Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,132
edits
Hate Plague: Difference between revisions
m
→Films -- Live-Action: -? "Film"
(→Real Life: moved the new example to the end of the section and fixed the overcoded link, as per the Style Guide) |
m (→Films -- Live-Action: -? "Film") |
||
Line 43:
* In ''[[Darkwing Duck (comics)|Darkwing Duck]]'', the Phantom Blot has created an inky mind-altering substance to create new rogues in St. Canard which is also used to control the populace briefly.
==
* ''[[28 Days Later]]'' and its sequel revolve around a [[Technically Living Zombie|sort of]] [[Zombie Apocalypse]] caused by a literal Hate [[The Plague|Plague]], the Rage Virus.
** Ditto ''[[The Crazies]]'' and ''[[REC]]''. ''[[The Crazies]]'' is a somewhat different variant, as the infected often retain coherence and elements of their personality, unlike the mindless fury of the ''28'' movies and ''[[REC]]''.
* In the movie ''[[Return in Red]]'', a government agency uses sound waves to induce insanity and homicidal urges in the people of a small town.
* In the movie ''[[Ghostbusters]] II'', the sewers of New York City become filled with an ectoplasmic sludge that absorbs emotions. The Ghostbusters discover it while it's been negatively charged, and after they end up covered in it, they briefly end up going at each other's throats. Egon discovers the malleable nature of the slime, however, and in order to break through a barrier of negatively-charged slime, the Ghostbusters positively charge some of it through [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|a combination of the song "Higher and Higher", and the most inspiring thing they can find in Manhattan: The Statue of Liberty.]]
* One of the "non-lethal" weapons employed by the good guys at the end of ''[[Mystery Men]]'' is a ray (the Blame Thrower) that can cause angry arguments amongst whomever gets hit with it. A rare case of the protagonists employing such a tactic as psychological warfare.
* ''[[Serenity]]'': The Reavers (murdering, raping madmen who terrorize the fringes of the <s>universe</s> small star cluster/ solar system) are revealed to be {{spoiler|the victims of a government-sponsored lotus-drug gone so bad. It was meant to weed out aggression in the population. Instead it made the majority of the population so passive that they couldn't even be bothered to take basic measures to continue living, while it became a Hate Plague for a fraction of a percent of the population. They proceeded to wipe out whoever was left, and then start ''recruiting''.}}
* This is the alien threat in the film ''[[Alien Cargo]]''.
* Utilized by Loki through his
== Literature ==
| |||