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Wait would ms joke from my hero academia count given her quirk forcing laughter?
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So, does this trope cover medicating mental patients to keep them docile? Dr. Silberman wanting to make sure Sarah Connor takes her thorazine so she stops "tearing up" her room? What about when a patient isn't actually mentally ill, but everyone thinks they are and the drugs actually make them worse (since their brains are working fine, drugs meant to correct chemical imbalances that come with many mental illnesses actually create imbalances), or coming down off being doped to the gills affects them?
Bach. Sci. Mechanical Engineering
Pinkie Pie is listed on one of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as doing this to HERSELF... was going to add this here but wasn't entirely sure for some reason.
Christian Furry Brony D&D gamemaster & homebrewer
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I was just wondering: what's the reasoning behind the title? I see from the ykttw archive that the old title was worse, but this seems odd and specific to me. There's no trope-namer example so...?
"In the land of the insecure, the one-balled man is king." - Haven
- A character is made happy against his will. Although maybe unwelcome, the happiness is real
- The character is actually happy, not merely forced to pretend. This may be done by drugs, Psychic Powers, Brainwashing for the Greater Good or simple persuasion. This trope comes in many flavores: The happiness can be blissful, romantic, purely sexualized, or whatever.
Not speaking from experience, here, but am I right in saying that this is part of what makes rape disturbing?
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Rape just has this as an 'enforced side effect' sometimes, which is really fucked up. But this trope is all about making someone happy purely in and of it self.
Also the idea that rape makes you happy even involuntary or that physical arousal corresponds to psychological happiness (or even necessary physical pleasure) is wrong and fraught with Unfortunate Implications. Although the comparison is not unfounded: this trope could be a form of Mind Rape.
"In the land of the insecure, the one-balled man is king." - Haven
I'm not sure the image on this page correctly conveys the trope it's about. I don't know the context of it, but looking at it, it seems the character is forced to smile in a way that they consider painful. This trope is about the manipulation actually making the victime happy about their situation.
It would more closely apply to a trope under Technically a Smile like Stepford Smiler or even Happiness Is Mandatory.