History Main / MassHypnosis

* In the religious film ''Anime/TheRebirthOfBuddha'', Mr. Arai hijacks all TV stations in Japan to predict there will be a tsunami and the only way to survive is to obey him. However, Mari Kimura reveals to Sayako and company that it's an illusion; he is sending psychic waves into those who look at the screens he's in to fool them.

** Drakken once tries to hypnotize a spring-break teenage crowd via their UsefulNotes/{{MP3}} players. It doesn't quite work out -- instead, he hypnotizes the senior citizens at a retirement community via their hearing aids.

** Happens again in the sequel, ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2''. Wario hypnotizes the residents of Mario Land into obeying him, best shown in the commercial above. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe he learned it from Tatanga]] who had [[DemotedToDragon since become his minion]]?

* In a ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' episode, the heroes find themselves in a giant floating shopping center that uses subliminal advertising to get people to buy things until they need to get a loan (from the same corporation), essentially enslaving people.

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Subverted. Aizen does keep calling his power "complete hypnosis" but the way his power works doesn't have anything in common with hypnosis. He cannot directly control how people behave or what they think. Instead, his zanpakutou fools all of the senses and Aizen uses that in combination with completely normal methods of manipulation to trick people into doing what he wants them to do. He does not, however, hypnotise peoples minds.
* This happens in the ''Franchise/OnePiece'' special 'Dance Carnival' when Jango hypnotizes everyone on Mirrorball Island (including himself) to dance until they drop.
* In ''Anime/SonicX'', Eggman pulled a rather complicated Hypno Ploy which ends up being awesome through its sheer bizarreness. It went something like this:

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Tobi/Madara/Kaguya's]] plan is an AssimilationPlot aimed at bouncing an incredibly powerful illusion '''''Off The Moon!'''''
* A couple of times in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch controls large groups of people. When he first obtained the Geass, he ordered the squad of soldiers to kill themselves, [[PsychicAssistedSuicide which they did]]. With another group of people, he ordered them to kill anyone who would reveal his identity as Zero the Terrorist.
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' Fate's group, Cosmo Entelachia, plan this by [[spoiler:nullifying the magic keeping the Magic World intact and placing everyone into a [[LotusEaterMachine weird pocket dimension where the people can individually live in their own personal dreams and hopes where everything is sunshine and gumdrops.]] All under the excuse that it's to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the populace of the Magic World from dying]] when it collapses from a lack of mana keeping the world stabilized on Mars.]]
** 10 or so volumes earlier, [[spoiler:Chao Lingshen]] also attempts to used the forced recognition magic of the World Tree on the whole of Earth to make everyone accept the existence of magic and wizards whether they wanted to or not. [[spoiler:It actually succeeds in its entirety, [[TimeTravel once.]] ]]
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': In the first Act[=/=]episode, the MonsterOfTheWeek achieves this by disguising herself as a jewelry merchant and selling enchanted {{Hypno Trinket}}s that both enslave and drain the LifeEnergy of the wearer. At her command, a crowd of women assemble and attack Sailor Moon.
* ''Anime/TheUltraman'' have the team stumbling across a set of ancient ruins underneath Tamara Island where a human tribe lived 6,000 years ago, worshipping an ancient god. Said god turns out to be the monster Dolfiego, whose mental powers are strong enough to mind-control an entire civilization of humans as his servants. And the monster is now seeking a way to brainwash the heroes into becoming it's new serfs.

* Creator/MarvelComics had the Ringmaster, the <ahem> [[{{Pun}} ringleader]] of [[Characters/MarvelComicsCircusOfCrime the Circus of Crime]]. His hat contains a unique device that enables him to hypnotize an entire circus audience at once. However, the victims have to ''see'' the spiraling design on the hat in order for it to work. If you happen to be a [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} blind superhero]]...
* ComicBook/Gen13 had a villain named Cull who brainwashed to... well, not much. While he did get Our Heroes to live lives remarkably different than was normal.

* A story of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' involved the Legion being outlawed by the government of Earth, which turned out to have been made possible by [[WaterSourceTampering hypno-chemicals put into everyone's water]], an EvilPlan concocted by none other than Universo, a perennial foe of the Legion.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: After developing powers and turning evil in the aftermath of surviving being shot in the head Hypnota starts hypnotizing large swaths of audience during their stage act and using them to commit crimes.

