History Main / MindControlConspiracy

* ''CallToPower'' gives you the option of doing this to your citizens if you're so inclined.

* An episode of ''StrokerAndHoop'' involved a case where a client thinks Ron Howard is reading his thoughts and controlling his actions via satellite. He was right, by the way -- this turns out to be how Ron Howard gets people to see his movies.

* ''TheSimpsons'' episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" has Homer create a lie for his blog saying that flu shots control the minds of children. Later, Homer is captured and taken to [[Series/ThePrisoner a mysterious island]] because his lie turned out to be true, as flu shots are given before Christmas so people will get the urge to shop.

* In the ''Illuminati'' card game, the Orbital Mind Control Lasers are very valuable minions for any AncientConspiracy.

* An episode of ''StrokerAndHoop'' involved a case where a client thinks Ron Howard is reading his thoughts and controlling his actions via satilies. He was right, by the way.

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* ''WelcomeToTheNHK'': Sato and his senpai blame all of the troubles in their lives on conspiracy theories. Sato even believes the titular NHK is actually an organization which exists only to turn civilians into {{hikikomori}} like himself.

* ''TheSimpsons'' episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" has Homer create a lie for his blog saying that flu shots control the minds of children. Later, Homer is captured and taken to [[Series/ThePrisoner a mysterious island]] because his lie turned out to be true, as flu shots are given before Christmas to people will get the urge to shop.

* ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'': Chief Bromden's belief in the Combine is probably the most famous example, and later inspired the name of [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}} the Combine]].
* In IainBanks' novel ''WalkingOnGlass'', Steven Grout believes that he is being influenced by orbital mind control lasers.

* In ''TheManchurianCandidate'', Communist brainwashers turn a soldier into an assassin through some sort of mind-controlling hypnosis.
* RichardMatheson's story "Legion of Plotters" takes this to its logical-- and tragic-- conclusion.

* In the Lone Gunmen origin-story episode of ''{{The X-Files}}'' Suzanne Modeski found a tracking device the Conspiracy had put in her tooth. Which she removed with pliers, somehow managing to avoid passing out from the pain. %%comment%% Is it "Holly Modeski"?

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* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'': in one of the episodes, a serial killer turns out to be a seriously deranged man who believes he's being mind-controlled. He wears tinfoil under his clothes to shield himself from radiowaves and his house has tinfoil wallpaper.

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* Aileen Wuornos was quite a firm believer that the prison was beaming signals into her head to stop her from revealing the big conspiracy, that the police knew she was going to be a serial killer and were just trying to earn money through movie deals. Yes, she was totally insane.

What, you don't believe me? Well you have to. Because otherwise, it would be you. It'd be all your fault. And that can't be right.

After all, It's not [[SplitPersonality my]] fault you're hearing voices in your head now, is it?

* Another of them sued the [[{{Joisey}} State of New Jersey]] for this, in ''Searight v. New Jersey'', 412 F.Supp. 413 (D.N.J. 1976). The complaint was dismissed mainly on grounds of jurisdiction, but the court's opinion noted, even if the facts were as pleaded, "Searight might have pinned to the back of a trouser leg a short chain of paper clips so that the end would touch the ground and prevent anyone from talking to him inside his brain."

* ''StarskyAndHutch'': in one of the episodes, a serial killer turns out to be a seriously deranged man who believes he's being mind-controlled. He wears tinfoil under his clothes to shield himself from radiowaves and his house has tinfoil wallpaper.

* ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'': Chief Bromden's belief in the Combine is probably the most famous example, and later inspired the name of [[HalfLife2 the Combine]].

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* An episode of ''StrokerAndHoop'' involved a case where a client thinks Ron Howard is reading his thoughts and controlling his actions via satilies. He was right, by the way.
* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' does not have one, no matter what anarchist propaganda the Gaang may preach about the honourable guardians of justice, the Dai Li. But why are we bothering you with all of this distressing talk? The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai- and you are, of course, pleased to serve him. And do remember- there is no war in Ba Sing Se. There is no war in Ba Sing Se. There is no war in Ba Sing Se.....

* ''{{Syndicate}}'': You (Eurocorp) and all the other Syndicates are trying to TakeOverTheWorld though this and {{cyborg}}-manned force. Civilians all have a chip in their heads that does all the functions of a phone or computer, and [[LotusEaterMachine makes the world look far more pleasant]]. In ''Syndicate Wars'', Eurocorp has been maintaining the mind control conspiracy for years.

* ''[=~One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest~=]'': Chief Bromden's belief in the Combine is probably the most famous example, and later inspired the name of [[HalfLife2 the Combine]].

* In {{Syndicate}} Wars Eurocorp campaign, you're in charge of maintaining the mind control conspiracy.

** Mulder's water was spiked with LSD in "Anasazi" in order to elicit violent behavior.

* There are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influencing-machine_delusion plenty of people out there]] who think they're being influenced by Orbital Mind Control Lasers or that the CIA has implanted radio receivers in their molars. Seriously.