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-->''Somewhere on Beta colony there is an institution. In one room of the institution there is a man who spends his days and nights screaming at things that only he can see. Things we planted in his mind. They have to keep him in a straitjacket 24 hours a day or he'll claw his own eyes out just to make it stop.''
---> [[TheCorpsIsMother Lyta Alexander]], ''BabylonFive''

A character is attacked by a villain in the most painful non-physical way possible. Their mind and [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]] are assaulted with painful, horrifying visions and memories, and broken until they're [[HeroicBSOD powerless]] and [[ConvenientComa numb]], but [[EmptyShell not dead]], although afterwards they [[FateWorseThanDeath may wish they were.]] Nothing sexual occurs, but everything else is there to resemble a rape - violation, helplessness, and the poisoning of what could otherwise be a source of joy. The physical attacks won't go very far; all of the agony is inflicted mentally and emotionally, and it's chilling to see a villain be that cruel. The traumatized victim suffers all of the side-effects afterwards: isolation, depression, insomnia, paranoia, and may even get an ImportantHaircut when starting to recover. May include further sexual symbolism for good measure, such as severe and unfunny ClothingDamage and sinister [[DoubleEntendre Double Entendres]].

Comes in two variations: one is a [[HannibalLecture completely "mundane"]] but no less horrifying brand of [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] that nonetheless [[ArmorPiercingQuestion breaks a characters mind]]. The other is the above done via MindProbe, PsychicPowers, illusions, or seeing something ManWasNotMeantToKnow. All too frequently the consequence of encountering an EldritchAbomination. Even so much as ''[[BrownNote looking]]'' at one of them might cause [[GoMadFromTheRevelation permanent damage to sanity]].

The less said of the things that are created when this trope meets RuleThirtyFour, the better.

Can be a possible cause of ImHavingSoulPains.

Compare FateWorseThanDeath, {{Subtext}}, and VillainousBSOD. Contrast with the CareBearStare, which assaults the target with happy thoughts, like [[TastesLikeDiabetes rainbows and stuff]].

Not to be confused with MoreThanMindControl (though MindRape ''can'' have some elements of this). Any character pulling this has little or no MindOverManners.

Also not to be confused with MindScrew, despite the origin of the trope name in [[NeonGenesisEvangelion a quite (in)famous]] MindScrew. [[hottip:*:Not to mention that some people consider the [[GainaxEnding ending]] of said [[NeonGenesisEvangelion series]] to qualify as MindRape in its own right.]]
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!!Examples of Psychic Assaults

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* ''{{Paprika}}'' gets pinned to a table like a butterfly and then painfully has her skin removed, revealing a naked Dr. Chiba underneath. Made creepier by Osanai's dialogue. *shudder* Also occurs among people [[MindScrew who watch the movie]] as well.
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The trope name comes from the FanNickname for Asuka's brutal mental torture inflicted by the Fifteenth Angel. It's so debilitating, she can no longer sync with her [=EVA=] unit, and eventually falls into a [[ConvenientComa catatonic]] [[HeroicBSOD depression.]] Most translations include Asuka screaming something like, "It's raping/defiling/violating my mind/soul!!"
**The scene in question [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxQKRRs83ko here]].
** The fact that the Mind Rape ray also plays the Hallelujah chorus makes it all the worse.
* Mai Kujaku's StartOfDarkness in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'': The Yami no Game between Malik and Mai, where Malik erases people from her memory, uses bondage-looking cards (for extra symbolism), and causes her to visualize herself trapped in an hourglass as she slowly dies. Yugi ultimately saves her, but Mai is traumatized afterwards - plagued by nightmares, ''unable to enjoy dueling'', even when she wins, and helplessly lonely. In desperation to escape the pain, she joins the {{Cult}}, Doma.
** In fact, less rape-like versions of this are the point of the "Penalty Games" dealt to losers of Yami no Games, especially the ones used in the manga and first version of the anime ''[[MoralDissonance by the Pharaoh himself]]''. Possibly the most important of these is the "Experience of Death" used against Kaiba, which inspires the creation of the holographic duel system used in the remainder of the series. The second anime lightens the Pharaoh's image somewhat by just replacing all instances of this with "Mind Crush", which does vaguely shown mental damage to the target.
*** In fact, the only named Mind Crush in the original manga is done to Kaiba. And it puts him in a coma for half a year as he puts his heart back together, sans evil.
** This also happens in the final arc of ''[[YuGiOhGX GX]]'': the final villain, Darkness, traps people in nightmares where all their hopes are dashed repeatedly until they give in to despair and all outside proof of their existences are erased.
* The three [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad sub-villains]] of ''SailorMoon Super S'' examined the dreams of pure-hearted people (one attacks young girls, another attacks [[CakeEater older women]], and the last one goes against males of all ages) to determine if Pegasus was hiding there... by forcibly sticking their head into the victim's "dream mirror". While the victim screams in pain or discomfort. Usually after seducing the poor Jane/John Doe to draw him/her to a secluded spot. The symbolism was [[{{Anvilicious}} very... subtle]].
** In the ''R'' season, Mamoru abandons Usagi because he's been having ''really'' disturbing dreams where she dies. He later finds out that these dreams were ''sent by someone else'', wanting to test his bond with Usagi. [[spoiler: The weird thing? Who sent them was... ''his own future self'', King Endymion. Yes, Mamoru has been mind-raping ''himself'', in a sense.]]
** Later in ''R'', [[spoiler: MindRape (through infusing her with Dark Energy and [[FakeMemories altering her memories of her parents]] to make her believe they abused her), allows Wiseman to turn a captured and emotionally fragile Chibi-Usa into Black Lady.]]
* ''DigimonTamers'' features a digital EldritchAbomination that uses human despair to create weapons. One of the secondary characters, who also happens to be a sweet and kind little girl with [[StepfordSmiler hidden Mommy issues]] [[spoiler: who has just seen her Digimon partner ''die'']], is subjected to several ''weeks'' of having her most horrible memories played over and over (specially those related to there), as if she were there and with full emotional intensity, so her angst can power up aforementioned EldritchAbomination. BreakTheCutie taken to levels even ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion Eva]]'' would envy.
* In ''SaintSeiya'', ex-[[TheDragon Dragon]] and actual AloofBigBrother Phoenix Ikki often uses an attack called "Phoenix Genma Ken", which destroys his opponent's mind by trapping them in horrifying visions embodying their hidden fears, which are indistinguishable from reality. Afterwards, most opponents are left as empty, catatonic shells, their spirits dead.
** Subversion: Ikki gets a rather ''brutal'' taste of his own medicine as he fights [[EyesAlwaysShut Virgo Shaka]] during the Sanctuary saga. [[spoiler:Shaka, a VERY powerful psychic himself, uses his Rikudō Rinne technique to throw Ikki's mind ''literally'' into the Seven Pits of Hell, describing each of the horrible Hell stages [[ToThePain in loving details]] as Ikki's psyche falls to its doom and his body lays lifeless. When Ikki [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya brings himself back]] and tries the Phoenix Genma Ken on Shaka, he just shrugs it off and ''mind-rapes Ikki again'' by showing him visions of his child self with baby Shun in his arms being attacked by demons, having his feet pierced by rocks ''and'' being pressured into abandoning Shun. Shaka completes his mind rape by cutting off Ikki's physical senses with his more lethal technique, the Tenbu Hōrin... and that's what allows Ikki to actually win the fight, since it was all a BatmanGambit that allowed him to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fully focus on defeating Shaka]] through TakingYouWithMe.]]
