All about hypnosis and related subjects in the media
Daughters of Evil World Conquerors really have only two options in life: be their father’s adoring minion who ultimately falls for the Hero and helps him defeat her father, or strike out on your own and try to out-conquer him. Fah Lo Suee, daughter of the inscruitable Mandarin Fu Manchu, is entirely the latter. But while Fah Lo Suee in the novels was more the former, only once really acting in the role of conqueror in place of her father, in the Marvel comic “Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu”, she was a re-occurring character with her own agenda who battled her father as much as she battled her own half-brother Shang-Chi.
They have mental and physical powers beyond the human norm: they can entrance with a glance, create light, heal wounds, and even teleport long distances.
They are mutants. They live among normal humans, distinguished only by their powers, otherwise undistinguishable from any one else, distrusted and even hated by both the general populace and people in authority because of their gifts. Some try to use their gifts for good, others for evil: some just try to exist.
But they’re not the X‑Men and they’re not superheroes: they’re the Deryni, a fantasy race and the subject of several books and short stories by author Katherine Kurtz.
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All across the world, people are developing super-powers, and the established super-powered beings are nowhere to be found. Called “sparks” and the phenomenon “sparking”, it is turning the world into a super battleground as gangs of sparks battle for turf. Its a dream of some, of having super-powers, that is turning into a nightmare for the entire world.
What could happen if there was the facility to share your vision, literally, with everyone else in the world? How would that change the way people see each other and interact? How could that change the world? How could someone else use that power of communication not to increase communication but to limit it?
That’s the question posed in “Vision Machine”.
The March 27, 1938, broadcast of “The Shadow” was entitled ‘The Hypnotized Audience’. The Shadow and his partner Margo Lane are embroiled in a plot to free a convicted murderer by kidnapping the state governor and hypnotizing him into freeing the prisoner.
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