Fuyutsuki, who had this glazed over look in his eyes, nodded and replied like he had been for awhile as he stepped out of the car.
"What did you do to him?" Hikari wondered, watching the man walk to the other side of the car.
Asuka's grin widened. "Why, I took a hypnotic class in college? Who would think the Sub-commander was easy to put under."
Her door opened, thanks to her new servant, and she stepped out with the pride of a queen.

— "NonNeglecting Week" (a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic)

Some characters have the ability to read, manipulate, or even control the minds/thoughts of other characters. Most often associated with Psychic Powers, these abilities run the gamut from mundane charisma/authority, to Magic and Powers, and to the paranormal. Extreme forms of mental manipulation even allow you direct access to the victim's body, turning them into a literal puppet to their will.

See also Memory Tropes.

Tropes:

• Alluring Flowers: Flowers whose scent is outright siren-like in its power to cloud minds.
• Artifact Domination: An Ancient Artifact that controls the wielder's mind.
• Artifact of Attraction: An object that manipulates people to fight each other for it.
• Assimilation Plot: A plan which revolves around turning everyone into a single entity.
• The Beastmaster: Someone who is able to make animals do their bidding, which may be explained as a form of mind control applied to non-human creatures.
• Bedtime Brainwashing: Someone tries to manipulate someone else's dreams or thoughts when that person is asleep.
• Behavioral Conditioning: A character is trained over time, either knowingly or unknowingly, to react to a particular stimulus.
• Beware the Mind Reader: Mind readers are viewed negatively for how they can use their powers.
• Body Surf: A character possesses multiple people in succession.
• Brainwashed: Someone has used Applied Phlebotinum to control the mind of another character.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: A brainwashed character is sent to hurt or kill their friends.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Brainwashing for a good cause.
• Brainwash Residue: A person is no longer brainwashed, but the effects still linger in their body.
• Brain with a Manual Control: A character's brain has a control center, which allows another person to take direct control of them.
• Bungled Hypnotism: Hypnotism backfiring in the most hilarious way possible.
• Cartesian Karma: A person suffers punishment for evil deeds they were not in control of committing.
• Charm Person: Someone with the ability to make people do what they want them to do.
• Clone by Conversion: Someone is turned into a clone of someone else, both physically and mentally.
• Compelling Voice: Someone whose voice can induce mind control.
• Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: A telepath can read thoughts in the form of precise, coherent, relevant sentences.
• Cure Your Gays: Attempting to "cure" homosexuality, through either mundane or fantastical means.
• Demonic Possession: Someone's mind or body gets hijacked by an invasive demon, ghost, or spirit.
• Deprogram: Trying to undo brainwashing.
• Dirty Mind-Reading: Someone reads another person's mind, who's thinking dirty thoughts.
• Dream Weaver: Someone who is able to manipulate dreams.
• Dying as Yourself: A person dies shortly after being freed from mind control.
• Electric Instant Gratification: Electrical stimulation causing pleasure.
• Emotion Bomb: A magic spell or psychological weapon that can force people to feel certain emotions.
• Emotion Control: A form of mind control that is focused on manipulating someone's emotional state.
• Emotion Suppression: Someone suppresses their emotions to keep their mind clear.
• Enslaved Tongue: Someone controls what another persons says.
• The Evils of Free Will: Someone feels that eliminating free will is the only way to achieve utopia.
• Eye-Dentity Giveaway: If someone is being mind-controlled, their eyes may become those of the controller.
• Fake Memories: Someone's mind is implanted with memories of events that never happened.
• Fighting from the Inside: Someone under brainwashing tries to resist whatever's controlling them.
• Forced Sleep: The power to cause someone to fall asleep.
• Forgot About the Mind Reader: Someone has embarrassing thoughts about someone else, only to remember that they can read their mind.
• Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Someone is mind-controlled to be happy all the time.
• Glamour: Illusionary magic that makes the user attractive and enthralling to others.
• Happiness in Mind Control: Someone who's actually quite content with having their own free will overrode by someone else.
• Hate Plague: Something that forces people to feel enraged, hateful, and even violently aggressive towards other people.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Turning someone good by mind control.
• Hive Mind: An entire species (or a large group of organisms) all share the same mind and consciousness, behaving like a single entity.
• Hypno Fool: A person is hypnotized and Hilarity Ensues before it can be undone.
• Hypno Pendulum: Swinging a watch (or round object in general) in front of someone to hypnotize them.
• Hypno Ray: A gadget that allows the user to hypnotize people.
• Hypnosis-Proof Dogs: Your animal companion is unaffected by the mind control.
• Hypnotic Eyes: Looking into this person's eyes will make you hypnotized.
• Hypnotic Creature: A mind-controlling creature.
• Hypnotic Head: A stock visual effect that is usually used to indicate someone is being hypnotized (or trying to hypnotize someone).
• Hypnotism Reversal: The hypnotizer is Hoist by Their Own Petard.
• Hypnotize the Captive: The Damsel in Distress or Distressed Dude gets brainwashed by their kidnapper.
• Hypno Trinket: A character wears an item that has the power to hypnotize.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Someone tries to get through to their brainwashed friend while fighting them.
• Immune to Mind Control: You cannot be hypnotized no matter what.
• Incapable of Disobeying: A character is unable to disobey any order given to them, no matter how much they want to.