** Also subverted in the Asgard Saga. Ikki first fought Mime and his Genma Ken [[spoiler: reveals the fact Mime's parents had been killed by his adoptive father in self-defense, and when he told a teenage Mime (note that he deliberately omitted the "in self-defense" part, to provoke Mime's anger), Mime killed him (which is what [[SuicideByCop the stepfather wanted in the first place]], [[TheAtoner to atone for his crime]])]]. Mime, who had previously been acting rather serene, [[UnstoppableRage went batshit insane]] on Ikki and fought so furiously that he actually suceeded in fighting Ikki to a draw, with both of them dying. Too bad, for Mime, that DeathIsCheap.
** Another subversion in the ''same'' Ansgard saga. [[spoiler: Mizar Bud had convinced himself throughly that [[CainAndAbel he hated his older twin brother Syd]], since he was TheUnFavorite in the eyes of ''everyone'' (from the parents that had to abandon him as a baby, to Hilda who told Bud that he'd only be a full-blooded Ansgard Saint when Syd died). However, the Phoenix Genma Ken revealed that Bud ''never'' truly hated Syd, and always loved him deep down. This *also* was so shocking for Bud that it sent him into an UnstoppableRage]].
** However, the Asgard Arc also offers a straight example: [[spoiler: As Princess Hilda is de-brainwashed and uses the remaining of her powers in combination with the Odin Armor's own, it's revealed that when she was BrainwashedAndCrazy by Poseidon, her real self was contained in the [[MacGuffin Ring of the Nibelung]] and ''mind-raped non-stop'' during the Ansgard arc, as she was forced to helplessly watch her Warriors (who also were her protegés and ''friends'', and one had a huge BodyguardCrush on her) fight to death with the FiveManBand.]]
* Harry's attempts to "hack" Melfina in ''OutlawStar''. They weren't successful on his part, but the imagery was definitely there (especially so when considering that Gene was tipped off to the first one by Harry's rather...''excited'' reaction)
* What [[PsychopathicManchild Mao]] does to [[NaiveEverygirl Shirley Fenette]] in ''CodeGeass''. [[spoiler: She was ''very'' mentally unstable after learning the truth about her crush, Lelouch, and his role in her father's death. Soon, Mao made it worse by using his PsychicPowers to read her frail mind and [[HannibalLecture cruelly playing with her]] to force the girl into shooting Lelouch. It's so bad that Lelouch has to use his [[EvilEye Geass]] to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase all of the poor girl's memories]] of him]].
** What C.C. does to Suzaku to stop him from attacking Lelouch would also qualify; [[spoiler:she shows him memories of his dead father, ex-Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi, who Suzaku himself killed as a young boy]]. It's so bad that Suzaku falls into a catatonic state and is traumatised for awhile afterwards. Partially excusable in that C.C. admits she had absolutely ''no'' idea what she made Suzaku see. Several episodes later, Mao also brings the issue up, manipulating Suzaku in a similar way he did Shirley, by reading his mind.
*** Later, C.C. does it to Suzaku a second time, as well as hitting a couple of random bodyguards with the same power; in this case it's completely accidental, as [[spoiler:a side-effect of Lelouch's Geass becoming permanent apparently boosts her own powers]].
** According to one of the [[AllThereInTheManual licensed side-novels]] for the show, an adolescent Mao used his power to manipulate an entire village in China into destroying itself by exposing the skeletons in everyone's closets. So, if anything, he's a practiced hand at the MindRape.
** And the second season reveals that [[spoiler: during the TimeSkip, the Emperor used ''his'' own Geass to give Lelouch FakeMemories]]. Not a traditional MindRape, but the scene gets almost uncomfortably close to an actual rape, with [[spoiler: Suzaku holding Lelouch down and Lelouch begging for him to stop]].
*** To make things worse, [[spoiler: Charles also mind-raped Nunnally to make her believe her mother Marianne had been murdered in front of her, mixing this with ''having the seven-year-old girl crippled'' to make the whole deal more believable. As a result, poor Nunnally was not only confined to a wheelchair, but also went blind out of trauma.]] Let's not forget him [[spoiler: rewriting the memories of Anya Earlstreim, a young girl who had become [[SoulJar the vessel of his wife]] through GrandTheftMe, to cover all of this up]].
** If Lelouch uses his Geass to order someone with strong enough willpower to do something utterly abhorrent to them, a MindRape-like effect will ensue when the will of the victim tries to fight off the Geass. It happened twice in the series... and aptly enough, [[spoiler: both of them were teenage girls who Lelouch had feelings for.]].
** Subverted: Another, less supernatural mind rape was attempted by Suzaku on Kallen in R2. Suzaku, trying to find out if Lelouch has regained his memory and become Zero again, attempts to [[spoiler: use refrain on Kallen to make her tell him the truth. Kallen begs for him not to as though she were about to be literally raped by him. Just before dosing her, Suzaku realizes he is becoming NotSoDifferent from Zero, and stops. When you think back to season one and how her mother's mind was nearly destroyed by the drug, it's not that much of a stretch to believe that Kallen would liken a forced dose of refrain to a sexual violation]].
* The Sol Eleven Master Pei La Cain does this a couple of times to Guy in ''GaoGaiGar FINAL'', showing disjointed flashes of various scenes from both the original anime and the OVA.
* In a bizarre example of a good guy doing this, Kurama in ''YuYuHakusho'' executes an eternal punishment on the Elder Toguro by trapping him in his own subconscious with a treacherous plant. For some reason I think this is supposed to be seen as less disturbing than just killing him. It isn't, but let's face it - when your enemy is immortal, [[FateWorseThanDeath you have to replace "kill them" somehow]]. But then again, you try and mess with Kurama, and you won't end well. Or at all.
** I'm not sure it was meant to be less disturbing:
***Kurama: "Such is the plant's nature. Only your own sins can hurt you."
***Yusuke: "Uh, Kurama, if I ever did something that pissed you off, I'm sorry."
***Mitarai: "Me too."
**OK, Mitari's a messed up wimp, but Yuusuke kills people all the time.
*** It's ''definitely'' supposed to be worse than death, since Elder Toguro is portrayed as a CompleteMonster, one of the few in the entire series.
** That, and this is one of the few times that Kurama is actually ''[[TranquilFury angry]]'' in the series, having had to [[spoiler: kill [[CreepyChild Amanuma/Game Master]] during their duel]] and later finding out what monstruosities [[spoiler: Elder Toguro]] did to [[spoiler: his "host", Makihara/Gourmet, whom he ''horribly'' tortured to death from the inside.]] No wonder Yusuke and Mitarai were pretty much pissing in their pants.
* The Festum in ''FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'' use this as their ultimate weapon against mankind.
* ''LastExile'' [[spoiler: Dio's Rite of Convenant is basically a case of MindRape that turns him into a semi-catatonic killing machine]].
* In the ''ChronoCrusade'' manga, [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Pandemonium]]]] does this pretty much constantly, mentally assaulting anyone and anything she comes in contact with. [[spoiler:In fact, Joshua's insanity wasn't caused by a total [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power overload]] like originally assumed, but by the fact that Chrono's horns mentally linked Joshua to Pandemonium, meaning he was mind-raped ''almost every waking moment of his life.'']]
* Surprising good-guy example: Ban Midou has the power to show people a perfect illusion for one minute, and he often uses the ability to MindRape his enemies.
*In ''{{Inuyasha}}'', about one third of the way through the plot, Naraku traps the gang in a field of mist and some sort of root-like plant which traps them and forces them to see hallucinations of which they each fear the most.
