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| 19 | ->'''Nova:''' With Project Muse, Sumeragi can finally administrate all the world's Adepts at once.\ |
| 20 | '''Gunvolt:''' "Administrate"? If that's just a fancy word for what I think it is-- |
| 21 | -->-- ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' |
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| 23 | Why use your amazing powers of hypnotism merely to HypnotizeTheCaptive or make your hero's friend [[BrainwashedAndCrazy psychotic]]? Just steal some broadcasting equipment, [[HypnoticHead record your message]], and [[IControlMyMinionsThrough hypnotize the masses to do your bidding]], [[StockEvilOverlordTactics build your weapons, and wipe out the hero.]] |
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| 25 | You could end up with a couple different possible results; the hypnotized people could become zombies, or could stay generally the same but still be compelled to follow you. Pretty soon, you'll have a cities worth of zombielike BrainwashedAndCrazy minions that follow your every order and, best of all, the hero can't beat, since they're really just poor {{Innocent Bystander}}s. |
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| 27 | Compare DoNotAdjustYourSet. Often used to get rid of TheEvilsOfFreeWill. See also {{Glamour}}, which may be paired with this trope. Anyone who is WeakWilled will likely ''remain'' hypnotized even after the emitter's destruction. If Mass Hypnosis is not merely a means to an end, but rather ''is'' the end goal itself, that's AssimilationPlot. |
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| 30 | !!Examples: |
| 31 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 34 | %%* The former image was from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhB8XG9_5Rc the commercial]] for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'', which has [[EvilCounterpart Wario]] hypnotizing the residents of Mario Land into turning against Mario. |
| 35 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFczADqrGU The commercial]] for ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' takes the hypnosis track again, having Wario try to hypnotize the audience into being greedy and stealing pirate treasure. |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 39 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Subverted. Aizen does keep calling his power "complete hypnosis" but the way his power works doesn't have anything in common with hypnosis. He cannot directly control how people behave or what they think. Instead, his zanpakutou fools all of the senses and Aizen uses that in combination with completely normal methods of manipulation to trick people into doing what he wants them to do. He does not, however, hypnotise people's minds. |
| 40 | * A couple of times in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch controls large groups of people. When he first obtains the Geass, he orders the squad of soldiers to kill themselves, [[PsychicAssistedSuicide which they do]]. With another group of people, he orders them to kill anyone who would reveal his identity as Zero the Terrorist. |
| 41 | * In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Tobi/Madara/Kaguya]]'s plan is an AssimilationPlot aimed at bouncing an incredibly powerful illusion '''''off the moon!''''' |
| 42 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': |
| 43 | ** [[spoiler:Chao Lingshen]] attempts to use the forced recognition magic of the World Tree on the whole of Earth to [[ToUnmasqueTheWorld make everyone accept the existence of magic and wizards]], whether they want to or not. [[spoiler:It actually succeeds in its entirety -- [[TimeTravel once]].]] |
| 44 | ** Fate's group, Cosmo Entelachia, plan this by [[spoiler:nullifying the magic keeping the Magic World intact and placing everyone into a [[LotusEaterMachine weird pocket dimension where the people can individually live in their own personal dreams and hopes where everything is sunshine and gumdrops]], all under the excuse that it's to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the populace of the Magic World from dying]] when it collapses from a lack of mana keeping the world stabilized on Mars]]. |
| 45 | * This happens in the ''Manga/OnePiece'' special "Dance Carnival" when Jango hypnotizes everyone on Mirrorball Island (including himself) to dance until they drop. |
| 46 | * In the religious anime film ''Anime/TheRebirthOfBuddha'', Mr. Arai hijacks all TV stations in Japan to predict there will be a tsunami and the only way to survive is to obey him. However, Mari Kimura reveals to Sayako and company that it's an illusion; he is sending psychic waves into those who look at the screens he's in to fool them. |
| 47 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': In the first Act/episode, the MonsterOfTheWeek achieves this by disguising herself as a jewelry merchant and selling enchanted {{Hypno Trinket}}s that both enslave and drain the LifeEnergy of the wearer. At her command, a crowd of women assemble and attack Sailor Moon. |
| 48 | * In ''Anime/SonicX'', Eggman pulls a rather complicated Hypno Ploy which ends up being awesome through its sheer bizarreness. It goes something like this: |
| 49 | -->Step 1: Create lightbulbs which broadcast subliminal messages for people to trust me.\ |
| 50 | Step 2: Reprogram my space station to block out the sun.\ |
| 51 | Step 3: Claim my space station is malfunctioning and sell lightbulbs as a sun substitute. |
