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Brainwashing for the Greater Good

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Brainwashing for the Greater Good	comment	So, the heroes have finally captured Duke Diabolico, yay! ... so now what? He's repeatedly proven he not only doesn't want to reform, but will turn any such attempts into another dastardly scheme by masquerading as reformed, and the Cardboard Prison is looking especially porous right now. Plus, he's proven smart enough to defy being a Self-Disposing Villain. The heroes couldn't just kill him, and even if they weren't too principled against killing, he's also avoided giving the heroes (and other villains) reasons to kill him. There's another option: to do a Brainwashing ... for the greater good! The way it is done can have varying degrees of squick. Heroes might go the "soft" route and administer Care Bear Stares, use The Power of Love and Friendship, and in conjunction with "motivational" speeches trigger a quasi-voluntary Heelâ€“Face Turn. However, a more extreme villain might require a more extreme method, and perhaps a shot of Laser-Guided Amnesia, a Restraining Bolt, or even a new personality may be in order, or even a Mind Rape to screw him thoroughly. And VoilÃ ! Duke Diabolico, the most evil and theatrical supervillain to grace the Saturday weekend is now a good-hearted codger. Who cares about Mind over Manners, right? Naturally, this trope involves Grey and Gray or Black-and-Gray Morality at best, because like any brainwashing, it involves compromising the free will of the brainwashee. If done by the heroes, they are probably also running on Black-and-Gray Morality or Grey-and-Gray Morality, otherwise there is probably some serious Values Dissonance going on in the work. If The Antagonist is doing the brainwashing, then it is treated as any regular ol'e Brainwashing, and expect them to be a Lawful Evil character of the Well-Intentioned Extremist or Knight Templar variety justifying it through The Evils of Free Will. If brainwashing is policy, there is also the danger of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope until litterers are brainwashed into creepy all-loving paragons because Utopia Justifies the Means. The brainwashing has a tendency to be flimsy though, and when it slips the results are often pretty messy. Duke Diabolico may have been helping an old lady cross a street when he just spontaneously relapses and throws her under a semi. His minions or allies may come by and break the brainwashing for him. He still might find himself liking good more than evil and do a Heelâ€“Face Turn on his own accord. He might face a Heroic BSoD as he grapples with a hidden lifetime of evil. but if he doesn't, Oh, Crap!. The brainwashing doesn't have to specifically be done to change one's moral inclinations; upholding the Masquerade is an example of this. If Muggles were to stumble on the existence of the Masquerade and The Masqueraders have the ethical sense to not erase them from existence, then some Laser-Guided Amnesia is in order to keep them oblivious. Of course, being Muggles, the ethics of this isn't discussed much. This applies especially when it is justified that The World Is Not Ready for the masquerade to be broken, or that it is for their own good. Reprogramming destructive robots to be nice is often seen as acceptable because the robot is presumed to be Just a Machine, though it gets thornier the more unambiguously sentient the robot is; of course, there's often a lot of ambiguity in that determination. Compare with Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing when it is applied to turn the Heel from The Dark Side.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_12fb244d	comment	In Prisoners of Fate, the Astralite gods decide that Nash is far too important to kill, but also too "impure" to do what they desire. They decide to get around this by sending a minor god to possess his body, forcing him to live how they believe he should live.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_12ffd3e9	comment	In an episode of Megas XLR, Coop and the gang land on a planet to ask directions, only to discover that all the worker robots inhabiting it are in fact prisoners of a facility that seemingly removes their free will to make them their slaves. Like usual, Coop demolishes everything, and after getting the directions from the newly-awakened robots and leaves, we see the robots he just "freed" destroying all traces of life on this planet very violently, with the "evil overlord" being in fact the prison warden who had transformed killer robots into docile sheep to rehabilitate them, the episode ending with one robot saying he'll repay Coop by destroying Earth.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_141a7410	comment	In Over the Garden Wall, Auntie Whispers claims to be doing this to Lorna, using a magic bell to make her work constantly so she doesn't "fall into wickedness." It's a legitimate case of this trope — Lorna suffers from Demonic Possession and tries to eat our protagonists when they free her.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_15c6ea11	comment	During the Golden Age Marston either didn't care or didn't realize that having Diana bring back her female villains to reformation island and then essentially brainwashing them into regretting their actions, in at least one case welding a woman permanently into a device that alters her mind and desires, to turn them into good guys might not be terribly heroic since she and the Amazons do so constantly. Her lasso retains elements of this power to this day, as it can force someone to see the horror of taking lives or otherwise permanently alter their personalities if she asks the right questions.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_162b751d	comment	In the Jacob's Ladder Trilogy, the planet Grail employs a "rightminding" procedure to eliminate all irrational thoughts and urges. The crew of Jacob's Ladder are somewhat amused to learn that despite this, there is still violent crime on Grail — just by criminals acting for for unimpeachably rational reasons. None are actually keen on undergoing the procedure themselves, with the exception of Cynric, who cheerfully admits that her personality could probably benefit from a bit of amending.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar: In Arrow's Flight, Talia uses her Empathy magic to punish a rapist. She forces him into a loop of his victims' memories, so he'll experience all the fear and suffering they went through. He can leave the loop at any time...if he acknowledges that what he did was evil. Which, given his smug claim that he's entitled to rape his daughters before the brainwashing started, will probably be a real long time. During the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy, Vanyel scrambles to find a solution for ending up as, well, the last of the Herald-Mages. He works out a way to protect the country, imperfectly, from magic. Tiny, difficult to detect air spirits stare at non-Herald mages, making them increasingly distractable and paranoid, until they leave Valdemar. But the people still remember magic and think of Herald-Mages as more important and capable than non-mage Heralds, and we can't have that. So he sets up a psychic system that makes everyone in the country believe that the magic went away, something Valdemarans can only think about in the past tense, and has his Bardic lover work to convince people that Psychic Powers are just as good. Notably this doesn't prevent mages from using magic on Valdemar from the outside, or from working it within the borders and then leaving, and foreigners continue to know about magic while in Valdemar. If the country is fighting enemies who employ mages then Valdemarans are temporarily permitted to think about it in order to handle the situation, though since they have no experience with considering it as a real thing they don't understand it and are alarmed, but as soon as the situation ends they return to being incapable. One of the short stories details how these two systems in conjunction can really ruin the lives of any Mage Born of Muggles in Valdemar. Eventually, Vanyel's spirit takes them both down. Valdemar's neighboring country Iftel has a very hands-on God that by Talia's time really doesn't want any of its neighbors to take an interest in the country. When Kerowyn mentions it, she finds that the Valdemarans struggle to think about Iftel let alone speak of it and can't remember the country ever having caused them trouble, even though in Vanyel's time a queen actually had to marry an Iftelan to prevent a war between the nations.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Hermione does a thorough brainwashing on her parents to make them forget about her existence and then sends them to Australia in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for their protection when The Golden Trio go hunting down Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes. She reverts the brainwashing at the end of the story.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_19505f68	comment	This is how criminal rehabilitation functions in Startopia. Apart from removing all current criminal impulses from the subject it appears to have no other side-effects and allows the ex-criminal to fully re-enter society (and re-offending is possible if the peep gets enough of a soul hit later), making it one of the less problematic instances of this trope. Besides, you get paid 1000e per rehabilitated subject.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	The ultimate fate of Black Widow and her henchmen in Batman (1966).
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_1aacbbc9	comment	In the Dragon Age universe, mages can be made 'Tranquil', robbing them of the chaotic influence of emotions and thus rendering them slavish, robotic, atonal and altogether compliant to The Greater Good. Or for less savory purposes. Really, how much the Rite of Tranquility falls under this trope depends on the morality of the people using it, and whether the mage in question was willing (or at least beyond saving) or not. The morality issue is brought up frequently, and the ritual remains extremely controversial, both in-universe and out.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_1ae15929	comment	Snarfquest: It's evil on evil, but Suthaze magically brainwashes an evil dragon into thinking he is a friendly duck named Willie. Snarf breaks the spell temporarily to distract Suthaze, but it is rendered permanent by massive head trauma.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Attempted on Magneto in his many Marvel Universe incarnations. However, due to Personality Powers and Joker Immunity, he reverts to his original mindset. It is also revealed that it had failed very soon after its first use: all the anti-heroic and just plain good things he's done since leaving the Big Bad role behind in The '70s truly was him. (It also means he's as dangerous to piss off now as he was then. He was not happy when he found out what had been done to him, and to this day, Moira remains a sore subject.) In The '60s, erasing the dangerous data from the minds of those who learned too much about the X-Men (or even just of people who rejected his attempts to recruit them to the X-Men!) was a common tactic of Professor X's. Sometimes the memory wipes didn't last, and the victims were understandably pissed. In the second issue Professor X brainwashed the Vanisher into a Dirty Coward because his power set (teleportation with seemingly unlimited range) was "too dangerous". Vanisher never recovered. Like Xavier, Magneto's disciple and Knight Templar psychic Exodus has been known to attempt this when he deems it necessary. At the tail end of the 90's he tried this on the entire population of Genosha in a bid to finally end the Fantastic Racism hostilities there once and for all (it worked, but the X-Men forced him into relinquishing control, resulting in the racial hostilities immediately resuming). Some fifteen years later he tried it again in the pages of Uncanny X-Men (2016), rescuing mutants kidnapped by the Evil, Inc. Someday Corp and then "convincing them" to be foot soldiers in a bid to reignite racial tensions between humans and mutants (a cruel irony in light of his motive back in 1999).
