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In the film MirrorMask, the main character Helena is brainwashed by the Queen of Shadows into becoming her daughter. In the TV show Codename: Kids Next Door, a group of villainous kids called the Delightful Children from Down the Lane are revealed to be brainwashed Kids Next Door members of Sector Z, having been delightfulized by the villain ...
AI takeover in popular culture. Fantastic Adventures cover depicting "The Robot Peril", 1940. AI takeover —the idea that some kind of artificial intelligence may supplant humankind as the dominant intelligent species on the planet—is a common theme in science fiction. Famous cultural touchstones include Terminator and The Matrix.
Brainwashing[a] is the controversial theory that purports that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques. [1] Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds ...
List of episodes. " Roswell That Ends Well " is the nineteenth episode in the third season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 51st episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 9, 2001. The plot centers on an accidental time travel event that results in the main ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...
A classic science-fiction weapon, particularly in British and American science-fiction novels and films, is the raygun. A very early example of a raygun is the Heat-Ray featured in H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds (1898). [2][3] The discovery of X-rays and radioactivity in the last years of the 19th century led to an increase in the ...
Budget. $16.5–30 million [3][4] Box office. $120 million [5] Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers. It stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio ...
Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler 's 1872 novel Erewhon. Since then, many science fiction stories have presented different effects of ...