I’m so sick of this shitty belief in comics, cartoons, and adaptations that having specific evil powers will make you evil.
Even when other evil powers are allowed to be good, mind controllers are always cast as the villains because I guess screw free will right, it’s your abilities that determine your morality and not your actions? I’m so sick of it!
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with all due respect, its fiction, anon
>it’s fiction why do you care
Why do normies like you come here?
sorry 🙁
It's not about it being fiction. It's lazy and unoriginal to rely so heavily on tropes and chiches.
I have always said that I would liek to see a mind controller use their powers for good and become a psychologist/counselor or help people in any way to resolve trauma and mental blocks. How would you like to see used a spescific power?
That line of thought it's as predictable as making an evil superman just because. Not everyone is a corrupt piece of shit. Even if they were, it is not necessary to lean all the way in into their evil desires.
I mean if you were listening in on peoples true thoughts every day, unfiltered and you had the power to force people into doing things, then you'd probably 'turn evil' too.
Shit isn't rocket science. People think fricked up things. Just imagine what you think of in a day, being broadcast to someone else.
It's like having a death or disease power. It has absolutely no purpose besides hurting other people.
>Most telepaths are smug calicucks, ritzy white buttholes, or if they're a minority they're a rape baby of some white dude who used their mind control for free pussy.
It's always been a fetish power or projection from horny israelites like Claremont/Lee/Kirby or misanthropic tryhard edge bullshit from Moore, Ennis, or Morrison.
>because I guess screw free will right
Spoken like a true mind controller, Op, haha.
But no seriously, most writers will have the mind controller as an antagonist cause they just don't have the skill to write around a protagonist that can just say
>"stop fighting. go to jail"
and end the fight right there.
It's the same reason that Professor X and Martian Manhunter frequently go "I will use my psychic powers to- ARRGH"
OPM and MP100 handle instantly over fights just fine
MP100 isn't about combat, though. OPM used to not be about combat but fell into the parody trap and while it still holds true to some of its themes it's so baked in the genre now that it can't give those themes time to shine.
The obvious answer is to make the story with mind control not about combat, but conflict that you can't just mind control away. Mind control gets the wrap it does because the act of erasing autonomy makes it evil by nature even if you intend to do good things. It also introduces an immense gray area in operation that is besides the point, but fundamentally yes, removing people's agency is evil.
What if you have the main character be someone who doesn’t want to remove others agency
>he obvious answer is to make the story with mind control not about combat, but conflict that you can't just mind control away.
Star Wars has mind controlling MCs and still has a lot of fights.
Star Wars is more mind clouding than mind controlling. They make the target confused and therefore susceptible to verbal manipulation. It's a subtle difference that not all writers grasp.
The real trick is to have the explanation be a character trait and not just an obviously contrived plot device.
The ability to rob others of their free will is fundamentally evil.
It's the case of wanting to have your cake and eating it too.
You want a good guy to fight against other good guys for a change of scenery, but you don't want to justify it, so you can just have mind control.
It is just kind of an inherently evil power that could easily corrupt someone using it. It would be pretty hard to write someone controlling minds as unambiguously good.
But such a power would be a slippery slope addiction
No you're not.
I had an idea for a mind control character that could leave their subjects higher brain functions intact and used their powers to enhance their allies via unblocking their mental limits and goading their subconscious/boosting morale.
Sounds neat
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>screw free will right
That is literally what mind controllers do to others, making them evil. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and there is nothing more absolute and powerful than dominating the will of another.
Because it's probably true. 7 billion human beings. Give literally any single one of them the power to control minds. You think they wouldn't abuse that power? Look at the shit people say and do nowadays. Humans are self-righteous and self-absorbed. Everyone thinks they're right, that they know best, or they don't really care and just want to get ahead no matter what the cost. 7 billion human beings and the majority would absolutely abuse the shit out of that power.
Especially if you give a woman that power.
Hey, don’t be mean. I know this is Cinemaphile, but that’s just rude
Who gives a shit?
In mha there is a character who deals with this, but he is an extra.
He is less than an extra. The series just mentions how cool it would be if he could show the world that he cna use his powers for good but it nevers goes further than that. He was written to have Deku unlock a power up and that's it.
He got one apperence.
>a bloo bloo bloo
>my power which forces people to do what I want and require that I deceive and manipulate them is seen as dangerous
>I'm so mopey and sad that people don't trust my enslaving powers
It's like an AI trained in Cinemaphile
First power corrupts, and she had a pretty big power.
Second, she was groomed. She was gaslight and manipulated into doing things to others.
Third, when she found out about the lies she was told, that her meds helped her survive her powers but instead they diminished them, she had her justification for hate and retribution.
She is evil for the same reasons anyone should be evil, not because of her specific powerset.
Fair, but it’s still kind of a missed opportunity for a good gal to oppose Homelander
Karma isn't evil.
>Karma isn't evil.
Correct, Karma is a b***h
mind control is inherently evil, thats like having the super power to rape anybody, the only way to not use the superpower would be to not use it.
>the only way to not use the superpower would be to not use it.
The only way to not use it... is to not use it? Did you just ascend to godhood?
I mean, you could use it to make people put down their guns.
what if you could rape criminals to stop them, just change the fact that the power itself is inherently violating added with the extra context of not being able to be held accountable. At least you would be able to recognize when someone uses to much physical force but you would never even be able to now just how far people can go with telepathy.
OP wrote this post at the suggestion of Franz Mesmer.
i love cate
If I was a telepath I would first visit a casino and make a million, then start buying my way into politician dinners and events to influence policy while playing the stock market. I would expose as many conspiracies as I could.
If I could actually control minds I'd go full Death Note and fix the abuses of power that the elites commit
Using mind control is inherently evil, you moron. You either have someone with mind control powers using them, and therefore being evil, or not using them, and therefore being a boring, pointless character.
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You can use it on people actively committing crimes to make them stop committing crimes. I don't see how that's any less moral than beating them up to stop them.
>hey stop being evil
>okay
mind control is too powerful and kills all the fun