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_1c6aed0b	comment	Flawed Crystals: This forms the central conflict. At the beginning of the story, Steven accidentally mind-wipes Jasper, erasing all her memories of their conflict and making her cooperative instead. As Steven is without allies, he needs to use her help to recover the other gems... but once he does so, that excuse starts running thin, and the question of what to do with her looms larger as the story progresses. You can at several points argue in favor of keeping her mindwiped forever; some gems will call you out on it, but some won't. When she regains her memories, Jasper will demand an apology if you did so at any point. Try to use this excuse, and she won't even let you finish the sentence. This comes up even more blatantly when healing Jasper properly: You are given the choice to purposefully rewrite her personality with Ocean Jasper's, convincing her she is a Crystal Gem and your friend. However, you can't succeed; Connie will call it out as monstrous and stop you.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_1dd9862b	comment	In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, this is Kazuo Tengan's ultimate plan to eradicate Despair and end the Tragedy for good by using Ryota Mitarai as a pawn, exploiting his talent in order to brainwash the entire world with Hope. Note the difference between this plot and the Neo World Program in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: in the latter, the Neo World Program merely removed existing brainwashing and memories but requires its participants to actively pursue their idea of hope. In the former, Mitarai's video removes entire human natures, and (much like the brainwashing that corrupted Ultimate Despair in the first place) gives them no choice in the matter.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_215b5498	comment	Thieves Can Be Heroes! questions the Protagonist-Centered Morality of how the Phantom Thieves "change the hearts" of their targets in order to make them repent for their crimes. This drives a wedge between Izuku and Makoto when they have a debate about it.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_21f00169	comment	In the Lord Darcy story "A Case Of Identity", one suspect is exonerated specifically because he's a homicidal psychopath, but one whose inborn tendency to ruthlessness has been rigidly suppressed via a geas imposed for his own and others' safety. The geas restricts him from using force against others unless ordered to do so by his handler in espionage, and also bars him from ever knowingly giving offense to others who might attack him, since he can't fight back. As the geas was applied by a skilled Healer from a Saintly Church whose expertise is respected, and its subject doesn't comprehend right or wrong enough to raise a moral objection himself, everyone takes the ethics of this in stride.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_2212773a	comment	In Angel, Angel becomes the CEO of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart's L.A. branch in exchange for them altering reality to give his son Connor (who has snapped and gone Ax-Crazy due to a lifelong supernatural Trauma Conga Line) a well-adjusted past with a normal family, and wipe everyone else's memories of him. Eventually Connor gets his old memories restored... but from his perspective the implanted memories remain and they're the ones that feel "real" to him. The real memories are more like a strange, unpleasant dream from Connor's perspective. Wesley also gets his memories restored and suddenly remembers the role he played in Connor's abduction as an infant and the subsequent fallout.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_227431b6	comment	Nico Minoru of the Runaways is alarmingly fond of this type of thinking, using her magic to wipe the young Geoffrey Wilder's memory of his trip to the modern day, forcing the Yorkes to live out the rest of their lives knowing they'd be betrayed by their own offspring, and casually transforming the Yorkes' ally Maneater into a vegan. While the first two cases were probably justified, as Wilder and the Yorkes might have otherwise been able to change history for the worse, the vegan spell was just petty. She finally earned a What the Hell, Hero? speech from Molly after using a minor version ("Settle Down") to force Klara to stop crying, for no other reason than because her crying was irritating Chase. Molly compared it to the way her evil parents used to use their mutant mind-control abilities to force her to sleep.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_251e67c5	comment	The Justice League of America has a habit of this. Identity Crisis (2004) sees The Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Black Canary, The Atom, Hawkman, and Zatanna on Dr. Light after he raped the Elongated Man's wife. It opened a floodgate of crap. Later on in the story, it was used on Batman after he caught them mid-mindwipe and objected. The floodgates weren't big enough. Also seen JLA (1997) on the Hyperclan (White Martians) after the Justice League stop their invasion of Earth, as the Martian Manhunter and Aquaman telepathically brainwashed all of them into thinking they're regular humans. This later causes more problems, for example when one of them thinks he's Bruce Wayne. Justice League: Cry for Justice also retconned it that Batman and Martian Manhunter had Prometheus' brain capacity reduced to a mentally disabled state, after Batman sabotaged Prometheus's original helmet during their fight in the "World War III" arc, as his skills and intelligence made it impossible for him to stay in jail for long.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_257a9881	comment	Used in one of the endings of the Choose Your Own Adventure story, You Are A Monster. In the best possible ending, the wealthy family who takes the narrator in after he's genetically transformed into a monster by a Mad Scientist hires a private detective to track down said scientist bring him in, and force him to change the narrator back. After this is done and everyone is trying to decide how best to punish the scientist, the narrator suggests using his research to forcibly alter his personality so that he's normal. The scientist very much protests the loss of his brilliant mind but it's done anyway. The story ends with the narrator saying that the scientist ended being a salesman.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_2652cf74	comment	Star Shift Series: Not only do Earth Systems Alliance citizens have implants that make them more compliant, the government brainwashes any criminals they don't execute to become law-abiding citizens. This is less out of altruism and more to save on prison costs.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_2827ab2e	comment	Justice League: Cry for Justice also retconned it that Batman and Martian Manhunter had Prometheus' brain capacity reduced to a mentally disabled state, after Batman sabotaged Prometheus's original helmet during their fight in the "World War III" arc, as his skills and intelligence made it impossible for him to stay in jail for long.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_283de314	comment	In The Gap Cycle, there is a condition called "gap sickness" that afflicts certain people when they are exposed to the rigors of deep-space travel, causing them to go Ax-Crazy. Because ship crews can't afford to kill off violently-insane members, the government has long authorized forcibly implanting gap-sick people with a device that gives the user complete control over the implanted person's nervous system. In the first book, Angus Thermopyle exploits this in order to give Morn Hyland a zone implant so that he can force her to be his sex slave.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Sylar in Heroes had his mind replaced by that of Nathan Petrelli, the man he had just killed. Because he had a shapeshifting ability, Sylar actually became Nathan. It lasted about six episodes.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_2d311a08	comment	The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) once somehow managed to get Shredder thinking he was Michelangelo. Cue wrath when the spell is broken.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In Justice League, the alternate universe Knight Templar Justice Lords brainwashed dangerous villains like The Joker. Or rather, Superman lobotomized them with his heat vision. (When Doomsday — freaking Doomsday shows up, this makes for a Curb-Stomp Battle with the Justice Lord Superman. Instead of fistfighting to their mutual destruction, brain-fry ensues and it's a done deal. Of course, he was restored a couple seasons later, and when the prime Superman is desperate enough to use his darker version's tactic, Doomsday, via his Adaptive Ability, is now immune.) Amusingly, when we get to see the alternate Arkham Asylum and the various lobotomized supervillains, The Ventriloquist has no lobotomy scars, but Mr. Scarface does. note It makes perfect sense in the context of Batman's Rogues Gallery, since the ventriloquist has Multiple Personality Disorder and believed Mr. Scarface was alive. So he just needed to believe Mr. Scarface was lobotomized.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: This is Tobi's and Madara's main goal entitled "The Moon's Eye Plan". They plan to cast a permanent genjutsu on the moon in order to Ñ�apture all people in eternal genjutsu and collect all the chakra in all people in order to reach peace in the world, since they believes mankind cannot live peacefully of their own free will. Unfortunately, this is also Kaguya Otsutsuki's plan as well. She too will brainwash the human populace into obeying her while also turning a vast majority of them into White Zetsu soldiers, depriving them of their individuality. She did this before in order to prepare herself for a battle against her own clan and now she wants to add more to her army. This is Itachi's backup plan for Sasuke. To make a long story short, he acquired a specialized Sharingan capable of rewriting Sasuke's mind to be loyal to Konoha in the event he completely betrayed the village. He stored it with Naruto, where it was eventually used to break Kabuto's control over the resurrected Itachi. The other Sharingan belonging to the original owner was used by Danzo in an attempt to make himself leader of the Shinobi Alliance, in the belief that only Danzo could use that position to bring about a lasting peace. Again the original owner of the above Sharingan tried to do this, presumably to Fugaku and the other leading Uchiha in order to stop the looming coup de' etat plotted by the Uchiha clan. Unfortunately for him, Danzo snatched his eye before he could even begin to put the plan into effect.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_30c04f54	comment	Perfection Engine: The Eidolon King Animamundi completely transforms his kingdom and his people to strive for perfect morality and society as a form of penance for their Maker. The Eidolons and their King strive for their Maker to return to them, believing she was repulsed by their flaws and imperfections. Society is now peaceful, kind, beautiful, and perfect, one would think...
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3199e98a	comment	In A Practical Guide to Evil if an Angel of Contrition is summoned into Creation, every mortal within forty-nine miles is made contrite - forced to witness every Evil in their life, accept they cannot be forgiven, and made to repent. Those people will then attempt to purge Evil from the world, usually by forming into a crusading army. The Lone Swordsman attempted this during the Battle of Liesse.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_383c39a5	comment	Skilled Orange Lanterns in With This Ring can place an orange light brand on people, allowing the Lantern to then temporarily or permanently alter the target's desires. The protagonist has permanently rewritten the desires of the demon Mammon, and temporarily made many prisoners cooperative and talkative. It's still kinder than his Renegade alter ego, who doesn't always stop at branding and is much more willing to use the "Identity Theft" ability to permanently turn people into enslaved orange light constructs with no independent will.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: During the Golden Age Marston either didn't care or didn't realize that having Diana bring back her female villains to reformation island and then essentially brainwashing them into regretting their actions, in at least one case welding a woman permanently into a device that alters her mind and desires, to turn them into good guys might not be terribly heroic since she and the Amazons do so constantly. Her lasso retains elements of this power to this day, as it can force someone to see the horror of taking lives or otherwise permanently alter their personalities if she asks the right questions. The original story featuring Villainy Incorporated showed it was possible for people to openly want the girdles off. When Eviless looks to recruit the prisoners of Transformation Island, several of Wonder Woman's old enemies are shown capable of exclaiming they want revenge too even with the girdles locked onto their bodies.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3b08dfc9	comment	In Pillars of Eternity, this is a central theme in Grieving Mother's past and arc. She's a midwife and powerful cipher who used her powers in various ways to protect and aid the children she helped bring into the world. She accepts it as Dirty Business and can be convinced it should never be done, but argues it well and with full acceptance of the darker aspects, making it a case of Gray-and-Grey Morality. She even asks the Watcher to do it to her — removing certain extremely traumatic memories from her mind so she can have peace. The Watcher can accept or refuse.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: The Obliviators perform a Laser-Guided Amnesia wipe on Muggles who stumble on the existence of magic to preserve the Masquerade. Hermione does a thorough brainwashing on her parents to make them forget about her existence and then sends them to Australia in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for their protection when The Golden Trio go hunting down Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes. She reverts the brainwashing at the end of the story. Harry uses the Imperius Curse to mind-control a troublesome goblin into cooperating, as part of their efforts to bring down Voldemort.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3bc5bb3f	comment	In Effulgence, Aelise believed her world was in danger of being "nuked to a population of one." So she enlisted the help of Chelsa to brainwash everyone into loving each other, figuring that was better then everyone dying.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3bc91429	comment	One of the Fourth Doctor Magazine Doctor Who Magazine strips involved the Doctor being faced with a dystopic civilization where people are implanted with a brain chip at birth that prevents natural emotions from developing and submits them to a master control. In order to save them, he manipulates the master control to make people feel anger and hate to pump their bodies full of adrenaline, a substance poisonous to the Monster of the Week. Before leaving, he gives the citizens a new emotional profile based on his own — we see later the citizens have covered their dystopia in smiley-face graffiti, are all growing their hair out into curly mops and are running around playing music, eating jelly babies and having a very good time. (The Doctor says the civilization will 'grow out of it', presumably as unchipped children are born... probably for the best, too.)
