History Main / ImmuneToMindControl

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Succubus mosquitoes are shapeshifters who render their prey defenseless by turning into YourHeartsDesire. Izutsumi is immune to this trick, being a BeastMan produced by fusing a human's soul with a monster's soul: only part of her can be charmed at once, while the other part remains lucid and capable of fighting back.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E21TheMaquis The Maquis, Part II]]", Gul Dukat {{no sell}}s an attempt by a Vulcan to mind-meld with him to mine information from him, which he puts down to Cardassian mental discipline. Dukat mentions in an earlier episode that intense mental training (presumably including mind-control resistance) is a standard part of the Cardassian education system.

** "[[Recap/PokemonS16E36CapaciaIslandUFO Capacia Island UFO!]]", of the Best Wishes series, a UFO of Beheeyem hypnotize a whole town in order to find their power supply, and kidnap Meowth as his coin looks like it. When Ash, Pikachu, Jessie, and James, the only ones immune to the hypnosis, break in and learn that the Beheeyem mean no harm, they ask why they were not affected. Through Meowth, they say that "idiots are hard to hypnotize".

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* ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' has a MonsterOfTheWeek who can control the show’s HumongousMecha. When he tries to do so to SixthRanger Shirogane’s Power Animals, it fails to work. Shirogane puts it down to the three being “lone wolves”.
* Likewise, ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'''s Hilbil Lich is a monster whose CompellingVoice works even on the King-Ohgers. Except for Kaguragi Dybowski, who's such a ManipulativeBastard and LovableTraitor that he's capable of deceiving and betraying even himself, meaning he can defy Hilbil's commands with ease.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward seems to be immune to mind control to some extent. Doesn't help him much, though. The villains have other means. [[spoiler:A magician who tried to compel him to do something complained that her magic didn't work on him. She theorized it could be due to his stubborn character and thick skull.]]

* In the original ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' Mowgli (being human) seems to be the only creature in the jungle who's immune to Kaa's hypnosis.
* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' universe:
** The Bandersnatchi were created as a food source for the the mind-controlling Thrintun by one of their subject races. They were also created as spies immune to the Thrintun's powers. The result was that they were pretty much the only vertebrates to survive the Slavers' mass-suicide command and therefore the oldest sapient race in the galaxy by at least a billion years.

* Subverted in the {{Literature/Lensman}} series by a number of characters who ''believe'' that they are immune to mind control (such as Helmuth placing complete trust in his mechanical thought-screen), but learn differently. (Or who get mind-controlled without realizing it.) Played straight in the case of Karen Kinnison, who really is the ultimate in mental defense.

* In the ''VideoGame/SamAndMax'' games by Telltale Games, Max can't be hypnotized due to a metal plate in his head, and Sam has a hypnosis-blocking device built into his hat from Episode 2 onwards.

** Misaka Mikoto thanks to her natural EM field generated from her high bioelectricity. She is immune to mind control and mind reading, due to said EM field somehow interfering with telepathic signals. [[spoiler:One villain had to jump through multiple loopholes in order to finally get through to her.]]
** Touma is also immune to mind control, due to the [[AntiMagic supernatural-cancelling]] powers in his right hand (which apparently extend over the rest of his body for certain other things, such as this).

** Note that Dib, Zim and GIR ''are'' all able to be mind controlled by [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Pustulio, Zim's hypnotic zit]], though Zim and Dib both seem to be able to fight it off somewhat. Gaz never fell under its power because she [[GamerGirl wouldn't look up from her video game]].

* In ''Literature/TheSupernaturals2:ANiceQuietTown'', It is discovered that two members of the team Ami Tanaka and Daniel Price are immune to the vampire's mind control. Ami is immune because at night she becomes a living shadow and thus does not have an actual organic brain to control. And Daniel becasue he is a werewolf there are parts of his mind that are too wild to control.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:'' During the crossover event "Acts of Vengeance", the Red Skull tries to have the Controller use his mind-controlling disks on the mystery villain who's brought everyone together (spoiler: who, for the record, is Loki). It doesn't work, but fortunately Loki just thinks this was amusing and leaves.

