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'''Snuka''': ''But effective!''
Apparently, a strong emotional reaction is enough to break [[Hypnotize the Princess|hypnotism]], [[Brainwashed|brainwashing]], amnesia, or just plain depression.
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Warning! The victim will remember the insult, and it probably won't be erased by having saved them. Be prepared for a (potentially violent) backlash unless you explain yourself. Heck, the backlash could be immediate if this trope involves hitting a [[Berserk Button]].
Even [[More Than Mind Control]] isn't always enough to resist this. However, they can't be
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== Anime
* In an early arc of ''[[Ranma
** Repeating? Ranma's father actually does some freestyle DJing with it.
** Akane wakes Ranma up from unconsciousness after he [[Taking the Bullet|takes the brunt]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|of an attack]] that slammed him into a wall [[Made of Iron|hard enough to shatter every bone in a normal person's body.]]
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'''Ranma''': [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Who are you calling an idiot?!]] I save you and this is the thanks I get?! }}
* Kakeru from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' wakes up the one-quarter awake Yuki by commenting that he was probably "brought up as a spoiled little rich girl." Since Yuki is also deceptively strong when he's sleeping, it backfired slightly.
* In ''[[Medabots]]'', Ikki uses this to kick-start Medabee near the start of the series. {{spoiler|After Medabee is kidnapped and his medal used in a doomsday device, Ikki manages to wake him up using the same tactic.}}
* In ''[[
* Similar: the only way to wake up [[D
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' has {{spoiler|Sousuke}} use this to drag {{spoiler|Kaname's}} suppressed consciousness out from {{spoiler|under the "Sophia" personality in the last light novel}}, thereby preventing a {{spoiler|[[Reality Rewrite]]}}.
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' America brings England ''back from the dead'' by pretending to be happy that he's dead.
* The edited-for-TV dub of [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] has Yusuke claiming he got awakened in the Dark Tournament (and for reference, he'd been sleeping through the cruise to the island
* At one point in ''[[One Piece]]'', [[Big Eater|Luffy]], [[Blood Knight|Zoro]] and [[Chivalrous Pervert|Sanji]] are all put into comas when their shadows are stolen by the [[Big Bad]] of the arc. To wake them up all up at once, someone shouts that a [[Chivalrous Pervert|beautiful lady]] [[Blood Knight|swordswoman]] has boarded the ship with [[Big Eater|lots and lots of meat.]]
* Played with in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': Ed is unintentionally awakened by train hijackers referring to him as [[Berserk Button|runt]]. In a fit of rage, he wipes the floor with every bandit in the train car. Afterward, he has no idea what is going on, and asks who the unconscious bandit he's holding by the collar is. Turns out that he was just subconsciously reacting to the word "runt".
== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[Tintin
* An isue of [[Batman Gotham Adventures]] has [[The Joker]] given a radical form of shock treatment that renders him non-violent, good natured, and even affectionate to [[
== Fan Fics ==▼
* In ''Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality'', Hermione restores Harry to normal after a Dementor assault by kissing him. His first words upon his return to normal are (outraged): "I SAID NO KISSING!"▼
▲* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', Hermione restores Harry to normal after a Dementor assault by kissing him. His first words upon his return to normal are (outraged): "I SAID NO KISSING!"
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[The Perilous Gard]]'' {{spoiler|the main character Kate uses this to save Christopher from becoming a [[Human Sacrifice]].}}
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Also happened in one ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]'' episode, when all the policemen except for the choleric boss have become totally apathetic.▼
▲* In the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "This Side of Paradise", the ship's crew falls under the influence of spores from an alien plant and stop caring about their duties and responsibilities. Kirk snaps out of it and thereby discovers that strong negative emotions can counteract the spores' effect. He then insults Spock to the point where it drives Spock into a rage.
▲* Also happened in one ''[[Sledge Hammer]]'' episode, when all the policemen except for the choleric boss have become totally apathetic.
* On an episode of ''[[JAG]]'', a Marine in a coma is awoken by an angry bedside tirade from his Drill Sergeant.
* [[NCIS]] does this in reverse - Ziva manages to restore Gibbs' memory by grabbing his hand and inflicting his trademark [[Dope Slap]] on herself.
