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* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'': The Human Torch gets brainwashed in "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]", making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E20And21AKnightOfShadows A Knight of Shadows]]", ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims) finally allow him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E9GrudgeMatch Grudge Match]]", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirl's skulls together.
** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E20And21AKnightOfShadows A Knight of Shadows]]", ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims) finally allow him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E9GrudgeMatch Grudge Match]]", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirl's skulls together.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'': In "The Mind Maidens" Franchise/WonderWoman and Jayna end up brainwashed and fighting against the good guys.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', this happens to [[spoiler: the entire Justice League in the Season 1 finale]]. The Team assumes its brainwashing initially, until its revealed to be more like a puppet-master controlling them; giving an advantage to the heroes, because the mind-controlled have to wait for instructions to do ''anything''.
** A more traditional case would be [[spoiler: Red Arrow]] who had specific subconscious commands plugged in. The same fate would have awaited Superboy if he hadn't been rescued in the first episode.
** After being [[spoiler: trapped in the Phantom Zone, Conner starts to suffer Zone Sickness, losing his memories and becoming a monotone, compliant follower of the House of Zod.]]
** A more traditional case would be [[spoiler: Red Arrow]] who had specific subconscious commands plugged in. The same fate would have awaited Superboy if he hadn't been rescued in the first episode.
** After being [[spoiler: trapped in the Phantom Zone, Conner starts to suffer Zone Sickness, losing his memories and becoming a monotone, compliant follower of the House of Zod.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In "Exit 9B" after getting brainwashed by [[spoiler:[=GBF=] Jr., Skips tries to choke Mordecai and Rigby while brainwashed, and Benson attacks the duo with an excavator. Thankfully, the former comes to his senses after the duo remind him of the only woman he ever loved, and the latter comes to his senses after the duo start turning donuts with the cart, Rigby saying "hamboning", saying "Not setting up the chairs next time!" And "hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm", and finally, their "Woooooooaaaaaaahhhhh" catchphrase.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In "Exit 9B" after getting brainwashed by [[spoiler:[=GBF=] Jr., ]], Skips tries to choke Mordecai and Rigby while brainwashed, and Benson attacks the duo with an excavator. Thankfully, the former comes to his senses after the duo remind him of the only woman he ever loved, and the latter comes to his senses after the duo start turning donuts with the cart, Rigby saying "hamboning", saying "Not setting up the chairs next time!" And "hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm", and finally, their "Woooooooaaaaaaahhhhh" catchphrase.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In "Exit 9B" after getting brainwashed by [[spoiler:[=GBF=] Jr., Skips tries to choke Mordecai and Rigby while brainwashed, and Benson attacks the duo with an excavator. Thankfully, the former comes to his senses after the duo remind him of the only woman he ever loved, and the latter comes to his senses after the duo start turning donuts with the cart, Rigby saying "hamboning", saying "Not setting up the chairs next time!" And "hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm", and finally, their "Woooooooaaaaaaahhhhh" catchphrase.
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** In the interactive event "To Steal or Not to Steal", [[NebulousEvilOrganization V.I.L.E.]] kidnap Zack and Ivy and threaten to brainwash them into operatives if [[IHaveYourWife Carmen doesn't do what they want]]. In the bad endings, they end up doing so [[spoiler: as well as to Carmen herself if you get the worst ending.]]
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** In the interactive event "To Steal or Not to Steal", [[NebulousEvilOrganization V.I.L.E.]] kidnap Zack and Ivy and threaten to brainwash them into becoming V.I.L.E. operatives if [[IHaveYourWife Carmen doesn't do what they want]]. In the bad endings, they end up doing so [[spoiler: as well as to Carmen herself if you get the worst ending.]]
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** In "Le Purrrfect Crime", the episode's villain takes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia to turn him against his friends.
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** Ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims) finally allow him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Grudge Match", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirl's skulls together.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Grudge Match", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirl's skulls together.
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** Ancient In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E20And21AKnightOfShadows A Knight of Shadows]]", ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims) finally allow him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode"Grudge Match", "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E9GrudgeMatch Grudge Match]]", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirl's skulls together.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'''s "One of Us", an alien disguised as a kindly old lady uses televised mass hypnotism to turn all the citizens, including Jimmy's parents, into happy, mindless meat puppets forcing others to join the fold.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "Control Freaks", Danny gets brainwashed by an evil circus ringmaster, requiring Tucker and Sam to help him break free from his control.
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** Following up on this, the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' reveals that [[spoiler:the genetically-augmented members of Clone Force 99, plus the cybernetically-enhanced Echo, are immune to the effects of the inhibitor chips -- except Crosshair, who is affected, albeit to a lesser degree than the other clones; when Admiral Tarkin finds out, he has Crosshair's chip intensified until he becomes fully compliant with the Empire]].
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** Following up on this, the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' reveals that [[spoiler:the genetically-augmented members of Clone Force 99, plus the cybernetically-enhanced Echo, are immune to the effects of the inhibitor chips -- except Crosshair, who is affected, albeit to a lesser degree than the other clones; when Admiral Tarkin finds out, he has Crosshair's chip intensified until he becomes fully compliant with the Empire]].Empire. Wrecker's chip also begins to gradually activate and turn him into a killing machine who attacks his own brothers until he's subdued and the chip removed. The other bad Batchers get their chips removed before they can go crazy]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': In "Mega-Pinocchio", Mega Man was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'': In "Mega-Pinocchio", Mega Man was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' this happens to [[spoiler: the entire Justice League in the Season 1 finale]]. The Team assumes its brainwashing initially, until its revealed to be more like a puppet-master controlling them; giving an advantage to the heroes, because the mind-controlled have to wait for instructions to do ''anything''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', this happens to [[spoiler: the entire Justice League in the Season 1 finale]]. The Team assumes its brainwashing initially, until its revealed to be more like a puppet-master controlling them; giving an advantage to the heroes, because the mind-controlled have to wait for instructions to do ''anything''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dragamonz}}'', Dax's best friend Boaragon is forcibly enslaved and transformed into a Grimwrath by [[BigBad Grimserver]]. When Dax refuses to fight his friend, Boaragon trashes him and takes the crystal to Grimserver.
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** In the interactive event "To Steal or Not to Steal", [[NebulousEvilOrganization V.I.L.E.]] kidnap Zack and Ivy and threaten to brainwash them into operatives if [[IHaveYourWife Carmen doesn't do what they want]]. In the bad endings, they end up doing so.
