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* TheDresdenFiles makes a few mentions of fae folk casting a glamour, and says that all those 'glamorous' actresses in the world ''wished'' they could look like the fae.
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* In ''[[SeventhSea 7th Sea]]'', the sorcery associated with Avalon IS called Glamour, with a few of its knacks able to make the sorcerer more beautiful for bonuses to social skill checks. Likewise, Scryers of Sophia's Daughters get for free the Above Average Appearance advantage (or reduce the cost for Stunning or Blessed Appearance advantages) as part of their sorcerous package. Also, the advantage "Dangerous Beauty" is specifically used for seduction attempts.
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* ''SkulduggeryPleasant'': Everyone who sees China Sorrows for the first time falls in love with her. As Skulduggery notes, the effect lessens significantly once you get to know her.
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* ''SkulduggeryPleasant'': Everyone who sees China Sorrows for the first time falls in love with her. As Skulduggery notes, the effect [[ManipulativeBastard lessens significantly once you get to know her.her]].
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* ''SkulduggeryPleasant'': Everyone who sees China Sorrows for the first time falls in love with her. As Skulduggery notes, the effect lessens significantly once you get to know her.
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* One of the original "Four Aces" in the ''Wild Cards'' series, Envoy, does this through pheremone control. HUAC finally makes him testify in a sealed booth.
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** With special mention to [[Monster/TabletopGames "you rationalize my every action as being virtuous"]]
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* The [[RavensAndCrows Morrigi]] from ''SwordOfTheStars'' have a sort of psychic glamour, allowing them to project an impossibly beautiful image of whatever species they're currently engaged with. Those images all possess wings, so a human might see a beautiful angel, for example.
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* Much like ''Scion'' which followed it, Novas in ''{{Aberrant}}'' with Mega-Charisma, Mega-Appearance (beauty), and Mega-Manipulation can provoke love at first sight or have a hypnotic voice, in addition to the bonuses they get on ordinary social tasks that anyone can attempt.
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* In the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', The Charmer's whole power is getting people to like her to the point that they'll do anything she wants. Ambrosia uses super-pheremones to do the same thing, but only to men.
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This is usually a borderline case of BadPowersBadPeople. An ethical character that doesn't abuse those affected might actually accrue ''less'' MindOverManners related {{squick}} than using straight MindControl. As a power, it does have a certain degree of BlessedWithSuck. If the glamour [[PowerIncontinence can't be turned off]] the character may very quickly despair at having no intelligent conversation since everyone agrees with them, no ''real'' love since anyone they meet will instantly love them, and otherwise having all the conflict leeched out of their life.
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This is usually a borderline case of BadPowersBadPeople. An ethical character that doesn't abuse those affected might actually accrue ''less'' MindOverManners related {{squick}} than using straight MindControl. As a power, it does have a certain degree of BlessedWithSuck. If the glamour [[PowerIncontinence can't be turned off]] the character may very quickly despair at having no intelligent conversation since everyone agrees with them, no ''real'' love since anyone they meet will instantly love them, and otherwise having all the conflict leeched leached out of their life.
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This is usually a borderline case of BadPowersBadPeople. An ethical character that doesn't abuse those affected might actually accrue ''less'' MindOverManners related {{squick}} than using straight MindControl. As a power, it does have a certain degree of BlessedWithSuck. If the glamour [[PowerIncontinence can't be turned off]] the character may very quickly despair at having no intelligent conversation since everyone agrees with them, no ''real'' love since anyone they meet will instantly love them, and otherwise having all the conflict leached leeched out of their life.
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* A lot of splats in the WorldOfDarkness have some variation of this, ranging from "life of the party" to "so glorious even considering disagreeing requires you to exert great willpower, let alone ''harming'' them". They included [[VampireTheMasquerade both]] of the [[VampireTheRequiem Vampire]] gamelines, [[DemonTheFallen Demon]], [[WerewolfTheApocalpse Werewolf]], [[ChangelingTheLost Changeling]], and obviously [[MageTheAsension Mage]] through Mind effects.
