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Westworld

Westworld
Flies are infected with a parasite manufactured in the Delos labs. These modified bugs have a hypnotizing effect, and when people are infected, they succumb to mind control.

Flies are infected with a parasite manufactured in the Delos labs. These modified bugs have a hypnotizing effect, and when people are infected, they s...

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Minions

Minions
The Hypno-Hat resembles a large helmet that encases the user's head and can be used to hypnotize targets from a distance.
It does not seem to work on blind foes.

The Hypno-Hat resembles a large helmet that encases the user's head and can be used to hypnotize targets from a distance. It does not seem to work on ...

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StarCraft

StarCraft
Neural resocialization was a rigorous process, devised by the Terran Confederacy, used to treat criminals suffering from mental disorders or at least prevent them from committing crimes and turning them into loyal soldiers. Some Dominion military personnel even volunteered for the process (in an effort to avoid mental problems). Those who underwent the process often had a blissful look. Since the reign of Valerian Mengsk, it has been banned by the Terran Dominion.
Terrans sometimes refer to neural resocialization simply as "resoc" or "brain panning" (the latter term also refers to any form of insanity, brain damage, drug use or even simple stupidity).
Neural resocialization bears many similarities to the technology used normally to control ghosts. However, resocialization technology has been used to control spectres and to modify the memories of ghosts in order to ensure their loyalty.
Resocialized individuals' minds are "fuzzy" when sensed by a telepath.

Neural resocialization was a rigorous process, devised by the Terran Confederacy, used to treat criminals suffering from mental disorders or at least ...

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Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13
The user places the Pearl in the ear of an intended victim, where it attaches to the inner ear. The process induces terrible nightmares in the victim, and once attached, allows the person who placed the Pearl to control the thoughts and actions of the victim. The Pearl can only be removed by bringing the victim to the point of death, whereupon the Pearl detaches itself from the victim's brain and rolls out of the ear canal. The Pearl can be manipulated by a large, unnamed Amber Orb to explore the memories of the person with the Pearl in their ear.

The user places the Pearl in the ear of an intended victim, where it attaches to the inner ear. The process induces terrible nightmares in the victim,...

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THX 1138

_**THX 1138**_
In the future, sexual intercourse
and reproduction
are prohibited, whereas use of mind-altering drugs
is mandatory to enforce compliance among the citizens and to ensure their ability to conduct dangerous and demanding tasks. Emotions and the concept of family are taboo
. Workers are clad in identical white uniforms and have shaven heads to emphasize uniformity. Computers are able to put ‘mind locks’ on workers to take over control of their bodies.

In the future, sexual intercourse and reproduction are prohibited, whereas use of mind-altering drugs is mandatory to enforce compliance among the ...

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Easy Money

EM

A device which causes an entire race of people to think and feel the same as the wearer....

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Deepness in the Sky

DTS

An active MRI-type device triggers changes through dia- and paramagnetic biological molecules. By manipulating the brain in this way, Emergent manager...

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Spin State Trilogy

SST

Hardware memory backups to allow other people or AI control person’s body...

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Fringe

Fringe
Mind control is mentioned in the "Pilot", but not explored further until The Equation where a device that uses a series of flashing green and red lights appears to induce a hypnogogic state that psychologically freezes a man while his son is being abducted. Later Walter perfects his own version of the device and causes Peter to cut off his own shirt sleeves. In each case the victim does not remember any of the period where they were under mind control.
A more intrusive version of this phenomena was explored in "Dream Logic", where Dr. Laxmeesh Nayak has created an brain implanted chip with the pretext of helping sleep disorder sufferers. Although Dr. Nayaks motivations aren't completely clear, he apparently is using his device to both experience their dreams and induce hallucinations in his victims at the same time. While not directly mind control, the induced hallucinations can trigger behaviors beyond the conscious control of the victim.
A direct ability of controlling a physical body is demonstrated by Tyler Carson in "Of Human Action" where he appears to have the power to override voluntary muscle behavior of other people within a certain range. Walter somehow determined a method of counteracting this ability using "white noise".

Mind control is mentioned in the "Pilot", but not explored further until The Equation where a device that uses a series of flashing green and red ligh...

