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DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2014-07-07 19:45:55

Brain Washed

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KZN02 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2014-07-07 20:12:57

Err, anything along the lines of pretending to be brainwashed?

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Hero_Gal_2347 Since: May, 2013
2014-07-07 20:29:58

Fake Defector? A variant on Pretend We're Dead? If anyone has a better answer, I'd like to hear it, because I've been wondering this myself.

DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2014-07-07 21:17:56

Not Brainwashed

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KZN02 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2014-07-07 21:23:00

Not Brainwashed seems the closest, but I was thinking more along the lines of preparing to invoke a Heel–Face Turn than a Face–Heel Turn.

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Hero_Gal_2347 Since: May, 2013
2014-07-07 21:25:02

^ I thought Not Brainwashed was when a character is planning to do something evil. The others think it's only because of the brainwashing, only to find out that, nope, it's them all along. So in order for it to be Not Brainwashed, wouldn't what they were going to do have to be something the villain would order them to do?

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DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2014-07-07 22:39:48

If I get "Obfuscating Obedience" right, it's The Mole or Reverse Mole

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KZN02 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2014-07-07 23:35:00

I guess Obfuscating Obedience is already those tropes, so I guess I'll go for Obfuscating Brainwashed or something.

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DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2014-07-08 00:21:50

Obfuscating Brainwashed is Not Brainwashed. Or More than Mind Control.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2014-07-08 07:45:15

We need more clarification. Who is the person tricking? The brainwasher, or his own allies?

Because if they're trying to trick the brainwasher, then Not Brainwashed is kind of the opposite.

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Hero_Gal_2347 Since: May, 2013
2014-07-08 07:54:20

^ Yeah. Trying to trick the villain is what I thought.

KZN02 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2014-07-08 13:06:03

Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of pretending to be brainwashed to fool the brainwasher.

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DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2014-07-08 14:26:05

I guess we can safely say that we don't have it.

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KZN02 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2014-07-08 19:17:50

Now the question is "is it tropable or Too Rare To Trope?"

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DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2014-07-08 20:03:46

^ Try listing examples.

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Hero_Gal_2347 Since: May, 2013
2014-07-08 22:03:53

I remember an incident in The Adventures of Superman. Jimmy Olsen and Perry White's sister Kate had been captured by the Villain of the Week, who gave Kate drugged tea so that she believes him when he puts paper chains on her and says they're magic iron chains. Jimmy never drank the tea, but he pretended to be brainwashed until he had an opportunity to escape (or Superman showed up).

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KZN02 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2014-07-09 18:16:07

I recall one episode G.I. Joe: Renegades where most of the team gets hypnotized, but Snake Eyes pretends to be brainwashed.

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JoieDeCombat Since: May, 2009
2014-07-10 13:21:11

There's also Princess Jasmine in Aladdin pretending to be whammied with a love spell.

KZN02 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2014-07-10 19:13:38

Guess it's off the ykttw?

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Hero_Gal_2347 Since: May, 2013
2014-07-11 05:31:56

Are there any tropes that fit those that we know of?

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