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* MonstersAnonymous: The Sandman's Guild is made up of people with mind control powers who have sworn off using their psychic abilities for selfish gain and offer each other understanding and support in that regard.
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''The Hypnotists'' is a MiddleGradeLiterature trilogy by Creator/GordonKorman, following Jax Opus, a boy who discovers he has mind control powers. There are many other people like him, but Jax has unusually potent powers due to both of his parents having hypnotist ancestors. Scientist and hypnotist Dr. Mako recruits Jax to join a program to learn more about his powers, which he does while reassessing his life at school and dealing with unusual peers in the hypnotist community. Then he learns that Mako is seeking to use hypnotism to influence a presidential election, and Jax ends up fighting to do the right thing [[Cerebus Syndrome as his loved ones are threatened. He spends the next 2 1/2 books constantly uprooting his life and going through traumatizing losses and ordeals]]. There are three books: ''The Hypnotists'', ''Memory Maze'', and ''The Dragonfly Effect'', published from 2013-2015.
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''The Hypnotists'' is a MiddleGradeLiterature trilogy by Creator/GordonKorman, following Jax Opus, a boy who discovers he has mind control powers. There are many other people like him, but Jax has unusually potent powers due to both of his parents having hypnotist ancestors. Scientist and hypnotist Dr. Mako recruits Jax to join a program to learn more about his powers, which he does while reassessing his life at school and dealing with unusual peers in the hypnotist community. Then he learns that Mako is seeking to use hypnotism to influence a presidential election, and Jax ends up fighting to do the right thing [[Cerebus Syndrome [[CerebusSyndrome as his loved ones are threatened. He spends the next 2 1/2 books constantly uprooting his life and going through traumatizing losses and ordeals]]. There are three books: ''The Hypnotists'', ''Memory Maze'', and ''The Dragonfly Effect'', published from 2013-2015.
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''The Hypnotists'' is a MiddleGradeLiterature trilogy by Creator/GordonKorman, following Jax Opus, a boy who discovers he has mind control powers. There are many other people like him, but Jax has unusually potent powers due to both of his parents having hypnotist ancestors. Scientist and hypnotist Dr. Mako recruits Jax to join a program to learn more about his powers, which he does while reassessing his life at school and dealing with unusual peers in the hypnotist community. Then he learns that Mako is seeking to use hypnotism to influence a presidential election, and Jax ends up fighting to do the right thing [[CerberusSyndrome as his loved ones are threatened. He spends the next 2 1/2 books constantly uprooting his life and going through traumatizing losses and ordeals]]. There are three books: ''The Hypnotists'', ''Memory Maze'', and ''The Dragonfly Effect'', published from 2013-2015.
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''The Hypnotists'' is a MiddleGradeLiterature trilogy by Creator/GordonKorman, following Jax Opus, a boy who discovers he has mind control powers. There are many other people like him, but Jax has unusually potent powers due to both of his parents having hypnotist ancestors. Scientist and hypnotist Dr. Mako recruits Jax to join a program to learn more about his powers, which he does while reassessing his life at school and dealing with unusual peers in the hypnotist community. Then he learns that Mako is seeking to use hypnotism to influence a presidential election, and Jax ends up fighting to do the right thing [[CerberusSyndrome [[Cerebus Syndrome as his loved ones are threatened. He spends the next 2 1/2 books constantly uprooting his life and going through traumatizing losses and ordeals]]. There are three books: ''The Hypnotists'', ''Memory Maze'', and ''The Dragonfly Effect'', published from 2013-2015.
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''The Hypnotists'' is a MiddleGradeLiterature trilogy by Creator/GordonKorman, following Jax Opus, a boy who discovers he has mind control powers. There are many other people like him, but Jax has unusually potent powers due to both of his parents having hypnotist ancestors. Scientist and hypnotist Dr. Mako recruits Jax to join a program to learn more about his powers, which he does while reassessing his life at school and dealing with unusual peers in the hypnotist community. Then he learns that Mako is seeking to use hypnotism to influence a presidential election, and Jax ends up fighting to do the right thing [[CerberusSyndrome as his loved ones are threatened. He spends the next 2 1/2 books constantly uprooting his life and going through traumatizing losses and ordeals]]. There are three books": ''The Hypnotists'', ''Memory Maze'', and ''The Dragonfly Effect'', published from 2013-2015.