* Dogbert from the ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip used this to take over the world once. He made everyone wear brassieres over their clothes, carry signs with his face, and chant "Dogbert is my king" just for fun. He got bored and released everyone at the end of the week.

* In the ''FanFic/{{Pokeumans}}'' universe, literally ''all'' humans are unconscious sleeper agents for the Pokextinction organisation. Their memories of any incident involving transformees are erased afterwards, allowing them to continue the charade unaware. Did we mention that this story takes place [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou in the real world]]? [[ParanoiaFuel This army of minions includes]] ''[[ParanoiaFuel you]]''.
* A minor example in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' is Terb the bard's music at the Border Crossroads Inn. It both sounds wonderful to most listeners and gets them to sleep soundly so someone can go into their rooms later and rip them off. Unfortunately for Terb, it doesn't work on professional musicians....
* In the ''Series/TrueBlood'' fanfic ''How Could You Forget'', Bill ends up getting his memories erased by some witches while trying to make peace with them after Eric's attempt at diplomacy had failed.[[note]]In the actual show, the witches erased Eric's memory; here, the witches let Eric go, forcing Bill to go and try to peacefully resolve the mess, only for Marnie, outraged about Eric's intrusion, to steal Bill's memories[[/note]] While Sookie and Jessica are hiding Bill at Sookie's house, Jessica stalls for time by glamoring all of Bill's human staff into thinking Bill is away and "busy" and to forward all urgent calls to her.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39364473/chapters/98640516#workskin Lucid Twin Dragons]]'', Emmet is the avatar of [[ShockAndAwe Zekrom]], the dragon god of Ideals. When his twin brother Ingo (avatar of Reshiram) goes missing, Emmet despairs and tries to maintain some semblance of control by keeping his life in a normal, Ideal state. His 'life' includes all of Nimbasa City. When his best friend Elesa (whom he will never try to control) arrives to snap him out of it, she is disturbed to see that everyone is acting normal and even [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul smiling]] despite the oppressive aura.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: [[Characters/MCUScarletWitch Wanda Maximoff]] has powers of mind manipulation.
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': During the climax, Wanda mass hypnotizes civilians from Novi Grad to evacuate en masse before the showdown with Ultron.
** ''Series/WandaVision'': In her grief over losing Vision, Wanda ends up creating a sitcom reality encompassing the town of Westview, with every resident forced to act out roles in her fantasies, including a facsimile version of Vision. A lesser variant happens in episode 5 when Wanda leaves the Hex to confront Tyler Hayward after he makes the ill mistake of trying to fire a missile at her. She makes clear she won't be giving her recreation of Vision over to Hayward for his Project CATARACT, and emphasizes her point by possessing twenty of Hayward's men to turn their guns on him as she goes back into the Hex.

* This was used by the villain in the ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' movie. He handed out cat-ear headbands that would submit subliminal messages during a televised concert of the band.
* The 1981 thriller ''Film/{{Looker}}'' has a company create commercials with digitized actors that can hypnotize people.

* Both Film/TheShadow and Shiwan Khan can do so, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower having been trained]] by the same Far East master. Lamont uses it to hide himself from the others' eyes, thus becoming the titular hero. Shiwan Khan does one better and hides an entire building from prying eyes. Of course, nobody wonders why there is a seemingly empty lot in the middle of Downtown.
* ''Film/TheyLive''. The aliens use a TV station to broadcast a signal that keeps human beings from seeing the truth. They also use actual TV broadcasts to send specific messages.

* In ''Film/TheWizardOfGore'', this was what Montag planned to do by getting onto a late night TV show. And possibly make every person watching kill themselves.
* The ultimate goal of [[BigBad En Sabah Nur]] aka [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Apocalypse]] in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. [[spoiler:He wishes to absorb Charles Xavier's powers into his own and use the enhanced psychic abilities to control every single person on the planet]].

* This was the titular bad guy's plan in ''Literature/TheDemonHeadmaster''. He didn't actually manage it though (he got on TV and lots of people fell asleep, but he was interrupted by the meddling kids before he could give any commands).

* Literature/MollyMoon does it too many times to count, through various means (going up on a stage to hypnotize a crowd, appearing on TV to hypnotize the audience). Her motives are usually less sinister than most people who use this trope, though sometimes (especially in the first book, ''Molly Moon's Incredible Book Of Hypnotism'') she does it for purely selfish reasons. Her enemies occasionally do it as well, though usually with more sinister motives.

