History Main / HypnoTrinket

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E83DeadMansShoes Dead Man's Shoes]]", a homeless man finds the body of a gangster's victim, puts on his shoes, and is possessed by the victim. ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'' did a GenderFlip, "Dead Woman's Shoes", in which the trinket is a pair of shoes belonging to the murdered wife of a rich corporate type.

* Used in ''[[Literature/SorcererStabberOrphen Orphen Revenge]]'', when [[spoiler: Majik gets BrainwashedAndCrazy by Esperanza due to a hat that she puts on him. Orphen "fixes" him by [[WarriorTherapist both blasting and talking to him]], then lowering Majik's defense enough to blast the hat away.]]

* ''Anime/PeterPanNoBouken'' has a bracelet. Sinistra originally had it meant for Luna to have her become evil, but it accidentally ends up on Wendy. While not magically destructive, her hateful behavior almost causes the Lost Boys to fall apart, Peter to abandon the group and Luna to volunteer to become evil in exchange for freeing Wendy.

* In ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics, the Mad Hatter started using his trademark mind-control hats in the early eighties. He would later be contacted to create a new variant of the Justifier helmets used by Darkseid's troops in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', goggles are used by the Screenslaver [[spoiler: (or more accurately, Evelyn Deavor) to hypnotize a pizza guy into acting as a fake Screenslaver, and then subsequently hypnotizing various supers into performing actions that would cause superheroing to permanently stay illegal.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', Plankton's evil plan once he succeeds in stealing the Krabby Patty formula is to give out free Chum Bucket helmets to everyone that buys one, which can drop down over the wearer's face when activated and mind control them, allowing him to enslave the entire population of Bikini Bottom and turn the city into an {{Egopolis}}.

** This gets a ContinuityNod in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' [[spoiler: during the boss fight against her in Onion Knight's storyline. If you check her equipment before the fight, you can see that she is wearing a Hypnocrown to explain why she is acting against her will.]]

* There are a couple in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'', ranging from cursed items to vitally important devices that used for an interesting subset of MindControl -- mind ''flayer'' control. Handy.

** The UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis game, ''[[VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBustersHiddenTreasure Buster's Hidden Treasure]]'' has MadScientist Dr. Gene Splicer use spiky mind control helmets on Plucky Duck, Hamton Pig, Dizzy Devil, and Calamity Coyote. They are all fought as boss fights, though in order to win, Buster must hit the one controlling them (Splicer) rather than his BrainwashedAndCrazy friend -- recall that the mind control helmets are ''[[TheSpiny spiky]]''.
** In the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]] game, ''[[VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBusterBustsLoose Buster Busts Loose]]'', Splicer uses a mind control helmet on [[Main/MixAndMatchCritters Melvin the Monster]], much like he did in the episode, "Hare Raising Night". To save Melvin from Splicer's mind-control, Buster must destroy Splicer's machine by kicking the screwbolts Melvin tosses at him towards it.