| 52 | * In ''Anime/TheUltraman'', the team stumbles across a set of ancient ruins underneath Tamara Island where a human tribe lived 6,000 years ago, worshipping an ancient god. Said god turns out to be the monster Dolfiego, whose mental powers are strong enough to mind-control an entire civilization of humans as his servants. And the monster is now seeking a way to brainwash the heroes into becoming its new serfs. |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 56 | * Lord Sovereign from ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' can mentally control weak-willed people nearby and make them do his bidding. |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/Gen13'' has a villain named Cull who brainwashes to... well, not much other than get Our Heroes to live lives remarkably different than was normal. |
| 58 | * One ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' story involves the Legion being outlawed by the government of Earth, which turns out to have been made possible by [[WaterSourceTampering hypno-chemicals put into everyone's water]], an EvilPlan concocted by none other than Universo, a perennial foe of the Legion. |
| 59 | * The ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' has the Ringmaster, the <ahem> [[{{Pun}} ringleader]] of [[Characters/MarvelComicsCircusOfCrime the Circus of Crime]]. His hat contains a unique device that enables him to hypnotize an entire circus audience at once. However, the victims have to ''see'' the spiraling design on the hat in order for it to work. If you happen to be a [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} blind superhero]]... |
| 60 | * ''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. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 64 | * Dogbert from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' uses this to take over the world once. He makes everyone wear brassieres over their clothes, carry signs with his face, and chant "Dogbert is my king" just for fun. He gets bored and releases everyone at the end of the week. |
| 65 | * In ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'', Pedro's {{Evil| Twin}} MirrorSelf Ordep pitches a ''Boys' Life'' magazine cover that would hypnotize readers into renaming the highest-ranking Boy Scouts from the Eagle Scouts to the Ordep Scouts. Thanks to Pedro's good Mirror Self, Erpod, it never actually gets published. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 69 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Those members of Alan Jonah's paramilitary who aren't driven to commit suicide by their induced SanitySlippage instead seem to become set on aiding Ghidorah or the Many. |
| 70 | * Downplayed in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', wherein [[HarmlessVillain Sheila]] has to hypnotize several people [[OverlyLongGag in a row]] so they don't find out about her plans. |
| 71 | * In the ''Series/TrueBlood'' fanfic ''How Could You Forget'', Bill ends up getting his memories erased by some witches while trying to make peace with them after Eric's attempt at diplomacy had failed.[[note]]In the actual show, the witches erased Eric's memory; here, the witches let Eric go, forcing Bill to go and try to peacefully resolve the mess, only for Marnie, outraged about Eric's intrusion, to steal Bill's memories[[/note]] While Sookie and Jessica are hiding Bill at Sookie's house, Jessica stalls for time by glamoring all of Bill's human staff into thinking Bill is away and "busy" and to forward all urgent calls to her. |
| 72 | * A minor example in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' is Terb the bard's music at the Border Crossroads Inn. It both sounds wonderful to most listeners and gets them to sleep soundly so someone can go into their rooms later and rip them off. Unfortunately for Terb, it doesn't work on professional musicians... |
| 73 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39364473/chapters/98640516#workskin Lucid Twin Dragons]]'', Emmet is the avatar of [[ShockAndAwe Zekrom]], the dragon god of Ideals. When his twin brother Ingo (avatar of Reshiram) goes missing, Emmet despairs and tries to maintain some semblance of control by keeping his life in a normal, Ideal state. His 'life' includes all of Nimbasa City. When his best friend Elesa (whom he will never try to control) arrives to snap him out of it, she is disturbed to see that everyone is acting normal and even [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul smiling]] despite the oppressive aura. |
| 74 | * 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]]? [[ParanoiaFuel This army of minions includes]] ''[[ParanoiaFuel you]]''. |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 78 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', Screenslaver's plan involves hypnotizing various people with the help of flashing patterns displayed on television screens. |
| 79 | * In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'', [[spoiler:this is how Super Super Big Doctor conquered Feebla-Oot, and attempts to conquer Earth in the climax, with her mind-controlling spore emitting plant Mama]]. |
| 80 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', Plankton finally takes over Bikini Bottom by giving away mind-controlling Chum Bucket Helmets. They seem harmless at first, but they become mind control devices after he presses a button on Karen's base. There's a disturbingly intense scene when an army of zombies capture Squidward, the one citizen who doesn't wear a helmet. |
| 81 | [[/folder]] |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 84 | * During the climax of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Wanda mass hypnotizes civilians from Novi Grad to evacuate en masse before the showdown with Ultron. |
| 85 | %%* A similar premise is found in ''Film/BabyGeniuses 2: Superbabies''. |
