History MindRape / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Besides the torture detailed in the next folder, River also undergoes this whenever she makes contact with the mind of a Reaver. In "[[Recap/FireflyE03Bushwhacked Bushwhacked]]", a man tortured by the Reavers simply ''wakes up'' and she starts screaming at the mental contact. Later on, in [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]], while ''Serenity'' is passing through the Reaver fleet, her face is locked in absolute horror as she is surrounded by the Reavers, and at the end of the movie, she is rendered catatonic and helpless by their presence as they assault the crew. Then she flips to the opposite mode and becomes an unstoppable killing machine. (The door closes on her, leaving River with the Reavers. When the door opens again, River is standing there, soaked in blood, gripping an axe and a grappling hook, with what's left of the Reavers in pieces around her. Then the Alliance troops show up...) She also gets mind-raped by an entire ''planet'' when she is on Miranda, and the vast numbers of people who ''should'' have been alive but ''aren't'' sends her into a screaming mental breakdown. Being TheEmpath ''[[BlessedWithSuck sucks]]'' sometimes.

* Pretty much the background for ''Series/{{Firefly}}'''s River Tam; she was tricked into going to a government-run facility known as "the Academy" where she spent three years having her brain cut apart and transformed into a psychic killing machine. Once she was rescued, she was reduced to a babbling, incoherent and at-times [[AxCrazy violent]] little girl who spends plenty of time [[TheWoobie crying or shaking helplessly in corners]]... until she's triggered, at which point she unleashes the WaifFu to end all WaifFu.
** River also undergoes this whenever she makes contact with the mind of a Reaver. In "[[Recap/FireflyE03Bushwhacked Bushwhacked]]", a man tortured by the Reavers simply ''wakes up'' and she starts screaming at the mental contact. Later on, in [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]], while ''Serenity'' is passing through the Reaver fleet, her face is locked in absolute horror as she is surrounded by the Reavers, and at the end of the movie, she is rendered catatonic and helpless by their presence as they assault the crew. Then she flips to the opposite mode and becomes an unstoppable killing machine. (The door closes on her, leaving River with the Reavers. When the door opens again, River is standing there, soaked in blood, gripping an axe and a grappling hook, with what's left of the Reavers in pieces around her. Then the Alliance troops show up...)
** River also gets mind-raped by an entire ''planet'' in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' when she is on Miranda, and the vast numbers of people who ''should'' have been alive but ''aren't'' sends her into a screaming mental breakdown. Being TheEmpath ''[[BlessedWithSuck sucks]]'' sometimes.
* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Kilgrave [[CompellingVoice can make anyone do what he says]], and he tends to use the power to hurt people. Sometimes it's short and violent and sometimes he uses it to make someone do something unpleasant for hours at a time. In the first episode Hope has been forbidden to move, so she soils herself and she also freaks out when Jessica picks her up and carries her away from the hotel room. In Jessica's case, about a year before the series began, she had been under his control for months, only breaking out when he finally forced her to murder Luke Cage's wife, which shocked her out of it. [[AndIMustScream She described how a part of her was waiting every minute for a chance to break free and escape]].
* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Sauron submits Galadriel to this in the season one finale, taking her through a traumatising vision sequence, firstly posing as her beloved older brother Finrod ([[IncestSubtext while looking at her like no brother should ever look at his sister]]), then proposing marriage to her in the most manipulative way possible while showing her a reflected image of them together as the king and queen of Middle-earth. When she rejects him, he finishes up by showing his terrifying true colors, screaming at her in VoiceOfTheLegion and then making her believe that she's drowning in the ocean -- just like the first time she met [[spoiler:Halbrand]] -- and she may have ''actually'' drowned if it wasn’t for Elrond pulling her out of the water.

* In ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'', Number Six is subjected to this form of torture in almost half of all the series' episodes. Perhaps the most notable examples are "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE5TheSchizoidMan The Schizoid Man]]", in which he is brainwashed into believing that he is actually a Village operative assigned to impersonate Number Six, and "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE16OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]", in which he is mentally regressed to childhood.

'''Koyla:''' You torture yourself everyday, John.

