Jedi Mind Trick: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.3
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (replaced dailymotion embed with youtube) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.3) |
||
| (9 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
Line 15:
* Momoko's power in ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'', Justified [[Personality Powers|by being a]] [[Shrinking Violet]].
== Fan Works ==
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[White Knight, Grey Queen]]'' by Jeconais, Harry figures out how to get this kind of effect by [[Compelling Voice|lacing his voice with magic while speaking in a lower register]], but considers it little more than a stunt and never actually uses it for anything. Hermione provides a ''[[Dune]]'' shout-out by explicitly comparing him to the Bene Gesserit (see ''Literature'', below).
== Film ==
Line 23 ⟶ 25:
** Also subverted in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' by Jabba the Hutt; explained in the [[Expanded Universe]] as Hutts, one and all (but particularly the successful ones like Jabba), having the opposite of a weak mind.
** In the [[Expanded Universe]], there are Hutts who are Jedi Knights. One wonders if they can affect other Hutts... or if they can't use that power at all.
*** In the ''Star Wars'' [[D20 System|d20 RPG]], Hutts are a playable race (''anything'' is); one of their racial abilities is a ''huge'' bonus to rolls to resist mind tricks. Toydarians, too.
** Twileks on the other hand get a penalty to their will, due to Jabba's twilek majordomo.
** In ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'', Obi-Wan uses this to get rid of a guy trying to sell him death-sticks. (According to Wookieepedia, the guy really ''did'' go home and genuinely rethink his life as he was told to, though after a while he fell back into his old ways.) During a conversation with Padme, Anakin again clarifies that the trick ''only'' works on the weak minded.
*** Although he might've just fudged the truth in order to flirt with the Senator.
**** To quote A New Hope: "The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded."
*** ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|The Clone Wars]]'' animated series confirms this though, as when interrogating the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane, he is easily able to brush off a single Jedi's attempt. It takes a second Jedi joining in for him to notice it, and a third for him to really start feeling the effects. In the end, he ''still'' manages to resist, though doing so nearly tore his mind apart.
*** In one case a Jedi padawan does this to a Trandoshan who resists it, then Chewbacca slugs him and it works.
** In ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'', Yoda uses it on Padmé's security chief, who takes on Yoda's speech patterns. Padmé sees through it, but agrees with Yoda's request anyway.
** In a ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'' comic, the imperial princess reveals herself when she tries to use such a mind trick on Cade Skywalker, a former Jedi. He pretends it works, and then leaves to go check who she is and how much the bounty the Sith placed on her is worth.
** On the ''Star Wars'' Weekends event at [[Disney Theme Parks|Hollywood Studios]], two Stormtroopers are located on top of the entry to the park. At one point, one of them uses the trick by saying ''"these are not the tourists you're looking for"''.
* The ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' have the Neuralizer for this purpose, with, strangely enough, [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|only three settings]]: days, months, and years.
** The Neuralizer used on Tee in the second movie had an "hours" setting.
Line 38 ⟶ 40:
** Although he could've just been attempting to intimidate them into keeping silent...
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ly-DoG8Wb0 In a scene cut from the original US version], but present in the international ones, [[Austin Powers]] hypnotizes a mook [[Hey, It's That Guy!|played by Christian Slater]]. First with "Everything seems to be in order!", then with "I am going to go across the street and get you some orange sherbert!" and "Here, have a piece of gum!". Turning this into a [[Brick Joke]], as Austin and Vanessa are escaping from the [[Collapsing Lair]], the mook returns with the sherbert.
* Morganian Sorcerer Maxim Horvath uses it on a clerk in ''[[The Sorcerer's
* In ''Un amour de sorcière'' (''Witch Way Love''), Morgane (Vanessa Paradis) tricks a shop owner this way to let her go with a free bill. Justified as her baby magically colored her banknotes, making them useless.
== Literature ==
* Used in ''Turning Point'' by [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180936/http://www.sff.net/people/
** Various forms of this trope appear through most of the sequels. The main characters ''are'' exceedingly strong telepaths, after all.
* The wizards of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' have [[Muggle]]-Repelling Charms on all the magic locations, and [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|Memory Charms]] for when that doesn't work.
* Similarly to the above example, Fang from the ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' books can make himself blend in so much that people have to focus really hard to notice him.
