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Brown Note
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A Brown Note is a sensory input that is inherently harmful. Exactly how it works is left up to the imagination of the writer. In older works, especially the classic myths that codified the trope, this was almost always supernatural, typically a curse or strange spell. More modern or "grounded" works will try to pass it off as psychological. Named for the urban legend about an audio tone that, when played, causes the listener to lose control of their bowels and spontaneously defecate. Usually, we don't get to see or hear it ourselves, for obvious reasons. See also Black Speech for inherently evil languages, which may overlap with this for people who aren't evil enough, and Trigger Phrase for brown notes created through psychological conditioning. A Brown Note Being is an entity that causes this by something of its very nature, and is a common trait of Eldritch Abominations, due to how mind-breakingly alien they are. The nastiest forms of this also force their victims to propagate them, overlapping with Mind Virus. Not to be confused with the real-life "Brown noise," which is completely harmless and sounds a bit like a poorly maintained air conditioner. Compare Suckiness Is Painful, for when the "Note" is an awful work of art, and Sonic Stunner for sounds that cause physical harm due to their extreme volume. |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Ghidorah's decapitated head retains a psychic influence on humans among Alan Jonah's organization even after San's mind has Brain Uploaded out of it. Gradually, it induces Sanity Slippages in the affected, and those who don't experience More than Mind Control are Driven to Suicide. | |
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π is about a number sequence that helps define the universe. However, the process of determining this number is fatally destructive to a computer, be it machine or human. | |
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In Deathgasm, the protagonist stumbles upon some sheet music that when played, turns anyone within earshot into demons. | |
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In YouTube Poop, an Off-Model picture of Luigi, nicknamed "Weegee", has gradually developed this power. Anyone who looks at him for too long will become him. It's been used as a metaphor for how memes spread. | |
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Kick-Ass 2 has the Sick Stick, a stun baton of sorts that induces instantaneous nausea and diarrhea on it's victims. Hit-Girl uses it on the Alpha Bitch and her Girl Posse for humiliating her. | |
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In Flight has Jinki act like this for Shirou, as they completely confound his Structural Grasp. | |
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The Night Unfurls: In Chapter 16 of the original, right before Shamumaza reveals himself in the courtyard, a Black Speech is present that gives Sanakan, Hugh, and Lily visible anxiety and discomfort. Kyril advises Sanakan and Hugh not to look too hard at the Alien Geometries of the Malys Estate, noting how lesser men and women would be driven mad by the place. Anyone who catches a glimpse of what's behind Kyril's mortal mask gets mind-raped to a Fate Worse than Death. He even says to his first two apprentices that this would do "very bad things" to their heads. The insect beast who was once Shamuhaza learns this in the worst way possible. |
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In Mystery Men, Casanova Frankenstein built a machine that could warp reality itself. Apparently the equations underlying it were so complex that anybody who studied them would go insane. Fortunately for Frankenstein, he was already insane and had spent a decade in the asylum with several of those scientists. | |
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With This Ring: When Paul makes an alliance of convenience with Hell to protect him from an attack by angels gone rogue, he discovers that the imprisoned angel Gabriel has been tortured and twisted into a weapon against holy power. | |
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In High Anxiety, Dr. Wentworth gets trapped in his car and killed from an ear hemorrhage caused by the loud rock music blaring from the car radio. | |
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In the Thai horror film Coming Soon, watching the scene of the film within a film "Evil Spirit" where the Big Bad Shomba is hung to death after being discovered kidnapping children will cause whoever watches it to die. | |
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This Bites!: Soundbite learns to produce a sound that causes extreme nausea and disorientation in everyone who hears it, enabling Cross to take them down easier. He and Cross christen it "Gastro-Phony" (going off of cacophony) in Chapter 25. When DJ Gappa of Baron Omatsuri's crew, possessed by Lily, broadcasts on the SBS to invite them to come to their island, the sheer fakeness being broadcasted sends chills up everyone's spine. To say nothing of what happens when anyone tries calling Soundbite while on the island. All they get is a completely unholy sound, with a hint of something underneath. What? My fun. My toys. My food. Go away! |
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In the world of The Demented Cartoon Movie, saying the word "Blah" sometimes causes your head to pop off of your neck, although the exact rules regarding this are inconsistent. Saying or producing a recording of the word "Zeekyboogydoog" causes a nuclear explosion at the location the sound originated from. Saying the word "Gleegsnagzip" causes the entire planet to explode. And saying "Kamikaze Watermelon" cues a visit from Fooby, the Kamikaze Watermelon. "(Fanfare plays) Wheeee! (splat)" |
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The Stars Will Aid Their Escape: During the attack on Canterlot, Herald has Trixie conjure the Red Sigil, which causes intense pain if you just glimpse it, and insanity if viewed directly. If Herald removes his mask and shows his true face, the viewer's mind is filled with knowledge of the Outer Gods, which drives them insane. This is what he does to Twilight Sparkle. |