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* A lot of splats in the WorldOfDarkness have some variation of this, ranging from "life of the party" to "so glorious even considering disagreeing requires you to exert great willpower, let alone ''harming'' them". They included [[VampireTheMasquerade both]] of the [[VampireTheRequiem Vampire]] gamelines, [[DemonTheFallen Demon]], [[WerewolfTheApocalpse Werewolf]], [[ChangelingTheLost Changeling]], and obviously [[MageTheAsension [[MageTheAscension Mage]] through Mind effects.
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* A lot of splats in the WorldOfDarkness have some variation of this, ranging from "life of the party" to "so glorious even considering disagreeing requires you to exert great willpower, let alone ''harming'' them". They included [[VampireTheMasquerade both]] of the [[VampireTheRequiem Vampire]] gamelines, [[DemonTheFallen Demon]] , and [[ChangelingTheLost Changeling]].
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* A lot of splats in the WorldOfDarkness have some variation of this, ranging from "life of the party" to "so glorious even considering disagreeing requires you to exert great willpower, let alone ''harming'' them". They included [[VampireTheMasquerade both]] of the [[VampireTheRequiem Vampire]] gamelines, [[DemonTheFallen Demon]] , and Demon]], [[WerewolfTheApocalpse Werewolf]], [[ChangelingTheLost Changeling]].Changeling]], and obviously [[MageTheAsension Mage]] through Mind effects.
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The term, incidentally, derives from "grammar". Like what you learn in school. But since "grammar" was the first of the liberal arts, it came to mean "book learning", and RuleOfCool demanded that it be used for the coolest form of book learning: magic.
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* On ''StargateAtlantis'', a man called Lucius Lavin is able to take over Atlantis through the use of a Glamour potion. Unfortunately for Lucius, the potion doesn't work on people who can't breathe through their noses, so Colonel Sheppard and his head cold end up saving the city. Then, [=McKay=] gets hold of the potion [[HoYay just in time for Sheppard (the only person not given the potion antidote) to get over his cold]].
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* "The Thnikkaman" (AKA Bubs with sunglasses) in a few [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad E-Mails]]. His very appearence, whilst doing nothing impressive, can pretty much lead to both character and plot derailment due to characters fawning over him. Did we mention that his catch phrase is "yeah, shut up kid"?
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* "The Thnikkaman" (AKA Bubs with sunglasses) in a few [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad E-Mails]]. His very appearence, whilst doing nothing impressive, can pretty much lead to both character and plot derailment due to characters fawning over him. Did we mention that his catch phrase phrase, which no one seems to mind, is "yeah, shut up kid"?
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* "The Thnikkaman" (AKA Bubs with sunglasses) in a few [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad E-Mails]]. His very appearence, whilst doing nothing impressive, can pretty much lead to both character and plot derailment due to characters fawning over him. Did we mention that his catch phrase is "yeah, shut up kid"?
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But as soon as he or she leaves the room (or a certain ammount of time passes) the former awestruck followers will get the psychic equivalent of a hangover and wonder what the heck happened. If the character has an especially powerful Glamour the effects may be permanent, require either special shielding to cut off, or the equivalent of MindControl deprogramming to return victims to normal. If a character has GodModeSue class Glamour, nothing less than [[NoOntologicalInertia killing him or her will end the spell.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent, but some kind of glamour-type magic (or just full on hypnosis) is generally part of a vampire's arsenal.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent, but some kind of glamour-type magic (or just full on hypnosis) is generally part of a vampire's arsenal.