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3c761480	comment	Destiny is a Hazy Thing: After Shinji makes his first kill, Ino and Yakumo subject him to Mind Rape in order to force him into a more "shinobi-like" mindset. They see this as justified because his prior reluctance risked all of their lives; hesitating and balking at the prospect of killing enemies could have led to them dying instead.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in Things Are Gonna Get Easier. While the Morioh group tends to befriend many of their former enemies, Okuyasu explains to Hayato that they wouldn't have extended that courtesy to Kira. Instead, they were considering using Heaven's Door to forcibly suppress his murderous urges.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_3f734c20	comment	Dark Matter (2015): Arguably, this is what Five, the resident Teen Genius, did by creating the memory-wiping code that reset the Psycho for Hire Raza crew to Blank Slates while they were in stasis at the beginning of the series and gave them the opportunity to become better people this time around. She had only intended to wipe Two and Four's memories of the fact that Six was an undercover cop so they wouldn't murder him, since he had been kind to her and saved her from a dire fate when the crew first discovered they had a Little Stowaway, but the code was rushed and ended up giving the whole crew Identity Amnesia.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_41b0198a	comment	Molly Carpenter in The Dresden Files does this in an attempt to stop her friends from using drugs while one of them is pregnant (without consent from either of them.) It does not end well, and she is nearly executed for practicing textbook black magic.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-2000 is a Reset Button that can recreate humanity in the event of an Apocalypse How. Behavioral and cultural modifications are noted to be possible with this SCP, and there's a suggestion it could be used to tone down the sociopathic and violent tendencies in humanity. They've toned it down as far as they could: to do any more would actually hinder humanity's progress. Think about that.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: Enrico Pucci stole Weather Report's memories to prevent his Heavy Weather ability from extending any further. This is not an exaggeration, nor Pucci trying to rationalize his actions. Heavy Weather really is that dangerous.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_436c4e71	comment	In Purgatory 2, many of the endings have Ebel or Neun suggest this as an method of combating the corrupt nobles working for the Lobelia Corporation, who have so much control they have even replaced the royal family with meat puppets. Despite how extreme and morally dubious this is, everybody is easily convinced of the plan, showing how truly dire their situation is.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_437c83b7	comment	The end of My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic #4 mentions that Princess Celestia erased both the nightmares inflicted upon her subjects by Nightmare Moon, but also the illusions that painted herself negatively.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_43c2e491	comment	Stargirl (2020): The Injustice Society's plan turns out to involve this. People will be brainwashed to create a better America without homophobia and racism, which fights climate change. And it only affects adults, not children, since Icicle believes that Children Are Innocent and grownups have screwed the world up. The heroes are briefly taken aback and wonder if this is something they should be opposing, but then they learn that 25% of the population will have too strong a reaction to the reprogramming and die, which settles that.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_44581e75	comment	In the second work of the Ouroboros series, Queen's Gambit, this is proposed by the Gambit!Jedi to use on Gambit!Obi-Wan Kenobi, even after he proved that he wasn't a Dark Jedi. This causes major controversy, and several Jedi — including Quinlan Vos and Ahsoka Tano — end up leaving the Order due to it, after breaking Obi-Wan out of prison.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_44fe781e	comment	In Neon Genesis Evangelion, it is possible to brainwash EVA pilots into fighting, but this is never actually used (presumably the results would not be pretty).
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_4522fd1	comment	In a Whateley Universe story, "Razzle Dazzle", Mephisto comments on Doc Wilde's claimed "surgical process that 'excised' a part of the brain that could work evil" and points out that it was basically a Lobotomy.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_4aeea402	comment	In the original Doc Savage magazine stories, Doc performed "a delicate brain operation" on criminals to cure their criminal tendencies. It also removed all memories of their criminal past. This is a prime example of Values Dissonance and also of Science Marches On — back in the 1930s, it was believed that ongoing criminal behavior was a result of malformation of the brain, essentially a medical problem.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_4e7cac32	comment	Supergirl (2015): Lena Luthor perceives that one way or another everyone she's loved or trusted has betrayed her, so as of Season 5 she searches for relics and technology that enable her to manipulate people's minds by forcibly removing their ability to harm others (including both physical and emotional harm), creating a project she calls Non Nocere. It ultimately backfires and inverts itself.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_524e2e3b	comment	Donald Duck once revealed to Gyro Gearloose his secret identity of Paperinik and asked for assistance in his heroics. The inventor responded by immediately erasing his own memory with cancelling-caramel candies, and since then they've become a nefarious tool for the hero to maintain his secrets.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_52cd1288	comment	One Flash Gordon story centered on a tank-sized ray that could turn entire crowds into happy, good-hearted pacifists. Ming the Merciless takes control of it and use it to subjugate the opposition, until the protagonists manage to turn it on him. Flash even remarks what a swell guy Ming is when he's not evil. Justified since the ray's effect is temporary, and the rebound causes a lot of trouble later on.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_52e8fba	comment	In the Land of Oz novel The Emerald City of Oz, Ozma decides this is a morally acceptable way to subdue invaders.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_53a73ca0	comment	Subverted in one episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, where this strategy is used via Jedi Mind Tricks, but tortures the villain so much that he agrees to tell what he knows before the brainwashing actually does its work.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: The Star Sapphires will brainwash criminals, as well as members of other Corps whom they've captured and turn them into servants of Love. While not exactly good-guys, the Sapphires are far from evil and this is easily the most questionable thing they've ever done. However, when former Star Sapphire Fatality was freed from them, she immediately reverted back to her old personality of hating John Stewart. When John states the two of them were in love while she was a Sapphire, Fatality angrily states that it was her ring that loved him, not her. In other words, a Star Sapphire ring can overwrite someone's personality so strongly, that the person can enter a sexual relationship with someone they absolutely hate. Also, the Indigo Tribe is made up of "born again" villains and evildoers whose exposure to coalesced compassion turns them into beings dedicated to helping others. Unfortunately, they all seem a'ok with brainwashing... and it turns out they aren't fun to be around when the brainwashing drops.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_568caf46	comment	The Best Revenge: When Snape isn't able to remove Harry from the Dursleys' "care", he casts a spell that causes them to effectively ignore Harry and his room while he's staying at Privet Drive. He also places several magical compulsions upon the Dursleys that forces them to work harder, develop healthier habits, and generally just stop being selfish Jerkasses.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 uses this as the modus operandi for the Phantom Thieves. They target evil adults who get away with their crimes because they're too powerful or influential for the law to have any sway, infiltrate those adults' Mental Worlds, and steal all desire that they have to be evil, which leads them to confess their crimes and turn themselves in. And even though there's no real alternative, even though the victims are truly terrible people, the question about whether or not it's the right thing to do is prevalent among the general public and even the Thieves themselves from the beginning. In Royal, with the fall of the God of Control, that should have been the end of the game, and it was in the original. But max out all the right social links and you'll have one last Palace to contend with: Maruki's Laboratory of Sorrow. The final Palace ruler has this as their driving motivation, and unlike anyone previously, he genuinely has no malicious intent; their plan is to overwrite everyone's cognition such that everyone is happy. Like the Thieves, the ruler acknowledges the moral ambiguity of their actions but pursues it because they believe that it's for the best. Even with that, however, the Thieves choose to remain true to their ideals, leaving the true final battle as one gray morality against another.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_596cfce7	comment	In Men in Black, the organization uses a device called a neuralyzer on people to cause Laser-Guided Amnesia and purge any memories of aliens. However, it can have this effect too, as subjects are highly suggestible after being 'flashed' - Agent J uses the opportunity to tell a movie nerd to move out of his mom's house. Unfortunately he interprets this command to mean killing her so it isn't her house anymore.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_5a3dae52	comment	Misfits: What Virtue Girl apparently believes she's doing with her power. It turns drug-using, sexually promiscuous young people into upstanding, straight-laced Christians.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_5aae76b1	comment	Done in The Voyage of the Space Beagle — Grosvenor can't convince the rest of the crew to sign onto his (superior) scientific philosophy, so he hypnotizes them through the ship's PA system. This is seen as a heroic action.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_5af72fd	comment	In Street Sharks, after the police capture Repteel, Dr. Paradigm says that if they hand him over, he'll brainwash him into being harmless. Of course, given that Repteel's one of his henchmen, this is just an excuse to get the mutant out of prison.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_5bb5ad89	comment	Also seen JLA (1997) on the Hyperclan (White Martians) after the Justice League stop their invasion of Earth, as the Martian Manhunter and Aquaman telepathically brainwashed all of them into thinking they're regular humans. This later causes more problems, for example when one of them thinks he's Bruce Wayne.