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Anime Where the Main Character Gets Brainwashed

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  • Friction match in Angel Cop . Already a powerful psychic she'd actually volunteered to exist experimented on and turned into a psychic super soldier considering she believed she was helping mankind. Sadly, she'south brainwashed to the betoken that she believes viciously murdering innocent people and her old allies who woke upward from the brainwashing is all for humanity'south sake.
  • In Ao no Fuuin , Soko gets brainwashed by Takao to make her more than willing in resurrecting the Oni tribe and it causes her to attack Akira when he tries to rescue her.
  • The eponymous drug in Assistant Fish is used to educate people into doing things they would usually never do, including committing suicide or attacking their friends.
  • In Battle Spirits Dauntless : Duc is turned into The Prison Full general by Zazie and Geraid, becoming outright sadistically murderous.
  • Bleach :
    • In a filler arc, the zanpakuto of virtually or all of the soul reapers in Soul Lodge are turned against their masters by a rogue zanpakuto named Muramasa.
    • This happens to Rukia in the 3rd movie thanks to Shizuku and Homura.
    • And this is as well the modus operandi of one Shukuro Tsukishima, who does this via using his memory-altering powers to convince his victim that he'southward their dearest person ever.
    • Afterwards, the Vandereich either educate Jidanbou and the Mission Control squad members into killing each other so they can't relay information anymore, or apply them as People Puppets so they offset killing each other.
  • In Danganronpa 3: The End of Promise's Peak High Schoolhouse , it'due south revealed that the cause of The Cease of the Earth equally We Know It was a snuff film with subliminal messaging that brainwashed anyone who saw it into doing Junko'due south bidding. Mikan and Chisa note who was lobotomized when she tried to resist were among her starting time victims, and they stop upwards helping her murder Chiaki in gild to infect the rest of the form, which led to the events of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair .
  • In Digimon Frontier , Kouichi is brainwashed by the Big Bad into assertive that he is a Digimon and into forgetting almost his man life. Later on, Kouichi remembers that he'due south human being, and Cherubimon has to start manipulating his emotions and memories .
    • In Digimon Fusion , Kiriha is brainwashed for a while. Too, anyone hit by EBEmon'southward assail becomes brainwashed.
  • Dragon Brawl Z :
    • In the Majin Buu arc, it is Vegeta who is brainwashed and made to fight against his erstwhile allies. The brainwashing too gives him a major power heave. In fact, that's why Vegeta decided to permit Babidi have control of him: so that he could be on fifty-fifty ground with Goku at long last. He eventually manages to suspension costless of the listen control, just the trope is subverted before then, as Vegeta reveals that he could break free at any fourth dimension.
    • In the Garlic Jr. filler, the blackness h2o mist does this to all the supporting characters, turning them evil. Piccolo and afterward Krillin faux being infected, in society to free the currently captured and bottled-up Kami and Mr. Popo.
    • In the 2nd movie, Piccolo is captured by Dr. Wheelo and Dr. Kochin and forced to fight Goku.
  • Information technology is played in Dragon Ball GT when Babe controls near all the Earth population. The only ones that weren't controlled were Goku, Pan, Mr. Satan, Majin Buu and Uub.
  • Lelouch from Code Geass has the power to give commands that cannot be resisted, meaning that he can practice this at will. Unfortunately, he'due south not e'er able to command information technology, equally evidenced when he accidentally Geassed Princess Euphemia into killing the Japanese, leading to the Euphinator incident.
    • Information technology as well happens to him, twice, thanks to his father who possesses a Geass that lets him manipulate memories. The first time he tried turning him into a armed services strategist for Britannia. 2nd time he just made him an ordinary high school pupil to bait a trap for C.C. Both times information technology fails ultimately.
  • Jellal, a massive expy from Fairy Tail , is made out in flashbacks of when he was a kid to exist perfect hero material. He has a strong sense for justice, he risks everything for his friends, and he doesn't bow down to the enemies. At the time the story begins, though, he'due south trying to revive the Fairy Tail world equivalent of Voldemort using forbidden resurrection magic by sacrificing his childhood friend. Iii guesses why.
    • Juvia Lockser also became a victim of this trope when, while fighting against Vidaldus Taka, she was almost completely transformed by the magic of the enemy into a sadistic version more than self-confident of herself (and whose rocker clothing was a reflection of that of her manipulator ).