*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds The Best of Both Worlds]]", Picard is assimilated by the Borg. Apart from being forced to share his mind with trillions of other Borg, his head is also mined for the very strategies that the Federation has painstakingly devised to fight them, allowing them to crush the fleet at Wolf 359. In interviews, the writers directly likened it to rape, and it's not unwarranted; in "Family" Picard breaks down as he describes how he tried to resist and couldn't. How badly he was affected didn't fully show until ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', when it becomes clear that the experience has left him with a near-insane level of rage against the Borg.
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E24TheMindsEye The Mind's Eye]]", [[TheLudovicoTechnique Romulans feed Geordi horrific images through his neural implants (which normally would connect to his VISOR)]] in order to brainwash him into becoming their ManchurianAgent.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Deaths-Head Revisited]]", the former SS officer Gunter Lütze who had escaped to South America came back to Germany to visit the concentration camp he was in charge of during World War II. He encounters the ghost of Becker, a man he killed 17 years earlier. Becker terrorizes the German with Mind Rape of what it was like to get shot, burned, hanged, etc. When the police find Lütze, he is delirious beyond help.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]", Aunt Amy was the only person who could exercise any control over Anthony Fremont, until she offended him by singing in his presence and his mind "snapped" at her. She's left as a shell of her former self, smiling vacantly and no longer watching how she acts or what she says around Anthony.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', Mesogog always does it to Zeltrax and Elsa (and at one point [[spoiler: ''his own son'']]) so they don't betray him. Though it seems to only cause tremendous pain, with no sign of emotion or memory manipulation.
* ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': An emerging SealedEvilInACan causes Daggeron to experience his own death. [[spoiler:(It happens, but a little differently than the flash-forward. [[BackFromTheDead He gets better]].)]]
* ''Series/{{Roswell}}''. Half the plots after Tess entered had her mindwarping some person or other, to the extent that [[spoiler:she ends up killing Alex by mindwarping him one too many times to get the translation to the Royal book]].
* D'avin Jaqobis on ''Series/{{Killjoys}}'' believes he's a victim of this because he murdered his entire squad but can't remember why because of neural blockers placed in his brain. [[spoiler: He is later told by the scientist who developed the process that he killed his men in the midst of a psychotic break and he requested the she remove the memories as he found them unbearable. She's lying of course and her process turned him into an unstoppable killing machine. D'av's partner Dutch offers the scientist the choice of being killed or wiped. She chooses to be killed but Dutch has her wiped anyway.]]
* Maury and Matt Parkman of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' are actually capable of Mind Rape and both father and son have the power to force some poor SOB into a living nightmare which puts their body in a coma and their mind in...well, their worst nightmare. [[spoiler:Maury gets the tables turned on him in a season two episode and gets trapped in his own mind by Matt.]]
** There is also Sylar, who just thrives on the physical imagery of this when he forcibly violates people brains to steal their powers. His attack on the regenerating teen girl Claire Bennett particularly stands out.
*** Made even worse by the fact that he seems to have a twisted sort of ''respect'' for her because of her ability - she's "extra special" or something.
** Noah Bennett and The Haitian interrogate an old company man by threatening to delete all of his happy memories. Including those of his dead daughter.
-->'''Noah''': "It will be like she never existed."
** Noah Bennett had a Crowning Moment of Revenge (really, someone needs to make this) when he confronted the injured boy that had tried to rape Claire earlier in the season. The Haitian did the actual mind raping, but Bennett's line was chilling.
-->'''Noah''': "Hollow him out. Take everything."
** Of course, all of this seems like a tumble in the hay when compared to the season 3 finale. [[spoiler:Bennet, Angela and Matt, after finding Nathan Petrelli killed by Sylar, decide to save Nathan in a rather... unusual way... Since Sylar had absorbed pretty much all of Nathan's memories, personality habits, and so forth (since he was planning on taking his place in order to become President), Matt uses this against him. He uses his telepathy to force Sylar to completely forget that he was ever Gabriel Gray ''or'' Sylar, and forced all of Nathan's personality to the forefront. This effectively erases Sylar forever and resurrects Nathan's personality within Sylar's body (which is a perfect physical and genetic match to Nathan's due to the shape-shifting power which he had absorbed). This is effectively the culmination of Sylar's identity crisis in earlier episodes, and the ultimate comeuppance for the villain's constant ability theft and MindRape: having it all backfire and be used against him. The preview for next seasons also introduces plenty more possibilities for MindRape since it appears Sylar (or his ''hunger'', at the very least) is NotQuiteDead.]] It makes you wonder why they didn't just [[spoiler:use Claire's blood to just revive the fallen senator; Noah was brought back using that method, so [[IdiotBall it should have occurred to him]]]]...
*** Them having different blood types could explain that.
** Sylar being Sylar, of course, his real personality seems to have lodged inside Matt's psyche, and now Sylar is mind raping Matt right back, turning his own power against him and [[GrandTheftMe taking over his body]] at the worst possible times.
*** And, in a nasty case of KickTheSonOfABitch, Matt [[spoiler:locks Sylar in his own worst nightmare- a world where he is completely and utterly alone. Each hour that passes in the real world is a year in the nightmare.]] Nice touch, Mr Nice Guy.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E06DustToDust Dust to Dust]]", G'Kar takes a drug called "dust" which allows the user to gain telepathic powers for a few hours. He uses it to invade Londo's mind and go through his memories, tormenting him about them in the process. He physically beats him up beforehand in order to subdue him, which emphasizes the similarity to actual rape. [[spoiler:However, before G'Kar's mind-rape session is over, Kosh visits him (first as a vision of his father, then as a sort of Narn angel), and G'Kar undergoes a [[CharacterDevelopment key change of heart]]. Although he is sentenced to 60 days in jail for his assault on Londo, he welcomes it, and writes a holy book.]]
** Also {{inverted|Trope}} in the same episode. One Dust user is found huddled on the floor screaming that the mountain was falling on him - his Mind Rape victim was a geologist who had some very vivid memories of being caught in a rockslide on Mars.
** According to Lyta Alexander, somewhere on Beta Colony there is a man in an institution who spends his days and nights screaming at things only he can see, things planted in his mind by the Psi Corps as punishment for murdering telepaths. He has to be restrained 24 hours a day lest he tear out his own eyes.
** The Shadows routinely created servants by irrecoverably altering their personalities. For example, [[spoiler:Anna Sheridan]].
