History MindRape / LiveActionTV

* ''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]].)]]
** This is quite a big one to miss. In ''PowerRangersDinoThunder'' Mesogog always does it to Zeltrax and Elsa so they don't betray him.

** Done more directly by Fifth to Samantha Carter, after escaping the incarceration she tricked him into. His insertion of his hand into her brain is shown as particularly akin to forced penetration, and we are shown glimpses of the horrific imagery she is subjected to. By the end, she is in tears, begging him to stop.

* The ''{{Series/Stargate SG-1}}'' episode "Unnatural Selection". Also, a slightly milder version of it occurs when human-form Replicators interrogate prisoners.

** This happens to the major characters on 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.

* Season three of ''{{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.]]

* The episode "Dust to Dust" of ''{{Babylon 5}}''. 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, 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 lest he tear out his eyes.

** In 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.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' dealt with this trope two times and actually stressed the physical sexual elements. It happened in both times (the latter in a movie) to the half-Betazoid Counselor (and telepath) Troi, first time using corrupting a memory of her having sex with her then-boyfriend Riker, into a bizarre rape scene with Riker substituted with the rapist telepath. Commander Riker and Doctor Beverly Crusher were also subjected to the mental rape by the same perpetrator in "Violations."

*** Of course, we all know why he didn't go insane from finding himself back on the Enterprise. Nobody who's seen "The Best Of Both Worlds" can doubt that Picard can fart in mindrape by any single person's general direction. We will always remember the emotions felt at the Battle at Wolf 359. Being mind-raped by over a trillion entities at the same time may just make one capable of surviving any mental torment.
**** On the other hand, over at [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]] Chief O'Brian had a similar experience in "Hard Time" except with the violation component fully in force. In that episode, O'Brian was implanted with the memories of a 20 year prison term, in the course of which [[spoiler: he killed his cell mate, who after years together had become his best friend, over a scrap of food]]. Needless to say, this was an "[[BreakTheCutie O'Brian Must Suffer]]" episode.

** Used by the Platoian's in the first series episode, "Plato's Stepchildren", with the most blatant example being Parmen forcing Spock to laugh and cry.

* During the occupation of New Caprica at the beginning of season three of ''BattlestarGalactica'', 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.

** The Doctor performs what is startlingly similar to a MindRape on [[spoiler:Donna Noble in ''Journey's End'' to remove [[MySkullRunnethOver the Time Lord knowledge from her brain before it killed her.]] Anyone who refuses to see it as such apparently wasn't haunted by Donna's cries of "[[TearJerker No, No, Please Don't!]]"]] as she wants to [[DyingAsYourself go out as herself]]. A rare case of the hero doing it, a rarer case where it ''might'' be justified, as [[spoiler:the Time Lord knowledge will kill her if not removed.]] The reason it's such a TearJerker and had fans so angry at the Doctor even though it was clearly necessary to save her life is that [[spoiler: if she ever remembers any of her journey with the Doctor, her mind will "burn up." She forgets ''everything'' and is reset to day-one status]]. This was actually the ''death'' referred to by [[MadOracle Dalek Caan]] earlier.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' dealt with this trope two times and actually stressed the physical sexual elements. It happened in both times (the latter in a movie) to the half-Betazoid Counselor (and telepath) Troi, first time using corrupting a memory of her having sex with her then-boyfriend Riker, into a bizarre rape scene with Riker substituted with the rapist telepath. Captain Picard was also subjected to the mental rape. (Episode name, please?)

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' dealt with this trope two times and actually stressed the physical sexual elements. It happened in both times (the latter in a movie) to the half-Betazoid Counselor (and telepath) Troi, first time using corrupting a memory of her having sex with her then-boyfriend Riker, into a bizarre rape scene with Riker substituted with the rapist telepath. Captain Picard was also subjected to the mental rape.

* Maury and Matt Parkman of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' are actually capable of Mind Rape and, even stranger, Matt is a good guy - 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.]]
** Matt's "good guy" status is questionable... he'll lie, cheat, and steal just to make his own life a bit easier, not just when under severe duress. But as he's very affable and not all that bright, people tend to remember him as "such a nice guy..."
*** Considering what he ''could'' do with his power (pretty much everything), I'd say he has shown so far a rather admirable restraint, with the exception of his evil alternate future version in 5YG.

* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "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 how good it feels feeding in the bad stuff". Ianto is, understandably, horribly traumatized by this (thank goodness for hypnosis and amnesia pills).

** Heck, the entire freakin' {{Dollhouse}}. It's just that they [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt can make you like it.]]

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' dealt with this trope two times and actually stressed the physical sexual elements. It happened in both times (the latter in a movie) to the half-Betazoid Counselor (and telepath) Troi, first time using corrupting a memory of her having sex with her then-boyfriend Riker, into a bizarre rape scene with Riker substituted with the rapist telepath. Captain Picard was also subjected to the mental rape.
** T'Pol is subjected to this in an early episode of ''StarTrekEnterprise'' by mind-meld with a Vulcan renegade. And it gave her Vulcan AIDS. - when the episode aired on 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.
** ''StarTrekVoyager'' did this a number of times, without the {{Anvilicious}} rape analogy. "Persistence of Vision" was "Violations" on a ''shipwide'' scale, and the culprit responsible had nearly put the entire crew into a catatonic stupor by the time the last one or two members standing were able to stop him. Then there was the time a Maquis fanatic back home sent subliminal messages to [[spoiler:Tuvok, which made him forcibly mind-meld with every ex-Maquis on the ship and start a takeover]]. Then there were the dream aliens, then there were the aliens who {{Brainwashed}} the crew into working in their factory, then there was the LotusEaterMachine, then there was the beacon that made people hallucinate participating in genocide[[hottip:>:a MoralDissonance laden episode in that at the end of it Janeway orders the beacon, which was broken by the end of the action, '''repaired''' so it can go on to MindRape many more crews for the next 200 years to come]] then there were [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the Hirogen]] making the crew think they were part of the simulated WorldWarII they'd created as they 'hunted' them, and on and on and on. Honorable mention for the friendly NegativeSpaceWedgie inhabitants whose means of communication nearly drove Chakotay nuts. This crew's brains got baked so many times it's surprising that they knew up from down by the time the series ended.

**** On the other hand, over at [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]] Chief O'Brian had a similar experience in "Hard Time" except with the violation component fully in force. In that episode, O'Brian was implanted with the memories of a 20 year prison term, in the course of which [[spoiler: he killed his cell mate, who after years together had become his best friend, over a scrap of food]]. Needless to say, this was an "[[BreakTheCutie O'Brian Must Suffer]]" episode.

** The Doctor performs what is startlingly similar to a MindRape on [[spoiler:Donna Noble in ''Journey's End'' to remove [[MySkullRunnethOver the Time Lord knowledge from her brain before it killed her.]] Anyone who refuses to see it as such apparently wasn't haunted by Donna's cries of "[[TearJerker No, No, Please Don't!]]"]] as she wants to [[DyingAsYourself go out as herself]]. A rare case of the hero doing it, a rarer case where it ''[[YourMilageMayVary might]]'' be justified, as [[spoiler:the Time Lord knowledge will kill her if not removed.]] The reason it's such a TearJerker and had fans so angry at the Doctor even though it was clearly necessary to save her life is that [[spoiler: if she ever remembers any of her journey with the Doctor, her mind will "burn up." She forgets ''everything'' and is reset to day-one status]]. This was actually the ''death'' referred to by [[MadOracle Dalek Caan]] earlier.

* The MO of the serial killer "John Smith" from the ''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.

* Similar to the Ghost Rider example, a Fury in ''{{Charmed}}'' can cause any evil doer to hear the screams of his past victims.

--> '''McKay:''' Torture, in ways too hideous and... intimate... to recount.

** "Amy's Choice" has to be ''the'' MindRape episode of the first MattSmith season. [[spoiler:In a scenario cooked up by the Doctor's own mind, Amy has to cope with the destruction of her happily married life and Rory's death. Then she gets the fun choice of figuring out which of two [[CrapsackWorld]] realities is real. The kicker? [[AllJustADream Neither of them are]].]]

* "{{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.