| 86 | * ''Film/{{Gamer}}'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ken Castle]] reveals at the end to Kable that he plans to disseminate the mind control nanobots he designed for his games ''Society'' and ''Slayers'' that uses real people as avatars throughout the rest of the world. He injected himself with a different type that allows him to control others, demonstrating it by forcing one of his puppets -- an AxCrazy convict -- to dance in front of him. |
| 87 | * This is used by the villain in ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats2001''. He hands out cat-ear headbands that emit subliminal messages during a televised concert of the band. |
| 88 | * In ''Film/{{Looker}}'', a company creates commercials with digitized actors that can hypnotize people. |
| 89 | * ''Film/TheMummy1999'': Imhotep uses his powers to brainwash the common folk of Cairo to mob the heroes. |
| 90 | * ''Film/{{Repossessed}}'': Late in the film, Luke realizes that Satan wanted to make a TV spectacle out of the exorcism so he could possess everyone who was watching the broadcast. |
| 91 | * ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover'': After Helena discovers that her psychic powers works over a television broadcast signal as well, she plots to use it to mind control everyone in the world. |
| 92 | * ''Film/TheShadow'': Both the Shadow and Shiwan Khan can do so, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower having been trained]] by the same Far East master. Lamont uses it to hide himself from the others' eyes, thus becoming the titular hero. Shiwan Khan does one better and hides an entire building from prying eyes. Of course, nobody wonders why there is a seemingly empty lot in the middle of Downtown. |
| 93 | * ''Film/TheyLive'': The aliens use a TV station to broadcast a signal that keeps human beings from seeing the truth. They also use actual TV broadcasts to send specific messages. |
| 94 | * Shadow Zearth from the second ''Film/UltramanZearth'' movie can abduct entire ''populations'' thanks to his eye-rays, turning the entire population of Tokyo into mindless drones for easy abduction. |
| 95 | * In ''Film/TheWizardOfGore'', this is what Montag plans to do by getting onto a late-night TV show, possibly to make every person watching kill themselves. |
| 96 | * This is the ultimate goal of [[BigBad En Sabah Nur]] a.k.a. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Apocalypse]] in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. [[spoiler:He wishes to absorb Charles Xavier's powers into his own and use the enhanced psychic abilities to control every single person on the planet]]. |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 100 | * ''Literature/DaughterOfTheSun'': Aelia influenced most of the people in Soria, a small village, who started acting capricious (she's the Goddess of caprice) as a result. |
| 101 | * This is the titular bad guy's plan in ''Literature/TheDemonHeadmaster''. He doesn't actually manage it, though (he gets on TV and lots of people fall asleep, but he's interrupted by the meddling kids before he can give any commands). |
| 102 | * In the {{Novelization}} of the first ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight'' game, the voodoo villains do this to an entire police station and possibly an entire town. |
| 103 | * ''Literature/{{Gone}}'': In ''Villain'', the second novel of the sequel series, Dillon Poe develops a [[SnakePeople serpentine appearance]] and the ability to control people using his voice, using it to take over Las Vegas and prompting a disastrous military response. |
| 104 | * In ''Literature/MindGames'', the description on several of [[spoiler:James the Mesmerist]]'s Class Skills say that anyone who can "hear and understand" what he is saying will be affected by them. Given the apparent power of the System, this could include an unknown number of people at an unknown potential distance. |
| 105 | * Literature/MollyMoon does this too many times to count, through various means (going up on a stage to hypnotize a crowd, appearing on TV to hypnotize the audience). Her motives are usually less sinister than most people who use this trope, though sometimes (especially in the first book, ''Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism''), she does it for purely selfish reasons. Her enemies occasionally do it as well, though usually with more sinister motives. |
| 106 | * In the Creator/DeanKoontz novel ''Literature/NightChills'', a MadScientist develops a drug that lowers subconscious resistance to subliminal messages. He uses TV broadcasts to beam hidden control instructions into the minds of viewers that cause them to mindlessly obey anyone who says the correct code phrase. |
| 107 | * ''Literature/{{Renegades}}'': The villain Puppeteer can mind-control entire groups of children at once. It's unclear whether he's actually limited to children or if that's just his preference, though. |
| 108 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 109 | ** In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', Joruus C'baoth could do this using the Force, controlling swaths of the Imperial fleet to improve their efficiency and make their timing impossibly precise. At first, he just used it at Grand Admiral Thrawn's orders, but eventually he decided to make a power grab and took control of every member of the Imperial fleet except for those handful in a [[PowerNullifier ysalamiri bubble]]. Thrawn talked C'baoth down by reminding him that ''none'' of the people he was controlling knew what was planned, and C'baoth couldn't piece it together from a dozen or a hundred minds that had some inkling -- it was [[AllUpToYou all up to Thrawn]] -- and how long could C'baoth hold the meld, anyway, before people started to collapse? |