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* ''{{Exalted}}'', oh Christ, ''{{Exalted}}''. Let's just start with the fact that [[TheFairFolk the Raksha]] outright ''call'' the abilities they use to appear as beautiful ravishers and demon-whores "Glamours." Then there are the various social powers of the Exalted, which range from "everyone in this social group finds ''this'' suddenly taboo" to "everyone who watches me dance falls utterly in love with me, regardless of sexual orientation" to "you find my words stir up shame and loathing within yourself."
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** Also from the Discworld, the charismatic Captain Carrot might have this, but balance of the evidence is that he really is just that good.
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* Poison Ivy has this power in ''{{Batman}}'' comics, but it's probably at its most noticeable in ''BatmanAndRobin'', where every man she stands near becomes instantly attracted to her. Apparently it's due to "plant pheromones" or something.
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* [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey Breasts]] in RealLife.
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* In ''The4400'', Graham Holt took the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Promicin shot]] and gained the ability to make anyone who walked within a certain distance of him to worship him and do anything he told them to. Eventually he had most of the city brainwashed, along with members of the Army and the police force. He could make them do anything, including violate the law. Also, his control didn't go away when the affected person left his vicinity.
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* ''StarTrekNewFrontier'': The Selelvian race has a form of Glamour that's called "The Knack". They claim it only makes a person do what they really want to do, but it is eventually shown that they can make others do what ''they'' want them to do. It doesn't work on nonbiological beings, so Morgan (a hologram) and Data (an android) are able to bust them, leading to an off-pages war.
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This is usually a borderline case of BadPowersBadPeople. An ethical character that doesn't abuse those affected might actually accrue ''less'' MindOverManners related {{squick}} than using straight MindControl. As a power, it does have a certain degree of BlessedWithSuck. If the glamour [[PowerIncontinence can't be turned off]] the character may very quickly despair at having no intelligent, no ''real'' love since anyone they meet will instantly love them, and otherwise having all the conflict leached out of their life.
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* A lot of splats in the WorldOfDarkness have some variation of this, ranging from "life of the party" to "so glorious even considering disagreeing requires you to exert great willpower, let alone ''harming'' them". They included [[VampireTheMasquerade both]] of the [[VampireTheMasquerade Vampire]] gamelines, [[DemonTheFallen Demon]] , and [[ChangelingTheLost Changeling]].
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* Namimé in ''KingdomHearts: Chain of Memories'' can rewrite people's memories so that they think she's their childhood friend and they're in love with her and so on, if that counts. It's not a sudden "as soon as she walks into a room everyone there is in love with her" kind of thing, but it does make her function in the story much the way a Mary Sue would in a fic, except that you're ''supposed'' to be thinking "wait who is this chick and why does Sora care so much about her all of a sudden".
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* Namimé in ''KingdomHearts: ''[[KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'' Memories]]'' can rewrite people's memories so that they think she's their childhood friend and they're in love with her and so on, if that counts. It's not a sudden "as soon as she walks into a room everyone there is in love with her" kind of thing, but it does make her function in the story much the way a Mary Sue would in a fic, except that you're ''supposed'' to be thinking "wait who is this chick and why does Sora care so much about her all of a sudden".
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Now imagine a character who has this
Much like a MarySueClassic's effect on others, characters with this power become the center of attention. Anyone who looks at the character will suffer effects similar to LoveIsInTheAir: they'll consider the character to be flawlessly beautiful, smart, funny, and fall over themselves to do whatever the character says[[hottip:*:(even if the character in question is hideous, dressed in rags, covered in garbage, clumsy, and has the IQ of room temperature... in Celsius!)]]. While this isn't direct MindControl or a CharmPerson, it does affect people psychically by making them want to help the character. Sort of a cross between MassHypnosis and TheCharmer. While weak glamours or strong willed characters probably won't do unethical things or that go against their interests, they ''will'' act at least slightly [[OutOfCharacterMoment out of character]] while under its effects: disliking the character will seem unnatural, arguing against them impossible, and attacking the character would be like committing blasphemy. When it's a powerful glamour (or a WeakWilled victim) victims won't hesitate to obey any of the character's whims.