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* An episode of ''[[Full House]]'' featured Joey listening to self-help tapes and being so into them that the only way to snap him out of it was to pull back his headphones and insult him.
* [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]] ''claims'' that the first real sign of life from co-presenter Richard Hammond after his accident was when he visited him in hospital and told him that the reason he was in that state was because he was a crap driver. Apparently Hammond smiled.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars]] Original Generation 2'', Seolla had been brainwashed into forgetting that her close friend Arado, who recently pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]], ever existed except as an enemy. Yet, when he made a crack about the size of her breasts (something he's been doing to her since they day they met), she immediately snapped "How many times have I told you not to make fun of my chest!" by pure reflex.
* ''[[Gate Keepers]]'': the entire crew is in a [[Lotus Eater Machine|Lotus Eater-type]] situation, and Shun realizes before everyone else that he's in a dream. He snaps Ruriko out of it by calling her a "crybaby" (something he used to call her when they were kids).
* In the beginning of ''[[
=== Visual Novel ===
* In [[Fate/stay
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* In ''[[The B
▲* In [[Fate Stay Night]], calling Fuji by her nickname, Tiger, will always wake her up. The students she teaches have to do this whenever she gives herself a concussion in her haste to get to her ''own class'' on time.
* [[Axis Powers Hetalia
* In ''[http://antiheroforhire.com/ Antihero for Hire]'', the Action Girl was accidentally
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[The B Movie Comic (Webcomic)|The B Movie Comic]]'', the [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] was hypnotized by the [[Big Bad]] using [[Functional Magic]]. When her friends rescued her, they needed to wake her up in a hurry. By ''[[Contrived Coincidence|pure coincidence]]'', the [[The Ditz|dumb jock]] [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/index_0076.html commented on her breasts]. It resulted in a [[Hyperspace Mallet]], but at least it worked.
▲* [[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Eng]][[Moe Anthropomorphism|land]] is dying, with [[Love Freak|America]] by his side tearing up and whispering his name while the [[Grim Reaper]] stands behind him. As England gives his "I never hated you" speech to America, which is cut short by his apparent death, it takes America a few seconds before patting the grim reaper on the back and saying [[Mood Whiplash|"He's FINALLY dead!"]] It turns out to be a way to bring him back from death's door.
▲* In ''[http://antiheroforhire.com/ Antihero for Hire]'', the Action Girl was accidentally [[Insulted Awake]] from a [[Mind Probe]] when [[The Rival]] [[Anti-Hero]] with [[UST]] [http://antiheroforhire.com/d/20071019.html called her a nasty name], resulting in ''Simpsons''-esque strangling.
▲* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', Ellen roused [[Straw Feminist|Susan]] from a stupor by expressing a misogynistic sentiment, providing the image for this page. And that's after [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-07-03 her first attempt] failed.
* A non-verbal example, when Joe from ''[[Its Walky]]'' meets Joyce for the first time in a year she has no idea who he is thanks to a mindswipe. When she asks if she knows him he restores her memory by promptly slamming a door in her face, something he had done often in college to get her to leave.
** Mike does this to a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Tony. Oddly, even after saying he dug up his mother's corpse just to violate it (among other things), Tony doesn't snap out of it until [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Mike calls him a loser]].
* ''[[Blip]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120520073539/http://blipcomic.com/622/ did it] with a witch and ''[[Harry Potter]]'' reference.
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In one episode of ''[[Teen Titans (
* This happens to Nigel Uno a lot in ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''. As one example, on being stranded on Rainbow Monkey Island for a long time, he ended up [[Going Native]]... until someone told him he had gone through all that for a keychain. He ''immediately'' returned to normal and [[Rant-Inducing Slight|exploded]].
* The plot of an episode of the ''[[Super Mario Brothers Super Show]]'' revolved around an escalating argument between the brothers, and, to get at Mario, Luigi snapped Mario's suspenders back, pulled his [[Nice Hat|cap]] down, and plucked his moustache so hard it curled upwards. Later, Mario fell under a hypnotic tech-induced Koopa Trance, leaving it up to Luigi to save him. When the inevitable [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] between them ended up not actually breaking the trance, Luigi simply repeats what he did to Mario earlier, bringing him back by eliciting the same response as he'd gotten earlier:
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