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* [[The Demented Cartoon Movie]], anyone?

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt183pmJkUw&annotation_id=annotation_833814&feature=iv This parody of inception] by [[Rooster Teeth]] will mind fuck you even worse than the movie did...

* [[Oktober]] starts out fairly normal, then you notice that they seemingly can't spell Oktober right, and every character's interpretation of Katie seems to be different, and then they start doing backwards text parables, and then {{spoiler|Natasha gets body-snatched by someone called Echo, and Katie's trunk is revealed to be some sort of portal to an alternate reality, then there is the whole Labyrinth thing and by the end of Book 1 NOTHING MAKES SENSE.}}

* The [[League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions]] had some moments: the idea that it was both a story of superheroes in the future & a TV show about superheroes in the future was one; the Queue's explanation of how they created the LICC universe was another; although the [[Homage|Gerber Elf]] was the only one we know was an intentional [[Mind Screw]] on the part of an author.

** He also suggests that ''[[Michael Jackson|Moonwalker]]'' should've been named 'Mind F*** er' instead.

** And then there was the dream sequence halfway through the review for ''Junior''. And for those of you who want to know about the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|music which plays during the dream sequence]], the tune was "Phantoms" by American Space Rock band, Paik.

 

* ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]''. '''Full stop'''. Just head over to it's [[Wild Mass Guessing|WMG]] page if you want to see how zany things can get.

* [[Salad Fingers]]. To some, it's not just a Mind Screw. It's full-blown Mind ''Rape,'' complete with post-trauma (again, to some).

** David Firth's other creation, [[Spoilsbury Toast Boy]], is particularly full of this as well. Come to think of it, ''anything'' David Firth makes is chock full of [[Mind Screw]].

* [[There Will Be Brawl]]. {{spoiler|The finale, and thus the entire series.}}

* The entirety of [[The Slender Man Mythos]] tends to feature these. Obvious examples are ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' (and especially totheark's videos), ''[[Dreams in Darkness]]'' and ''[[Just Another Fool]]''.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-2F8ApUM BRODYQUEST.] In a good way, though. Maybe.

* Season 3 of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' introduces a group of [[Respawning Enemies|constantly resurrecting soldiers]], a time bomb, an [[Groundhog Day Loop|endlessly repeating time loop]], [[Noodle Incident|"Yellow Church"]], and a ''talking'' bomb to a series previously known for a more laid-back style of humor featuring a box canyon where nothing happens. ''Recreation'' (Season 7) and ''Revelation'' (Season 8) apply a [[Mind Screwdriver]] to most of this.

** But ''Revelation'' then manages to take it further by revealing that {{spoiler|everything for the past 3 seasons was part of a [[Recursive Reality]] created by a previous iteration of [[Living Memory|Epsilon]], which was in turn created by another Epsilon before it, etc.}}

** {{spoiler|That may be looking to much into it. At a minimum, there is only the original timeline, and a trapped Epsilon-Church reliving his memories to find Tex in the epilogue.}}

* Cyriak's videos, including this disturbing video starring a sheep. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw&feature=channel_video_title Baaa..]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=getR9TEcAT0 Deja Vu], a short film on [[YouTube]] actually has this trope as part of its subtitle, and for good reason.

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Special Edition]]'' starts off normally enough, until random bits of footage start getting spliced in, and multiple levels turn out to be a [[Show Within a Show]] or [[All Just a Dream]]. Then the game starts [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaking every fourth wall]] in sight, with Tails holding conversations with the player, and even threatening the people watching the [[Let's Play|LP]] of the game. Then it spins the [[Gameplay Roulette]] wheel a few times, and pulls a few [[Fission Mailed]] scenes. By the time Sonic is flying through space, being attacked by Sega game systems, the player gives up understanding what's going on and just embraces the madness. Fittingly, the final boss is {{spoiler|''logic''--which goes down with a single hit.}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g Pon Pon Pon]. Good luck trying to figure out what's going on. Whatever it is, it seems to involve microphones coming out of people's ears and eyeballs dancing.

'''Wire''': I crawled through a river of shit and came out the other side ''clean'', okay?! }}

** He spends the next few moments trying to figure out what that even meant.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxAJqvslV7M APPLE.MOV], it starts out relatively normal with a few odd things in it {{spoiler|up until Applejack eats too many apples.}}

* [[Candle Cove]] is a good, but fairly subtle, [[Creepypasta]] example. In short, a bunch of people who grew up in the late 60's and early 70's reminisce about a TV show that aired in 1971 on a message board. After establishing the show as being terribly not-for-children and one description of a nightmare about it, the last few posts reveal that {{spoiler|the nightmare, which was just the characters standing around screaming and crying for 30 minutes, was an actual episode, and every time a kid would go watch Candle Cove, they'd just tune the TV to dead air and sit there for 30 minutes. ''So they all remember watching the same thing that never existed.''}}

 

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