** On the same token, Bester shows no qualms about mentally manipulating people to his ends. He plays Garibaldi for a puppet. After extracting him from Shadow control, he proceeds to subtly alter his personality without his knowledge. That's not the Mind Rape, though. That comes later, after he releases all the hidden memories of the incident, leaving Garibaldi to realize that he'd just betrayed his own captain and was probably going to get hell for it. On top of it, a couple of mental suggestions keep him from just shooting Bester in the head. To a guy like Garibaldi, it is mental torture of a subtle but excruciating degree. Just rectifying recent events took a ''lot'' of convincing, and it would be nearly 20 years before Garibaldi finally got payback by personally busting Bester.
** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E09Atonement Atonement]]", Delenn was rather brutally forced to relive some of her memories of the Earth-Minbari war. She had already been living with them for a long time, however, and was thus not broken.
** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E04PassingThroughGethsemane Passing Through Gethsemane]]", a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia mindwiped]] former SerialKiller is forced to relive some of his old memories of what he'd done via the interference of a Centauri telepath. Significantly, this interference is supplemented with more mundane techniques, including what looks like bloody writing on the wall (later revealed to be a 23rd-century form of disappearing ink) and recordings of voices (ostensibly of his victims).
*** In the same episode, Lyta in turn mind-rapes the Centauri telepath in order to determine who hired him to remove the mindwipe from the killer, who was living his remaining life peacefully as a monk with no memories of his former life. She earlier threatened Londo with mind-rape, after Londo threatened to turn her in to Psi Corps if she didn't divulge what she knew about the Vorlons.
* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', the psychic [[CapeBusters superhero]] Mindstorm puts Butcher in a coma and forces him to relive [[DrivenToSuicide his brother's suicide]], until TheHeart Hughie convinces him to release him.
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', the vampires can MindControl the humans, which sometimes leads to this.
* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E5Adam Adam]]", said Adam implants fake memories into the team by touching them. Using this to make Tosh believe they're a couple and sleep with her was bad enough, but when Ianto is onto him, Adam gleefully implants him with memories of brutally murdering women for pleasure, all the while saying he "forgot what a rush it is, feeding in the bad stuff".
** Ianto screams and thrashes in pain, gasps for air, cries, tries to back away, and then pleads "No... Please..." He is, understandably, horribly traumatized by this (thank goodness for hypnosis and amnesia pills). He finally completely believes he is a murderer, enough to fool the best lie-detector they have.
** As if the rape analogy isn't obvious enough here, Adam holds Ianto down and ''kisses'' him while he does all of this.
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', the Aurora Chair is designed to segment the layers of prisoners' minds in order to extract their memories, and judging from the all the screams of agony, the process is anything but pleasant.
** Scarran interrogations, which involve liberal use of both mind rape and MindScrew to drive its victims completely insane.
*** In "[[Recap/FarscapeS04E18Prayer Prayer]]", Scorpius actually refers to Scarran interrogations as "MindRape."
** Stark, capable of transmitting memories when unmasked, attempts to pull a MindRape on Jool when her whining grows too much for his already frayed nerves; he's interrupted before he can get his mask off, but the statement "I will show you something that will make you cry ''forever!''" confirms enough.
*** Done to Stark in "The Peacekeeper Wars" when John, Aeryn, and Sikozu forcibly remove his mask and make him absorb an alien's knowledge while he screams and tries to refuse. Stark, who has never been exactly sane, goes even crazier than usual for a while after this.
** Zhaan finds herself on the receiving end of this when [[DeceptiveDisciple Tahleen]] decides she isn't interested in being ''taught'' how to control her violent impulses and simply rips the information out of Zhaan's mind- during the telepathic equivalent of sex, no less.
** The Nebari "[[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYoursoul Mental Cleansing]]" process involves this. In her first episode Chiana is being escorted back to Nebari Prime so she can undergo the process but makes it clear to the rest of the cast that she'd rather ''die'' than go through it. In "A Clockwork Nebari" the crew of Moya are subjected to a temporary version that turns them into emotionless pawns until the drugs used are cleared from their system. Crichton's NotSoImaginaryFriend reverses the process for him while Rygel's [[BigEater high metabolism]] burns through it almost immediately.
* Glory, the BigBad of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' season 5, pulls people's sanity straight out of their skull and feeds on it, leaving them as gibbering messes. [[spoiler:Tara eventually ends up as one of her victims]].
** Later, Willow [[spoiler:erases Tara's memories of their arguments]] while they're in a relationship. Repeatedly. Tara is especially upset because she remembers Glory's prior violation of her mind. [[spoiler: She is likely also not happy with Willow taking advantage of this mind rape magic to ''literally'' rape her.]]
** Not to mention, Rack from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E10Wrecked Wrecked]]", who basically uses Willow (and others) as some sort of telepathic crack whore. Both Rack and Willow make orgasm faces when he transfers power into her, and then tells her that she "tastes like {{strawberr|yShorthand}}ies."
* Another Franchise/{{Buffyverse}} example: In [[Recap/AngelS01E22ToShanshuInLA the first season finale]] of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Cordelia has all the human suffering going on across the entire planet shoved into her mind. She winds up in a non-responsive helplessly-in-pain state in the hospital for most of the episode. When she gets better, it's caused her personality to change for the better. Cordelia had been self-absorbed and shallow, though not nearly as much as she used to be, having already undergone positive CharacterDevelopment before this point.
** In the comics Drusilia uncovers a demon that feeds on trauma, it fed on her and she becomes sane. She sets up shop where people go to her and ask for her help, and she has the demon trained so it feeds on them enough so that they still live with what they are so traumatized about, but it doesn't bother them anymore. [[ValuesDissonance Angel treats this as a very bad thing.]]
* Hell, Justin Crowe's main power in ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'' indeed seems to be mind rape... At first he just uses it to make people face their past sins, induce a terrible guilt upon them and make them aware that he saw it too. But in the second season he really takes it to a whole other level: he [[spoiler:has his [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]], [[KnightTemplar Iris]] procure for him a constant stream of pretty, young maidservants. He seduces them using his authority as religious and political leader of New Canaan, and has so much demonically-tinged sex with them that he breaks their minds completely. We never actually see him commit ''these'' rapes, but we see Iris cleaning up the aftermath]].
* [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} The Attic.]] Trust me, there's a ''reason'' you don't want to get sent there.
** Heck, the entire freakin' Series/{{Dollhouse}}. It's just that they [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization can make you like it]].
* On ''Series/TheListener'', Charlie thinks Toby's telepathy is this, until he [[spoiler:saves her from an actual rapist.]]