** In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', Joruus C'baoth could do this using the Force, controlling swaths of the Imperial fleet to improve their efficiency and make their timing impossibly precise. At first he just used it at Grand Admiral Thrawn's orders, but eventually he decided to make a power grab and took control of every member of the Imperial fleet except for those handful in a [[PowerNullifier ysalamiri bubble]]. Thrawn talked C'baoth down by reminding him that ''none'' of the people he was controlling knew what was planned, and C'baoth couldn't piece it together from a dozen or a hundred minds that had some inkling -- it was [[AllUpToYou all up to Thrawn]] -- and how long could C'baoth hold the meld, anyway, before people started to collapse?
** The ''Rebel Force'' series has, at one point, a base stocked by people who were brainwashed on an individual, laborious basis. Luke Skywalker, unwilling to kill brainwashed enemies, actually manages to ''undo it'' en masse with a desperate JediMindTrick; the people have no idea who they are or what they're doing, but they don't belong to the BigBad anymore.
* James H. Schmitz's 1962 short story "These Are The Arts". TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture a global television audience is hooked on a succession of "TV crazes". The latest one appears to the cynical to be an advertising gimmick for something called Galcom. Believers, entranced by the attractive Galcom Teachers and their beautiful Symbols, are convinced it's FirstContact. The Symbols are said to induce the development of telepathy in Earth's people so they can communicate with other members of the Galactic Community. Suffice it to say [[spoiler:it is not an advertising gimmick, but the Teachers are only the servants of another alien race which controls its captive populations via telepathy...]]

* ''Literature/{{Gone}}'': In ''Villain'', the second novel of the sequel series, Dillon Poe develops a [[SnakePeople serpentine appearance]] and the ability to control people using his voice, using it to take over Las Vegas and prompting a disastrous military response.
* ''Literature/{{Renegades}}'': The villain Puppeteer can mind control entire groups of children at once. It's unclear whether he's actually limited to children or if that's just his preference, though.
* In ''Literature/MindGames'', the description on several of [[spoiler:James the Mesmerist's]] Class Skills say that anyone who can "hear and understand" what he is saying will be affected by them. Given the apparent power of the System, this could include an unknown number of people at an unknown potential distance.
* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''The Place Of No Stars'', [[spoiler:Ashfur]] is able to mind-control all of the innocent spirits trapped in the Dark Forest at the same time.
* ''Literature/DaughterOfTheSun'': Aelia influenced most of the people in Soria, a small village, who started acting capricious (she's the Goddess of caprice) as a result.

** The Master hypnotized a bunch of Concorde crew and passengers into believing they were at Heathrow Airport rather than the mid-Jurassic back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight "Time-Flight"]], but he had help.
** The Sycorax hypnotize people by blood type in [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]]. However, they need to have a sample of the blood type in question.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: The Master becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain by subliminal messages to his constituents delivered via a satellite network and their mobile phones.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "The Lie of the Land"]]: The alien Monks, calling themselves the Prophets of Truth, use their powers to hold the entire Earth under the sway of a mass delusion -- namely, that they have always been present for humanity's entire history. Only a few people are unaffected, most notably Bill and Nardole, [[spoiler:not to mention the Doctor, who's been [[PretendToBeBrainwashed faking being under the Monks' control]] in an attempt to undermine them from the inside.]]

* Tempus (nearly?) becomes President by hypnotizing people through their telephones in an episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark''.

* ''Series/PainkillerJane'' has the episode "Something Nasty in the Neighborhood," which features a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual neuro]] with mind-control powers. She uses it in an odd variation of GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: anyone who watches her local-access TV show becomes obsessed with living in a "perfect" town in the style of the 1950's (fittingly, the woman with her powers hosts a household hint show--think Martha Stewart--that advocates for this kind of community).
* In ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' story "Secrets of the Stars", Martin Trueman hijacks a TV station and makes it broadcast on every channel so as to hypnotize the masses under one star sign at a time (though the victims don't actually need to be watching TV to be affected, that's just for relaying instructions).
* In a ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' episode, the heroes finds themselves in a giant floating shopping center that uses subliminal advertising to get people to buy things until they need to get a loan (from the same corporation), essentially enslaving people.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': In a fake commercial for "The Amazing Alexander", a stage hypnotist with a show on Broadway, various audience members give glowing reviews in a CreepyMonotone, all using the exact same words. The commercial ends with a quote from a critic, also containing the same words.

