History MindRape / Comicbooks

!!!Creator/DCComics
* This is the explanation for Dr. Light's VillainDecay in Franchise/TheDCU. As revealed in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'', while mindwipes were tolerated (to protect secret identities), a cabal in the League [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality]] to make him a near-HarmlessVillain after he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil physically raped one of their wives]]. When ComicBook/{{Batman}} saw the mind wipe and tried to stop it, ''he'' was mind wiped too of the previous ten minutes. While Dr. Light eventually retook [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]], Batman lost what little trust he had in the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and created [[BigBrotherIsWatching Brother Eye]]. Note that the mind-wiper in question was ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}''. In that continuum, she had been a trusted friend of Batman's since childhood. Double whammy on the mind screw.

* ComicBook/DoctorFate's Helmet of Fate has the power to mind-rape anybody who tries to wear it and use it for evil purposes, usually by causing the unwanted wearer to go insane, as [[ComicBook/NewGods Glorious Godfrey]] found out the hard way at the end of ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DCComics}}'', and also his nemesis Wotan in an issue of ''ComicBook/SecretOrigins''.
** The Helm may work like this on ''everybody''. DependingOnTheWriter, the Helm may be a tool, a ''sentient'' tool with some definite opinions on how it should be used, or the real Doctor Fate with the guy wearing it just being the body currently being ridden by the helmet. Writers who incline towards the latter interpretation tend to depict the human part of Doctor Fate as choosing to sort of mentally "lie back and think of England". Notably, the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Doctor Fate had a period where he wore a half-helm, leaving the lower part of his face bare, specifically to avoid the possessive/controlling nature of the real Helm.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** In the ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' story, where the Joker tricks Mister Mxyzptlk out of most of his 5th dimensional powers to reshape reality, [[spoiler:the Joker finally manages to kill Batman. He then revives Batman and kills him in a different way. The process is repeated over and over for several months until Superman works up enough willpower to challenge the Joker. When he asks Batman what he should do, Superman is horrified to learn that Batman is so broken, he asks Supes to kill Joker when he has a chance. When reality is properly restored, Mxyzptlk and the Spectre reveal to Superman that the experience of dying countless times has ruined Batman's mind and he literally can't live with that knowledge. Superman makes the hard choice to move the memories to The Joker's mind.]] In the epilogue, Batman mentions that he has slept well, while Superman mentions having some trouble sleeping...
** In some of their first ComicBook/PostCrisis encounters, Superman was the victim of a series of vicious psychic attacks by Brainiac. Coupled with his guilt from recently being forced [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlSaga to take the lives of the Phantom Zone criminals]], the whole experience was so traumatic that it led him to suffering severe SanitySlippage, to the point that he started to develop an actual split personality. This results in the story arc ''ComicBook/SupermanExile'', where he left Earth to sort things out without causing a danger to anyone near him.

** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Red Lantern]] Sheko does this to her victims to judge whether they are innocent or guilty. She tries to violate Supergirl's mind to read her memories, but she's stopped by Supergirl's mother's memory.
** In ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'', the sorcerer Nightflame and her minions do this to Supergirl, stealing her soul, bringing her to a psychic Hell and then trying to drain her life-force and her powers as tearing away a part of her mind from the rest.

* ''ComicBook/TopTen'': The Libra Killer, a.k.a. M'rrgla Qualtz the so-called "Vigilante of Venus," is an ex-porn star and serial killer with telepathic abilities. When she's finally caught and detained (after killing numerous prostitutes to feed off their pineal glands), she uses her powers to try and torment her captors into freeing her.
** She briefly puts Sgt. Hector "Monsoon" Lopez in a LotusEaterMachine hallucination akin to a 70s porno to get him to open her prison, but he's thankfully snapped out of it.

--->'''M'rrgla Qualtz''': [[SmugSnake Oh Handsome JACK, you're not MAD at me, are you lover?]]

** In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]], he attacks the teenaged Vanessa Kapatelis while in prison by trapping her in nightmares where her mother and Diana berate her before devolving into monsters and killing her, at which point she "wakes" before the whole thing starts over with a few differences. Once he gets out he helps break her mind and turn her into the next Silver Swan. He also decides to get in touch with Diana by putting dozens of people on roofs and other places and forcing them to jump to their near deaths, speaking a few words to her using each of them before she forces him out.

!!!Creator/MarvelComics
* This is the premise of ComicBook/GhostRider's "Penance Stare" power. By looking into the eyes of a sinner, he forces them to experience all the pain they have inflicted onto others. It's not infallible, however, as an attempt by the Rider to use the Stare on ComicBook/ThePunisher proved ineffective. Why? Punisher's the ultimate KnightTemplar and has no regret in him for his murders, feeling that they were all justified.

* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'':
** Molly's parents were evil mutant telepaths who absolutely ''loved'' raping people's minds, to the point where they once left a would-be rival unable to move for ''seven years''. It's implied that they may have used their powers on Molly herself on several occasions. For added FridgeHorror, Molly's mom was a ''[[PsychoPsychologist therapist]]''.
** In Creator/JossWhedon's run, the kids meet the time-traveling parents of Gertrude Yorkes, [[spoiler:who had died some time earlier]]. The kids are then faced with a problem: The elder Yorkeses can not be allowed to return to the future with the knowledge they have, because that could change said future (which, having already happened, was the past for the main characters), but just mind wiping is considered too nice considering their actions ([[ItOnlyWorksOnce and they had already used a mind wiping spell]]). Nico, however, [[TakeAThirdOption realizes that she has options]] and casts the spell "The Show Must Go On". The Yorkeses know everything that will happen to them, up to and including [[spoiler:their own deaths and the death of their daughter after them]], but are incapable of doing anything to alter the flow of events. Nico is a very clear example of why you should ''always'' BewareTheNiceOnes.
** In the "Homeschooling" arc, Nico uses magic to make Klara docile after the latter is caught in an explosion and won't stop crying and Chase threatens to beat her if she doesn't shut up. Molly raises the question of how this is in any way different from what her parents used to do to make her behave.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
** This is the modus operandi of the villain named the [[EmotionControl Psycho-Man]]. He uses an emotion controlling device called the Control Box with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin three buttons]] on the side labeled 'Fear', 'Doubt', and 'Hate'. He takes a sadistic pleasure in using it to instill the corresponding emotions in his victims.
** Doctor Doom has forced a number of different forms of this upon Reed Richards. The time when he repeatedly invaded Reed's dreams to turn him into a ManchurianAgent and make him turn his friends over to Doom for torture and imprisonment was one of the very few times Reed actually considered flat-out murdering Doom.
* This is the telepathic mutant villain Mindscan's favored tactic in ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Rogue (working for Weapon X) steals Jean Grey's powers and makes Iceman relive an invasive surgery he experienced as a child, without the anesthesia.
* Back in 1991, ComicBook/AlphaFlight fought a villain named Headlok, and his psychic attacks were actually called mind-rape.
* Carol Danvers/ComicBook/MsMarvel was mind-raped twice. An extra-dimensional character called Marcus (supposedly the son of the [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] foe Immortus) kidnaps her "and admittedly, with a subtle boost from Immortus's machines -- you became mine." He impregnates her with his own essence to be born on to her on Earth. She returns with him to Limbo, but he [[RapidAging rapidly ages]] and dies. Upon her return to Earth, she is attacked by Rogue, who through prolonged contact [[PowerParasite permanently steals Danvers's powers as Ms. Marvel]]. Professor Xavier is able to restore her memories but not her emotional connection to them. Comic book historian Carol A. Strickland criticized the storyline in an essay titled "The Rape of Ms. Marvel".
* The ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' mini-series sees the Squadron launch a project to solve all the world's problems. To prevent crime Tom Thumb invents a machine that can reprogram minds. Initially used to rehabilitate criminals on a voluntarily basis it's eventually used to forcibly reprogram some of the supervillains against their will and Golden Archer uses it to force Lady Lark to love him.

!!!Other
* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', this is the effect that [[spoiler:Ozymandias' cloned monstrosity has on several ''thousands'' of the people who survived the creature's explosion. Ozymandias actually had artists, musicians and writers come up with imagery and sounds so thoroughly alien and bizarre (without them knowing what they were doing) that when coded inside a "psychic shockwave" released by the creature in its death drove said thousands utterly insane]]. A particularly disturbing example briefly mentioned in a news report was [[spoiler:a woman that performed an abortion on herself because she was convinced her ''unborn child was eating her from the inside!'']]
* From ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'':
-->'''[[BigBad Sonatine]]:''' Listen. Your mother was a prostitute, your father was her pimp. Start believing... NOW.\\
'''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Bouncer]]:''' [[BigNo NO]]!\\
'''[[DamselInDistress Jenny]]:''' What'd you do to him?\\
'''Sonatine:''' Rewrote his memory. Tremendous fun.
%% * ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'':
%% ** Essentially, ''The Apocalypse Suite'' arc would not have functioned without this trope.
%% ** Most of ''Dallas'' turned into mind rape for the readers. In a good way. If that is possible.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. Preludes and Nocturnes. 24 Hours. John Dee.
** ''To the entire world'', no less. The fact that Morpheus fixes everything but leaves John Dee with what amounts to a slap on the wrist shows quite clearly how much the Endless are AboveGoodAndEvil.
** Also, in a reminder that our "heroes" are [[MoralMyopia not always nice]], when a cop rightfully pulls Delirium over for reckless driving, she leaves him envisioning bugs all over him, [[FateWorseThanDeath "for ever and always"]]!
* In the ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' "Portrait of a Mutant" story, Johnny mind-rapes a couple of Kreelers under the guise of reading their minds to prevent them from revealing that he is Nelson Kreelman's son.
* In ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'', Luke Skywalker joins the Emperor. It was the better option of a SadisticChoice, and he planned to subvert the cause from within. Things [[BecomingTheMask didn't work out as planned]], but when Leia's presence reminded him what he'd been trying to do, he tried to kill the Emperor. The Emperor survived, but didn't kill Luke, who could still be useful.
-->'''Emperor:''' You. Are. ''Nothing.''\\
'''Luke:''' Where am I?\\
'''Emperor:''' ''Alone.''\\
'''Luke:''' No -- Help me--\\
'''Emperor:''' There is no one. There is only the Dark Side.\\
'''Luke:''' I... am... a Jedi. ''[he screams]''\\
'''Emperor:''' You are not Jedi. You are nothing. ''You have no name.''\\
'''Luke:''' My name -- is --- ''Skywalker!'' ''[he screams again, louder]''\\
'''Emperor:''' YOU. HAVE. NO. NAME!\\
'''Luke:''' I--\\
'''Emperor:''' Listen to the Dark Side. You have no name.\\
'''Luke:''' I have... ''[dully]'' no name.\\
'''Emperor:''' You serve the Dark Side.\\
'''Luke:''' I... s-serve...
* Just before the events of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Lord Sidious tasks Darth Maul with crippling the most powerful criminal organization in the galaxy, Black Sun. Maul accomplishes this flawlessly. As he is killing the last of the vigos, an Iktotchi, a species with innate telepathic abilities, tries to force his way into Maul's mind to find out who sent him. It backfires terribly--the sheer blackness of the Sith's mind ravages the vigo's without Maul even having to do anything to him.
* Near the end of the fourth saga of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'', [[spoiler: Phobos [[GrandTheftMe in Endarno's body]]]] tortures Will by making her 'see' a supposed future in which she'll be left alone by everyone if she doesn't surrender the Heart of Kandrakar to him. In the end she believes him... [[{{Determinator}} And]] ''[[{{Determinator}} still]]'' [[{{Determinator}} electrocutes him with lethal force]], stopping short from actually killing him only because [[spoiler: she wanted to reverse the FreakyFridayFlip before sending him back to his cell, a FateWorseThanDeath for him]].
* In the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Ellie's Friends", this happens to Ellie when her college roommate used a device to scan her genius knowledge of robotics and keep her from sharing it with anyone else.
* Mind rape is essentially what the Dark Man of ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' does to his victims. He is the darkness and evil of the world, the boogeyman, the terror in the closet and under the bed. He terrifies his victims, then consumes and uses their own fears to get behind the victim's defenses to destroy them.
** In ''Fables: Rose Red'', he's shown coming up silently and invisibly behind two NYPD officers. His influence causes the younger to confess to the elder that he's been sleeping with Kathy (apparently a wife/girlfriend). The elder officer ''shoots'' the younger, then suicides. Part of the point being so the Dark Man can claim their teeth.
** Later in the same book, his summoned witherlings -- a type of zombie -- aren't building fast enough for the Dark Man's liking. He invokes fears in their minds: one, the horror of drowning while inches below the surface; the other, the image of his lady leaving him. The Dark Man speaks, describing in detail what he's forcing into the man's mind; the woman of this once-man's dreams, with another, in the most carnal way possible. The witherling chooses to jump off the building. And yet, if the Dark Man has any of the man's teeth left, he can summon him again.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The Dark Judges in their second appearance focus their psychic powers in an attack on Judge Anderson's mind to "crush it until it bleeds". She's losing this fight until she channels [[TheDogBitesBack the spirits of their victims to obliterate them]].

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' graphic novel ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', the Joker brutally tortures Commissioner Gordon with images of the MonsterClown's torture of his daughter Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Batgirl, in an effort to prove that "one bad day" can drive anyone insane. [[spoiler:He fails.]]
* Also in DC, ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'s sister. Black Mask drove her to insanity by killing her husband in front of her [[spoiler:and then force-feeding her his eyeballs]].
* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' V drives Lewis Prothero, the former head of the concentration camp that created him, into incurable insanity by throwing his treasured doll collection into the very ovens where Prothero had burned the bodies of his victims. When V dumps Prothero on the Norsefire government's doorstep afterwards, he is reduced to a catatonic state, and is only capable of muttering "Mama!" over and over again.