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Neuromancer

N

A person with a neural cut out chip; the chip allows computer software to completely control their actions....

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StarCraft

StarCraft
Neural inhibitors (also known as neuro-adjusters or psychic dampeners) are cybernetic implants that were used by the Confederate Ghost Program (and later, the Dominion) to control their ghost agents through keeping their aggression levels and behavioral patterns in check. These devices weaken their psionic powers, and by extension, make it easier for ghosts to screen out the thoughts of other individuals. Implanted in the brain, neural inhibitors can regulate brain and blood chemistry and reroute neural pathways in order to keep the ghost's emotional state in check. The implants can be fatal and their method of operation is very similar to neural resocialization, but "much worse".
The location of neural inhibitors can be tracked by some officers, both Confederate and Dominion.The implantation process leaves scarred tissue.
The drawback to neural inhibitors is that they can be surgically removed, or in rare cases, malfunction. Upon the defection of Sarah Kerrigan, psychic dampeners were abandoned by the Confederacy in favor of the more effective memory wipe technique. However, previously-implanted ghosts (such as Devon Starke) usually did not have their dampeners removed. Ghosts who retained them that became spectres under Project Shadow Blade had their inhibitors removed in order to avoid detection. Some ghosts have used their psionic powers to disable their inhibitors, though such a procedure comes at a great risk.
The Dominion utilizes both the mind wipe technique and neural inhibitors.
After the End War, the Terran Dominion developed a device that could partially undo the effects of memory alteration by delivering an electric pulse through a neural inhibitor.

Neural inhibitors (also known as neuro-adjusters or psychic dampeners) are cybernetic implants that were used by the Confederate Ghost Program (and la...

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The Dream Master

TDM

This is a world ripe for psychotherapeutic innovations, such as the "neuroparticipant therapy" in which the protagonist, Charles Render, specializes. ...

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Westworld

Westworld
Control** **units are used to store hosts' mind. They are printed by specialised 3D printers.
When installed in a host's head, they are contained in a tough, white, spherical container called cortical shield, tough enough to resist damage from a handgun at point blank range.
Hosts are shown to carry an intra-cranial "control unit" (a combination CPU and data storage module) capable of recording video, audio, experiential data and a guest's DNA. The module — roughly the size of a baseball and shaped somewhat like a wafer-cup ice cream cone — can be extracted surgically and inserted into an external device's reader port for offline downloading.
The core of the control unit is a golf-ball-sized transparent "neuroplastic" sphere informally called a "pearl." Within the pearl are densely-packed microscopic filaments of neural material that are ostensibly the organic analog to the RAM (Random Access Memory) and EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) of a computer chip. These filaments contain the programming and memory for the host — in effect, they are the soul of the host.
The pearl is housed within the larger baseball-sized housing informally referred to as a "chestnut." The chestnut module is inserted into a base receptacle within the cortical shell of the host. The cortical shell is filled with a fluid that cushions the chestnut against concussive impacts to the host's head. This cortical fluid must be maintained at a consistent level within the cortical shell. Leakage or loss of cortical fluid will result in the malfunctioning of the host, from tremors in the extremities to loss of reasoning and motor functions.
One way to distinguish hybrids from hosts is the color of their control units, hosts have black control units and hybrids have red ones.

Control** **units are used to store hosts' mind. They are printed by specialised 3D printers. When installed in a host's head, they are contained in a...

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Avatar

The Pandoran** **Neural** **Network is a complex arrangement where all the flora and fauna of Pandora communicate. On the moon of Pandora, all living ...

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Avatar

Tsaheylu is a Na'vi word meaning "bond" or neural connection. This describes the physical process by which Pandoran flora and fauna mentally connect...

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Rebel Moon

RM

A spider-like alien uses human for communication (using their voice)...

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Avatar

Eywa , also known as the All-Mother or Great Mother , is the guiding force of life and deity of Pandora and the Na'vi . The Na'vi believe that Eywa ...

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Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online
It only has a single interface that covers a player's whole head and face. It completely controls the player's consciousness by redirecting the signals the brain sends to the body and sending its own waves to stimulate the five senses. It has its own battery source, as well as a high frequency electromagnetic microwaves transmitter. Puzzles, education related games, or environmental type games were first produced for NerveGear.

