‘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!

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“The Avengers” (2012)

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/]

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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“Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone” by Ian McDonald

As a bril­liant graph­ic arts stu­dent, Ethan Ring stum­bled on a secret so awe­some that its exis­tence could not remain hid­den. The com­put­er-gen­er­at­ed images he helped cre­ate con­tained infi­nite pow­ers: the pow­er to heal, erase mem­o­ries, bring ecsta­sy. kill sav­age­ly. Locked into a dev­il’s bar­gain with the mono­lith­ic Euro­pean gov­ern­ment, Ethan now sees his one change to escape the dark forces of destruc­tion that have enslaved his soul. He will brave the treach­er­ous ter­rain, the law­less bands of aki­ra, and the pow­er-armored secu­ri­ty forces to under­take a thou­sand-mile pil­grim­age. But the dan­ger Ethan fears most comes from with­in. It is the seduc­tive lure of his own gift, a pow­er whose cost may be his own damnation.

Pri­mal man­dalas, pried loose from the deep­est parts of the brain, capa­ble of affect­ing any­one who sees them. One caus­es reli­gious ecsta­sy. One engen­ders heal­ing. One caus­es men­tal blind spots and anoth­er men­tal blank­ness. One eras­es memories.

One caus­es obe­di­ence in who­ev­er sees it.

And one kills.

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“This Island Earth” (1955)

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047577/] Atomic scientist Doctor Carl Meacham (Rex Reason) is selected to join a very secret scientific research organization, based on his ability to assemble a device beyond any human science.…