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Greed Trumps Mind Control YKTTW Discussion
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Greed Trumps Mind Control |
No form of telepathy can override sheer avarice
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.
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