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{{quote|''"He does not have to earn my loyalty, Captain. He has had it from the moment I was conceived. I am a Jem'Hadar. He is a Vorta. It is the order of things."''
''"Do you really want to give up your life for the 'order of things'?"''
''"It's not my life to give up, Captain– and it never was."''
|'''Remata'Klan''' and '''Capt. Sisko''', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''}}
[[Mooks]] who have been enslaved, and sometimes considered [[Meat Puppet
A truly karmic version of this Trope occurs when a villain is done in by his own Slave Mooka, after they're freed of whatever method used to enslave them.
Subtrope of [[Forced Into Evil]].
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== Anime
* Most of {{spoiler|Emperor Lelouche's}} forces in ''[[Code Geass]]''.
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', we're not exactly sure ''what'' is up with the Galatic Mooks, as for some reason do they not only look exactly the same, they have their own weird language and seem to move as one entity. They don't seem to be anything more than mindless dolls.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has Cultivated Humans. They look like a human had sex with a spinach plant and somehow got a zombie baby out of it. Naturally, demons grow these things wholesale as mindless expendable mooks.
* The [[Psycho Prototype|pre-Extended]] of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' were kept under control by [[Psycho Serum|drugs]], [[We Have Reserves|classified as equipment]], and considered even more expendable than the rest of the Earth Forces. The actual Extended in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' are conditioned to be emotionally dependent on their commander [[Char Clone|Neo]] and will die without regular treatment that only the Earth Forces can provide.
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* [[Complete Monster|Alexia]]'s minions in ''[[The Return (fanfic)|The Return]]'' since they are her [[Mind Rape
== [[Film]] ==
* The [[Send in the Clones|Clones]] in ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels. They're designed to be completely loyal, basically more intelligent meat-droids who obey orders without question. Nonetheless, they're still quite human, forming family bonds and enjoying their lot in life while serving with their Jedi generals. {{spoiler|When Order 66 comes out, virtually all of them obeyed. The troopers who disobeyed the order were commandos or delta units, clones specifically designed to be more independent
** The insane Selkath in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' also count.
* A movie version of this is the ''[[Evil Dead]]'' deadites, which are possessed (in the first two films).
* Xerxes' army in ''
* The original, permanently-hairy Lycans from the ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' movies were utilized as this trope by medieval-era vampires.
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Codex Alera]]'' has the Immortals, slaves wearing “Discipline Collars” that give pleasure when obeying orders and pain when disobeying. They've worn those collars their entire lives, making them utterly loyal to their master and more animal than man.
* From ''[[Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'', Lord Shadowspawn's Pawns are human Force-sensitives who have been effectively lobotomized and implanted with telepathic receptors that allow him to control and speak through them remotely. {{spoiler|Then it turns out that Shadowspawn (or rather, Shadow's Pawn), is a Pawn himself. The real mastermind is the frail but powerful Cronal}}.
** ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' brings us the [[Lizard Folk|Chazrach]], reptilian slave soldiers of the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Yuuzhan Vong]]. They're an almost tragic case in that they started out as conquered subjects of the Vong, and over the centuries, underwent progressive genetic "shaping" that eventually rendered them little more than mindless automatons, with no greater instinct beyond fighting for their masters. As Jedi Master Lar Le'ung puts it, "They have no free will, so do not try to reason with them".
* Controllers in ''[[Animorphs]]'', since the Yeerks are sentient parasites that take over a host's body, including essentially the entire population of Gedds, Hork-Bajir, and Taxxons (though Taxxons are ''willing'' slaves).
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', when Frodo and Sam are infiltrated into Mordor, a regiment of orcs turns out to be conscripts.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Both the Brainwashed and the normal variety show up in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Some are mooks of weekly villains and some are the season's Big Bad's. Spike becomes one of the brainwashed types in Season 7 due to the First.
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'':
** The Jem'Hadar in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. Interestingly, it is shown that the Jem'Hadar fully worship the founders, and rebelling against them is rare. However, they tend to distrust their Vorta overseers and rebelling against them is not as rare. Most Jem'Hadar remain loyal to the Vorta however, because it is the order of things.
** The Borg also fit this to some extent as well, in the brainwashed/[[Hive Mind]] sense. They really stepped into it by the time of [[Star Trek: Voyager]], and in the episode "Unimatrix Zero", there's a "Borg Resistance", as it were, that initially operates in an unconscious shared dream world.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': The armies of the
== Music ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Iron Ring, a network of slavers from the [[Mystara]] setting, reduces some of its victims to a state of berserk insanity, then uses them as expendable human guard-dogs.