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In Deliver Us from Evil, the (apparent) head villain repeatedly leaves graffiti in the form of Latin/Persian incantations written in strange places. It turns out that simply reading these incantations, not necessarily even out loud, allows the reader to be possessed by a demon. | |
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In Iron Man, one of the weapons Stark Industries has developed is an auditory paralysis device. It causes anyone who hears the noise to be temporarily paralyzed unless they are wearing special electronic earplugs to counter the noise. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail has the Knights who say Ni!. Like their name makes clear, they utter the word "Ni!" in a very screechy high pitched voice to hurt passing travelers and scare them into doing their bidding. "Ni!" works whether it's the Knights saying it or someone else, as when King Arthur is harassing that old woman to find a shrubbery. It's later revealed the word "it" serves as a Brown Note against the Knights themselves. | |
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Ringo's mindsight turns out to function this way in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. Any genuine telepath (John is not one) who taps into Ringo while he's using mindsight will instantly become addicted to it, and unless he's heavily shielded, he'll also get the mental equivalent of a bad sunburn. And don't think the mindsight isn't having a comparable addictive effect on Ringo—hence his extreme Blessed with Suck. | |
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Bird Box: The mere sight of the creatures causes this. It drives most people to suicide. With those who were already mentally unhinged, they became obsessed with it, and force others to look. | |
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The James Bond film Live and Let Die opens with the assassination of the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United Nations, carried out through sound piped through his translation earpiece. | |
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The Sick Sticks in Minority Report cause the victim to projectile vomit. | |
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In Mars Attacks!, it is discovered that the Martians' main weakness is the singing voice of Slim Whitman; a recording of "Indian Love Call" causes their heads to explode. Seriously. | |
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It's Always The Quiet Ones: Merely being exposed to the eldritch dimension housing the Wrackspurts and Deep Ones for a few minutes is enough to traumatize everyone in Hogwarts' Great Hall. Numerous patients end up checking into St. Mungo's, developing incurable phobias of tentacles and fishy smells. | |
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In The Shape of the Nightmare to Come, saying the full name of "the Nexus of ever fated rising madness hope of all turned black doom to all the belligerents and their gods all hail doom nightmares" causes severe nausea and vomiting, and wreaks havoc on recording equipment. | |
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In Spirit Hunter: NG, the Screaming Author's screaming is so harsh and piercing that even just hearing it a little can induce unconsciousness, and prolonged exposure leads to insanity and death. | |
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Kakos Industries: Episode 6, "Echoes", has Corin tell the story of the Echo Tree Forest, which is now off-limits after a man stubbed his toe and went insane from the Echo Trees repeating his own scream back at him. When the company sends their body-collectors-who-happen-to-be-deaf, they complete their job but, despite being unable to hear the screaming, also complained about a cold vibration inside of their bones. Any exposure to the contraption is capable of driving people into obsessive fits simply by its ambiguity. It somehow inspires two scientists to try and kill one another, the one that lost having their blood poured into the device only to get the same baffling results as before. Corin in particular spends over a month set on learning what secret it's holding and points out how terrifying he finds it. |
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In Disturbing Behavior, the E-Rat-icator device used by Mr. Newburry is designed to have this effect on rats to drive them away, but it doesn't work so well. It is, however, damn effective against mind-control chips. | |
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Videodrome is about a TV signal that causes brain tumors and hallucinations. The discoverers of the signal attach it to a violent Snuff Film show in order to clean up society by killing everyone who watches violent television. | |
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Re: My Hostage, Not Yours: The living computer core of the Valkians' ship is so obscenely bizarre in appearance that, combined with the concussion she's suffering from, Gaz gets sick just looking at it. | |
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In the Pony POV Series, there's Havoc, Anthropomorphic Personification of Mass Hysteria. Looking at his true form will terrify ponies so badly they'll likely never sleep again. His voice will reduce them to horrified wrecks. | |
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In Shocking Dark, the deranged, partially mutated Tubular Corporation scientist Drake lets out an ear-piercing scream that knocks out the Megaforce personnel long enough to snatch one of them and run away with him. | |
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Equestrylvania: Just looking at Death's face Mind Rapes the viewer, causing them to relive every terrible memory they have. | |
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Banshee Chapter features something mysterious that affects people in various nasty ways. When this something comes somewhere close to its victims they either begin to bleed or go mad from terror or move out of sight and disappear. | |
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In Pokemon Black & White: Tale of a Legend, Volan, Thrin, and their dragons are filled with intense pain and anger when they hear Kyurem's cry. | |