* Virtually any character trapped by a Mangekyo Sharingan user's Tsukuyomi on ''{{Naruto}}'' is forced to endure horrific torture, both mental and physical (the pain is entirely real, although the torture doesn't leave marks on the victim's body), for what appears to the subject as any amount of time that the user deems fit, effectively leaving the victim crippled and in a state of mental collapse.
** This is Itachi's strongest mind technique; his Tsukuyomi consists of a 72-hour illusion torture while only takes a few moments in the real world. [[spoiler:He seems to especially enjoy doing it to his younger brother, Sasuke, repeatedly leaving him a comatose wreck. The incestuous overtones to this make it even ''creepier'' than most mind rapes.]]
*** Hell, that's probably just the worst case. In Naruto, there's a whole subsection of technique for illusions (genjutsu), and it's a sure bet plenty involve inflicting pain and mental duress.
**** It does. [[CoolBigSis Kurenai]] is a ''genjutsu'' user; her Magen Jubaku Satsu creates the illusion of trees that can effectively hold the enemy in place as she kills them.
* Road does this to Lavi in ''DGrayMan'' when she enters his mind to manipulate his conflicted feelings about becoming the next Bookman and his affection for his friends.
** She also mind rapes General Kevin Yeegar, tormenting him with his failure to prevent the death of his class by an akuma-possessed child. (He was a schoolteacher before becoming an exorcist.) This leads to his HeroicBSOD, leaving him [[spoiler: helpless against Tyki Mikk's finishing blow.]]
* Hitomi, in ''{{Vision of Escaflowne}}'' almost every time she has a vision or does a tarot card reading. In Episode 11 it's so bad that Hitomi [[spoiler:almost dies because her heart stops (she saw Dilandau bloodily kill a shapeshifter by crushing him to death ''with his Guymelef's bare hands'')]]. Also forces Hitomi to declare (to Van, Allen, and almost every other main character) that she hates their world and wants to be sent back home
** Dilandau, [[spoiler:who turns out to be Allen's missing sister, Celena.]]
* Muraki from ''YamiNoMatsuei'' does this numerous times to most of the people he meets (showing Hisoka memories of him raping him, reminding Tsuzuki that he's not human, guilt-tripping Tsubaki and making her think she killed her friend, etc.)
* Genkaku from ''DeadmanWonderland'' does this to Nagi while [[ColdBloodedTorture drugging and interrogating him]], reawakening Nagi's surpressed memories of [[spoiler: [[AxCrazy massacring Genkaku's soldiers]] and how his baby is actually still in DW]].
* Often happens in ''[[DotHack .hack]]''. The very act of a human being Data Drained is...not healthy; but Tsukasa and Sora in ''[[DotHackSign .hack//SIGN]]'' really get their minds slammed by Morganna. Tsukasa's was particularly gruesome, forced to lie down, floated into the sky, and her power stomps on his mind and rips his clothes. He spends the next episodes catatonic, but manages to claw his way back to sanity. Sora's was so bad that after he was finally freed his mind completely blanked out the experience. So much that he didn't realize when he played the game again as [[spoiler:Haseo]]. [=AIDA=] in ''.hack//GU'' also gives its special whammy to its victims.
* The series ''{{Gokudo}}'' has an episode in which gods try to crush the minds of Gokudo and Rubet to take their bodies, by convincing them that their life is painful and worthless. Of course the gods lose and get enslaved by these humans instead. It seem to be useless to even try to do mind attacks on anti-heroes.
* In ''{{Berserk}}'', Ubik, one of the [[CosmicHorror God]] [[BigBad Hand]], pulls an epic one on Griffith to get him to carry out the sacrifices to become a demon god. [[spoiler:It works.]]
* I'm shocked that ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' isn't here yet; most of the main cast are batshit ''insane'', and poor Keiichi gets mind raped pretty much every arc. [[spoiler:The victims of Hinamizawa Syndrome are seeing horrifying hallucinations of their friends acting like demonic entities or something similar disturbing to make them AxCrazy Psychos. Hinamizawa Syndrome is a mind raping disease.]]
* ''RaveMaster'''s Sieg Hart uses this on Haru, trapping him in a barrier that turns every single thought he makes into visions where his loved ones gruesomely kill themselves for him.
* ''{{Cyborg 009}}'' has this happen to the heroes in ''[[TheMovie Conclusion: Gods' War]]''. The villain responsible tries to cast this as [[WhatYouAreInTheDark exposing their]] ''[[WhatYouAreInTheDark true]]'' [[WhatYouAreInTheDark selves]], drawing out and ''twisting'' the very darkest aspects of their character... or, in several cases, their cybernectic enhancements, bringing their worst fears to life. This results in scenes like [[spoiler: [[TheHero Joe]] going over the line while beating up a group of ''human'' thugs, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Geronimo]] unable to meditate because CyberneticsEatYourSoul, or [[VoluntaryShapeshifter G.B.]] ''[[SuperPowerMeltdown melting down]]''.]]
* In ''{{Bleach}}'' [[spoiler:Aizen]] is a ''MASTER'' of this trope.
*''SerialExperimentsLain'' is practically built upon this trope.
* Apparently, in ''KatekyoHitmanReborn'', all Vongola bosses must go through a 'Vongola trial' to be fit to be mafia bosses where they are put near death to test their resolution. Tsuna was trapped in Hibari's hedgehog box weapon for his trial and was consequently mind raped.
** 'Mind Rape' should be Mukuro's middle name.
* Happens in ''AlienNine'', to go along with [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel all of the other horrible things that happen to the cute little girls involved]]. Doesn't help that one of the characters is ([[MindScrew probably]]) literally raped during the scene as well.
* We see that[[spoiler: Seimei]] from {{Loveless}} does this to [[spoiler: (deep breath) Yoji, Natsuo, Ritsu, Soubi AND his [[BrotherSisterIncest beloved]] younger brother, Ritsuka.]] Of course, these are only the people we SEE him mind raping in action. It's implied that there are more victims, not even including the ones that he told Nisei, his subordinate, to do. It's a weird example, because not only does he SEEM display the more "mundane" type, but his unexplained powers can harm people with words, which is usually a Fighter Unit's power, never a Sacrifice's, and he can do so outside of a battle.
* How could anyone forget [[spoiler:Paptimus Scirocco's]] mind rape of [[spoiler:Camille Bidan]] at the end of ''ZetaGundam'', [[spoiler: leaving Camille mentally retarded up until the very end of ''ZZGundam'']]
* ''TowardTheTerra'' has quite a bit of this; in particular, a dystopian society reminiscent of ''TheGiver'' does this systematically to everyone when they hit age 14, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia destroying all of their childhood memories]]. They also use a LotusEaterMachine-like effect to try to get information out of people, and the "psychological exams" are... unpleasant.
* KamenNoMaidGuy has Kogarashi's Daydreaming Maid Guy Illusion, which he attempts to use to motivate Fubuki and Naeka to lose weight. He starts by making them belief that their breasts have disappeared, moves on to making them think that they're turning into men, and it only gets worse from there. They're obviously traumatized afterwards.
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* This is the premise of Ghost Rider'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.
** Nothing new under the sun: E.E. Smith's Arisians (the ''Lensman'' novels) do exactly this to interlopers who enter their space uninvited or in violation of previous warnings. All the bad, wrong or evil things they have ever done are dredged up to haunt them, and [[spoiler:they go insane from the experience to the point where it actually ''kills them''.]]
* In ''{{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!'']]
