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== Video Games ==

* While [[Academagia]] has least a few examples this trope in the various Adventures and Events, the most [[Egregious]] example is actually a game mechanic. With a very high Calligraphy skill your character has access to an Action called Create Formal Invitation. When this action is used on another student it's possible to create a written request so elegant in form and content that compels the recipient to agree, basically allowing you to control them for up to two days! The only way to gain more control over another character is through [[Mind Manipulation|Mastery spells]], and that's a [[The Dark Arts|highly prohibited]] form of magic. Furthermore, unlike most other available ways to force [[NPC|NPCs]] to do specific things, it won't worsen your relationship or be considered a hostile act.

{{quote| '''Godot:''' You did it, didn't you?<br />

'''Ron DeLite:''' Yes.<br />

'''Phoenix:''' [[Flat What|What?]] }}

 

 

'''Commander:''' Okay! ... Wait a second. No!<br />

'''Mee:''' It's like he's always one step ahead! }}

{{quote| '''President:''' Why hello! It's so nice to see you all!<br />

'''Canadian 1:''' It's...so nice to be here.<br />

* On the ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer gets jealous of Flanders' family barbecue, resulting in the page quote.

* In ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'': The main characters are trying to get a scientist's assistance, with the catch that he won't tell them what they need to do to get his help. It turns out all they had to do... was give up.

** Note that Dashi's phrasing was important. He specifically said that Omi would have proved his worth when he could ''get'' the pebble from Dashi's hand-not ''take'' the pebble from his hand. It was Omi's own preconceptions about what he should be doing in this situation that had him expending so much effort to finally reach a simple solution (which has bitten him in the butt before - in one episode Omi is the quickest to complete a circular obstacle course and "rescue" the toy puppy at the end by passing through all the obstacles, but Clay is judged by their teacher to be the winner because he reasoned that the puppy was behind him, and there was no reason to exert himself if he could [[Cutting the Knot|turn around and snatch the dog from the jaws of death in about three seconds]]).

** The other reason Dashi chose to do it that way, [[It Amused Me|"It was funny".]]

* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Deduce, You Say", Daffy Duck (as "brilliant detective" [[Sherlock Holmes|Doorlock Homes]]) is unable to subdue the Shropshire Slasher with brute force. Porky Pig (as his assistant, Dr. Watkins) simply asks the Slasher to please give himself up, and the Slasher agrees instantly.

** When his mother (who apparently had the foresight to ''name'' him "Shropshire Slasher") comes in and scolds him, [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|he escorts her home,]] saying, "I promised the nice man I'd turn myself in, mother." "You were always such a good boy, Slasher."

* One episode of ''[[South Park]]'' contains an entire family that uses this trope, being so supernaturally friendly that possessing ill will towards them is fairly impossible, two characters wondering what exactly happened after they ended conversations by being invited to dinner.

** Well, they ''are'' [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|Mormons.]]

{{quote| '''Delightful Children:''' ...No fair!}}