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In Raiders of the Lost Ark, whatever's inside The Ark of the Covenant will melt your face off if you look at it when the cover comes off. | |
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Besides the Will of Evil: The screams of the fell beasts cause anyone who hears them to be overwhelmed by visceral terror. | |
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The Signal (2007) features an audio/video signal that has a psychological effect on anyone who hears/sees it, causing people to go insane, or become obsessed with the signal, and trying to make others experience the signal. | |
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Aurora Falls: Apparently, the TRIDENT array can be set to the resonant frequency of the gastrointestinal system. Exactly what that does isn't directly elaborated upon, but it was evidently enough to push Tomar over the edge. | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, Wolfgant Amadeus Mozart is summoned as a Caster with Magic Music powers. In his interlude quests, Mozart creates deliberately bad tunes with Brown Note effects to prank people with, such as "a fugue to inspire sudden bowel movements". His Evil Counterpart Antonio Salieri's Noble Phantasm is to concentrate his hatred into a symphony that assaults both mind and body. | |
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Seeing the full glory of God is harmful for mortals; none can see God's face and live. Moses asked to see God's face, and after explaining the aforementioned, God placed him in a crevice and passed over while showing His back to Moses. That was enough to make Moses' face shine when he went down. Saul saw God's light while on his way, and closing his eyes during the encounter still rendered him blind. On the other hand, the Beatitudes mentioned how the pure of heart are blessed, for they will see God. David's harp playing drove out evil spirits, particularly from Saul |
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Children of an Elder God: In episode 9, "The King In Yellow" play makes an appearance. When it's performed, a lot of people goes mad and dies, and Hastur shows up at the end. However, it's defeated and destroyed. | |
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Robb Returns: The entity behind the Hightower Gate emits an aura of fear to everyone in its proximity, and the effect is stronger the closer you get. At a certain distance (marked on the floor), the aura causes people to lose control of their bowels. Get closer, and you'll collapse from fear. And if you get too close, you die of sheer terror, then the entity possesses your corpse and tries to break out from behind the gate. However, wielding Otherbane renders you immune to the aura. | |
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In Dick Figures Red finds an adorable kitten he dubs "Kitty Amazing" (because that's what he is). The kitten is so adorable it melts the hearts of all who look at it... Blue recently had eye surgery so he is spared, but no explanation is given for why Red is immune. | |
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In For the Glory of Irk, the Parasite known as Q usually speaks in a telepathic simulation of human voices. When he speaks in his own language, it's enough to cause Dib pain and nearly overwhelm him. | |
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In Fate/EXTRA, Elisabeth Bathory's singing is physically painful to hear, and her cooking can induce near-death experiences. In the former case, she's a Giftedly Bad pop idol wannabe with no sense of volume and a breath weapon in her voice. In the latter case, she's just that bad at cooking. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: There's a conversation that goes about like this: | |
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R.I.P.D.: A dead-o weapon releases a sound that's harmless to their own kind but cause RIPD officers to move at a snail's pace. | |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The concussion from the tank's main gun firing in the opening sequence puts the pursuing constables on the ground, groaning and helpless. Justified considering that they just had several artillery shells powerful enough to blow the vault door off its hinges go off in a confined space; the bigger surprise is that the overpressure didn't outright kill them and that the Fantom and his men can still hear each other (apparently, the tank cabin has very good sound insulation). | |
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The Triptych Continuum ascribes this to her cutie mark, stating that ponies looking at it are quite disturbed, with Twilight nearly experiencing it as a breaking event. The mark is animated, and up until she came along, no mark had ever moved: the disruption of that level of constant doesn't go over well. Notably, however, some individuals aren't affected and claim it's beautiful, while Spike seems to be aware that something is off, but isn't sure what. | |
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In Zits, Pierce's drum solos have been known to cause spontaneous nosebleeds. | |
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Fate/stay night has Ea acting as this for Shirou. On seeing it he instinctively attempts to use Structural Grasp on it, but due to its divine origins and composition his mind overloads and he temporarily loses all senses. However, Shirou can apply Structural Grasp to plenty of other objects that were "merely" made by gods; Ea, however, was forged from the unlivable hell that was the earliest days of the earth and predates the very concept of "Sword" — it can only be called a sword because the world has no term for what Ea is other than "Ea". And in a setting where age=power... In Fate/EXTRA, Elisabeth Bathory's singing is physically painful to hear, and her cooking can induce near-death experiences. In the former case, she's a Giftedly Bad pop idol wannabe with no sense of volume and a breath weapon in her voice. In the latter case, she's just that bad at cooking. In Fate/Grand Order, Wolfgant Amadeus Mozart is summoned as a Caster with Magic Music powers. In his interlude quests, Mozart creates deliberately bad tunes with Brown Note effects to prank people with, such as "a fugue to inspire sudden bowel movements". His Evil Counterpart Antonio Salieri's Noble Phantasm is to concentrate his hatred into a symphony that assaults both mind and body. |
