Emotion Bomb: Difference between revisions
replaced: [[Lord of the Rings → [[The Lord of the Rings (2)
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (cleanup template) |
(replaced: [[Lord of the Rings → [[The Lord of the Rings (2)) |
||
Line 31:
* The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|aptly-named]] character Despair in ''[[The Faerie Queene]].'' Three guesses as to what he does...
* The [[The Fair Folk|elves]] in [[Discworld]]'s ''Lords and Ladies'' seem to include this in their general aura of "glamour". How could something as clunky and utterly inadequate and ''human'' as you ever hope to defeat an elf? You don't even deserve to ''exist'' next to, much less rebel against, something so perfect as an elf. The Auditors also fight like this when incorporeal, making people think that fighting them is pointless because there's nothing really there to fight.
* It's implied that a slow-acting version of this mixed with mundane counterintelligence got to Denethor of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (book only), finally [[Driven to Suicide|driving him to an attempted murder-suicide]]. This is why you shouldn't engage in direct psychic contact with the immensely powerful [[Big Bad]] (Denethor has one of the palantíri, or Seeing Stones, like the one that Pippin took from Gandalf and looked in).
** However in both the books and films, the Nazgul have this power, mixed with fear.
* [[Ciaphas Cain]] gets a ''nasty'' hit of this in ''Duty Calls'', complete with [[Religious Horror]]. {{spoiler|[[Heroic Willpower]] keeps him sane until [[Anti-Magic|Jurgen]] arrives to break the spell, but he was still out of the fight for a bit.}}
Line 51:
== Fear ==
* The Ringwraiths in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' are constantly surrounded by a combination of this and Despair. Hardened soldiers break and run in their presence, and it's strongly implied that [[Action Girl|Eowyn]] is only able to stand up to the Witch-King because she's been [[Broken Bird|living in constant despair for years]]. She's ''used'' to it.
* Fear effects are a common game mechanic in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' and other MMORPGS, with afflicted players and monsters running randomly around the place. Many a player has cursed this when feared right into the ''next'' bunch of monsters, and it used to be that you could be scared right off a cliff!
* In the X-Men Legends series, Emma Frost can do this to every enemy in her range, making all of them bolt. Of course, this only makes it so that you have to run after them to take care of them before the effect wears off.
| |||