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Everybody’s always talking about fucking Kaa the snake, and that is all well and good and hot, but you know what, I’m 30 years old, Kaa was not my foundational hypno fetish root.

I want to talk about the hypnokink fodder that really turned me, a hapless 90′s kid, into a pervert. The less celebrated shit! Stuff like:

The Pokemon episode where Misty & all the other kids get hypnotized into thinking they are Pokemon
The Pokemon episode where a Tentacruel puts its tentacles on the back of Meowth’s head and takes over his mind and uses him to speak to the humans.
While we’re on the subject of mind-control tentacles, the alien in Independence Day that takes over the body of the scientist and uses him as a puppet to talk to the President
That weird as shit episode of King of the Hill where Bobby sniffs an ant’s nest and the pheremones turn him into an empty headed slave to the Queen, and forces him to bring their nest sugar and water (I kid you not, Bobby Hill mindlessly intoning “Yes My Queen” in his little raspy southern accent drove my kinky mind wild as a kid)
The Yeerks in the Animorphs Books!!! They slide into a host’s ear, slip around their brain, and take total control of their body and identity, unffff
One of the RL Stein Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books in the 90′s had an ending where an evil troll whistled into your ear and made your mind evaporate into thin air, leaving you an obedient, mindless husk. Needless to say I somehow arrived at that ending a lotttt
Blossom getting hypnotized in the original powerpuff girls!
Jafar’s hypnotic staff in Aladdin! (okay, this one is pretty widely celebrated, but still, not as much as Kaa!)
The mind-controlling, body-overtaking, essence corrupting Seru in the game Legacy of Legaia!
Kohaku getting mind controlled in Inuyasha!
Allllll the fucking mind control in Sailor Moon my god
The Harder Better Faster Stronger video by Daft Punk, where all the members of the Crescendolls get brainwashed and have their memories erased holy fuck!

What are some of your lesser-known hypno-roots? Please reblog and add if you want, I’m sure I”m forgetting a ton of foundational influences!

openvacant

Already thought of another one: the passage at the end of the book Hannibal where Dr. Lecter drugs Clarice and brainwashes her into thinking she shares a mind with his dead sister (it’s weird) and falls deeply, devotedly in love with him.

Middle-school-aged me thought that was so so so romantic hahahaha

knowing-smile

I was always weirdly compelled by puppet masters. 😅

I don’t know that I remember much from my childhood that was that compelling, but, I can add:

Red Kyptonite from Smallville
The entire theme of Psyconauts being about going into peoples thoughts and changing them and how they act.
Slave collars from Fallout 3

I know @unlockingwonderland was super into a specific bit from sailor moon, but I forget which precise episode.

hypno-kitty

I always loved the “mind control chip” that was thrown around constantly in the 2000s. Like Kim Possible and Shego.

mindbodydickotomy

Oh! Oh! Someone already said Yeerks which I just realized was one of mine, lol. But “mind control chip” reminded me of the Witch Mountains series.

Anyone remember Return From Witch Mountain? I feel like it was on Disney sometimes in the 90s but it had a major plot point that some of the characters were being controlled by a chip behind their ear. I think it might’ve appeared in some of the other ones in the series but I literally haven’t seen any of them since I was like 10.

Oh yeah, looking back that was big for me.

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I thought of more!!

- Dio from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. I hate him with every fiber of my being (and it takes a lot to get me to hate a fictional character who uses mind control!) but he was going around mind controlling people (flesh buds & vampireness)

- Erik (Phantom of the Opera). He hypnotized Christine with his voice and eyes and music multiple times (book, musical, various movies, etc). This started it all for me!

- Anubis (JoJo) one of the stands in part 3 that controls another person/possesses them!

- Dracula (the Lee movies & Oldman as well) so much hypnotizing beautiful young damsels, so little time.

- Teen Titans (the OG). There’s that big hypno/mind control episode and at one point there’s a big room full of spirals

- Big Trouble Little China. Ladies getting hypnotized! Fun fact this movie is how I got outed as a hypno fetishist to my best friends lol.

-Young Sherlock Holmes. Pretty girls getting hypnotized by a cult to be sacrifices

- Mew 2 hypnotizing/ controlling in Pokémon

- Another Inuyasha one, Myoga the flea controlling people/ possessing them

- The monster metal band Lordi, several of their music videos seduce/ possess/ mind control women (Personal recommend: Would You Love A Monsterman? Warning: horror)

And two obvious newer additions just so they’re on the list:

- Mindslaver in Incredibles 2. Obviously.

- Shinso from My Hero Academia who has mind control as a super power (a good boy who deserves better.)

hypnofedish

These are all sooo good and so true!! In addition,

– Totally Spies - There are multiple occasions when the girls are controlled and brainwashed into servitude by the villains.

– Kim Possible - Besides the mind control chip (previously stated), there are the Bebes, JrJr’s hypnotic disco, Drakken’s mind control shampoo, and other non-hypno things that could go that way (clones, robotic armor suit, etc.)

– Falling Skies - Alien parasites come down to Earth and control middle and upper-aged adults. The primary method is control is via parasitic slug on the people’s backs, but there are other methods used including fly creatures.

– K-9 (British TV Show) - Mind control bracelet that puts a main character under the “spell” of the new popular girl

– Power Rangers - Multiple occasions including becoming the assistant to an evil hypnotist and switching sides towards a major enemy

– Codename Kids Next Door - Boyfriend machine that make the wearer fall in love with someone (permanently if left on too long)

Rapid Fire Round: The Faculty - Danny Phantom - Supah Ninjas - Jimmy Neutron - My Life As a Teenage Robot

mindlevelzero

I’m glad I came across these, y'all know how I feel about origin stories. <3

Aladdin: Aside from the movie, there was a villain in the animated TV series that followed who used primitive technology. I recall one episode where he created little mechanical insects that attached themselves to the backs of people’s neck and controlled them.

thetitan84

A Australian kids show from the 90s called I think “Around the twists.” Either season 1 or 2, there is a love spell book going around. Pretty sure it had other mind control themes going around as well.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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