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According to the Metatron in Dogma: At the end of the film, God kills a now-mortal Bartleby by speaking a single word. His head blows up. The viewer hears only a deep, loud thrumming noise. |
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In the Danny Phantom fanfic Stolen Years of the Facing the Future Series, Jack invented a device that emitted a painful sound that only ghosts could hear. He got the effect backwards. It is later used to disable the Guys in White, to rescue Danielle. | |
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The titular Saya in Saya no Uta has this effect on most people who see her. Fuminori, who perceives her as a Girl in White because of his extreme (and possibly supernaturally influenced) agnosia is the only exception. | |
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Apparently, an age-regressed Reimu and trying to understand her (or rather understand her personality and antics) is this for some, as Ran noted that trying to do so would cause mental distress, making the effect rather psychological. The fact that Reimu, by this point, is a youkai doesn't help matters either. | |
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In Child of the Storm, Sean Cassidy's powers are upgraded from simply 'screaming at people' and 'improbably flying', to a number of other sound related applications. One of these is being able to hit the resonant frequency of various kinds of woods, the point at which they shatter. Wand woods, to be specific. If that didn't make him dangerous enough, chapter 70 reveals that he can also hit the resonant frequency of bone. He's also figured out how to use his powers to create a Compelling Voice, which he used to avenge the death of his wife: All we know about how that went down is that even Nick Fury can never unsee the mess he made. | |
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A mod for Doom II replaces the chainsaw with a radio that, when played, rickrolls enemies. The enemies' sprites have even been altered so that they cover their ears. | |
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The film Pontypool is about a memetic virus that is spread through human speech, leading to confusion and murder. | |
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In Amazing Fantasy, Phil has the ability to produce a "Lunatic Laugh", an Evil Laugh that instantly paralyzes others with fear. Phil uses this to completely disarm Daniel, giving him the opportunity to free himself and stab him with his own sword. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Spaceship," Rhino blows on a dog whistle that proves intensely painful to both Bolt's ears and those of the dog-like aliens who try to abduct the hamster. | |
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In Kingsman: The Secret Service, the villain develops a signal (transmittable by cell phone) which causes anyone nearby to become violently homicidal. The first live test is done in a crowded church, while a highly competent secret agent happens to be present. The resulting four minutes of deadly free-for-all is epic. | |
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In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, the eponymous tomatoes are pacified by a song called "Puberty Love". The last tomato, wearing earmuffs, was defeated by showing it a copy of the sheet music. | |
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Dune (1984) shows Atreides advanced weaponry that is sonic in nature, using ultra and/or infrasound to shatter structures, inflict pain in enemy soldiers, etc. When Paul becomes The Chosen One he acquires the ability to imitate the effects of this sonic weaponry with just his voice | |
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Homestar Runner: According to the cartoon "Fall Float Parade", Strong Sad goes into an unexplained trance whenever he hears the phrase "covered bridges". At least until Strong Bad starts hitting him with nunchucks. There's also the creepy painting Strong Mad keeps in his closet, which depicts a gargoyle-like creature named Rocoulm who says "Come on in here!" and causes anyone who sees the painting to get "the jibblies." And apparently, a drawing of a one-legged puppy nicknamed "Li'l Brudder" can make Homestar break down in tears. |
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In The Lords of Salem, the song on the strange record has this effect on Heidi. | |
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In Fallout: Equestria, contact with the Pink Cloud transforms anything capable of emitting sound (radios, loudspeakers, etc.) into 'corrupted broadcasters' that emit literal ear-piercing noises. Prolonged exposure to their signal can cause heads to explode. | |
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In Shredder Orpheus, watching Hades' broadcasts first brainwashes people, then sucks the souls out of their bodies. The programming is accompanied by a sustained droning sound to accentuate its effects. | |
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In the Garry's Mod: In the video "Scout's Amazing Adventures (Part 3/6)," Heavy starts playing "Friday", which is so awful that it sends Soldier into a series of contortions until he eventually explodes. Downloadable GMod weapon "Erectin' a Boom" is a radio that ignites anyone who hears it, and then their head explodes shortly after. |
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In The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle movie, the villains use a television program that causes the viewers to become zombies and attempt to broadcast it across the United States so Fearless Leader can become president. | |
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Constantine (2005): When John is trying to exorcise a demon from a little girl, he tells the men helping him not to look. One of them does and his hair instantly turns white. | |
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