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* In ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'', turns out Pixy Misa wasn't a brainwashed persona, but the repressed aspects of Misao's personality.

* In ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]], Vegeta falls under Babidi's Majin control, which brings out the evil of whoever is placed under it and brings them under his control. After Goku tries to get him to snap out of it, Vegeta reveals that he's not truly under Babidi's control; he ''let'' himself be affected because he felt he was going soft, and knew Babidi could bring out his evil side and get him fired up to finally fight Goku.

* In [[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual|Duall]] Kazuki assumes that {{spoiler|Mitsuki Sanada}} has been hypnotized to fight him since the same thing had happened to Mitsuki Rara earlier. Turns out that {{spoiler|she had willingly agreed to help the Rara army so that they would help her and Kazuki return to their own world}}. Once she realizes how close she came to killing Kazuki and how dumb her choice was she keeps the truth to herself.

 

* The Teen Titans Judas Contract Arc: Moreso in the comics than the cartoon, Beast Boy/Changeling initially hoped Terra was being Brainwashed or manipulated somehow by Deathstroke/Slade before he could accept that her alliance with Slade was completely voluntary. In the cartoon, while she is manipulated by Slade, she is very voluntary about doing his dirty work for him. Having his own traumatic experience with Slade, Robin shares the hope that Slade's forcing her into it, and Terra has to spell it out for him: "I DON'T NEED SAVING! I'm not some sad little girl who's waiting to be rescued! I wanted to be this way! I wanted to go with Slade! I wanted to annihilate you and your pathetic friends!"

* In the 90s, when Colossus abandoned the [[X-Men]] for [[Magneto|Magneto's]] Acolytes, his team-mates -- specifically [[Wolverine]]--wanted to believe that he was under mind-control; Colossus immediately denied it and for a while it was the official explanation that he was not being compelled. Eventually Professor X decided that Colossus had committed this [[Face Heel Turn]] because of an undiagnosed brain injury (he had a huge dent in his head at the time and was trapped in his armored form--but even after said injury was treated, Colossus still stayed with the Acolytes. It was kind of refreshing.

 

* In ''The Shadow'' movie, Lamont Cranston assumes Dr. Reinhardt's assistant, Farley Claymore, has been telepathically controlled into helping Shiwan Khan, until he tries to snap him out of it and Claymore boasts he is helping Khan of his own free will, hoping to be rewarded with power. Given Cranston's earlier life as the vicious drug lord Yin-Ko, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, and really should have considered that possibility.

 

* In ''Trader'' by Charles de Lint, Max Trader has [[Grand Theft Me|involuntarily swapped bodies]] with another character. When his teenage neighbor Nia learns this, then sees her mother kissing another woman, she assumes her mother has been swapped too. Not so. Her mother is really a lesbian and just hasn't come out to her yet.

* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[The Sharing Knife]]'' series, Fawn is constantly asked if the sorcerous Dag has beguiled her into marrying him, when they are really just in love. Also, in "Passage", {{spoiler|Alder}} is not beguiled by {{spoiler|Crane}}. And in "Horizon", a halfbreed Lakewalker beguiles a farmer into loving and marrying her, only to learn that beguilement wears off over time, and her husband is staying with her of his own free will.

* [http://wikinfo.org/index.php/Tarra_(Doctor_Who) Tarra] from "[[Faction Paradox|The Ancestor Cell]]", at least in [[Chivalrous Pervert|Fitz's]] conception. He thinks she's led on by Kellen, but it's obvious she's leading the rich kids on and is the [[Man Behind the Man]]. Her "first name" is {{spoiler|[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Mother]], the title of a [[Faction Paradox]] agent, a vicious [[Cult]] engaging in [[Temporal Paradox|Temporal Paradoxes]] and whose goal is to destroy the structure of time itself. }}

 

* A perfect example is Connor in ''[[Angel]]'''s fourth season. The demon Jasmine has the power to enthrall anyone who sees her; only contact with her blood can break the spell, at which point the victim sees her true, horrific face. Fred is accidentally freed this way, and she manages to free the rest of the cast one by one. But when they try to cure Connor, he betrays them -- turns out that due to their blood relation, he's ''never'' been under Jasmine's spell. He's just so tired of fighting and being manipulated that he's willing to go along with her [[Utopia Justifies the Means]] thing.

** Another episode involved a boy who was apparently being possessed by a demon. When the demon is finally exorcised, he reveals that the boy was already more evil than he was: he was so evil, in fact, that he was not so much possessed by the demon as ''imprisoning'' him.

* Xander from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. His best friend Willow thought the Second Xander wandering around was an [[Evil Twin]]. It turns out it was just {{spoiler|Xander had been split into Awesome and More Awesome and it was all him}}.

 

* In 2011, [[TNA]] had a lesbian love triangle storyline where Winter used a [[Love Potion]] to make Angelina Love dump Velvet Sky and hook up with her instead, while viciously assaulting Velvet. Eventually, Angelina reveals that she's snapped out of it, but loves Winter anyway and genuinely wants to hurt Velvet.

 

* In ''[[Warcraft|Warcraft III]]'', Thrall is enraged to learn that Grom Hellscream was not brainwashed by the Burning Legion, but instead knowingly led the entire orc race into accepting the Blood Pact. Grom later redeems himself via [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

** There is also one in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. The players are sent to assassinate Emperor Dagran Thaurissan, the [[Evil Emperor]] of the Dark Iron and rescue the captive Princess Moira Bronzebeard. It however turned out that {{spoiler|she took a liking to him and [[Happily Married]], much to the player's surprise.}}

* In ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]'', while {{spoiler|Mumkhar}} probably ''was'' brainwashed (since he was {{spoiler|[[Reforged Into a Minion]]}}), anything about attacking his former allies and stealing the Monado was redundant. To prove his point, {{spoiler|he threatens to kill Fiora a second time, despite the fact that she had been turned into a Face like him, just to torment Dunban.}}

 

* ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky]]'''s final arc deals with several mind-controlled former teammates... and one who, it turns out, switched sides by choice.

{{quote|"He wasn't hypnotised, merely disgruntled."}}

*** Actually, the ones who said that told their [[The Watson|Watson]] that they had been lying to manipulate Vaarsuvius. It really didn't have an effect on alignment.

 

* In the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "The Brave and the Bold", [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Gorilla Grodd]] uses a mind control helmet as his main weapon. Once it's broken, it turns out that the scientist who was assisting him was in love with him all along.

{{quote|'''Flash:''' Internet romances huh? Go figure.}}

** Batman puts forward that he knew {{spoiler|Jason}} was going to be dangerous someday. {{spoiler|That's why Batman made him Robin, to try and keep him on the straight and narrow.}}

 

* The Castle Anthrax sequence from ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]''.

* Disney's ''[[Oliver and Company]]'', when the titular kitten is adopted by a rich little girl, only to be 'rescued' by his stray-dog friends.

** And by extension, ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' with Brownlow.

 

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', when Bob the Skull tries to get Harry to let him out for a night:

{{quote|'''Harry Dresden:''' No way. Last time I let you out, you got into a frat party and started an orgy.

 

 

* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' "Zooing Time": The supposedly brainwashed Norbert is genuinely disappointed at being rescued from a zoo, because he actually likes it, but Daggett thinks that he's saying that because he was brainwashed. (And he's taking responsibility for getting Norb sent to the zoo to begin with.)

* Same goes in ''[[Kids Next Door]]'', "Operation: C.O.L.L.E.G.E.", with Nigel participating in snow cone research.