* Corran Horn, at a point where he's unaware of his Jedi heritage, succeeds with a nonverbal version of this in the ''[[X Wing Series]]'', making a searcher pass him by. After he learns of his Jedi heritage, he later tries it again more conventionally, and fails miserably.
{{quote|'''Stormtrooper:''' "Come with me so I can check you out."
'''Corran:''' "I don't need to go with you."
Line 59 ⟶ 60:
* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, this is the signature power of the Gray Men, who are people that [[Deal with the Devil|sold their souls to the Dark One]], they act as assassins for the Dark One. They look so "ordinary" that people find it hard to notice them.
* The heroes of M.K. Wren's ''Phoenix Legacy'' trilogy had developed the modulated-frequency stimulus or mod-stim device, which pulsed light and/or sound to induce "synergistic resonances with a subject's brain waves" resulting in a sort of high-tech hypnotism. It was very effective for, for instance, making guards forget they saw a Phoenix agent walk right past them into a secured facility.
* Frank Herbert's ''[[Dune]]'' uses a version of this called [[Compelling Voice|the Voice]], taught only to Bene Gesserits (and Paul Atreides). It was probably the main inspiration on the Mind Trick.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, Death has this power. Not only is he [[Somebody Else's Problem|unnoticeable]], he also can make people around him receptible to suggestion. Susan inherits all his abilities, and finds them very useful in her career as a schoolteacher.
** The witches in Discworld (some of them, anyway) can also make their presence either incredibly strong, intimidating or persuading people to go their way and ignore any uncomfortable inconsistencies in what they said, or almost
** Carrot Ironfoundersson also has the ability to talk or threaten almost anyone into doing almost anything. On a good day, he can even make Ankh-Morpork citizens ''want'' to be nice.
** Gaspode uses a variant of this at times. Everybody knows dogs can't talk, so people who hear "Give the nice dog some food" when there's no one near them but the dog tend to assume what they heard was their own thoughts ... so they give Gaspode some food.
* The fairy ''mesmer'' in ''[[Artemis Fowl]]''.
* In ''[[Night Watch|The Day Watch]]'', Vitaly uses a simple Other trick to get a bag full of American dollars past customs. The scene plays out very similarly to the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[The Action Hero's Handbook|The Action Heros Handbook]] claims that even normal people can pull off something very close to a Jedi Mind Trick with a combination of [[Refuge in Audacity]] and clever psychological manipulation.
* Sent up in [[The Dresden Files|
{{quote|I lifted my hand with my thumb and first two fingers extended, the others against my palm, and moved it in a vaguely mystical gesture from left to right. "That isn't Rawlins."
Greene blinked at me, and his eyes blurred in and out of focus. The distraction derailed the train of thought he'd been laboriously assembling. It wasn't magic. I've taken head shots before. It takes a while for your brain to start doing its job again, and the vaguest kinds of confusion makes things into one big blur. }}
** Actually entering someone else's mind to alter what they're perceiving is considered [[Black Magic]] in the ''Dresden'' setting, no matter what your reasoning. One can create veils, which simply hide objects or people from view, which is perfectly kosher, but actually altering what the individual's mind perceives is ''bad'' mojo.
* Some characters in ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' can manipulate the series's [[Weirdness Censor]] to make things appear differently to [[Muggle|mortals]].
** In ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'', some children of Aphrodite can "charmspeak", and it's hinted that children of Hermes have similar powers.
== Live Action TV ==
* Matt Parkman from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' is able to do this with his powers, [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|once they develop]] from simply [[Mind Probe|reading minds]].
{{quote|'''Matt''': *holds up a wallet* This is a Secret Service badge. You're going to let us through.
'''Random Guard''': Of course, go right ahead. }}
Line 86 ⟶ 87:
** Also done on Xander, where it was so effective he turned into [[The Renfield]] after a few seconds hypnotizing. In the continuation comics Dracula picks Xander up as a thrall again, though the two eventually become sort of friends.
** He also tells a Slayer to "save her questions until he's finished", in response to which she spends the next several panels while the others talk standing dazedly murmuring "I will save my questions until later...letting people shows respect...I have an inquisitive mind. But interrupting people is rude."
** But parodied a season later in "Flooded
{{quote|'''Andrew''': What are you, some kind of Jedi?
