History Main / BrainwashedAndCrazy

** Nala is [[spoiler: [[BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker kidnapped by Hago and tortured into becoming a killer.]] It ends badly for the villain.]]

* Most of the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' [[BodyHorror "construction"]] involves this as a stage in the building, however, before that stage usually happens, they get out. There are a few exceptions, such as [[Film/KamenRiderZX ZX]], [[KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]], and [[KamenRiderTheFirst Ichigo]].

* Most of the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' [[BodyHorror "construction"]] involves this as a stage in the building, however, before that stage usually happens, they get out. There are a few exceptions, such as [[KamenRiderZX ZX]], [[KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]], and [[KamenRiderTheFirst Ichigo]].

* In Despicable Me 2 [[spoiler: Eduardo and Dr Nefario kidnap some of Gru's Minions and mutate them, turning them into mindless, indestructable monsters. This is reversed later by Nefario's antidote]]

* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: Damian "Robin" Wayne finds himself facing... his father Batman?! It remains to be seen if Batman got captured by Joker and got subjected to this trope]].

* Mareeta in ''Franchise/FireEmblem: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Thracia 776]]'', in captivity, was given a cursed sword that consumes her mind and turns her into a battle-crazed swordswoman that attacks even her own adoptive mother [[MamaBear Eyvel]]. When she joins for good, she gains control over the sword, and [[GameBreaker breaks the game with it until she]] breaks it.

*** Making this even worse is [[spoiler: that Manfloy did the same to Julia, Julius ''and'' Celice's mother, Diadora, to make her marry Julia's dad Alvis. In her case, she stayed brainwashed for ''years'', only sort of breaking through when Julius fatally struck her down.]]
** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]]'', Ninian is brainwashed into [[spoiler: almost opening the Dragon's Gate. Nils, her little brother, snapped her out of it.]]

* Most of the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' [[BodyHorror "construction"]] involves this as a stage in the building, however, before that stage usually happens, they get out.
** Except for [[KamenRiderZX ZX]], who Badan actually succeed in ''brainwashing''.
** And [[KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]].

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* Easily half of ''Franchise/PowerRangers''' main characters have had this happen to them at least once. Tommy Oliver, the first Green Ranger, had it happen ''three'' times. Brainwashing tends to be magic-based, not hypnotic, in this show, and numerous characters have had "spells" make them act a certain way until [[NoOntologicalInertia the monster-of-the-week who placed it on them has been destroyed.]] Sometimes the MonsterOfTheWeek ''is'' a character who was forcibly transformed and BrainwashedAndCrazy all at once.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' episode "Moooving Out", Timmy is forced 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.

* In the BBC'S ''Series/{{Merlin}}'', Merlin is infected with a snake creature by Morgana and brainwashed to kill Arthur.

** Don't think of Reaper indoctrination as mind control; [[FateWorseThanDeath think of it as someone forcefully destroying your free will]].

* In ''[[JonahHex Hex]]'', Jonah's girlfriend Stiletta was kidnapped and brainwashed into become a bloodthirsty competitor in the GladiatorGames. Jonah is later forced into the arena and Stiletta attempts to kill him.

* This is pretty much one of the main premises of ''Anime/CodeGeass''.

** Pretty much anyone in ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'' who is corrupted by a [[ClingyMacGuffin Number]] falls into this trope.

* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'', Mamoru was at least twice brainwashed into doing this to the Senshi. [[spoiler: in the Stars manga, Sailor Galaxia does this not only to him, but to ''all the Seishi'' who are mind-controlled to attack Usagi. It's important to note, however, that in the manga, it's made abundantly clear that the senshi are actually already dead.]]

** Hell, in the original series, [[spoiler:all four of the machine kings are all subject to this trope, with all eventually getting redeemed some time into the show, with Primada and Polonaise suffering RedemptionEqualsDeath sort of, while Pizza and Penchinon both get restored to their original forms, Soldato J and the main computer of the J-Ark, respectively]].

* Played for laughs in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', where Sousuke puts his high school rugby team through TrainingFromHell (fit for [[TheSpartanWay navy seals]]), which results in them becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy killers that completely annihilate the other team. Heck, their eyes are even shown ''[[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing red]]''.

** [[spoiler:Stella]], who is really just emotionally fragile and naive, but is [[spoiler:brainwashed into freezing up or panicking whenever someone mentions death, and to calm down and absolutely trust anyone who [[DeclarationOfProtection vows to protect her]]. After being programmed and deprogrammed so many times by Phantom Pain, then Shinn, then Phantom Pain ''again'', her main response now is to go crazy and panic over pretty much anything she even ''loosely'' relates to death. Which is bad if she's at the controls of a truly [[HumongousMecha giant mecha]] with about fifty-bazillion {{Wave Motion Gun}}s and no-one can talk her down.]]

* Happens very briefly in most parts of any ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' media, usually to townspeople. The most noteworthy are Rezo controlling Zelgadis during the first season, and [[spoiler:Hellmaster Fibrizzo]] controlling Gourry during the second.

* Lucifer in AngelCop. Already a powerful psychic she'd actually [[spoiler: volunteered to be experimented on and turned into a psychic super soldier because she believed she was ''helping mankind''. Sadly, she's brainwashed to the point that she believes viciously murdering innocent people and even her former allies who ''woke up'' from the brainwashing is all for humanity's sake.]]

** Note that at least in the third edition, ''Charm'' explicitly didn't work like this, despite being used as such in every game. It only makes the victim think of the caster as a friend, but it doesn't let them forget their other loyalties, meaning they'll likely be rather confused and anguished when their friends attack each other.

