Created By: Lumpenprole on December 21, 2011
Last Edited By: Lumpenprole on April 24, 2016
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.
- 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.
Hello, Unknown Troper. You'll need to get known to lend a hand here.
- In Dragon Ball, Master Roshi hypnotizes Goku to sleep during the first Tournament Arc. Bulma snaps him out of it by offering him dinner.
This is gluttony, not greed, but I think it's close enough as both are desires.