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** [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]]: {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Quinn]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Dexter]] gets the weapon at one point. He's very happy when he finds out what it does. Turns out it facilitates possession when the body is soul-less.}}
** What's disturbing is that the technology was derived from commercial memory-imprinting educational devices, which have made schools obsolete by the 25th century.
* In "The Bottle Imp" by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], the eponymous bottled imp will show itself if its owner commands, but both the owner and any other witnesses will be paralyzed with terror for several hours after seeing it. This happens to the protagonist and his friend, but because of this, no physical description of the imp is given.
* ''[[The Demolished Man]]'' by Alfred Bester mentions advertising melodies called 'pepsis' which, once heard, are almost impossible to remove from the conscious mind, due to the way they are constructed. {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] asks specifically to hear one of them because he wants to use it as a [[Psychic Static|blocking mechanism to avoid telepathic detection of the criminal thoughts]] he harbors.}}
* The whole plot of Simon R. Green's ''[[Nightside|Nightingale's Lament]]'' deals with this: a singer whose songs cause (some) audience members to commit suicide.
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