Is someone gaslighted?
Browse movies, tv shows, books and more where someone gets gaslighted.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity (Wikipedia). It’s no fun to be watching a film only for a character to find out they’ve been lied to and/or manipulated the whole movie.
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Nina_time
Vriska gaslights Tavros in several occasions.
Book • 2003 Report
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Needletail
Squirrelflight is frequently gaslighted by Bramblestar in Squirrelflight’s Hope
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Book • 1949 Report
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ijustsettheworldonfire
This is basically the definition of 1984. [Minor spoilers] An authoritarian government manipulating its people and constantly and consistent changing the past by altering and destroying physical evidence. Also, there's "thought crimes" which is a type of manipulation. The people are basically so brainwashed that they could be presented with actual physical evidence and deny reality.
Book • 1986 Report
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lillianm
Beverly is gaslighted by her father
Book • 2019 Report
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MacArthurFrancesHowe
Arguably most of the characters, byt the hidden villainof the piece.
Book • 2016 Report
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Book • 2020 Report
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Kris
Main character essentially gaslights herself, and the book gaslights the reader about the events of the previous novel.
Book • 2018 Report
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Book • 2020 Report
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Almost everyone gaslights the protagonist with her suspicions about the neighbor. Her husband is the biggest culprit of this
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Dannypuppy
In series 3, book 6, Sol encourages a group of stray cats to take on a pack of wild dogs and trains them to do so. When the group of cats lose, some of them being killed, Sol gaslights them by telling them he had no say in the matter and taking on the dogs was entirely the strays' idea.
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Hamarhemmo
Richard is at least very much manipulated and lied to by his "friends"
Book • 2013 Report
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Roosterwhale
A character attempts to convince a sexual abuse survivor that no abuse actually occured, it was merely an expression of "brotherly love".
Book • 2020 Report
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Someone404
Luke/Kronos attempts to break Percy/Annabeth's trust in one another multiple times
Book • 2017 Report
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TarotCard
Max is a gaslighter.
Book • 2019 Report
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amwhite91
I would argue that Prince Philip and the Queen gaslight Prince Henry with regard to his sexuality.
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Book • 2017 Report
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ZeroiaSD
One character convinces another they has a medical condition to manipulate them.
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Cassiman
Andrew by Luther
Book • 2018 Report
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KoKoCrispy
Incredibly toxic family, and there's quite a bit of emotional violence from the brother towards the main character. There's extreme gaslighting from a large number of the people in the book towards the main character/author.
Book • 2019 Report
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vriska
jake is gaslighted by dirk and jane
Book • 2014 Report
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jaimetchi
It’s torture - and causes self harm
Book • 2018 Report
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xxeaphyr
The plot revolves around Evan gaslighting those around him.
Book • 2017 Report
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Kingfisher
Attempted. The main antagonist attempts to gaslight the main character into believing he's his split personality and therefore they are the same person with the same crimes. This does not work.
Book • 2022 Report
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Petrified
Religion is used to convince certain characters of things they might not otherwise believe.
Book • 2022 Report
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The author experiences gaslighting from her mother, her manager, and various other individuals in her life
Book • 1977 Report
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