* This is the explanation for Dr. Light's VillainDecay in Franchise/TheDCU. As revealed in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', while mindwipes were tolerated (to protect secret identities), a cabal in the League [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality]] to make him a near-HarmlessVillain after he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil physically raped one of their wives]]. When ComicBook/{{Batman}} saw the mind wipe and tried to stop it, ''he'' was mind wiped too of the previous ten minutes. While Dr. Light eventually retook [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]], Batman lost what little trust he had in the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and created [[BigBrotherIsWatching Brother Eye]]. Note that the mind-wiper in question was ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}''. In that continuum, she had been a trusted friend of Batman's since childhood. Double whammy on the mind screw.

* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] took control of Gotham City and put mind-controlling devices in everyone's heads. James Gordon exploited that in order to protect [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] by rewriting her memories and altering his daughter's [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara]]. The thought that he did to his birth daughter to save his adoptive one keeps him up at night.

** In some of their first ComicBook/PostCrisis encounters, Superman was the victim of a series of vicious psychic attacks by [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]]. Coupled with his guilt from recently being forced [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlSaga to take the lives of the Phantom Zone criminals]], the whole experience was so traumatic that it led him to suffering severe SanitySlippage, to the point that he started to develop an actual split personality. This results in the story arc ''ComicBook/SupermanExile'', where he left Earth to sort things out without causing a danger to anyone near him.

** "You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words '''parsley''', '''intractable''' or '''longitude''', you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours." Seriously, don't piss off Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}}. Frost ''is'' this trope.
** When she was originally introduced as a member of the Hellfire Club back in 1980, she was essentially an EvilCounterpart of [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]], being a CorruptCorporateExecutive telepath, who ran the Massachusetts Academy, [[AcademyOfEvil her own equivalent]] to Xavier's [[SuperheroSchool School for Gifted Youngsters]], but with the goal advancing the interests of the Hellfire Club. In her first appearance she captures some of the X-Men, puts them into bondage using PowerNullifier devices and attempts Mind Rape on [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] while keeping her bound on what was essentially a Saint Andrew's Cross before she is stopped by Phoenix. Mind you, she does all of this while dressed as a {{Dominatrix}}.

** In ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]] catches Frost and [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] in bed ([[MentalAffair inside of Cyclops' mind]]) -- something that bordered on Mind Rape itself, since Cyclops had been mind-raped by sharing mind and body with Apocalypse for a good long while, and Emma was supposed to be his therapist, making this horrendously unethical on multiple levels. Emma's cavalier response provokes her to psychically tear Emma to shreds, [[LaserGuidedKarma making her relive her worst memories]].
** Actually, ''ComicBook/XMen'' is full of examples of Mind Rape, both by villains ''and heroes'' alike, from Professor X re-formatting [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]'s brain, through [[ComicBook/NewXMen Cassandra Nova forcing Beak to beat Beast an inch away from death with a baseball bat]], to [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga Dark Phoenix punishing Mastermind's hunger for power by granting him omniscience]].

** This is also how [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]] defeats Domino in ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse''.
** When Chuck Austen needed an excuse for Lorna a.k.a. Polaris' [[DerailingLoveInterests seriously OOC behavior]] [[{{Yandere}} against Havoc and Nurse Annie]], he came up with her having been unstable from a while already due to a previous and ''really'' massive Mind Rape. Said Mind Rape? [[spoiler:Being telepathically forced to witness the Sentinels' massacre of Genosha, with the culprit being the aforementioned Cassandra Nova.]] It still wasn't enough for Austen to dig himself out of the huge hole he jumped in, though.

** While on a VillainProtagonist kick (and apparently channeling LeeroyJenkins), Characters/{{Mystique}} put her psychic resistance to the test against KnightTemplar über-telepath [[Characters/MarvelComicsExodus Exodus]]. How'd it go for her? [[https://static0.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/54-Uncanny-X-Men-014-1.jpg Not well]].

** Characters/DoctorDoom has forced a number of different forms of this upon Reed Richards. The time when he repeatedly invaded Reed's dreams to turn him into a ManchurianAgent and make him turn his friends over to Doom for torture and imprisonment was one of the very few times Reed actually considered flat-out murdering Doom.

* [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] was mind-raped twice. An extra-dimensional character called Marcus (supposedly the son of the [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] foe Immortus) kidnaps her "and admittedly, with a subtle boost from Immortus's machines -- you became mine." He impregnates her with his own essence to be born on to her on Earth. She returns with him to Limbo, but he [[RapidAging rapidly ages]] and dies. Upon her return to Earth, she is attacked by Rogue, who through prolonged contact [[PowerParasite permanently steals Danvers's powers as Ms. Marvel]]. Professor Xavier is able to restore her memories but not her emotional connection to them. Comic book historian Carol A. Strickland criticized the storyline in an essay titled "The Rape of Ms. Marvel".

** M'rrgla then commits literal MindRape on Det. Jackie "Jack Phantom" Kowalski, assaulting her with images of the two of them having sex. This naturally enrages Jackie who threatens to kill M'rrgla if she ever violates her like that again, which makes Top 10 look like they're treating PoliceBrutality.