* Season three of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' has [[spoiler:Olivia repeatedly injected with a serum that overwrites her own memories with those of her alternate universe counterpart. It's quite disturbing watching the new memories slowly take over.]]
** Season Five gives us Captain Windmark. Who mind rapes people in pretty much every episode he's been in.
* Similar to the Ghost Rider example, a Fury in ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' can cause any evil doer to hear the screams of his past victims.
* During the ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' episode "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S3E19E20E21Chillogy Chillogy, Part 3: Escape From Karlsville]]", Todd enters Karlsville and is later [[spoiler:kidnapped by Karl and strapped to a table to be turned to a plastic figure since Karlsville is a model town.]] Karl begins taunting Todd with the thought of [[spoiler:being turned to plastic]] by doing such things as [[spoiler:asking him if he's afraid]] or [[spoiler:what color he wants to be turned.]] Just before [[spoiler:Todd is saved by Jessica and Matthew,]] Karl begins to chuckle as he [[spoiler:tells Todd the whole process will hurt.]] Todd than begins to scream for Karl to stop and yell for someone to help.
* In the ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode "Tale Of The Renegade Virus", the virus attempts to take over Simon's brain via plugging himself into his hand. The scene is disturbingly reminiscent of rape.
* In the ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episodes "Thanks for the Memories" and "Octopus Head", Timothy Perkal aka Lawrence Anderson aka the [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Gedächtnis Esser]] steals his victims' memories by inserting his tentacles into their brains through the backs of their skulls. The victims are usually left suffering from severe dementia.
* In Season 5 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', when Killian Jones [[spoiler:has dark magic forced inside him to save his life, he]] is forced to relive some of his worst memories, [[spoiler:as an effort of the dark magic to lure him in.]] He's screaming as this happens, and by the end of it he looks disoriented, numb and almost crazy.
* This is Dreamer's M.O. on ''Series/TheGifted2017''. At least she sometimes feels guilty about it.
* ''Series/{{Taken}}'':
** In "Jacob and Jesse", Jacob Clarke possesses the ability to show a person all of their memories and all of their fears. He first uses it on a bully named Travis as his physical weakness means that he has no other way to defend himself. After Owen Crawford kidnaps him in the hope of using him to power the alien ship, Jacob subjects him to the same treatment. The experience traumatizes Owen, haunting him for the rest of his life. In "Acid Tests", [[spoiler: it is revealed that he saw his own death from a stroke on May 4, 1970 as a result of Jacob's psychic powers and that he was always so contemptuous of his son Eric as he knew that he would be with him when he died.]]
** Also in "Acid Tests", anyone who directly looks at Lester sees all of their memories and all of their fears. This is not due to any conscious effort on Lester's part, as is the case with Jacob, but because he is completely unable to control his abilities. [[spoiler: When he tries to save Lester from a fire, Sam Crawford accidentally looks at him. As a result, they are unable to escape and both burn to death in the fire.]]
** In "John", [[spoiler: Mary Crawford asks the image of her grandfather Owen what he saw when he was mind raped by Jacob. Owen then tells her to look at him and she sees all of her memories and all of her fears as the real Owen did in 1959. Mary later tells Dr. Wakeman that she also saw how everything with Allie and the aliens will end.]]
* ''Series/Stargirl2020'': With just his mind, Brainwave can cause intense pain to people. This can go to the point of them dying from a stroke if he wishes.
* ''Series/{{Teen Wolf}}'':
** In "Pack Mentality", Peter uses his power over newly bitten Scott, to make him sleepwalk to the school, and help him attack one of his targets, a busdriver who'd been part of covering up that the Hale fire was arson. He imposes images in Scott's mind, leading Scott to dream that he himself had attacked and mauled his girlfriend, Allison.
** In "Night School", Peter Hale forces his claws into Scott's mind, and brings out his darker instincts, making it so that not only would Scott kill his friends, Stiles, Allison, Lydia and Jackson, but making Scott want to do it. Which to Scott was the worst part. It's only through luck and sheer force of will, that Scott is able to reject the Alpha's influence on him.
** In "Co-Captain", Peter, aided by his nephew Derek, corners Scott in the empty locker rooms, while Scott is only wearing a towel. He then puts his claws in Scott's neck, and forces him to live through not just the Hale fire, Peter's own time in a coma, and Peter's murder of Laura Hale, and Kate Argent's accomplices. This leads Scott with quite reasonable issues with fire afterwards.
** It is said later on in s3 that if this claw ritual is performed wrong, that it could paralyze or kill the subject.
** In several episodes of s2, the ''deceased'' Peter Hale makes appearances to Lydia in the form of hallucinations and dreams. WordOfGod has said this was the result of Lydia's banshee ability and Peter biting her to implant memories of himself in her. This allows Peter to mentally control her into helping him ressurect himself. Afterwards he mocks her on how with a little bit of therapy she'll be just fine.
** In "Motel California", the Darach adds wolfsbane to the Coach's whistle, poisoning all four werewolves on the school bus to start hallucinating. Leading three of them, Scott, Ethan and Boyd, to try and kill themelves, and forcing Isaac to relive his memories of being locked up in the freezer. The worst part is that though using a torch brings Ethan and Boyd out of their suicidal mood, with Scott, even after he himself lights a torch that should have dissipated the influence of the wolfsbane, he's still suicidal, even while perfectly aware of what he's doing. Showing that his depression is real. It's only Stiles putting himself in danger, that brings Scott out of it enough to be saved.
** The entire nogitsune arc in s3B, in regards to the Nogitsune's possession of Stiles.
** The nogitsune setting up situations for Scott to take up people's pain, including one officer's death, and then stabbing him, and absorbing all the pain took in while twisting things to let Scott know he was playing with him all along.
** "A Promise to the Death", and "Smoke and Mirrors", Peter had Kate kidnap Scott and Kira, where Kate then turned Scott into a Berserker. Subdueing his mind and first making him stab Kira, before sending him after his own pack. the way Kate dresses Scott up, and puts the Berserker mask on Scott's head has a particular sexual feel to it. Especially with Scott begging Kate not to do so, and screaming as she puts it on him.
** Season 5: The Dread Doctors twist the pack's minds, messing with their memories, making both them and the other chimeras they created forget what the Dread Doctors had done with them. The way they made Tracy murder her father and her therapist in her sleep was particularly horrifying.
* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': While tracking down Nicte in "Delusional", Abigail and Raelle experience different magical hallucinations as a result of a spell that are horrifying. Raelle has to experience her mother killing her father and then her, while Abigail's involves her conjuring a storm that goes out of control to kill her mother along with other people. Worse, they start to harm others and themselves as a result of these hallucinations until they escape it. The other soldiers with them didn't manage to, and killed themselves unwittingly. Scylla admits this was the same spell she used to cause a mass suicide in the first episode, which indicates the people hallucinated something innocuous that made them walk off ledges.

