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* The title character's [[Magic Dance|dancing]] seems to do something like this in ''[[Princess Tutu]]''.
* The various Forte/Fortissimo attacks from ''[[Heartcatch Precure]]'' are like this, as the attacks end up purifying the Heart Flowers of an affected human, freeing them from their problems. Erika Kurumi/Cure Marine has the dubious honor of being hit with it twice, the second time showing that it does bring about a calming effect on them and when a Giant Snackie is hit with one, he just turns his suit white, but he still works for the bad guys.
* The manga version of ''[[Trigun]]'' features an incredibly long climax whose final resolution involves [[The Messiah|Vash]] giving every plant on the planet, in the form of [[Evil Twin|Knives']] [[Body Horror]] collective thing, a
** It affects Knives, too. {{spoiler|He apologizes, and apparently dies. But later-apparently he had just enough energy left to pull together a human form, and get a [[Nice Hat]] to spend his final years wearing. He doesn't tell Vash.}}
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** It must be said he killed said Bliss-bringer by {{spoiler|'''KICKING CAPTAIN AMERICA IN THE BALLS'''}}
*** Well, that's certainly... an [[Crowning Moment of Funny|effective method]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|for Deadpool.]]
* In the ''[[Maximum Carnage]]'' crossover, [[Spider-Man]] and his friends built a
* Zatanna once used the [[Mind Hug]] in order to ''[[Mind Rape]]'' someone. She "reprogrammed" Doctor Light, a vicious rapist, trying to pull out a good side that wasn't really there. What she succeeded in doing was creating an inept villain, but the idea was there.
** Depending on your interpretation she either had slightly more success or ''much'' greater failure when she attempted the same thing in the pages of [[The Flash]]. Barry Allen asked her to try to make The Top, a recurring villain of his, an actual ''hero''. It worked, at first. But Top now had a conscience and couldn't deal with the horrible things he had done. He went nuts and started trying to do the same to other Flash villains. It didn't end well.
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* ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''. Not intentionally done by the citizens of Whoville, but probably the definitive example of this trope.
* Something like this happens to {{spoiler|Wendy Nogard}} in ''[[Wayside School]] Gets A Little Stranger'' when she tries to use her evil telepathic powers on Mrs. Jewls' baby: {{spoiler|"Babies don't think in words. Miss Nogard heard pure love. And trust. And faith. With no words to get in the way. It was a love so strong that it dissolved away all the bitterness that had been caked around her heart."}}
* Happened in the conclusion of ''The Witch Returns''. The villain is finally defeated when the entire family of the protagonists gathers in a circle around her and assaults
* Something similar is used in ''[[The Wish List]]'', also by Eoin Colfer. Apparently, whenever an act of perfect good is performed, it sets off an explosion in the spiritual plane that leaves ghosts unaffected, but has the same effect as a nuclear bomb on demons, not to mention that it leaves a nice scent around them when they end up splattered back in Hell.
* The title character in ''Lord Valentine's Castle'' does this. Actually, [[Robert Silverberg]] is fond of this trope in general.
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* Dameon in ''The [[Obernewtyn Chronicles]]'' and other Empaths are able to bathe people in feelings of calm, love, comfort etc. This just as well for the emotionally repressed protagonist.
* In ''[[Sword of Truth]]'', magical healing works by sharing the pain of the healed. When someone is affected by an ailment of the soul, the healer has to link his own soul with theirs. This is described as being much more intimate than sex, though not erotic in any way.
* At the climax of the ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' novel, The Deacon's Tale, {{spoiler|The Deacon has Cai Rui's love for his mentor and Iishi's love for his mate telepathically forced into his mind, awakening the atrophied parts of his mind that deal with love and kindness}}. This is made all the more jarring by the recipient's nature as member of a species who consider mind rape as a healthy form of social interaction, and the
** According to the game's sequel, he got better. {{spoiler|So much better, in fact, he ended up [[Heel Face Turn|rebelling against The Great Masters]] and became responsible for a ''[[Strange Bedfellows|liir-zuul alliance]]''.}}
* In the ''[[Animorphs]]'' series, Jake morphs into a Howler, a member of the foottrooper race of the [[Big Bad|Crayak]] built to do nothing but have fun destroying and murdering. When Jake learns that all Howlers ever created share a hivemind, he begins pushing all of his memories of love and kindness into it. The end result is that the next time the Howlers are sent to destroy a planet, they try kissing everyone instead.
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* Inverted in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' when Kirk fills his mind with racist hatred to infect an android duplicate that is being made of him via a mind-scan: Spock realises it's not the real Kirk when the android starts insulting him.
* The ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' finale "[[Crisis Crossover|Countdown to Destruction]]" had the Red Ranger destroy Zordon's chamber, unleashing his goodness on all the bad guys currently battling. Monsters were turned to dust, humanoid villains were all turned good.
* In ''[[Angel]]'''s third season, post-[[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] Connor gets a
** Although later developments suggest it might have been something a little more sinister. After all, it's not like Connor's demeanor towards anyone else improved as a result.
* The cult variant (see ''[[Real Life]]'' below) featured in the ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'' two-parter "Blank Stare". It works on Jerri - and when they try it on Chuck, who has supposedly come to rescue her, all it takes is the words "Do you need someone to love you?" before he breaks down crying and gives in.
* One episode of ''[[Bewitched]]'' involved aliens visiting Earth and threatening the neighbors with their terrifying N-
* The Doctor pulls this one with a deranged Elizabethan mental patient in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Shakespeare Code".
** The Doctor also frequently uses positive emotions (or ''any'' emotions) against the Cybermen.
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** She did say she could "fix that" after seeing the initial euphoria, so while the Spark could be resistant, she could also have toned it down....
* In the Superhero arc of ''[[Dragon Tails]]'', Lemuel becomes a villain named Sparkles with the superpower of "Happiness Sparkles", in an attempt to pacify his enemies. It doesn't work particularly well - all it does is make them feel rather happy about beating the snot out of him.
* ''[[Something Positive]]'', in one of their many RPG storylines, has Davan playing in a game based on statting up kids' toys. Thinking the others would leave their toys unmodded (clearly not knowing how girls play with dolls), he is left with a "stock" Care Bear. His
* [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-28 This] ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' strip subverts it to the point of [[Nightmare Fuel]] (continued two comics later).
** Later an Immortal used a heavy assault Care Bear Stare called a [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-07-09 Serenity Spell] as an emergency [[Instant Sedation]] for a magic-user going bananas.
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