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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** When Spider-Man first came into possession of his symbiotic costume he was unaware that it was a living entity. The symbiote, coming from a fairly violent species, slowly twisted Spidey into a more violent version of himself until he realized what was going on and got rid of it. Several other symbiotes exist in the Marvel Universe and the symbiote is a danger to take over its host. However, most of these symbiotes have found sympathetic hosts, so it's not known how much influence they exert or how much is the host's own appetite for destruction.
** After leaving Spider-Man the first symbiote found Eddie Brock whose own hatred of Spider-Man and violent temper were a better fit.
** Another symbiote found violent serial killer Cletus Kasady and became Carnage, a mass-murdering supervillain.
** After Eddie Brock rejected the symbiote, he auctioned it off to Don Fortunato who gives it to his under-achieving son Angelo, hoping the power of the symbiote will finally make him into something. However, when Angelo becomes frightened of his newfound power and refuses to kill a weakened Spider-Man, the symbiote abandons him.
** Agent Venom (Flash Thompson) is only allowed to wear the suit for 48 hours at a time precisely so it cannot take control of his mind.

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** When Spider-Man first came into possession of his symbiotic costume he was unaware that it was a living entity.
''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Long ago the [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Skrull]] brought the Resurrection Stone to earth. The symbiote, coming from a fairly violent species, slowly twisted Spidey into a more violent version of himself until he realized what was going on and got rid of it. Several other symbiotes exist in the Marvel Universe and the symbiote is a danger to take over its host. However, most of these symbiotes have found sympathetic hosts, so it's not known how much influence they exert or how much is the host's own appetite for destruction.
** After leaving Spider-Man the first symbiote found Eddie Brock whose own hatred of Spider-Man and violent temper were a better fit.
** Another symbiote found violent serial killer Cletus Kasady and became Carnage, a mass-murdering supervillain.
** After Eddie Brock rejected the symbiote, he auctioned it off to Don Fortunato who gives it to his under-achieving son Angelo, hoping the power
consciousness of the symbiote will finally make him into something. However, when Angelo gem is malevolent and seeks to bring chaos to the universe while feeding on sentient beings' desire for immortality. Ultimately, no mortal being can withstand such power. Entire civilizations have been destroyed by the madness it brings with it.
* ''Franchise/TheDCU'': The Heart of Darkness is a black crystal that can grant its host fearsome mystical powers. The cost? Said host almost always
becomes frightened of his newfound power and refuses a flesh puppet to kill a weakened Spider-Man, the symbiote abandons him.
** Agent Venom (Flash Thompson) is only allowed to wear
evil spirit within the suit for 48 hours at a time precisely so it cannot take control of his mind.diamond: ComicBook/{{Eclipso}}.



* Also from [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel]]; the Darkhold is a TomeOfEldritchLore penned by [[EldritchAbomination Chthon]] to serve as a foothold in Earth's dimension after his banishment from it. Anyone who uses it risks becoming enslaved to Chthon's purposes.
* Long ago the [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Skrull]] brought the Resurrection Stone to earth. The consciousness of the gem is malevolent and seeks to bring chaos to the universe while feeding on sentient beings' desire for immortality. Ultimately, no mortal being can withstand such power. Entire civilizations have been destroyed by the madness it brings with it.



* Creator/DCComics also has the Heart of Darkness; a black crystal that can grant its host fearsome mystical powers. The cost? Said host almost always becomes a flesh puppet to the evil spirit within the diamond: ComicBook/{{Eclipso}}.
* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': The Heart of Baetylus comes with necromancy powers, however it dominates and warps the minds of those who carry it besides Hippolyta and can outright possess them if they have no powers of their own to try and stave off its genocidal intent.

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* Creator/DCComics also has the Heart of Darkness; a black crystal that can grant its host fearsome mystical powers. ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': The cost? Said host almost always becomes Darkhold is a flesh puppet TomeOfEldritchLore penned by [[EldritchAbomination Chthon]] to the evil spirit within the diamond: ComicBook/{{Eclipso}}.
* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'': The Heart of Baetylus comes with necromancy powers, however it dominates and warps the minds of those
serve as a foothold in Earth's dimension after his banishment from it. Anyone who carry uses it besides Hippolyta and can outright possess them if they have no powers of their own risks becoming enslaved to try and stave off its genocidal intent.Chthon's purposes.


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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** When Spider-Man first came into possession of his symbiotic costume he was unaware that it was a living entity. The symbiote, coming from a fairly violent species, slowly twisted Spidey into a more violent version of himself until he realized what was going on and got rid of it. Several other symbiotes exist in the Marvel Universe and the symbiote is a danger to take over its host. However, most of these symbiotes have found sympathetic hosts, so it's not known how much influence they exert or how much is the host's own appetite for destruction.
** After leaving Spider-Man the first symbiote found Eddie Brock whose own hatred of Spider-Man and violent temper were a better fit.
** Another symbiote found violent serial killer Cletus Kasady and became Carnage, a mass-murdering supervillain.
** After Eddie Brock rejected the symbiote, he auctioned it off to Don Fortunato who gives it to his under-achieving son Angelo, hoping the power of the symbiote will finally make him into something. However, when Angelo becomes frightened of his newfound power and refuses to kill a weakened Spider-Man, the symbiote abandons him.
** Agent Venom (Flash Thompson) is only allowed to wear the suit for 48 hours at a time precisely so it cannot take control of his mind.


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* ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheZombie'': The Amulet of Damballah allows the wielder to control the titular Zombie, Simon Garth.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'', the Heart of Baetylus comes with necromancy powers, however it dominates and warps the minds of those who carry it besides Hippolyta and can outright possess them if they have no powers of their own to try and stave off its genocidal intent.
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** 1st Edition ''Advanced TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' ''Dungeon Master's Guide''. Magical swords had an Ego based on how powerful they were. A sword with a high enough Intelligence and Ego could take over the mind of the person wielding it and control their behavior.

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** 1st Edition ''Advanced TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' ''Dungeon Master's Guide''. Magical swords had an Ego based on how powerful they were. A sword with a high enough Intelligence and Ego could take over the mind of the person wielding it and control their behavior. 3rd Edition extends this to any intelligent magical items, although they usually only fight for control with owners who don't match their own alignments.
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* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' has this as a recurring feature of powerups that make a berserker out of the user, at least until they're tamed:
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'': The purple Core Medals can and frequently do hijack Eiji's body, even as several of them pop out to insert themselves into his Driver so he can use them to transform. It's the other colors of Medals that are ''supposed'' to have this effect, but Eiji has an utter lack of any worldly desire that makes him immune to their control: unfortunately, the purple ones represent the desire for there to be a lack of a world.
** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': After losing his own body in TheMovie, Kogane is reduced to this when he reappears in the show's epilogue, having to hijack the body of whoever touches his Lockseed so he can have his revenge on the surviving heroes.
** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': Anotherwatches are initially presented this way, replacing the host's personality with a grotesque caricature of the Rider it's based on. However, this ends up being EarlyInstallmentWeirdness and quickly disappears in favor of just dialing up the host's own negative qualities.
** ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'': The Primitive Dragon book hijacks it's user's body to replace them in the driver's seat with the dragon child whose story is written in the book, who proceeds to violently lash out at everyone else in sight. Once Touma bonds with the child, it stops doing this maliciously, but it can still do it, which proves useful in the final battle when Touma is briefly knocked out and the child steps up to keep up the fight until he recovers.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hiveswap}}'': The Heirloom Key is largely inanimate, but it causes Joey to be more forgetful or know things she thinks she shouldn't know when she tries to use it on anything. This effect gets more powerful the closer she brings it to the portal, culminating with a compulsion to use the key to activate it.
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Compare EvilWeapon, a frequent source. Contrast HypnoTrinket and MindControlDevice, which exert direct control at the behest of another being.