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''The Hypnotists'' is a MiddleGradeLiterature trilogy by Creator/GordonKorman, following Jax Opus, a boy who discovers he has mind control powers. There are many other people like him, but Jax has unusually potent powers due to both of his parents having hypnotist ancestors. Scientist and hypnotist Dr. Mako recruits Jax to join a program to learn more about his powers, which he does while reassessing his life at school and dealing with unusual peers in the hypnotist community. Then he learns that Mako is seeking to use hypnotism to influence a presidential election, and Jax ends up fighting to do the right thing [[CerberusSyndrome as his loved ones are threatened. He spends the next 2 1/2 books constantly uprooting his life and going through traumatizing losses and ordeals]]. There are three books": books: ''The Hypnotists'', ''Memory Maze'', and ''The Dragonfly Effect'', published from 2013-2015.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dr. Mako wants to use hypnotism to take over the world, but due to his hypnotic talents, the whole country thinks he is a selfless, trustworthy guy.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dr. Mako wants to use hypnotism to take over the world, but due to his hypnotic talents, the whole country thinks he is a selfless, trustworthy guy.guy.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** One member of the Sandman's Guild, Ivan, is an ex-salesman who hypnotized customers into buying [=TV=]s they didn't want or need. But since hypnotism is generally temporary, the customers kept returning the unwanted [=TV=]s soon after buying them, which cost Ivan his job.
** Jax's father is a MuggleBornOfMages with no hypnotic powers, unlike his ancestors, and he is terrified of being around anyone with hypnosis (although it's stronger with memories of his parents than with his son). Spending every day around people who can control your thoughts without you remembering it may have its perks at times, but it can lead to ParanoiaFuel about whether anything you do that remotely pleases a hypnotist is done under your own free will or not.
** Jax spends the middle portion of the series {{Un Person}}ing himself to go into hiding from Dr. Mako. Once he's finally able to return to his old life, all the missing records mean that he lacks the necessary seventh grade exams to enter eighth grade, forcing him to hypnotize his principal to get around that.
** One member of the Sandman's Guild, Ivan, is an ex-salesman who hypnotized customers into buying [=TV=]s they didn't want or need. But since hypnotism is generally temporary, the customers kept returning the unwanted [=TV=]s soon after buying them, which cost Ivan his job.
** Jax's father is a MuggleBornOfMages with no hypnotic powers, unlike his ancestors, and he is terrified of being around anyone with hypnosis (although it's stronger with memories of his parents than with his son). Spending every day around people who can control your thoughts without you remembering it may have its perks at times, but it can lead to ParanoiaFuel about whether anything you do that remotely pleases a hypnotist is done under your own free will or not.
** Jax spends the middle portion of the series {{Un Person}}ing himself to go into hiding from Dr. Mako. Once he's finally able to return to his old life, all the missing records mean that he lacks the necessary seventh grade exams to enter eighth grade, forcing him to hypnotize his principal to get around that.
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''The Hypnotists'' is a MiddleGradeLiterature trilogy by Creator/GordonKorman, following Jax Opus, a boy who discovers he has mind control powers. There are many other people like him, but Jax has unusually potent powers due to both of his parents having hypnotist ancestors. Scientist and hypnotist Dr. Mako recruits Jax to join a program to learn more about his powers, which he does while reassessing his life at school and dealing with unusual peers in the hypnotist community. Then he learns that Mako is seeking to use hypnotism to influence a presidential election, and Jax ends up fighting to do the right thing [[CerberusSyndrome as his loved ones are threatened. He spends the next 2 1/2 books constantly uprooting his life and going through traumatizing losses and ordeals]]. There are three books": ''The Hypnotists'', ''Memory Maze'', and ''The Dragonfly Effect'', published from 2013-2015.
!!Tropes in this trilogy include:
* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''The Dragonfly Effect'', the military has some shady goals for the hypnotists but shelve a plan to hypnotize everyone in enemy cities through TV screens and the Internet into standing still after realizing it would kill hundreds of civilians and cause billions in property damage per city in the best case scenario due to traffic collisions, unfought fires, and such.
* HistoricalRapSheet: Dozens of famous historical events, both good and bad, have been caused by hypnotists (often Jax's ancestors) doing things like making UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus make a wrong turn so he'd reach America or mesmerizing Napoleon into losing the Battle of Waterloo.