* ''Series/OctoberFaction'': Alice inflicts it on Fred and Deloris, making both of them feel all the pain they caused to supernatural beings across the years.

* During the occupation of New Caprica at the beginning of season three of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', Leoben Conoy puts an interesting twist on this trope. He gives Starbuck a perfectly normal, stable, well-ordered life - inside a jail cell. He also uses the opportunity to bring up as many images of Starbuck's abusive mother as he can manage. Oh yeah, and there's also the fact that he can resurrect himself every time Starbuck kills him.
* ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' had a Sylar-worthy example with Owen, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Annie's]] ex-boyfriend [[spoiler:and her murderer]]. First, he does this as he's comforting his current girlfriend, who's freaked-out because a ''ghost'' was talking to her, trying to warn her about him. Second, he denies the very existence of Annie whilst he's looking her straight in the eye with a shit-eating grin: "I don't see... ''anything''". Then he twists the knife by admitting [[spoiler:that he was cheating on Annie when she was still alive]]. Evil. She ends up in a HeroicBSOD till her roommate George pulls her out of it.
** Annie later uses a more supernatural example to turn the tables, [[spoiler:telling Owen "a secret only the dead know" that causes him to break down entirely]].
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': This is basically what the Alliance scientists did to River Tam before Simon rescued her. And what happened? [[spoiler:She became an empathic CloudCuckoolander[=/=]OneManArmy whose warped mind eventually came back to bite the Alliance on the ass.]]
** The [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Reavers]] will often convert their victims into second-hand Reavers by forcing them to watch the horrific tortures they inflict on other captives. This pushes them to a point where the only way they can survive facing that kind of madness is [[GoMadFromTheRevelation to become part of it.]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Ramsay Bolton enjoys getting into his victims' heads and then breaking them completely.
* What [[spoiler:[[Creator/RobinWilliams Merrit Rook]]]] puts [[spoiler:Elliot Stabler]] through in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. [[spoiler:[[ShutUpHannibal It fails]], by the way.]]
** Following the "RealLife" section, more than one interrogation session feels a ''lot'' like this. A good example is [[spoiler: Elliot and Dr. Phoenix browbeating and pressuring a stressed and terrified little girl [[PaedoHunt into revealing who molested her]], to the point that she falsely accuses her coach to just. have. them. stop. harassing. her, which ruins the man's life and almost invalidates the whole case.]]. Another is [[spoiler: Olivia bullying a mentally-ill witness into putting a temporary stop to his medical treatment to have him clear his memories enough to testify in a difficult case, which also ties with Olivia's terror of mentally-ill people; he does so, but he's so fucked up by her abusive behavior ''and'' the side-effects that he commits suicide immediately afterwards.]]
* Angelus on ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}''. In the past he drove Drusilla completely insane by torturing and killing her entire family before siring her. He had other victims as well, many others, in the old days, and it's implied he did physical rape as well. When he is reawakened in the 21st century, he uses major psychological war on Buffy, Giles, and generally anybody who happens to be around. The Master aptly describes him as "the most vicious animal I have ever known" Even Spike is afraid of him, for all the mocking he gives Angel's ensouled persona.