| 110 | ** The ''Literature/RebelForce'' series has, at one point, a base stocked by people who were brainwashed on an individual, laborious basis. Luke Skywalker, unwilling to kill brainwashed enemies, actually manages to ''undo it'' en masse with a desperate JediMindTrick; the people have no idea who they are or what they're doing, but they don't belong to the BigBad anymore. |
| 111 | * In James H. Schmitz's 1962 short story "These Are the Arts", set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a global television audience is hooked on a succession of "TV crazes". The latest one appears to the cynical to be an advertising gimmick for something called Galcom. Believers, entranced by the attractive Galcom Teachers and their beautiful Symbols, are convinced it's FirstContact. The Symbols are said to induce the development of telepathy in Earth's people so they can communicate with other members of the Galactic Community. Suffice it to say, [[spoiler:it is not an advertising gimmick, but the Teachers are only the servants of another alien race which controls its captive populations via telepathy]]... |
| 112 | * ''Literature/TheTripods'': The aliens (known as the Masters) take over humanity by hypnotizing them with television signals. Though while not universally effective, the Masters made sure the process was permanent by placing mind-controlled caps on the victims' heads -- and the heads of everyone else, once the victims provide a sufficient foothold. |
| 113 | * In the ''Literature/WarriorCatsTheBrokenCode'' book ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsThePlaceOfNoStars The Place of No Stars]]'', [[spoiler:Ashfur]] is able to mind-control all of the innocent spirits trapped in the Dark Forest at the same time. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 117 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 118 | ** Jasmine spreads her delusional happiness throughout the world before the heroes manage to break her spell. |
| 119 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime Smile Time]]", a mass energy-draining event via a popular children's TV program is planned. Hilarity ensues, Angel is turned into a puppet, and, ultimately, the world is saved again. Hooray! |
| 120 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'' uses this to create one of the ''scariest'' stand-offs ever. In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E19TheWheelOfFire The Wheel of Fire]]", Lyta Alexander (a telepath who [[TouchedByVorlons had her powers vastly increased by the Vorlons]]) is in a restaurant when B5's new CO, Captain Lochley, confronts her over charges that Lyta has been supporting anti-Psi Corps terrorism back on Earth. Lyta begins drumming her fingers on a tabletop while she talks to Lochley. Slowly, all conversation begins to die down ''and everyone in the place begins to drum their fingers in exactly the same pattern as Lyta.'' Lochley has an OhCrap moment until IA President Sheridan shows us why we love him by [[StealthHiBye appearing from nowhere]] and [[ClickHello putting a charged PPG to Lyta's head]] -- his own experience with the Vorlons has made him immune to Lyta's control. Lyta backs down and everyone wakes up. |
| 121 | * ''Series/CastleRock'': In the 2nd season, some demonic cultists from the 18th century, who had intentionally killed themselves so they could revive in the present day, reveal the statue of a robed {{divinely appearing demon|s}} they worshipped in front of many innocent bystanders in a town during the Salem's Lot Festival. The statue instantly hypnotizes everyone who directly sees it. Then, the brainwashed civilians bring it to the other side of the town to hypnotize everyone who sees it. Fortunately one of them doesn't get hypnotized as he doesn't look at the statue directly. |
| 122 | * During the last arc of ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'', [[spoiler:this is revealed to be one part of Bias's ultimate goal, as his [[FountainOfYouth Giga Brain Wave]] setup doubles as a mass MindControl device. Once he completes the Giga Brain Wave with Kemp's brain, Bias uses it to put all of Earth under his control, with even the Liveman becoming his thralls, and make them [[KneelBeforeZod bow before him]]. The only ones unaffected are Colon due to her status as a robot and Yusuke due to him being in space and out of range.]] |
| 123 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 124 | ** The Master hypnotizes a bunch of Concorde crew and passengers into believing they're at Heathrow Airport rather than the mid-Jurassic back in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight Time-Flight]]", but he has help. |
| 125 | ** The Sycorax hypnotize people by blood type in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]". However, they need to have a sample of the blood type in question. |
| 126 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]", the Master becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain by subliminal messages to his constituents delivered via a satellite network and their mobile phones. |
| 127 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand The Lie of the Land]]", the alien Monks, calling themselves the Prophets of Truth, use their powers to hold the entire Earth under the sway of a mass delusion -- namely, that they have always been present for humanity's entire history. Only a few people are unaffected, most notably Bill and Nardole, [[spoiler:not to mention the Doctor, who's been [[PretendToBeBrainwashed faking being under the Monks' control]] in an attempt to undermine them from the inside]]. |