* InventedIndividual: Jax spends part of ''Memory Maze'' [[spoiler:looking for his long-lost brother Liam, only to learn there is no Liam and he was hypnotized into thinking otherwise so Liam would be bait for a trap.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Avery Quackenbush, a dying billionaire who hires Jax to help his medical team in ''Memory Maze'', has a lot of deep-seated trauma that traces back to [[spoiler:being unable to save his brother from drowning during a boating accident, a memory which he's worked hard to repress by imagining his brother participating in all of his successes]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Sandman's Guild of hypnotists have an [=AA=]-like group and seek to avoid using their powers for personal gain. They include people like a homely woman who hypnotized beauty competition judges, a panhandler, a bank teller, and a ninety-pound arm wrestler. Jax's parents compare them to the cantina denizens from ''Film/ANewHope''.
* ShooTheDog: Each of the first two books ends with Jax hypnotizing his best friend in his current school into forgetting about most of their friendship and shared secrets due to being involved with dangerous forces, although Tommy from the first book comes BackForTheFinale.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** One member of the Sandman's Guild, Ivan, is an ex-salesman who hypnotized customers into buying [=TV=]s they didn't want or need. But since hypnotism is generally temporary, the customers kept returning the unwanted [=TV=]s soon after buying them, which cost Ivan his job.
** Jax's father is a MuggleBornOfMages with no hypnotic powers, unlike his ancestors, and he is terrified of being around anyone with hypnosis (although it's stronger with memories of his parents than with his son). Spending every day around people who can control your thoughts without you remembering it may have its perks at times, but it can lead to ParanoiaFuel about whether anything you do that remotely pleases a hypnotist is done under your own free will or not.
** Jax spends the middle portion of the series {{Un Person}}ing himself to go into hiding from Dr. Mako. Once he's finally able to return to his old life, all the missing records mean that he lacks the necessary seventh grade exams to enter eighth grade, forcing him to hypnotize his principal to get around that.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dr. Mako wants to use hypnotism to take over the world, but due to his hypnotic talents, the whole country thinks he is a selfless, trustworthy guy.
!!Tropes in this trilogy include:
* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''The Dragonfly Effect'', the military has some shady goals for the hypnotists but shelve a plan to hypnotize everyone in enemy cities through TV screens and the Internet into standing still after realizing it would kill hundreds of civilians and cause billions in property damage per city in the best case scenario due to traffic collisions, unfought fires, and such.
* HistoricalRapSheet: Dozens of famous historical events, both good and bad, have been caused by hypnotists (often Jax's ancestors) doing things like making UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus make a wrong turn so he'd reach America or mesmerizing Napoleon into losing the Battle of Waterloo.
* InventedIndividual: Jax spends part of ''Memory Maze'' [[spoiler:looking for his long-lost brother Liam, only to learn there is no Liam and he was hypnotized into thinking otherwise so Liam would be bait for a trap.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Avery Quackenbush, a dying billionaire who hires Jax to help his medical team in ''Memory Maze'', has a lot of deep-seated trauma that traces back to [[spoiler:being unable to save his brother from drowning during a boating accident, a memory which he's worked hard to repress by imagining his brother participating in all of his successes]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Sandman's Guild of hypnotists have an [=AA=]-like group and seek to avoid using their powers for personal gain. They include people like a homely woman who hypnotized beauty competition judges, a panhandler, a bank teller, and a ninety-pound arm wrestler. Jax's parents compare them to the cantina denizens from ''Film/ANewHope''.
* ShooTheDog: Each of the first two books ends with Jax hypnotizing his best friend in his current school into forgetting about most of their friendship and shared secrets due to being involved with dangerous forces, although Tommy from the first book comes BackForTheFinale.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** One member of the Sandman's Guild, Ivan, is an ex-salesman who hypnotized customers into buying [=TV=]s they didn't want or need. But since hypnotism is generally temporary, the customers kept returning the unwanted [=TV=]s soon after buying them, which cost Ivan his job.
** Jax's father is a MuggleBornOfMages with no hypnotic powers, unlike his ancestors, and he is terrified of being around anyone with hypnosis (although it's stronger with memories of his parents than with his son). Spending every day around people who can control your thoughts without you remembering it may have its perks at times, but it can lead to ParanoiaFuel about whether anything you do that remotely pleases a hypnotist is done under your own free will or not.
** Jax spends the middle portion of the series {{Un Person}}ing himself to go into hiding from Dr. Mako. Once he's finally able to return to his old life, all the missing records mean that he lacks the necessary seventh grade exams to enter eighth grade, forcing him to hypnotize his principal to get around that.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dr. Mako wants to use hypnotism to take over the world, but due to his hypnotic talents, the whole country thinks he is a selfless, trustworthy guy.
