History MindRape / Comicbooks

* ''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:

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman villain'' Doctor Psycho virtually embodies this trope.

* 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/{{Punisher}} proved ineffective. Why? Punisher's the ultimate KnightTemplar and has no regret in him for his murders, feeling they were all justified.

** 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 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 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.]]

** When ComicBook/JeanGrey catches ComicBook/EmmaFrost and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} in bed (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 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.

** When Chuck Austen needed an excuse for Lorna aka Polaris's [[DerailingLoveInterests seriously OOC behavior]] [[{{Yandere}} against Havok 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.

** 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 ''[[PsychoTherapist therapist]]''.

* ''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.

* In All-New X-Men, 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 X-men Blue, Emma attempts to psychically transform Teen Cyclops into the (now dead) Adult Cyclops.
* Carol Danvers 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 Squadron Supreme 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.

** 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 "Exile," where he left Earth to sort things out without causing a danger to anyone near him.

* 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]].
** 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.
* 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.
* In [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokolips]], mind-rapes are an everyday occurrence.
-->'''Big Barda:''' For showing compassion, Granny would condemn me to a thousand mindyears of all-pain.
* ''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.

* ''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:
** The Saturn Queen seen in the post-''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' Legion series, which is supposed to be set in the definitive 31st Century of the DC Universe, is a misanthropic sociopath who believes that all human beings are inherently evil and self-serving individuals who simply hide their dark desires from everyone else.
** 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/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.
* Creator/GailSimone created a villain named Mortis in her last run on ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' who 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.
* 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. Perfectly ordinary people who were treating each other with decorum and politeness turn into homicidal lunatics as he enters their range.
* 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.

* 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.

** While on a VillainProtagonist kick (and apparently challenging 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]].

* In All-New X-men, 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/NewGods Apokolips]], mind-rapes are an everyday occurrence.
--->'''Big Barda:''' For showing compassion, Granny would condemn me to a thousand mindyears of all-pain.

* 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. 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 Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and creates Brother Eye.

* ''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 anasthesia.

** In one of their first Post-Crisis encounters, Superman was the victim of the a vicious psychic attack 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 "Exile," where he left Earth to sort things out without causing a danger to anyone near him.

** In one of their first Post-Crisis encounters, Superman was the victim of the a vicious psychic attack 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 led him to suffering severe SanitySlippage, to the point that he started to develop an actual split personality. This results in the story arc "Exile," where he left Earth to sort things out without causing a danger to anyone near him.

** In one of their first Post-Crisis encounters, Superman was the victim of the a vicious psychic attack 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 led him to suffering severe SanitySlippage, to the point that he started to develop an actual split personality. This results in the arc "Exile," where he left Earth to sort things out without causing a danger to anyone near him.

* 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...

* An example of an attempted physical rape that ends up as pure MindRape: 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.

** When ComicBook/JeanGrey catches ComicBook/EmmaFrost and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} in bed (inside of Cyclops' mind) - something that bordered on MindRape 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 MindRape, both by villains ''and heroes'' alike, from Professor X formatting ComicBook/{{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.

** When Chuck Austen needed an excuse for Lorna aka Polaris's [[DerailingLoveInterests seriously OOC behavior]] [[{{Yandere}} against Havok and Nurse Annie]], he came up with her having been unstable from a while already due to a previous and ''really'' massive MindRape. Said MindRape? [[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 MindRape 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.

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* [[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/WonderWoman villain Doctor Psycho virtually embodies this trope.
* ''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 the current Legion series, which is supposed to be set in the definitive 31st Century of the DC Universe, is a misanthropic sociopath who believes that all human beings are inherently evil and self-serving individuals who simply hide their dark desires from everyone else.
** The Saturn Queen seen in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' and later in ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 2005}} Supergirl]]'', 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 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).

** When ComicBook/JeanGrey catches ComicBook/EmmaFrost and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} in bed (inside of Cyclops' mind), Emma's cavalier response provokes her to psychically tear Emma to shreds, [[LaserGuidedKarma making her relive her worst memories]].

* 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 Supergirl's mother's memory.

** The Saturn Queen seen in ''Superman/Batman'' and later in ''Comicbook/{{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.

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

* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' V drives Lewis Prothero, the former head of the concentration camp that created him, into incurable insanity by throwing his treasured doll 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.

** 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.

* 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!'']]

* 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.
* 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...
* 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 Supergirl's mother's memory.
* 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. 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 Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and creates Brother Eye.
** 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/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).
* Telepathic mutant villain Mindscan's favored tactic in ''Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* Franchise/WonderWoman villain Doctor Psycho virtually embodies this trope. (See: details [[Monster/DCComics here]].)
* ''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 anasthesia.

* ''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 the current Legion series, which is supposed to be set in the definitive 31st Century of the DC Universe, is a misanthropic sociopath who believes that all human beings are inherently evil and self-serving individuals who simply hide their dark desires from everyone else.
** The Saturn Queen seen in ''Superman/Batman'' and later in ''Comicbook/{{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.
* 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''.

* Back in 1991, ComicBook/AlphaFlight fought a villain named Headlok, and his psychic attacks were actually called mind-rape.
* Creator/GailSimone created a villain named Mortis in her last run on ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' who 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.

* 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. Perfectly ordinary people who were treating each other with decorum and politeness turn into homicidal lunatics as he enters their range.

* 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 Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and creates Brother Eye.
** The mindwiper in question was ''Zatanna''. In that continuum, she had been a trusted friend of Batman's since childhood. Double whammy on the mind screw.