* ''X-men''. 'You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hosptial. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words '''parseley''', '''intractable''' or '''longitude''', you will vomit uncontrollaby for forty-eight hours.".' Seriously, don't piss off Emma Frost.
** Another of her famous tricks was punishing a sadistic villain with an awful past by making her forget the only person who was ever kind to her. [[spoiler:Actually, X-men is full of examples of mindrape, from Professor X formatting Magneto's brain, through Cassandra Nova forcing Beak to beat his friend an inch away from death with a baseball bat, to Dark Phoenix punishing Mastermind's hunger for power by granting him omniscience.]]
* 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 [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]]. Well, a Captain Britain from an alternate universe where England is a totalitarian state called Kaptain Briton switched places with ours, and in a scene infamous to this date, [[spoiler:he tried to rape Betsy Braddock, aka [[XMen 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 "Emperor Joker" storyline, 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 Specter 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 his own mind.]] In the epilogue Batman slept well while Superman mentions having some trouble sleeping...
** [[spoiler:Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the last pages of the epilogue hint that it was JOKER whom the memories were transferred to?]]
* This is the explanation for Dr. Light's VillainDecay in the DCU. As revealed in IdentityCrisis, while mindwipes were... tolerated (to protect secret identities), [[spoiler:a cabal in the League decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality to make him a near-HarmlessVillain. When {{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 of the JusticeLeague and creates Brother Eye.]]
* In {{Joss Whedon}}'s run on ''{{Runaways}}'', the kids meet the time traveling parents of Gertrude York, [[spoiler: who died some time earlier]]. The kids are then faced with a problem: The elder Yorks can't know because that could change the future, and mind wiping is too nice. Cue Niko using the spell "The Show Must Go On" which makes the Yorks know everything that will happen to them, up to and including [[spoiler:their own death and Gert's after them]], but incapable of doing anything about it. Just to clarify, Niko isn't normally a BewareTheNiceOnes, just a nice one.
* 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.
** Apparently the technology for making people feel courage, trust, and love is beyond him.
** He's a CardCarryingVillain who calls himself ''Psycho''-Man. Why would he ''want'' to make people feel courage, trust or love? Those are ([[LoveMakesYouEvil usually]]0 ''positive'' emotions.
* From ''TheDarkness'':
--> '''[[BigBad Sonatine:]]''' Listen. Your mother was a prostitute, your father was her pimp. Start believing… NOW.
--> '''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Bouncer:]]''' [[BigNo NO!]]
--> '''[[DistressedDamsel Jenny:]]''' What’d you do to him?
--> '''Sonatine:''' Rewrote his memory. Tremendous fun.
* ''The UmbrellaAcademy'' - Essentially, the ''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.
* TheSandman. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Preludes and Nocturnes. 24 Hours. John Dee.]]
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* In Arabella's fanfic ''[[http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=1026&chapno=1 "The Very Secret Diary"]]'', all of the gruesome mind-rape that probably went on between Tom Riddle and Ginny Weasley in the second ''HarryPotter'' book is detailed to an uncomfortable degree. It's damn fine writing, though.

*In ''FanFic/TheReturn'' mind rape is [[BigBad Alexia]]'s favourite recruitment tool. Convert someone into a succubus and mindrape them into submission.

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* Hero on villain example: In ''TheCrow'', Eric Draven can experience the sensations and memories of others through touch. When he picks up from Officer Albrecht what his fiancee Shelly went through before she died (thirty hours of surgery and intensive care), he's staggered by it all -- though he recovers, as he's already undead and probably quite insane from a certain point of view. He also demonstrates another ability -- to transfer the things he knows through touch, which he uses to full retributive effect on the final target of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, BigBad Top Dollar, whose orders were responsible for Shelly getting raped and beaten to death, and Eric himself being gunned down. Top Dollar, who while evil is quite alive and mostly sane, proves to be unable to stand "thirty hours of pain," all in one shot...
* In ''StarTrekVI'', of all places, Spock's mind-meld with Valeris definitely comes close to this trope, and it's ''really'' uncomfortable to watch. [[WhatTheHellHero Really, Spock, you're a bit of a bastard here.]] The only saving grace being that it is made obvious Spock is almost equally affected by his actions. Self inflicted MindRape anyone?
** Implicitly accepted by the rest of the crew because sometimes you just [[IDidWhatIHadToDo gotta do]] what you've [[YouDidTheRightThing gotta do]].
** And the worst part about it is that he could have gotten the piece of information that he was digging deepest for -- the location of the PeaceConference (Khitomer) -- by ''nicely asking Sulu for it''. To be fair that gem of an idea didn't strike anyone until after the whole MindRape scene.
* ''StarTrek: First Contact'' (1996): Captain Picard's transformation into Locutus of Borg from the episode ''The Best of Both Worlds'' seems to have left him with [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything violent nightmares, paranoia, isolation and depression]]. His [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled mercy killing towards a potential Borg victim]] and his own desire for a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against their species imply this. [[JustBetweenYouAndMe His conversation with the Borg Queen]] pretty much confirms it. [[FridgeLogic It begs the question]] how he got [[ThereAreNoTherapists so messed up]] aboard a spaceship with [[TheEmpath a registered psychotherapist with empathic abilities]].
** Whats worse is in ''StarTrek: Nemesis'' (2002): Deanna Troi is literally mind raped by the villain who invades her mind when she and Riker are about to do the business.
* Samara Morgan from ''The Ring'' has a history of Mind Rape, though not always intentional. Her biological mother tried to [[spoiler:drown her shortly after giving birth because she claims Samara "told her to".]] She caused her adoptive mother terrifying visions for years and was forced to live in a barn, [[spoiler:where the horses got a taste of it and ran themselves off a cliff to get away.]] Fast forward to her killing years, where she apparently Mind Rapes her victims enough to literally scare them to death. Any witnesses get enough second-hand Mind Rape to end up as blank-staring mental patients. Lastly, the scene from ''The Ring twO'', where Samara [[spoiler:(possessing Aiden)]] Mind Rapes a doctor to the point of suicide. Oh, and her video's pretty fucked up, too.
** The doctor's suicide seems to be more a JediMindTrick than MindRape - her expression is completely vacant and her movements robotic suggesting Samara simply seized control of her directly.
* Repeatedly happens in ''{{Scanners}}''. The movie starts with the hero ''[[PowerIncontinence accidentally]]'' doing this to somebody.
* ''{{Event Horizon}}'' was full of mind rape of the rescue crew by the hellish entities that came from another dimension - [[FateWorseThanDeath which is worse than what most of you would imagine as "Hell"]] - by they worst guilts and causing several members of the crew to go insane, one of them even rips out his eyes, mutilates himself and vivisects his mate alive and the dimension itself is mind rape + blood orgy, for eternity.One of the rescue crew who entered the portal into the hellish dimension and was pulled out after a moment by one of his mates, went to catatonia and after he was semi "sane" again he tried to kill himself even if the method he chose is be very painful (explosive decompression by throwing himself out of the airlock), they rescued him, but he was seriosly injured - even through the psychological trauma that he has suffered would make it merciful to just euthanize him.Needless to say, the film as a whole is [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].

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* A mild version of this is a favorite tactic of [[TheFairFolk the elves]] in TerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies''; they use their "glamour" (which is essentially a form of psychic domination) to make all but the most strong-willed mortals feel worthless and powerless.
** Granny Weatherwax tries her own version on Lady Felmet in ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' by showing her her true self. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Lady Felmet is [[CardCarryingVillain fully aware, and proud, of just how evil and cruel she truly is]]. A moment later, Nanny Ogg defeats her by [[TalkToTheFist braining her with a cauldron while she's in the middle of a rant.]]]]