It only has a single interface that covers a player's whole head and face. It completely controls the player's consciousness by redirecting the signal...

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Push

P

Memories manipulation, object control ...

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Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty
The Series 9000 Brainalyzer is the device used by Cornvelious Daniel, in The Rickshank Rickdemption, and the Galactic Federation in an attempt to obtain formula for interdimensional travel from Rick's brain. A session of its use will cause the subject's brain to be liquefied, which kills the subject and it also apparently shuts off when the subject's brain is liquified. A modified version of this instrument is used by Rick to switch between the bodies of various characters in his attempt to destroy the Citadel of Ricks and Galactic Federation.

In addition to its tendency to liquify the brains of its subjects in the event of a prolonged session, the Series 9000 appears to have technical limitations on what its 'actors' can do. While the actors in at least most Brainalyzer simulations will follow even the most ridiculous and impossible demands made by the subject (evidenced by Rick's lack of surprise when instructing the simulated Jerry to fold himself), the Series 9000's actors can be distinctly identified by their inability to fold themselves more than six times.

The Series 9000 Brainalyzer is the device used by Cornvelious Daniel, in The Rickshank Rickdemption, and the Galactic Federation in an attempt to obta...

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Futurama

Futurama
brainwashing tool for robots - upgrading tool

brainwashing tool for robots - upgrading tool...

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Rebel Moon

RM

A chair and a gun, allowing to paralyze a person via a dedicated brain port....

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Halo

Halo
A surgery of implanting Neural Substrate in a living brain of a soldier to create Smart artificial intelligences (AI) which reside within him. The AI can shut down the soldier’s brain.

A surgery of implanting Neural Substrate in a living brain of a soldier to create Smart artificial intelligences (AI) which reside within him. The AI ...

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Buck Rogers War of the Planets

Buck Rogers, War of the Planets
amnesia helmet, to control and manipulate the user, and give them the orders

amnesia helmet, to control and manipulate the user, and give them the orders...

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DeusEx

DeusEx
One-way micro-transceiver array allows agents in the field to receive messages from Control, and to store and later retrieve relevant maps, conversations and notes. Example 1: helicopter pilot with implanted chips to better pilot her aircraft and analyze flight paths, velocity and spacial awareness. Ex 2: hacker with BCI which allows direct access to computer networks and to act as “human proxy”, to allow an individual to remotely control his/her actions. The game raises the question of the downsides of this kind of augmentation as those who cannot afford the enhancements (or object to getting them) rapidly find themselves at a serious disadvantage against people with artificial enhancement of their abilities. The spectre of being forced to have mechanical or electronic enhancements just to get a job is explored as well. The storyline addresses the effect of implant rejection by use of the fictional drug 'Neuropozyne' which breaks down glial tissue and is also fiercely addictive, leaving people who have augmentations little choice but to continue buying the drug from a single biotech corporation who controls the price of it. Without the drug augmented people experience rejection of implants (along with ensuing loss of implant functionality), crippling pain, and possible death.

One-way micro-transceiver array allows agents in the field to receive messages from Control, and to store and later retrieve relevant maps, conversati...

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The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
For a means of mind control, the presidential hopeful Raymond Shaw unknowingly has a chip implanted in his head by Manchurian Global, a fictional geopolitical organization aimed at making parts of the government sleeper cells, or puppets for their monetary advancement.

For a means of mind control, the presidential hopeful Raymond Shaw unknowingly has a chip implanted in his head by Manchurian Global, a fictional geop...

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Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty
AI created an implant to fully control the human user

AI created an implant to fully control the human user ...

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Westworld

Westworld
A drip is a medical device implanted into the roof of a person's mouth. It enables them to control and alter their mood; the system relies on preprogrammed defaults but can be altered and customised by the user. Incite describe it as "safe and 100% effective".
Drips can be either military grade or bought by wealthy individuals. Drips tap into the olfactory nerve gaining direct access and ability to manipulate the users limbic system. They are fully dissolvable and, when implanted, transmit electrical impulses to the brain to manipulate mood. Incite Inc. claims that the drips are "100% safe and effective" and have no side effects.
Gerald is first seen using the drips. He places the drip into his mouth before going to sleep at night. Once implanted, he sets a preset on his tablet and falls asleep. Military grade housings are worth a lot of money on the black market. In one episode, the drip housing is used to manipulate heart rate.