** The First's taunting and manipulation of Angel in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E10Amends Amends]]". He winds up so bad-off he tries to kill himself.
*** Hell, this is pretty much ''all the First does'' itself. And It does it well. Another example: what it did to Spike in the early part of season 7. Eep.
*** It succeeded with Chloe, the potential Slayer, and tried to do so as well with Willow.
* The MO of the serial killer "John Smith" from the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "The Road". He'd imprison women in an underground chamber, where months of isolation and psychological torture would essentially kill them on the inside, leaving them catatonic. Before sealing them in completely, he'd offer them a no strings attached chance to escape, but none of his victims ever took it.
-->'''John Smith:''' "Once hope is gone... dying is just a formality."
* In those episodes of ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' where Number Six is not subjected to the other sort of mind rape, he will often be subjected to this sort instead. In "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE10HammerIntoAnvil Hammer Into Anvil]]", however, he turns the tables, putting the new Number Two through it instead.

* ''Series/MrRobot'': After being brainwashed by Whiterose, [[spoiler:Angela]] begins to turn her back against Elliot. For the majority of season 3, she starts to mind rape him for [[spoiler:Stage 2 by exploiting his mental illness and working with Mr.Robot]]. She doesn't even feel any remorse for using him as she makes Whiterose's plan more important for her.
** The same thing happens with [[spoiler:Dom in the season 3 finale after she gets kidnapped. Irving kills the FBI mole Santiago and mind rapes Dom to become a Dark Army mole and take his place by making her imagine Santiago as one of her family members as he continues to butcher him till she agrees.]]
* Implied in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', when Derek was captured in the future and taken to the basement of an old house. We're not shown what happened while [[Room101 he was in that room]], but when he came out he was visibly shaking, exhausted, and horrified. Whatever it was it was apparently related to [[RobotGirl Cameron]]; when he sees her later in the resistance base he immediately draws his weapon and tries to destroy her, and after travelling back in time he immediately recognized her on sight and drew a weapon on her.
* "Series/{{Chuck}} vs the Bullet Train" ends with [[spoiler:Sarah having her memories erased. All of them since before the show began, if not beyond.]] It causes agonizing emotional and physical pain, and the montage is extremely disturbing, especially for such a lighthearted show.
* In ''Series/TeenWolf'', Kate just LOVES to do this to [[spoiler: Derek]].
* In one of his earlier (2007) appearances, [[Series/TheDailyShow John Oliver]] accused Stewart of "[[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-may-10-2007/p-m--escapades mind-f#cking]]" him.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', this happens to Castiel when another angel named Naomi brainwashes him.
* In the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode "[[Recap/BlackMirrorPlaytest Playtest]]", this is what effectively happens to the protagonist. The story is about a dopey American flâneur trying out an experimental video game that directly alters his brain activity. The game starts out with cheap {{Jump Scare}}s but eventually graduates up to unbridled PsychologicalHorror as it turns his deepest personal fears on him, [[spoiler:namely, the very understandable fear of contracting Alzheimer's and losing his memories and his mind, or watching it happen to a loved one. It turns out in the ending that he died abruptly from the game crashing a split-second into the experiment in reality, and the events of the episode were all made up in his head as his brain was fried]].
* An episode of the original ''Hawaii 5-0'', "A Bullet for [=McGarrett=]", features two women hypnotized by an evil college professor to become assassins. Interestingly the evil college professor was himself brainwashed during the Korean War, by a character played by the same actor who played the evil hypnotist in the original ''The Manchurian Candidate''.

