Gaslighting in Webcomics.
- Su Lüxia uses this as a revenge tactic in Cheating Men Must Die, erasing herself from the memories of everyone in Min Mingzhe's world except him. Since she's already made him fall desperately in love with her, he grows increasingly obsessed and tormented in a world that thinks he's gone mad.
- Blue tries doing this to Dave in her first appearance in College Roomies from Hell!!! It works pretty well until she nearly falls to her death while shimmying across the balcony.
- The "Paranoia" arc of Cosmic Dash has someone from Dash's past spreading "souvenirs" from a traumatic event, before attacking him while he's isolated and restrained in the medbay.
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strip of Crazy Sunshine. - Daniel from The Guide to a Healthy Relationship does this on a regular basis in his social circle, for example with Apollo whom he discredits in front of the others on the basis that Apollo is The Alcoholic, but his favorite subject is his romantic partner Julian who's suffering hallucinations and doesn't trust their own perceptions and memories anyway. One time, Daniel drugs Julian on sleeping pills and later claims they demolished a room during a "freak-out", which resulted in one of his friends getting angry and beating Julian up, not to mention Daniel's own subtle threats to punish Julian for this misbehavior later on, knowing the kid was sound asleep while that happened.
- Alice accuses the Cheshire Cat of trying to gaslight her in this Hark! A Vagrant strip.
- Homestuck:
- Dave's Bro uses his ventriloquist's dummy, Lil' Cal in combination with some slick Flash Stepping to make Dave (and the audience) think that the doll is alive. Even
worsebetter is that he also somehow manages to use this as a fighting technique. - Bro isn't the only one gaslighting everyone. There is a memorable instance, described in the Homestuck page when the author gaslighted the audience. We discover that many of the kids have disturbing graffiti on their walls, but are effectively blind to it until it's explicitly pointed out to them. One character took rather normal-seeming pictures of John's room and posted them online. After the reveal, the author modified the pictures to contain the graffiti, changing the URLs by one character. Before◊ and after.◊
- Homestuck did this to the audience from the very beginning: "John: Quickly retrieve arms from drawers." After the audience spends several pages helping the poor protagonist with no arms move stuff off his magic chest so he can get his arms, John cheerfully opens the chest to fetch his fake prop arms, using the arms attached to his torso that had been stylistically omitted from visual portrayal until now. This very neatly introduces us to the comic itself: take nothing for granted.
- Gamzee does this to Terezi during Murderstuck, using her blindness to his advantage, by changing her surrounding environment with his super-fast Flash Step.
- Hussie has gaslit the audience again. When John stuck his hand through the Homestuck icon, his arm appeared in many random panels throughout the comic to date. Shortly after, John himself disappeared, popping up in many other panels as a blue-and-white silhouette.
- And once again, John's newfound power has caused clues to appear on previous pages. This time, in order to gain full control of his narrative jumping, he was drowned in oil. This oil was then teleported through space and time, to appear as ink splotches on pages that were previously unmarked. How many more retcons do you have, Hussie?!?!
- Dave's Bro uses his ventriloquist's dummy, Lil' Cal in combination with some slick Flash Stepping to make Dave (and the audience) think that the doll is alive. Even
- Rayne Summers of Least I Could Do once got his best friends to play a prank on their friend Mick where they tried to convince Mick that Rayne had been dead for years. See it for yourself.
- Earlier MS Paint Adventures also gaslight the audience, but more blatantly. Best exemplified with the famous "What pumpkin?" joke: if the audience ever try to get the characters to interact with a pumpkin, the pumpkin inexplicably vanishes and the narration acts confused as to why anyone would think there was ever a pumpkin present.
- In Problem Sleuth, the running gag was that an innocuous-looking item would inexplicably turn into a dangerous item when called on and be treated as if it was always this way. If the player called on the dangerous version, it would change back and the character would do something stupid with the thing. This one ultimately was played with; savvy players eventually cottoned on and would call the wrong item to use the one they were actually aiming for. Occasionally, Hussie would throw the players for a loop by having the actual item come out when mentioned. It was later revealed in an In-universe GameFAQs walkthrough that the constant gaslighting was the fault of an unintended glitch that would have to be exploited to progress.
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal suggests "pranking" someone by gradually altering the whistle on their kettle or teapot until it sounds like it's screaming their name, then deny that it sounds wrong whenever they ask. The really creepy part is how it requires you to install a tiny mouth.
- Something*Positive: One of Peejee's bar patrons says she's a Leap Year baby, so her mother told her she only have parties on the 29th of February. Then drugged her so she'd through the day, to avoid needing to organize a party.
- XKCD: As seen in the main page image, Black Hat Guy made a set of silent carpentry tools specifically to carry out this sort of thing.
