Thread:Love Robin/@comment-30634893-20170426112511/@comment-25008763-20170426125631

like Love Robin says, it sounds like they are no worse than Mobians in Sonic that are Roboticized by Robotinik / Eggman or mutants who are forced to kill other mutants by U-Men or (another X-Men reference) humans who became "Sentinels" when Bastion infected them with nanites.

these types of "bad guys" are not really to blame, no matter how horrible their actions, if a villain implants a "kill command" or something into a usually neutral / good person and that person commits crimes the blame should fall to the cause of the brainwash, not the victim themselves.

I remember a Samurai Jack episode in which Aku was brainwashing teens using "evil music", they became roaming gangs of thugs and smashed up buildings, almost killed an Inn Keeper (who was also the father of one of the children) - Jack was going to attack when the father told him they were only children and Jack stopped.. Jack's next course was to go and free the children.. his logic was it was not the children's fault that they were commiting these evil acts, even though one of them was going to murder her own father.. Jack decided it was Aku to blame, not the children.. I guess that's how it should be seen, unless brainwashing goes for a LONG time and defines the character (aka Darth Vader)