'''Warren''': The Force can sometimes have great power on the weak-minded. }}
** Also (magically) used by Willow on a cop in a season 7 episode in order to convince him that she and Giles are with Interpol.
** The "Dracula" episode is notable in that after her brief death at the hands of the Master in the season 1 finale, Buffy is normally immune to such hypnosis.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' lets Psi-Cop Bester allude to this in an episode where he and his team are chasing a runaway Telepath.
{{quote|'''Bester''': "...spark misleading hunches..." }}
* Booth from ''[[Bones]]'' quotes this trope word for word when describing how he thinks Sweets will fire Daisy.
{{quote|"Nah, Sweets is a lot tricker than that. He'll use some Jedi Mind Trick to make her think she fired herself."}}
* May have been used in older seasons of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', possibly more than once. The psychic paper has a very similar effect, even down to not working on the strong minded (ie. Shakespeare). In recent seasons, it seems to happen every other episode.
Line 100 ⟶ 101:
*** Prisoner Zero also uses a perception filter in "The Eleventh Hour". The Doctor refers to the space it covers as being the bit 'at the corner of your eye' that you don't want to look at - although it turns out you can if you try.
** The Silence. You lose memory of them as soon as you look away.
* ''[[Torchwood]]''{{'}}s [[Retcon]] drug
* A couple of times on ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', Spock escaped from a locked cell by hiding beside the door, and telepathically convincing the guard that he'd escaped. The guard rushed in to check, and the good guys jumped him.
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Lost]]'', when Jack helps Shannon through an asthma attack, Hurley calls it for what it is, "a Jedi moment."
Line 106 ⟶ 107:
** Sylar's gesture when cutting off people's skulls is similar to the hand gesture the Jedi use when using Jedi Mind Tricks.
* In ''[[Forever Knight]]'', the vampire [[Masquerade]] would be shot to pieces without this ability. Some people are naturally immune, but it doesn't seem to be due to strong-mindedness so much as a biological quirk.
* This is Joanna's power in ''[[Eastwick]]''.
* ''[[QI]]'' has a segment about Oscar the Hypodog, a dog who was allegedly able to hypnotize people. He supposed got loose in Edinburgh, and people were told to look for him but not to look in his eyes.
{{quote|'''Phil Jupitus''': Presumably, when he's running around Edinburgh, someone thought they'd found him, and they'd go, "Hah! It's Oscar the Hypnodog!" ''(waves hand)'' "I'm not the dog you're looking for. I'm a Pomeranian."}}
* In ''[[Chuck]]'': Jeff and Lester try to use this on Morgan and Casey when they track them down to offer them their jobs back, and it actually works on Morgan for a second.
* The Magoi from ''[[Sanctuary]]'' are abnormals that make up for their physical frailty with psychic powers. They can't directly control people, but they can alter their perception of reality to make them see what the Magoi want them to see.
* Played for laughs in a fake commercial on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
== Radio Dramas ==
* In what may be the [[Trope Maker]], [[The Shadow]]'s radio incarnation had the ability to influence the mind's thoughts and perceptions, and he used this sometimes to persuade other characters into doing what he wanted, much like the Jedi.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==▼
▲== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* There's a ''[[Star Trek]]''-related comedy bit in which Ben Kenobi beats out Mr. Spock and the HAL-9000 computer on ''Jeopardy!'', by invoking this trope on Alex Trebek.
* One of [[The Great Luke Ski]]'s dialogue pieces, "You Might Be A Trekkie", contains the following sequence:
Line 137 ⟶ 136:
'''Customer:''' These gift certificates will be fine.
'''Clerk:''' No, they ''won't''! What are you, waving your hands like you're Ronald McDonald, get out of here! }}
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' a background, Arcane, is made especially for that. It improves stealth, and makes people's memory of you blurry.
* ''[[Dungeons
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the Sidereals have a permanent version of this. Their Arcane Fate makes it easy for them to take on any identity, as long as it isn't a specific person. They are also generally forgotten swiftly, and magical creatures can have difficulty remembering the details of an encounter (often, they remember nothing more about the Sidereal than "some Sidereal" or "an agent of destiny"). Its mixed blessing, as, while it makes it easy to disguise themselves, and hard to track down, they also can't form powerbases in Creation, as non-supernatural entities will lose memory of them if they don't meet daily. And they can't turn it off.