* In a five way crossover episode of ''Series/SideHustle'', Frankini, a recurring enemy from ''Series/HenryDanger'' and its [[Series/DangerForce sequel series]] gets a hold of an orb to mind control anyone within earshot to become his backup dancers in an effort to take over the world. He manages to enslave a small army of people including Lex, Presley, [[Series/ThatGirlLayLay Sadie and Lay Lay]], but is ultimately defeated by Danger Force
* In ''Series/TrueBlood'', Maryann uses her mind-controlling powers to take over the entire town of Bon Temps.

* The series finale of ''Series/{{V 2009}}'' has Anna do it to the entire world.
* ''Series/WandaVision'':
** The residents of Westview are coerced by hypnosis to act out roles in Wanda's sitcom paradise.
** In episode 5, Tyler Hayward tries to fire a missile at Wanda. Wanda's response is to exit the Hex, threaten him, and hypnotize about two dozen of Hayward's men into turning their guns on him.

* In [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} GHOST]]'s song ''COLORBARS'', a boy named Kennith hijacks a TV broadcast and plays a frequency that brainwashes all who hear them. This plot is later reused in the first song for Case Two of Music/{{COMMUNICATIONS}}, ''BROADCAST ILLUSION''.

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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode "Wembley and the Mean Genie", the Genie hypnotizes all the Fraggles but Wembley and [[MassTransformation turns them into a mindless army wearing identical clothes and standing with arms directed to the sides (which resembles a totalitarian regime)]].
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* ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures''. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the manual]], the BigBad controlled his armies through hypnosis. This could have led to some serious moral dissonance if the player killed them instead of merely making them run around in their underwear.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'', much like Rocket Knight Adventures, the manual claims the alien [[BigBad Tatanga]] hypnotized the citizens, and animals of Sarasaland into acting as his soldiers instead of following Princess Daisy. Let's hope NonLethalKo applies for the {{Mook}}s defeated.
** Happens again in the sequel, ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2''. Wario hypnotizes the residents of Mario Land into obeying him, best shown in the commercial above. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe he learned it from Tatanga]] who had [[DemotedToDragon since become his minion]]?

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Four Swords Adventures]]'' Vaati corrupts the Castle Soldiers into obeying him.
* In ''VideoGame/MastermindWorldConqueror'', The Mastermind can send {{Mook}}s to go on brainwashing missions. They take over a T.V. studio and send a hypnotic recording of the Mastermind to everyone in a given country. The recording shows a hypnotic swirly spiral pattern superimposed on Mastermind's glaring face, complete with spooky hypno-sounds. The result is making the nation more vulnerable to criminal actions.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has one mission each in the Soviet/Allied campaigns where you try to do this/stop it. In the expansion, Yuri attempts this to the entire world.
* The whole plot of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Season 1'': the BigBad hypnotizes the populace with such things as self-help video tapes, teddy bears, TV broadcast, and the internet.

* ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'': The villagers of the unnamed village are under one by [[KnightTemplar the priest]] who's actually a GiantSpider.
* The [[spoiler:Pieces of Eden]] in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''. Various influential people in history [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy used these artifacts]] to perform the actions they are (in)famous for in RealLife. It also appears that the Apples contain knowledge that can be utilized by certain inviduals, including Altaïr Ibn La-ahad and Ezio Auditore.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Robopon}}'', Miss Amron, the [=Legend6=], uses a TV signal to hypnotize a town.
* Shows up in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney'' [[spoiler:as the situation behind the entire city of Labyrinthia.]]
* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', this is the fate of the Imperial planet of Ziost -- the lunatic shade of [[OmnicidalManiac the former Sith Emperor]] shows up and begins mind-controlling people ''en masse'' to force them to slaughter others, all in a bid to increase his own power. [[spoiler:Finally, when he's gathered enough, he unleashes a WorldWreckingWave that kills ''everyone'' on the planet]].

* In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the entire [[WickedWasps Wasp Kingdom]] is brainwashed by the [[BigBad Wasp King]], who uses the [[ArtifactOfDoom Ancient Crown]] to force them to do his bidding. According to WordOfGod, it affects any yellowjacket through their antennae, as several of the wasps who are ImmuneToMindControl either have [[RuggedScar broken antennae]], are protected with some sort of magical artifact that counters his effect, or are non-yellowjacket kind of wasp.]]

