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== Anime and Manga ==
* This is Tobi's main goal in ''[[Naruto]]''. He plans to cast a permanent genjutsu on the moon that will make everyone live without hatred
** [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly.]] It's just as likely that he's lying about doing it for anyone else's benefit, and that all he cares about is dominating everyone.
* In the world of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', it is possible to brainwash EVA pilots into fighting, but this is never actually used (presumably the results would not be pretty).
** The franchise does suggest one good reason given what we do see: The state of borderline insanity is essentially needed to pilot an EVA at peak efficiency. Brainwashing presumably may render them TOO stable to otherwise take advantage of this.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The use of the eponymous ark in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' movie ''The Ark of Truth'' to convince the Ori's followers of the error of their ways could be viewed this way. While it is justified in that A) the Ori are dead anyway, B) the Ark can only make people believe what is true, and C) the Ori's followers are on the verge of overrunning the Milky Way, it's still brainwashing. Even Daniel, who found the ark and
** It's only ''programmed'' to brainwash the truth. While the Ark itself is hardwired to never be used for anything else, the technology could be adapted to make anyone believe anything. There's a reason the Ancients didn't use it in the first place.
* ''[[Doc Savage]]: The Man of Bronze''. At the end Doc performs one of his personality-altering operations on Captain Seas, who ends up as a member of the Salvation Army.
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* In a non-[[Canon]] ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' side story, Percy battles the Titan Iapetus near Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness. Percy dunks himself and Iapetus in the river. Percy, being a son of Poseidon stayed dry, and Iapetus is soaked so he forgets everything. He gets renamed Bob and even helps cure some nasty wounds.
** It ''is'' canon, or close enough. The storis have already influenced the canon books. Percy mentions in 5th book that he's seen Persephone in winter (which happened in the same story with Iapetus/Bob), and in ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'', the kids use the bronze dragon from one of the other stories as transportation for their quest.
* The whole point of ''[[Captain Underpants]]''. Benjamin Krupp is a mean, strict, child-hating principal, so George and Harold decide to play a joke on him, using their 3D-Hypno Ring to make him think he's a superhero called Captain Underpants. It works only too well, Krupp becoming a kind, jolly (yet unfortunately dimwitted) do-gooder bent on righting wrongs. So, George and Harold decide to fix it so it happens more often, and from then on, Krupp turns into the hero every time he hears a finger-snap.
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* In the original ''[[Doc Savage]]'' magazine stories, Doc performed "a delicate brain operation" on criminals to cure their criminal tendencies. It also removed all memories of their criminal past.
** This is a prime example of [[Values Dissonance]]. Back in the 1930s, it was believed that ongoing criminal behaviour was a result of malformation of the brain, essentially a medical problem.
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* Confessors from the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series work like this. Unfortunately, the recharge time is anywhere from hours to weeks, and there's usually a lot of angry soldiers between a Confessor and a big bad. This is part of why they usually had a wizard bodyguard. The Confessors were mostly used to get the confession of condemned criminals who were part of conspiracies, but refused to cooperate.
* Resoundingly averted in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s "If This Goes On". The [[The Revolution Will Not Be Villified|revolutionaries]], after overthrowing the [[Corrupt Church]], vote to reject their psych experts' proprosal to use [[Subliminal Seduction]] to "condition" the people to accept the restoration of democracy (after an old man who "looked like Mark Twain" made an impassioned speech on how "free men aren't 'conditioned'.")
== Live Action TV ==
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** It is also hinted that the technology could be used in this way for some positive applications, such as curing mental illnesses. For example, Sierra was taken against her will as a "charity case" because she had schizophrenia (the Dollhouse staff not knowing/believing that she had schizophrenia because a man she rejected was drugging her). Unfortunately, these are vastly overshadowed by the much more dangerous negative applications, most of which fall under some variation of [[Brainwashed and Crazy]].
* In ''[[Angel]]'', Angel becomes the CEO of evil lawfirm Wolfram & Hart's L.A. branch in exchange for them altering reality to give his son Connor a well-adjusted past with a normal family, and wipe everyone else's memories.
* And then there's Angel himself. While a [[Breakout Character]] on ''[[Buffy the Vampire]]'' (the reason he starred in a [[Spin-Off]]) one must remember his soul (and thus his [[Heel Face Turn]]) was initially returned to him against his will as part of a curse. Of course, one could also say that the one who did [[Revenge|this didn't have the best of intentions to begin with.]]
== Tabletop Games ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Maven tries to hypnotize [[The Nostalgia Chick]] into never thinking about [[Todd in the Shadows]] again, but it doesn't even come close to working.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]''; Dr. Clef's SCP-001 Proposal, the Gate Guardian is not confirmed to be "Good" or "Evil", but seeing as the gate it guards is presumably the entrance to the Garden of Eden, it can be presumed to be Good. Regardless, if any human tries to approach it, that human will be given a command that is impossible to ignore or disobey. Usually, this order is, '''"LEAVE"''' (causing that person to turn around and retreat) and/or '''"FORGET"''' (purging his memory of the being) but the order it gave "the Founder" was '''"PREPARE."''' Presumably for the apocalypse.
== Western Animation ==
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