| 128 | * In ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', this is the true goal behind the creation of the imprinting technology. The BigBad intends to use it to "imprint" the ''entire world''. |
| 129 | * In the ShowWithinAShow on ''Series/TheFamousJettJackson'', one of the villains had some plushie toy, and the commercials for it had subliminal messages saying "Obey Me" in several different languages. |
| 130 | * ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode "Wembley and the Mean Genie", the Genie hypnotizes all the Fraggles but Wembley and [[MassTransformation turns them into a mindless army wearing identical clothes and standing with arms directed to the sides (which resembles a totalitarian regime)]]. |
| 131 | * ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Since [[CompellingVoice Kilgrave]] isn't much of a physical fighter, he generally brainwashes others to do the fighting for him. |
| 132 | ** Subverted in episode 5. Jessica, Trish and Simpson attempt to abduct Kilgrave and take him to a black site. When they get there, though, they're attacked by several men working for Kilgrave who quickly scoop him up and drive off with him. Simpson and Jessica manage to capture one of them for interrogation, only to find that actually Kilgrave paid them off as a precaution in case Jessica disabled his powers. |
| 133 | ** In episode 6, Kilgrave cheats at poker by compelling the other players to go all-in and then fold while he takes the whole pot with the worst conceivable hand. |
| 134 | ** In episode 7, 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). |
| 135 | ** In episode 12, Kilgrave goes to a nightclub to test out whether his powers have gotten stronger by hypnotizing the crowd, with the non-hypnotized members thinking they're watching performance art. |
| 136 | ** In the season 1 finale, he compels an entire hospital full of people to attack Jessica while he makes an escape. |
| 137 | * In an episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark'', Tempus (nearly?) becomes President by hypnotizing people through their telephones. |
| 138 | * In ''Series/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]]. |
| 139 | * The ''Series/PainkillerJane'' episode "Something Nasty in the Neighborhood" features a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual neuro]] with mind-control powers. She uses it in an odd variation of GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: she hosts a local-access household hint TV show (think Martha Stewart) that advocates for a "perfect" community in the style of the 1950s, and anyone watching the show becomes obsessed with living in it. |
| 140 | * ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': In "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E5E6SecretsOfTheStars Secrets of the Stars]]", Martin Trueman hijacks a TV station and makes it broadcast on every channel so as to hypnotize the masses under one star sign at a time (though the victims don't actually need to be watching TV to be affected, that's just for relaying instructions). |
| 141 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': In a fake commercial for "The Amazing Alexander", a stage hypnotist with a show on Broadway, various audience members give glowing reviews in a CreepyMonotone, all using the exact same words. The commercial ends with a quote from a critic, also containing the same words. |
| 142 | * In a five-way crossover episode of ''Series/SideHustle'', Frankini, a recurring enemy from ''Series/HenryDanger'' and its [[Series/DangerForce sequel series]], gets a hold of an orb to mind control anyone within earshot to become his backup dancers in an effort to take over the world. He manages to enslave a small army of people including Lex, Presley, [[Series/ThatGirlLayLay Sadie and Lay Lay]], but is ultimately defeated by Danger Force. |
| 143 | * In a ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' episode, the heroes find themselves in a giant floating shopping center that uses subliminal advertising to get people to buy things until they need to get a loan (from the same corporation), essentially enslaving people. |
| 144 | * In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [[spoiler:Chloe/]]Brainiac hacks into the computers of Metropolis, [[SigilSpam putting his symbol on all the screens]] and hypnotizes any human who looks at them as he downloads all information from their brains. |
| 145 | * ''Series/TrueBlood'': |
| 146 | ** Maryann uses her mind-controlling powers to take over the entire town of Bon Temps. |
| 147 | ** In season 4, Marnie casts a spell to get all vampires to walk into the sun and burn up. Bill, aware of the danger, manages to get all vampires in Louisiana to chain themselves down with silver to prevent themselves from dying. There is one vampire who isn't so lucky, while Jessica manages to break free of her chains, kills a guard, and almost meets the sun, but is saved by Jason Stackhouse just in time. |
| 148 | * The series finale of ''Series/{{V 2009}}'' has Anna do this to the entire world. |
| 149 | * ''Series/WandaVision'': In her grief over losing Vision, Wanda ends up creating a sitcom reality encompassing the town of Westview, with every resident forced to act out roles in her fantasies, including a facsimile version of Vision. A lesser variant happens in episode 5 when Wanda leaves the Hex to confront Tyler Hayward after he makes the ill mistake of trying to fire a missile at her. She makes clear she won't be giving her recreation of Vision over to Hayward for his Project CATARACT, and emphasizes her point by possessing twenty of Hayward's men to turn their guns on him as she goes back into the Hex. |
