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* Jasper from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' has this as his vampire power. The implication is that he could do this to ''non''-supernatural levels pre-vamping.

* The ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' LightNovel SpinOff, ''LightNovel/PurpleHazeFeedback'', has Vladimir Kocaqui's [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Rainy Day Dream Away, which has the power to "lock in" a feeling. When his sister was fatally wounded, he locked a brief moment of happiness, causing her to experience a pleasant DyingDream; conversely, if someone fighting him feels even the slightest doubt that they can win, he can make that feeling permanent, making it impossible for his opponent to defeat him. This also extends to physical sensations such as loss of balance.

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie version included the "Point of View" gun, which makes whoever you shoot it at see things from your point of view.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* [[HornyDevil 'cubi]] in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' can do a variation on this to other 'cubi who let their guard down, by exploiting their own EmotionEater abilities against them.

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* Franchise/MarvelUniverse

* Brain Boy, who appeared in ''Four Color'' and a self-titled comic series, has the power to alter people's emotional states.
* Baron Silas Greenback once used a cornet to heavily influence ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'''s emotions, incapacitating him.

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* Done very subtly by Mindy to Ringo in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World''. She wants him to abandon the others and embrace the Guardians. It almost works....

* In ''Fanfic/HisDaughtersTheMiraclesOfTheFamily'', Eva's gift is the ability to control other people's emotions.

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie version included the "Point of View" gun, which makes whoever you shoot it at see things from your point of view.
* In ''Film/MysteryMen'' Dr. Heller's "Blame Thrower" influences emotions to cause groups of people to argue with each other.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov: ''Literature/FoundationSeries''' "Literature/TheMule": This story demonstrates an overlap between EmotionControl and MindControl as the Mule's PsychicPowers allows him to permanently change people's emotions, such as anger, creativity, fear, loyalty, and even lust. He explains it as like being able to see and adjust a dial in people's minds.
* Slave World: Used through social conditioning throughout the series. Also in the form of supertech, but for the first few books this is limited to GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul.
* Soothing and Rioting are powers in ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'' that allow you to do this- a Rioter can inflame emotions, a Soother can damp them, and a full Mistborn can do both ([[EvilOverlord The Lord Ruler]], for example, turned himself into a walking EmotionBomb, damping all emotions in about a mile radius around him apart from fear and despair). However, a Soother or Rioter can't ''sense'' emotions, so they need to be very good at reading people to get the results they want.
* This is one of the secondary powers granted by some types of [[ElementalPowers crafting]] in ''Literature/CodexAlera''. [[DishingOutDirt Earthcrafters]] can calm animals or induce lust, while [[PlayingWithFire firecrafters]] can inspire a broad range of other emotions. However, [[TheEmpath reading existing emotions]] is specific to [[MakingASplash water]].

* In ''Literature/{{Zeroes}}'', Bellwether and Mob both have powers that influence the emotions of others. It's not quite to the degree of mind control, but nonetheless makes them potent at manipulating people by selectively inducing pride or shame, joy or anger.

* The ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' LightNovel SpinOff, ''LightNovel/PurpleHazeFeedback'' has Vladimir Kocaqui's [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Rainy Day Dream Away, which has the power to "lock in" a feeling. When his sister was fatally wounded, he locked a brief moment of happiness, causing her to experience a pleasant DyingDream; conversely, if someone fighting him feels even the slightest doubt that they can win, he can make that feeling permanent, making it impossible for his opponent to defeat him. This also extends to physical sensations such as loss of balance.

* In a late ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode Data's "brother" Lore did this to Data by using Data's stolen emotion chip to beam emotions into Data's brain, which caused Data feel pleasure from causing pain and temporarily causing him to turn on the Federation.
** Both Betazoids and Vulcans are shown to be able to do this [[PowerIncontinence involuntarily]] when suffering from certain neurological illnesses, as shown in "TNG: Sarek" and "[=DS9=]: Fascination". To what extent they can do it at will is not explored.
** The [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original series]] episode "Day of the Dove" features an entity that feeds on hateful emotions, and can manipulate them in others by subjecting its victims to paranoid mania, thus allowing their hateful emotions to come to the surface.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

* In ''TabletopGame/MutantUA'', there are several mind-altering psychic powers: "Påverka" (affect) for Emotion Control, "Skräck" (terror) for EmotionBomb, "Dominera" (dominate) for MindControl.
* The "Sway Emotions" form of the Enthrallment skill in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' can induce anger, boredom, depression, disgust, fear, greed, hate, jealousy, joy, love, lust, patriotism, peace, sadness, or unrest.
%%* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' has this as a stock superpower that can induce Calm, Despair, Fear, Hate, Hope, or Love.

* A potential mutant power in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''; the mutant in question may or may not be immune to the effect.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''Wrath of the Seven Horsemen''. The supervillain Fear can use his scepter to cause intense terror in everyone within a large area.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''
** The Prismriver Sisters can do this through their MagicMusic (Merlin causes happiness, Lunasa causes depression, Lyrica deadens them altogether).
** [[GreenEyedMonster Parsee's]] power is explicitly to [[DrivenByEnvy manipulate feelings of jealousy]].
** Kokoro's power is the ability to control all emotions at a wide-scale. Losing her Mask of Hope created the incident behind ''Hopeless Masquerade'' [[PowerIncontinence as her out of control powers caused everyone to lose hope]].