* In ''[[GURPS]]'' the college of Mind Control spells includes a low-level "Daze" spell. A dazed guard will look and act normal, but will not notice anything going on around him until the spell wears off, even if an intruder walks right by.
* In the ''Star Wars'' [[D20 System|D20 RPG]], the Mind Trick force power has been expanded to allow you to create a momentary distraction, make an unreasonable suggestion seem reasonable, and cause the target to run away from you at top speed while screaming, among other things.
* The ''[[Shadowrun]]'' Adept power "[[Compelling Voice]]" allows the user to force someone to obey a simple command. Uses range from the sensible ("Drop the gun!") to the sadistic ([[Psychic-Assisted Suicide|"Shoot yourself!"]]) to the silly ([[Power Perversion Potential|*walking into a crowded shopping mall with a megaphone* "Everyone! Strip!"]]).
== Video Games ==
* The Stone Mask of ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* In ''[[Second Sight]]'', one of the powers the protagonist, John Vattic, unlocks is "Charm". This calms people down, allowing him to stop allies panicking (only useful in one mission, where he has to escort an ally from a [[Go Among Mad People|mental asylum]], or more usefully generate a [[Somebody Else's Problem]] field. This makes him essentially invisible (but guards still turn their heads to look at you, they just don't care). Obviously the effect doesn't work on machines, and if its used on someone who's attacking you then the feedback drains your [[Mana Meter|Psi bar]].
* The various ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Knight]]'' games naturally allow you to use the Mind Trick. Its effectiveness varies depending on how far along you are in the game from providing a brief distraction to one enemy to convincing an enemy that you're on his side and his actual allies are bad guys for several seconds. There is also a cheat that allows Kyle to use the Mind Trick to outright possess someone for some time.
Line 161 ⟶ 158:
** If you pick Jolee to get you out of prison on the Leviathan halfway through the game, he uses the Force to trick the guards into giving him a separate cell, leaving only one man to watch over him, and then tricks that one into letting him out and locking himself into the cell instead.
* In sequel to [[The Force Unleashed]], Starkiller has the ability to mind trick Mooks. This will cause him to either betray his allies, or, if all alone, will cause him to commit suicide by jumping into the nearest danger, and the results can be quite funny.
* Parodied in
{{quote|'''Stormtrooper:'''
(Urai Fen de-cloaks behind him).
'''Tyber Zann:'''
* The Placate power used by Stalkers in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' makes a hostile enemy turn docile just long enough for another [[Back Stab|Assassin's Strike]] (or to run). It even has the hand-wave animation.▼
▲* Parodied in ''[[Armed and Dangerous]]'' (published by [[Lucas Arts]]):
{{quote|'''Rexus:''' You don't need to see our papers.
'''Guards:''' ...We don't need to see your papers.
Line 173 ⟶ 169:
'''Rexus:''' Uh... uh... quick, what should I say to them? I'm running out of power!
'''Guards:''' Quick, what should he say to us? He's running out of power! }}
* Guybrush can attempt this in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' on the Cabaña Boy who is keeping him from getting into the Brimstone Beach Club. {{spoiler|[[
* It also gets subverted in the [http://youtube.com/o2Nyu5q7j1k ''Jedi Knight vs. Bounty Hunter'' video]{{Dead link}} for ''[[The Old Republic]]''. A Jedi Knight tries to use it on the bounty hunter to get him to drop his weapons and come quietly. It fails miserably and [[
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'': Doctor [[Doctor Strange|Stephen]] [[Doctor Fate|Fayte]] (who is supposedly a dead ringer for a famous superhero) may or may not be doing this to ''everyone'' -- during the mission in which you are dispatched to rescue him, everyone you meet describes him with exactly the same phrase: "a gifted surgeon, and nothing more." Sometimes a half-dozen times in a row.
▲** The Placate power used by Stalkers in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' makes a hostile enemy turn docile just long enough for another [[Back Stab|Assassin's Strike]] (or to run). It even has the hand-wave animation.
