Hate Plague: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Star Trek Enterprise]]'' had an episode where the closer the ship got to an undetected [[Negative Space Wedgie|singularity]], the more the crew started to freak out, basically giving them a nuclear version of [[Super OCD]].

** This is also one of the possible effects of [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Orion]] pheromones on other women.

* ''[[~~Crusade (TV)|~~Crusade]]'', the sequel to ''[[~~Babylon 5 (TV)|~~Babylon 5]]'', had an episode where the crew visited a planet that was boobytrapped with a means of driving visitors into murderous rages.

* ''[[Crusade]]'', the sequel to ''[[Babylon 5]]'', had an episode where the crew visited a planet that was boobytrapped with a means of driving visitors into murderous rages.

** It was much more devious. The people would not only perform violent acts. Afterwards, they would have no memory of the event and instead remember seeing a shadowy figure performing the act. Of course, it wasn't really a plague but {{spoiler|Technomage nanites}}.

* The Croatoan virus from ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'', which was later part of [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Pestilence]]'s plan to release it nationwide as part of [[Satan|Lucifer's]] endgame.

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* The ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' episode "Crackers Don't Matter" has a highly amusing Hate Plague, causing several characters to become obsessed with ensuring their fair share of crackers, to the point of barricades and gun battles.

* One of the Gelliant Gutfright sketches from ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' features the "Fighting Buttercup," a flower which causes anger and aggression {{spoiler|for about five minutes. And then explodes.}}

* ''[[Eureka]]'' - "All the Rage": A device designed to ''calm people down'' [[Gone Horribly Wrong|instead]] turns GD into [[Shout Out|"a Romero]] [[Night of the Living Dead|movie"]].

* ''[[Eureka]]'' - "All the Rage": A device designed to ''calm people down'' [[Gone Horribly Wrong|instead]] turns GD into [[Shout-Out|"a Romero]] [[Night of the Living Dead|movie"]].

* ''[[Ultra Seven]]'' episode 8 had aliens lace cigarettes with a toxic seed that made humans violent. It was all a plan to repopulate the Earth after humans wiped each other out.

* In ''[[~~Alphas (TV)|~~Alphas]]'', one of the [[Villains Of The Week]] Matthew Hurly has the ability to release pheromones that causes the people around him explode in homicidal rage.

* In ''[[Alphas]]'', one of the [[Villains Of The Week]] Matthew Hurly has the ability to release pheromones that causes the people around him explode in homicidal rage.

* The "Hound of Baskerville", in the ''[[Sherlock (TV)|Sherlock]]'' episode of that name, turns out to have been a hallucinogenic drug that also functioned as this, giving those it was forced upon images of horrible monsters... and then making them want to murder them.

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* Features in ''[[Deadly Premonition]]''. {{spoiler|A purple gas produced from the Red Seeds that drives people into a murderous rage was responsible for the Original Raincoat Killer incident.}}

** And it happens again {{spoiler|during the last mission of the game. Killing the [[Final Boss]] puts a stop to it though.}}

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'': Almost everything that increases monster leveling has a description to that effect. The Annoy-o-Tron, the badly tuned radio, the Canadian Mind Control Device which takes it [[Up to Eleven]]... even, as a [[Shout Out]] to ''Nethack'', a ring of conflict. Most infamous is the hockey stick of furious angry rage, which is imbued with everything that makes hockey hockey.

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'': Almost everything that increases monster leveling has a description to that effect. The Annoy-o-Tron, the badly tuned radio, the Canadian Mind Control Device which takes it [[Up to Eleven]]... even, as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''Nethack'', a ring of conflict. Most infamous is the hockey stick of furious angry rage, which is imbued with everything that makes hockey hockey.

* One of Omega's powers in ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' is his ability to turn normally sane reploids into murderous psychopaths. This power combined with his bloodthirsty desire to kill is ultimately what caused the deaths of 90% of reploids and 60% of humans in the Elf Wars. Imagine a robotic Skarbrand and you have Omega in a nutshell.

* The [[Chekhov's Gun|Spice]] from ''[[Sly Cooper]] 2'' causes insanity and unbound hatred, the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Constaple Neyla/Clockla}} intends to use this worldwide hatred to fuel {{spoiler|her}} immortality.

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== Western Animation ==

* The [[Trope Namer]] is the Hate Plague in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''. Also occurred as one of a small handful of [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] in ''[[Beast Machines (Animation)|Beast Machines]]''.

* The [[Trope Namer]] is the Hate Plague in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''. Also occurred as one of a small handful of [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] in ''[[Beast Machines (Animation)|Beast Machines]]''.

** Despite the name, it doesn't really fit. The infected often initially become violent, but will then begin to work together with other infected. In the second of the two-parter that introduced the plague, Cyclonus commands the other Decepticons to retreat after coming under fire from the Autobots, and they follow his orders unquestioningly. It's more of a "Lack of inhibitions" plague than a "hate" plague.

*** One example of the afflicted cooperating are the combiners. In spite of fighting amongst themselves minutes earlier, the Aerialbots re-combine into Superion. They later infect Defensor. Defensor immediately collapses into the 5 Protectobots; the five fight amongst themselves. The same happens when Galvatron raids the lab containing the plague. Menasor and Bruticus are touched immediately by afflicted Autobots and immediately collapse into 10 brawling Transformers.

*** The Decepticons' cooperation could be [[Fridge Brilliance]] at work, as hatred had already been a part of their driving motivation, so wouldn't necessarily alter their behavior as much as it does, the non-villainous characters'. Doubly so for Menasor and the Stunticons, whose bios indicate that they operate on a level that barely makes it ''up'' to [[Teeth Clenched Teamwork]].

*** The Decepticons' cooperation could be [[Fridge Brilliance]] at work, as hatred had already been a part of their driving motivation, so wouldn't necessarily alter their behavior as much as it does, the non-villainous characters'. Doubly so for Menasor and the Stunticons, whose bios indicate that they operate on a level that barely makes it ''up'' to [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]].

* In ''[[Justice League]]'', supervillain Gorilla Grodd uses his mental abilities to give the team's minor issues with each other a little push, much to their embarrassment.

* Both the [[The Care Bears Movie (Film)|first]] and [[Care Bears Movie IIA New Generation (Film)|second]] ''[[Care Bears]]'' movies show the villains having a dark influence on surrounding people - the kids at the amusement park where Nicholas and the evil book are become rotten little monsters, and so do the kids at the camp where Dark Heart sets up shop.

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