Mind Pollen

A type of pollen found in a breed of genetically engineered flowers. The skunk botanist Colonel Stench had bred the flowers in hopes of making a perfume that would eliminate his natural skunk odour. What he ended up creating was a flower that held a pollen that could alter the mind and leave Mobians open to hypnotic suggestion.

In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode Road Hog, Dr. Robotnik stole Col. Stench's crop of flowers and began harvesting the hypnotic pollen to enslave all of Mobius. When Sonic tried to stop him, he ended up being buried under a heap of pollen and Robotnik hypnotized him into thinking he was just an ordinary slow-mo. The doctor then loaded canisters of pollen into his Robo-Blimp and began dusting Mobian citizens with it whilst Scratch and Grounder followed on the ground in a loud-speaker truck, commanding the brainwashed citizens "YOU LOVE DOCTOR ROBOTNIK, THE SUPREME DICTATOR OF MOBIUS".

Whilst under the pollen's spell, Sonic met the Road Hogs biker gang, who started to bully the dazed hedgehog. The lead biker even poured juice on Sonic's head, which washed off some of the pollen and temporarily turned Sonic back to normal. After Sonic had humiliated the gang by taking one of their bikes, they told him he could be their new leader, which he believed since he was still affected by the pollen. Sonic and the Road Hogs then terrorized a nearby town until Robotnik's blimp passed over them, dusting the Road Hogs and Sonic (again) with the mind pollen. Tails and Col. Stench had followed them whilst wearing gas masks to protect themselves from the pollen and stuffed ear plugs into the Road Hog's ears to protect them from Scratch and Grounder's hypnotic command. Once they were gone, Tails screamed Sonic back to his old self. Sonic then commanded the brainwashed Road Hogs into helping him stop Robotnik. The Hogs took out Scratch and Grounder's truck whilst Sonic fought Robotnik atop his Robo-Blimp.