A drip is a medical device implanted into the roof of a person's mouth. It enables them to control and alter their mood; the system relies on preprogr...

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Gamer

Gamer
a brain implant called a Nanex allows people to remotely access other people’s brains. It is based on self-replicating nanites that replace brain tissue and allow humans to control other humans' actions and see through their eyes. This technology powers two real-world “video games”.

a brain implant called a Nanex allows people to remotely access other people’s brains. It is based on self-replicating nanites that replace brain tiss...

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Avatar

The Tree of Voices** **(Na'vi name : Utral Aymokriyä) was an important spiritual site to the Omaticaya clan, so named because the "voices" of ancestor...

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StarCraft

StarCraft
The psi-inhibitor is a specialized neural inhibitor which was used by the Terran Dominion's Project Gestalt to control protoss prisoners.
When implanted on a protoss' brain, it prevented them from accessing the Khala or doing anything other than communicate telepathically. They could be controlled at range to change the amount of restriction.

The psi-inhibitor is a specialized neural inhibitor which was used by the Terran Dominion's Project Gestalt to control protoss prisoners. When implant...

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The Bad Guys

The Bad Guys
Pr. Marmalade plans to use the meteorite to power a mind-control device to hypnotize an army of guinea pigs into stealing his own charity funds.

Pr. Marmalade plans to use the meteorite to power a mind-control device to hypnotize an army of guinea pigs into stealing his own charity funds....

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Ancillary Justice

_J

Space ships controlled by AIs , who control human bodies ("ancillaries") to use as soldiers....

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Agent of Vega

AV

Takes over the cognition of a host organism....

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The Amazing Spider Man

The Amazing Spider Man
Due to exposure to atomic radiation, Doctor Octopus has acquired the mental ability of psychokinetic control over the four electrically powered, artificial tentacle "arms" (a degree of psychokinetic control over them that he can also exercise over vast distances even when they are not connected to him) that are attached to a stainless-steel harness encompassing his lower torso.
He has also developed psychokinetic-telepathic control over an army of "Octobots" (small octopus-like drones).

Due to exposure to atomic radiation, Doctor Octopus has acquired the mental ability of psychokinetic control over the four electrically powered, artif...

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Black Widow

Black Widow
chemical gas for mind control of the soldiers

chemical gas for mind control of the soldiers...

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Warehouse 13 Pilot

Warehouse 13, Pilot
Lucrezia Borgia's Comb was created by an unidentified Renaissance alchemist. It transmits the mindset of Lucrezia Borgia via the crystals and ionized metal of the comb and grants the user mind controlling abilities, though at the price of great personal jealousy and anger. The comb also uses a phonetic trigger written in Italian: Se li uomini sapessino le cagioni della paura mia, capir potrebbero il mio dolor (which translates to: if people knew the reasons for my fear, they'd be able to understand my pain). This comb comes with a book-shaped jewellery box, within which the phonetic trigger can be found. Whoever the comb takes control of, it makes that person have a deep yearning to be loved, just like Lucrezia had. However, the wearer will do anything to obtain love, and usually begins a bloody reign of terror and destruction. The comb also has mind control powers; when the user reads the trigger aloud, the comb releases a bright light that alters the brain chemistry of anybody that sees it and essentially brainwashes them. The indicator that a person is brainwashed is that they keep repeating the trigger. The wearer will have a hole in their heart that will be filled after everybody everywhere is in love with them or is dead. If the comb is neutralized, light seems to shoot out of its victims and return to it and all the comb's victims have no idea what they did or what happened.

Lucrezia Borgia's Comb was created by an unidentified Renaissance alchemist. It transmits the mindset of Lucrezia Borgia via the crystals and ionized ...

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AI: The Somnium Files

ATS

a direct neural interface is used to invasively interface the thoughts and dreams of two individuals to the extent that one person could forcibly extr...

