Heel Face Brainwashing: Difference between revisions

 

It should be noted that if any kind of brainwashing is successful in turning a person from one side to the opposing side, the brainwashee will automatically consider the change (by virtue of the brainwashing itself) to be a [[Heel Face Turn]], no matter what the real case is.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Death Note]]'', {{spoiler|Light did this to himself in a [[Memory Gambit]], although he merely intended to "prove" his innocence by helping to catch the "real" Kira. He planned to provide himself with a way to reverse his [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] after he had earned the good guys' trust}}

* In Volume 5 of ''[[Empowered]]'', {{spoiler|we find out that Mind**** <s>did</s> habitually does this... to herself.}}

* In an issue of Swedish children's comic [[Bamse]], notorious villain Krösus Sork is given a drink that makes him temporarily kind and generous.

* When [[Martian Manhunter|J'onn J'onzz]] undoes a mental block that makes him afraid of fire and unconsciously sends himself into a [[Face Heel Turn]], one of his first "evil" acts is to use his mental powers to perform this on various criminals. Inmates in high class prisons begin watching Sesame Street, the patients in Arkham are suddenly overcome with grief over their crimes and have to be restrained from committing suicide, KKK members begin lynching ''themselves,'' and [[Lex Luthor]] (at the time president) is put into a coma.

* The entire Indigo Lantern Corps. Their rings specifically seek out people who lack compassion for others such as Black Hand and ''force'' them to feel it. The rings also use their ability to manipulate other emotions on the emotion spectrum to control the feelings of the Indigo Lanterns (the Indigo entity itself, however, averts this and seeks out hosts who are already compassionate).

** Annabeth, also in ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'', tells Jason that Percy told her about the power of the River Lethe to erease memories, even from Titans, which is what happened to Iapetus. Its Canon alright

* In the third book in the ''[[Sea of Trolls]]'' series, we meet a dwarf (not the [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|fantasy kind]], but a "[[Unfortunate Implications|little person]]"). He seems decent at first, but we later learn that he's a shady, treacherous [[Jerkass]] working for the evil king. After his memory is erased, he becomes a perfectly decent guy.

** He's certainly a gray character at best, but Barty Crouch Sr. breaking his son out of Azkaban and then using the Imperius curse to control him could qualify, since his purpose was mainly to keep him from revealing himself and killing people/trying to resurrect Voldemort.

* ''[[Artemis Fowl]]''.

** Perhaps more frighteningly, the Book of Exalted Deeds (the good equivalent to the Book of Vile Darkness) includes a spell (Sanctify the Wicked) only useable by the most pure 'good' casters that imprisons its target in a diamond where the target "reflects on past evils and slowly finds within itself a spark of goodness" which then leads it to becoming a good entity like the caster. Yet oddly enough, if the gem is shattered before a year is up, the target is restored and is amazingly ''pissed'' at the caster. Thus there are some who would see this conversion via imprisonment as not unlike a specific use of the evil spell (From the Book of Vile Darkness) Mind Rape. Unlike Redemption Mind Rape could be used to (in example) remove horrible memories. (Not that anyone who knows it is likely to do so, just that it could be used that way. Well, they technically created a neutral version of this spell called "Programmed Amnesia" that allows you to do anything you wanted, good or bad.)

*** The main advantage of Sanctify the Wicked over Programmed Amnesia is that it is perfectly effective on fiends (devils and demons, who are literally made out of evil). Altering a fiend's alignment with Programmed Amnesia is likely to be temporary, either until it finds a cure or its inherent nature causes its alignment to drift back to its natural state.

* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the various types of Exalted are all capable of learning to be supernaturally persuasive, occasionally to the point of [[Mind Rape]], and often leading to this trope. The books are very much aware of the implications, however. [[Beware the Superman|Stuff like this is one of the many reasons the Usurpation happened.]]

 

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