** In ''{{Discworld/Eric}},'' the new Demon King Astfgl has worked it out that Hell's traditional punishments - burning, etc. - are useless for tormenting the damned, who have no bodies. He substitutes relentless mind-numbing boredom, like having a demon show you an interminable slideshow of his vacation to the Fifth Circle.
** What's interesting is, the King of Hell was actually ripping off Humans themselves! In other {{Discworld}} novels, it's pointed out that [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreBastards humans INVENTED]] concepts such as mediocraty, dullness, etc. (Compare the RealIsBrown trope to, say, any photo of nature, or [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife just go to a park or something]]). For example, rather than forcing the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SisyphusVsRock Sisyphus]] {{expy}} to listen to hours of boulder pushing safety regulations rather than being [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FateWorseThanDeath allowed]] to just get on with pushing the boulder.
* While, in the books, Legilimency is used only as a MindProbe, the fifth ''HarryPotter'' film suggests that Voldemort uses it to inflict mental torture as an end in itself.
** While we're still on ''HarryPotter'', coming near a Dementor will cause a MindRape-like effect to occur; they are used as guards in the Wizard prison of Azkaban to sap the prisoners' will to escape.
*** That's just when they are standing near you. If they actually attack, [[EmptyShell they can suck your soul]] [[FateWorseThanDeath right from your mouth.]]
**This seems to be what happened to Ginny in the second book in regards to Riddle's diary.
** It also happened to Dumbledore after he drank the potion in the cave. Although the potion is supposed to burn your throat something terrible, it mainly seems to attack the psyche with your worst recollections.
*Jane and her brother Alec in {{Twilight}} each have their own special Mind Rape powers. Jane's is pain while Alec cuts off all your senses.
* In the ''ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' a villain gives doubting Linden a brief demonstration to prove that True Evil does indeed exist. Touching mind-to-mind with said AlwaysChaoticEvil entity leaves her in a coma.
* A similar case is the basilisk in Peter David's ''KnightLife.'' She reveals that a basilisk's gaze doesn't kill you in and of itself: it lets you see yourself for who you are, everything about yourself, even the things that are hidden from you. Most victims, faced with everything they ''didn't'' want to know about themselves, willingly submit to being eaten.
* ''[[HisDarkMaterials Northern Lights]]'': The way Lyra describes how it feels when an attacker touches her daemon, she could very well be describing a rape:
-->"It was as if an alien hand had reached right inside where no hand had a right to be, and wrenched at something deep and precious. She felt faint, sick, dizzy, disgusted, limp with shock. ... It wasn't ''allowed''. Not ''supposed'' to touch. Wrong..."
** To further exemplify this comparison, [[spoiler: her lover Will does the same thing ''on purpose''. Only this time, she enjoys it. Context is everything.]]
* The Mule in [[IsaacAsimov Asimov]]'s ''{{Foundation}}'' series has this ability, and ruthlessly uses it on the poor Second Foundation decoy who ends up completely brain-dead by the end of it. In one scene, he muses on how he could use his mind-controlling abilities for ''physical'' conquest, which wouldn't count as rape since the subject would genuinely feel nothing but complete love and devotion to him - but doesn't, because.. he didn't choose his nickname due to his [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean stubbornness or physical strength]]...
* The Sword of {{Shannara}} from the eponymous novel shows the person the absolute truth, stripped of any sort of perspective--''every'' little lie one has ever told oneself or another is stripped away. [[spoiler: It is the only weapon that can harm the {{Big Bad}} as he is keeping himself alive through sheer effort of will and self delusion.]]
* In the novel ''[[IncarnationsOfImmortality On a Pale Horse,]]'' [[spoiler:Luna Kaftan, the main female character, confesses, "I have fornicated with a demon of Hell." She doesn't reveal until much later in the novel that the demon violated her mind and soul, but not her body.]]
* Mucking about for any reason in someone's head (no matter the intent) in ''TheDresdenFiles'' will usually cause permanent mental damage. There's a reason people who do it are usually summarily executed.
** Also, White Court vampires usually do perform both the Mind and regular varieties, though their preference varies by family. Vampires from House Skavis cause people to feel despair until they commit suicide, those from House Malvora cause fear until people die of a heart attack, and the Raiths cause lust, usually seducing and feeding off people's souls during sex. Lara Raith both mind rapes and regular [[{{Squick}} rapes her own father]] so hard that his mind is completely destroyed. To be fair, he had done the same to her and he really [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean had it coming]].
*** In the 11th book, Dresden encounters something sufficiently nasty that [[spoiler: merely looking at it with his Third Eye instantly mindrapes him BAD.]]
**** Not to mention the traitor on the White Council [[spoiler: having about three-quarters of the younger wizards on the Council in the grip of mind control, and influencing the thinking of the entire Senior Council through enchantments and potions for years.]]
****Said traitor even turns this into ''actual'' rape, to a degree. [[spoiler: Luccio was only sleeping with Harry because said traitor's mind control was making her attracted to Harry in the first place.]]
***** And let's not forget [[spoiler: Thomas getting taken apart physically, mentally and emotionally by the BigBad]]. Mind rape seems to be a theme in ''Turn Coat''.
* The White Watch in {{Jesse Hajicek}}'s ''{{The God Eaters}}'' conduct mental "Surveys," in which a member of the Watch is searching a person's mind for magical ability or for information. Often, the Surveys are described as painful Mind Rapes, and in some cases used as instruments of torture. The galling part is that later, you find out that [[spoiler:it's entirely possible to do it painlessly, they just don't care or weren't trained to do so]].
* In the ''ConanTheBarbarian'' story "The People of the Black Circle" (1934), a princess is forced to relive all her past lives -- many of which, it is implied, suffered actual rape among other degradations.
* The necromancer Vargûl Ashnazai in ''{{Nightrunner}}'' has the ability to force visions on people. The hero Alec is held captive and treated nightly to the mutilated bodies of his dead friends taunting him and blaming him for their deaths; later, he watches the man he loves get murdered, and the illusion includes spilled blood that does not disappear when the vision is over.
* The PrinceOfNothing series has the Cants of Compulsion, a type of sorcery that allows the sorcerer to reprogram someone's beliefs and desires, completely altering their personality. It's a temporary effect, so everyone who undergoes it has to live with the trauma of having done things that they themselves would never do, even though they remember wanting to do it at the time. The only people who are immune to this effect are Mandate Schoolmen, since they already have an alternate personality living inside them.
* [[spoiler:Aornis Hades]] attempts this on ThursdayNext in ''TheWellOfLostPlots'' by destroying her memory, first of her {{unperson}}ed husband, then of everything else.
* In one {{Animorphs}}, Tobias is captured by the Yeerks and is subject to a torture that draws up his happiest memories and quickly swaps them with very painful ones. He {{Wangst}} alot about this. Of course, he wangst alot before this too. But this was a subject that really ruffled the birds feathers.
* In David Eddings' TheBelgariad, Polgara's preferred method for getting information out of captives is to subject them to visions of the thing they fear most.
** This is also a favorite trick of the Child of Dark after it moves into Zandramas in the ''Mallorean''. The night before the final battle, it digs up the worst possible things to show each individual hero, then makes them spend the entire night dreaming about them. Unfortunately for it, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood it doesn't quite understand friendship, and doesn't realize that they'd compare notes the next morning...]]
* In the second book of ''The Sword of Truth'', the ghost of Darken Rahl gave Kahlan a kiss in the neck, and she literally had a vision of being raped.
