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In some cases may work due to a combination of [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]] and [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]. Can be a practical use of [[Heart Beat Down|Heart]], and in some cases may even cause a [[Villainous BSOD]] and [[Brainwashing for The Greater Good]].

 

[[Trope Namer|Named]] for the "attack" used by the ''[[Care Bears]]'', naturally. The [[Fantastic Aesop|moral]] here being: "Never mess with a humanoid bear with a laser cannon in its chest."

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Manga example : In ''Majuutsukai no Shojo'', the heroine Kashe gets a mental link to a [[Eldritch Abomination|demon]] that experiences positive emotions as negative and negative as positive and is eating her soul. When she figures this out, she inverts the process and gleefully tortures it into submission by focusing on her good feelings.

* Another manga example: In ''[[Kare Kano]]'' volume 16, Rika and Tsubasa [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kare_kano/v16/c077/11.html literally] Care Bear Stare {{spoiler|Arima's [[Evil Matriarch|horrid biological mother]]}} into submission.

* Fans joke about ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha's]]'' attacks being this, to the point that "[[Defeat Means Friendship|befriend]]" has become a synonym for "utterly defeat". ''Multiverse Crisis [[MUSH]]'' has turned it into an [http://multiverse-crisis.wikidot.com/nanoha actual ability:]

{{quote| '''Friendship Beamspam''': Despite her total obliviousness to it, Nanoha has the strange and unexplainable ability to befriend anyone she causes physical harm to, ever since an incident wherein she slapped someone in first grade and they became her best friend. Studies and tests have confirmed this ability, though even Multiversal technology is at a loss to explain how or why it works. Is it radiation from the lasers? Some sort of Aura? No one knows, but it can generally be assumed that physical harm dealt by Nanoha will result in her making a new friend, with the degree of physical damage directly proportional to the level of friendship. How this translates to Aurics in the Multiverse has yet to be tested. (Consent Required where applicable.)}}

* Noora in ''[[The 99 (Comic Book)|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.

 

== Webcomics ==

* In ''[[Devil Bear (Webcomic)|Devil Bear]]'' The "Care Bear Stare" is referred to as a [http://www.thedevilbear.com/?p=72 "Virtue Bear Condenscending Glare]". It is a rainbow attack that incites love, serenity, and altruism.

*** Or an intentional parody? Given that it comes from the Virtue Bear's butts in the form of [[Fartillery|a fart]], probably the latter.

* Subverted in an ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' [http://xkcd.com/146/ strip]; this "Care Bear Stare" is an energy blast that knocks the target down, and the black hat is a long-established identifier of the strip's "[[Jerkass]]" character. [[Word of God]] says that he got this power from ''[[Made From Real Girl Scouts|eating Care Bears]]''.

* [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-28 This] ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|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.

* [http://www.darklegacycomics.com/251.html This] [[Dark Legacy Comics]] strip, where due to [[Player Character]] predation, only the [[Tastes Like Diabetes|sickenly cute]] ones survive. Only a small group of wolves managed to adapt, and thus was born the Gnome-Eating wolf.

 

** ''[[The Care Bears Movie (Film)|The Care Bears Movie]]'' has it used to stop an evil spell, but it's not enough to stop the villain. That takes [[The Power of Friendship]].

* Maguro from ''[[Sushi Pack]]'' frequently uses her telepathic powers to share zen thoughts when an antagonist needs to calm down. In one instance, she used this on her own team mates to make them follow a course of action that they did not agree with.

** {{spoiler|Until they learn they taste like manure, said aliens' most loved delicacy, at which point they proceed to eat them.}}

** A greater example is shown in "Wishology" as {{spoiler|the Darkness is defeated by blasting it with a celestial smile, turning it into the Kindness}}.

* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider Man]]'', {{spoiler|Peter is forced into a [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]] by the symbiote attempting to convince him to stay with it. Peter's memory of Uncle Ben gives him a [[Mind Hug]] figuratively and literally, by using his memories of his friends and his good deeds to make him strong enough to defeat the symbiote.}}

* In the ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' cartoon, the mechanical Fixit attempts to turn Cyborg into a pure robot, but in linking his brain to Cyborg's, Fixit's mind is flooded with all the simple pleasures of life that he had forgotten after [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|removing his own humanity.]] He releases Cyborg and decides to try to relearn some of what he had lost.

** In "The Return of Harmony: Part 2", in the climax, after Twilight {{spoiler|shakes off Discord's influence when she's reminded of how much her friendship with the other five means to her}}, she goes around using a spell to snap {{spoiler|her other five friends}} out of Discord's control. It consists of her {{spoiler|playing back memories of who they really are, and what they mean to each other, and the happy thoughts override the [[Hate Plague]] that Discord put each of them through}}, bringing them back to normal.