History Main / BrainwashedAndCrazy

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Joker and Harley Quinn brainwashed Robin/Tim Drake 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/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'' it's revealed that, [[spoiler: when O-Sensei is finally freed from the gate, he's been possessed by a demon and has no problem fighting his former students. The demon is eventually killed, but he also dies in the process.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'', this is [[BigBad Slade's]] ultimate plan: using a powerful machine and [[spoiler:Robin's movie]], he wants to put the entire world under his control. He succeeds during the climax, and uses the newly-brainwashed superheroes [[spoiler:(and Robin)]] to keep the Titans from destroying the machine.

* ''WebOriginal/BusterGirls'' has the Heartless and everyone they turn into their minions.

* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', this is the effect of the Planet Gray virus in Season 5, transforming infected humans and robots into monsters once the virus is activated within them.

A subtrope of FaceMonsterTurn. This trope is the inverse of HeelFaceBrainwashing. See also MirrorMoralityMachine.

* ''VisualNovel/PiofioreFatedMemories'' -Episodio 1926- [[spoiler: Henri Lambert]]'s bad route ends with him being kidnapped, drugged, and psychologically tortured until [[spoiler: he goes insane, completely yields to the villain, ends up killing everyone, and repeatedly rapes the heroine, an act most in opposition to who he is prior to the brainwashing.]]

* ''VisualNovel/PiofioreNoBansho'' -Episodio 1926- [[spoiler: Henri Lambert]]'s bad route ends with him being kidnapped, drugged, and psychologically tortured until [[spoiler: he goes insane, completely yields to the villain, ends up killing everyone, and repeatedly rapes the heroine, an act most in opposition to who he is prior to the brainwashing.]]

->''"More indoctrination. The children must be trained to handle weapons, to deploy destructive forces – and to kill?"''

->''"There are native animals – flying, bird-like creatures – which they hunt. These days the animals are raised for that purpose, of course; it has ironically saved them from extinction. Yes, they must learn to kill."''

->''"And people?"''

->''"The Xeelee are not like us – but they are sentient. Therefore it helps to be exposed to the moral conflict of killing a sentient creature, before it is necessary to do it to save one’s life. So, yes, people too, when appropriate."''

->''"Commissary, must we commit such barbarism to wage our war?"''

->''"But there is no barbarism here. Novice, what did you expect? This regime, this crude empire of mud and clubs and blood, is actually a sophisticated processing system. It turns human beings, children, into machines."''
-->-- ''Dolo, a Commissary describing the Coalition's policy on Child Soldiers'', ''Literature/XeeleeSequence''

->''"Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Take you out and stuff something in? You know what it's like to be unmade?"''
-->-- '''Hawkeye''', ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''

The more dangerous form of {{Brainwashed}}, for everyone concerned.

Please '''do not add RealLife examples''' here. It is sufficient to say they ''do'' exist.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation used to have [[https://web.archive.org/web/20161027105810/http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1143 SCP-1143 ("Suricate Altar")]], which affects suricates (meerkats):

* ''Machinima/GamingAllStars'': [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale Polygon Man]]]] can do this to his victims by [[spoiler: polygonizing them, erasing their old personalities entirely]]. The effects of this variety of brainwashing are so devastating that [[spoiler: even the [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy King of All Cosmos]] can't resurrect them like he's able to with the Trophified casualties at the beginning of ''2'']].

* 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.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', the [[BigBad Screenslaver]] uses EpilepticFlashingLights to control people. [[spoiler: She also uses goggles for constant brainwashing, using them to control various superheroes with the intent of preventing the SuperRegistrationAct from being overturned.]] Her puppet is also this, who was just a pizza delivery man.

** [[spoiler:The Condesce]] later takes this UpToEleven: [[spoiler:Because she possesses the combined abilities of all the trolls, including the aforementioned powers of Vriska and Tavros, she is able to give Dogtier Jade a [[HumanoidAbomination Grimdark]] form. She immediately commands [[{{Pun}} Grimbark]] Jade to zap the Tiaratop onto Jane's head, converting her to the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg]]-like Crockerdark form.]]

[[caption-width-right:316:AxCrazy in this case.]]

->''"It wasn't him, Tony! HYDRA had control of his mind!"''
-->-- '''Steve Rogers''' on '''Bucky Barnes''', ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

** [[spoiler:The Condesce]] later takes this UpToEleven: [[spoiler:Because she possesses the combined abilities of all the trolls, including the aforementioned powers of Vriska and Tavros, she is able to give Dogtier Jade a [[HumanoidAbomination Grimdark]] form. She immediately commands [[IncrediblyLamePun Grimbark]] Jade to zap the Tiaratop onto Jane's head, converting her to the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg]]-like Crockerdark form.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', [[spoiler: TheReveal is that almost the entire cast was subjected to this [[AmnesiacDissonance prior to the start of the story]], and the entire setting is a LotusEaterMachine made for the purpose of {{deprogramming}} that was HijackedByGanon.]] The [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool anime]] shows that the reason TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 got as bad as it did]] was that ''half the planet is like this''.
* ''VisualNovel/PiofioreNoBansho'' -Episodio 1926- [[spoiler: Henri Lambert]]'s bad route ends with him being kidnapped, drugged, and psychological tortured until [[spoiler: he goes insane, completely yields to the villain, ends up killing everyone, and repeatedly rapes the heroine, an act most in opposition to who he is prior to the brainwashing.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', the [[BigBad Screenslaver]] uses EpilepticFlashingLights to control people. [[spoiler: She also uses goggles for constant brainwashing, using them to control various superheroes with the intent of preventing the SuperRegistrationAct from being overturned.]]