* In JamesSwallow's {{Warhammer 40000}} BloodAngels novel ''Deus Encarmine'', Inquisitor Stele's ColdBloodedTorture of a prisoner Word-Bearer culminates in a MindRape that reveals Stele's not even human.
* ''[[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy]]'' has the Total Perspective Vortex, which shows the victim the entire vastness of the universe and how tiny he is in relation to it. It destroys the soul of anyone subjected to it [[spoiler: execept Zaphod who really is the most important person in the univers were he uses it.]]
* In Robin Hobb's ''The Farseer'' trilogy, The Pretender King and his agents use mind rape to forcefully help themselves to whatever a persons mind can give them. Be it information, loyalty, control of the body or simply for the sadistic pleasure of it.
* Another ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' example: a trainee Soul Drinker psyker in ''Crimson Tears'' uses his abilities on a human who died as a sacrificial combat slave under the lash of the Dark Eldar, and described it as "someone...someone tore out their souls."
* In the ''AnitaBlakeVampireHunter'' books, there's a few different kinds exhibited by the vampires. First, they use simple brainwashing of a human into a happy automaton with no independent thought (most often used to get people to stand still while they take blood). Not usually used for physical sex, however, taking blood this way is very sexual and is described as metaphysical sex. Then there's dream/magical simulation manipulation. While not used to its [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel full potential]], all the characters able to do this are nymphomaniacs and use it to force sex on the unwilling. Thirdly, there's emotional manipulation - this can be either making people hopelessly in love with the vampire or making a person incapable of feeling anything but fear, and both types are shown both with and without physical rape. Finally, there's establishing the Human Servant/Master bond against the servant's will; basically, being a master vampire's human servant is the equivalent in being the wife in a medieval marriage, except the ceremony allows your husband to make you watch any memories he chooses during it and to play with your mind, to some extent, afterwards.
* In the NewJediOrder series, teenage Jedi apprentice Tahiri Veila is kidnapped by [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]] [[MadScientist Shapers]], who attempt to rewrite her memories to convince her that she was a warrior of their species, as part of an attempt to create Jedi-fighting Force-sensitive Yuuzhan Vong. She's rescued before they finish, but there are still [[SplitPersonality lingering consequences]] for the rest of the series.
* In TheThrawnTrilogy, Joruus C'baoth goes far, ''far'' beyond the JediMindTrick by mind-raping General Covell ''to death''- reducing him to a state of such mindlessness that, when their link was broken by an AntiMagic field, he didn't have enough mind left to survive.
* In Timothy Zahn's ''Quadrail'' series [[spoiler: the main big bad is a parasite that infects peoples brains and brings them unknowingly into a group-mind. It can also take full control of the body at will once the infection is advanced enough.]]
* In ''{{Dragonlance}}'', Kitiara in her final moments is [[MindRape mind raped]] when she discovers that her servant, Lord Soth intends to kill her and make her [[FateWorseThanDeath serve him as his banshee for all eternity.]]
*There's a nasty one in ''The Algebraist'' by Iain Banks when police, who have been given permission to use whatever methods they think fit to break up a commune which is protesting against certain government policies, switch the total immersion virtual reality game the main character's girlfriend is playing for one which is described as "a nightmare of torture and rape" and leave her trapped in it for several days. [[spoiler: she kills herself almost immediately after coming out of it and this event provides the main character's motivation for his betrayal of said government.]]
* Also from the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Darth Zannah in the ''Rule of Two'' novel does this to a woman named Cynda who is holding her at gunpoint. She uses her powers to conjure up terrifying phantoms that only Cynda can see, and it is explicity said that Zannah can stop it there, with Cynda only remembering the visions as a nightmare. But in the next moment an image of Cynda in bed with Zannah's now-deceased temporary love interest pops into her head, and Zannah pushes Cynda past the point of insanity, shredding her mind and leaving the tiny fragment of her consciousness that still exists irrecoverably trapped in torment.
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* ''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 were [[TheMostDangerousGame the Hirogen]] making the crew think they were part of the simulated World War II 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.
** Mirror Spock's forced MindProbe on [=McCoy=] in the original series episode "Mirror, Mirror" came across this way for some viewers. It didn't help that [=McCoy=] appeared almost catatonic afterwards, although of course [[StatusQuoIsGod he was fine by the end of the episode]].
** Picard was forced to live out someone else's life in "The Inner Light." He ended up cherishing the memory, though, so maybe this was just unexpected mental contact he really wanted.
***As in, surprise sex he didn't know he wanted?
** In "The Mind's Eye" (or: ''[[ManchurianAgent The Manchurian Candidate]]'' '''[-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]-]'''), 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.
* An episode of ''TheTwilightZone'' featured this trope. A former Nazi commander who had escaped to Argentina came back to Germany to visit the concentration camp he was in charge of during World War II. He encounters a ghost of a man he killed who terrorizes the German with Mind Rape of what it was like to get shot, burned, hanged, etc. When the police find the German he is delirious beyond help.
* ''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.
*** And at one point to ''his own son.''
* [[DoctorWho Tegan's]] encounter with the Mara in "Kinda" has been compared to a rape scene. Remember that ''DoctorWho'' is a ''family'' programme.
** Much of the episode "Midnight" fits this trope, although the episode never shows what the alien does to its victim's head. One character's physical reactions after the whole thing is over don't exactly do much to dispel the idea.
***Poor Doctor.
** 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!]]"]] A rare case of the hero doing it, a rarer case where it [[YourMilageMayVary might]] be ''justified'', as [[spoiler: the Doctor claims Donna will die if he doesn't.]]
*** Contrast with the Tenth Doctor episode "The Girl in the Fireplace", where he basically does a [[MindProbe consensual]] version with [[spoiler: Madame de Pompadour]], for which there is some other [[UnresolvedSexualTension subtext]]. Also, in the episode "The Shakespeare Code", where he gives an Elizabethan mental patient a nice soothing [[MindHug Mind Hug]].
*''{{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]].
* The ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' 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, 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.
* Pretty much the background for ''{{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.
* 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..."
** 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: "Go deep. Hollow him out."
** 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 viilain'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 apears 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]]]]...
** 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.
* The episode ''Dust to Dust'' of ''[[BabylonFive 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.
** The Drakh keepers have mind-rape like effects on their victims.
** The Shadows routinely created servants by irrecoverably altering their personalities. For example, Morden.
** Neither the Vorlons, Lorien, nor high level PsiCorps members saw any problem with passively invading other peoples' minds to read their thoughts.
*** Although the keyword there usually is [[MindProbe "passive"]]. There are exceptions- arguably, such as when the Vorlons use their [[TouchedByVorlons pet human psychic]] as a glorified skincar. She seems to be uncomfortable with the process.
**** Also, passive scans are more like overhearing a conversation you were not necessarily invited to than a true invasion. Telepaths have to create mind walls in order so they don't passively scan people. Also, high level PsiCorps members tend to be bastards. They see no problems listening in on people who cannot protect themselves from mind scans because "[[FantasticRacism They're Just Mundanes]]"
** 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.
** Lyta took over the minds of dozens of mundanes in [[DisContinuity season 5]].
* In the ''{{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 to put the bad stuff in". Ianto is, understandably, horribly traumatized by this (thank goodness for hypnosis and amnesia pills).
** As if the rape analogy isn't obvious enough here, Adam ''kisses'' Ianto while he does all of this.
* In ''{{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.
** 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.
* Nobody's yet mentioned Glory basically [[spoiler: eating Tara's sanity]] in season five of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''?