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** In the interactive event "To Steal or Not to Steal", [[NebulousEvilOrganization V.I.L.E.]] kidnap Zack and Ivy and threaten to brainwash them into operatives if [[IHaveYourWife Carmen doesn't do what they want]]. In the bad endings, they end up doing so.so [[spoiler: as well as to Carmen herself if you get the worst ending.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' this happens to [[spoiler: the entire Justice League in the season Season 1 finale]]. The Team assumes its brainwashing initially, until its revealed to be more like a puppet-master controlling them; giving an advantage to the heroes, because the mind-controlled have to wait for instructions to do ''anything''.
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** Following up on this, the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' reveals that [[spoiler:the genetically-augmented members of Clone Force 99, plus the cybernetically-enhanced Echo, are immune to the effects of the inhibitor chips -- except Crosshair, who is affected, albeit to a lesser degree than the other clones; when Admiral Tarkin finds out, he has Crosshair's chip intensified until he becomes fully compliant with the Empire]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'':
** In the interactive event "To Steal or Not to Steal", [[NebulousEvilOrganization V.I.L.E.]] kidnap Zack and Ivy and threaten to brainwash them into operatives if [[IHaveYourWife Carmen doesn't do what they want]]. In the bad endings, they end up doing so.
** In the final episodes of Season 4, V.I.L.E. do this to [[spoiler: Carmen herself]] in order to create their ultimate agent. [[spoiler: Fortunately, ACME is able to restore her, and she leads them right to V.I.L.E.'s headquarters.]]
** In the interactive event "To Steal or Not to Steal", [[NebulousEvilOrganization V.I.L.E.]] kidnap Zack and Ivy and threaten to brainwash them into operatives if [[IHaveYourWife Carmen doesn't do what they want]]. In the bad endings, they end up doing so.
** In the final episodes of Season 4, V.I.L.E. do this to [[spoiler: Carmen herself]] in order to create their ultimate agent. [[spoiler: Fortunately, ACME is able to restore her, and she leads them right to V.I.L.E.'s headquarters.]]
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced to change him back. Apparently learning his lesson, in Beast Machines he completely changes the personalities of [[spoiler:Silverbolt and Rhinox]] when he puts them in Vehicon bodies. So much so, in fact, that the Maximals don't recognize them until Rattrap hacks into [[spoiler:Rhinox]]'s memory banks. This time, unfortunately, [[spoiler:Rhinox]] does not become good again once his memories resurface.
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced to change him back. Apparently learning his lesson, in Beast Machines ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' he completely changes the personalities of [[spoiler:Silverbolt and Rhinox]] when he puts them in Vehicon bodies. So much so, in fact, that the Maximals don't recognize them until Rattrap hacks into [[spoiler:Rhinox]]'s memory banks. This time, unfortunately, [[spoiler:Rhinox]] does not become good again once his memories resurface.
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** In "Chocolate Chips", a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the rest of the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.
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** In "Chocolate Chips", a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the rest of the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.scenario, although Chip ends up snapping out of it earlier then the others.
** Nimnul's plot in "Does Pavlov Ring a Bell?" sees him brainwashing his lab animals, Sparky and Buzz, into robbing banks for him.
** Nimnul's plot in "Does Pavlov Ring a Bell?" sees him brainwashing his lab animals, Sparky and Buzz, into robbing banks for him.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
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** In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoons:
** In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode, "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E57RoadHog Road Hog]]", a skunk named Colonel Stench breeds flowers and has tried unsuccessfully for years to make a perfume that would get rid of his stench. What he ended up developing instead was flower pollen that causes anyone who gets sprayed with it to become mind-controlled. He has also developed an antidote that neutralizes its effects. Robotnik steals the pollen and uses it to hypnotize the law into arresting Sonic and Colonel Stench, then later uses it to hypnotize Sonic into being an ordinary slow-mo and the rest of Mobius to worship him. Sonic is later found by a gang of motorcycle-riding pigs called the Road Hogs and hypnotized into thinking he's their leader. When the Road Hogs get sprayed by the pollen, Sonic hypnotizes them into being his allies and helping him stop Robotnik.
** In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
** In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode, "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E57RoadHog Road Hog]]", a skunk named Colonel Stench breeds flowers and has tried unsuccessfully for years to make a perfume that would get rid of his stench. What he ended up developing instead was flower pollen that causes anyone who gets sprayed with it to become mind-controlled. He has also developed an antidote that neutralizes its effects. Robotnik steals the pollen and uses it to hypnotize the law into arresting Sonic and Colonel Stench, then later uses it to hypnotize Sonic into being an ordinary slow-mo and the rest of Mobius to worship him. Sonic is later found by a gang of motorcycle-riding pigs called the Road Hogs and hypnotized into thinking he's their leader. When the Road Hogs get sprayed by the pollen, Sonic hypnotizes them into being his allies and helping him stop Robotnik.
** In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Season 6's Order 66 arc reveals that [[spoiler:all the clone troopers have biological control chips implanted into their brains which, when activated, force them to carry out ThePurge and kill the Jedi without question. The plot is nearly uncovered when clone trooper Tup's chip becomes damaged and activates prematurely, forcing him to suddenly execute Jedi General Tiplar mid-battle. In his moments of lucidity afterwards, he can't remember what he did or understand why he did it.]]
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** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E16AltarOfMortis "Altar of Mortis"]]: After Ahsoka is captured by the Son, AnthropomorphicPersonification of TheDarkSide, he corrupts her and puts her under his control. ''Fixing'' it involves, among other things, Ahsoka's DisneyDeath.
** Season 6's Order 66 arc reveals that [[spoiler:all the clone troopers have biological control chips implanted into their brains which, when activated, force them to carry out ThePurge and kill the Jedi without question. The plot is nearly uncovered when clone trooper Tup's chip becomes damaged and activates prematurely, forcing him to suddenly execute Jedi General Tiplar mid-battle. In his moments of lucidity afterwards, he can't remember what he did or understand why he did it.]]
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E16AltarOfMortis "Altar of Mortis"]]: After Ahsoka is captured by the Son, AnthropomorphicPersonification of TheDarkSide, he corrupts her and puts her under his control. ''Fixing'' it involves, among other things, Ahsoka's DisneyDeath.
** Season 6's Order 66 arc reveals that [[spoiler:all the clone troopers have biological control chips implanted into their brains which, when activated, force them to carry out ThePurge and kill the Jedi without question. The plot is nearly uncovered when clone trooper Tup's chip becomes damaged and activates prematurely, forcing him to suddenly execute Jedi General Tiplar mid-battle. In his moments of lucidity afterwards, he can't remember what he did or understand why he did it.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Happens almost every time someone is xanafied. Special mention to Aelita, William and Jeremie.
