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** In ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Spore'', Tash Arranda faces her [[TheAssimilator Spore-controlled]] [[spoiler: brother and uncle]] and appeals to them while calling on TheForce and the bonds between them and her. It works for a moment, but Spore is too strong. [[spoiler: Fortunately, she was doing this as a distraction so she could [[StunGuns knock them out.]]]]

* Zigzagged in Gav Thorpe's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' Last Chancer novel ''Annihilation Squad''. When Kage is [[DemonicPossession possessed by a daemon]] who goes to taunt Colonel Schaeffer, Schaeffer does not appeal to Kage but bitterly attacks the daemon, "He is one of mine! I want him back!"

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11652534 Captain America: Ghosts of HYDRA]]'', [[spoiler:Steve Rogers/Captain America gets into one with James "Bucky" Barnes/The Winter Soldier after the latter is brainwashed by Brock Rumlow/Crossbones. Steve manages to snap Bucky out of it by reminding him of his life before becoming the Winter Soldier.]]

--->"Just...please listen to us, Ryuko. You must snap out of it."\\

* ''Fanfic/WinterWar'' When it is revealed that Ichigo has lost control of his Hollow side, Ikkaku envisages pulling off something like this, during/followed by a massive fight which would end in Ichigo regaining control and running off to kill Aizen. Much later on, Ikkaku's [[WhatTheHellHero angry speech]] has no effect on Hollow!Ichigo.

* In ''Fanfic/PowerRangersMythos'', when five Rangers from the past are pulled into the year 2600 to face the alien alchemist Avanth, the last surviving Ranger of the 2600-team is able to retrieve Tommy Oliver, Z Delgado and Flynn [=McAllister=], but Avanth captures and brainwashes Shelby Watkins and Adam Park to fight on his behalf. Z attempts to invoke this trope when she first faces Adam in a fight, but Avanth’s control is too entrenched for her to help Adam shake him off that easily.

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', Monster X gets taken over by his Kaizer Ghidorah side and goes berserk. Gigan tries to calm him down by recounting the happy memories they shared with their teammates. It almost works, but then King Ghidorah, whom Monster X and Kaizer Ghidorah equally hate, attacks them, undoing all of Gigan's efforts.

See also BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, CooldownHug, FightingYourFriend, and DefusingTheTykebomb. Contrast SheatheYourSword, where the hero wins without fighting, but usually there isn't a relationship between the protagonist and antagonist. See TheyStillBelongToUsLecture for the villain version. Compare {{Deprogram}}ming, a far more drawn out process. See also ResistTheBeast.

Heroes beware, for it does not always work. They could discover, to their horror, that the friend was NotBrainwashed or they could be WrongGenreSavvy, use the line, and then discover that it really ''is'' too late to save them. In some of the more tragic cases, something remains of their friend, but it is only a faint echo, who can barely muster to come through long enough to beg the hero to either run away and save themselves, [[ICannotSelfTerminate or kill them and put them out of their misery]]. An inversion of this trope is HeroicWillpower, reversing the hero and sidekick's roles.

* Zig-Zagged in Ridyr's ''Film/TronLegacy'' fanfic ''Survivor's Tale''. Yori was captured and Clu decided to have [[TheDragon Rinzler]] execute her, as much for dramatic irony as to get her out of the way. Yori figured out who was under that mask and started trying to talk him out of it, more for his sake than hers. With Clu shouting orders from one end and Yori arguing from the other, he becomes paralyzed by confusion. Later, after Yori's been rectified, Rinzler was still too confused by her presence to dismiss her as just another drone, and inverts the trope by freeing her, despite being unable to either free himself or completely understand his reasons for doing so.
* ''Fanfic/WinterWar'' When it is revealed that Ichigo has lost control of his Hollow side, Ikkaku envisages pulling off something like this, during/followed by a massive fight which would end in Ichigo regaining control and running off to kill Aizen. Much later on, Ikkaku's [[WhatTheHellHero angry speech]] has no effect on Hollow!Ichigo.

** [[spoiler: Jotaro deliberately lets himself be controlled as part of their plan to defeat Dio in chapter 18.]]

* Happens towards the end of the ''Film/StarTrek2009'' fic ''Fanfic/WritteninTheStars''; Spock, suffering from the effects of Pon Farr, becomes crazed and violent, and can't even remember the rest of the crew...except for Fem!Kirk. She takes it upon herself to try and pull this trope on him. [[spoiler: It doesn't work, so she brings him back to himself by...[[MateOrDie relieving him]] of his pain.]]
* In Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum, Marcus tried this on Stalwart Heart to bring his pre-ponified human self, Jacob (Marcus' little brother) back. [[spoiler: Sadly, it doesn't work.]]
* [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos In the Slender Man fic]] ''Fanfic/ByTheFiresLight'', Mira Grolinsky tries to get Jared Holloway to turn on the Slender Man and join her and Detective Carl Rourke in their quest against it. [[spoiler: Jared ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself instead.]]]]
* in ''Fanfic/{{Moonlight|JasonTheHuman}}'', Scootaloo (and later the other two Crusaders) must do this for those stuck in their worst nightmares, either by making them face their fears or realize their true selves aren't who they're portrayed as in the nightmare.

