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Now say your closest friend, or a family member, or your [[Mentor Archetype|Mentor]], or [[Love Interests|love interest]] starts acting weird, doing morally questionable things they normally wouldn't do. Smiling evilly, laughing maniacally, having lapses of memory, being [[Loners Are Freaks|unusually quiet and reclusive]], [[Kick the Dog|kicking small pets]], and there's something [[Mind Control Eyes|not quite right with their eyes]]. Maybe you investigate and find correspondence between them and the [[Big Bad]].
No worries, though. This isn't a [[Face Heel Turn]]. They have all the classic signs. They're just [[Brainwashed]] like everyone else, right? Right. The secret gets out, and their new boss laughs as he gleefully tells you he isn't forcing them to do anything against their will, but that's to be expected. You two eventually have to fight; they're giving it everything they've got, but you're not because [["I Know You
Sorry, but in this ''one'' case, they're [[Not Brainwashed]]. They've genuinely [[Face Heel Turn|joined]] [[The Dark Side]] by their own volition, or had a legitimate [[Freak-Out]] and now have a new but real personality. And you can't bring them back the way you can to everybody else.
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** 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.
** After Wesley conspired to kidnap the baby Connor (and got his throat cut for his trouble) Angel visited him in hospital. Angel was at pains to stress that he was still Angel (and not the soul-less Angelus) before proceeding to try to smother him with a pillow
* In a series fraught with [[Evil Twin]] and [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Power Rangers, ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' chose to break the chain and give us the A-Squad, a team of "elite" Rangers thought to have been lost in space ([[Lost in Space|no pun intended]]), but had really faked their disappearance to voluntarily join with the Troobian army, believing it'll eventually crush the SPD and wanted to be on "the winning side" when it happened. All well and good...until a [[Canon
** This [[Retcon]] does illustrate how it can often be hard to tell when somebody's ''really'' [[Not Brainwashed]]: somebody who really has been brainwashed is ''rather unlikely to say so'', after all. If they did it would mean they were brainwashed ''really poorly''.
*** This is debatable as at the start of the season before they were capture, one of the rangers notes something is off about the A-squad.
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]''; on {{spoiler|1=DiEnd's world}} it turns out that {{spoiler|Junichi}} is working for the villain and is not under his control as everyone has believed.
* In ''[[Suikoden I]]'': {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] of the game has most of the empire's soldiers under her [[Mind Control]], and everyone (including her) thinks she has the king under that power, too. At the very end of the game, though, he reveals that he was never really under her control, and was acting the way he did [[Love Martyr|because he genuinely loved her]].}}
* In ''[[
* In [[Mega Man Battle Network]] 5 a signal that makes people aggresive starts spreading out and the player (immune via [[Plot Coupon]]) must shut the signal in each area down, usually meaning he has to fight his teammates first. One of the fights, however (Charlie in Team Protoman, Dusk in Team Colonel) reveals that the character wasn't affected, he just wanted to fight Lan.
* 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.}}
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