3. How Purple Man’s Powers Work
- Company: Marvel Comics
- Real Science: Neurology, Suggestive Sciences
- Possible to Recreate: Yes
Purple Man is a fun villain within Marvel Comics who has the power to control people. It is said that he does this due to the pheromones he releases when he’s around someone. The way he manages to make people do things is actually possible with hypnosis and suggestion. Although his powers run via pheromones, they have to reach the brain. Meaning the brain is the big thing to trick. Colin Cloud and Derron Brown have proven hypnosis and suggestion CAN influence decisions.
Colin used it to make AGT judges pick what he wanted them to pick after he randomly showed up in their lives disguised, asking them to say things or having them hear stuff. Derron used hypnosis and suggestion to actually have a man shoot a famous comedian while in a hypnotic state (fake kill, of course). Hypnosis cannot make a person do something they do not want to do, but implanting suggested ideology can. Thus proving Purple Man’s abilities can and have been replicated.