* It's hinted that this was [[spoiler:Sergeant Kelly]]'s fate in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3''. Before you were sent to Hell, [[spoiler:Kelly]] gave you the mission to use a card with a plead for reinforcement to Mars. After either you send the message or not, [[spoiler:Kelly]] orders you to get yourself to the Delta Labs and meet him there, so that both he and you can take care of the portal. When you're there, he's nowhere to be seen and you have to take care of the portal yourself. Once you came back from Hell, you no longer have radio contact with him, and later, you find out that [[spoiler:Kelly had become a monster named Sabaoth]]. Whether he was allied with the demons in the first place or was simply brainwashed is unknown, but it should be the latter, since he seemed hellbent on defeating the demons, and [[spoiler:Dr. Betruger was shown to transform marines into elite demons]].

** The effect of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Berserk Staff]]'' is pretty much this. It's usually [[ExclusiveEnemyEquipment enemy-only]], but in ''Genealogy of Holy War'', if Sylvia didn't have children, you can get Sharlow, and if you also recruit his father, they can talk, and Sharlow will get the staff. ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You may now proceed to have fun with your]] DemonicSpider. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Enjoy.]])

** In ''CrashNitroKart'', N. Trance brainwashes Polar, Pura and Dingodile to form an entire race team to put against the Bandicoot.

** The Leviathan has a similar ability: the difference is that the Leviathan's mind control isn't permanent (it only lasts as long as the Leviathan is directly thinking about it), and it doesn't necessarily destroy a person's mental faculties (although it certainly ''can''). [[spoiler:Since the Reapers were built in the image of the Leviathans, their indoctrination is basically a more advanced and developed form of the Leviathan's control.]]

* BonusBoss Ancient Devil in ''GoldenSunDarkDawn'' will sometimes take control of one of your party members and force him or her to fight by his side, making them an enemy. What's worse is that they can use everything they have against you, including weapon unleashes, items, Pysnergy, [[OhCrap and even using your own summons against you]] should you have any Djinn on standby. This gets a whole lot worse if the manipulated character has powerful healing abilities or uses the all HP restoring Potion on the boss.

* Eternity swords can be very difficult to handle properly in ''EienNoAselia''. As evidence, [[spoiler:Kyouko's mind is devoured by Void almost as soon as she gets it]] and at the end of the game [[spoiler:the Shun that Yuuto once knew is basically dead, similarly devoured by The World.]]

* Strictly speaking, the Zerg in the original ''{{Starcraft}}'' are this, as the Xel'Naga instilled them with an overriding biological imperative to absorb the genetic potential of other species into their own, whereas they were previously peaceful and harmless worms low on the food chain of their homeworld -- no, this isn't a spoiler, it's literally AllThereInTheManual. [[spoiler:''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' reveals that the Overmind actually orchestrated his own death and groomed Kerrigan as his successor in order to finally grant the Zerg true free will, as she was not hampered by the same imperative.]]

** Also, no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker and Harley turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through [[SarcasmMode good old-fashioned]] ColdBloodedTorture.

* 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 basically destroyed half the Quest Compound!

* An old ''World's Finest'' comic in which {{Batman}} is brainwashed into being a sadistic warder at a prison for {{Superman}} has him reflect that hypnotism cannot make anyone do something against their nature, before the narration explains "But this is ''super''-hypnotism, of a kind never before experienced by anyone on Earth!" (It's almost a shame that this was written in the days of simpler storytelling, as a modern telling of the story would have it revealed that Batman would certainly be a warder on Superman's prison if he thought Superman went rogue...)

** It should also be noted that no hypnosis was involved here at all; Joker and Harley turned Tim into "Joker Junior" through [[SarcasmMode good old-fashioned]] ColdBloodedTorture.

* LadyBlackhawk was brainwashed by Killer Shark into becoming the villainous Queen Killer Shark in the SilverAge and it was even hinted that [[spoiler: she had a sexual relationship with Killer Shark when she was brainwashed.]]

* LadyBlackhawk was brainwashed by Killer Shark into becoming the villainous Queen Killer Shark in the SilverAge and it was even hinted that she had a sexual relationship with Killer Shark when she was brainwashed.

* [[{{Blackhawk}} Lady Blackhawk]] was brainwashed by Killer Shark into becoming the villainous Queen Killer Shark in the SilverAge and it was even hinted that she had a sexual relationship with Killer Shark when she was brainwashed.

* [[{{Blackhawk}} Lady Blackhawk]] was brainwashed by Killer Shark into becoming the villainous Queen Killer Shark in the SilverAge.

** ''Anime/MazingerZ'': TheHero Kouji Kabuto was brainwashed by Viscount Pygman, and later by the Vegans in the ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' GoNagai manga, the UFO Robot Grendizer tai Great Mazinger movie and SuperRobotWarsMX in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFeKFc0peH8 Chapter 10]]. Professors Morimori, Sewashi and Nossori also were brainwashed by Baron Ashura into one of the earlier episodes of the original anime series. AND in another episode three workers of the Institute were brainwashed into piloting several Mechanical Beasts.

* In the Majin Buu arc ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', [[spoiler:it is Vegeta who]] is brainwashed and made to fight against his former allies. The brainwashing also gives him a major power boost. In fact, that's why [[spoiler:Vegeta decided to let Babidi]] take control of him: so that he could be on even ground with [[spoiler:Goku at long last.]] He eventually manages to break free of the mind control, but [[spoiler:the trope is subverted before then, as Vegeta reveals that he could break free at any time.]]

* In the BBC'S Series/{{Merlin}}, Merlin is [[spoiler:infected with a snake creature by Morgana and brainwashed to kill Arthur]]