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the Ring does not strictly control minds, but it does have a strong ability to warp whoever is wearing it into an evil mutant of what they once were. Not Tom Bombadil, however. Tom is a very, very old being who is not impressed by the Ring at all, and casually plays with it before handing it back to Frodo.

* ''Night Chills'' by Creator/DeanKoontz involves a TownWithADarkSecret being used as a testbed for a MindControlConspiracy. The MadScientist who developed the SubliminalSeduction technique is abusing his power to rape a woman when her son attacks him and doesn't respond to his TriggerPhrase, because the technique doesn't work on everyone.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'': Shere Khan is immune to Kaa's the snake hypnotic eyes while the other characters are immedeatly in a trance.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex[=/=]Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'':

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Genetic version. Being vulnerable to mind influences depends on [[spoiler:ones sensitivity as an Old World Connector. Since the setting is AfterTheEnd of that HumansArePsychicInTheFuture civilization, humans inherited those {{Transhuman}} abilities to send and receive emotions unconsciously to varying degrees; generally, the further east someone is, the more powerful their connection to the Old World Domain is, while it’s weaker the further west. Kain/Nergo has inherited so little of this power, their unconscious broadcasts don’t effect him at all.]] This is mostly revealed in the Web Novel's 212th chapter.

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Loki tries to brainwash Tony Stark after he has had enough of Tony's attempt to distract him with an EvilWillFail lecture. This hilariously fails when his mind control scepter just does a *ping* and shuts down after coming into contact with [[DisabilityImmunity the arc reactor in Stark's chest]]. He's so baffled that he even gives it a second try. Still no dice.

* Late in the fifth season of ''Series/BabylonFive'', Lyta Alexander demonstrates the ability to mind control an entire room when station security comes to arrest her, claiming, "you cannot stop one who has been TouchedByVorlons". Then Sheridan comes up behind her with a gun, seemingly unaffected since he, too, has been touched by Vorlons, and threatens to blow her skull off.

** In the first season finale, the Master uses hypnosis to immobilize Buffy, then drinks her blood and leaves her to drown in a nearby pool of water. After she's resuscitated, his hypnosis becomes ineffective. Likewise, Drusilla's hypnosis, which she used to immobilize and kill another Slayer, has no effect on Buffy. However, Dracula's mind control apparently works differently, as she's still (somewhat) vulnerable.
** In the sixth season finale, Anya claims that mind control doesn't work on vengeance demons. Of course, since Dark Willow successfully brainwashes Anya into freeing her from Giles' binding spell, it's either an InformedAbility, or Willow's just that strong.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': As a result of how utterly [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} bizarre]] her mind is and how she possesses a case of IncorruptiblePurePureness, all attempts at [[MindManipulation influencing Catarina's brain]] will fall flat, not even exaggerating her regular idiocy, as shown through incidents like being the only person who was exactly the same mentally and fully aware something wrong was going on while stuck in a LotusEaterMachine, or [[spoiler:Raphael Walt]] not even trying to enflame her sense of jealousy and hatred because she doesn't feel those emotions in the first place. That said, only mind ''control'' fails to work, as other mental magics like ForcedSleep, which straight-up shuts off the mind instead of manipulating it, still work normally against her, in contrast to [[LightEmUp light magic]] users, who are completely immune to all forms of dark magic.

** Yuri's mind control has two weaknesses: animals and robots. Both armies has Attack Dogs, the Allies has Robot Tanks, and the Soviet has Terrordrones, which gives them a bit of a counter against Yuri Clones. Both [[HeroUnit Tanya and Boris]] are unaffected by mind-control. [[spoiler:In the end of the Soviet campaign in ''Yuri's Revenge'', when the Soviet manage to sabotage Yuri's time machine by adding too many reserved power, he was sent back to the prehistoric time and a T-Rex finished him off since he couldn't mind control it.]]

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