** And that of several other people.
** 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.
* Another Buffyverse example: In the first season finale of ''{{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.
* Hell, Justin Crowe's main power in {{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; please don't force me to actually spit it out. Well, at least he shows an interesting variety of mind rape subtropes.
** I'll spit it out, in case anyone's confused. 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]].
* [[{{Dollhouse}} The Attic.]] Trust me, there's a ''reason'' you don't want to get sent there.
* On ''{{The Listener}}'', Charlie thinks Toby's telepathy is this, until he [[spoiler: saves her from an actual rapist.]]

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* The Nightbringer of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', an OmnicidalManiac PhysicalGod that usually takes the form of a [[RuleOfCool forty-foot-tall, flying, metal]] GrimReaper is reputed to have, at the dawn of time, Mind Raped proto-life so comprehensively that he ''instilled the fear of death'' in all living creatures in the galaxy (except the Orkz).
** As well as creating entire races just so they would fear it and then proceed to feed on that fear.
** Eldar Farseers can have a psychic ability called 'Mind War,' essentially a Mind Rape as a weapon to burn out an enemy's brain and kill them.
** The process of creating an astropath involves a normal human psyker making psychic contact with the Emperor for a brief instant. The process is so traumatic that it burns out the subject's eyes.
*** And since PsychicPowers are drawn from a [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell-dimension]] Psykers in general face a lifetime with the threat of suddenly being Mind Raped at any moment. For the lucky ones, MindRape is the worst thing that happens. For the unlucky ones [[TheCorruption there]] [[BodyHorror is]] [[TheDarkSide worse]]. [[DemonicPossession Much worse]]. For the very lucky, it's a [[BurnTheWitch short]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled lifetime]].
** Inquistors frequently use this one. Inquisitor {{Ravenor}} is particularly adept at this. Partially subverted in the Ravenor series of novels where the titular character performs the closest thing to a benign MindRape, taking physical and mental control of the wearer but still being them at the same time. This is almost always traumatic and allows Ravenor total acess to any and all of the persons memories. He only does it as a last resort.
** What the Emperor uses on Horus destroying both of their souls, which was some really nasty business -- ending the HorusHeresy.
* A spell ''called'' Mind Rape appears somewhere in the ''{{Dungeons and Dragons}}'' "Book of Vile Darkness" sourcebook. It lets you completely rewrite or erase the victim's memories, feelings, and alignment. Naturally, it has an [evil] tag, which is D&D's way of marking a spell as, well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin evil]]''... amusingly, there is another spell, ''Programmed Amnesia'', that does nearly the exact same thing with no evil tag. Presumably it's all about the name, or maybe just how you use it.
** The implication is that with the Mind Rape spell is something that a) hurts a lot and b) is actually forcibly removing the memories and character traits. Selective Amnesia is a subtle blocking of certain parts. Both are a violation, but the implication is that the Amnesia is supposed to be used for blocking traumatic experiences and such.
** Another spell exists in the divination category called Terrible Secret, which causes the caster to reveal a mind-shattering secret to his opponent. The secret is so horrifying it causes the creatures brain to simply malfunction and potentially. It can also be applied to a group with the upgraded Terrible Revelation.
** Normally the good guys don't get to do this, but in the book "Exalted Deeds",the good counterpart to the "Book of Vile Darkness", there's an Exalted Spell that does this.
*** Specifically, "Sanctify the Wicked" traps an evil person's soul in a crystal and aggressively CareBearStare's them until they are ready to be let out. When they emerge, their alignment has radically shifted to be the Good alignment you prescribed. You basically break their mind and permanently change their entire personality. And this is supposed to be a ''Good'' act.
** Surprised no one has mentioned the Mindflayers (Illithids). They have tentacles that they use, at close range, to actually penetrate the head of the victem, suck the brain out and eat it. At a distance, they have psionic powers that can mind rape a character as well; possible effects include permanent insanity, rage, confusion, coma, and death. I'd say that pretty well qualifies.
* ''[[WorldOfDarkness Mage: the Awakening]]'' has a spell called "Psychic Violation" which essentially does this to people. The effects include sapping their will, potentially driving them insane, and giving them a pathological need to avoid confronting the caster. There is another spell, "Nightmare Journey", which takes the concept of MindRape a step further by detaching the subject's consciousness, and ''projecting it into the mind of a CosmicHorror''. Both spells are mostly practiced by a group of mages whose ''whole creed'' essentially revolves around MindRape, and can only be performed by a person with a criminal mentality without potentially putting a ding in the KarmaMeter.
** There is also "Dislodge the Soul" a spell that allows one to mess around with a person's soul so that they lose all feeling of connection or empathy for other humans (this is represented in game terms by automatically failing any roll to prevent a ding to the KarmaMeter), an experience that can be intensly disturbing for those who experience it. The only way to recover (without magic) is to engage in activities that reaffirm one's connection to humanity (such as a parent playing with their children); this naturally becomes more difficult as [[KarmaMeter Morality]] decreases. It is also possible for the casting mage to take a glimpse at what lies behind the damaged soul. Most find it ''incredibly'' disturbing; the Echo Walkers (who invented the spell) find it ''inspirational'', as they believe it lets them see the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] they want to emulate.
** Partially subverted with the [[CosmicHorror acamoth]]. Sure, they're evil, reality-hungry spirits who recreate [[AnotherDimension their horrific home]] in the minds of those they enter...But it was [[DealWithTheDevil entirely consensual]], to the point that whatever they do with their host dings the KarmaMeter, since ''you literally let them in'', and are thus a willing accomplice to their deeds...
** For the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Banishers]], the Awakening (the moment of becoming a mage) itself is MindRape. The point is particularly driven home because it is usually a profound and joyous, inspiring moment (even in some of the less pleasant places, like [[{{Hell}} Pandemonium]] or [[TheNothingAfterDeath Stygia]]). To Banishers, it is unwanted, misunderstood, or traumatic, in a way that causes them to want to destroy all magic.
** Two vampire clans have this as a power. In the old World Of Darkness, Malkavians used Dementation to drive potential victims and rivals insane. In the new [=WoD=] Nosferatu use Nightmare to inspire great fear... and break minds with it.
** MindRape tends to be what [[ChangelingTheLost changelings]] go through during their stay in Arcadia. Notably, the driving ethos of many of the changeling Courts seem akin to the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
* Thanks to the (somewhat bizarre) metagame explanation for ''MagicTheGathering'' (basically, two almost-all-powerful wizards fighting, with cards representing spells and allies) most spells forcing players to discard cards come across this way. [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=34789 cases]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=157422 in]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=51092 point.]]
** The ''flavor'' explanation is that a discard spell functions by reaching into the enemy mage's mind and destroying their knowledge of particular spells before they can be cast. There's an example in the Ice Age block novelisations where the protagonist, Archmage Jodah, engages in a battle with an evil wizard. He gains an advantage by using mass-discard spells to tear apart his opponent's mental library of spells.
** And there's an in-story example in ''Agents of Artifice'', where [[spoiler:Jace Beleren does this to Tezzeret after winning a duel against him, in a rare hero-to-villain example.]]
* ''{{Exalted}}'' has quite a lot of mindrape powers, most spectacular being the Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Kung Fu style, which can not only fundamentally and permanently rewrite one's mind, but also do things like permanently locking the target in an illusion of being a perfect, flawless being, or denying the target the capability to comprehend any spoken or written language, ever.
* ''{{GURPS}}'' has a number of ways to do this. The Terror advantage can cause permanent insanity and even reduce intelligence at high enough level. The spell Fear, Panic, Terror, Madness and Nightmare all can cause this.
