History Main / EmotionControl

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Kim and Shego accidentally get implanted with computer chips which allow their emotions to be changed via a remote-control device.

Unlike the subtropes, Emotion Control does not necessarily require magic, superpowers or supertech. It can also be done by an [[ManipulativeBastard extremely manipulative character]] or by mundane brainwashing techniques, making it MoreThanMindControl. Most {{Emotion Eater}}s and higher-end versions of TheEmpath have this as a RequiredSecondaryPower. Compare MindVirus. Not to be confused with EmotionSuppression, in which one keeps one's own emotions under control.

The SuperTrope of EmotionBomb and GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul, a character who can do Emotion Control often has one or both of these powers in their toolbox. EmotionBomb itself has a subtrope in SupernaturalFearInducer, where the control is over fear alone.

* The ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' villain, Psycho-Pirate, has alternately either had the Medusa Mask that allowed him to project emotions into people or has been an "emotion vampire", able to drain emotions from people. The first mask often seems to work through intensifying emotions a person already feels, no matter how small.

** This was the mutant power of Manual "Empath" de la Rocha of the Hellions from ''ComicBook/NewMutants''.
** Hate-Monger used to have to use a "Hate-Ray" to project hate, anger and fear into people... but after he [[DeathIsCheap died and was resurrected]], he was able to do the same without the ray. [[spoiler: Oh, also he's [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]].]]
** The Psycho-Man, used an emotion controlling device that could instill fear, doubt and hatred. In one arc he built a new Hate Monger, a {{Humanshifting}} android who infiltrated various hate groups in different disguises to spread a HatePlague.
** When the Terrigan Cloud started empowered humans with latent [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] ancestry, two Nuhumans ended up with this. One, Swain, also ended up with a prehensile tail, and the other, Romeo, is mainly notable for dating [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen the teenage version of Iceman]].

* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'', this is what the "Inducer" class of psychics are capable of, coupled with more outright MindManipulation and the periodic EmotionBomb. One of them uses these abilities to [[spoiler: take over an entire village and turn them into a killer mob]], and later [[spoiler: causes an entire space station of hundreds of people to turn on each other in a murderous fury]]. The same Inducer also uses these powers to [[spoiler: MindRape River and turn her into an effective bodyguard/human shield.]]

* Done very subtly by Mindy to Ringo in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World''. She wants him to abandon the others and embrace the Guardians. It almost works....

* In the movie ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'', the former circus act Marcello can invoke homicidal rage out of people with a combination of Mind control music and injected poison carried by his flea minion unto the unsuspecting targets.

* Jasper from ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' has this as his vampire power. The implication is that he could do this to ''non''-supernatural levels pre-vamping.
* ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' included Kayla Silverfox who could control people's minds. A major plot point was whether she [[spoiler:used her powers to influence Wolverine's emotions or whether he was truly immune as a result of his own powers.]]

* In Mercedes lackey's ''Literature/ArrowsOfTheQueen'' series, we learn that a powerful empath such as Talia can force a person to feel another person's emotions. This is used to great effect when she takes a man who sexually abused his daughter and forces him to relive the event from her perspective and feeling her emotions about it. And it won't stop until he sincerely repents.
* Emotion workers in Holly Black's ''Literature/TheCurseWorkers'' trilogy can manipulate emotions through touch, and the effects can last for several months. One emotion worker got in serious legal trouble for [[GoldDigger making several wealthy men]] [[LovePotion fall in love with her.]] However, people with this ability become emotionally unstable themselves for a time whenever they use their power. The more often they use it, the more unstable their own emotions become.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov: ''Literature/FoundationSeries'': The story ''Literature/TheMule'' demonstrates an overlap between EmotionControl and MindControl as the titular Mule's PsychicPowers allows him to permanently change people's emotions, such as anger, creativity, fear, loyalty, and even lust. He explains it as like being able to see and adjust a dial in people's minds.
* ''The Leeshore'' by Creator/RobertReed has the "wires", which are a simple form of emotional control used by [[TheAlliance both]] [[ReligionOfEvil sides]] of the [[BlackAndGrayMorality conflict]]. The good guys use it to subtly reinforce certain emotions in their soldiers and ensure loyalty - such as making them more courageous. The enemy use the device to essentially MindRape or "conscript" captured civilians soldiers into worshiping their [[DeusEstMachina artificial god]] and the priests; filling the conscript with joy whenever they please the controlling priest, or filling them with blinding rage when they think of their former allies.

* ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'': Soothing and Rioting are powers that allow you to do this- a Rioter can inflame emotions, a Soother can damp them, and a full Mistborn can do both ([[EvilOverlord The Lord Ruler]], for example, turned himself into a walking EmotionBomb, damping all emotions in about a mile radius around him apart from fear and despair). However, a Soother or Rioter can't ''sense'' emotions, so they need to be very good at reading people to get the results they want.
* The ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' LightNovel SpinOff, ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback'', has Vladimir Kocaqui's [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Rainy Day Dream Away, which has the power to "lock in" a feeling. When his sister was fatally wounded, he locked a brief moment of happiness, causing her to experience a pleasant DyingDream; conversely, if someone fighting him feels even the slightest doubt that they can win, he can make that feeling permanent, making it impossible for his opponent to defeat him. This also extends to physical sensations such as loss of balance.
* ''Slaveworld:'' Used through social conditioning throughout the series. Also in the form of supertech, but for the first few books this is limited to GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul.

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' :
** Heartbreaker has the ability to instantly cause other people to feel any emotion he wants. His favorite hobby is brainwashing beautiful women into loving him and doing whatever he asks of them.
** Cherish, Heartbreaker's daughter, inherited her father's emotional manipulation power. She perceives other people's emotions in the form of music. During her Interlude, she claims that she can also make people associate her person with a specific emotion if she manipulates them long enough, [[spoiler:as she plans do to with her Slaughterhouse Nine teammates.]]
** Gallant can shoot blasts that have kinetic energy behind them but also change the target's emotional status.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
*** In a late ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode Data's "brother" Lore did this to Data by using Data's stolen emotion chip to beam emotions into Data's brain, which caused Data feel pleasure from causing pain and temporarily causing him to [[FaceHeelTurn turn on the Federation]].
*** Both Betazoids and Vulcans are shown to be able to do this [[PowerIncontinence involuntarily]] when suffering from certain neurological illnesses, as shown in "TNG: Sarek" and "[=DS9=]: Fascination". To what extent they can do it at will is not explored.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The episode "Day of the Dove" features an entity that feeds on hateful emotions, and can manipulate them in others by subjecting its victims to paranoid mania, thus allowing their hateful emotions to come to the surface.

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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-288 SCP-288 ("The "Stepford Marriage" Rings").]] When an appropriate woman wears one of the "female" rings, she displays very few (if any) negative emotions.
** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-708 SCP-708 ("The Big Orange Forklift").]] When someone looks at SCP-708 for more than 20 seconds they become extremely enthusiastic about it and want to operate it. Anyone restrained from operating it will engage in emotional outbursts like a young child. Anyone who has been looking at SCP-708 or has operated it before feels jealousy at seeing anyone else operating it.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''Wrath of the Seven Horsemen''. The supervillain Fear can use his scepter to cause intense terror in everyone within a large area.

* ''TabletopGame/MutantUA'': there are several mind-altering psychic powers: "Påverka" (affect) for Emotion Control, "Skräck" (terror) for EmotionBomb, "Dominera" (dominate) for MindControl.
* A potential mutant power in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''; the mutant in question may or may not be immune to the effect.

* The ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series has a lot of DemonicPossession, most of which involve a straight GrandTheftMe and a direct conflict between the host's mind and the possessor's will. However, when [[spoiler:Raziel]] gets possessed by the Hylden after killing and consuming [[spoiler: the possessed Turel]], the control seems to take this form. Presumably the reason for this is that he is too strong for those particular Hylden to completely dominate, and if they tried he would realize they were there and join Kain in fighting them, whereas he apparently remains unaware of them as long as they simply amplify his already-present anger enough to make him impulsive.