* The Creator/{{Disney}} short film ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'' describes this brainwashing process painfully well.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': This is [[BigBad Hawk Moth]]'s modus operandi; he finds normal people who are feeling negative emotions and turns them into supervillains under his command.
** It's surprisingly common for these brainwashed villains to have mind control powers of their own, and it's practically a RunningGag at this point that Chat Noir will fall victim to them.
* The Creator/{{Disney}} short film ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'' describes this brainwashing process painfully well.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': This is [[BigBad Hawk Moth]]'s modus operandi; he finds normal people who are feeling negative emotions and turns them into supervillains under his command.
** It's surprisingly common for these brainwashed villains to have mind control powers of their own, and it's practically a RunningGag at this point that Chat Noir will fall victim to them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': In the episode "Oh Brother", Mario is
** It's surprisingly common for these
* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, the Fight King brainwashes Finn and commands him to kill Jake. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai "Lake Laogai"]], Jet is brainwashed by Long Feng into attacking Aang.
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced to change him back. Apparently learning his lesson, in Beast Machines he completely changes the personalities of [[spoiler:Silverbolt and Rhinox]] when he puts them in Vehicon bodies. So much so, in fact, that the Maximals don't recognize them until Rattrap hacks into [[spoiler:Rhinox]]'s memory banks. This time, unfortunately, [[spoiler:Rhinox]] does not become good again once his memories resurface.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Joker and Harley Quinn brainwashed Robin/Tim Drake in into essentially becoming another Joker. However, [[spoiler:this ended up backfiring when Tim broke through the brainwashing when ordered to kill Batman and instead killed the Joker.]]
** Also, no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through ColdBloodedTorture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai Lake Laogai]], Jet is brainwashed by Long Feng into attacking Aang.
* The Human Torch gets brainwashed in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]" episode making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are {{Brainwashed}} into capturing Space Ghost.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'''s "One of Us", an alien disguised as a kindly old lady uses televized mass hypnotism to turn all the citizens, including Jimmy's parents, into happy, mindless meat puppets forcing others to join the fold.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Joker and Harley Quinn brainwashed Robin/Tim Drake in into essentially becoming another Joker. However, [[spoiler:this ended up backfiring when Tim broke through the brainwashing when ordered to kill Batman and instead killed the Joker.]]
** Also, no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through ColdBloodedTorture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai Lake Laogai]], Jet is brainwashed by Long Feng into attacking Aang.
* The Human Torch gets brainwashed in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]" episode making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are {{Brainwashed}} into capturing Space Ghost.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'''s "One of Us", an alien disguised as a kindly old lady uses televized mass hypnotism to turn all the citizens, including Jimmy's parents, into happy, mindless meat puppets forcing others to join the fold.
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'':
** In "Le Purrrfect Crime", the episode's villain takes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia tochange turn him back. Apparently learning against his lesson, in Beast Machines he completely changes friends.
** In "Chocolate Chips", a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn thepersonalities rest of [[spoiler:Silverbolt the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Happens almost every time someone is xanafied. Special mention to Aelita, William andRhinox]] when he puts Jeremie.
* One of the last episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Delightful Children from Down the Lane are actually the missing Sector Z of the Kids Next Door, abducted by [[BigBad Father]] and run through a process known as "delightfulization" that made themin Vehicon bodies. So much so, in fact, that the Maximals don't recognize them until Rattrap hacks into [[spoiler:Rhinox]]'s memory banks. This time, unfortunately, [[spoiler:Rhinox]] does not become good again once his memories resurface.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashedcreepy, adult-loving sycophants they are. Because the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using process was unstable, the condition is permanent; any attempt to revert them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Joker and Harley Quinn brainwashed Robin/Tim Drake in into essentially becoming another Joker. However, [[spoiler:this ended up backfiring when Tim broke through the brainwashing when ordered to kill Batman and instead killed the Joker.]]
** Also, no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through ColdBloodedTorture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai Lake Laogai]], Jet is brainwashed by Long Feng into attacking Aang.
* The Human Torch gets brainwashed in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]" episode making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are {{Brainwashed}} into capturing Space Ghost.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'''s "One of Us", an alien disguised as a kindly old lady uses televized mass hypnotism to turn all the citizens, including Jimmy's parents, into happy, mindless meat puppets forcing others to join the fold.their former selves will ultimately wear off.]]
** In "Le Purrrfect Crime", the episode's villain takes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia to
** In "Chocolate Chips", a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Happens almost every time someone is xanafied. Special mention to Aelita, William and
* One of the last episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Delightful Children from Down the Lane are actually the missing Sector Z of the Kids Next Door, abducted by [[BigBad Father]] and run through a process known as "delightfulization" that made them
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Joker and Harley Quinn brainwashed Robin/Tim Drake in into essentially becoming another Joker. However, [[spoiler:this ended up backfiring when Tim broke through the brainwashing when ordered to kill Batman and instead killed the Joker.]]
** Also, no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through ColdBloodedTorture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai Lake Laogai]], Jet is brainwashed by Long Feng into attacking Aang.
* The Human Torch gets brainwashed in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]" episode making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are {{Brainwashed}} into capturing Space Ghost.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'''s "One of Us", an alien disguised as a kindly old lady uses televized mass hypnotism to turn all the citizens, including Jimmy's parents, into happy, mindless meat puppets forcing others to join the fold.
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'': The Human Torch gets brainwashed in "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]", making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' features EldritchAbomination Sh'Gora, who turns the Sorceress into a cackling [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like]] creature and sics her on the other heroes.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' features EldritchAbomination Sh'Gora, who turns the Sorceress into a cackling [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like]] creature and sics her on the other heroes.
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%%* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': [[DesignatedVictim Sam falling victim]] to this sort of thing is a RunningGag on the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims), finally allows him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Grudge Match", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirls' skulls together.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims), finally allows him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Grudge Match", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirls' skulls together.
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*
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "Thoughtscape", Jessie is brainwashed by Jeremiah Surd via Questworld, so that she will destroy her family, or at least be the bait to bring Race Bannon to Questworld so Surd can kill him directly. It almost worked, too: She destroyed half the Quest Compound!
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
** Ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Grudge Match", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Scarlemagne uses pheromones to render humans into docile servants for his entertainment (and occasionally {{Mooks}}).
* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'': In "Mega-Pinocchio", Mega Man was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
** This is [[BigBad Hawk Moth]]'s modus operandi; he finds normal people who are feeling negative emotions and turns them into supervillains under his command.
** It's surprisingly common for these brainwashed villains to have mind control powers of their own, and it's practically a RunningGag at this point that Chat Noir will fall victim to them.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example: WordOfGod re: Nightmare Moon is that Princess Luna was jealous of how all the ponies pranced and played in her sister's bright daytime but slept her beautiful night away, but she kind of kept it to herself and tried to carry on as usual. But a dark force saw that jealousy and used it to invade her consciousness and wreak havoc as Nightmare Moon; when the mane six hit her with the Elements of Harmony it was driven out and all that was left was a remorseful Princess Luna. [[AssPull This dark force hasn't been seen or mentioned since]]. (Or ''ever;'' onscreen, Luna repeatedly references it as her greatest regret, with nary a hint of it being anything but a mistake she made because of jealousy and is now ashamed of.)
** Actually, WordOfGod simply states that Princess Luna had given up on [[PowerOfFriendship the harmony and magic of friendship]] the show is set in, and [[PowerOfHate turned to envy and spite]] towards her sister, Princess Celestia. And in a setting where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve emotion is magic]], an ensuing [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage Psychosomatic Superpower]][[SuperpoweredEvilSide ed Evil Side]] can be the only logical outcome.
** The "Nightmare Forces" do appear in the ExpandedUniverse [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW comic]], where they exploit Rarity's fears to turn her into the next Nightmare. Luna and the rest of the mane cast help her to defeat the Nightmare Forces [[{{Lunacy}} on the Moon]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "Thoughtscape," Jessie is brainwashed by Jeremiah Surd via Questworld, so that she will destroy her family, or at least be the bait to bring Race Bannon to Questworld so Surd can kill him directly. It almost worked, too: She destroyed half the Quest Compound!
* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, the Fight King brainwashes Finn and commands him to kill Jake. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Finn was faking it as part of a plan.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Le Purrrfect Crime", the episode's villain takes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia to turn him against his friends.
** And again in the episode "Chocolate Chips", where a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the rest of the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example: WordOfGod re: Nightmare Moon is that Princess Luna was jealous of how all the ponies pranced and played in her sister's bright daytime but slept her beautiful night away, but she kind of kept it to herself and tried to carry on as usual. But a dark force saw that jealousy and used it to invade her consciousness and wreak havoc as Nightmare Moon; when the mane six hit her with the Elements of Harmony it was driven out and all that was left was a remorseful Princess Luna. [[AssPull This dark force hasn't been seen or mentioned since]]. (Or ''ever;'' onscreen, Luna repeatedly references it as her greatest regret, with nary a hint of it being anything but a mistake she made because of jealousy and is now ashamed of.)
** Actually, WordOfGod simply states that Princess Luna had given up on [[PowerOfFriendship the harmony and magic of friendship]] the show is set in, and [[PowerOfHate turned to envy and spite]] towards her sister, Princess Celestia. And in a setting where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve emotion is magic]], an ensuing [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage Psychosomatic Superpower]][[SuperpoweredEvilSide ed Evil Side]] can be the only logical outcome.
** The "Nightmare Forces" do appear in the ExpandedUniverse [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW comic]], where they exploit Rarity's fears to turn her into the next Nightmare. Luna and the rest of the mane cast help her to defeat the Nightmare Forces [[{{Lunacy}} on the Moon]].
* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, the Fight King brainwashes Finn and commands him to kill Jake. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Finn was faking it as part of a plan.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Le Purrrfect Crime", the episode's villain takes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia to turn him against his friends.
** And again in the episode "Chocolate Chips", where a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the rest of the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example: WordOfGod re: Nightmare Moon is that Princess Luna was jealous of how all the ponies pranced and played in her sister's bright daytime but slept her beautiful night away, but she kind of kept it to herself and tried to carry on as usual. But a dark force saw that jealousy and used it to invade her consciousness and wreak havoc as Nightmare Moon; when the mane six hit her with the Elements of Harmony it was driven out and all that was left was a remorseful Princess Luna. [[AssPull This dark force hasn't been seen or mentioned since]]. (Or ''ever;'' onscreen, Luna repeatedly references it as her greatest regret, with nary a hint of it being anything but a mistake she made because of jealousy and is now ashamed of.)
** Actually, WordOfGod simply states that Princess Luna had given up on [[PowerOfFriendship the harmony and magic of friendship]] the show is set in, and [[PowerOfHate turned to envy and spite]] towards her sister, Princess Celestia. And in a setting where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve emotion is magic]], an ensuing [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage Psychosomatic Superpower]][[SuperpoweredEvilSide ed Evil Side]] can be the only logical outcome.
** The "Nightmare Forces" do appear in the ExpandedUniverse [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW comic]], where they exploit Rarity's fears to turn her into the next Nightmare. Luna and the rest of the mane cast help her to defeat the Nightmare Forces [[{{Lunacy}} on the Moon]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode"Thoughtscape," Jessie "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are {{Brainwashed}} into capturing Space Ghost.
%%* More than one example in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed byJeremiah Surd via Questworld, so that she will destroy her family, or at least be Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': During thebait to bring Race Bannon to Questworld so Surd can kill him directly. It almost worked, too: She destroyed half final episodes of the Quest Compound!
* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, the Fight King brainwashes Finn and commands him to kill Jake.series, [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Finn was faking Sprx is corrupted by [[ArtifactOfDoom the Fire of Hate]], which causes him to have a FaceHeelTurn and join the villains. Eventually, however, Nova's [[ThePowerOfLove love for him]] snaps him out of it as part long enough for the rest of a plan.the team to use their Power Primate to purify him completely.]]
*In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Le Purrrfect Crime", Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the episode's picture above.
* The shtick of more than one villaintakes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', with Sam almost invariably being the victim.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced toturn change him against back. Apparently learning his friends.
** Andlesson, in Beast Machines he completely changes the personalities of [[spoiler:Silverbolt and Rhinox]] when he puts them in Vehicon bodies. So much so, in fact, that the Maximals don't recognize them until Rattrap hacks into [[spoiler:Rhinox]]'s memory banks. This time, unfortunately, [[spoiler:Rhinox]] does not become good again in the episode "Chocolate Chips", where a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the rest of the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example: WordOfGod re: Nightmare Moon is that Princess Luna was jealous of how all the ponies pranced and played in her sister's bright daytime but slept her beautiful night away, but she kind of kept it to herself and tried to carry on as usual. But a dark force saw that jealousy and used it to invade her consciousness and wreak havoc as Nightmare Moon; when the mane six hit her with the Elements of Harmony it was driven out and all that was left was a remorseful Princess Luna. [[AssPull This dark force hasn't been seen or mentioned since]]. (Or ''ever;'' onscreen, Luna repeatedly references it as her greatest regret, with nary a hint of it being anything but a mistake she made because of jealousy and is now ashamed of.)
