History Main / SlaveMooks

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': The [[PsychoPrototype Boosted Men]] were kept under control by [[PsychoSerum drugs]], [[WeHaveReserves classified as equipment]], and considered even more expendable than the rest of the Earth Alliance Forces. The Extended in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' are conditioned to be emotionally dependent on their commander [[CharClone Neo]][[note]]Who turned out to himself be a brainwashed and only ''thought'' he was a willing member of the villains' group.[[/note]] and will die without regular treatment that only the Earth Forces can provide.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Most of [[spoiler:Emperor Lelouch]]'s forces were enslaved [[spoiler:via his [[MindControl Geass]]]].

%%* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' has [[NightmareFuel Cultivated Humans]].

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 vol 1]]: Queen Atomia's slave "subjects" are all individuals she's put through her Proton or Neutron slave machines which permanently alters them into near identical robotic drones subserviant to her will with a certain set of powers for each. As she nearly does the same to Diana and the Holliday Girls presumably all of her slaves were once humans before being hit with her ShrinkRay and forced into the machine.

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[-[[caption-width-right:344: Meet [[TheGreys Sectoids]]. [[TheGoomba Weak]], [[WeHaveReserves disposable]], own nothing in their life besides pistols and MindControl collars.]]-]

* ''Film/{{Underworld}}'': The original werewolf was a nearly unstoppable monster, whose victims transformed permanently like himself. The medieval-era vampires captured a bunch of them, forced them to breed, and produced a sort of "pure blood" werewolf, the very first Lycan, capable of changing back and forth from human-form to monster-form and retaining his intelligence and sanity when doing so. They used him to infect more humans, who they utilized as this trope until they rebelled and began the centuries long war between their races.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': The Unsullied were a slave army, eunuchs trained from birth to be soldiers willing to give their lives without a secon fthough. They are freed by Daenerys.

* In Dorian Greece, the Athenians used slaves as police officers. This was done because the fact that they belonged to the city and not to any individual made them free of the complicated political and family affiliations that would have made free citizens ineffective in the web of complex allegiances that made up Athens' domestic politics.

** ''Star Control: Origins'' has Drenkend, who have been genetically modified to be incapable of *not* obeying Scryve orders. They still feel bad about the amount of killing they have do, as well as how many of them die, but they can't refuse orders. Including an order to proud of their position as official cannon fodder for the empire. Which they obey, even if they don't like it.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'': In ''Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge'', Yuri's [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas Resource Gathering]] is handled by the slave miner, a mobile ore refinery which travels to ore fields and has slaves come out and shovel ore into it. When the refinery is destroyed, the miners will defect to your side, but seeing as how they're emaciated, shirtless, and armed only with shovels, they're roughly on par with the Technician unit from the early ''Command & Conquer'' games (unless they somehow reach Elite...). Also, any enemy unit that Yuri's faction mind controls will revert back to the original owner once the mind controller is destroyed, with the exception of the Psychic Dominator and the units it nabs.
* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': In ''VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena'', Ghost Drones are human prisoners who are captured by Athena Company, cut open, and have cybernetic implants shoved into their organs and brain, the goal being to create an army of mindless combat drones to sell off to the highest bidder. They're not particularly tough (their guns are a bit weaker than a basic assault rifle, and it only takes a couple assault rifle bullets to drop them), but since their weapon is attached to their arm you can't steal it from them after you kill them.) In the last level they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters thanks to some hacking of the ship's computer by Riddick's kid sidekick.

* ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'': ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'': Caesar's Legion is an entire slave army/nation, owned entirely by the autocrat, Caesar. All legionaries are either born into the Legion or were enslaved and forced into the Legion when it assimilated tribes found throughout the Mojave Wasteland. However, legionaries are for the most part BrainwashedAndCrazy and want to fight for the glory of Caesar. Below them are the actual slaves -- [[NoWomansLand mostly women]] -- which are generally not found in combat, instead being worked to death in Legion camps or working for its [[BreadAndCircuses complacent traders]].

** ''VideoGame/MightAndMagicVI'', which takes place on the same world as ''Heroes I'' to ''III'', reveals that at least some minotaurs were ''created'' to be slave mooks by a Dungeon-associated figure,[[note]]he doesn't turn up in ''Heroes III'', but was a hero for the Warlock town, the predecessor to the Dungeon, in ''I'' and ''II'' and one of III's warlock heroes is described as his student in their bio[[/note]] the warlock Agar. They were a complete failure for the purpose -- certainly powerful enough to complete his goals, but also much too stong-willed and stubborn to be controlled, and by the time the game starts they are all in business for themselves.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': Dr. Eggman's Badniks are MechaMooks powered by tiny animals trapped inside them.

