The Return of the Hypno-Hustler!
Marvel is unleashing a new web comic series, the All-Winners Squad. All Winners Squad: The "All-Winners Squad" is an ensemble of Marvel cult favorites. Together these previously overlooked characters are…
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‘Eve the Illusionist’ — “Red Dragon Inn” (Slugfest Games)
You are among a party of hard-working and hard-playing adventurers. Your party just got back from a hard adventure delving into ruins, fighting filthy creatures and finding lots of gold.…
Universo — “The Legion of Super-Heroes” Part 1
The foes of the legendary Legion of Super-Heroes are themselves indeed legion and legendary: beings like the enigmatic Time Trapper and the monstrous master computer Computo, the dark magician Mordru and even the infamous Darkseid; groups like the Fatal Five, the Dark Circle and the Legion of Super-Villains; whole races like the Dominators, the Khunds and the Controllers. Most have had their fleeting victories, their rare moments of triumph before the Legion defeated them.
Yet there is one opponent who can claim to have achieved his goal of world domination against the opposition of the Legion, not simply once but twice, and both times for extended periods, to the point the Legion was forced to battle him as underdogs, something no other opponent of the Legion throughout its long history and many revisions has achieved.
That opponent is the malevolent hypnotist (or telepath) Universo.
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‘Mayhem of the Music Meister!’ — “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”
“And so for me, it’s destiny to be the maestro of villainy!
Yes I’m the Music Meister, and I’m here to settle the score!”
In the most unusual of all of the episodes of “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”, an all-singing, all-dancing episode, where heroes and villains alike fall under power of the hypnotic melodies of the Music Meister!
‘The Puppet Master’ — Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise, once the head of an international crime syndicate, had a passion about confronting slavers and drug smugglers, so it is to be expected that one of the men she took down would come back for vengeance. How he would go about it, however, would involve Modesty’s closest confidant, Willie Garvin, in a plot where she is brainwashed into killing him!
‘Zipping Along’ (1953)
In the Coyote’s ever-present quest to catch the Road Runner, he resorts to hypnosis! Of course, the fail here is quite epic.
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‘The Eyes Have It’ (1945)
Donald Duck gets a hypnotism kit in the mail, complete with hypno-goggles and an instruction book that tells him to “Select a Subject of Low Intelligence”, and so he selects his dog Pluto. Stereotypical hilarity results.
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“The Avengers” (2012)
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The summer’s biggest movie so far, and likely the biggest of the whole summer, is Marvel’s “The Avengers”. Directed and scripted by Joss Wheton, it has all the action anyone would want in a movie as well as the humor, the characters, even the pathos.
And, it even has mind control. NOTE: Spoilers Ahead! You Have Been Warned!
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‘Reply Box No 666’ — “The Champions”
“Craig Sterling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett These are the Champions.
“Endowed with the qualities and skills of superhumans — qualities and skills, both physical and mental, to the peak of human performance. Gifts given to them by an unknown race of people, when their ‘plane crashed near a lost civilisation in Tibet. Now, with their secrets known only to them, they are able to use their fantastic powers to their best advantage as the Champions of law, order and justice. Operators of the international agency, Nemesis!”
“The Champions” was a British television (ITC) production, starring three individuals, Craig Stirling (Stuart Damon), Sharron Macready (Alexandra Bastedo) and Richard Barrett (William Gaunt), all of whom work for a NATO law enforcement organization named Nemesis (this being the Cold War era) and its head, Tremayne (Anthony Nicholls). who was not aware of the peculiar abilities of his three best agents. On their first mission in Communist China, their plane was shot down over Tibet, where they were rescued by members of an advanced, hidden civilization and returned to full health and beyond. Their treatment gave them extraordinary physical and mental abilities: enhanced senses, strength and reflexes, superior intellect, a limited precognitive ability and a psychic link between them, among other things they were then unaware of.
Some of the episodes involved elements of hypnosis and mind control, but episode ‘Reply Box No 666’ stands out because of the hypnosis scene involving Macready as the seductive (appropriately enough, as she did seduce her subject back to her room prior to the induction) hypnotist.
‘Class 1–7 Soutarou Kanou’ — “Maid Sama!”
In “Maid Sama!” (“KaichÅ wa Maid-sama!” or “The President is a Maid!) student class president Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female class president of Seika High School, quite an achievement as the school used to be male-only but was recently converted to a co-ed school. An exceptional student and athlete, she is determined to reform the boys of the school, who are still unaccustomed to the new girl students, and make the school a better place for both sexes.
In episodes #14–15, ‘Class 1–7 Soutarou Kanou’ and ‘School Visitation Association & A Glasses Rabbit’, Misaki is hard at work getting the student council to help plan and coordinate a successful open house. However, freshman student Soutarou Kanou, who is extremely withdrawn and even terrified and hateful of girls, wants to sabotage Misaki and the open house, and the best way he knows is through hypnosis.