%%* ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'': The N'Tune Boys concert.

* Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]] at "The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive". There are no known hypno-orgies in the stories. They only feature one, two, or a small group of people being hypnotized.
** There ''are'' a handful of stories where a MadScientist unleashes a mass wave of mind takeovers that quickly devolve into hypno-orgies, but those stories still focus on only a small group -- at most a family -- being affected at a time.
* Music/DoctorSteel uses [[{{Brainwashed}} mind control]] [[EvilTastesGood cookies]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]]. And a particularly mesmerizing "hidden" Positive Affirmation track on a few of his [=CD=]s.
* In the web series ''WebVideo/TheSixCatsParade'', the owner of the cats accidentally did it to the cats [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkIM0s15jL8 rubbing its hand in the sofa]].
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-252 SCP-252 ("Humboldt Squid")]]. SCP-252 is a squid up to 1 meter long. It can rapidly change the colors of its skin, hypnotizing anyone looking at it and causing them to think it's a giant monster up to 75 meters long.

-->'''Ice Cream Truck:''' "You like ice cream. You like ice cream. You love it. You cannot resist ice cream. To resist is hopeless. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream."
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': ComicBook/TheJoker puts Ace, a girl with psychic powers, on television. The effect was less about mind ''control'' and more about causing the audience to be DrivenToMadness. Almost works, too.
* Every plan by ''WesternAnimation/{{Wordgirl}}'''s villain "Mr. Big" is some variety of this.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Sublimino had to start small by merely hypnotizing volunteers for his hypnosis show into committing crimes. By the end, he manages to build a HypnoPendulum big enough to affect a entire mega mall at once.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', "The Beast From Beyond", a Tyrannosaurus Rex gets his own TV show that hypnotizes people.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** All glory to the Hypnotoad!
** That's gone downhill since season three. The ''popular'' show now is The Mass Hypnosis Hour.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' had a pretty creative one. Dr. D's Brainwashing Shampoo. No wonder he went on an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' Parody to promote something that was well... ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** He once tried to hypnotize a spring-break teenage crowd via their UsefulNotes/{{MP3}} players. It didn't quite work out -- instead, he hypnotized the senior citizens at a retirement community via their hearing aids.
** The Seniors try it with a love ray.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Stewie try this when he get put on the show "Kids Say the Darndest Things". This eventually backfires and has Bill Cosby accidentally hypnotize Stewie instead.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Robotnik did this in order to run for presidency.
* Ember used this in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' with her rock music.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has a character doing this in order to sell flan.
* The first ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon had Krang use this to enslave the population of New York, but Bebop and Rocksteady screwed up the program so they behaved like children, and later dogs and monkeys. Krang's reaction to the error: "Only a complete idiot could mess this up! Complete... idiot... BEBOP!!! ROCKSTEADY!!!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', Plankton finally takes over Bikini Bottom by giving away mind-controlling Chum Bucket Helmets. They seem harmless at first, but they become mind control devices after he presses a button on Karen's base. There's a disturbingly intense scene when an army of zombies capture Squidward, the one citizen who doesn't wear a helmet.
* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', a few of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's evil plans involve mass hypnosis, such as his plan to brainwash people into coming to his birthday party in "Raging Bully" and his infectious EarWorm in "Phineas and Ferb's Musical Clip-tastic Countdown".
** In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'', [[spoiler: this is how Super Super Big Doctor conquered Feebla-Oot, and attempts to conquer Earth in the climax, with her mind-controlling spore emitting plant Mama.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': A few akumatized villains have this as their main power, like Princess Fragrance making servants out of whoever smells her perfume, or Zombizou's projectile kisses that turn people into love zombies.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': (Also providing the main page image), King Sombra's way of gathering minions is to simply MindControl whoever he comes across with a glare. Combined with his heavy magical power, he can build an army in mere minutes.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the two-part episode, "The Brave and The Bold", Gorilla Grodd controls the populace of Central City with his mind-control helmet so he can launch a nuclear assault on Gorilla City.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'''s third season has the Trix and Valtor resorting to mind control to get the students from Cloud Tower on their side; it's partly because trying to bully them hasn't worked well in the past, and partly because they simply won't team up with the Trix willingly at this point.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'', Ming does this on a couple of occasions:
** ''Like Father, Like Daughter?'': Ming uses the Mind Neutralizer to turn the inhabitants of Grand Junction into mindless zombies programmed to stop the Defenders. Rick, LJ and Kshin, captured by Ming's troops, are also affected, but Mandrake uses his own hypnotic powers to knock them out and later tricks the human scientist helping Ming into handing over the plans for the Mind Neutralizer, enabling the Defenders to reverse the boys' conditioning. When Ming tries to use the Mind Neutralizer on a global scale, the Defenders ReverseThePolarity so that Ming only succeeds in curing the people who have already been exposed to the Neutralizer.
** ''Ming's Household Helpers'': Ming manufactures seemingly benign robots which are programmed to do household work. However, they're also programmed to hypnotize their owners into doing Ming's bidding when they receive a particular signal from one of Ming's satellites. The Defenders find out about Ming's scheme after Rick buys one of the robots and, after Flash is captured while trying to knock out the satellite, Mandrake, the Phantom and Lothar head to Ice Station Earth to rescue him and shut down Ming's robot factory; in the meantime, the younger Defenders work on jamming the signal from the satellite.
* This is a ''very'' popular plot device on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies.'' In several episodes, the VillainOfTheWeek comes up with a scheme to perform mass hypnosis on either particular groups of individuals or everyone they could get their hands on. Among the victims and methods were MindControlMusic at raves that made teenagers destructive; a chef baking [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood incredibly delicious cookies]] that made people addicts with a single bite; old-fashioned toys that regressed whoever touched them to a childlike mental state; a fervent anti-capitalist brainwashing shoppers into destroying malls; a children's television producer hypnotizing kids around the world with a new program; and the descendants of a particular tribe of women becoming man-hating warriors. Most of these episodes would have at least one of the main trio of spies affected by the plot to show the seriousness of the situation.