** Definitely the schtick of the villain Dollface from the Doctor Graves arc in the earliest part of ''City of Villains''. With the verbal equivalent of a magician's "force", she can even use it on ''the player character'' if you attempt to talk to her in her contact location on Mercy Island:
{{quote|Now you're going to walk off and leave me alone, 'kay? Thanks, bub-bye.}}
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', [
* Skillfully executed in ''[[Last Res0rt]]''. To recap: The Vaeo family is more than just a little pissed off at Daisy and Adharia over some [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]] and a Chekov's Gun, respectively, and Jigsaw figures out she's likely to lose in a fight over either of them, let alone both... at which point [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/08/everyone-loves-to-pluck-a-daisy/ she gives Nate a 'casual' reminder] to [[Ratings Stunt|check the ratings for tonight's episode]], after which everything is apparently forgiven.
* In the ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'', this is [http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/09/ethereal-girl/ indirectly parodied]. Penumbra is asked to do her "Star Wars trick" setting up an expectation for this trope, and, well...
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0767.html Haley uses a +30 Bluff potion] and her already impressive bluff stats to take the Jedi Mind Trick [[Up to Eleven]], even convincing a guard he's not actually human.
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' has this - as an [http://yafgc.net/?id=392 Old Illithid Mind Trick].
* Parodied in the Punyverse arc of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' where the Darth Vader expy Lord Grater ''thinks'' that he has force powers.
Line 191 ⟶ 190:
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' put a few spins on this, including [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2271.html inversion of the original scene].
* In ''[[Magick Chicks]]'' when [[Eerie Cuties|Layla]] looking for prey (for blood drinking) ran into Faith looking for prey (for seduction) and things gone bad, she attempted to convince the opposition to "forgive and forget". Unfortunately for her, without drinking the target's blood she won't even try anything more than reinforcing a reasonably sounding suggestion, while Faith is not only strong enough to be exclusively on the other end of mind tricks, but after being surprised (and therefore demonstrated she's not in control of the situation) she doesn't consider disengagement reasonable, either - so a failed attempt only boosted her confidence.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Parodied]] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
{{quote|'''Mai''': You don't need to see their identification.
'''Kemo''': I don't need to see their identification.
'''Mai''': These aren't the breasts you're looking for.
'''Kemo''': These aren't the breasts I'm looking for. }}
* One of the powers of Vanessa Jackson, codename Vox, in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. Also used by supervillainess Obsession in "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl" to lead several SWAT teams to their death.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
Line 209 ⟶ 206:
* Oberon in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' directly copies Obi-Wan to gain entrance to Xanatos Tower.
** Unlike the Obi-Wan example, the victim translates the order into his own words.
* An episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has the Titans chasing a villain with a magic remote through a bunch of (parodies of) TV shows and movies. When they come to the ''[[Star Wars]]''
** That's because he tried it on [[Fridge Brilliance|droids]].
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Justice League: Crisis
{{quote|'''Supervillainess''': "You don't want to fight me, you want to help me."
'''[[The Flash]]''': "{{smallcaps|I don't want to fight you, I want to}}-- wait a minute, this is like the Jedi Mind Trick!"
Line 217 ⟶ 214:
'''[[The Flash]]''': "{{smallcaps|This is not like the Jedi Mind Trick.}}" }}
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' parodies this while using the [[Reality Warper|Reality Gauntlet]] to erase all memories of [[The Unmasqued World]]:
{{quote|'''Danny Phantom:''' From now on, you're going to leave [[Secret Identity|Danny Fenton]] and his family alone.
'''Guys In White:''' Why?
'''Danny:''' Because... he's not the ghost you're looking for.
'''Guys In White:''' {{smallcaps|He's not the ghost we're looking for...}} }}
* Hilariously parodied in ''[[Robot Chicken]]''.
{{quote|'''President's Advisor:''' "Hello Mr. President, people are still wondering if we found weapons of mass destruction."
'''Bush''': (''while doing the hand motion'') "You have found weapons of mass destruction."
Line 234 ⟶ 231:
'''Laura''': "I'm not tired. I want to have a threesome."
'''Bush''': (''Into a phone'') "Get me Condi." }}
== Real Life ==
* Two men at a train station in Britain actually got a free ride by telling the
* The power of suggestion is surprisingly keen. If two flavors of candy are offered but one is subtly emphasized, possibly by being pointed to or vocally named, many people will choose it for no other reason.
* See that security guard there? [[Never Heard That One Before|No one's ever tried that "you don't need to see my credentials" trick on him.]]
Line 243 ⟶ 239:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Jedi Mind Trick]]▼
[[Category:Mind Manipulation Tropes]]
| |||