* ''ComicBook/Top10'': The Libra Killer, a.k.a. M'rrgla Qualtz the so-called "Vigilante of Venus," is an ex-porn star and serial killer with telepathic abilities. When she's finally caught and detained (after killing numerous prostitutes to feed off their pineal glands), she uses her powers to try and torment her captors into freeing her.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', the Joker gives a similar speech to police detective Ethan Bennett, while simultaneously terrorizing him with hypnosis and poisoning him with the chemicals that would turn him into the first Clayface.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', [[spoiler:where mind rape was just ''one'' of [[MoralEventHorizon SEVERAL things]] that the Joker subjected young Tim Drake to, torturing and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing him]] into becoming "J.J", the Joker's Mini Me. The effects of such a mind rape last until Tim's adulthood and are a BIG plot point in the movie.]]

* ComicBook/DoctorFate's Helmet of Fate has the power to mind-rape anybody who tries to wear it and use it for evil purposes, usually by causing the unwanted wearer to go insane, as [[ComicBook/NewGods Glorious Godfrey]] found out the hard way at the end of ''ComicBook/LegendsDC'', and also his nemesis Wotan in an issue of ''ComicBook/SecretOrigins''.

!!!DC
* This is the explanation for Dr. Light's VillainDecay in Franchise/TheDCU. As revealed in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', while mindwipes were tolerated (to protect secret identities), a cabal in the League [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality]] to make him a near-HarmlessVillain after he physically raped one of their wives. When Franchise/{{Batman}} saw the mind wipe and tried to stop it, ''he'' was mind wiped too of the previous ten minutes. While Dr. Light eventually retook [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]], Batman lost what little trust he had in the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and created [[BigBrotherIsWatching Brother Eye]]. Note that the mindwiper in question was ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}''. In that continuum, she had been a trusted friend of Batman's since childhood. Double whammy on the mind screw.
* ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'': Dr. Destiny is a wheelchair-bound cripple, but if he makes eye contact with you, ''your mind is as good as gone''. [[spoiler:Batman beats him by pitching him down a flight of stairs]].
* Mortis in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' basically has this as her superpower. The moment she gets in physical contact with another person, she forces them to relive every bad decision and horrible thing they've ever done in their lives, and most of her victims end up killing themselves just to make it stop. She subjects ComicBook/BlackCanary to this, forcing the heroine to first endure visions of her dead parents, then visions of Green Arrow, Roy Harper, and her adoptive daughter Sin for collectively abandoning them when they really needed her. However, Canary is able to break out of this when Mortis tells her that her friends have failed her, as Canary's belief in her teammates is unwavering.

* ComicBook/DoctorFate's Helmet of Fate has the power to mind-rape anybody who tries to wear it and use it for evil purposes, usually by causing the unwanted wearer to go insane, as Glorious Godfrey found out the hard way at the end of DC Comics' ''[[ComicBook/LegendsDC Legends]]'', and also his nemesis Wotan in an issue of ''Secret Origins''.
** The Helm may work like this on ''everybody''. Depending on the writer the Helm may be a tool, a ''sentient'' tool with some definite opinions on how it should be used, or the real Dr Fate with the guy wearing it just being the body currently being ridden by the helmet. Writers who incline towards the latter interpretation tend to depict the human part of Dr Fate as choosing to sort of mentally "lie back and think of England". Notably, the Golden Age Dr Fate had a period where he wore a half-helm, leaving the lower part of his face bare, specifically to avoid the possessive/controlling nature of the real Helm.
* In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', the supervillains who chose to follow Libra are given updated armor, which includes a Mad Hatter-designed helmet designed to constantly broadcast the Anti-Life Equation into their heads, turning them into Justifiers. The process, while brief, shatters the user's psyche and conditions them to slavishly obey [[GodOfEvil Darkseid]].
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'':
** ComicBook/LexLuthor took control of Gotham City and put mind-controlling devices in everyone's heads. James Gordon exploited that in order to protect [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] by rewriting her memories and altering his daughter's [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara]]. The thought that he did to his birth daughter to save his adoptive one keeps him up at night.
* The cover of an issue of ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' shows Fury having the memories of her pre-Crisis parents (the Golden Age Wonder Woman and her husband General Steve Trevor) forcibly erased in a Mind Rape-y fashion by her fellow member Brainwave Jr. In the actual comic book story itself, however, Brainwave Jr. sees that Fury is tormented by the memories of her pre-Crisis parents since not only are they gone from the mortal realm to be with each other forever on Mount Olympus, but also that they no longer existed in the new post-Crisis history that was just created, so he alleviates her pain with a bit of LaserGuidedAmnesia applied to her memories via his telepathic powers.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Saturn Queen of the Legion of Super-Villains is a native-born telepath from Titan in the 31st Century, so naturally this is her modus operandi. There are least two distinct versions of her that operate under different motivations:

