History Main / MassHypnosis

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After developing powers and turning evil in the aftermath of surviving being shot in the head Hypnota starts hypnotizing large swaths of audience during their stage act and using them to commit crimes.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand''. Much like Rocket Knight Adventures, the manual claims the alien [[BigBad Tatanga]] hypnotized the citizens, and animals of Sarasaland into acting as his soldiers instead of following Princess Daisy. Let's hope NonLethalKo applies for the {{Mook}}s defeated.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2'' Wario hypnotizes the residents of Mario Land into obeying him, best shown in the commercial above. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe he learned it from Tatanga]] who had [[DemotedToDragon since become his minion]]?

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: The Master becomes Prime Minister by hypnotizing people through their mobile phones.

* The former image was from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhB8XG9_5Rc the commercial]] for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'', which has [[EvilCounterpart Wario]] try to hypnotize the viewers into not beating the game. It is also a well-known meme from WebAnimation/{{YouTube Poop}}s.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-252 SCP-252 ("Humboldt Squid")]]. SCP-252 is a squid up to 1 meter long. It can rapidly change the colors of its skin, hypnotizing anyone looking at it and causing them to think it's a giant monster up to 75 meters long.
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* The first ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon had Krang use this to enslave the population of New York, but Bebop and Rocksteady screwed up the program so they behaved like monkeys, and later children. Krang's reaction to the error: "Only a complete idiot could mess this up! Complete... idiot... BEBOP!!! ROCKSTEADY!!!"

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Tobi/Madara's]] plan is an AssimilationPlot aimed at bouncing an incredibly powerful illusion '''''Off The Moon!'''''

* In ''WesternAnimation/MrMeaty'', the titular company makes a hypnotism device that is designed to drive customers into a meat addicted frenzy. Unfortunately, after finishing off all the meat in the restaurant, the zombie customers decide that [[ImAHumanitarian human meat is just as good]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSsjLXjPbbI The commercial]] for the first ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' takes the hypnosis track again, having Wario try to hypnotize the audience into being greedy and stealing pirate treasure.

* In GHOST's song "COLORBARS", a boy named Kennith hijacks a TV broadcast and plays a frequency that brainwashes all who hear them.

* A story of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''

* In the ''FanFic/{{Pokeumans}}'' universe, literally ''all'' humans are unconscious sleeper agents for the Pokextinction organisation. Their memories of any incident involving transformees are erased afterwards, allowing them to continue the charade unaware. Did we mention that this story takes place [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou in the real world]]? This army of minions includes ''you''.

* A couple of times in ''Manga/CodeGeass'', Lelouch controls large groups of people. When he first obtained the Geass, he ordered the squad of soldiers to kill themselves, [[PsychicAssistedSuicide which they did]]. With another group of people, he ordered them to kill anyone who would reveal his identity as Zero the Terrorist.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Robopon}}'', Miss Amron, the Legend6, uses a TV signal to hypnotize a town.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Tobi/Madara's]] plan is an AssimilationPlot aimed at bouncing an incredibly powerful illusion '''''Off The Moon!'''''

* In the web series ''WebVideo/TheSixCatsParade'', the owner of the cats accidentally did it to the cats [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkIM0s15jL8 rubbing it's hand in the sofa]].

* Tempus (nearly?) becomes President by hypnotizing people through their telephones in an episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark'', which aired about [[FollowTheLeader ten or so years before the ''Doctor Who'' arc described above]].

* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': This trope is something that [[Creator/DavidTennant Kilgrave]] ''loves'' doing. In one episode, he makes an entire room of police officers point their guns at each other or their own heads to intimidate Jessica (which in season 2, Detective Costa recounts as having given him nightmares for weeks). In the season 1 finale, he makes an entire hospital full of people attack Jessica while he makes an escape.

* In GHOST's song "COLORBARS," a boy named Kennith hijacks a TV broadcast and plays a frequency that brainwashes all who hear them.

* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': This trope is something that [[Creator/DavidTennant Kilgrave]] ''loves'' doing. In one episode, he makes an entire room of police officers point their guns at each other or their own heads to intimidate Jessica. In another, he makes an entire hospital full of people attack Jessica while he makes an escape.

** He once tried to hypnotize a spring-break teenage crowd via their {{MP3}} players. It didn't quite work out -- instead, he hypnotized the senior citizens at a retirement community via their hearing aids.