* During the ''Series/{{Goosebumps}} Chillogy''. During "Part 3: Escape From Karlsville", Todd enters Karlsville and is later [[spoiler:kidnapped by Karl and strapped to a table to be turned to a plastic figure since Karlsville is a model town.]] Karl begins taunting Todd with the thought of [[spoiler:being turned to plastic]] by doing such things as [[spoiler:asking him if he's afraid]] or [[spoiler:what color he wants to be turned.]] Just before [[spoiler:Todd is saved by Jessica and Matthew,]] Karl begins to chuckle as he [[spoiler:tells Todd the whole process will hurt.]] Todd than begins to scream for Karl to stop and yell for someone to help.

** T'Pol is subjected to this in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E17Fusion Fusion]]" by mind-meld with a Vulcan renegade. It gives her Vulcan AIDS. When the episode aired on Creator/SkyOne, it was followed by an "If any of the issues in this episode have affected you..." message with the number for an AIDS helpline. The fact that mated Vulcan couples create a permanent mind-meld makes this, and all other instances of forced [[{{Pun}} bondage]], ''literally'' mind rape.

* ''MindRape/DoctorWho''

** River also undergoes this whenever she makes contact with the mind of a Reaver. In "[[Recap/FireflyE03Bushwhacked Bushwhacked]]", a man tortured by the Reavers simply ''wakes up'' and she starts screaming at the mental contact. Later on, in [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]], while ''Serenity'' is passing through the Reaver fleet, her face is locked in absolute horror as she is surrounded by the Reavers, and at the end of the movie, she is rendered catatonic and helpless by their presence as they assault the crew.
*** And then she flips to the opposite mode, and becomes an unstoppable killing machine. (The door closes on her, leaving River with the Reavers. When the door opens again, River is standing there, soaked in blood, gripping an axe and a grappling hook, with what's left of the Reavers in pieces around her. Then the Alliance troops show up...)
** River also gets mindraped by an entire ''planet'' when she is on Miranda, and the vast numbers of people who ''should'' have been alive but ''aren't'' sends her into a screaming mental breakdown. Being TheEmpath ''[[BlessedWithSuck sucks]]'' sometimes.

** In "Blank", Chloe gets a painful but thankfully short one from [[spoiler:Mr Grady.]]
** In "Commencement", Jor-El basically mind raped [[spoiler:Lionel into become his "oracle".]]
** In "Identity", [[spoiler:Chloe does this to the freak of the week. She is possessed by Brainiac]].
* On ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'', Number Six is subjected to this form of torture in almost half of all the series' episodes. Perhaps the most notable examples are "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE5TheSchizoidMan The Schizoid Man]]", in which he is brainwashed into believing that he is actually a Village operative assigned to impersonate Number Six, and "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE16OnceUponATime Once Upon A Time]]", in which he is mentally regressed to childhood.
* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Unnatural Selection". Also, a slightly milder version of it occurs when human-form Replicators interrogate prisoners.
** Done more directly by Fifth to Samantha Carter in "New Order", after escaping the incarceration she tricked him into. His insertion of his hand into the front of her brain is shown as particularly akin to forced penetration, and we are shown glimpses of the horrific imagery she is subjected to. She keeps screaming the entire time his hand is in her brain. He even moves his hand ''through her head'' during the torment, finally removing his hand from the ''back'' of her brain. By the end, she is in tears, begging him to stop. He later says that he "tortured [her] for so long" because he was angry about her betrayal.
** This happens to the major characters on ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', too. We only get to see what Sheppard is forced to experience (a scenario that ends with his suicide by HeroicSacrifice). But it's heavily implied that what the others went through was even worse.
--->'''Sheppard:''' What did they do to you?\\

