Care Bear Stare: Difference between revisions

* 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.

* Used by name on Illyria in [[Angel]]: After the Fall.

** To be more precise the psychic floating fish Betta George flooded Illyria's original form with Wesley and Spike's memories of Fred.

* Noora in ''[[The 99]]'' has the power to shine light at people, making them see their own inner darkness and feel guilt. [[Meaningful Name|Not coincidentally, "noor" means "light" in Arabic.]]

* In ''[[Green Lantern]]'', the Indigo Tribe is made up of reformed villains whose rings provide them with a compassionate outlook... in many cases, not entirely willingly. When the rings come off... hoo, boy.

* In the eleven part "Black Ring" storyline in ''[[Action Comics]]'' (specifically, issues #890-#900), [[Lex Luthor]] releases the Zone Child (a creature that intended to purge all negative emotion from the universe) from the Phantom Zone and defeats it. He gains its full power and proceeds to use it as the Zone Child would. We then get a montage of [[The DCU]] (the ''entirety'' of it) experiencing eternal bliss. Luthor learns that he can only keep his newfound power as long as he doesn't do anything negative, [[Status Quo Is God|so of course]], he tried to kill [[Superman]]. This led to [[The Joker]] commenting about how Luthor, with his pettiness, squandered the ultimate power to do good.

 

* In the Demonflame adventure pack for ''[[Champions Online]]'', you force a demon into temporary servitude. After you rescue some children, it uses the happy thoughts of those children to destroy a magical barrier. Before doing this, the demon informs you that "Regrettably, it will not harm the children."

* ''[[King Of Dragon Pass]]'' has what players have nicknamed the Chalana Arroy Peace Bomb. An inaccurate summary is that a clan pools its magical power to send one of its members back to the world's creation, where she (re)performs one of the great deeds of that age. By affecting the creation, she [[Rewriting Reality|Rewrites Reality]] in the present. One deed basically consists of healing everything in sight, so a good enough healer can spam it until everything is sunshine and puppies.

* Another literal example of a Care Bear Stare being parodied in [http://batfee.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Sparkle-92552798 this] ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' comic.