Mind bug
Are you a crazed Decepticon from the future? Do you have access to a spacecraft full of deactivated Autobots? Are you trying to work out which of them have the inherent personality flaws that will allow you to control them as your own private army?
You, my friend, need a mind bug.
Fiction
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When Galvatron chanced across the deserted Ark, he sent a mind bug to probe the dreams of the deactivated Autobots within while he waited in his nearby spaceship. However all did not go according to plan; after the bug caused Prowl, Ironhide, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, and Silverbolt to relive their most shameful moments the mental stimulus was enough to wake them from their slumber and they discovered and deactivated the mind bug. Galvatron boarded the Ark to investigate but they were ready for him—Wheeljack even had enough time to put together a new mind control device that trapped Galvatron in his own personal nightmare world. ...Perchance to Dream