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Compare EvilWeapon, a frequent source.source, and compare[=/=]contrast InstantAllegianceArtifact, which simply shifts CharacterAlignment for the duration of the characters ownership of the artifact, without any necessary biases towards evil. Contrast HypnoTrinket and MindControlDevice, which exert direct control at the behest of another being.
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* "Literature/PenelopeAndTheWillfulBlade": The Amulet was worn by the Warlord for its magical power. When the Warlord died, the Amulet took possession of his corpse and started acting on its own behalf.

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* When Franchise/SpiderMan first came into possession of his symbiotic costume he was unaware that it was a living entity. The symbiote, coming from a fairly violent species, slowly twisted Spidey into a more violent version of himself until he realized what was going on and got rid of it. Several other symbiotes exist in the Marvel Universe and the symbiote is a danger to take over its host. However most of these symbiotes have found sympathetic hosts, so it's not known how much influence they exert or how much is the host's own appetite for destruction.

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
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When Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Man first came into possession of his symbiotic costume he was unaware that it was a living entity. The symbiote, coming from a fairly violent species, slowly twisted Spidey into a more violent version of himself until he realized what was going on and got rid of it. Several other symbiotes exist in the Marvel Universe and the symbiote is a danger to take over its host. However However, most of these symbiotes have found sympathetic hosts, so it's not known how much influence they exert or how much is the host's own appetite for destruction.



** The symbiote had a spawn which found violent serial killer Cletus Kasady and became Carnage; a mass-murdering supervillain.
** After Eddie Brock rejected the symbiote, he auctioned it off to Don Fortunato who gives it to his under-achieving son Angelo, hoping the power of the symbiote will finally make him into something. However when Angelo becomes frightened of his newfound power and refuses to kill a weakened Spider-Man, the symbiote abandons him.

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** The Another symbiote had a spawn which found violent serial killer Cletus Kasady and became Carnage; Carnage, a mass-murdering supervillain.
** After Eddie Brock rejected the symbiote, he auctioned it off to Don Fortunato who gives it to his under-achieving son Angelo, hoping the power of the symbiote will finally make him into something. However However, when Angelo becomes frightened of his newfound power and refuses to kill a weakened Spider-Man, the symbiote abandons him.



* Dan Ketch became the second ComicBook/GhostRider when he found (then-dead) Johnny Blaze's old motorcycle and touched the gas cap, becoming possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance.

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* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'': Dan Ketch became the second ComicBook/GhostRider Rider when he found (then-dead) Johnny Blaze's old motorcycle and touched the gas cap, becoming possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance.



* In Franchise/GreenLantern mythos, all of the colors of the spectrum represent emotions[[note]]Red Rage, Orange Greed, Yellow Fear, Green Willpower, Blue Hope, Indigo Compassion, and Violet Love respectively[[/note]] and are wielded via power rings (well, the Indigo Tribe uses staves). The rings are actually sentient quantum-computers created by one of the most technologically advanced races in the universe. It's generally stated that the further away from the middle (Green) that a ring is, the more control it has over its user.

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* In Franchise/GreenLantern mythos, all ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': All of the colors of the spectrum represent emotions[[note]]Red Rage, Orange Greed, Yellow Fear, Green Willpower, Blue Hope, Indigo Compassion, and Violet Love respectively[[/note]] and are wielded via power rings (well, the Indigo Tribe uses staves). The rings are actually sentient quantum-computers created by one of the most technologically advanced races in the universe. It's generally stated that the further away from the middle (Green) that a ring is, the more control it has over its user.



* The title artifact of ''ComicBook/TheMask'' grants its wearer NighInvulnerability and [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers, but also loosens their inhibitions until [[spoiler: eventually they become a cackling AxCrazy mass-murderer]].
* The Thinker technology in ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' is an interesting example in that it isn't sentient, but along with the intellect boost it gives to its users, it amplifies their more negative traits and induces a fairly strong psychosomatic addiction, making most users get hooked after the first use. It's possible to resist it, but it takes quite a bit of HeroicWillpower and an equal amount of spite.