* In the ''FanFic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', Sam does this whenever Danny goes berserk in his dangerous SuperMode.
* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', Monster X gets taken over by his Kaizer Ghidorah side and goes berserk. Gigan tries to calm him down by recounting the happy memories they shared with their teammates. It almost works, but then King Ghidorah, whom Monster X and Kaizer Ghidorah equally hate, attacks them, undoing all of Gigan's efforts.
* In chapter 19 of ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', [[spoiler:Rei]] involuntairly possesses Hikari, and Asuka and Touji try talk to her to free her.
-->Touji approached Hikari slowly. "Um... Hikari?"\\
Rei's voice replied to him, "I am not Hikari."\\
The Children felt a chill run through them. "Let go of her!" screamed Asuka. "Get out!"\\
Touji grabbed Hikari's shoulder. "Whadaya mean you ain't Hikari!" he said desperately. "Of course you're Hikari! Stop playin' around!"
* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': In chapter 11 Shinji tried to help a brainwashed Rei to remember him. It didn't work.
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2750444/chapters/6166226 The Rise of Starborn]]'' Thor convinces Loki to fight the Goa'uld's mind control.

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11652534 Captain America: Ghosts of HYDRA]]'', [[spoiler:Steve Rogers/Captain America gets into one with James "Bucky" Barnes/The Winter Soldier after the latter is brainwashed by Brock Rumlow/Crossbones. Steve manages to snap Bucky out of it by reminding him of his life before becoming the Winter Soldier.]]
* In ''Fanfic/FrozenTurtles'', when Karai loses control of her snake self, Anna attempts to inspire one, but Splinter takes over as Anna doesn’t know Karai well enough to get through to her.
* ''Fanfic/SpiderX'';

* In ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'':
** Satsuki does this with [[spoiler: Nui]] and it works.
---> "The [[spoiler:Nui Harime]] me, my dad, your partner Tsumugu Kinagase and nearly everybody else knew was that girl that talked to my father that day. The [[spoiler:Nui Harime]] I'm staring at is just a tool that does everyone Ragyo Kiryuin tells her to. That...is not the [[spoiler:Nui Harime]]. Please, [[spoiler: Nui]]...please find a way to snap yourself out of this and be the person I played with as a child. Whatever it takes to get rid of that monster me and Ryuko's mother has brought out of hibernation, [[spoiler:Nui]], whatever it takes."
** Earlier, in chapter 17, she and [[spoiler: Senketsu]] does this with [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]] Ryuuko:
--->"Just...please listen to us, Ryuko. You must snap out of it."\\
"Yes, Ryuko. Snap out of this state of delusion you're in for your own good. You can do it, Ryuko Kiryuin! I trust you!"
* ''Fanfic/APossibleEncounterForAPhantom'':
** Danny tries this when Kim is possessed by Spectra. It works.
** She later returns the favor when he's under the Rage Pearl but ends up having to kiss him because of how the pearl works.

* ''Fanfic/AncientSins'': After the power of Darkness begins corrupting her, everyone rushes to save Luna and manage to get her to take control.
** A much more extreme example happens much later in the series, when [[spoiler: reformed ''BigBad'', Dante's true nature as a shadow begins taking over him. This also leads to Celestia, Luna, Sunset, and Twilight [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind going into Dante's mind]] to free his inner emotions.]]

You're the hero and your friend is now evil - a fight has to happen. But the obviously weaker opponent is winning! The hero can't bring himself to fight at full power against someone he loves. They know that the loved one is still there somewhere. The hero will win this fight by talking the friend out of the evil influence, usually because of ThePowerOfFriendship or ThePowerOfLove.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim Pummelling]] the BodySnatcher also helps.]]

* In the GrandFinale of Rick Riordan's ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' series, [[spoiler:Annabeth pep-talks Luke into fighting Kronos, and Luke eventually establishes enough control of the shared body to reveal his 'achille's heel' and sacrifice himself with Annabeth's knife.

* in ''Fanfic/{{Moonlight}}'', Scootaloo (and later the other two Crusaders) must do this for those stuck in their worst nightmares, either by making them face their fears or realize their true selves aren't who they're portrayed as in the nightmare.

* In ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', Satsuki does this with [[spoiler: Nui]] and it works.
--> "The [[spoiler:Nui Harime]] me, my dad, your partner Tsumugu Kinagase and nearly everybody else knew was that girl that talked to my father that day. The [[spoiler:Nui Harime]] I'm staring at is just a tool that does everyone Ragyo Kiryuin tells her to. That...is not the [[spoiler:Nui Harime]]. Please, [[spoiler: Nui]]...please find a way to snap yourself out of this and be the person I played with as a child. Whatever it takes to get rid of that monster me and Ryuko's mother has brought out of hibernation, [[spoiler:Nui]], whatever it takes."

-->"Just...please listen to us, Ryuko. You must snap out of it."
-->"Yes, Ryuko. Snap out of this state of delusion you're in for your own good. You can do it, Ryuko Kiryuin! I trust you!"

Often accompanied by the phrase "I know you are in there somewhere." The hero stalls the fight, trying to snap the friend out of it. Sometimes the effect is less than total salvation, only giving the friend the willpower [[DrivenToSuicide to off themself]] or [[ICannotSelfTerminate let]] [[MercyKill the hero off them]]. This can be especially [[{{Tragedy}} tragic]] if they've been FightingFromTheInside just to give them the opportunity.

* In the GrandFinale of Rick Riordan's ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' series, [[spoiler:Annabeth pep-talks Luke into fighting Kronos, and Luke eventually establishes enough control of the shared body to reveal his 'achille's heel' and sacrifice himself with Annabeth's knife. Cue SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.]].

* Subverted in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', where ''millions'' die after trying this on their zombified relatives. Later leads to a [[spoiler:SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} when it works on orphaned, feral, non-zombified children during the fight to reclaim America, children the army was planning to shoot on sight as lost causes.]]