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== Video Games ==
* While [[Academagia]] has least a few examples this trope in the various Adventures and Events, the most blatant 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 it 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
* In ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Trials & Tribulations'':
{{quote|'''Godot:''' You did it, didn't you?
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* While driving, whom would you rather allow to pass, between the maniac who cuts line and flips off everyone, or the guy who turns on his sidelight, makes respectful hand signs and waits until you signal him back?
* Psychological studies have shown that people are far more likely to allow you to cut in front of them in line if you simply ask them. This nearly doubles if you give them a reason, even if it's an inane reason. One of the examples given was waiting in line for a copier: "May I cut in front of you? I need to make some copies" will get you what you want actually over half the time.
* There's a story about a [[World War II]] British (or American) spy who infiltrated the Nazis by going deep undercover, learning to speak perfect, unaccented German (and claiming not to know English). His fake backstory worked, and the Germans were sending him off by plane when one of the officers tested him by calling out "Good luck!" in
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