpToEleven in ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear -STRIVE-]]'' with [[spoiler:I-No's ascension to godhood]], which causes everyone in the world to cry.

* Morag uses one of these to turn Aribeth to the dark side in the original ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' campaign

* This is usually the emotion stoked by your [[StatusEffects average Charm spell]].

Despite being one of the least subtle emotions, anger requires perhaps the most finesse to weaponize effectively. Afflicting someone you're already fighting with UnstoppableRage is... unwise. (Though it can be used to your advantage if you [[BlindedByRage remove their ability to think straight, or at least get them pissed enough to charge in without taking time to plan]]--some video game foes can cause absolute devastation by inflicting the Berserk [[StatusEffects status]] (while others can have their ability to inflict damage or defend themselves completely nullified). But if you can deploy it from a safe distance before or between fights, especially if their alliance against you is already a case of TeethClenchedTeamwork, it's ''amazing'' how much trouble can be caused.

* At least five ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' characters are known to directly manipulate emotions. The Prismriver Sisters do so through MagicMusic: Lunasa induces depression, Merlin induces manic delight, and Lyrica neutralizes feelings altogether. Meanwhile, in former Hell, there lives a GreenEyedMonster who can inflict her jealousy on others (and frequently does, since she can't travel freely and is mad with envy for those who can, driving her to attack them). Finally, Hata no Kokoro can control emotions in general. In gameplay, she can not only change her own emotions (i.e. change her [[StanceSystem faith]]), but use her masks to change her opponent's emotions (same thing again).

* This is usually the emotion stoked by your [[StandardStatusEffects average Charm spell]].

Despite being one of the least subtle emotions, anger requires perhaps the most finesse to weaponize effectively. Afflicting someone you're already fighting with UnstoppableRage is... unwise. (Though it can be used to your advantage if you [[BlindedByRage remove their ability to think straight, or at least get them pissed enough to charge in without taking time to plan]]--some video game foes can cause absolute devastation by inflicting the Berserk [[StandardStatusEffects status]] (while others can have their ability to inflict damage or defend themselves completely nullified). But if you can deploy it from a safe distance before or between fights, especially if their alliance against you is already a case of TeethClenchedTeamwork, it's ''amazing'' how much trouble can be caused.

* Tamami Kobayashi from part 4 of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' has a Stand called The Lock. It manifests inside a victim when they experience guilt, passively amplifying the sense of guilt and physically weighing them down. The more guilt a person feels, the larger and heavier The Lock becomes. If the Lock becomes large enough, [[PsychicAssistedSuicide the victim can be driven to commit suicide under the weight of their guilt]].

[[caption-width-right:350:For god-sakes, someone get her some [[HeartbreakAndIceCream ice cream]] before we all kill ourselves!]]