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* This happens twice in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' when Batman gets drugged by the Scarecrow, resulting in massive InterfaceScrew and a FissionMailed before entering a twisted world based on his psyche. However, Batman fights it off due to HeroicWillpower, to the horror of Scarecrow. It also happens in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' with [[spoiler:the Mad Hatter and Ra's al-Ghul]] and one last time in ''Arkham Knight'', [[spoiler:which involves Batman fighting off the last memories of the Joker and sealing them away]].

* The [[AntiClimaxBoss standoff]] with the Volturi in ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'' can be interpreted as this, as Bella [[spoiler:uses her vampiric ability to [[AntiMagic block out powers]] to protect Cullen allies from Jane's ability to [[AgonyBeam telepathically cause pain to others]]]].

* This happens in the climax of ''Fanfic/GettingBackOnYourHooves''. [[spoiler:After [[BigBad Checker Monarch]]'s EngineeredPublicConfession, she [[VillainousBreakdown snaps]] and casts a mind spell to trap Trixie and her friends in [[YourWorstNightmare their worst nightmares]] in order to break them. Thanks to a lucid dreaming trick that Trixie [[ChekhovsGun taught them earlier]], the girls are all able to see the [[AGlitchInTheMatrix flaws in the dreams]] and take control of them, before forcing the [[MindHive pieces of Checker's consciousness]] attacking them out. Said pieces [[OneWingedAngel fuse together]] and try to destroy them, but they [[ClippedWingAngel easily defeat it]]. They then travel to Trixie's dream, where she's being attacked by the main part of Checker's mind, and give her the strength and encouragement she needs to fight back and finally defeat Checker.]]

* In ''Anime/WeissKreuz Gluhen'', Berger draws Crawford into his own psychic mindscape to fight him. Crawford, however, manages to turn it around on Berger and pull both of them into the center of ''his'' own mind -- and unlike in Berger's, in Crawford's mind, they aren't alone.

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': In the ''Marie Route'' AlternateTimeline, there’s an attempt at DemonicPossession of Marie by a VengefulGhost in her sleep, portrayed as taking place within a dream. Once Marie is fully alert to the threat, it looks like Marie is turning into a HumanoidAbomination in her dream... [[BaitAndSwitch only for]] Marie to let out a spoiled cry for her KnightTemplarBigBrother to help her, and for him to come in with GlowingEyesOfDoom and kick the intruder out [[BatterUp using a baseball bat]].

* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': With Temenos in your party at night, you can challenge [=NPCs=] to coerce information out of them, fighting them on an endless plane of inch-deep water. The battle ends as soon as the NPC runs out of shield points.

* In a similar way as above, in ''VideoGame/Injustice2'', Scarecrow is a playable character that appears as a demonic ragdoll monster with magic powers and a huge metallic scythe. However, in cutscenes as well as the start of matches, we see he's really just a spindly scientist with a bag on his head; the one that does the battling is an hallucination born from his Fear Gas, essentially making every fight with Scarecrow this trope.

* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' has (so far in the story) four characters sharing a same body because [[spoiler:[[BlobMonster the jelly monster]] can absorb other characters]]. It doesn't help that one of them came with a SuperpoweredEvilSide. There is a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between [[spoiler:the host]] and the villain when the villain is discovered.

* Monique from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' once [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-17 tried to defeat a rhinovirus with(in) her mind.]]
* ''Webcomic/CriticalMiss'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9272-Erin-in-Wonderland explains the principle.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', Agent 8 [[spoiler:fights Agent 3 in their head as a BonusBoss after getting every Mem Cake. After the fight, Agent 8 feels "like the freshest Octoling ever" and gets the Golden Toothpick headgear]].

* One of the main gimmicks of ''Gachitora!'' for the Playstation Portable is the ''Soul Nude Battle'' system - basically, while regular enemies are fought with GoodOldFisticuffs, your students' traumas are fought with [[BreakThemByTalking dialogue]] symbolized by literal fights. [[LeaveMeAlone Social outcast]]? He'll make you sure [[BarrierWarrior to not be bothered]]. Suicidical IdolSinger? She'll use [[MusicalAssassin her talent to fight you]]. Family problems caused by [[MeddlingParents monster parents]]? Watch out for his [[MakeMyMonsterGrow literally inflated Ego]]. Young girl working [[BrokeEpisode to pay a massive debt]]? [[MoneyMauling Watch for the giant beam-shooting purse]]. SchoolNewspaperNewsHound accused of faking a story? Beware of [[PhantomZonePicture his new scoop]]. [[HollywoodHacking Hacker]] with NoSocialSkills? Be ready to fight [[DigitizedHacker a bunch of computer screens]]. Pressure of being a not good enough teacher? You'll literally kick [[EmotionalPowers the negative feelings]]' ass. AlwaysSecondBest? Beware of [[AssumedWin the #1's celebration party fireworks]]. BigBrotherBully? [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Give him a well-deserved beating]]. [[BatterUp Ex-baseball player]] accused of a forced suicide? [[FinalExamBoss Hoo boy]].

* The ending of Creator/RobertSheckley's ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20919 The Status Civilization]]'' involves one of these. [[spoiler:The Earth civilization brainwashes children to make them responsible members of society -- and this brainwashing includes strong urge to report on oneself in case of committing a crime (or even being in a situation where you can be a suspect) and to commit suicide in case these lessons are ever remembered consciously. Barrent was sent to Omega because he confessed in a crime he never committed, returned to the Earth and had to fight these old urges that took form of the worst memories he got from Omega.]]

* The ally-assisted version was used in the book ''Prince of the Sidhe'', when King Aedh of Eiru (Ireland) gets drugged by the book's villain. We see Aedh's mindscape (which is just as confused as he is), and get things from his point of view when the titular character comes to Aedh's assistance in his own unique fashion.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' (more specifically, Church and Tex) took a trip into Caboose's mind while he was semi-possessed. Interestingly, the actual fight against the evil force is done against a backdrop of the actual Red Vs Blue war ... with a few unique ideas of who's involved.

* ''WebAnimation/HololiveERROR'', mainly in the animated manga, turns out to [[spoiler:primarily be set ''in'' one of these, albeit downplayed due to there not being any actual fighting. One side of Shino Misora doesn't know that the world she's in is fake, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia generally has some severe amnesia about the events of the past]], and simply wants to live a happy school life with her friends, the other ''does'' know and is rather abrasive about it. Not to mention the mysterious third Shino that appears in Chapter 19, who drags the main Shino back into [[LotusEaterMachine the Perfect World]] once she finds out that she was DeadAllAlong and ''[[InTheDreamingStageOfGrief does not take it well]]''.]]

* Happens in ''VideoGame/Earthbound1994'', as Ness has to fight his own Nightmare (which is the evil part of his mind) at the end of his [[DreamLand dream world]] known as Magicant. By defeating it, Ness' true potential is released.
** {{Averted|Trope}} in ''[[VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings Mother]]'', as that Magicant is [[spoiler:Maria]]'s dream instead of Ninten's. Likewise, a fight with Lucas' Nightmare was removed from ''VideoGame/Mother3'', which has no Magicant.

* This happens twice in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' when Batman gets drugged by The Scarecrow, resulting in massive InterfaceScrew and a FissionMailed before entering a twisted world based on his psyche. However, Batman fights it off due to HeroicWillpower, to the horror of Scarecrow. It also happens in the sequel with [[spoiler:the Mad Hatter and Ra's al-Ghul]] and one last time in ''Arkham Knight'' [[spoiler:which involves Batman fighting off the last memories of the Joker and sealing them away]].