• Individuality Is Illegal: Someone who is different must be conformed to be like everyone else.
• Intrinsic Vow: A character is made to believe in something that they will not stray from.
• Involuntary Dance: Someone is compelled to dance against their will.
• Jedi Mind Trick: Manipulating someone's mind to maintain the masquerade.
• Journey to the Center of the Mind: A character enters the physical manifestation of someone's mind.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: When someone is forced to forget very specific memories.
• Lie to the Beholder: A spell or other supernatural effect makes a character look and sound like a completely different person, to select people.
• Living Aphrodisiac: A character that can manipulate hormones and pheromones to seduce and manipulate others.
• Lobotomy: The medical procedure of cutting into part of the brain to change a person's behavior.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Someone is trapped in a dream-like fantasy where everything's the way it should be to make the person happy and content.
• Love Potion: Something that forces people to feel romantic affection or sexual attraction towards other people they would normally not be interested in.
• The Ludovico Technique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
• Manchurian Agent: A brainwashed person is awakened by a certain trigger.
• Manipulative Bastard: Someone who manipulates others through elaborate schemes and/or persuasive speaking.
• Mass Hypnosis: Mind-controlling a large amount of victims.
• Master of Illusion: Someone who fools people by creating fake images.
• Meat Puppet: A body or bodies made into a mindless automaton fully controlled by another entity.
• Meditation Powerup: A character powers up their abilities by meditating.
• Mind-Control Conspiracy: Blaming life's problems on the belief that the government is trying to mind control people.
• Mind-Control Device: A device used for mind control.
• Mind-Control Eyes: When under hypnosis or mind control, your eyes look weird.
• Mind-Control Music: Musical hypnosis.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Mind readers get repulsed from reading the thoughts of an unpleasant individual.
• Mind Prison: A character is imprisoned inside an illusion.
• Mind Probe: A mind reading device.
• Mind Rape: Attacking someone's mind.
• Mind Screw: Something is so surreal/symbolic that it makes no sense.
• Mind Virus: A contagious, mind-altering infection.
• More Hypnotizable Than He Thinks: You claim you can't be hypnotized; guess you thought wrong.
• More than Mind Control: Instead of controlling someone by will, you change their will by convincing them they want to do what you want.
• The Music Meister: A character who causes others to break out into spontaneous dancing or singing.
• Neuro-Vault: A person subconsciously holding vital data in their minds.
• Nightmare of Normality: A supernatural character is deluded into thinking that they're ordinary and must find a way to awaken from the illusion.
• Not Brainwashed: In a world of Brainwashed victims, this character's Face–Heel Turn was of their own volition.
• Our Sirens Are Different: Creatures whose voice can lure people to their doom.
• People Puppets: Controlling someone's body so that the victim is a "puppet" who either moves or remains immobile solely at the will of the "puppeteer."
• Perception Filter: Looking unusual enough to go beneath notice by everyone.
• Pest Controller: Someone with an ability to mass-mind control bugs, rats, and many other types of pests to do their bidding.
• Playing with Puppets: Controlling someone For the Evulz.
• Powers via Possession: Possession by the guest grants the host "powers" or "abilities".
• Prefers the Illusion: Character chooses to keep living in an illusion or dream.
• Pretend to Be Brainwashed: Someone fakes being under mind control.
• Propaganda Piece: Publications geared to brainwash the public.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Mind-controlling someone to commit suicide.
• Psychic Glimpse of Death: Reading a dying person's mind causes you to experience their death.
• Puppeteer Parasite: An alien parasite mind controls someone.
• Restoration of Sanity: An insane character has their sanity suddenly restored.
• Seeing Through Another's Eyes: A character uses a psychic link that allows them to see what another character is seeing.
• Siren Song: A beautiful song from a siren or otherworldly creature lures someone to their doom.
• Slave Mooks: Using mind control to force people to serve you as minions.
• Snake Charmer: Someone who can hypnotize snakes with flute music.
• Speak in Unison: Two or more people under mind control speak in unison.
• Stupidity-Inducing Attack: A combat technique that actively reduces the victim's intelligence.
• Subliminal Advertising: Mind-controlling someone with ads that contain hidden messages.
• Summon Binding: Techniques used in or alongside Summon Magic to ensure the summoned being's compliance, sometimes by overriding their free will.
• Supernatural Fear Inducer: Something that forces people to feel frightened, often by making them hallucinate their own worst nightmares.
• The Svengali: A mentor that manipulates and controls his students for his own gain.
• Symbiotic Possession: Something possesses a person's body, but doesn't control the host.
• Telepathy: Mind reading and mental communication, that can be used to affect others' minds.
• This Is Not a Floor: Using mind control and illusions to trick someone to their doom.
• Tongue-Tied: Something controls a character to prevent them from saying something important that they want to say.
• Treacherous Spirit Chase: A malign entity poses as a dead loved one to lead the hero into peril.
• Trigger Phrase: A specific phrase that puts someone under mind control when they hear it.
• Unhappy Medium: A person is unhappy having psychic powers.
• Villain Override: The Big Bad mind controls their less successful subordinates in order to take down the heroes.
• Weak-Willed: Someone who is easy to manipulate or brainwash.
• Your Worst Memory: Someone is forced to relive the worst moment of their life.