But as soon as he or she leaves the room (or a certain ammount of time passes) the former awestruck followers will get the psychic equivalent of a hangover and wonder what the heck happened. If the character has an especially powerful Glamour the effects may be permanent, require either special shielding to cut off, or the equivalent of MindControl deprogramming to return victims to normal. If a character has GodModeSue class Glamour, nothing less than [[NoOntologicalInertia killing him or her will end the spell.]]
This is usually a borderline case of BadPowersBadPeople. An ethical character that doesn't abuse those affected might actually accrue ''less'' MindOverManners related {{squick}} than using straight MindControl. As a power, it does have a certain degree of BlessedWithSuck. If the glamour [[PowerIncontinence can't be turned off]] the character may very quickly despair at having no intelligent, no ''real'' love since anyone they meet will instantly love them, and otherwise having all the conflict leached out of their life.
Since this is basically a character trait of MarySueClassic turned into a power, it is often explicitly wielded by {{Parody Sue}}s in fanfiction. When this power [[NoSell fails]] or comes into conflict with an equal and or greater Glamour, sparks fly.
Compare ArtifactOfAttraction and GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul. If dispelled, causes a GlamourFailure.
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* Poison Ivy has this power in ''{{Batman}}'' comics, but it's probably at its most noticeable in ''BatmanAndrobin'', where every man she stands near becomes instantly attracted to her. Apparently it's due to "plant pheromones" or something.
* The Runner from MarvelComics has an undefined ability to make people enjoy his company. It doesn't prevent people from attacking him, which results in the occasional amusing fight scene.
* BlackOrchid can do this in the ongoing series that followed NeilGaiman's miniseries.
* This is Allure's power in ''RelativeHeroes'' in TheDCU.
* Gambit (Remy Lebeau) of the ''{{X-Men}}'' has a hypnotic charm, an ability to "charge" the kinetic energy within a person's brain, allowing a subtle influence over any sentient mind. This power allows Gambit to compel others to believe what he says and agree with anything he suggests.
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* In ''The4400'', Graham Holt took the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Promicin shot]] and gained the ability to make anyone who walked within a certain distance of him to worship him and do anything he told them to. Eventually he had most of the city brainwashed, along with members of the Army and the police force. He could make them do anything, including violate the law. Also, his control didn't go away when the affected person left his vicinity.
* Jasmine on ''{{Angel}}'' used a high intensity permanent Glamour that was visually transmitted to try and TakeOverTheWorld.
* Simon the Likable from the ''GetSmart'' episode "And Baby Makes Four". A vicious agent, when you look at him, you can't help liking him. This like is so powerful that no one can arrest, or even stop, him.
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* In the ''{{Scion}}'' roleplaying-system, powers like these can be wielded by scions with high stats in Appearance (positive) and Charisma. Basically, they're either so unearthly beautiful that you cannot help but be smitten with them at first sight, or so incredibly charming that you'll be hanging on their every word. Having either of those stats maxed out (or, GM forbid, BOTH) puts you on a level where you can have this sort of effect on the very gods!
* A lot of splats in the WorldOfDarkness have some variation of this, ranging from "life of the party" to "so glorious even considering disagreeing requires you to exert great willpower, let alone ''harming'' them". They included [[VampireTheMasquerade both]] of the [[VampireTheMasquerade Vampire]] gamelines, [[DemonTheFallen Demon]] , and [[ChangelingTheLost Changeling]].
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* Namimé in ''KingdomHearts: Chain of Memories'' can rewrite people's memories so that they think she's their childhood friend and they're in love with her and so on, if that counts. It's not a sudden "as soon as she walks into a room everyone there is in love with her" kind of thing, but it does make her function in the story much the way a Mary Sue would in a fic, except that you're ''supposed'' to be thinking "wait who is this chick and why does Sora care so much about her all of a sudden".
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