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10	->''Fuyutsuki, who had this glazed over look in his eyes, nodded and replied like he had been for awhile as he stepped out of the car.\
11	"What did you do to him?" Hikari wondered, watching the man walk to the other side of the car.\
12	Asuka's grin widened. "Why, I took a hypnotic class in college? Who would think the Sub-commander was easy to put under."\
13	Her door opened, thanks to her new servant, and she stepped out with the pride of a queen.''
14	-->-- [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1474579/1/NonNeglecting-Week "NonNeglecting Week"]] (a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fanfic)
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16	Some characters have the ability to read, manipulate, or even control the minds/thoughts of other characters. Most often associated with PsychicPowers, these abilities run the gamut from mundane charisma/authority, to MagicAndPowers, and to the {{paranormal\|Tropes}}. Extreme forms of mental manipulation even allow you direct access to the victim's body, turning them into a literal puppet to their will.
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18	See also MemoryTropes.
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20	!!Tropes:
21	[[index]]
22	[floatboxright:
23	'''Categories:'''
24	+ BodyAndHost
25	+ DeathOfPersonality
26	+ FaceMonsterTurn
27	]
28	* AlluringFlowers: Flowers whose scent is outright siren-like in its power to cloud minds.
29	* ArtifactDomination: An AncientArtifact that controls the wielder's mind.
30	* ArtifactOfAttraction: An object that manipulates people to fight each other for it.
31	* AssimilationPlot: A plan which revolves around turning everyone into a single entity.
32	* TheBeastmaster: Someone who is able to make animals do their bidding, which may be explained as a form of mind control applied to non-human creatures.
33	* BedtimeBrainwashing: Someone tries to manipulate someone else's dreams or thoughts when that person is asleep.
34	* BehavioralConditioning: A character is trained over time, either knowingly or unknowingly, to react to a particular stimulus.
35	* BewareTheMindReader: Mind readers are viewed negatively for how they can use their powers.
36	* BodySurf: A character possesses multiple people in succession.
37	* {{Brainwashed}}: Someone has used AppliedPhlebotinum to control the mind of another character.
38	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A brainwashed character is sent to hurt or kill their friends.
39	* BrainwashedBride: Through magic, hypnosis, or chemical means, a character is coerced into participating in a wedding.
40	* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Brainwashing for a good cause.
41	* BrainwashResidue: A person is no longer brainwashed, but the effects still linger in their body.
42	* BrainWithAManualControl: A character's brain has a control center, which allows another person to take direct control of them.
43	* BungledHypnotism: Hypnotism backfiring in the most hilarious way possible.
44	* CartesianKarma: A person suffers punishment for evil deeds they were not in control of committing.
45	* CharmPerson: Someone with the ability to make people do what they want them to do.
46	* CloneByConversion: Someone is turned into a clone of someone else, both physically and mentally.
47	* CompellingVoice: Someone whose voice can induce mind control.
48	* ConditionedToBeWeak: A powerful character is only docile and submissive because they are conditioned to follow orders and/or fear their leader.
49	* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: A {{telepath\|y}} can read thoughts in the form of precise, coherent, relevant sentences.
50	* CureYourGays: Attempting to "cure" homosexuality, through either mundane or fantastical means.
51	* DemonicPossession: Someone's mind or body gets hijacked by an invasive demon, ghost, or spirit.
52	* {{Deprogram}}: Trying to undo brainwashing.
53	* DirtyMindReading: Someone reads another person's mind, who's thinking dirty thoughts.
54	* DreamWeaver: Someone who is able to manipulate dreams.
55	* DyingAsYourself: A person dies shortly after being freed from mind control.
56	* ElectricInstantGratification: Electrical stimulation causing pleasure.
57	* EmotionBomb: A magic spell or psychological weapon that can force people to feel certain emotions.
58	* EmotionControl: A form of mind control that is focused on manipulating someone's emotional state.
59	* EmotionSuppression: Someone suppresses their emotions to keep their mind clear.
60	* EnslavedTongue: Someone controls what another person says.