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_605dd875	comment	The use of the eponymous ark in the Stargate-verse movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth to convince the Ori's followers of the error of their ways could be viewed this way. While it is justified in that A) the Ori are dead anyway, and B) the Ori's followers are on the verge of overrunning the Milky Way, it's still brainwashing. Even Daniel, who found the Ark and figured out how to activate it in the first place, isn't happy that they have to use it, since it does mess with free will in a disturbing way. Even the fact that (at least according to Vala when the Ori Adria suggests she might use it herself) the Ark can only make people believe things that are actually true does not make it any less disturbing to them, and actually making use of the Ark is a desperate last resort. Indeed, the original Alterrans who built the Ark millions of years ago had the chance to use it against their Ori brethren before they became an intergalactic threat, but chose not to because they put great value in free will, and thus instead fled for the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_61d236b7	comment	InCryptid: The Johrlac are a species of telepathic sociopaths who act as Backstory Invaders and generally use their powers to get whatever they want from other sapient beings. Angela Baker, one of the only non-evil ones, used her powers to excise the latent Ghost Memory that makes Johrlac go evil from her adopted daughter Sarah. In Midnight Blue-Light Special, Sarah gives the Covenant agents Laser-Guided Amnesia to make them forget Verity existed and think Dominic was dead. In Imaginary Numbers, a group of Johrlac kidnap Sarah and force her to go through an Evolution Power-Up into a "Johrlac Queen", who will use Formulaic Magic to teleport their whole species to a new dimension, destroying Earth (and her mind) in the process. Due to interference from Sarah's friends and family, she ends up wiping the minds of almost every other Johrlac there, turning them into Empty Shells with Horror Hunger. At the climax of the next book, she does the same thing Angela did to her to about a dozen Johrlac children, with their consent. Since the only Johrlac left on Earth after that book are Sarah, Angela, Mark (who didn't have his mind tampered with but somehow turned out okay), and the children, their species may take a turn for the better.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6339ad11	comment	A Shadow of the Titans: After Jade loses her good chi, leaving just the Queen, the Titans have Raven transfer her some of Starfire's chi, turning her into "Star Chan", a heroine with basically the same personality as Starfire, in what's meant to be a placeholder. By the time that Raven finds Jade's own chi and prepares to transfer it back, Starfire and Beast Boy have decided they prefer Jade this way, the former because she sees her as a sister, and the latter for the pragmatic reason of having one less villain around. Notably, this is thoroughly deconstructed, as Cyborg and even the HIVE find this morally reprehensible, with Cyborg threatening to quit the team if they don't undo it. When Jade is restored, she says that Starfire and Beast Boy don't deserve to be heroes.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_65d9acd2	comment	The Sarah Jane Adventures, when Mr. Smith is rebooted.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_66521be6	comment	Tower and the Hive: This is how the Hiver threat is ultimately ended. The Human/Mrdini alliance discovers a pheromone cocktail that switched the Hivers' temperament from The Swarm to Space Amish. One spate of dusting every Hiver colony they could find with the stuff, no more invading hordes of alien bugs. To be fair, it was the only plan they could think of that didn't involve committing genocide on the Hivers (and every Human and Mrdini attempt at communication failed, even when human telepaths attempted).
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6723753c	comment	In Superman: Red Son Superman did this, to disturbing effect. The Batman imitators mopping the floor still in their costumes were particularly creepy; of course, President Superman has a lot of reason to hate Batman in this story. Unfortunately, the comic Time Skips over the stage at which Superman decided to start cyberlobotomizing his enemies so as to maintain control without having to kill anybody. We never see the decision making that developed into this, and by the time we see it it's treated as normal — a good drama call, but frustrating.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_679b6cab	comment	Brave New World: All New Londoners are "conditioned" for the roles they've been engineered into while children. Those who don't fit in later may be "reconditioned". Both have the goal of social peace and overall happiness.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_69331e52	comment	Hive England in Hive Mind (2016) seems to not abuse the coercive potential of imprinting, although it is implied that other hives do. However, even with that, Hive England does use imprinting in some coercive ways, which we see most directly in the Strike Team. The Strike Team are all imprinted to sacrifice themselves for the telepath, and that telepaths must never meet.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6a7fd233	comment	In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, the main protagonist "Bell" was once a top agent of Perseus until he was betrayed and left for dead. He was found and brainwashed by Adler and the CIA through Project MK-Ultra into thinking he was a Vietnam veteran and a CIA operative.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6abe4358	comment	In Power Pro-kun Pocket 7's Koshien Hero scenario, the Pocket Heroes who seem to uphold the peace actually engineer criminal incidents to justify their own existence and they'll brainwash people into being fans or fellow justice enforcers to keep the Awful Truth from coming out.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The 3.5 Edition "Book of Exalted Deeds" contains the Sanctify the Wicked spell, which has this effect, not only changing an Evil character to Good, but also changing the victim's alignment to Law or Chaos to match the caster's.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6c1d09b4	comment	In Fallout 4, it's stated that this is how the Railroad rehabilitate escaped synths. A doctor they sponsor gives them new memories to help them acclimate to the Wasteland and live normal lives as humans. Though the process is entirely voluntary, it can occasionally backfire spectacularly as the converted synth has no idea of their past lives and why they should care about synth rights. Isn't that right, Paladin Danse?
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6cd819eb	comment	In the seventh Skulduggery Pleasant novel Kingdom of the Wicked the heroes do this to Walden D'Essai, aka Argeddion, removing his memories of magic and his former life (which will also make him unable to use magic) because he is totally unwilling to admit that he is wrong in his desire to give magic to everybody including psychopaths and the evil, and because he is simply too powerful to be allowed to roam free.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6cdec540	comment	The Institutes of Transformers: More than Meets the Eye serve this purpose in pre-war Cybertronian society, rearranging the personality and outlook of anyone who opposes the senate or the alt mode based caste system. It should be noted that the Senate is completely corrupt during this time. With one exception, whom they pull this on along with the Empurata ritual: Shockwave.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6e1d5f36	comment	In Farscape, the Nebari ruling body "the Establishment" could subtly modify a person's mind until they no longer had any negative impulses. Unfortunately, along with things like sadism, they considered having any individual desires to be negative qualities, and would happily modify anyone they deemed necessary (aka. most of the known galaxy). It also backfires horribly with Durka in "A Clockwork Nebari." And, of course, the Nebari themselves are unwilling to consider the possibility that the "mind cleansing" could be overcome and cause even greater problems. It's worse. The Nebari are very advanced and very powerful. They deny having any dedicated warships. Instead, one of their "host" ships is fully capable of obliterating a Peacekeeper command carrier. It's heavily implied that they foresee a war between the Peacekeepers and the Scarrans (which does eventually happen) and plan to pick up the pieces by brainwashing everybody.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6f5aa958	comment	In Tour of the Merrimack, the American colony of Heraclide came down with a Hate Plague that made its victims permanently Ax-Crazy. As per this trope, they're "cured" by brainwashing them sane. Captain Farragut confirms that there's a Heraclide on the ship, but he's not allowed to say whom due to prejudice.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_6f64ed2f	comment	Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. At the end Doc performs one of his personality-altering operations on Captain Seas, who ends up as a member of the Salvation Army.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_727259ac	comment	The very first Ren & Stimpy cartoon, "Stimpy's Invention" had this with the Happy Helmet. Stimpy genuinely believed that Ren needed to be happy and created the helmet to do just that. Once Ren is freed of the helmet, all bets are off.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_7393c0ce	comment	Hellsister Trilogy has Supergirl and her adoptive parents attending Clark and Lois' wedding. When Fred Danvers makes a joke about him figuring out the Leaguers' civilian identities, his daughter warns that the Justice Leaguers protect their secret identities by having Green Lantern to mind-wipe busybodies.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_7668653a	comment	In Legion's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2, the heroes find out a way to turn the Heretic geth against the Reapers by introducing a computer virus into their network, essentially overwriting their thoughts. Given that the 'verse features several villains (including the Reapers) and Well Intentioned Extremists trying or succeeding in doing the same for their less-than-noble purposes, the parallels are made quite clear. Interestingly, this isn't treated like the obvious good option, with several characters pointing out that if you alter the geths' thoughts, you're still "killing" who they used to be. The alternative is to kill all those geth outright, but... it's still a strange moral issue. Legion further makes the point that the geth are not a race of individuals like most other races, but a Hive Mind collective of inter-networked A.I.s. To equate their concept of morality — and attitude to the "brainwashing" option — to that of humanity's could even be considered racist. Their minds work so differently that the human concept of "brainwashing" doesn't really cover exactly what the virus will do to the geth.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, the Illusive Man is vocally of the opinion that he a) can and b) should take control of the Reapers, the Big Bad Eldritch Abomination robot capital ships, for the "good of humanity" (or his own good, as Shepard can remark on several occasions). This puts him in conflict with Shepard and the Systems Alliance, who want to Leave No Survivors. As the game progresses, it becomes clear that he only thinks this because he's indoctrinated, and the Reapers want to pit him against Shepard, fracturing the organic defense in the process. However, this turns out to be possible after all — Shepard can choose to take control of the Reapers and end the war by fiat, although his/her corporeal form is destroyed in the process. In fact, if the player's War Assets are low, and they preserved the Collector base in Mass Effect 2, this is their only option. However, it's explained that the Illusive Man, being indoctrinated, could never have taken control for himself.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_77677ed1	comment	Popular among the Liir in Shepherd Of The Stars, as in canon. The other races, especially the Council, are much less okay with it. When the Turians ask them to stop doing this to captured Batarian terrorists, they switch from erasing pain to sharing it, inflicting the memories of former Batarian slaves onto the criminals to force them to change their ways. They see nothing wrong with this, and are somewhat surprised that everyone else does.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_78974fd8	comment	Psychonauts 2: When Ford defeated and captured Lucrecia after the Battle of Grulovia, he was still in love with her and couldn't bring himself to kill her, even though she had already killed so many. He used the Astralathe to alter her psyche, suppressing her Maligula side and making her think she was Marona Aquato, her sister that she accidentally killed. Then he used the Astralathe on her recently-orphaned nephew Augustus so that he'd believe Lucrecia was his mother. After this, Ford used the Astralathe to shatter his own mind because he couldn't live with the guilt of brainwashing Lucy and Augustus.