39,327
edits
Brainwashed: Difference between revisions
update links
m (clean up) |
(update links) |
||
Line 56:
== Film ==
* ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]''
* ''Volunteers'' has John Candy's character get brainwashed in the middle.
** It happened to him in ''Going Berserk'' as well.
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' has the protagonist strapped down and forced to watch violent scenes while a drug that induces nausea is pumped into him to make him feel repulsion for violence. And sex. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And]][[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]][[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|'s music]] (because the film included it in the background).
* ''[[J-Men Forever!]]'' (1979). The evil Lightning Bug plans to brainwash the Earth people with rock & roll broadcasts, but is successfully countered by schmaltzy music from the Military Underground Sugared Airwaves Command ([[Fun with Acronyms|M.U.S.A.C.]]). So the Bug decides to use hashish instead, and only the combined forces of the J-Men (a team of [[Gag Dub|redubbed]] superheroes from Republic [[Film Serial]] clips) can stop him!
* As indicated by the page quote, one of the crimes that the Galaxy organization commits in the spy-spoof ''[[Our Man Flint]]'' is turning women into brainwashed "Pleasure Units".
* ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'' (2004). The evil Skeleton, and [[Human Aliens]] Kro-Bar and Lattis, both try to mind-control housewife Betty at the same time.
Line 77:
** The White Witch's enchanted Turkish delight very quickly gets Edmund 100% on her side, after she intimidates him into eating it. Never take candy from strangers indeed!
* The Mule, an interstellar warlord in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation]] trilogy'' had the telepathic ability to turn anyone, even his greatest enemies, into devoted followers willing to die for him. The Second Foundation, which possesses a similar ability, later turn it against him and transform him into a pacifist.
* ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' by Richard Condon.
* In ''[[The Demon Headmaster]]'' by Gillian Cross, the Headmaster has brainwashed almost everybody in the school along with their parents, and brainy new girl Dinah is powerless to resist even though she knows what he's doing. Her foster brothers, however, are among the tiny minority of pupils on whom the Headmaster's powers don't work, so they can help Dinah foil the Headmaster's plan to brainwash the whole country via TV.
* In the ''[[The Silence of the Lambs|Hannibal]]'' novel, Lecter {{spoiler|brainwashes Clarice Starling with drugs and hypnosis to turn her into a surrogate of his dead sister Misha. While that doesn't quite happen, it does aid Clarice in getting rid of her father issues and inhibitions about Hannibal, whom she seduces.}} This wasn't carried over to the movie adaptation.
Line 95:
* The 3-D [[Hypno Ray|Hypno Ring]] in the ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' books.
* [[Time Scout]]'s version of Prince Eddy of [[Victorian London]] is under the [[Mind Control]] of [[Jack the Ripper]].
* In the [[Dungeons
* In one of the ''[[Witchcraft]]'' gameplay examples they have on the Eden Studios website, the bumbling villain uses a psionic effect to do a kind of Jedi Mind Trick on an NPC, forcing her to do one sentence's worth of activities ("You love me and want nothing more than to follow me out of this bar.") so he can sacrifice her for evil purposes. However, what happens is that the PC breaks the effect, making her believe that he tried to hypnotize her, rather than [[Weirdness Censor|use mind control]], and so the lady proceeds to [[Groin Attack|kick him in the balls]], then smash his face in with a pool ball.
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', "brainscrubbing" is one of the routine ways of dealing with traitors, depending on severity (it's just above "adjust his meds" and just below "terminate him and activate his next backup clone").
Line 116:
* ''[[Angel]]'', the Jasmine arc.
* ''[[Big Wolf on Campus]]'' episode "Manchurian Werewolf".
* In ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'', the Visitors have a brainwashing method called conversion, but humans are so resistant to it that it is only considered worth the bother for a few vital individuals.
* Used on many, many people in many, many ways on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and inherited by ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
{{quote|"I am the Master, and ''you will obey me''."}}
Line 131:
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the [[Dungeons
* In one of the ''[[Witchcraft]]'' gameplay examples they have on the Eden Studios website, the bumbling villain uses a psionic effect to do a kind of Jedi Mind Trick on an NPC, forcing her to do one sentence's worth of activities ("You love me and want nothing more than to follow me out of this bar.") so he can sacrifice her for evil purposes. However, what happens is that the PC breaks the effect, making her believe that he tried to hypnotize her, rather than [[Weirdness Censor|use mind control]], and so the lady proceeds to [[Groin Attack|kick him in the balls]], then smash his face in with a pool ball.
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', "brainscrubbing" is one of the routine ways of dealing with traitors, depending on severity (it's just above "adjust his meds" and just below "terminate him and activate his next backup clone").
Line 190:
** Also in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', Ember does this to Danny in order to distract him. She makes him believe {{spoiler|that he is in love with Sam.}}
*** Also by Undergrowth, who not only turns the citizens of Amity Park his slaves under the control of his mind vines, but making Sam his "daughter" due to her love of plants. Not coincidentally, both Undergrowth and Sam were voiced by Mark Hamill and Grey [[De Lisle]], who voiced Lord Ozai and his daughter, Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' does this to [[Chaste Hero|Colonel Bud Manstrong]] as a parody of ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]''. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Abraham Lincoln's ghost]] even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this.
{{quote|"Didn't you ever see ''The Manchurian Candidate''? Even the remake with [[Denzel Washington|Denzel]]?"}}
* ''[[Space Ghost]]'' episode "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are subjected to the title [[Villain]]'s mind control device.
* Brother Blood of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has this as his MO. Only [[Genius Bruiser|Cyborg]] was able to consistently resist his powers.
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' LOVES this trope, especially for Sam as a running gag in the series. In fact, this was done not only to them, but their families and friends as well (Tim Scam brainwashing their mothers to kill them, a disgruntled child mind controlling all the children in the world including one of the girl's younger siblings, Jerry's being turned evil by his evil brother, the previous trio of female spies, the list goes on).
* ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' is also rather fond of using monsters or alien invaders brainwashing innocent human victims or some of the cast to be their slaves. Unsurprising as it is produced by the same TV production company as Totally Spies.
* ''Quack Pack'': Huey duck sets off for the dentist, but winds up instead subject for an evil scientist, who accidentally equips the duck with the bio-remote the big bad needed to use to conquer the world. As the headgear gives Huey the near-infinite power of mind control, Huey becomes mad with power and makes himself emperor of the world by forcing the populace to worship him, but realizes he's still miserable. Played for laughs but still a WHAT THE HELL HERO? moment.
Line 211:
== Real Life ==
* The term in English is derived from the Chinese 洗脑 "clean/wash the brain", used to describe the combination of torture and propaganda-barrage used on U.N.-aligned troops, mostly Americans, during the Korean War in order to extract false confessions for use in broader propaganda. The actual efficacy of any form of brain washing, from torture to subtle persuasion to drugs to hypnotism, is highly disputed. It is generally held that such techniques can be very good at extracting compliance from the victim, but true ideological turn-about ''à la'' the books and film ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'' or ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' is not to be expected—in the few cases where this seems to have happened, it has generally been linked to the prisoner's captors treating her better than her own nominal side (see: Japanese POWs during [[World War II]]).
* Arguably, some religious and corporate groups are capable of this.
** Drink the <s>Kool-Aid!</s> [[wikipedia:Jonestown#Deaths in Jonestown|Flavor Aid]].
Line 226:
[[Category:Plots]]
[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]
[[Category:Brainwashed]]▼
[[Category:Mind Manipulation Tropes]]
| |||