** This also happens to Rodney, Woolsey and Sheppard in Season 5 involving an alien parasite. It's later revealed that the parasite isn't evil and the characters are controlling their own hallucinations. Turns into FridgeHorror when Woolsey imagines a beautiful woman falling in love with him and Rodney recreates a friend who tells him he's brilliant, but Sheppard hallucinates [[ArchEnemy Koyla]] kidnapping him, taunting him, and brutally torturing him for hours on end (including cutting off his ''hand''). It reflects horrifyingly what his [[TheAtoner state of mind]] was.
--->'''John:''' Are you saying I tortured ''myself?''\\

** In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', In "Hard Time", Chief O'Brien is implanted with the memories of a 20-year prison term, in the course of which [[spoiler:he kills his cell mate Ee'char, who after years together had become his best friend, over a scrap of food]]. Needless to say, this is an "[[BreakTheCutie O'Brien Must Suffer]]" episode.

*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E24TheMindsEye The Mind's Eye]]", Romulans feed La Forge horrific images through his neural implants (which normally would connect to his VISOR) in order to brainwash him into becoming their tool.
** In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Chief O'Brien is implanted with the memories of a 20-year prison term, in the course of which [[spoiler:he kills his cell mate, who after years together had become his best friend, over a scrap of food]]. Needless to say, this is an "[[BreakTheCutie O'Brien Must Suffer]]" episode.

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' does this a number of times, without the {{Anvilicious}} rape analogy. "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E8PersistenceOfVision Persistence of Vision]]" is "Violations" (above) on a ''shipwide'' scale, and the culprit responsible has nearly put the entire crew into a catatonic stupor by the time the last one or two members standing are able to stop him. Then there's "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E4Repression Repression]]", in which a Maquis fanatic back home sends subliminal messages to [[spoiler:Tuvok, which make him forcibly mind-meld with every ex-Maquis on the ship and start a takeover]]. Then there are the dream aliens in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E12WakingMoments Waking Moments]]", then there are [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the Hirogen]] making the crew think that they're part of the simulated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII they'd created as they 'hunt' them in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E17TheKillingGame The killing Game]]", then there's the LotusEaterMachine in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E14Bliss Bliss]]", then there's the beacon that makes people hallucinate participating in genocide in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E14Memorial Memorial]]", then there are the aliens who {{brainwash|ed}} the crew into working in their factory in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E15Workforce Workforce]]", and on and on and on. Honorable mention for the friendly NegativeSpaceWedgie inhabitants whose means of communication nearly drive Chakotay nuts in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E18TheFight The Fight]]". This crew's brains get baked so many times that it's surprising that they know up from down by the time the series ends.

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' does this a number of times, without the {{Anvilicious}} rape analogy. "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E8PersistenceOfVision Persistence of Vision]]" is "Violations" (above) on a ''shipwide'' scale, and the culprit responsible has nearly put the entire crew into a catatonic stupor by the time the last one or two members standing are able to stop him. Then there's "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E4Repression Repression]]", in which a Maquis fanatic back home sends subliminal messages to [[spoiler:Tuvok, which make him forcibly mind-meld with every ex-Maquis on the ship and start a takeover]]. Then there are the dream aliens, then there are the aliens who {{brainwash|ed}} the crew into working in their factory, then there's the LotusEaterMachine, then there's the beacon that makes people hallucinate participating in genocide, then there are [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the Hirogen]] making the crew think that they're part of the simulated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII they'd created as they 'hunt' them, and on and on and on. Honorable mention for the friendly NegativeSpaceWedgie inhabitants whose means of communication nearly drive Chakotay nuts. This crew's brains get baked so many times that it's surprising that they know up from down by the time the series ends.

* In ''Series/BlackMirror: Playtest'', this is what effectively happens to the protagonist. The story is about a dopey American flâneur trying out an experimental video game that directly alters his brain activity. The game starts out with cheap {{Jump Scare}}s but eventually graduates up to unbridled PsychologicalHorror as it turns his deepest personal fears on him, [[spoiler:namely, the very understandable fear of contracting Alzheimer's and losing his memories and his mind, or watching it happen to a loved one. It turns out in the ending that he died abruptly from the game crashing a split-second into the experiment in reality, and the events of the episode were all made up in his head as his brain was fried.]]