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Upgrade

Upgrade
STEM - implant used for linking, stimulation

STEM - implant used for linking, stimulation...

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Dollhouse S1 EP13 "Epitaph"

Dollhouse, S1 EP13 "Epitaph"
jacks implanted in the face that let people upload and erase information and skill modules at will

jacks implanted in the face that let people upload and erase information and skill modules at will...

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Bloodshot

B

The main hero is the first successful human subject of the "Bloodshot" program, resurrecting and healing him through the injection of experimental nan...

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Masson's Secret

MS

A device which, implanted in the brain, can both transmit sight and sound, and enable control of the body by a remote operator....

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X2: X-Men United

X2: X-Men United
The Neural Inhibitor is a piece of equipment designed by William Stryker to suppress the mental abilities of telepaths. Used on Professor X while he was held captive at Stryker's base underneath Alkali Lake. The device was developed to prevent telepathic mutants from reading the minds of others. It was also used to make Professor X vulnerable to Jason Stryker's illusions. Once Xavier was firmly under Jason's control, the device was no longer needed.

The Neural Inhibitor is a piece of equipment designed by William Stryker to suppress the mental abilities of telepaths. Used on Professor X while he w...

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Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online
The AmuSphere's design incorporates various sensors that continually monitor blood pressure and brain waves and provoke a safety logout feature in case that the person's status becomes abnormal. In addition, the AmuSphere does not completely block out signals from the body, like NerveGear did, so some players may pay extra for specialized rooms designed to make the experience in the virtual world more real by excluding the sounds and sensations from the outside.

The AmuSphere's design incorporates various sensors that continually monitor blood pressure and brain waves and provoke a safety logout feature in cas...

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

MLO

A technique to focus the attention of prisoners on a limited task, precluding the possibility of escape. ...

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Hardwired

Hardwired
Luke has severe brain damage, but Hope Corporation agrees to implant a chip into his brain to save his life. He discovers that this chip also constantly sends advertisements until either the person obtains the product, or they go insane.

Luke has severe brain damage, but Hope Corporation agrees to implant a chip into his brain to save his life. He discovers that this chip also constant...

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Warehouse 13 Resonance

Warehouse 13, Resonance
Euphoria Record - a vinyl record, recorded by composer Eric Marsden. The tonality of the music, combined with the proper resonance, causes intense feelings of joy and euphoria in the listener, so extreme that they are briefly incapacitated. The effects can be blocked with headphones or earplugs.

Euphoria Record - a vinyl record, recorded by composer Eric Marsden. The tonality of the music, combined with the proper resonance, causes intense fee...

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Embedded

E

Sharing consciousness, taking over the body...

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The Outer Limits

TOL

The administrators are actually controlling the students through a chip inserted into their heads. They want to create a group of business executives ...

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Westworld

Westworld
Sound is used to control and manipulate infected humans.

Sound is used to control and manipulate infected humans....

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Avatar

The** **Tree of Souls (Na'vi name : Vitraya Ramunong) is a giant willow tree that is said to be the closest connection to Eywa on Pandora. The Tree o...

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Psi-wave transceiver were transceiver implants used by the Prytt for interrogation purposes. They were connected directly to the brain stem of an individual and slowly adapted to their psi-wave patterns, eventually allowing the Prytt direct access to the individual's memory engrams. The devices could also be calibrated to connect two individuals, making them unable to move too far from one another without causing both to experience nausea. While the main purpose of this was to keep prisoners from wandering very far from one another, it also had the side effect of allowing them to read one another's thoughts.

Psi-wave transceiver were transceiver implants used by the Prytt for interrogation purposes. They were connected directly to the brain stem of an indi...

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Serial Experiments Lain

_EL

Consciousness upload, erasing memories, communication...

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
weapon that takes control of another creature's body and allows it to be piloted by a remote control operator.

weapon that takes control of another creature's body and allows it to be piloted by a remote control operator....

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Divergent

Divergent
The rest of the Dauntless are injected with a serum supplied by Erudites, which is supposedly for tracking but actually for mind control.

The rest of the Dauntless are injected with a serum supplied by Erudites, which is supposedly for tracking but actually for mind control....

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Quarantine

Q

Neural mods are common place, designed pathways in the brain that are created with engineered, programmable microoganisms to produce a variety of effe...