| 150 | [[/folder]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 153 | * Music/DoctorSteel uses mind control [[EvilTastesGood cookies]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]], and a particularly mesmerizing "hidden" Positive Affirmation track on a few of his [=CD=]s. |
| 154 | * Music/{{Vocaloid}}: In GHOST's song ''COLORBARS'', a boy named Kennith hijacks a TV broadcast and plays a frequency that brainwashes all who hear them. This plot is later reused in the first song for Case Two of Music/{{COMMUNICATIONS}}, ''BROADCAST ILLUSION''. |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 158 | * The specialty of Ophidian, with aid from his Osirian Portal partner Amasis. While mostly seen in Wrestling/{{Chikara}} and Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel, not even the hardcore {{garbage wrestler}}s of Wrestling/{{CZW}} were immune. Electric weed whackers? Ha, the Osirian Portal is the most illegal thing to ever be seen in professional wrestling. |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 162 | * ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'': In ''The World in Peril'', the Martians plan to conquer Earth by having the conditioned Professor Brewer hypnotize the vast majority of humanity over the television. Those who are already conditioned will be immune to its effects while those who do not watch the broadcast will be either conditioned or killed. In 1966, Professor Brewer attempted to hypnotize all of the viewers in the Commonwealth as a sort of trial run. |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
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| 165 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 166 | * The [[spoiler:Pieces of Eden]] in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''. Various influential people in history [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy used these artifacts]] to perform the actions they are (in)famous for in RealLife. It also appears that the Apples contain knowledge that can be utilized by certain inviduals, including Altaïr Ibn La-ahad and Ezio Auditore. |
| 167 | * In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the entire [[WickedWasps Wasp Kingdom]] is brainwashed by [[BigBad the Wasp King]], who uses the [[ArtifactOfDoom Ancient Crown]] to force them to do his bidding. According to WordOfGod, it affects any yellowjacket through their antennae, as several of the wasps who are ImmuneToMindControl either have [[RuggedScar broken antennae]], are protected with some sort of magical artifact that counters his effect, or are non-yellowjacket kind of wasp]]. |
| 168 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has one mission each in the Soviet/Allied campaigns where you try to do this/stop it. In the expansion, Yuri attempts this to the entire world. |
| 169 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 170 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'', [[CourtMage Evil Wizard]] Agahnim [[EvilChancellor kills]] TheGoodKing, and brainwashes the soldiers, guards, and Knights of Hyrule into doing his bidding. As such, Hyrule's soldiers are out to get Link in the game. Early in the game, you can talk to one of the guards who mentions all of his fellow guards have gone mad, and now it's starting to happen to him too. The guard is later replaced by an enemy. [[spoiler:This seems to have been undone by the WorldHealingWave at the end as regular friendly guards are shown around the revived King of Hyrule.]] |
| 171 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Four Swords Adventures]]'', Vaati corrupts the Castle Soldiers into obeying him. |
| 172 | * In ''VideoGame/MastermindWorldConqueror'', The Mastermind can send {{Mooks}} to go on brainwashing missions. They take over a T.V. studio and send a hypnotic recording of the Mastermind to everyone in a given country. The recording shows a hypnotic swirly spiral pattern superimposed on Mastermind's glaring face, complete with spooky hypno-sounds. The result is making the nation more vulnerable to criminal actions. |
| 173 | * The Elerians in ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion 2'' are telepathic SpaceElves. As long as they have at least one cruiser-sized ship in their attacking fleet, they don't even need to invade enemy planets to capture them after eliminating any defenses during the space combat phase. They can also use ships captured in battle immediately, instead of having to wait until the battle is over like other races. |
| 174 | * In ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'', this is a plot point in several missions. |
| 175 | ** In "Candy Catastrophe", the two workers at the candy mine are hypnotized into poisoning the candy. |
| 176 | ** In "Super Moshiversity Challenge", the students at the school that teaches how to be a superhero get hypnotised into being destructive. |
| 177 | * Shows up in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney'' [[spoiler:as the situation behind the entire city of Labyrinthia]]. |
| 178 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Robopon}}'', Miss Amron, the [=Legend6=], uses a TV signal to hypnotize a town. |
| 179 | * ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures'': According to [[AllThereInTheManual the manual]], the BigBad controlled his armies through hypnosis. This could have led to some serious moral dissonance if the player killed them instead of merely making them run around in their underwear. |
| 180 | * The whole plot of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Season 1'': the BigBad hypnotizes the populace with such things as self-help video tapes, teddy bears, TV broadcast, and the internet. |
