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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, [[More Than Mind Control|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're in There Somewhere" Fight|you know they're in there somewhere]]. They tell you you're wrong and insist they're not [[Brainwashed]], but that's what they all say. You break out your [[Magic Antidote]] that's worked on a million victims before and hit it... and nothing happens.
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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