61	* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Someone feels that eliminating free will is the only way to achieve utopia.
62	* EyeDentityGiveaway: Eyes indicate the mind controlling a body, and being mind controlled might show this trope is in use.
63	* FakeMemories: Someone's mind is implanted with memories of events that never happened.
64	* FightingFromTheInside: Someone under brainwashing tries to resist whatever's controlling them.
65	* ForcedSleep: The power to cause someone to fall asleep.
66	* ForcedToFeelEmpathy: A character is forced to feel sorry for all of the awful things they did.
67	* ForgotAboutTheMindReader: Someone has embarrassing thoughts about someone else, only to remember that they can read their mind.
68	* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Someone is mind-controlled to be happy all the time.
69	* {{Glamour}}: Illusionary magic that makes the user attractive and enthralling to others.
70	* HappinessInMindControl: Someone who's actually quite content with having their own free will overrode by someone else.
71	* HatePlague: Something that forces people to feel enraged, hateful, and even violently aggressive towards other people.
72	* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Turning someone good by mind control.
73	* HiveMind: An entire species (or a large group of organisms) all share the same mind and consciousness, behaving like a single entity.
74	* HypnoFool: A person is hypnotized and HilarityEnsues before it can be undone.
75	* HypnoPendulum: Swinging a watch (or round object in general) in front of someone to hypnotize them.
76	* HypnoRay: A gadget that allows the user to hypnotize people.
77	* HypnosisProofDogs: Your animal companion is unaffected by the mind control.
78	* HypnoticEyes: Looking into this person's eyes will make you hypnotized.
79	* HypnoticCreature: A mind-controlling creature.
80	* HypnoticHead: A stock visual effect that is usually used to indicate someone is being hypnotized (or trying to hypnotize someone).
81	* HypnotismReversal: The hypnotizer is HoistByTheirOwnPetard.
82	* HypnotizeTheCaptive: The DamselInDistress or DistressedDude gets brainwashed by their kidnapper.
83	* HypnoTrinket: A character wears an item that has the power to hypnotize.
84	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Someone tries to get through to their brainwashed friend while fighting them.
85	* ImmuneToMindControl: You cannot be hypnotized no matter what.
86	* IncapableOfDisobeying: A character is unable to disobey any order given to them, no matter how much they want to.
87	* IndividualityIsIllegal: Someone who is different must be conformed to be like everyone else.
88	* IntrinsicVow: A character is made to believe in something that they will not stray from.
89	* InvoluntaryDance: Someone is compelled to dance against their will.
90	* JediMindTrick: Manipulating someone's mind to maintain the masquerade.
91	* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: A character enters the physical manifestation of someone's mind.
92	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When someone is forced to forget very specific memories.
93	* LieToTheBeholder: A spell or other supernatural effect makes a character look and sound like a completely different person, to select people.
94	* LivingAphrodisiac: A character that can manipulate hormones and pheromones to seduce and manipulate others.
95	* {{Lobotomy}}: The medical procedure of cutting into part of the brain to change a person's behavior.
96	* LotusEaterMachine: Someone is trapped in a dream-like fantasy where everything's the way it should be to make the person happy and content.
97	* LoveIsInTheAir: A far-reaching effect, usually airborne, that induces romantic affection or sexual attraction between people.
98	* LovePotion: Something that forces people to feel romantic affection or sexual attraction towards other people they would normally not be interested in.
99	* TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
100	* ManchurianAgent: A brainwashed person is awakened by a certain trigger.
101	* ManipulativeBastard: Someone who manipulates others through elaborate schemes and/or persuasive speaking.
102	* MassHypnosis: Mind-controlling a large amount of victims.
103	* MasterOfIllusion: Someone who fools people by creating fake images.
104	* MeatPuppet: A body or bodies made into a mindless automaton fully controlled by another entity.
105	* MeditationPowerup: A character powers up their abilities by meditating.
106	* MindControlConspiracy: Blaming life's problems on the belief that the government is trying to mind control people.
107	* MindControlDevice: A device used for mind control.