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: In Legion's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2, the heroes find out a way to turn the Heretic geth against the Reapers by introducing a computer virus into their network, essentially overwriting their thoughts. Given that the 'verse features several villains (including the Reapers) and Well Intentioned Extremists trying or succeeding in doing the same for their less-than-noble purposes, the parallels are made quite clear. Interestingly, this isn't treated like the obvious good option, with several characters pointing out that if you alter the geths' thoughts, you're still "killing" who they used to be. The alternative is to kill all those geth outright, but... it's still a strange moral issue. Legion further makes the point that the geth are not a race of individuals like most other races, but a Hive Mind collective of inter-networked A.I.s. To equate their concept of morality — and attitude to the "brainwashing" option — to that of humanity's could even be considered racist. Their minds work so differently that the human concept of "brainwashing" doesn't really cover exactly what the virus will do to the geth. In Mass Effect 3, the Illusive Man is vocally of the opinion that he a) can and b) should take control of the Reapers, the Big Bad Eldritch Abomination robot capital ships, for the "good of humanity" (or his own good, as Shepard can remark on several occasions). This puts him in conflict with Shepard and the Systems Alliance, who want to Leave No Survivors. As the game progresses, it becomes clear that he only thinks this because he's indoctrinated, and the Reapers want to pit him against Shepard, fracturing the organic defense in the process. However, this turns out to be possible after all — Shepard can choose to take control of the Reapers and end the war by fiat, although his/her corporeal form is destroyed in the process. In fact, if the player's War Assets are low, and they preserved the Collector base in Mass Effect 2, this is their only option. However, it's explained that the Illusive Man, being indoctrinated, could never have taken control for himself.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_7ae8ef1a	comment	If you count "removing all human emotions, positive and negative" as brainwashing, the dystopian government within Equilibrium uses this. Their justification is that Humans Are Bastards and uncontrolled passions caused all wars, so all citizens must take an emotion-neutralizing drug called Prozium.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_7de8951a	comment	In Traveller the Zhodani Consulate's psionic Thought Police encourage citizens feeling depressed or dissatisfied with their lot in life to turn themselves in for telepathic "therapy". The result has been the most stable, happy, and well-adjusted human interstellar state in the setting, with close to zero crime. However they also consider non-Zhodani humans to be mentally ill, and their fear of the human-dominated Imperium eventually becoming a threat to them has caused them to fight several wars of conquest and sponsor terrorist groups within the Imperium to slow Imperial expansion.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_810d4160	comment	In the Exiles comic, at the end of the "World Tour" story arc, Proteus (who had taken over the body of Morph) was brainwashed into thinking he really was Morph.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_83551418	comment	A Force of Four: After the villainous foursome have been taken down, the heroes wipe the knowledge of the Grail from their memories so they can't use it against Earth-Two again.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_845d388	comment	The Planet Eater Trilogy: Superman, who had re-programmed Brainiac in a previous story to rue his evil past and atone for his actions, must de-program him back into being evil so his enemy can help him stop a humongous planet-eating machine.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_869ee727	comment	During the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy, Vanyel scrambles to find a solution for ending up as, well, the last of the Herald-Mages. He works out a way to protect the country, imperfectly, from magic. Tiny, difficult to detect air spirits stare at non-Herald mages, making them increasingly distractable and paranoid, until they leave Valdemar. But the people still remember magic and think of Herald-Mages as more important and capable than non-mage Heralds, and we can't have that. So he sets up a psychic system that makes everyone in the country believe that the magic went away, something Valdemarans can only think about in the past tense, and has his Bardic lover work to convince people that Psychic Powers are just as good. Notably this doesn't prevent mages from using magic on Valdemar from the outside, or from working it within the borders and then leaving, and foreigners continue to know about magic while in Valdemar. If the country is fighting enemies who employ mages then Valdemarans are temporarily permitted to think about it in order to handle the situation, though since they have no experience with considering it as a real thing they don't understand it and are alarmed, but as soon as the situation ends they return to being incapable. One of the short stories details how these two systems in conjunction can really ruin the lives of any Mage Born of Muggles in Valdemar. Eventually, Vanyel's spirit takes them both down.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_885e1bec	comment	Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality sees Harry use Obliviate to do this to his good friend Lord Voldemort at the conclusion of the fic.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_89465e75	comment	In a Percy Jackson and the Olympians side story, Percy battles the Titan Iapetus near Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness. Percy dunks himself and Iapetus in the river. Percy, being a son of Poseidon, stayed dry, and Iapetus is soaked so he forgets everything. He gets renamed Bob and even helps cure some nasty wounds.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_8cf1df17	comment	A Very Kara Christmas: When Kara realizes her cover might have been blown up, Superman decides to fetch a mind-wiping drug and douse her whole school if necessary. Unwilling to brainwash her schoolmates, though, Kara asks him to let her handle it first.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_8d32e966	comment	In the original run of Marvel's Squadron Supreme, brainwashing villains and other criminals into becoming law-abiding citizens became part of their Utopian project. Unfortunately, this caused a rift in the group, and some of the rebelling heroes joined with villains, one of whom discovered how to reverse the process.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_8d445a78	comment	Marionettes: This is how the Stallions in Black justify their usage of Fake Memories and mind magic, convinced that all of their manipulations serve The Needs of the Many. This is far from the case, but the Tautological Templars refuse to see it.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In Superman: Red Son Superman did this, to disturbing effect. The Batman imitators mopping the floor still in their costumes were particularly creepy; of course, President Superman has a lot of reason to hate Batman in this story. Unfortunately, the comic Time Skips over the stage at which Superman decided to start cyberlobotomizing his enemies so as to maintain control without having to kill anybody. We never see the decision making that developed into this, and by the time we see it it's treated as normal — a good drama call, but frustrating. In alternate universe story The Amazing Story of Superman Red and Superman Blue, Superman decides the best way to eradicate crime is to build a giant brainwashing machine. Supergirl then releases the Phantom Zone inmates so they can also be brainwashed into becoming good people. The Planet Eater Trilogy: Superman, who had re-programmed Brainiac in a previous story to rue his evil past and atone for his actions, must de-program him back into being evil so his enemy can help him stop a humongous planet-eating machine.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_8f794c68	comment	In the second Wings of Fire series, Kinkajou decides to deal with semi-sympathetic villain Darkstalker this way. He has always insisted that he's not to blame for anything he does- including genocide, torture and murder of the people he calls friends- and it's all his abusive, long-dead father's fault...well, now he gets to prove it. She polymorphed him into an amnesiac baby, with none of the NightWing powers he abused so much in his 'past life', and lets his (genuinely loving) mother take him off into the jungle to Raise Him Right This Time. Since Darkstalker himself liked to claim he did this trope, his punishment comes off as karmic (if slightly hypocritical). And it was the only way to get around that nasty 'immortality' spell he cast on himself...
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_90887d43	comment	XenoGears: After Fei's father rescued him from Grahf back when he was under his Id persona, he had to construct an entirely new personality to seal Id away as Fei's original was too traumatized to awaken.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_909ca4b1	comment	Bob from ReBoot believes that because viruses are programmed to do harm, one can reprogram them into sprites and benign viruses. When presented with the possibility, Megabyte describes this as "a fate worse than deletion."
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_90f42a9b	comment	Averted in The Wheel of Time. Rand, in his confrontation with the Dark One, projects a future without a Dark One. Without his influence, though, everyone in the world was effectively Brainwashed For The Greater Good. The idea sickened Rand so much that he abandoned his plan to kill the Dark One, opting instead to reseal the prison.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_91209b29	comment	In Xenosaga, criminal justice involves multiple levels "personality reconditioning." Cherenkov was sentenced to and underwent high level "personality reconditioning" thrice — one that saw him stripped of human status and permanently assigned the status of a Realian — for three separate murders.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_924bb56e	comment	A web series tie-in to Dollhouse shows that one of the scientists who worked on the precursor to Active technology used it to fix her emotionally unstable daughter. In the show itself, it is stated that some of the earliest Actives were exceptionally violent criminals (such as the serial killer serving a life sentence who was Alpha's original personality) who were taken against their will with the intention of forcibly turning them into reformed citizens who could then be released back into society to help with prison overcrowding. Judging by Alpha's case, this plan doesn't seem to have worked very well. It is also hinted that the technology could be used in this way for some positive applications, such as curing mental illnesses. For example, Sierra was taken against her will as a "charity case" because she had schizophrenia (the Dollhouse staff not knowing/believing that she had schizophrenia because a man she rejected was drugging her). Unfortunately, these are vastly overshadowed by the much more dangerous or exploitative negative applications that fall under Power Perversion Potential and Brainwashed and Crazy.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_94bfa327	comment	Used frequently in The Dreamstone, where the heroes could turn the villains docile and friendly with magic or pleasant dreams. In most cases, this was a temporary effect so they would be docile enough to hand them back the Dreamstone, though in at least one case it was intended to be permanent, with the entire Urpney army and the Argorribles remaining subordinate to them until Sgt. Blob and Urpgor broke them out of it.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a0ad00d4	comment	Embers (Vathara) has the canon example with the Dai Li under Lake Laogai, but also introduces the idea that the Airbenders used it too, referring to it euphemistically as "Harmonious Accord". The Fire Nation Airbending clans of onmitsu keep up the tradition - Ty Lee is terrified of them getting their hands on her after she breaks her loyalty to them (which makes her stop breathing for a time while Azula administers CPR).
