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Greed Trumps Mind Control YKTTW Discussion

Greed Trumps Mind Control

No form of telepathy can override sheer avarice

(permanent link) added: 2011-12-21 16:36:54 sponsor: Lumpenprole (last reply: 2013-05-12 09:02:05)

A powerful telepath can do a lot of things to someone's head, but apparently the one thing they can't do is make a miser forget the bottom line. Sometimes played for laughs, sometimes semi-seriously.

Film:

In The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon's Jedi Mind Trick utterly fails on Watto. And in general the failure of the Jedi Mind Trick on Hutts, although that may be as much a species trait as much as it is Jabba's greed.

Live-Action Television:

Doctor Who: The Master's telepathic powers fail to dent the mercenary Sabalom Glitz's obesession with wealth.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Lwaxana Troi complained that she couldn't telepathically probe any Ferengi, though whether this is associated with their obsession with profit is unclear.

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