Basic Trope: A Heel–Face Turn caused by brainwashing/mind control.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz is made into a good guy when Hiro and his team brainwash him.
- Exaggerated: Every villain in the series gets redeemed through brainwashing in some form.
- Downplayed:
- Hiro and his team use More than Mind Control to convince Evulz to turn good.
- Evulz isn't made into a full hero, but does lose some of his more malevolent traits through brainwashing.
- Justified:
- Hiro and his team believe they're using Brainwashing for the Greater Good.
- Hiro and his team still see the potential for Evulz to become a good person, even if he's had a Redemption Rejection.
- The team feels there really is no other option; Evulz is pretty much immortal, has already broken out of prison multiple times before, and he's given them a Redemption Rejection. Redeeming him through brainwashing is all they can think of.
- Inverted: Emperor Evulz brainwashes Hiro to turn him evil.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Emperor Evulz is a large, intimidating, Obviously Evil character — but Hiro and his team manage to convince him that he's an innocent young child by mind-controlling him. Evulz happily replies "Okay!" and skips away, giggling.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Emperor Evulz redeems himself on his own terms, if he does at all.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Instead of brainwashing Evulz in any way, Hiro and his team decide to simply explain to him why it would be better for him to be a hero than a villain, and let him redeem himself on his own terms.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "When they redeem the villain through brainwashing, is the villain really redeemed? I mean, they didn't really choose to redeem themselves, and they could still remember that they used to be a villain at some point."
- Deconstructed: Emperor Evulz remembers that he used to be a villain at some point, and soon goes back to that lifestyle.
- Reconstructed: Hiro and his team also use More than Mind Control to successfully convince Evulz that he'd rather be a hero, which ends up being more effective.
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