Heel Face Brainwashing: Difference between revisions

 

== Fan Works ==

** Technically, she wasn't brainwashed. Haruhi thought that brainwashing was not cool.

* The [[Villain Protagonist]] of the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' fanfic "The Council Era" is growing an army of dezba from the DNA of one of his Mooks. He intends to surgically alter their genetic thought process in order to "civilize" them, so that they will serve the Citadel against the krogan during the war. They were an almost [[Always Chaotic Evil]] race beforehand, so he's somewhat justified.

 

== Film ==

* This is done to Foxy Loxy at the end of ''[[Chicken Little (Disney)|Chicken Little]]'', for extra [[Broken Aesop]]-ness.

* ''[[Star Wars]] - [[Attack of the Clones]]'': [[Jedi Mind Trick|"You don't want to sell me deathsticks". "I don't want to sell you deathsticks". "You want to go home and rethink your life". "I want to go home and rethink my life"]]. Granted, all he was made to do was go home and have a good think, it was perfectly within the dude's power afterwards to decide for himself that selling deathsticks is a pretty good gig after all, if that's what he really wanted out of life.

** The Ancients ''did'' refrain from using it because of moral objections, and decided to flee instead; given the trouble caused by the continued existence of the Ori, this was a seriously [[Neglectful Precursors|neglectful]] act. When it is eventually used, it's a fairly simple case of self-defense.

* This was status quo in ''[[Demolition Man]]'', where criminals placed in cryoprisons were brainwashed with various "rehabilitation" programs, like an affinity for taking up knitting and such. It was also inverted, as it is discovered that the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|was programmed to be even worse than he already was by Cocteau, who wanted to use him against his enemies.}}

 

 

* [[Doc Savage]]'s Crime School, which bears [[Values Dissonance|an uncomfortably close resemblance to lobotomization for modern readers]].

** This is surprisingly common in [[Utopia|Utopias]] before science fiction's Golden Age--as in, so before the Golden Age that they also talk positively of the annihilation of all non-"useful" animal life. It's still used straight as late as the middle of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s career, although in the short story in question the character advocating the procedure is {{spoiler|secretly a robot, who of course would regard mental reprogramming as no different from the reprogramming done to defective robots.}}

* In the ''[[Foundation]]'' novels, the Mule is a terrifying, unpredicted mutant who has the power to conquer worlds by brainwashing their leaders into liking him. He effortlessly topples the First Foundation with nothing but this ability. The Second Foundation eventually beats him by, uh, brainwashing him. Into being a nice guy. Really, though, the Foundation is never exactly portrayed as morally good. Its survival is simply considered necessary.

* In a supreme irony, a [[Knight Templar]] who engages in this behavior in ''[[Charles Stross|Glasshouse]]'' is forced to reprogram herself so she believes it's wrong to change people like this. Decide for yourself whether that's hypocrisy or [[Karma]].

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