** The Leviathans, [[spoiler:the race that created the Catalyst which in turn created the Reapers]], possess similar mental powers which they used to establish a galactic empire. [[spoiler:The Reapers' indoctrination was even based on the Leviathans' power]].

* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekJudgmentRites'', a being of pure emotion known as The Savant kidnaps Spock off the ''Enterprise'' and forces him to experience joy. This is speculated by Kirk to be part of the Savant's addiction to that emotion, which it can only feed through other telepathic beings like Spock. Of course, as a Vulcan, Spock's emotions are incredibly powerful and he had spent his entire life trying to suppress them, causing him both joy and agony. There is no explanation as to why the Savant keeps Spock despite this.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject''

** [[GreenEyedMonster Parsee's]] power is explicitly to [[DrivenByEnvy manipulate feelings of jealousy]].

* ''Videogame/XCom''
** ''Videogame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'': Psionically gifted troopers can optionally use Psi Inspiration at rank 2. It boosts the willpower of those affected and calms down panicked allies.
** ''Videogame/XCOM2'' has Solace, a passive ability of the Psi Operative. It's a mental aura that radiates around the Psi Operative, giving complete immunity against negative mental effects[[note]]Panic (including Berserk and Shattered), Disorientation, Stun, MindControl and even Unconsciousness[[/note]] to anyone within it; it also neutralizes said mental effects if they're moved within Solace radius or the Psi Operative is moved near them.

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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' features a number of these, ranging from [[KnightInShiningArmor Gallant]] to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide Cherish]] and her father [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Heart]][[LovePotion breaker]]. The [[OmnicidalManiac Simurgh]] is also one of these, as a result of being the only actual telepath in the setting.

* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'' had an episode where Reed Richards discovered an element that amplified human emotions while probing alternate dimensions, but it turns out that he unknowingly took Element X from the possession of a shape-shifting tyrant who tracked it back to the Fantastic Four lab building and, not satisfied with merely trying to take it back, used his emotion controlling weapons to kidnap and "punish" the Fantastic Four and Alicia. They managed to escape [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when Suzie turned the alien's Hate Cannon on the alien himself, filling him with crippling self-hatred.]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' several Joes had a device implanted on their necks that allowed Cobra to control their emotions. Cobra's chosen interface for the system? A pipe organ.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Kim and Shego accidentally get implanted with computer chips which allow their emotions to be changed via a remote control device.

** Heartbreaker has this power.
** Cherish, Heartbreaker's daughter, inherited her father's emotional manipulation power. She perceives other people's emotions in the form of music. During her Interlude, she claims that she can also make people associate her person with a specific emotion if she manipulates them long enough, [[spoiler: as she plans do to with her Slaughterhouse Nine teammates.]]

* In ''Film/MysteryMen'' Dr. Heller's "Blame Thrower" influences emotions to cause groups of people to argue with each other.

* ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' included Kayla Silverfox who could control people's minds. A major plot point was whether she[[spoiler: used her powers to influence Wolverine's emotions or whether he was truly immune as a result of his own powers.]]

** Kain's "[[HatePlague Inspire Hate]]" spell from ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Blood Omen]]'' is also an example.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''

** Kokoro's power is the ability to control all emotions at a wide-scale. Losing her Mask of Hope created the incident behind ''Hopeless Masquerade'' [[PowerIncontinence as her out of control powers caused everyone to lose hope]].

* [[TheEmpath Empaths]] in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' have the ability to manipulate emotions, draw out existing ones, and overcharge them to the point of death. The Drowussu peoples, specifically the Val'Kyorl'solenurn clan, have a huge number of empaths, and they generally serve as either [[GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul Inquisitors]] or {{Seers}}, the latter which obtain visions by sensing the desires and goals of other drow (early chapters did portray them as genuine Seers, but was later quietly {{Retcon}}ned to a special type of empath). While Inquisitor is a gender-neutral position, Seers among the Kyorls are [[GenderRestrictedAbility always female]], and the Order of the Holy Eye is populated by women with the ability.