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a1038b37	comment	Reverse: 1999: What the Foundation see as their role. They take in Arcanist children and drill into them their "proper" role in the world, imparting in them that they exist to bring "Peace and Prosperity." There is even an age cut off of when an Arcanist is considered "too old" to go through the system since those kids would have more solid memories of their lives before the Foundation took them in and have more fully formed opinions. Given that previously most humans only saw Arcanists as enemies of mankind and tried across history to wipe them out, this is technically an improvement...
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a3129642	comment	Spinnerette: Sara Nicole Megan drugs her whole town in order to make everything nice there (at least by her standards-no crime, divorce, or gays-including herself.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a33d74a4	comment	Confessors from the Sword of Truth series work like this. Unfortunately, the recharge time is anywhere from hours to weeks, and there's usually a lot of angry soldiers between a Confessor and a big bad. This is part of why they usually had a wizard bodyguard. The Confessors were mostly used to get the confession of condemned criminals who were part of conspiracies, but refused to cooperate. The Gone Horribly Wrong is built right in, since their power doesn't actually compel truth but causes the victim to fall hopelessly in love with the confessor, abandoning essentially everything else in their lives and committing suicide immediately (or wasting away if ordered otherwise) upon her leaving them. Even the protagonists, who are high-functioning sociopaths on their least villainous days, get really uncomfortable about the fact that most people who actually request confession are essentially committing personality suicide to prove their innocence.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a413c9d1	comment	Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam: After Theo Adam/Black Adam's first arc, the Wizard uses his magic to erase his memory of anything except for his name and age, then has him put in an Orphanage of Love. It didn't stick for too long, though. A rare villain-to-hero version: Axe wants to get Billy out of his hair, but to do him a favor based on his own Freudian Excuse, orders Billy to go and overcome his worst fear (which, at the time, was the fact that some unknown evil was possessing Captain Marvel). Played with also because it doesn't totally work, though in the process Billy breaks out of the spell so that he can go back and defeat Axe.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a5dacf69	comment	Chunin Exam Day features Naruto using "S-rank massages" to brainwash most of the girls he meets into members of his harem, including former enemies. He also uses one to erase Tsunade's hemophobia.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a7c71872	comment	In Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, criminals who are captured are all put in a machine that removes their desire to commit crimes. The series kicks off when a Mad Scientist finds a way to protect himself from this and starts committing crimes again, including cloning Professor Moriarty.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, this is the modus operandi of the Selesnya. The Song of the Conclave, for instance, was a plane-wide spell to keep the population docile (keep in mind that it was done with "good" intentions in mind). Predictably, when the guildless found out, they weren't very happy...
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a851d974	comment	Maven tries to hypnotize The Nostalgia Chick into never thinking about Todd in the Shadows again, but it doesn't even come close to working.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a8561ee9	comment	Happens to the Slayers, the Branaghs and Renfield in the final episode of Season 2 of Young Dracula courtesy of Vlad (though the latter two were accidents; it was the Slayers that were the target). The What the Hell, Hero? occurs four years later in Season 3's "The Return" when Vlad finds out that the hypnosis he did ended up causing the death of Eric Van Helsing, who didn't remember that vampires were real or how to defend himself from them. The shock of Eric's death caused Mina and Jonno to regain their memories.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_a930f2c3	comment	Reluctant Hero has Long Feng suggesting to wipe the new Avatar's memory clean from everything about the Fire Nation except for his training in firebending. Some amongst the boy's teachers find the idea quite appealing since their pupil is very much struggling with his role, but the youth himself does not agree. Explosively so.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: Much of the Terran military is made up of "resocialized" criminals. The training process of Ghosts involves this as well, though they aren't necessarily criminals; the program will take anyone with enough potential. One would hope this statistic doesn't apply to the higher command. Interestingly, Nova (one of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful, Terran psychics ever) actually chose to have her memory wiped, unable to cope with the memory of her parents being murdered in front of her and living a year as a slave to a psychopath.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ae5f0cd3	comment	Soul Hackers 2: The conclusion that Figue comes to after seeing Raven accept death due to his despair is to soul hack all of humanity and strip from them the desire from conflict. Ringo notes this would also rob them of their emotions, but she argues its better than a future of endless pain.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_af42a07f	comment	Comes up in Serenity when the Alliance experiments with a bacteriological weapon that makes people placid. It works too well on 99.9% of the population of the test colony, Miranda. It causes a... reaction for the remainder. Somehow, the Alliance then alters all computer records to show that Miranda is -- and always has been -- uninhabitable.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable: Played for Laughs when Mikitaka explains that he (supposedly) brainwashed a woman into thinking that she is his mother as way of finding a place of residence as an "alien". Stone Ocean: Enrico Pucci stole Weather Report's memories to prevent his Heavy Weather ability from extending any further. This is not an exaggeration, nor Pucci trying to rationalize his actions. Heavy Weather really is that dangerous.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_b2c6c7a4	comment	hololive: Calliope Mori attempts to hypnotize Atlus into allowing her to play Persona 3 on stream by repeating her request over and over again for a solid two hours while "Burn My Dread" plays backwards for good measure. It's hard to say if it worked or not...
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_b8404ba7	comment	Domina: Gets a minor reference. When the entire city is turned into brainwashed zombies for a few days, it is noted after that both property damage and the death rate went down significantly for the duration. The Reasonable Authority Figure admits that mind control keeps people safe, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Besides, they couldn't replicate the event even if they wanted to.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Miss Martian starts too get a little too fond of this technique in Young Justice (2010), and Superboy breaks up with her over it. It comes back to bite her in the butt again when she puts Aqualad into a permanent coma, mistaking his Fake Defection for a real one.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, it's revealed this was the original reason for existence of the superweapon Nirvana. The Nirvits sought to use it to bring peace to the world by reversing the moralities of warring nations to make peace. It worked out for a time, but what the Nirvits didn't realize was happening was the "darkness" of all those they reversed was being reflected onto themselves until they fell into a war of their own that wiped them out. The last surviving Nirvit realized how foolish they had been to try and forcibly change others "for the greater good" and sealed Nirvana away, his spirit enduring to watch over the site for centuries as atonement until Nirvana is ultimately destroyed in the present.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_bc848d30	comment	In one SpongeBob SquarePants episode, SpongeBob and Patrick brainwash Man-Ray into not doing evil stuff anymore, by tickling him when he does. And it works, too.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: It is implied that Ethereal caste of Tau empire is using mind-controlling pheromones to control the rest of the tau species. Pheromones have limited range, so Ethereals also spend a lot of effort to teach their subjects to genuinely believe in Greater Good. Founding religio-philosophical principle of modern Tau society holds that all sentient beings should strive to ensure the greatest good for the greatest number of beings in the galaxy under guidance of the Ethereal caste. There was also an instance where the leaders of a new-found sentient species were issued portable translation devices by the Tau. It was implied that said devices also provided mind control. Implied, as in, Imperial scribes say they do. And The Empire is notoriously xenophobic. So there's no way to tell whether it's true or not. The only way to know for sure is to ask an Eldar farseer (who are rumored to have genetically engineered the Tau Ethereal caste) but Eldar being Eldar, they have no reason to tell the truth. The Imperium is also known to do this. Since the galaxy is full of things that can permanently corrupt a man's soul just for looking at them, it occasionally occurs that someone you'd rather not "save" (that is to say, summarily execute) ends up a wee bit mad. The Imperium sorts this out by brainwashing the subject and either putting in fake memories or leaving the person blank. This allows them to continue service without being a risk of heresy. The Inquisition uses this tactic more than other factions. Space Marines, especially Grey Knights are notorious for using mind wipes, hypnosis and brainwashing as part of their training. It results in incredible mental fortitude, loyalty and resistance to Chaos influence, but makes them far less human. The brainwashing of Space Marine recruits is rather necessary, to allow both subliminal training and to indoctrinate the recruits into loyally serving the chapter and the Imperium. This is as much as to make them loyal servants as well as to behave; while recruiting from a Hive, they prefer "recruiting" gangs members since most recruits are chosen because they have psychotic killing instincts and experience with weapons. If Marines decide they would rather strike out on their own, they would either go renegade, or, much worse and more common, fell to temptation and became terrifying Chaos Space Marines. Space Marines' predecessors, the Thunder Warriors, were not brainwashed, and proved to be so physically and mentally unstable that The Emperor had them purged once the conquest of Terra was complete. The process of interfacing with the Throne Mechanicum of an Imperial Knight not only imprints the Noble's personality on the Throne, it also changes the personality of the Noble: instilling strong feelings of honor and duty, a respect for order and hierarchy, and a veneration for one's ancestors. The exact reason for this is unknown, but some believe that it is either an unintended error or a form of mental Restraining Bolt to help stop Nobles from going rogue. Only the Thrones Mechanicum used by House Taranis of Mars are free of this mental conditioning algorithm, something the Nobles of the House believe makes the greatest Knights in the eyes of the Omnissiah.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_bef539f6	comment	Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw ends with McNasty and his Mooks being put through his Mirror Morality Machine and coming out as nice people. Nobody seems to care that the process can easily be reversed by telling an affected person that you love them (or possibly that you hate them in this case).
