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''But many left to starve."''|The First ''[[Book of Swords]]''}}
Among the ways [[Psychic Powers]] can be used in combat is to [[Mind Manipulation|manipulate the minds of others]], stopping them from fighting you or making them [[Brainwashed and Crazy|fight
The effect, which is often [[More Than Mind Control]], can also be accomplished in more "realistic" settings, with a drug that produces or intensifies the emotion in question.
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A subtrope of [[Emotion Control]]. Compare [[Mind Rape]]. Contrast [[Care Bear Stare]], which is this but with niceness, to be used against a villain. [[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] [[Angst Nuke]], where a character ''blows up'' from emotion.
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=== Types of Emotion Bombs
=== [[Despair Event Horizon|Despair]] ===
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=== [[Unstoppable Rage|Anger]] ===
Despite being one of the least subtle emotions, anger requires perhaps the most finesse to weaponize effectively. Afflicting someone you're already fighting with [[Unstoppable Rage]] is... unwise. (Though it can be used to your advantage if you remove their ability to think
* This is its own subtrope, [[Hate Plague]], so examples go there.
=== Other/Multiple
* The "blamethrower", from ''[[Mystery Men]]'', produces not so much Anger as petty bickering.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'':
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** And of course, Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter. It not only incapacitates the target, but also weakens their muscles for a while after they calm down.
** In 1st Edition the psionic ability "Telempathic Projection" could send an emotion to a target creature.
* The Ilivais units in ''[[Ilivais X]]'' (especially the Phonos Weapons) tend to utilize emotion as a control scheme, at the very least. The Phonos Weapons and their pilots have ridiculously strong Drive Cores, and all of them except for Iriana have been reduced to near [[Soulless Shell
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the warlock class used to have a spell called Curse of Recklessness. It would drive the target into overconfidence, making them immune to fear effects (and ordinary fleeing, if an NPC) and hit harder but causing them to drop their defence (reducing their armour stat). The spell was recently removed and the armour reduction effect combined with another curse.
* Flinx, main protagonist of [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' universe, has [[The Empath|empathic]] powers that were originally sense-only, but received an upgrade in ''Flinx in Flux'' that allowed him to fully access his latent projective powers. He has used this ability to induce catatonic fear and/or despair in his enemies, at one point immobilizing a youth gang simply by exposing them to a glimpse of the [[Ultimate Evil]] he's destined to fight. In ''Reunion'', he uses his powers to seduce an employee of the Terran Shell complex in order to gain access to restricted data, and even manages to manipulate ''the computer itself''.
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* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' movie has a "Point of View" gun, which forces the person hit to suddenly understand the wielder's point of view. Generally just distracting, but utterly incapacitating when ''[[The Eeyore|Marvin]]'' uses it, as you can imagine.
* Occurs in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4''. When {{spoiler|Liquid shuts off SOP the first and second time}}, the soldiers affected immediately {{spoiler|experience all the emotion the system had prevented them from feeling.}} This involves such graphic displays as soldiers unable to stop laughing as they beat the shit out of their comrades, and other soldiers simply killing themselves as fear and sadness overwhelms them.
* The Psychic Powers sourcebook for GURPS includes a literal emotion
* The "Emotion Control" power in ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'', which can also be used to instill calm or hope.
* In [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]], {{spoiler|Hinamizawa Syndrome}} is at least as much a Fear/Paranoia Plague as a [[Hate Plague]]. Although the characters start attacking each other, rather than being motivated by outright anger, frequently, it's a poorly-conceived self-preservation method. {{spoiler|Keiichi}} in Onikakushi-hen in particular comes to mind.
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* Sweet Sorrow, an [[Emotion Control|emotion manipulator]] from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', concentrates on the darker emotions. She once made a successful escape by making a crowd of innocent bystanders both terrified of and furious with the superheroes trying to capture her.
* This is the schtick of the [[Emotion Eater|White Court vampires]] in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. The most common emotional affinity is lust, especially among House Raith, which is why they're often called [[Horny Devils|succubi and incubi]]. Other branches specialize in fear or despair. (Though, interestingly, real, pure emotion can actively injure them; [[The Power of Love|True Love]] burns lust-feeders, for example) In addition there's, Vittorio Malvora: because he decided to do some finagling outside of the traditional [[Planet of Hats]] line, he has the ability to use despair, plus lust, plus fear, ''all at the same time''. It takes {{spoiler|the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of a freakin' fallen angel}} to keep it off Harry.
* The ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "One Million Emotions" had the team seeking to recover a stolen "sensation doll" created as a piece of art by an extinct alien culture. Anyone who made direct contact with the doll would be deluged with "one million emotions" ALL [[Mind Rape|AT ONCE]] (or as Goose called it, "the emotional electric chair"). One of the thieves who touched the doll was reduced to an insane wreck.
* Freya's "vybe" power in the webcomic ''[[Magellan]]'' falls into this category. In a more benign application, she can make a large group of people collapse into helpless laughter, a good way to break up a fight. In more desperate circumstances, though, she can do a "full-spectrum vybe" which apparently makes someone experience every possible emotion simultaneously at full force, enough to render them catatonic for hours or days.
* An episode of the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' TV series, "The Flawed Couple", had a [[Villain Team-Up]] between Abis Mal and Mecanicles involving magical stones that could alter people's moods. Aladdin managed to break the fear one by focusing on the fact that Jasmine was in danger.
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