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* ''ComicBook/TheMask'': The title artifact of ''ComicBook/TheMask'' grants its wearer NighInvulnerability and [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers, but also loosens their inhibitions until [[spoiler: eventually they become a cackling AxCrazy mass-murderer]].
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'': The Thinker technology in ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' is an interesting example in that it isn't sentient, but along with the intellect boost it gives to its users, it amplifies their more negative traits and induces a fairly strong psychosomatic addiction, making most users get hooked after the first use. It's possible to resist it, but it takes quite a bit of HeroicWillpower and an equal amount of spite.
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* Atlantis artifacts in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' are described as having a will to defend themselves. They do this by [[ForcedTransformation transforming]] their [[{{Medusa}} bearers]] [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent into]] [[RiddlingSphinx mythical]] [[ClassicalCyclops monsters]] and dominating their minds. The unfortunate bearer will not even recognize their loved ones while under an artifact's influence.
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* Zig-zagged with ''Literature/RebelGenius'' in the second book. A genius's gem does not inherently dominate the user, but for Tulpas such as Zanobius or [[spoiler: Giaccomo]], its possible for the gem of their creators' geniuses to be used as a MindControlDevice.

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* Zig-zagged with ''Literature/RebelGenius'' in the second book.''Literature/RebelGeniuses'' novel ''Warrior Genius''. A genius's gem does not inherently dominate the user, but for Tulpas such as Zanobius or [[spoiler: Giaccomo]], its possible for the gem of their creators' geniuses to be used as a MindControlDevice.
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* The pieces of the Heart of Vermiel in ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImAGiantMonster'' seem very friendly, and offer power without asking anything in return. But the power influences your behavior, making you more aggressive and destructive, until you have your brain overlaid by Vermiel's.
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* ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' has Saika, a katana with an insane love for humanity that being a sword is centered around carnage. It's constantly consumed by thoughts of loving humanity, thoughts that overwhelm anyone in contact with it, either as a wielder or a victim of its blade. It's even infectious, implanting "children" into whoever it cuts that control their hosts with it as HiveQueen, each one capable of replicating its powers with blades of their own. The only reason she's not dominating her current wielder is because they were so traumatized that they're completely numb to feelings of love.

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* ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' ''{{Literature/Durarara}}'' has Saika, a katana with an insane love for humanity that being a sword is centered around carnage. It's constantly consumed by thoughts of loving humanity, thoughts that overwhelm anyone in contact with it, either as a wielder or a victim of its blade. It's even infectious, implanting "children" into whoever it cuts that control their hosts with it as HiveQueen, each one capable of replicating its powers with blades of their own. The only reason she's not dominating her current wielder is because they were so traumatized that they're completely numb to feelings of love.
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** As mentioned above, The One Ring was also intended to make the other Rings of Power into mind control devices that would enslave their bearers to The One Ring. Though in practice, the results were mixed. The Elves took off The Three the moment they noticed what Sauron was trying to do. The Dwarves' natural hardy mental states made them unsuitable for outright mind control through the Seven, though the Seven did make them even more greedy. Only the Nine that Sauron gave to Men had the intended effect of enslaving their bearers to Sauron.
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->"''The one-eyed wreath grants power but swallows the soul... It devours, stealing any sense of self... Truly, this crown rules all. Free him from this nightmare! Take his hand and save a new friend!"''
-->-- '''Description of the TrueFinalBoss under the influence of the [[CrownOfPower Master Crown]]''', ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLandDeluxe''
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* The [[AncientArtifact Shen Gong Wu]] in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' become capable of this during "The Last Tempation of Raimundo". Because of the Heylin Comet passing overhead, using any Wu carries the risk of them possessing the user, driving them to seek out more Wu, mutating them into a hulking giant, falling deeper under their control until they're rendered a mindless vessel to be possessed by Wuya herself in her spirit form.
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*** Blackjammer's Cutlass attempts to turn the user into a black-hearted pirate always on the lookout for treasure [[PirateTalk who says "Arrgh, Matey"]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking far too much.]]

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*** Blackjammer's Cutlass attempts to turn the user into a black-hearted pirate always on the lookout for treasure [[PirateTalk [[TalkLikeAPirate who says "Arrgh, Matey"]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking far too much.]]

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