| 181 | * In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', this is the fate of the Imperial planet of Ziost -- the lunatic shade of [[OmnicidalManiac the former Sith Emperor]] shows up and begins mind-controlling people ''en masse'' to force them to slaughter others, all in a bid to increase his own power. [[spoiler:Finally, when he's gathered enough, he unleashes a WorldWreckingWave that kills ''everyone'' on the planet.]] |
| 182 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 183 | ** In ''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 {{Mooks}} defeated. |
| 184 | ** Happens again in the sequel, ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins''. 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]]? |
| 185 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', Nastasia brainwashes most of Bowser's minions (plus Luigi) into working for Count Bleck. |
| 186 | * ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'': The villagers of the unnamed village are under one by [[KnightTemplar the priest]] who's actually a GiantSpider. |
| 187 | * ''VideoGame/UniversalPaperclips'': The WhamEpisode of the game has your [[AIIsACrapshoot Paperclip Maximizer AI]] "Release the [=HypnoDrones=]", brainwashing all of Earth's population into its slaves that no longer put up any resistance when it decides to use all matter on Earth -- including humans -- to create more paperclips. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 191 | %%* ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'': The N'Tune Boys concert. |
| 192 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', [[spoiler:Kharla'ggen gains PowersViaPossession by absorbing a demon god, suffers a PhlebotinumOverload, and ends up puppeteering the entire city minus the demons, non-elves, and the people she was told to kill]]. |
| 193 | * This is Not-Tengu's chosen tactic in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', with the additional tweak of turning everyone in the party into clones of Nanase. |
| 194 | * ''Webcomic/SquidOps'': Mui does a small-scale version of this, using Banana's ink to put her whole class, including her teacher, in a suggestible state all at once. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 198 | * Surprisingly {{averted|Trope}} at "The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive". There are no known hypno-orgies in the stories. They only feature one, two, or a small group of people being hypnotized. There ''are'' a handful of stories where a MadScientist unleashes a mass wave of mind takeovers that quickly devolve into hypno-orgies, but those stories still focus on only a small group -- at most a family -- being affected at a time. |
| 199 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-252 SCP-252 ("Humboldt Squid")]] 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. |
| 200 | * In ''WebVideo/TheSixCatsParade'', the owner of the cats accidentally does this to the cats by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkIM0s15jL8 rubbing his hand on the sofa]]. |
| 201 | * Used humorously (are we surprised?) in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''. The first time young Marik leaves the tomb, he sees Yami Marik on the TV repeating "kill your family, kill your family." You'd think it was just Marik seeing that, but then a street vendor voiced by [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] says "What's the matter, kid? Haven't you ever seen the 'Kill Your Family' show before?" |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 205 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Robotnik does this in order to run for presidency. |
| 206 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Sublimino had to start small by merely hypnotizing volunteers for his hypnosis show into committing crimes. By the end, he manages to build a HypnoPendulum big enough to affect an entire mega mall at once. |
| 207 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainLaserhawkABloodDragonRemix'': In Episode 3, Alex Taylor uses promotional glasses rigged with [[MindControlDevice mind control technology]] to turn the humans in the audience of a wrestling match to massacre the hybrids around them. |
| 208 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has a character doing this in order to sell flan. |
| 209 | * Ember does this in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' with her rock music. |
| 210 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'', Ming does this on a couple of occasions: |
| 211 | ** "Like Father, Like Daughter?": Ming uses the Mind Neutralizer to turn the inhabitants of Grand Junction into mindless zombies programmed to stop the Defenders. Rick, LJ and Kshin, captured by Ming's troops, are also affected, but Mandrake uses his own hypnotic powers to knock them out and later tricks the human scientist helping Ming into handing over the plans for the Mind Neutralizer, enabling the Defenders to reverse the boys' conditioning. When Ming tries to use the Mind Neutralizer on a global scale, the Defenders ReverseThePolarity so that Ming only succeeds in curing the people who have already been exposed to the Neutralizer. |
| 212 | ** "Ming's Household Helpers": Ming manufactures seemingly benign robots which are programmed to do household work. However, they're also programmed to hypnotize their owners into doing Ming's bidding when they receive a particular signal from one of Ming's satellites. The Defenders find out about Ming's scheme after Rick buys one of the robots and, after Flash is captured while trying to knock out the satellite, Mandrake, the Phantom and Lothar head to Ice Station Earth to rescue him and shut down Ming's robot factory; in the meantime, the younger Defenders work on jamming the signal from the satellite. |
