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* The ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' have the Neuralizer for this purpose. While its stated purpose is to erase memories, the ability to write new ones, seen more in the movies than the show for the most part, could make it quite the MindControl tool in the wrong hands, by making someone "remember" a really good reason to do whatever it is you want them to do and forget you were there in the same stroke.

'''Franchise/TheFlash:''' "I don't wanna fight you. I wanna..." Hey, this is like the Jedi mind trick!\\

* ComicBook/DoctorStrange has done this on occasion when asked for an ID, and when he's feeling playful will sometimes even throw in "these aren't the droids you're looking for" for good measure.
* ComicBook/TheEternals has Sersi and Druig, who’ve both used this trick. Druig tends to make people ignore him entirely, Sersi more often nudges people to see her (and her more revealing outfits) as someone perfectly normal for the context.

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'', villain Mind-Bomber makes himself functionally invisible by telepathically willing ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} to not see him. After being warned about his stealth mental suggestion, though, Supergirl declares it will not work again.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', Jean Grey (and sometimes Xavier) usually uses her mind powers to do this trick. For example, when she first shows up she makes a police officer release Storm from jail, by making him think that she's a higher ranked cop giving such orders.
* ComicBook/WonderWoman--at least in the Golden Age under her original creator--can use "telepathic waves" to order the weak-minded to do her bidding. It generally only works on those who are considered "mindless" or those who are already in an altered mental state like Queen Atomia's "Neutron" slaves.
* ''Franchise/XMen'': Charles Xavier uses mental suggestions a lot when he gets in danger personally. In fact, when the X-Men were first created, he used to do it basically always, leading to DeusExMachina endings. As a result, he was later demoted to MissionControl, to let the heroes fight their own battles.

* In ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'', the famous "Jedi mind trick" is given a heavy dose of realism throughout the story. Unlike in most ''Star Wars'' media, where the mind trick is a fun tool used by the heroes to outwit random mooks; here the Jedi mind trick is depicted as being extremely invasive and borderline MindRape for those subjected to it. After Jaune accidentally mind tricks Weiss, the way she describes the feeling seems like something straight out of a PsychologicalHorror.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' lets Psi-Cop Bester allude to this in an episode where he and his team are chasing a runaway Telepath.
-->'''Bester:''' ...spark misleading hunches...

The UrExample and TropeNamer is a scene from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' film ''Film/ANewHope'' (see examples below; it has a section for its own). Many examples elsewhere count as both a straight example of the trope and a ShoutOut to Star Wars; frequently the guy with those powers waves his hand and dictates the guards what to do, and they repeat those instructions as if hypnotized. Note, however, that parodies that do not work and should not have worked anyway (for example, because the guy doing it has no special powers) are '''not''' examples of this trope, only a ShoutOut to Star Wars. Help to prevent TropeDecay, and MayTheFarceBeWithYou.

* In the ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6825798/1/Clash_of_the_unlikely_lovers Clash of the unlikely lovers]]'', Fiamma of the Right ends up using the mind trick to get Vento of the Front to forget something embarrassing he said. Fiamma's power is to be able to do anything that was ever performed by a right hand, which apparently includes fictional uses as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''. In "The Siege of Lothal", Kanan (disguised as a stormtrooper) and Ezra (disguised as a cadet trooper) are smuggling Chopper in a crate past the guard. When he insists on looking inside the crate, Erza attempts this trope only to fail miserably--not just because he's inexperienced in using the Force but because of who he's pretending to be.
-->'''Ezra:''' ''(waving his hand)'' No, you ''don't'' have to look inside.\\
'''Stormtrooper:''' DID YOU JUST TRY AND GIVE ME AN ''ORDER'', CADET?\\
'''Kanan:''' ''(waving his hand)'' No, he just said you don't have to look inside.\\
'''Stormtrooper:''' I don't have to look inside...\\
'''Kanan:''' Well, if you say so. As you were, trooper.\\
'''Ezra:''' I wished that worked for me.\\
'''Kanan:''' I wished that worked ''on'' you.

--->'''Doctor:''' You're very angry.
--->'''Pat:''' Of course we're angry.
--->'''Doctor:''' And you want to leave.
--->'''Warmsly:''' No, we do ''not'' want to leave!
--->'''Doctor:''' Of course you want to leave ''[Gives Pat a Look]''.
--->'''Pat:''' Of course we do.
--->'''Doctor:''' I wouldn't stand for any nonsense, if I were you.
--->'''Warmsly:''' Look, Doctor, the situation is perfectly simple. We are very angry and we... ''[The Doctor gives him a Look]'' ...want to leave.
** The psychic paper has a very similar effect, even down to not working on the strong-minded (i.e. Shakespeare); for the first few seasons of the New Series, it seemed to be used every other episode. When the Doctor tries to use the paper to make a kid believe he (the Doctor) is a responsible adult, the paper shorts out because it couldn't tell such a big lie. The paper also failed to work on one ObstructiveBureaucrat because the man was so lacking in imagination he only saw a blank piece of paper.