  • Played for laughs in Full Metallic Panic! , where Sousuke puts his high school rugby squad through Grooming from Hell (fit for navy seals), which results in them becoming brainwashed and crazy killers that completely annihilate the other squad. Their optics are even shown glowing reddish .
  • Fushigi Yuugi is addicted of this device.
  • In GaoGaiGar FINAL, Guy is captured and chemically brainwashed into a berserk destroyer by the villains, placed in a copy of his Humongous Mecha GaoFighGar, and sicced on Sixth Ranger J along with similarly reprogrammed copies of the remainder of the robot team. Correct as Repli-GaoFighGar is about to Drop the Hammer on Male monarch J-Der, the Repli-Nakama resist the reprogramming and sacrifice themselves to end Guy and give the remaining heroes a chance to go him back.
    • In the original series, all four of the motorcar kings are all field of study to this trope, with all eventually getting redeemed some time into the evidence, with Primada and Polonaise suffering Redemption Equals Decease sort of, while Pizza and Penchinon both get restored to their original forms, Soldato J and the main figurer of the J-Ark, respectively.
  • In Guardian Fairy Michel , this happens to any fairy forcibly transformed into a monster.
  • This was the modus operandi of Goldie Musou in multiple arcs of the Gunsmith Cats manga. It's explained fairly well by her use of the drug Kerasine and her skills in hypnotism to convince her tools that their targets (ranging from complete strangers to beloved family unit) are possessed by demons, shapeshifting aliens bent on conquest, and the like. Indeed, the murders oftentimes cement her concur, by making a return to reality too painful for the subconscious to permit.
  • In Hekikai No Aion , the mushis infect a man host. The victims look normal but them become this when they have a look at Seine's confront.
  • In Infinity Game , the previous DM caused all the NPCs to go completely insane and kill everybody, though they were somewhat aware of what was happening as Trishia's sisters beg her to kill them or else they'll kill her first.
  • Inuyasha :
    • Big Bad Naraku uses this on Action Girl Badass Normal Sango's brother Kohaku near every fourth dimension he appears on the show.
    • This happens to poor Inuyasha an awful lot, given how many times he gets forced into his homicidal total demon form by diverse villains.
    • Happened to Kagome once, when Tsubaki the evil Miko contaminated the Shikon no Tama shards with her own dark energy. She then tries to brand Kagome attack Inuyasha with her own arrows, despite Kagome's own struggles to not harm him.
    • Happens to Sango in episode 131. She gets possessed by a demon egg, resulting in an ballsy boxing where Miroku fights to free her from demon control.
  • In Kill la Kill , Ragyo's Mental Refitting forces special Life Fibres called Marionette Threads into her victim's brain, turning them into mindless drones that do her bidding without question. In Episode 18, we first see this used to enslave the entire i-Star student torso of Honnouji Academy. Fabricated even worse when she used it on Ryuuko. She managed to fight information technology off, though, and physically pull the Marionette Threads out of her own brain with her bare hands!
    • This also happens when somebody is "worn by their dress", and the Life Fibres in their garments forcibly curve the wearer's will to their own. This happens to Ryuuko when she'southward forced to don Junketsu in Episode xx, with the same Mental Refitting.
  • In the Alternate Universe manga The King of Fighters: G, several people are in this state at one moment or another. When Goenitz arrives to the One thousand Finale and starts wreaking havoc, almost at the same time Kim Kaphwan and Robert Garcia are briefly brainwashed just bring themselves out on their own (Kim beats Chang and Choi merely is released immediately afterwards; Robert attacks Ryo, only reacts when the other doesn't fifty-fifty flinch at the sight); similarly, the maddened Mr. Big is hands defeated by Wolfgang Krauser.
    • In that location are likewise several cases of More than Than Mind Command; specifically Benimaru, Mai and Leona. In the start two cases, their inner struggles are greatly amplified past Goenitz'southward powers and they're sent into temporal Unstoppable Rages ; in the third, Goenitz himself awakens Leona'due south Orochi claret.
  • In the Kirby anime, Knuckle Joe's father, a renowned Star Warrior, is kidnapped and brainwashed by eNeMeE himself. He is sent to set on his former allies, and his best friend Meta Knight is forced to kill him. In another episode, Kirby himself gets possessed by the Demon Frog, though luckily he can exist easily snapped out of it thank you to his pure and innocent nature.
  • Kishin Douji Zenki :
  • In the The Legend of Zelda manga adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Fourth dimension , Link befriends a infant dragon. Seven years later, Ganondorf brainwashes the dragon, and Link is forced to kill him. It's not just any baby dragon. It'due south Volvagia.
  • In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS , Ginga is brainwashed past the villains, and is then sent to kill her younger sister Subaru. In typical Nanoha fashion, she is afterward cured of this by the awarding of a Wave-Motion Gun at betoken-blank range.
    • In the manga, she's possessed past i of the spores from Shiho's CHILD, and attacks the heroes as they attempt to rescue Mashiro from kidnappers.
  • Mashin Hero Wataru Series : Almost all floor bosses and their subordinates are normal residents of Soukaizan and Seikaizan whom the Large Bad turned into their minions. Upon immigration a floor level, those affect are turned back to normal.
  • Information technology happened several times in the Mazinger trilogy:
    • Mazinger Z : The Hero Kouji Kabuto was brainwashed past Viscount Pygman, and afterwards by the Vegans in the UFO Robo Grendizer Go Nagai manga, the UFO Robo Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger movie and Super Robot Wars MX in Chapter 10 . Professors Morimori, Sewashi and Nossori also were brainwashed by Baron Ashura into one of the earlier episodes of the original anime series. AND in another episode three workers of the Constitute were brainwashed into piloting several Mechanical Beasts.
    • Bang-up Mazinger : Dominate was brainwashed by Warrior Monster Psychoveia in one of the first episodes to kill The Hero Tetsuya. Tetsuya himself also was brainwashed by Vegans along Kouji in the UFO Robo Grendizer manga.
    • UFO Robo Grendizer : Brunhild, Duke's best friend back in Fleed was brainwashed by the Vegans into murdering Duke. Besides, Kouji and Tetsuya were brainwashed to destroy Grendizer with their own Humongous Mecha.
  • DG Cells have this outcome in Mobile Fighter G Gundam . Once the metal plague gets into the victim'southward brain, they become subject area to the Dark/Devil Gundam'southward will. It's also known equally the Devil Gundam'south ability to self-multiply.
  • Neo Roanoke in Mobile Conform Gundam SEED Destiny is yet another instance, as he's truly Mu La Flaga from Mobile Arrange Gundam SEED , afterwards having miraculously survived the utter annihilation of his mobile suit... in space. Go figure.
    • Stella, who is really simply emotionally fragile and naive, simply is brainwashed into freezing upwards or panicking whenever someone mentions death, and to calm down and admittedly trust anyone who vows to protect her. After being programmed and deprogrammed so many times by Phantom Hurting, so Shinn, so Phantom Pain again, her chief response at present is to go crazy and panic over anything she even loosely relates to expiry. Which is bad if she'southward at the controls of a truly giant mecha with about fifty-bazillion Wave Motion Guns and no-i can talk her downwardly.
  • In Gundam Build Fighters , Tatsuya Yuuki is hooked up to an enhanced version of the Embody Arrangement against his will as the PPSE Chairman is adamant to eliminate Sei and Reiji before they end up revealing the truth near how Gunpla Battling is possible. It's notable in that this is the simply time Tatsuya loses in this and its sequel.
  • In Monster , Gillen hypnotizes Nina in order to depict out her childhood memories. She refuses to tell him annihilation, and attempts to strangle him for proficient measure.
  • In both versions of My-HiME , this happens to Mikoto Minagi, where it takes a Cooldown Hug from Mai to undo the brainwashing.
    • In the anime, Mikoto is controlled by a pendant similar to the one worn by her older blood brother Reito, who himself is possessed by the Obsidian Lord .
    • In the manga, Mikoto briefly gets possessed by listen-controlling spores from Shiho's Kid. Shiho herself is under the thrall of a gear up of power-amplifying earrings provided past the Arc Villain who kidnapped her.
  • This is what happens to four of the chief characters Gainer, Cynthia, Gauli and Sara in Overman Male monarch Gainer forcing the last main grapheme, and the supporting cast to fight the Overdevil and them at the same time.
  • Photon is trapped in a transparent cell with Keyne, who has been turned psychotic by the Evil Overlord. It's a lopsided cage match, since Photon has a Wouldn't Hitting a Girl ethic. The Emperor does this purely For the Evulz. Keyne gain to pummel poor Photon bloody.
  • Pokémon Adventures :
    • Happens to Annabel during the Emerald arc.
    • This happened to Bluish during the RGB arc.
    • This was revealed to exist the reason that Bruno is in the Elite Four.
  • Pokémon: The Series :
    • Arguably, besides happens to Celebi in the fourth movie.
