Mind trick/Legends


 * "The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded." &mdash;Obi-Wan Kenobi

The mind trick is a tactic often employed by Jedi in order to solve difficult situations in a non-violent manner. It is a trick played on the weak-minded by Jedi using the Force to influence the weak-minded to feel urged to agree with the Jedi.

In the movies
The Jedi mind trick is mentioned or is used in The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, and Return of the Jedi.

The Phantom Menace
Qui-Gon Jinn uses the mind trick to convince the leader of the Gungans, Boss Nass, to allow Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi to depart in a bongo with Jar-Jar Binks. Later, Jinn attempts to convince Watto, a Toydarian junk dealer, to allow him to use Republic credits to buy spare parts for Queen Amidala's royal starship. Watto asks Jinn if he thinks he's "some kind of Jedi, waving his hand around like that." He claims that mind tricks don't work on Toydarians&mdash;only money.

Attack of the Clones
Obi-Wan Kenobi refuses the offer of a slythmonger for Cilona-extract "death sticks," which are powerful narcotics. Kenobi convinces the slythmonger with a wave of his hand that he wants to "go home and rethink his life."

Revenge of the Sith
Obi-Wan again uses the mind trick to avoid any unnecessary entanglements, here on the sinkhole world of Utapau. In order to procure transport needed to track down General Grievous, Obi-Wan uses the Force to persuade a local Utai dragonmount-handler to assist him. The Utai allows Kenobi to ride Boga, a loyal varactyl mount, to reach the tenth level of Pau city.

A New Hope
Obi-Wan once more makes use of the Jedi mind trick, this time to convince an Imperial officer that he and Luke do not have the droids that the Empire is looking for and that they may move along. Some may argue that it was also again used by Obi-Wan Kenobi to distract some Imperial officers while disabling the tractor beam holding the Millennium Falcon captive in the Death Star I.

Return of the Jedi
Luke Skywalker uses a mind trick to convince Bib Fortuna to allow him an audience with Jabba the Hutt. Jabba later criticizes Fortuna for falling for such a mind trick.

In gaming
Various games have represented the Jedi mind trick as a means of slipping past opponents without being seen. It in one instance it was named "Persuasion," but accomplished the same thing. A mind trick in the game is employed, and your character becomes invisible to (an) opponent(s). Other instances in games employ the mind trick so that using it makes your opponents join your party by attacking other of your opponents; usually the effect wears off.

Chapter XV
Yoda uses the mind trick to make Typho, the commandant of Padme Amidala spaceship, to say that he agrees to help save Luminara Unduli and Barriss Offee in Ilum. The fun part is that Padme clearly recognizes the trick.

Employing the Jedi mind trick
When using a Jedi mind trick, a Jedi often waves his or her hand to aid in the persuasion. The Jedi adopts a peculiar tone of voice but a casual facial expression. The sentient being as the object of the mind trick tends to adopt a casual tone of voice but peculiar facial expression. He or she, if possessing a relatively weak mind, then agrees to whatever is being told to them without being able to think for themselves. In novelizations of the movies, the object of the mind trick can be read to be arguing with his or her cohorts due to the mishap.