Mesmetron

Mesmetron is a Fallout 3 weapon that is used in the quest Strictly Business. When used on the specified quest NPCs, it puts them into a hypnotic stupor, allowing the player to rob and enslave them(by putting a Slave Collar on them) and send them to Paradise Falls. It also appears to work on some other NPCs, but often simply sends them into a berserk frenzy in which they become hostile towards the player and every other NPC in the area. Occasionally, the victim will run several steps before their head explodes.

Trivia

 * The Mesmetron is similar to the Persuadertron from the Syndicate game series, going as far to even being named similar. The Persuadertron on the other hand allowed complete domination over a victim without the need of a Slave Collar.

Such as:
 * The idea of an exploding Slave Collar is featured in quite a few movies and novels.


 * The Running Man where people are held captive through the use of collars around their necks that can be triggered to explode.


 * Another film making use of an "exploding collar" to make prisoners obey is Wedlock . Also widely known as Deadlock.


 * Exploding collars are also used in the movies Battle Royale and Battle Royale 2: Requiem, and in the 3-part anime series Cyber City: OEDO 808.


 * The Playstation 2 game Ratchet: Deadlocked/Ratchet: Gladiator (outside the US) features exploding slave collars. In co-op, these explode when the two players are too far away from each other for ten seconds.


 * An exploding collar was prominent in the unusual death of Brian Douglas Wells, also known as The Pizza Bomber.


 * In Episode 2 of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, Strong Bad is placed under house arrest using an exploding collar when he refuses to pay an arbitrary email tax.


 * Exploding collar also appears in the amazingly awful movie "Battlefield Earth'

Appearances
Mesmetron appears only in Fallout 3.