    • Happens to Pikachu a few times: Once from Cassidy and Bunch ("Pikachu Re-Volts"), thrice from Colress in the Due north arc. And when his Nice Guy tendencies are subverted, he gets scary.
  • Pretty Cure
    • In the 2d Futari wa Pretty Cure MAX Centre motion picture, Freezer and Frozen use their powers to turn Cure White against Cure Black. Cure Blackness constantly pulls a "I Know Y'all're in There Somewhere" Fight, only refuses to really lay a mitt on her friend. This bores them and causes them to turn Cure Black. Thankfully, they milk shake off the brainwashing just in fourth dimension to save each other from a painful death.
    • In Suite Pretty Cure ♪ , Seiren suffers this partway through the first one-half of the series as she starts having doubts over their mission.
  • The wolves (and perchance sharks) in Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva , making information technology so that Luke is unable to talk to them.
  • Ranma ½ :
    • The super-ninja Konatsu is brainwashed by his Evil Stepmother (who bears a scary resemblance to Edward G Robinson) into attempting to kill Ranma. It is just the Ability of Love that undoes it.
    • The Phoenix People are also able to employ something similar this (or mayhap More than Than Mind Control); they have magical eggs that they can throw at people, which and so expand and envelop the person. When the egg is cracked open (it doesn't hatch otherwise, only thankfully seems to put the victim in a state of suspended animation), the victim "imprints" on the first person they see, becoming their helpless slave. Kiima does this to Shampoo and and then orders her to impale Ranma. To her credit, Shampoo manages to ask Ranma to instead permit her to use one of the eggs on him, and then that she won't have to fulfill her orders, just Ranma (understandably) refuses. She then attempts to get Ranma to take sexual activity with her (whereas, upwards until now, she's always aimed for romance and at one point actually got offended when she was made out to be trying to seduce him), going and then far as to threaten Akane Tendo's life to make this happen. Ranma cures her by sticking her in another egg, and Mousse then shows her a mirror, so she imprints on herself. She later cures Genma, who she had managed to capture in an egg of her own, by telling him to snap out of it.
  • Crewman Moon :
    • Mamoru was at to the lowest degree twice brainwashed into doing this to the Senshi. in the Stars manga, Sailor Galaxia does this not but to him, but to all the Seishi who are mind-controlled to assail Usagi. In the manga, it's made abundantly clear that the senshi are actually already dead.
    • Ami is also brainwashed in a R episode where she is made to think all of her friends hate her for being a nerd. She sees through the ploy and blasts the monster.
    • Likewise in Sailor Moon R, Chibiusa is brainwashed into attacking the rest of the cast, and is made to believe everyone hated her (thanks to the Big Bad altering her memories/taking out important bits of them).
    • There's also Professor Tomoe in the anime, who gets brainwashed and crazy as a upshot of a Deal with the Devil with Large Bad Pharaoh ninety to save Hotaru from expiry.
    • In the Stars anime, Haruka and Michiru pretend that they are brainwashed by Galaxia to really attempt to fight her (going every bit far as killing Setsuna and Hotaru with their own hands) but neglect and ultimately die. This upshot is redone multiple times in the musical adaptations based on the Stars series.
    • In the manga the Shitennou/Generals of the Nighttime Kingdom (Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, And Kunzite) are this. Unfortunately, Jadeite, Nephrite, and Zoisite are revived past the Silver Crystal with the memories of their past lives simply to plough into their respective stones . Poor Kunzite is re-brainwashed and dies fighting the Inner Senshi equally Beryl's puppet and also turns into his stone. But hey, after all that they eventually are reunited with the person they were born to serve Mamoru/ Prince Endymion and get to hang out with him from the stones their spirits now reside in.
    • In the alive action version, Mercury is kidnapped by Kunzite and brainwashed, becoming Dark Crewman Mercury. She is later healed by Sailor Moon (with a My God, What Have I Done? moment included), with no memory of the events In the finale Mamoru takes the Queen Meteira into his trunk and thus is brainwashed by her.
    • In the manga the Amazoness Quartet were revealed to be this as Nehelennia forcibly awakened them early on from their slumber and brainwashed them into serving her. They're actually the Sailor Quartet and supposed to awaken to be Chibiusa's team when she comes of historic period.
  • Both the Crystal Saint (anime just) and Leo Aiolia in Saint Seiya . Their brainwashing was then through that it took expiry to release them. Crystal had to dice, Aiolia had to see someone else die. Both cases end up in tears.