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Transcendence

Transcendence
upload consciousness into the quantum computer. Consciousness survives body's death in this technological form and requests to be connected to the Internet to grow in capability and knowledge. It displays the ability to remotely connect to and control people's minds after they have been subjected to his nanoparticles.

upload consciousness into the quantum computer. Consciousness survives body's death in this technological form and requests to be connected to the Int...

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The Vindicator

TV

"rage program" software that can sense when a user is provoked/endangered and take over its brain to destroy the attacker and then return to normal on...

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The Metal Giants

TMG

An artificial brain that completely mimicked a biological brain with all of its complex patterns of electrical activity that made it conscious. Furthe...

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Warehouse 13 Implosion

Warehouse 13, Implosion
Ice Flower: A 14th century Chinese firework that when it explodes, it releases a sustaining pattern of light that mesmerizes those who see it and triggers a feedback loop in the optic nerve which results in people not remembering anything during the approximate 10 minutes in which it lasts.

Ice Flower: A 14th century Chinese firework that when it explodes, it releases a sustaining pattern of light that mesmerizes those who see it and trig...

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The End of the Line

TET

Device implants a psychological block....

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Frankenstein

_**Frankenstein**_
Using a disembodied brain to control another body by wiring it to the body

Using a disembodied brain to control another body by wiring it to the body...

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Men in Black

MB

The device in the comic books was referred to as a 'neurolyser'. This is also where the concept of using Ray-Ban sunglasses to prevent an agent's memo...

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Futurama

F

Brain Slugs are a species of space parasite that attaches its jelly-like body to a person's head and takes control of their brain. The specimen is gre...

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_Donovan’s Brain_

_Donovan’s Brain_
Keep the brain alive in an electrified saline solution. After writing messages and exhibiting the personal traits of the person who the brain belonged to - the researcher believes that consciousness still survives.

Keep the brain alive in an electrified saline solution. After writing messages and exhibiting the personal traits of the person who the brain belonged...

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The Brave and the Bold Vol 1 28

The Brave and the Bold Vol 1 28
Mind Control: Starro can, besides control individual targets via his parasites, mentally influence a sizable crowd of ordinary humans with relative ease.
Remote Mental Influence: Even without a Starro parasite directly controlling a host, The larger Starro can influence minds on a more indirect level by reaching out to the dreaming within the resting subconscious mind. Able to appropriate induced sleep within a host to ensnare them within its own wakeless fantasy allowing it to probe and assimilate the minds of countless potential vessels that it can then seed with a smaller Starro organism later on. The victim/host will have nausea, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, migraines, heavy drowsiness, or blackouts while awake from Starro's telepathically effects.

Mind Control: Starro can, besides control individual targets via his parasites, mentally influence a sizable crowd of ordinary humans with relative ea...

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Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad
Mind Control: Starro can, besides control individual targets via his parasites, mentally influence a sizable crowd of ordinary humans with relative ease.
Remote Mental Influence: Even without a Starro parasite directly controlling a host, The larger Starro can influence minds on a more indirect level by reaching out to the dreaming within the resting subconscious mind. Able to appropriate induced sleep within a host to ensnare them within its own wakeless fantasy allowing it to probe and assimilate the minds of countless potential vessels that it can then seed with a smaller Starro organism later on. The victim/host will have nausea, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, migraines, heavy drowsiness, or blackouts while awake from Starro's telepathically effects.

Mind Control: Starro can, besides control individual targets via his parasites, mentally influence a sizable crowd of ordinary humans with relative ea...

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The Red Trilogy

TRT

permanent monitoring “skullcap” implanted in the head. the technology is also far from perfect. It is not uncommon for soldiers like Shelley to become...

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

MLO

A type of mind control imposed on prisoners to make them more manageable during their prison time. ...

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Avatar

A neural queue** **(Na'vi name: tswin/kuru) is part of many species' anatomy on Pandora, including the Na'vi. Most Pandoran life forms possess one or ...

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InControl

InControl
Device that allows to take control of others’ bodies, and experience the world through someone else

Device that allows to take control of others’ bodies, and experience the world through someone else...

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