** The Saturn Queen seen in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' and later in ''Comicbook/Supergirl2005'', has the credit of murdering the Comicbook/MartianManhunter ''twice'' in her lifetime by shutting his mind down, and has also lobotomized at least one version of the Legion of Super-Heroes in its entirety.
* ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'': Pre-52 J'onn's EvilTwin Ma'ale'fa'ak did this once to his own sister-in-law, J'onn's wife M'yri'ah. To the Green Martians this was the greatest violation of the open trust shared by their race possible. Malefic's punishment was severe indeed: his PsychicPowers were stripped away along with his memories of the event, leaving him to be shunned without knowing exactly why. J'onn himself has been guilty of mentally violating someone more than once, usually for the greater good.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''
** In the ''Comicbook/EmperorJoker'' story, where the Joker tricks Mister Mxyzptlk out of most of his 5th dimensional powers to reshape reality, [[spoiler:the Joker finally manages to kill Batman. He then revives Batman and kills him in a different way. The process is repeated over and over for several months until Superman works up enough willpower to challenge the Joker. When he asks Batman what he should do, Superman is horrified to learn that Batman is so broken, he asks Supes to kill Joker when he has a chance. When reality is properly restored, Mxyzptlk and the Spectre reveal to Superman that the experience of dying countless times has ruined Batman's mind and he literally can't live with that knowledge. Superman makes the hard choice to move the memories to The Joker's mind.]] In the epilogue, Batman mentions that he has slept well while Superman mentions having some trouble sleeping...
** In some of their first Post-Crisis encounters, Superman was the victim of a series of vicious psychic attacks by ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}. Coupled with his guilt from recently being forced [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlSaga to take the lives of the Phantom Zone criminals]], the whole experience was so traumatic that it led him to suffering severe SanitySlippage, to the point that he started to develop an actual split personality. This results in the story arc [[ComicBook/SupermanExile "Exile,"]] where he left Earth to sort things out without causing a danger to anyone near him.
* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]] Sheko does this to her victims to judge whether they are innocent or guilty. She tries to violate Supergirl's mind to read her memories, but she's stopped by Supergirl's mother's memory.
** In ''Comicbook/DemonSpawn'' sorcerer Nightflame and her minions do this to Supergirl, stealing her soul, bringing her to a psychic Hell and then trying to drain her life-force and her powers as tearing away a part of her mind from the rest.
** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Supergirl Vol. 2]] a psychic mutant assaults Supergirl telepathically. Kara beats his attack when she stops resisting it and instead channels her energy into blow him away with her SuperBreath.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' villain Doctor Psycho virtually embodies this trope.
** While his powers were different during [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]] he still left his victims babbling messes in psychically induced comas.
** In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]] he attacks the teenaged Vanessa Kapatelis while in prison by trapping her in nightmares where her mother and Diana berate her before devolving into monsters and killing her, at which point she "wakes" before the whole thing starts over with a few differences. Once he gets out he helps break her mind and turn her into the next Silver Swan. He also decides to get in touch with Diana by putting dozens of people on roofs and other places and forcing them to jump to their near deaths, speaking a few words to her using each of them before she forces him out.