** Actually, WordOfGod simply states that Princess Luna had given up on [[PowerOfFriendship the harmony and magic of friendship]] the show is set in, and [[PowerOfHate turned to envy and spite]] towards her sister, Princess Celestia. And in a setting where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve emotion is magic]], an ensuing [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage Psychosomatic Superpower]][[SuperpoweredEvilSide ed Evil Side]] can be the only logical outcome.
** The "Nightmare Forces" do appear in the ExpandedUniverse [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW comic]], where they exploit Rarity's fears to turn her into the next Nightmare. Luna and the rest of the mane cast help her to defeat the Nightmare Forces [[{{Lunacy}} on the Moon]].once his memories resurface.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode
%%* More than one example in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': During the
* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, the Fight King brainwashes Finn and commands him to kill Jake.
*
* The shtick of more than one villain
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced to
** And
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example: WordOfGod re: Nightmare Moon is that Princess Luna was jealous of how all the ponies pranced and played in her sister's bright daytime but slept her beautiful night away, but she kind of kept it to herself and tried to carry on as usual. But a dark force saw that jealousy and used it to invade her consciousness and wreak havoc as Nightmare Moon; when the mane six hit her with the Elements of Harmony it was driven out and all that was left was a remorseful Princess Luna. [[AssPull This dark force hasn't been seen or mentioned since]]. (Or ''ever;'' onscreen, Luna repeatedly references it as her greatest regret, with nary a hint of it being anything but a mistake she made because of jealousy and is now ashamed of.)
** Actually, WordOfGod simply states that Princess Luna had given up on [[PowerOfFriendship the harmony and magic of friendship]] the show is set in, and [[PowerOfHate turned to envy and spite]] towards her sister, Princess Celestia. And in a setting where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve emotion is magic]], an ensuing [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage Psychosomatic Superpower]][[SuperpoweredEvilSide ed Evil Side]] can be the only logical outcome.
** The "Nightmare Forces" do appear in the ExpandedUniverse [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW comic]], where they exploit Rarity's fears to turn her into the next Nightmare. Luna and the rest of the mane cast help her to defeat the Nightmare Forces [[{{Lunacy}} on the Moon]].
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* More than one example in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' features EldritchAbomination Sh'Gora, who turns the Sorceress into a cackling [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like]] creature and sics her on the other heroes.
* One of the last episodes of [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsnextDoor Codename: Kids Next Door]] reveals that [[spoiler: The Delightful Children from Down the Lane are actually the missing Sector Z of the Kids Next Door, abducted by [[BigBad Father]] and run through a process known as "delightfulization" that made them the creepy, adult-loving sycophants they are. Because the process was unstable, the condition is permanent; any attempt to revert them to their former selves will ultimately wear off.]]
* In ''Mega-Pinocchio'' {{WesternAnimation/Mega Man}} was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
* ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight'': Rowena is given a potion by Prince John and sent to kill Ivanhoe in "The Assassin and the Potion." When she fails, Prince John attempts to make her marry him.
* The shtick of more than one villain on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', with Sam almost invariably being the victim.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': During the final episodes of the series, [[spoiler: Sprx is corrupted by [[ArtifactOfDoom the Fire of Hate]], which causes him to have a FaceHeelTurn and join the villains. Eventually, however, Nova's [[ThePowerOfLove love for him]] snaps him out of it long enough for the rest of the team to use their Power Primate to purify him completely.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': In the episode "Oh Brother," Mario is kidnapped by King Koopa via a fishing rod whilst having an argument with his brother, Luigi. He is then brainwashed with a helmet to do the guy's plumbing, since his pipe burst that was being used in a device to slowly flood the Mushroom Kingdom through rain. When Luigi goes to save him, Mario is prompted to destroy Luigi, and he listens willingly, trying to whack Luigi with a wrench. Luigi tries to bring him back to reality by yelling about their childhood, but it doesn't work. He finally un-brainwashes him by pulling the helmet over his eyes, jerking on his suspenders, and tugging on his moustache to mess it up. Mario screams, "Oh, I hate when you do that!" and the helmet pops off, forcing him back to reality.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Scarlemagne uses pheromones to render humans into docile servants for his entertainment (and occasionally {{Mooks}}.)
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' features EldritchAbomination Sh'Gora, who turns the Sorceress into a cackling [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like]] creature and sics her on the other heroes.
* One of the last episodes of [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsnextDoor Codename: Kids Next Door]] reveals that [[spoiler: The Delightful Children from Down the Lane are actually the missing Sector Z of the Kids Next Door, abducted by [[BigBad Father]] and run through a process known as "delightfulization" that made them the creepy, adult-loving sycophants they are. Because the process was unstable, the condition is permanent; any attempt to revert them to their former selves will ultimately wear off.]]
* In ''Mega-Pinocchio'' {{WesternAnimation/Mega Man}} was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
* ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight'': Rowena is given a potion by Prince John and sent to kill Ivanhoe in "The Assassin and the Potion." When she fails, Prince John attempts to make her marry him.
* The shtick of more than one villain on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', with Sam almost invariably being the victim.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': During the final episodes of the series, [[spoiler: Sprx is corrupted by [[ArtifactOfDoom the Fire of Hate]], which causes him to have a FaceHeelTurn and join the villains. Eventually, however, Nova's [[ThePowerOfLove love for him]] snaps him out of it long enough for the rest of the team to use their Power Primate to purify him completely.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': In the episode "Oh Brother," Mario is kidnapped by King Koopa via a fishing rod whilst having an argument with his brother, Luigi. He is then brainwashed with a helmet to do the guy's plumbing, since his pipe burst that was being used in a device to slowly flood the Mushroom Kingdom through rain. When Luigi goes to save him, Mario is prompted to destroy Luigi, and he listens willingly, trying to whack Luigi with a wrench. Luigi tries to bring him back to reality by yelling about their childhood, but it doesn't work. He finally un-brainwashes him by pulling the helmet over his eyes, jerking on his suspenders, and tugging on his moustache to mess it up. Mario screams, "Oh, I hate when you do that!" and the helmet pops off, forcing him back to reality.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Scarlemagne uses pheromones to render humans into docile servants for his entertainment (and occasionally {{Mooks}}.)