* ''VideoGame/StarControl'' franchise has two examples
** Star Control II reveals that any race the Ur-Quan defeat have to choose between permanently being trapped on their home planet as fallow slaves, or becoming this trope as war slaves.
** Star Control: Origins has Drenkend, who have been genetically modified to be incapable of *not* obeying Scryve orders. They still feel bad about the amount of killing they have do, as well as how many of them die, but they can't refuse orders. Including an order to proud of their position as official cannon fodder for the empire. Which they obey, even if they don't like it.
* ''VideoGame/StarCraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'': all of the troops working for [[BigBad Amon]] are under some level of mind control. The vast majority are [[InsectoidAliens zerg]], most of whom are at an animal level of intelligence anyway. It's shown in a vision of the BadFuture that he would kill off all his troops once he was done with them, bar the Hybrid, which he created to be incapable of disobeying him.

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'': Most of the hybrids in the second game. Some of them even have enough of a mind left to shout things like "I'm sorry!" and "Kill me!" at you.

** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
*** ComicBook/PoisonIvy often uses spores to create a mind controlled army of mooks. During the ''[[ComicBook/BatmanHush Hush]]'' storyline, she even uses kryptonite infused spores to turn Franchise/{{Superman}} into a slave mook. In ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' she makes Bruce Wayne a slave mook.

** ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Parademons are this to {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}. They dare not disobey him, and will gladly pursue death in by the hands of their enemies.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 vol 1]]: Queen Atomia's slave "subjects" are all individuals she's put through her Proton or Neutron slave machines which permanently alters them into near identical robotic drones subserviant to her will with a certain set of powers for each. As she nearly does the same to Diana and the Holliday Girls presumably all of her slaves were once humans before being hit with her ShrinkRay and forced into the machine.

-> ''A crack on the back says we're gonna fight,\\

For we are the'' ''[[TragicVillain slaves of the Dark Lord's war]]''!

** Deconstructed in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E3Traitor Traitor]]". The Terran Federation has conquered a ProudWarriorRace thanks to a drug that blocks the production of adrenaline. They sent some of these brainwashed soldiers to attack a unit of the last remaining resistance. However as they lack any form of anxiety or aggression, they placidly walk into an ambush and are massacred.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Both the Brainwashed and the normal variety show up. Some are mooks of weekly villains, like the giant worm demon thing in "Bad Eggs" which mind controlled people, and some are the season's Big Bad's. Spike becomes one of the brainwashed types in Season 7 due to the First. Some of the mooks are only so because of the Big Bad being a '''very''' BadBoss.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': After the Daleks invaded Earth, the Robo-Men are created by them as police and enforcers. They wear cybernetic helmets which cannot be removed without killing them.

** Of the Covenant, the Grunts are the most obviously enslaved species. They're at the very bottom of the Covenant Hierarchy, even below the hired mercenaries. They're used for all the menial tasks and militarily are [[ZergRush are used en masse]] due to their apparent [[WeHaveReserves large population and high reproductive rate]]. Killing a Grunt isn't even a crime among the Covenant races. By the end of the ''VideoGame/Halo2'', [[spoiler:a full-scale civil war has ensued between the Elites and Brutes of the Covenant, with Grunts caught on both sides]]. That said, ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' implies that Grunts have achieved a slightly higher status in post-Covenant factions, likely because they have more recourse to defect if they're ''too'' unhappy; it's even hinted in the background lore that some have broken away and formed their own independent factions. Heck, there are audio logs and books that show that some Grunts [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership managed to rise and become squad leaders]] ''[[AuthorityGrantsAsskicking to entire Elite units]]''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' has its zombies, slaves to Hell. Exactly how intelligent they are varies from game to game- ''1'' and ''2'' featured slow-moving, inaccurately-firing zombies that seemed to be nothing more than animated and armed corpses, but ''VideoGame/Doom3'' features zombies capable of tactical maneuvers and radio communication. ''VideoGame/{{Doom 2016}}'' splits it between mindless scientist zombies and soldiers that are capable of advanced movement skills, charging their plasma guns, and which are explicitly stated to retain some cognizance. All of them seem to be quite willing to slaughter humans and eat their flesh, though.

** Of the Covenant, the Grunts are the most obviously enslaved species. They're at the very bottom of the Covenant Hierarchy, even below the hired mercenaries. They're used for all the menial tasks and militarily are [[ZergRush are used en masse]] due to their apparent [[WeHaveReserves large population and high reproductive rate]]. Killing a Grunt isn't even a crime among the Covenant races. By the end of the ''VideoGame/Halo2'', [[spoiler:a full-scale civil war has ensued between the Elites and Brutes of the Covenant, with Grunts caught on both sides]]. That said, ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' implies that Grunts have achieved a slightly higher status in post-Covenant factions, likely because they have more recourse to defect if they're ''too'' unhappy; it's even hinted in the background lore that some have broken away and formed their own independent factions. Heck, there are audio logs and books that show that some Grunts [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority managed to rise and become squad leaders]] ''[[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking to entire Elite units]]''.