!!!Marvel
* This is the premise of Comicbook/GhostRider's "Penance Stare" power. By looking into the eyes of a sinner, he forces them to experience all the pain they have inflicted onto others. It's not infallible, however, as an attempt by the Rider to use the Stare on ComicBook/ThePunisher proved ineffective. Why? Punisher's the ultimate KnightTemplar and has no regret in him for his murders, feeling they were all justified.
* ''ComicBook/XMen''. 'You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words '''parsley''', '''intractable''' or '''longitude''', you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.".' Seriously, don't piss off ComicBook/EmmaFrost. Frost ''is'' this trope.
** When she was originally introduced as a member of the Hellfire Club back in 1980 she was essentially an EvilCounterpart of Professor X, being a CorruptCorporateExecutive telepath, who ran the Massachusetts Academy, [[AcademyOfEvil her own equivalent]] to Xavier's School, but with the goal advancing the interests of the Hellfire Club. In her first appearance she captures some of the X-Men, puts them into bondage using PowerNullifier devices and attempts Mind Rape on ComicBook/{{Storm}} while keeping her bound on what was essentially a Saint Andrew's Cross before she is stopped by Phoenix. Mind you, she does all of this while dressed as a {{Dominatrix}}.
** Her most awe-inspiringly grotesque act of Mind Rape was in issue #17 of Creator/JossWhedon's ''Astonishing ComicBook/XMen'', where she [[spoiler:traps ComicBook/KittyPride in what starts out as a LotusEaterMachine where she marries and bears ComicBook/{{Colossus}}' son... only for ComicBook/ProfessorX to declare the baby too dangerous for her to raise. Colossus then knocks Kitty out and takes the baby, whereupon Xavier locks him in a cryogenic vault beneath the mansion. Kitty then tortures the location of the vault out of Colossus by ''phasing an axe into his head''. She then goes straight there, phases through the box and frees... '''Cassandra Nova''', who had been manipulating Frost from inside that box '''''since the beginning of Whedon's run.''''' It takes several ''dozen'' near-death experiences for Kitty to get over the knee-jerk hatred she had for the rest of the X-Men remaining from the dream.]]
** Another of her famous tricks was punishing Dr. Kimura, a sadistic villain with an awful past as well as ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s abusive trainer, by making her forget the only person who was ever kind to her [[spoiler: before sending her out to kill everyone in the facility she worked on]].
** In ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', ComicBook/JeanGrey catches ComicBook/EmmaFrost and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} in bed ([[MentalAffair inside of Cyclops' mind]]) -- something that bordered on Mind Rape itself, since Cyclops had been mind-raped by sharing mind and body with Apocalypse for a good long while, and Emma was supposed to be his therapist, making this horrendously unethical on multiple levels. Emma's cavalier response provokes her to psychically tear Emma to shreds, [[LaserGuidedKarma making her relive her worst memories]].
** Actually, ''ComicBook/XMen'' is full of examples of Mind Rape, both by villains ''and heroes'' alike, from Professor X formatting ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s brain, through Cassandra Nova forcing Beak to beat ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} an inch away from death with a baseball bat and mindraping Kitty, to Dark Phoenix punishing Mastermind's hunger for power by granting him omniscience.
** An example of one of Emma's more hilarious tricks was causing a group of anti-mutant protesters to orgasm uncontrollably.
** One of Emma's students, {{Em|otionControl}}path, learned from her example and was prone to abusing his powers. At one point he psionically coerced two human staff members at Xavier's School to [[RapeByProxy have sex]].

** This is also how [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] defeats Domino in ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse''.
** When Chuck Austen needed an excuse for Lorna aka ComicBook/{{Polaris}}' [[DerailingLoveInterests seriously OOC behavior]] [[{{Yandere}} against Havoc and Nurse Annie]], he came up with her having been unstable from a while already due to a previous and ''really'' massive Mind Rape. Said Mind Rape? [[spoiler: Being telepathically forced to witness the Sentinels's Massacre of Genosha, with the culprit being the aforementioned Cassandra Nova]]. It still wasn't enough for Austen to dig himself out of the huge hole he jumped in, though.
*** Considering that Alex and Annie had "psychically dated" while he was ''in a coma'', there's Mind Rape in ''how'' these dates came to be too. They were caused by Annie's son Carter, a boy with [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic powers]] who wanted a daddy so badly that he wasn't above forcing Havok to date his mother in his mind. Not that it helped the plot too much, Chuck.
** While on a VillainProtagonist kick (and apparently channeling LeeroyJenkins), ComicBook/{{Mystique}} put her psychic resistance to the test against KnightTemplar ubertelepath Exodus. How'd it go for her? [[https://static0.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/54-Uncanny-X-Men-014-1.jpg Not well]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''

** In Creator/JossWhedon's run, the kids meet the time-traveling parents of Gertrude Yorkes, [[spoiler:who had died some time earlier]]. The kids are then faced with a problem: The elder Yorkeses can not be allowed to return to the future with the knowledge they have, because that could change said future (which, having already happened, was the past for the main characters), but just mind wiping is considered too nice considering their actions ([[ItOnlyWorksOnce and they had already used a mind wiping spell]]). Nico, however, [[TakeAThirdOption realizes that she has options]] and casts the spell "The Show Must Go On." The Yorkeses know everything that will happen to them, up to and including [[spoiler:their own deaths and the death of their daughter after them]], but are incapable of doing anything to alter the flow of events. Nico is a very clear example of why you should ''always'' BewareTheNiceOnes.

* This is the modus operandi of the [[EmotionEater Psycho-Man]], an old Comicbook/FantasticFour villain. He uses an emotion controlling device called the Control Box with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin three buttons]] on the side labeled 'Fear', 'Doubt', and 'Hate'. He takes a sadistic pleasure in using it to instill the corresponding emotions in his victims.
** Doom has forced a number of different forms of this upon Reed Richards. The time when he repeatedly invaded Reed's dreams to turn him into a ManchurianAgent and make him turn his friends over to Doom for torture and imprisonment was one of the very few times Reed actually considered flat-out murdering Doom.
* Telepathic mutant villain Mindscan's favored tactic in ''Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': ComicBook/{{Rogue}} (working for Weapon X) steals Jean Grey's powers and makes Iceman relive an invasive surgery he experienced as a child, without the anesthesia.