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' features EldritchAbomination Sh'Gora, who turns the Sorceress into a cackling [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like]] creature and sics her on the other heroes.
* One of the last episodes of [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsnextDoor Codename: Kids Next Door]] reveals that [[spoiler: The Delightful Children from Down the Lane are actually the missing Sector Z of the Kids Next Door, abducted by [[BigBad Father]] and run through a process known as "delightfulization" that made them the creepy, adult-loving sycophants they are. Because the process was unstable, the condition is permanent; any attempt to revert them to their former selves will ultimately wear off.]]
* In ''Mega-Pinocchio'' {{WesternAnimation/Mega Man}} was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
* ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight'': Rowena is given a potion by Prince John and sent to kill Ivanhoe in "The Assassin and the Potion." When she fails, Prince John attempts to make her marry him.
* The shtick of more than one villain on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', with Sam almost invariably being the victim.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': During the final episodes of the series, [[spoiler: Sprx is corrupted by [[ArtifactOfDoom the Fire of Hate]], which causes him to have a FaceHeelTurn and join the villains. Eventually, however, Nova's [[ThePowerOfLove love for him]] snaps him out of it long enough for the rest of the team to use their Power Primate to purify him completely.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': In the episode "Oh Brother," Mario is kidnapped by King Koopa via a fishing rod whilst having an argument with his brother, Luigi. He is then brainwashed with a helmet to do the guy's plumbing, since his pipe burst that was being used in a device to slowly flood the Mushroom Kingdom through rain. When Luigi goes to save him, Mario is prompted to destroy Luigi, and he listens willingly, trying to whack Luigi with a wrench. Luigi tries to bring him back to reality by yelling about their childhood, but it doesn't work. He finally un-brainwashes him by pulling the helmet over his eyes, jerking on his suspenders, and tugging on his moustache to mess it up. Mario screams, "Oh, I hate when you do that!" and the helmet pops off, forcing him back to reality.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Scarlemagne uses pheromones to render humans into docile servants for his entertainment (and occasionally {{Mooks}}.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Scarlemagne uses pheromones to render humans into docile servants for his entertainment (and occasionally {{Mooks}}.)
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* WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko Happens almost everytime someone is xanafied. Special mention to Aelita, William and Jeremie.
* The Creator/{{Disney}} short film ''Disney/EducationForDeath'' describes this brainwashing process painfully well.
* The Creator/{{Disney}} short film ''Disney/EducationForDeath'' describes this brainwashing process painfully well.
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* The Creator/{{Disney}} short film''Disney/EducationForDeath'' ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'' describes this brainwashing process painfully well.
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* WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko Happens almost everytime someone is xanafied. Special mention to Aelita, William and Jeremie.
* The Creator/{{Disney}} short film ''Disney/EducationForDeath'' describes this brainwashing process painfully well.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': This is [[BigBad Hawk Moth]]'s modus operandi; he finds normal people who are feeling negative emotions and turns them into supervillains under his command.
** It's surprisingly common for these brainwashed villains to have mind control powers of their own, and it's practically a RunningGag at this point that Chat Noir will fall victim to them.
* In the three-part pilot movie of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', Zurg uses this to send all of Star Command after Team Lightyear, the variation is that he actually uses a HiveMind technology to actually become everyone he possessed all at once.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo brainwash Simon Belmont with a literal brainwashing machine (complete with detergent), changing him from Vampire Hunter to N-Team Hunter.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced to change him back. Apparently learning his lesson, in Beast Machines he completely changes the personalities of [[spoiler:Silverbolt and Rhinox]] when he puts them in Vehicon bodies. So much so, in fact, that the Maximals don't recognize them until Rattrap hacks into [[spoiler:Rhinox]]'s memory banks. This time, unfortunately, [[spoiler:Rhinox]] does not become good again once his memories resurface.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Joker and Harley Quinn brainwashed Robin/Tim Drake in into essentially becoming another Joker. However, [[spoiler:this ended up backfiring when Tim broke through the brainwashing when ordered to kill Batman and instead killed the Joker.]]
** Also, no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through ColdBloodedTorture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai Lake Laogai]], Jet is brainwashed by Long Feng into attacking Aang.
* The Human Torch gets brainwashed in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]" episode making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are {{Brainwashed}} into capturing Space Ghost.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'''s "One of Us", an alien disguised as a kindly old lady uses televized mass hypnotism to turn all the citizens, including Jimmy's parents, into happy, mindless meat puppets forcing others to join the fold.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Moooving Day", Timmy wishes for his mother to sell whatever house she touches. It works, although she ends up selling her own house as well, forcing Timmy to move into a neighborhood where everyone, including his friends and family, act the same. It's revealed that the milk that comes with the new homes turns anyone who drinks it into a StepfordSmiler obsessed with milk, including his parents and godparents, who try to persuade Timmy into becoming like them. All orchestrated by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive wealthy businessman]] Doug Dimmadome to earn more cash.
* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': Gadget was once hypnotized by Claw's lackeys into robbing a bank, once again forcing Penny and Brain to clean up his mess.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': [[DesignatedVictim Sam falling victim]] to this sort of thing is a RunningGag on the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims), finally allows him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Grudge Match", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirls' skulls together.
* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'': Newton becomes brainwashed by a group of sirens in "The Man Who Would Be Flemking" into rowing his and Ned's boat to the point of crashing into a rock.
-->"We just gotta learn a number that makes people applaud instead of rowing to their death."
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': As Jack passes through a town, he discovers that all the children of the town are going to a rave party and have been hypnotized by Aku's music played by an evil DJ, which is being played on the outskirts of town, turning the children violent and keeping them away from their parents. In addition, with or without the brainwashing, the children are dressed in what seems to be a "candy raver" style.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "Thoughtscape," Jessie is brainwashed by Jeremiah Surd via Questworld, so that she will destroy her family, or at least be the bait to bring Race Bannon to Questworld so Surd can kill him directly. It almost worked, too: She destroyed half the Quest Compound!
* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, the Fight King brainwashes Finn and commands him to kill Jake. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Finn was faking it as part of a plan.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Le Purrrfect Crime", the episode's villain takes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia to turn him against his friends.