108	* MindControlEyes: When under hypnosis or mind control, your eyes look weird.
109	* MindControlMusic: Musical hypnosis.
110	* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Mind readers get repulsed from reading the thoughts of an unpleasant individual.
111	* MindPrison: A character is imprisoned inside an illusion.
112	* MindProbe: A mind reading device.
113	* MindRape: Attacking someone's mind.
114	* MindScrew: Something is so surreal/symbolic that it makes no sense.
115	* MindVirus: A contagious, mind-altering infection.
116	* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: You claim you can't be hypnotized; guess you thought wrong.
117	* MoreThanMindControl: Instead of controlling someone by will, you change their will by convincing them they want to do what you want.
118	* TheMusicMeister: A character who causes others to break out into spontaneous dancing or singing.
119	* NeuroVault: A person subconsciously holding vital data in their minds.
120	* NightmareOfNormality: A supernatural character is deluded into thinking that they're ordinary and must find a way to awaken from the illusion.
121	* NotBrainwashed: In a world of {{Brainwashed}} victims, this character's FaceHeelTurn was of their own volition.
122	* OurSirensAreDifferent: Creatures whose voice can lure people to their doom.
123	* PeoplePuppets: Controlling someone's body so that the victim is a "puppet" who either moves or remains immobile solely at the will of the "puppeteer."
124	* PerceptionFilter: Looking unusual enough to go beneath notice by everyone.
125	* PestController: Someone with an ability to mass-mind control bugs, rats, and many other types of pests to do their bidding.
126	* PlayingWithPuppets: Controlling someone ForTheEvulz.
127	* PowersViaPossession: Possession by the guest grants the host "powers" or "abilities".
128	* PrefersTheIllusion: Character chooses to keep living in an illusion or dream.
129	* PretendToBeBrainwashed: Someone fakes being under mind control.
130	* PropagandaPiece: Publications geared to brainwash the public.
131	* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Mind-controlling someone to commit suicide.
132	* PsychicGlimpseOfDeath: Reading a dying person's mind causes you to experience their death.
133	* PuppeteerParasite: An alien parasite mind controls someone.
134	* RestorationOfSanity: An insane character has their sanity suddenly restored.
135	* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: A character uses a psychic link that allows them to see what another character is seeing.
136	* SirenSong: A beautiful song from a siren or otherworldly creature lures someone to their doom.
137	* SlaveMooks: Using mind control to force people to serve you as minions.
138	* SnakeCharmer: Someone who can hypnotize snakes with flute music.
139	* SpeakInUnison: Two or more people under mind control speak in unison.
140	* StupidityInducingAttack: A combat technique that actively reduces the victim's intelligence.
141	* SubliminalAdvertising: Mind-controlling someone with ads that contain hidden messages.
142	* SummonBinding: Techniques used in or alongside SummonMagic to ensure the summoned being's compliance, sometimes by overriding their free will.
143	* SupernaturalFearInducer: Something that forces people to feel frightened, often by making them hallucinate their own worst nightmares.
144	* TheSvengali: A mentor that manipulates and controls his students for his own gain.
145	* SymbioticPossession: Something possesses a person's body, but doesn't control the host.
146	* {{Telepathy}}: Mind reading and mental communication, that can be used to affect others' minds.
147	* ThisIsNotAFloor: Using mind control and illusions to trick someone to their doom.
148	* TongueTied: Something controls a character to prevent them from saying something important that they want to say.
149	* TreacherousSpiritChase: A malign entity poses as a dead loved one to lead the hero into peril.
150	* TriggerPhrase: A specific phrase that puts someone under mind control when they hear it.
151	* UnhappyMedium: A person is unhappy having psychic powers.
152	* VillainOverride: The BigBad mind controls their less successful subordinates in order to take down the heroes.
153	* WeakWilled: Someone who is easy to manipulate or brainwash.
154	* YourWorstMemory: Someone is forced to relive the worst moment of their life.
155	[[/index]]
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158	''[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} "All glory to the hypnotrope..."]]''
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