** Illithids in the [[Forgotten Realms]] setting, being innately gifted with psionic powers and believing themselves above humanity, enslave all forms of humanoids to do their dirty work and know a small array of grafts and implants they can use to "improve" them, possibly turning them into monstrous mooks with the added side effect of making them more susceptible to illithid psionic powers. However, due to the hefty cost and time investment of applying these implants, such modified slaves aren't likely to be sent as mere cannon fodder.
* The Skaven faction of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' uses slaves (of their own species) as expendable troops. So expendable that they have a special rule allowing to [[We Have Reserves|shoot at them in melee in hopes to kill their enemies]].
== Video Games ==
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** The Flood Combat and Carrier forms. The host bodies don't WANT to be that, but they are forced to by the Infection Form infesting them.
** Engineers are [[Actual Pacifist]] biological supercomputers. So what does the Covenant do? Wire them up with bombs and force them to help the war effort. In ''ODST'', you get an achievement for either not killing any engineers of your own free will as the Rookie, or by killing all of them {{spoiler|(a freed engineer, Vergil is actually the [[MacGuffin]] of the game)}}. In ''Reach'', their servitude is not explored, and you just shoot them.
** Bungie's earlier ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' series had the Pfhor, heading a slaver empire whose thralls include [[Restraining Bolt
* The Stalkers in ''[[Half-Life]] 2''. They are a version of the brainwashed type.
** Like the Flood example above, the headcrab zombies in ''Half-Life'' are the same. The most disturbing moments are when you can hear muffled screams for help and prayers to god from the human.
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** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', {{spoiler|Cerberus's mooks are primarily kidnapped human refugees stuffed full with cybernetics}}. Not surprisingly, they're also all {{spoiler|indoctrinated by the Reapers}}.
** While the {{spoiler|"heretic"}} geth serve the Reapers willingly, {{spoiler|the "true" geth have to be forcibly controlled by Reaper code}}.
* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series has Dr. Robotnik's [[Mecha-Mooks]] the Badniks, which are powered by the animals trapped inside them.
* ''[[Spider-Man]]: Web of Shadows'' has the symbiotes, which Spidey kills without any [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speeches.
* ''[[Doom]]'' has its zombies, slaves to Hell.
* In ''[[Command
* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', this plays a part in most games: At least one unit per game is working for the bad guys against his will, but talking to him with a certain character will convince him to join your side.
** A more general example is in [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Path Of Radiance]]. The [[Big Bad]] Ashnard and his [[Mad Scientist]] Izuka use [[Super Serum]] to warp and control laguz. Though these Feral Laguz are supposedly mindless, they never attack Daein soldiers.
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* Most of the hybrids in ''[[System Shock]] 2''. Some of them even have enough of a mind left to shout things like "I'm sorry!" and "Kill me!" at you.
* The Dungeons of [[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III and V have this: in III, it's the naturally blind Troglodytes, who are implied to hardly ever be allowed to lead, [[Fridge Logic|though a large proportion of their Heroes are in fact Troglodytes, including Shakti, one of the best heroes in the game on short maps]]. In V, the Minotaurs are downgraded to a more clear example of this (in III they were [[Elite Mooks]]). Also, the Goblins in V, to a [[Chew Toy|rather absurd extent]].
* Much like the example below, the Mad Hatter in ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'' uses brainwashed thugs as minions.
== Western Animation ==
* [[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]] the [[DN Aliens]] are parasitic aliens that latch on a hosts turning it into a [[DN Alien]]. The Highbreed use them as their standard [[Mooks]] and treat them with disdain.
* The Man Hatter used a lot of mind-control technology in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', and tended to use them on civilians and common crooks for this reason; in at least one episode, said Mooks were ''very'' angry at him once they snapped out of it, especially after he had called them "gutter trash"...
== Real Life ==
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* Conscripts of any country may or may not be considered and/or consider themselves this.
* Joseph Kony's child soldiers.
* The Red Army regularly kept its numbers up in World War 2 by shanghaiing people along the way and using NKVD troopers to herd them. Kind of like the Greek stereotype of Persian armies. In fact the notorious atrocities done in Prussia-that-was were not done primarily by the Russian vanguard which had high professional standards and did not usually do anything worse then petty looting, but by the shanghaied soldiers between the vanguard and the NKVD.
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