** And again in the episode "Chocolate Chips", where a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the rest of the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example: WordOfGod re: Nightmare Moon is that Princess Luna was jealous of how all the ponies pranced and played in her sister's bright daytime but slept her beautiful night away, but she kind of kept it to herself and tried to carry on as usual. But a dark force saw that jealousy and used it to invade her consciousness and wreak havoc as Nightmare Moon; when the mane six hit her with the Elements of Harmony it was driven out and all that was left was a remorseful Princess Luna. [[AssPull This dark force hasn't been seen or mentioned since]]. (Or ''ever;'' onscreen, Luna repeatedly references it as her greatest regret, with nary a hint of it being anything but a mistake she made because of jealousy and is now ashamed of.)
** Actually, WordOfGod simply states that Princess Luna had given up on [[PowerOfFriendship the harmony and magic of friendship]] the show is set in, and [[PowerOfHate turned to envy and spite]] towards her sister, Princess Celestia. And in a setting where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve emotion is magic]], an ensuing [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage Psychosomatic Superpower]][[SuperpoweredEvilSide ed Evil Side]] can be the only logical outcome.
** The "Nightmare Forces" do appear in the ExpandedUniverse [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW comic]], where they exploit Rarity's fears to turn her into the next Nightmare. Luna and the rest of the mane cast help her to defeat the Nightmare Forces [[{{Lunacy}} on the Moon]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' this happens to [[spoiler: the entire Justice League in the season 1 finale]]. The Team assumes its brainwashing initially, until its revealed to be more like a puppet-master controlling them; giving an advantage to the heroes, because the mind-controlled have to wait for instructions to do ''anything''.
** A more traditional case would be [[spoiler: Red Arrow]] who had specific subconscious commands plugged in. The same fate would have awaited Superboy if he hadn't been rescued in the first episode.
* More than one example in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' features EldritchAbomination Sh'Gora, who turns the Sorceress into a cackling [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like]] creature and sics her on the other heroes.
* One of the last episodes of [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsnextDoor Codename: Kids Next Door]] reveals that [[spoiler: The Delightful Children from Down the Lane are actually the missing Sector Z of the Kids Next Door, abducted by [[BigBad Father]] and run through a process known as "delightfulization" that made them the creepy, adult-loving sycophants they are. Because the process was unstable, the condition is permanent; any attempt to revert them to their former selves will ultimately wear off.]]
* In ''Mega-Pinocchio'' {{WesternAnimation/Mega Man}} was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
* ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight'': Rowena is given a potion by Prince John and sent to kill Ivanhoe in "The Assassin and the Potion." When she fails, Prince John attempts to make her marry him.
* The shtick of more than one villain on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', with Sam almost invariably being the victim.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': During the final episodes of the series, [[spoiler: Sprx is corrupted by [[ArtifactOfDoom the Fire of Hate]], which causes him to have a FaceHeelTurn and join the villains. Eventually, however, Nova's [[ThePowerOfLove love for him]] snaps him out of it long enough for the rest of the team to use their Power Primate to purify him completely.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': In the episode "Oh Brother," Mario is kidnapped by King Koopa via a fishing rod whilst having an argument with his brother, Luigi. He is then brainwashed with a helmet to do the guy's plumbing, since his pipe burst that was being used in a device to slowly flood the Mushroom Kingdom through rain. When Luigi goes to save him, Mario is prompted to destroy Luigi, and he listens willingly, trying to whack Luigi with a wrench. Luigi tries to bring him back to reality by yelling about their childhood, but it doesn't work. He finally un-brainwashes him by pulling the helmet over his eyes, jerking on his suspenders, and tugging on his moustache to mess it up. Mario screams, "Oh, I hate when you do that!" and the helmet pops off, forcing him back to reality.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].
* The Creator/{{Disney}} short film ''Disney/EducationForDeath'' describes this brainwashing process painfully well.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': This is [[BigBad Hawk Moth]]'s modus operandi; he finds normal people who are feeling negative emotions and turns them into supervillains under his command.
** It's surprisingly common for these brainwashed villains to have mind control powers of their own, and it's practically a RunningGag at this point that Chat Noir will fall victim to them.
* In the three-part pilot movie of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', Zurg uses this to send all of Star Command after Team Lightyear, the variation is that he actually uses a HiveMind technology to actually become everyone he possessed all at once.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo brainwash Simon Belmont with a literal brainwashing machine (complete with detergent), changing him from Vampire Hunter to N-Team Hunter.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' saw Megatron inflict this trope on Rhinox, who became so evil Megatron was forced to change him back. Apparently learning his lesson, in Beast Machines he completely changes the personalities of [[spoiler:Silverbolt and Rhinox]] when he puts them in Vehicon bodies. So much so, in fact, that the Maximals don't recognize them until Rattrap hacks into [[spoiler:Rhinox]]'s memory banks. This time, unfortunately, [[spoiler:Rhinox]] does not become good again once his memories resurface.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': [[spoiler:Brother Blood brainwashed the Teen Titans East (Aqualad, Mas and Menos, Speedy and Bumblebee), and he plans on using them to destroy Cyborg and/or turn them into his new H.I.V.E. academy students.]] It was so well-done that they used to provide the picture above.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Joker and Harley Quinn brainwashed Robin/Tim Drake in into essentially becoming another Joker. However, [[spoiler:this ended up backfiring when Tim broke through the brainwashing when ordered to kill Batman and instead killed the Joker.]]
** Also, no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through ColdBloodedTorture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman is brainwashed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid. Once he comes to, he is not happy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderLakeLaogai Lake Laogai]], Jet is brainwashed by Long Feng into attacking Aang.
* The Human Torch gets brainwashed in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'' "[[Recap/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroesJohnnyStormAndThePotionOfFire Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire]]" episode making him much more powerful and giving him more power over fire, but makes him attack his sister. [[spoiler:His willingness to end her life was what snapped him out of it.]] The increase in power might make this also WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Sandman". Jan and Jace are {{Brainwashed}} into capturing Space Ghost.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'''s "One of Us", an alien disguised as a kindly old lady uses televized mass hypnotism to turn all the citizens, including Jimmy's parents, into happy, mindless meat puppets forcing others to join the fold.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Moooving Day", Timmy wishes for his mother to sell whatever house she touches. It works, although she ends up selling her own house as well, forcing Timmy to move into a neighborhood where everyone, including his friends and family, act the same. It's revealed that the milk that comes with the new homes turns anyone who drinks it into a StepfordSmiler obsessed with milk, including his parents and godparents, who try to persuade Timmy into becoming like them. All orchestrated by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive wealthy businessman]] Doug Dimmadome to earn more cash.
* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': Gadget was once hypnotized by Claw's lackeys into robbing a bank, once again forcing Penny and Brain to clean up his mess.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': [[DesignatedVictim Sam falling victim]] to this sort of thing is a RunningGag on the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Ancient sorceress Morgaine le Fey partially brainwashes Martian Manhunter to steal the powerful Philosophers Stone with promises of reuniting with his home and dead family. He almost hands her the stone, but the memories of Etrigan the Demon (who was one of her earlier victims), finally allows him to break control of the spell and shatter the stone, noting that the price would be too high.
** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Grudge Match", minor villainess Roulette uses Gorilla Grodd's mind control technology to "recruit" female heroes into fighting in gladiatorial combat games to fund Lex Luthor's machinations for reuniting with Brainiac. BC and Huntress have their work cut out for them trying to get the mind control devices off of their teammates, but once they do, the real fun begins as Roulette reveals the next contestant: Wonder Woman. It's all the four women can do to keep their heads attached as the League's number one warrior barrels into them like a female god of war. By the time Huntress and Black Canary shut down the mind control signal, Wonder Woman was a split second from smashing Vixen and Hawkgirls' skulls together.
* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'': Newton becomes brainwashed by a group of sirens in "The Man Who Would Be Flemking" into rowing his and Ned's boat to the point of crashing into a rock.
-->"We just gotta learn a number that makes people applaud instead of rowing to their death."
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': As Jack passes through a town, he discovers that all the children of the town are going to a rave party and have been hypnotized by Aku's music played by an evil DJ, which is being played on the outskirts of town, turning the children violent and keeping them away from their parents. In addition, with or without the brainwashing, the children are dressed in what seems to be a "candy raver" style.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "Thoughtscape," Jessie is brainwashed by Jeremiah Surd via Questworld, so that she will destroy her family, or at least be the bait to bring Race Bannon to Questworld so Surd can kill him directly. It almost worked, too: She destroyed half the Quest Compound!
* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode, the Fight King brainwashes Finn and commands him to kill Jake. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Finn was faking it as part of a plan.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Le Purrrfect Crime", the episode's villain takes advantage of Dale's EasyAmnesia to turn him against his friends.
** And again in the episode "Chocolate Chips", where a mad chocolatier uses MindControl drugs to turn the rest of the Rangers against Dale, reversing the previous scenario.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' example: WordOfGod re: Nightmare Moon is that Princess Luna was jealous of how all the ponies pranced and played in her sister's bright daytime but slept her beautiful night away, but she kind of kept it to herself and tried to carry on as usual. But a dark force saw that jealousy and used it to invade her consciousness and wreak havoc as Nightmare Moon; when the mane six hit her with the Elements of Harmony it was driven out and all that was left was a remorseful Princess Luna. [[AssPull This dark force hasn't been seen or mentioned since]]. (Or ''ever;'' onscreen, Luna repeatedly references it as her greatest regret, with nary a hint of it being anything but a mistake she made because of jealousy and is now ashamed of.)
** Actually, WordOfGod simply states that Princess Luna had given up on [[PowerOfFriendship the harmony and magic of friendship]] the show is set in, and [[PowerOfHate turned to envy and spite]] towards her sister, Princess Celestia. And in a setting where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve emotion is magic]], an ensuing [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage Psychosomatic Superpower]][[SuperpoweredEvilSide ed Evil Side]] can be the only logical outcome.
** The "Nightmare Forces" do appear in the ExpandedUniverse [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW comic]], where they exploit Rarity's fears to turn her into the next Nightmare. Luna and the rest of the mane cast help her to defeat the Nightmare Forces [[{{Lunacy}} on the Moon]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' this happens to [[spoiler: the entire Justice League in the season 1 finale]]. The Team assumes its brainwashing initially, until its revealed to be more like a puppet-master controlling them; giving an advantage to the heroes, because the mind-controlled have to wait for instructions to do ''anything''.
** A more traditional case would be [[spoiler: Red Arrow]] who had specific subconscious commands plugged in. The same fate would have awaited Superboy if he hadn't been rescued in the first episode.
* More than one example in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' features EldritchAbomination Sh'Gora, who turns the Sorceress into a cackling [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like]] creature and sics her on the other heroes.
* One of the last episodes of [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsnextDoor Codename: Kids Next Door]] reveals that [[spoiler: The Delightful Children from Down the Lane are actually the missing Sector Z of the Kids Next Door, abducted by [[BigBad Father]] and run through a process known as "delightfulization" that made them the creepy, adult-loving sycophants they are. Because the process was unstable, the condition is permanent; any attempt to revert them to their former selves will ultimately wear off.]]
* In ''Mega-Pinocchio'' {{WesternAnimation/Mega Man}} was controlled by Wily thanks to a mind-control chip. Under Wily's influence Mega Man destroyed a skyscraper, reprogrammed his father's robots, tried to kill his own family by crushing them in a dumpster, attacked Washington DC, and tried to kill his sister again.
* ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight'': Rowena is given a potion by Prince John and sent to kill Ivanhoe in "The Assassin and the Potion." When she fails, Prince John attempts to make her marry him.
* The shtick of more than one villain on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', with Sam almost invariably being the victim.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': During the final episodes of the series, [[spoiler: Sprx is corrupted by [[ArtifactOfDoom the Fire of Hate]], which causes him to have a FaceHeelTurn and join the villains. Eventually, however, Nova's [[ThePowerOfLove love for him]] snaps him out of it long enough for the rest of the team to use their Power Primate to purify him completely.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': In the episode "Oh Brother," Mario is kidnapped by King Koopa via a fishing rod whilst having an argument with his brother, Luigi. He is then brainwashed with a helmet to do the guy's plumbing, since his pipe burst that was being used in a device to slowly flood the Mushroom Kingdom through rain. When Luigi goes to save him, Mario is prompted to destroy Luigi, and he listens willingly, trying to whack Luigi with a wrench. Luigi tries to bring him back to reality by yelling about their childhood, but it doesn't work. He finally un-brainwashes him by pulling the helmet over his eyes, jerking on his suspenders, and tugging on his moustache to mess it up. Mario screams, "Oh, I hate when you do that!" and the helmet pops off, forcing him back to reality.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', anyone roboticized by Dr. Robotnik is compelled to follow his orders no matter what. To make it even worse, Uncle Chuck reveals that all roboticization victims are fully aware of what's going on and everything they're doing, [[AndIMustScream but they can't do anything about it]].