  • Ikuto from Shugo Chara! when controlled by his evil jerkass of a stepfather and forced to transform into Death Rebel. He'due south not necessarily crazy when brainwashed at offset, just rather cold and emotionless. But, sadly, the control over him eventually escalates to he point where he's trying to murder his childhood friend Tadase and the girl he loves, Amu. Luckily, in more contempo chapters of the manga, he's shown to be back to normal thanks to Amu.
  • Happens very briefly in most parts of any Slayers media, normally to townspeople. There's Rezo decision-making Zelgadis during Season 1, and Hellmaster Fibrizzo controlling Gourry during Flavour 2.
  • In Soul Eater a pupil named Crona debuted in the series past attempting to kill the ii protagonists. This was considering Crona was infected with a substance called Black Claret, which is a blood replacement fluid that can exist controlled by a man weapon, which sacrifices the user'due south sanity for invincibility. After existence restored to sanity, Crona was allowed to attend the DWMA, just as of recent chapters has been recaptured and rebrainwashed past Medusa and in Chapter 104 was revealed to be the series Big Bad , much to the dismay of characters and audition. Until Chapter 106, anyhow.
  • All of Zaitel's followers in Space Carrier Blueish Noah accept been brainwashed into believing he is their savior.
  • Happens briefly to Izawa and Isurugi in Tomica Hyper Rescue Bulldoze Head Kidou Kyuukyuu Keisatsu , as a result of over-exposure to the Evil AI'southward sound.
  • In Toriko , Joa the Dark Chef has this power. Joa tin can "cook" others with a few slices to alter their "flavor", changing them into completely different people. Teppei falls victim to this and is at present an emotionless fighting machine nether Joa's control.
  • In Umi Monogatari , Sedna does this to body of water creatures and eventually Marin and Kanon's friends.
  • Variable Geo : Satomi and Chiho both air current upwardly being enslaved by The Jahana Group, albeit for unlike purposes:
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! :
    • Original series:
      • Marik brainwashes Joey and Tea. Marik released Tea merely when she put herself in a Death Trap whereas Joey broke free over the course of the duel with Yugi.
      • To a degree, also used by Pegasus confronting Kaiba. When Kaiba got fix to duel him, Pegasus showed him that he had captured and de-souled Mokuba... via making the brainwashed child come into their presences and mitt Pegasus his deck, in front of a very pissed Kaiba and the horrified Yugi and his friends (Yugi himself even is driven to Tender Tears at the sight).
      • At that place'south also Shadi, who uses his Millennium Key to educate Sugoroku'southward friend Professor Yoshimori into attacking Yugi's friends in the manga. In the Toei serial, Shadi brainwashes Honda instead; he'd already disposed of Yoshimori prior.
      • Let's not forget near Dartz doing this to Mai. Even worse, Dartz himself is brainwashed by the Orichalchos.
    • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX :
      • Chazz/Manjoume in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX was brainwashed past the Society of Low-cal and sent to forcefulness-recruit everyone else at the Academy, including his friends. Not quite the same, only considering the Social club was an apocalyptic cult, it might equally well be.
      • Happened to Bastion and Alexis as well. In Alexis' case, she was much more than dangerous because she was serious most information technology, unlike Chazz's "I've seen the light!" cult ranting. Meanwhile, Breastwork released himself by realizing that what he thought he wanted wasn't what he really wanted after all.
      • In fact, Saiou himself, the leader of the cult, qualifies, mayhap especially so. He was brainwashed by the greater evil directing the cult and became its pawn. At times, at that place was a disharmonize within him, and occasionally, his sanity broke through temporarily but his madness always returned until the climax of the arc.
  • Kolulu and Koko autumn under this trope in Zatch Bell! : the onetime has a psychotic personality that comes out when her bookkeeper reads spells, and latter becomes sadistic and evil because Zofis tampers with her eye, although he claims he couldn't take done information technology if the impulses weren't in Koko to brainstorm with. He lies, as revealed later his defeat — the only difference between Koko and his other mind slaves, who had no memories of their fourth dimension spent brainwashed and crazy, was special tampering intended to bulldoze Koko mad with guilt past keeping all the horrible memories with her, in example she survives Zofis' defeat.
  • In the manga series Zodiac PI , Lili'south rival, Sirius, is brainwashed into trying to impale her, her friend, and her begetter. Finally broken thanks to both The Ability of Love and the shock of cold water.

Anime Where the Main Character Gets Brainwashed

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