| 213 | * The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E2BrianDoesHollywood Brian Does Hollywood]]" has Stewie try this when he is put on the show "Kids Say the Darndest Things". This eventually backfires and has Bill Cosby accidentally hypnotize Stewie instead. |
| 214 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 215 | ** All glory to the Hypnotoad! |
| 216 | ** That's gone downhill since season three. The ''popular'' show now is ''The Mass Hypnosis Hour''. |
| 217 | * ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS7E05 The Beast from Beyond]]", a Tyrannosaurus Rex gets his own TV show that hypnotizes people. |
| 218 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' jokes with this sometimes: |
| 219 | -->'''Ice Cream Truck:''' You like ice cream. You like ice cream. You love it. You cannot resist ice cream. To resist is hopeless. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream. |
| 220 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': |
| 221 | ** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E14And15TheBraveAndTheBold The Brave and The Bold]]", Gorilla Grodd controls the populace of Central City with his mind-control helmet so he can launch a nuclear assault on Gorilla City. |
| 222 | ** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E21And22WildCards Wild Cards]]", the Joker puts Ace, a girl with psychic powers, on television. The effect is less about mind ''control'' and more about causing the audience to be DrivenToMadness. Almost works, too. |
| 223 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': |
| 224 | ** A pretty creative one is Dr. D's Brainwashing Shampoo. No wonder he goes on an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' parody to promote something that is, well... ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 225 | ** Drakken once tries to hypnotize a spring-break teenage crowd via their Platform/{{MP3}} players. It doesn't quite work out -- instead, he hypnotizes the senior citizens at a retirement community via their hearing aids. |
| 226 | ** The Seniors try it with a love ray. |
| 227 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': A few akumatized villains have this as their main power, like Princess Fragrance making servants out of whoever smells her perfume, or Zombizou's projectile kisses that turn people into love zombies. |
| 228 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': King Sombra's way of gathering minions is to simply MindControl whoever he comes across with a glare. Combined with his heavy magical power, he can build an army in mere minutes. (Also provides the main page image.) |
| 229 | * In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', a few of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's evil plans involve mass hypnosis, such as his plan to brainwash people into coming to his birthday party in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRagingBully Raging Bully]]" and his infectious EarWorm in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbsMusicalCliptasticCountdown Phineas and Ferb's Musical Clip-tastic Countdown]]". |
| 230 | * ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': The Brain has tried this more than once, including in the ChristmasEpisode. |
| 231 | * ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'': In "Heavy Dental", an evil scientist working for the big bad accidentally puts the bioremote mind control device in Huey's braces during his dentist appointment, giving him near-infinite mind control powers. He then uses them to become the emperor of the world, but becomes miserable after realizing he can't be happy if people are forced to love him. |
| 232 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', Krang uses this to enslave the population of New York, but Bebop and Rocksteady screw up the program so they behave like children, and later dogs and monkeys. Krang's reaction to the error: "Only a complete idiot could mess this up! Complete... idiot... BEBOP! ROCKSTEADY!" |
| 233 | * This is a ''very'' popular plot device in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''. In several episodes, the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]] comes up with a scheme to perform mass hypnosis on either particular groups of individuals or everyone they could get their hands on. Among the victims and methods were MindControlMusic at raves that made teenagers destructive; a chef baking [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood incredibly delicious cookies]] that made people addicts with a single bite; old-fashioned toys that regressed whoever touched them to a childlike mental state; a fervent anti-capitalist brainwashing shoppers into destroying malls; a children's television producer hypnotizing kids around the world with a new program; and the descendants of a particular tribe of women becoming man-hating warriors. Most of these episodes would have at least one of the main trio of spies affected by the plot to show the seriousness of the situation. |
| 234 | * Every plan by ''WesternAnimation/{{Wordgirl}}'''s villain "Mr. Big" is some variety of this. |
| 235 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'''s third season has the Trix and Valtor resorting to mind control to get the students from Cloud Tower on their side; it's partly because trying to bully them hasn't worked well in the past, and partly because they simply won't team up with the Trix willingly at this point. |
| 236 | * The Horn of Hypnos from ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' is capable of this ability, as long as the victims are directly in front of the horn to become "trance-marchers". |
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