* [[EldritchAbomination The Reapers]] in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series of games and books have the ability of [[MindRape Indoctrination]], which sometimes takes this form. While they are able to completely overpower an organic mind through sheer force of will, the internal conflict stops the host being as effective as they might be. Consequently, with certain victims who might be useful as more than mindless drones, the Reapers are more subtle about it, and simply nudge the host's thoughts and feelings in the right direction. This also weakens the host for when the time comes to completely dominate it.

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* [[HornyDevil 'cubi]] in ''[[Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures DMFA]]'' can do a variation on this to other 'cubi who let their guard down, by exploiting their own EmotionEater abilities against them.
* Magus from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has the ability to strongly amplify existing emotions in his targets. Afterward, his targets have splitting headaches and short-term amnesia.

* [[TheEmpath Empaths]] in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' have this ability.
* In ''Webcomic/AliceAndTheNightmare'', this is the Traumen gift of Hearts, although it works only in dreams.
* In ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'', the [[SuperSoldier superhuman fighters]] who were created during the apocalyptic wars prior to [[ResetButton the Blink]] were given mental compulsions to keep them under control. Sedna, who only worked in a support role, is compelled to fix machinery, while Alice and Church, who were apparently front-line soldiers based on their abilities, are compelled to serve others.

* Frank of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse can't help broadcasting emotions. Frank isn't his name, it's his codename, because you always know what he's feeling. Without his power-limiter helmet, he would be swamping entire sections of the school with his emotions.

* Laroth in the ''VideoGame/FallFromHeaven'' backstory.

* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' has this as a StockSuperpower that can induce Calm, Despair, Fear, Hate, Hope, or Love.

* ''Worm'' has Heartbreaker and his daughter Cherish, both of whom have this turned up to 11. Cherish in particular has incredible fine control, and is able to control emotional associations as well as general emotional state.

* The ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' villain, Psycho-Pirate, has alternately either had the Medusa Mask that allowed him to project emotions into people or has been an "emotion vampire", able to drain emotions from people. The first mask often seems to work through intensifying emotions a person already feels, no matter how small.)

* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' trilogy, the mutant known as the Mule could permanently change people's emotions, such as making them loyal to him. He explained it as like being able to see and adjust a dial in people's minds. Notable that this is a rather hard sci-fi setting and his mysterious powers (unlike the straightforward psychic abilities of the Second Foundation) weren't explained until several books later in the series (he himself seemed to imply that he was just a phenomenal random mutation of humanity, another side effect of which was his [[spoiler: sterility (hence the nickname), leaving his empire with no heir capable of maintaining control. In truth, he was an overly aggressive outcast from an entire planet of people with such abilities (the result of guided evolution under an immortal guardian)]].

* Sweet Sorrow is an emotion manipulator in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' who concentrates on the "darker" emotions like fear, anger, hatred, sadness, depression, and so on. Charmer makes people trust and like her as if she was their closest friend. Heart-Throb, one of the [[SuperheroSchool Hyperion Academy]] students, controls the full range of emotions, but he's best with love and affection.
** The Blood Red King is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Fear and Terror. Manipulating fear in others is his bread and butter power.

Unlike the subtropes, Emotion Control does not necessarily require magic, superpowers or supertech. It can also be done by an [[ManipulativeBastard extremely manipulative character]] or by mundane brainwashing techniques, making it MoreThanMindControl. Most {{Emotion Eater}}s and higher-end versions of TheEmpath have this as a RequiredSecondaryPower. Compare MindVirus.

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* In ''Fanfiction/PokemonTheGreatAdventure'', it is revealed to be one of Ash's empathic powers and the way he can tame some of the Pokémon he meets. The Heart Flute amplifies it, and it is implied he can also do it on non-Pokémon beings.

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* Moodswing from ''Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}}'' could do this. It worked even on Mindmistress. It was CrowningMomentOfAwesome when MM managed to trick and defeat her, despite being under her control.

** When the Terrigan Cloud started empowered humans with latent [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] ancestry, two Nuhumans ended up with this. One, Swain, also ended up with a prehensile tail, and the other, Romeo, is mainly notable for dating [[AllNewXMen the teenage version of Iceman]].

Unlike the subtropes, Emotion Control does not necessarily require magic, superpowers or supertech. It can also be done by an [[ManipulativeBastard extremely manipulative character]] or by mundane brainwashing techniques, making it MoreThanMindControl. Most {{Emotion Eater}}s and higher-end versions of TheEmpath have this as a RequiredSecondaryPower. Compare MindVirus

* ''The Leeshore'' by RobertReed has the "wires", which are a simple form of emotional control used by [[TheAlliance both]] [[ReligionOfEvil sides]] of the [[BlackAndGrayMorality conflict]]. The good guys use it to subtly reinforce certain emotions in their soldiers and ensure loyalty - such as making them more courageous. The enemy use the device to essentially MindRape or "conscript" captured civilians soldiers into worshiping their [[DeusEstMachina artificial god]] and the priests; filling the conscript with joy whenever they please the controlling priest, or filling them with blinding rage when they think of their former allies.