* In ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', when Teen Jean gets her psychic powers, she hijacks [[spoiler:Angel]]'s brain twice in a day to make him go along with what ''she'' wants, which is very specifically to stay in the present-day Mansion.
* In ''ComicBook/XMenBlue'', Emma attempts to psychically transform Teen Cyclops into the (now dead) Adult Cyclops.
* ComicBook/CarolDanvers was mind-raped twice. An extra-dimensional character called Marcus (supposedly the son of Avengers foe Immortus) kidnaps her "and admittedly, with a subtle boost from Immortus's machines—you became mine." He impregnates her with his own essence to be born on to her on Earth. She returns with him to Limbo but he rapidly ages and dies. Upon her return to Earth she is attacked by Rogue who, through prolonged contact, permanently steals Danvers's powers as Ms. Marvel. Professor Xavier is able to restore her memories but not her emotional connection to them. Comic book historian Carol A. Strickland criticized the storyline in an essay titled "The Rape of Ms. Marvel".
* A ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' mini-series sees the Earth-712 Squadron launch a project to solve all the world's problems. To prevent crime Tom Thumb invents a machine that can reprogram minds. Initially used to rehabilitate criminals on a voluntarily basis it's eventually used to forcibly reprogram some of the supervillains against their will and Golden Archer uses it to force Lady Lark to love him.

* ''Comicbook/TheSandman1989''. Preludes and Nocturnes. 24 Hours. John Dee.

* In the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Ellie's Friends," this happens to Ellie when her college roommate used a device to scan her genius knowledge of robotics and keep her from sharing it with anyone else.

** In ''Fables: Rose Red'', he's shown coming up silently and invisibly behind two NYPD officers. His influence causes the younger to confess to the elder that he's been sleeping with Kathy. (Apparently a wife/girlfriend.) The elder officer ''shoots'' the younger, then suicides. Part of the point being so the Dark Man can claim their teeth.
** Later in the same book, his summoned witherlings -a type of zombie- aren't building fast enough for the Dark Man's liking. He invokes fears in their minds: one, the horror of drowning while inches below the surface; the other, the image of his lady leaving him. The Dark Man speaks, describing in detail what he's forcing into the man's mind; the woman of this once-man's dreams, with another, in the most carnal way possible. The witherling chooses to jump off the building. And yet, if the Dark Man has any of the man's teeth left, he can summon him again.

* Also in DC, Catwoman's sister. Black Mask drove her to insanity by killing her husband in front of her [[spoiler:and then force-feeding her his eyeballs]].

* An example of an attempted physical rape that ends up as pure Mind Rape: in the 80s ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' series, one of the concepts constantly explored in the series is {{Alternate Universe}}s. Well, a "Kaptain Briton" from an alternate universe where England is a totalitarian state switched places with ours, and in a scene infamous to this date, [[spoiler:he tried to rape Betsy Braddock, aka Comicbook/{{Psylocke}}, Captain Britain's sister (and in a certain way, his own). Psylocke killed him in self-defense using her telepathic powers, still believing it was her own brother who tried to rape her]]. Needless to say, this experience fucked her up.

--> '''[[BigBad Sonatine:]]''' Listen. Your mother was a prostitute, your father was her pimp. Start believing... NOW.
--> '''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Bouncer:]]''' [[BigNo NO!]]
--> '''[[DamselInDistress Jenny:]]''' What'd you do to him?
--> '''Sonatine:''' Rewrote his memory. Tremendous fun.

* ''Comicbook/TheSandman''. Preludes and Nocturnes. 24 Hours. John Dee.

** Also, in a reminder that our "heroes" are [[MoralMyopia not always nice]], when a cop rightfully pulls Delirium over for reckless driving, she leaves him envisioning bugs all over him. [[FateWorseThanDeath "for ever and always"]]!

--> '''Emperor''': You. Are. ''Nothing.''
--> '''Luke''': Where am I?
--> '''Emperor''': ''Alone.''
--> '''Luke''': No - Help me-
--> '''Emperor''': There is no one. There is only the Dark Side.
--> '''Luke''': I... am... a Jedi. *he screams*
--> '''Emperor''': You are not Jedi. You are nothing. ''You have no name.''
--> '''Luke''': My name - is - ''Skywalker!'' *he screams again, louder*
--> '''Emperor''': YOU. HAVE. NO. NAME!
--> '''Luke''': I-
--> '''Emperor''': Listen to the Dark Side. You have no name.
--> '''Luke''': I have... *all the strain goes out of his voice. Dully:* no name.
--> '''Emperor''': You serve the Dark Side.
--> '''Luke''': I... s-serve...

* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' graphic novel ''Comicbook/TheKillingJoke'', the Joker brutally tortures Commissioner Gordon with images of the MonsterClown's torture of his daughter Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, in an effort to prove that "one bad day" can drive anyone insane. [[spoiler:He fails.]]