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_bff8ee28	comment	In A Prize for Three Empires, Jean Grey and Oracle mentally influence the Kree who analyzed Carol Danvers' genetic sampling to convince him that Carol no longer has cosmic powers, ergo they should leave her alone.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_c3359fe2	comment	In alternate universe story The Amazing Story of Superman Red and Superman Blue, Superman decides the best way to eradicate crime is to build a giant brainwashing machine. Supergirl then releases the Phantom Zone inmates so they can also be brainwashed into becoming good people.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair reveals that the entire game takes place in a virtual world that stripped the 16 characters (except for Chiaki Nanami) of their memories from the time they were members of Ultimate Despair and would have replaced them with good memories and ethics. Unfortunately, thanks to the machinations of Izuru Kamukura, a virus was uploaded that allowed a virtual version of Monokuma to hijack the program.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_c4282b71	comment	Though not seen, in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Twilight mentions "reformation spells". If they couldn't convince a character to turn good the old-fashioned way, Twilight had every intent of using it. As the character in question is an unrepentant, Reality-Warping Mad God, her extreme attitude is understandable, though it's not without some Fridge Horror when you sit down and think about it. This is the series that gave us the Want-It-Need-It spell and the love poison. Brainwashing effects canonically exist and even seem rather easy to create, yet at the same time aren't ever taken lightly (except when Starlight Glimmer relapses); that Twilight was ready to use a "reformation spell" as a fallback plan in Discord's case only underscores his potential threat level.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Keys of Marinus", the characters are on The Quest to collect the Keys to turn on a device called the Conscience Machine, which apparently will cause all the Marinusians to live in peace and harmony by 'deciding for them' what is wrong and right. It had been turned off before the story started because the Voord, Marinusians immune to its effects, were attacking the other Marinusians who were unable to defend themselves as a result of its effects. This is virtually never addressed apart from a couple of lines from the Doctor in the final episode, and arguably Barbara smashing a bunch of monsters for doing virtually the same thing the humans are trying to do in the second episode. In "The Savages", a villain does this to himself by accident, although the First Doctor anticipated it and let it happen. He transfers 'vitality' from the Doctor in the hope of gaining his intellect, but ends up gaining the Doctor's morality in the process, as well as some of his mannerisms and personality quirks. "The Mind of Evil". The Keller Machine removed the impulse to commit evil acts by subjecting its victims to their worst fears. Sometimes those fears would kill the people the machine's inventors intended to cure, which anticipates A Nightmare on Elm Street as well as echoing A Clockwork Orange. In "Underworld", the Minyan "humane" weapon is essentially a (temporary) lobotomy gun. The Doctor, probably thanks to brain-fogging species guilt because the Time Lords uplifted them before they were ready, actually praises them for this. The Doctor does this to the entire human race in "Day of the Moon" to free them from the Silence, who have been using post-hypnotic suggestion to secretly manipulate humanity for millennia. The Doctor responds by tricking one into uttering the phrase "You should kill us all on sight" whilst being recorded, which he splices into the Moon Landing broadcast, turning every single human being for the rest of time into their (unknowing) assassins. The Cybermen (at least in the reboot era) remove all the emotions of their victims when they cyber-convert them into new Cybermen. Their dialogue strongly implies that they think they're doing you a favour by doing this to you.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ca4949d1	comment	The wizard Mizzamir invented a spell to do this in Villains by Necessity. The protagonists are utterly horrified at the implications.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_cb6abea3	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Marik's spell to brainwash Anzu was clearly not for a good purpose. However, after his Superpowered Evil Side dominated him, it quickly became this, as Anzu was now the only way he could communicate with anyone. For as long as he was able to, he controlled her in an attempt to seek help from others, first to tell his sister to keep Rashid hidden, and eventually to plead with the Pharoh not to hesitate to strike his dark side down (which was an issue due to the Sadistic Choice that the villain had forced the Pharaoh into).
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_cd713f4	comment	The Stainless Steel Rat — and it works, largely successfully. Angelina turned from a murderous psychopath into a loving wife and mother... with occasional psychopathic tendencies, especially if you so much as look at her twins wrong.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ce97a859	comment	Happens at the end of PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers to Darkrai, though likely not deliberately. After a botched escape plan Palkia informs the party that he has likely suffered from Laser-Guided Amnesia just like the protagonist did. Sure enough, you can later find Darkrai roaming an unimportant dungeon and behaves just like any other Pokemon and is even recruitable, hence the main villain becomes part the of the heroic team. Strangely, no one comments on the fact that a sadistic dictator from the future is hanging out in the cafe without explanation.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_cf3e7a82	comment	World's Finest #148, Superman and Batmanâ€”Outlaws! Our heroes suggest to the good Alternate Universe Lex Luthor that he should brainwash their evil counterparts into becoming good guys. This apparently works, but the brainwashed people are seen only from behind, so one could imagine that their faces told a different story.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d0490d81	comment	In I'm Here to Help, Emerald believes Neo-Queen Serenity used the Silver Crystal to do this to the entire population of Earth. Given his own mental state and the lack of pagetime the supposedly brainwashed people have, whether or not it's the case is open to interpretation.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d1b8f813	comment	Maybe the Last Archie Story: Hilda and Zelda need Veronica's aid to save their niece Sabrina, so they use a charmed medallion to "convince" the Lodges that their daughter should be entrusted to them for the present, and they shouldn't object, make silly questions or worry about Veronica's safety.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d1c816ca	comment	The Daltons: In one episode the director of the penitentiary wants to make the inmates drink a "vaccine against the virus of criminality" concocted by a very obvious Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde Expy: when one of the inmates drank it, he became very uncharacteristically kind. This trope is used in another episode in which the Daltons are subjected to days of being strapped to a machine and seeing a video of a pink rabbit trying to convince them that crime is wrong. The machine also looks like an ECT machine.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d352a67f	comment	Identity Crisis (2004) sees The Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Black Canary, The Atom, Hawkman, and Zatanna on Dr. Light after he raped the Elongated Man's wife. It opened a floodgate of crap. Later on in the story, it was used on Batman after he caught them mid-mindwipe and objected. The floodgates weren't big enough.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d54b59cc	comment	Used in Demolition Man by the San Angeles correctional system. Criminals are reprogrammed to be unable to perform the crimes they committed, and have useful skills or hobbies implanted. It's hit-and-miss, though; John Spartan can't stop himself from knitting despite being at best indifferent about it, and while Simon Phoenix can't kill Cocteau, he still really, really wants to, and eventually gets around it by asking one of his mooks to do it.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d610e57d	comment	Police Woman: In "Brainwash" an institute that "deprograms" troubled teenagers, especially ones who have been caught up in various cults, comes under investigation when one of their clients is found murdered. By posing as a journalist, Sgt. Pepper Anderson finds out that they use brainwashing techniques (though of course they don't call it that) which the founder learned the hard way as a POW in Korea. The "for the greater good" part is questionable; it turns out they are only in it for the money and several of the employees have criminal backgrounds.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d634ac98	comment	In one episode the director of the penitentiary wants to make the inmates drink a "vaccine against the virus of criminality" concocted by a very obvious Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde Expy: when one of the inmates drank it, he became very uncharacteristically kind.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_d98a1281	comment	The Turing Test: TOM claims it's doing this when Ava complains about TOM mind-controlling her to influence her behaviour.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_dc3fc6db	comment	In Himenospia, Himeno gains a wasp-like stinger that works as a Love Potion on the females she stings, and uses it on her abusive mother and her bullies. Her "soldiers" don't lose much autonomy and are made aware of their own flaws, becoming strong-willed and generally kinder as a result. After surviving the massacre of her classmates by the police when they find out about the wasp-girls, Himeno manages to gain enough political influence from stinging women related to the media and the government to turn her hometown into a sort of Feminist Fantasy.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: The insect aliens of the Zirr Empire have The Understanding, which mentally bonds them and removes all traces of individual doubt or uncertainty.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_e1231721	comment	This is a common tactic of Armethalieh, the City of Mages in The Obsidian Trilogy. Only men can be mages, so whenever a girl is born with aptitude for the High Magic, her family gets a visit from a mage who removes that aptitude and rummages around in her head to find a more appropriate calling, such as music. In general, if an offense isn't so bad that it will result in exile from the city, the offender's head is messed with to remove relevant memories and set them back on the "correct" path.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_e21e4293	comment	At the climax of Kubo and the Two Strings, the villainous Moon King is struck by Kubo's musical magic, causing him to lose his powers and have his mind wiped. It's not clear if Kubo intentionally intended this or not (since he openly declared earlier that he would kill the Moon King), but regardless "Grandfather" is left with a blank memory and the villagers tell him that he's a great and generous man.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Doctor Strange on occasion has used Laser-Guided Amnesia to make villains forget the evil magic they have learned — mostly for those who stumbled into it by accident and had no idea what they were doing.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: The protagonists figure out a way to turn Wraith (all but Always Chaotic Evil aliens who suck the life force out of humans) into amnesiac humans. Once they try this with their first subject, Michael, they convince him that he's always been a member of their expedition to see if they really can make good people out of Wraiths. Michael gets suspicious, finds out what happened, escapes, isn't accepted among other Wraith, tries to team up with Atlantis, gets turned human and brainwashed AGAIN, and completely snaps and decides to wipe out both Wraith and Humans.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_e7410020	comment	Empowered: Mindf** habitually uses her psychic powers to do this to herself.*
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Paperinik New Adventures: Donald Duck once revealed to Gyro Gearloose his secret identity of Paperinik and asked for assistance in his heroics. The inventor responded by immediately erasing his own memory with cancelling-caramel candies, and since then they've become a nefarious tool for the hero to maintain his secrets. In another story, a man brainwashes Duckburg into loathing Paperinik out of envy for him. The hero manages to foil his plan and convinces him to influence criminals into becoming good people instead.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_e8605f7	comment	In the Dingo Doodles "Fool's Gold" campaign the party was trying to save the city of Rascam from its Lawful Evil, drug-dealing ruler the Bearon. When a fight broke out, Sips used a cursed item which randomly changed the Bearon's alignment to Lawful Good. It's not clear whether it was full brainwashing or simply giving him a conscience, but the Bearon has since become a good ruler and an ally of the party.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ea3d3f82	comment	The "demolishing" process in The Demolished Man might well qualify. The Villain Protagonist's personality is broken down to a primal level with the idea of building him back up so that he retains his intelligence and ambition without the self-serving and criminal aspects.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_eb0c9938	comment	Diamond is Unbreakable: Played for Laughs when Mikitaka explains that he (supposedly) brainwashed a woman into thinking that she is his mother as way of finding a place of residence as an "alien".
