History MindRape / Comicbooks

* ComicBook/DoctorFate's Helmet of Fate has the power to mind-rape anybody who tries to wear it and use it for evil purposes, 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''.

** 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.

* Telepathic mutant villain Mindscan's favored tactic in ''GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}''. 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:

* During the horrific events of the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', Black Lantern Psycho-Pirate is dispatched to Smallville, where he uses his powers to twist the locals by filling their hearts with rage, greed and fear, and proceeds to calmly stroll down the street as people kill each other in their houses.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''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 of Supergirl's mother's memory.

* In the Franchise/{{Superman}} "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...
* 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), [[spoiler:a cabal in the League [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality]] to make him a near-HarmlessVillain. When Franchise/{{Batman}} saw the personality changing, ''he'' was mind wiped too... of the previous ten minutes. While Dr. Light eventually retakes [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]], Batman loses what little trust he had in the ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} and creates Brother Eye.]]

** The Saturn Queen seen in ''Superman/Batman'' and later in {{Supergirl}}, has the credit of murdering the Martian Manhunter ''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.

** Actually, ''ComicBook/XMen'' is full of examples of MindRape, both by villains ''and heroes'' alike, from Professor X formatting {{Magneto}}'s brain, through Cassandra Nova forcing Beak to beat Beast 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.

* In the ''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.

** Molly's parents were evil mutant telepaths who absolutely ''loved'' raping people's minds. It's implied that they may have used their powers on Molly herself on several occasions.
** 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 Yorks know everything that will happen to them, up to and including [[spoiler:their own death 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.

* Franchise/WonderWoman villain Doctor Psycho virtually embodies this trope. (See: details [[Monster/DCAndVertigo here]].)

* In ''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.

* GailSimone created a villain named Mortis in her last run on ''BirdsOfPrey'' who basically had 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 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.

* 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), [[spoiler:a cabal in the League [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality]] to make him a near-HarmlessVillain. When Franchise/{{Batman}} saw the personality changing, ''he'' was mind wiped too... of the previous ten minutes. While Dr. Light eventually retakes [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]], Batman loses what little trust he had in the {{Justice League|OfAmerica}} and creates Brother Eye.]]

* In Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''{{Comicbook/Runaways}}'', 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 Yorks 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 Yorks know everything that will happen to them, up to and including [[spoiler:their own death 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.

* [[MartianManhunter J'onn's]] EvilTwin Malefic did this once to a fellow Green Martian. This was an unspeakable crime in Green Martian society since they are normally a very open telepathic race. To them 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 (so he couldn't get any sick pleasure from it).

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}''. '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.

** Actually, ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' is full of examples of MindRape, both by villains ''and heroes'' alike, from Professor X formatting {{Magneto}}'s brain, through Cassandra Nova forcing Beak to beat Beast 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.

* ''{{Ultimate X-Men}}'': Rogue (working for Weapon X) steals Jean Grey's powers and makes Iceman relive an invasive surgery he experienced as a child, without the anasthesia.

* Back in 1991, AlphaFlight fought a villain named Headlok, and his psychic attacks were actually called mind-rape.

** Her most awe-inspiringly grotesque act of Mind Rape was in issue #17 of JossWhedon's ''Astonishing ComicBook/XMen'', where she [[spoiler:traps Kitty Pride in what starts out as a LotusEaterMachine where she marries and bears Colossus' son... only for Professor X 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.]]

** One of Emma's students, [[EmotionControl Empath]], 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]].

* An example of an attempted physical rape that ends up as pure MindRape: in the 80s ''Captain Britain'' 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.

* 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), [[spoiler:a cabal in the League [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality]] to make him a near-HarmlessVillain. When Franchise/{{Batman}} saw the personality changing, ''he'' was mind wiped too... of the previous ten minutes. While Dr. Light eventually retakes [[TakeALevelInBadass a level in badass]], Batman loses what little trust he had in the {{Justice League|OfAmerica}} and creates Brother Eye.]]

* In JossWhedon's run on ''{{Comicbook/Runaways}}'', 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 Yorks 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 Yorks know everything that will happen to them, up to and including [[spoiler:their own death 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 Fantastic Four]] 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.

--> '''[[DistressedDamsel Jenny:]]''' What'd you do to him?

* WonderWoman villain Doctor Psycho virtually embodies this trope. (See: details [[Monster/DCAndVertigo here]].)

* Just before the events of ''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... [[TheDeterminator And]] ''[[TheDeterminator still]]'' [[TheDeterminator 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]].

* 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.]]

* ''TheUmbrellaAcademy'' - Essentially, ''The Apocalypse Suite'' arc would not have functioned without this trope.
** Most of Series 2, "Dallas" turned into mind rape for the readers. In a good way. If that is possible.

* An example of an attempted physical rape that ends up as pure MindRape: in the 80s ''Captain Britain'' 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/{{X-Men}} 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.

** When Jean catches Emma and Scott in bed (inside of Scott's mind), Emma's cavalier response provokes her to psychically tear Emma to shreds, [[LaserGuidedKarma making her relive her worst memories]].

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}''. '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/XMen2000sMembers Emma Frost]]. Frost ''is'' this trope.

** Another of her famous tricks was punishing Dr. Kimura, a sadistic villain with an awful past as well as {{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]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}''. 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 oprendai. There are least two distinct versions of her that operate under different motivations: