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Line 9: The most fun, ''delayed'' variety of brainwashing is the innocuous [[Manchurian Agent]]. If they are attacking people, it's a case of [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. And look out for that one character in a million who's [[Not Brainwashed]]. Or in truly horrific settings, keep an eye on the ones [[Conditioned to Accept Horror]]. Compare with "[[Body Snatcher\|Body Snatching]]". Occasionally done via [[TV Never Lies\|television]]. May require [[deprogram]]ing to cure (see also [[Meat Puppet]]). General consensus among heroes in fiction is that someone cannot be held responsible - legally or otherwise - for evil acts committed while brainwashed, (the reasoning being that if someone is truly under a malevolent being's control, he isn't in control of his own actions), although the aftermath can be rather angsty at times, depending on how important it was to the overall plot. (Indeed, if things like magical and psychic mind control were real, this would likely be subject to quite a lot of ethical and psychological debates, but fortunately, it is ''not'' real.) Naturally, there is [[Power Perversion Potential]] to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20001203140700/https://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/10/04/mind_control/print.html found] ([[Not Safe for Work\|NSFW!]]) in this. See also [[Kiss Me, I'm Virtual]]. Often done to the [[Weak-Willed]]. If the heroes do it, it's likely [[Brainwashing for the Greater Good]]. Watch out for [[Intrinsic Vow]]s. Line 41: == Fan Works == * About 95% of artist [http://rosvo.deviantart.com/ ~~this guy~~Rosvo's] output. And by extension, an equal amount of [http://doomedfool.deviantart.com/ ~~this guy~~doomedfool's] writing, as he mostly writes fanfics to accompany the above guy's pics. Actually, there is [http://da-entranced.deviantart.com/ an entire group] with output at least similar in percentage to that. * {{spoiler\|Kaminic}} in ''[[Fuck the Jesus Beam]]''. Line 150: * Temporarily happens to anything hit by the Ordos Deviator in ''[[Dune II]]''. * All over the place in ''[[Final Fantasy Dissidia]]'' and its sequel. Between the two games so far, Terra, Tidus, Jecht, and {{spoiler\|Kuja}} have ''all'' been brainwashed to fight for evil instead of good, the former two in ''Duodecim'' and the latter two in ''Dissidia''. * In ''[[Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon]]'', [[Evil Sorcerer\|Gharnef]] is doing this to [[Token ~~Mini-Moe~~Loli\|Dragon Princess Tiki]]. Though Tiki was [[Older Than They Look\|older than she looked]], this leads to [[Unfortunate Implications]]. * [[Donkey Kong Country Returns]] has this trope, and started at the '''very begining of the game!''' But Donkey Kong was able to resist the brainwashing effects.