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: In "The Beginning of the End", Gary uses his mind control spores to override the spores used on the imprisoned beasts so they can turn on Andrias's forces.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ecd7d19e	comment	Fire Emblem Heroes: A Day in the Life: In "Adapting to a New Realm", the Summoner summons Hel, and Eir is worried that her mother is still hostile to the heroes that she was trying to kill before. However, the Magically-Binding Contract from the summoning apparently did this to Hel, and Eir gets unnerved by how submissive she now is.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ee384546	comment	In Cyberpunk 2077, V discovers a conspiracy in which somebody has been brainwashing Night City's new mayor Jefferson Peralez and his wife, implanting them with Fake Memories and altering their personalities with the apparent intent of... making them better politicians. The player never does discover who's responsible (although it's heavily implied to be the Ambiguously Evil Night Corp), and has the option of letting them go unopposed or warning Jefferson. If they go with the former he becomes even more of a Reasonable Authority Figure and declares war on homelessness.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ef076a36	comment	In an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, a ruthless amoral criminal from an alien prison ship Voyager is assisting is found to have a faulty brain connection in the part that creates guilt, which is easily repaired by Federation technology. After that, he feels total remorse for everything, but it isn't enough to convince his planet's justice system to let him go scot-free. May be justified, as his personality isn't changed, he just feels guilty about his actions, essentially curing him of sociopathy. The question of the episode is if he should still be held accountable for the crimes he performed prior to the procedure, or if having his sociopathy cured meant he should be released and no longer treated as a threat to society. Another episode has a planet of psychics where having a violent thought is a crime, because it can spread and make other people act violently. The punishment is "mental surgery" of sorts that removes the offending thoughts from the person. When the local policewoman finds out the Federation puts criminals in "cages", she is horrified. Then B'Elanna Torres (a half-Klingon with a nasty temper) is sentenced to the "surgery" after a violent thought she had causes another woman to stab someone. Naturally, the crew is worried that there may not be a B'Elanna left if all her violent thoughts were removed. She's set free after it turns out that the thought in question was deliberately captured and traded as part of a black market on the planet, exposing that the regime wasn't as effective as they thought. A third episode involves the crew having to do this to one of their own, the Doctornote who is a holographic AI entity, after he develops a severely impeding obsession with a past decision over treatment of two critically wounded crew members who had an equal chance of survival with his care, but he only had time to treat one. Captain Janeway blocks the memories, justifying this by comparing the Doctor to a replicator. Seven convinces the Captain to treat him like a person and restore the memories so he can try to process his trauma naturally.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_ef7b3325	comment	Six words: Fantastic Four. Reed Richards. Skrull Cows.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn has a downplayed example. Most machines aren't sapient, but it's still a bit weird when Aloy "overrides" one and makes it attack the herd it was protecting just a minute ago. Aloy's habit of anthropomorphizing the machines does not help.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f2db392d	comment	Played with in Prey (2017). A side effect of neuromods is that if they're ever removed, the subject loses all memories since the neuromod was installed. Late in the game, this can be used to transform an enemy into an ally. Dahl, sent to Leave No Survivors of the incident, gives himself blank neuromods before taking instructions for every job he gets so he can remove them with no memory of his actions later, keeping his conscience clean. If you knock him out instead of killing him, you can remove his neuromod and convince him that his instructions were to evacuate the station, rather than killing everyone on board. He'll help you with no qualms or questions.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f2dc0664	comment	Within the Wires' False Utopia ensures the nonviolence of its citizens in the aftermath of devastating war through a combination of cybernetically-enhanced repression of memories at age ten, and batteries of psychological programming. Season 1's protagonist is a patient, who, after illustrating deviant behavior, is supposedly undergoing a rehabilitative version of the latter during their stay at as an inpatient at a research hospital called the Institute.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f35f2f0b	comment	MSF High: The Legion used to do this. A lot. Or, at least they saw it like that. Most people saw them as the "Heels", at times, and Legion transformations can have this effect, if done unwillingly. One of the reasons people don't like them very much. Generally, they don't do it now, though. Threatened in the forums, to this one guy, Dracon, by a Legion NPC. He HATES said NPC now, with a passion.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f42befdb	comment	In the fifth Captain Underpants book, the kids do this to Sadist Teacher Ms. Ribble/Wedgie Woman. Note that the first time it went horribly wrong, so the second time they had to be very careful about their wording. When Harold wonders at the end if it was right to hypnotize her into becoming nice, George responds, "Why not? She's happier now. She'll probably live longer!"
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f74b5f80	comment	On Babylon 5, instead of the death sentence, murderers are punished with "the Death of Personality" as a more merciful alternative to capital punishment, undergoing a process that wipes away their memories and gives them a new personality that will encourage them to help the community they harmed, in essence "killing" them mentally but not physically. In the episode "Passing Through Gethsemane", Brother Edward discovers that he is actually a murderer who had this done to him, and his current personality is artificial. In a rather nuanced take on this trope, the character has a mental breakdown, but does NOT revert to being a murderer. His new identity is that of a devout Christian monk and he is horrified not only by his crimes, but also that the state has interfered with his duty to atone for his sins as he had all memory of them removed (this raises an interesting theological question: would he be punished for sins he didn't recall committing?). But then when Edward is killed in revenge by a family member of one of his victims, the killer is given the same treatment and becomes a monk in the same order, with no knowledge of his guilt. Much to the horror of the station commander, who knew and liked Brother Edward. The head monk comments that forgiveness is hard but something ever to strive for. The Vorlons were revealed to have done this on a genetic level to most of the younger races, albeit indirectly: they didn't implant specific moral rules, but they did program them to see Vorlons as angelic beings that should be revered and trusted implicitly. As Vorlons' moral code turns out to consist largely of "Do as your elders/betters say", this qualifies as a "greater good" from their Vorlons-know-better perspective. Ultimately, the younger races decide that the Vorlons are almost as bad as the Shadows with their Order Versus Chaos conflict, and tell them both to leave the galaxy.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f8720a39	comment	At the end of The Warrior's Daughter, the Z-Fighters ask Shenron to wipe the Earth's people's memories clean from everything about 17 and 18 so both Androids can start over with a clean slate.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f9fca2e8	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_f9fca2e8	comment	There is a world-wide plan of it in Lines and Webs.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_fa5e90fd	comment	In City of Heroes one of the signature heroes, a psychic called Sister Psycheâ€™ does this all the time with villains she catches, she gets passed the ethical dilemma of this because the effects are temporary and ware off by the time they stand trial. A more significant example of this is her side-kick Malaise, who has dissociative identity disorder and periodically switches to his identity as a mad art thief; As he is also psychic this makes him quite dangerous, so she does the psychic equivalent of shooting him full of anti-psychotics. Unlike other criminals she keeps him like this to help his alternate good personality continually win out during flare-ups.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_fd314ec1	comment	In Kamen Rider Decade, there's a world where everyone is super-polite, super-helpful, and perfectly happy. That's because half have been basically lobotomized into it by having Jashin 14's cells injected into their brains, and the other half is pretending because they're terrified of having it happen to them as well.
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Brainwashing for the Greater Good / int_fe1b5414	comment	Mob Psycho 100: Dimple takes advantage of the Psycho Helmet urban legend to build a Cult of Personality and brainwash the people of Seasoning City into becoming disturbingly peaceful and willing to follow his every order. Mob eventually convinces Dimple he's just getting carried away in his desire to be important and loved, and Dimple is forced to stop anyway because the supernatural giant broccoli he was inhabiting becomes a mighty hostile entity of its own.
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Wonder Woman (Comic Book) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Alternate TKO Series (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Arcanum (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Bloody Rose Series (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Fallout Equestria: Pink Eyes (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
For His Own Sake (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Hellsister Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Marionettes (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Ouroboros (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Prisoners of Fate (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Superwomen of Eva 2: The Magic Touch (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Boy Who Died A Lot (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Japanese Are Already Dead (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Rise of Darth Vulcan (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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You See Them (Fanfic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Ben-Hur (1925) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Doc Savage / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Equilibrium / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Up, Up and Away! / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Marvel Universe (Franchise) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
StarCraft (Franchise) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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A Clockwork Orange / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
A Practical Guide to Evil / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Bloodlines / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Darth Bane / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Doc Savage / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Helm	seeAlso	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
If This Goes On— / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
InCryptid / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Jacob's Ladder Trilogy / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Journey to the Dream Land / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Lord Darcy / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Luda / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Passenger to Frankfurt / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Project A75 / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Redemptor / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Star Carrier / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Asterisk War / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Tower and the Hive / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Villains by Necessity / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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TerraforMARS (Manga) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Replay Value Universe / Role Play / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Ink City (Roleplay) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Void of the Stars (Roleplay) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
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Misfits / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Painkiller Jane / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Police Woman / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Stargirl (2020) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Supergirl (2015) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Æon (Tabletop Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Blue Rose (Tabletop Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Infinite Worlds (Tabletop Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Age of Wonders: Planetfall (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Beholder 2 (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Beholder 3 (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Chernobylite (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Civilization: Beyond Earth (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Devil Survivor 2 (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Edna & Harvey: Harveyâ€™s New Eyes (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Flawed Crystals (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Immortals Fenyx Rising (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Nehrim (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Phantom Doctrine (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Plague Inc. (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Power Pro-kun Pocket 7 (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Psychonauts 2 (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Purgatory (RPG Maker) (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Reverse: 1999 (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Sigma Theory (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Space Quest (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Star Shift Series (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Super Robot Wars Z (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Supreme Commander (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Tales of Maj'Eyal (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Unavowed (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
X-Men: Destiny (Video Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
DRAMAtical Murder (Visual Novel) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Dingo Doodles (Web Animation) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
How To Be A Mind Reaver (Webcomic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ (Web Video) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Mr. Buddy (Web Video) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Fire Emblem Heroes: A Day in the Life (Webcomic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Perfection Engine (Webcomic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Spinnerette (Webcomic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace (Webcomic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Wake Up (Webcomic) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Vampire Reviews / Webvideo / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Captain Planet and the Planeteers / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Life's a Zoo / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Mega Man: Fully Charged / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Nutri Ventures: The Quest for the Seven Kingdoms / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Supa Strikas / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Dreamstone / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Transformers / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Lanfeust (Comic Book) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
The Dark Phoenix Saga (Comic Book) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Septimus Heap / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
XBlaze (Visual Novel) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good

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