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[[File:peach gets mind zapped.jpg|link=Super Mario Adventures|frame|When Bowser decides kidnapping isn't enough.]]

 

 

The [[Damsel in Distress]] is in the clutches of the villain, but the villain decides that chains, cages, cells, and other ways of containment are too unreliable. The hardest chain for [[The Hero]] to break while freeing this prisoner is in the damsel's own mind. Thus the villain [[Hypnotize]]s the damsel. As with [[Save the Princess]], this need not be [[Everything's Better with Princesses|a princess]] [[Dude in Distress|or even a lady.]]

 

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* This is a rather common trope in ''Sailor Moon''.

** Tuxedo Mask is the number one victim throughout the series. Queen Beryl brainwashes and corrupts him in every adaptation of the storyline, with his rescue being a pivotal element of the climax of that story arc. He's a victim again in the Black Moon arc of the manga (this time by his corrupted future daughter Black Lady), and yet again in the Sailor Stars arc of the manga (by Galaxia). He's also brainwashed in the Nehellenia arc of the Sailor Moon anime.

 

 

* In Nintendo Power's ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' comic, Bowser has Magikoopa do this to Peach so she would marry him—though in this case, it was a last resort after he tried everything else and the willful Peach was too much.

** And in one issue of the ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'', Peach is once again mind zapped, this time by a Pidgit. This notably actually ends up being a ''hindrance'' to Bowser - while in her hypnotized state, Peach wrecks this blimp that he's driving.

* In the ''[[Spider-Man (comic strip)|Spider-Man]]'' comic strip, he was helping heiress Muffy Ainsworth with what she thought was a vampire. She gets kidnapped and then hypnotized so that she would agree to be one of his brides. {{spoiler|It was all staged. The vampire was really a washed-up actor trying a really weird plan for a comeback. Muffy being hypnotized was the only part not faked.}}

* "Three Old Men of Aran" did this to Aaricia in ''[[Thorgal]]''.

 

 

 

 

* This happens to Morgana quite a lot in ''Merlin''.

* Lord Zedd tried this in an episode of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' when he decided he wanted to marry Kimberly. In a subversion, the spell was a bust and Kimberly simply pretended to be ''[[Evil Is Hammy|Rita Repulsa]]'' until her friends showed up to rescue her.

* In a gender-flipped version, Maxima does this to Clark Kent in the ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Instinct". They nearly have sex, but Lois Lane walks in, snapping him out of it.

* In ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "Return Of the Cybernauts", Beresford gives Mrs. Peel a [[Hypno Trinket|wristwatch]], which is actually a [[Mind Control Device]].