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* In the Creator/DeanKoontz novel ''Night Chills'', a MadScientist develops a drug that lowers subconscious resistance to subliminal messages. He uses TV broadcasts to beam hidden control instructions into the minds of viewers that cause them to mindlessly obey anyone who says the correct code phrase.

* The specialty of Ophidian, with aid from his Osirian Portal partner Amasis. While mostly seen in Wrestling/{{Chikara}} and Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel, not even the hardcore {{garbage wrestler}}s of Wrestling/{{CZW}} were immune. Electric weed whackers? Ha, The Osirian Portal is the most illegal thing to ever be seen in professional wrestling.[[/folder]]

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* ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'': In ''The World in Peril'', the Martians plan to conquer Earth by having the conditioned Professor Brewer hypnotize the vast majority of humanity over the television. Those who are already conditioned will be immune to its effects while those who do not watch the broadcast will be either conditioned or killed. In 1966, Professor Brewer attempted to hypnotize all of the viewers in the Commonwealth as a sort of trial run.

* The former image was from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhB8XG9_5Rc the commercial]] for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'', which has [[EvilCounterpart Wario]] hypnotizing the residents of Mario Land into turning against Mario. It is also a well-known meme from WebAnimation/{{YouTube Poop}}s.

** In the episode "Smile Time", a mass energy-draining event via a popular children's TV program is planned. HilarityEnsues, Angel is turned into a puppet, and, ultimately, the world is saved again. Hooray!
* ''Series/Babylon5'' used this to create one of the ''scariest'' stand-offs ever. Lyta Alexander (a telepath who [[TouchedByVorlons had her powers vastly increased by the Vorlons]]) is in a restaurant when B5's new CO, Captain Lochley, confronts her over charges that Lyta has been supporting anti-[=PsiCorps=] terrorism back on Earth. Lyta begins drumming her fingers on a tabletop while she talks to Lochley. Slowly, all conversation begins to die down ''and everyone in the place begins to drum their fingers in exactly the same pattern as Lyta.'' Lochley has an OhCrap moment until IA President Sheridan shows us why we love him by [[StealthHiBye appearing from nowhere]] and [[ClickHello putting a charged PPG to Lyta's head]] -- his own experience with the Vorlons has made him immune to Lyta's control. Lyta backs down and everyone wakes up.

* The [[spoiler:Pieces of Eden]] in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed''. Various influential people in history [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy used these artifacts]] to perform the actions they are (in)famous for in RealLife. It also appears that the Apples contain knowledge that can be utilized by certain inviduals, including Altaïr and Ezio Auditore.