** The "insanity beam" from ''Ultra-Tech'' first hits the target with incapacitating hallucinations of terror, then he drops into a coma where the horror continues unabated. If he survives ''that'' the nightmares continue for a few weeks afterward.

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* ''FinalFantasyVII'' had Sephiroth doing this to Cloud to the point where he could [[HeroicBSOD no longer function]]. He needed "rape counseling" from Tifa in a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind before he was able to do anything at all.
* ''MetalGearSolid 2'' had The Patriots do this to the main character. But it also used PostModernism and FourthWall breaking to extend this to the player as well. It ''hurt''.
** ''MetalGearSolid 4''. Beauty and the Beast Unit. Enough said.
* In ''HalfLife 2 Episode 1'', [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman is mind-raped by a Combine Advisor in first person. It's not fun for him or the player]].
** This happens a number of times in ''Episode 2'', as well.
* In ''KingdomHearts'': Chain of memories Namine is first ordered to [[spoiler:make the clone of Riku think he's the real Riku (she also makes him devoted to her)]] then later on she voluntarily [[spoiler:breaks the links in his heart, basically snapping his mind and memories to stop him from attacking Sora, he recovers from the coma like state though]]. Despite this there are people who ship these two as a loving couple.
* In ''{{Drakengard}}'' there is a disturbing cutscene in which [[CreepyChild Manah]] begins to speak in her evil man-voice, speaking Furiae's innermost thoughts out in front of her brother, the protagonist. Okay, not too bad, unless [[spoiler:you happen to be harboring [[BrotherSisterIncest incestuous feelings]] towards your brother]]. The allusion to rape is helped along by Furiae's winces and verbal reactions throughout the whole ordeal. Her shame is so great that she [[DrivenToSuicide immediately commits suicide]]. Manah also does this to the AntiHero's best friend early on in the game, using it as part of the process for MoreThanMindControl to make the best friend into a RivalTurnedEvil.
* This is how the Mind Worms from ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' paralyze their victims in order to give them a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong.
* The final battle of ''{{Earthbound}}'' was, [[WordOfGod according to the game's creator]], a replication of his ''own'' mind rape (a "direct attack to [his] brain," in his own words) he suffered after walking into a drama movie in the middle of what he thought was a rape scene as a child.
* Shirou from ''Fate/Stay Night'', when [[spoiler:he goes up against Kotomine Kirei in the final battle.]]
** Not to mention [[spoiler:Using Archer's arm. Everytime he does so, he's bombarded with the sum of Archer's experience, and knowledge, conveyed by disjointed statements, and complex formula. To begin with, this causes his mind to literally dump whole hours of memory at a time, days after he first uses it. if he uses it too much, then he's overcome, loses his identity entirley, and is overwhelmed by his Reality Marble from within. "Bone of my Sword" indeed.]]
* ''{{Persona 4}}'''s Shadow Persona are the character's fears with a mind of their own. That's not necessarily a good thing, since the Shadow Persona are [[JerkAss jerk asses]] who over-exaggerate the character's fears until they're left screaming ''"You're not me!"''. Examples are: [[spoiler:the character with sexuality issues seeing himself depicted as a very stereotypical gay guy]] and [[spoiler:the pop idol who's worried about becoming a sex symbol seeing herself naked on a pole dancing erotically without shame]].
* In ''{{Halo}} 3'', before and after rescuing Cortana, her words and verbal cues drop indications that she went through the AI-equivilant of this while a prisoner of the Gravemind. The rather agonized, audibly shaken way she begs for the Chief to get her out of High Charity and to destroy the reactors to pay it back just emphasizes this.
** A message from that plays on a downed Pelican's radio in that level reeaaaally creeps me out (And draws about as literal a parallel as you can get from a victim that isn't even corporeal)
--> '''Cortana:''' ''I tried to stay hidden, but there was no escape! He cornered me, wrapped me tight and brought me close...''
* The Zuul of ''SwordOfTheStars'' regularly perform mind raping of lesser beings to perform research, leaving their victim a maddened degenerate husk. In fact, they do this to obtain information in general... Or because they think it's fun... Frankly, the Zuul ''like'' mind raping their lessers and thus they never really got used to asking nicely. Or asking at all.
* ''{{MassEffect}}'': On Feros [[spoiler:you discover a mind-controlling creature known as the Thorian. It works because its spores implant in your brain and cause agonizing pain if you even *think* something you aren't supposed to.]]
** Of course, at least one persaon intentionaly thinks the wrong things. He says he's "Just invoking the masters whip."
* In ''[[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Knights Of The Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords]]'' Kreia uses her mind invasion techniques in conjunction with [[HannibalLecture Hannibal Lectures]] to inflict this upon the {{PlayerCharacter}}'s companions, breaking them into his/her service.
** Don't forget the first game, where it is implied that Malak does the same to [[spoiler: Bastila]] in order to gain an underling. And also possibly some honest-to-goodness sex, judging by his suggestive dialogue and behavior during that cutscene.
* In ''[[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'', this happens to anyone who has had any lengthy contact with Alma, but especially the Point Man and Sergeant Becket. In the former case, its because [[spoiler:the Point Man is her son]], while in the latter case, its because [[spoiler:[[StalkerWithACrush Alma is apparently in love with Becket]] and repeatedly tries to literally rape him, eventually succeeding.]]
* In ''DawnOfWar 2'', the cutscene that introduces the Tyranid creature called the Zoanthrope does this to the ''player'': random and distorted visuals overlapping with the image of a bloated alien braincase, with loud screeches paired with the sound of [[PsychicStatic audio feedback]] assaulting the ears.
** This is basicly a visual representation of the Tyranid psychic power 'The Horror', which is Mind Rape taken to the third degree.
* Shadow Priests in ''[[WorldofWarcraft World of Warcraft]]'' have many abilities made to mess with the opponents mind. These include Mind Blast (causing an explosion of shadow magic inside the enemy's brain), Mind Flay (slashing at the enemy's brain with shadow magic whips), Mind Sear (burns the opponent's brain with shadow magic) and the classic Mind Control. Both Priests and Warlocks can cast a version of the Fear spell, which causes immense fear in the target's mind, making them run around aimlessly for a few seconds.
** Priests of any sort - Holy, Discipline, ''or'' Shadow - are expected to get Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Pain in basic training, and have access to Mind Control soon enough. Refusing to train in these makes solo adventures a ''lot'' harder.
*** Let's not forget Psychic Scream, which makes the enemy run away for a bit because of the horrific mind/soul pain you inflicted on him. As part of combat, it's a horrific ability. As a way of avoiding combat... well, I suppose once the pain wears off, the victims ''might'' be glad you didn't just kill them, but....
* Basically every character in ''SilentHill'' has this inflicted on them by the eponymous GeniusLoci, and being a SurvivalHorror series the player gets to experience it as well. Wonderful.
* A very intense version of Mind Rape takes place in ''[[Main/{{Xenosaga}} Xenosaga]]'' Episode 1 where [[spoiler: Albedo mentally rapes MOMO in front of the main cast]]. This is especially powerful given [[spoiler: the apperant age of MOMO as a 12 year old girl]].
** The American version of this scene original Japanese version was modified because the imagry was considered too intense. In the American version [[spoiler: Albedo uses lightning-like energy while cradling MOMO's head to extract information]], where as in the Japanese version, [[spoiler: he physically sticks his arm into her abdomen]]. In both instances, the character is shown to exhibit physical as well as mental pain.
*The nightmare chapters in MaxPayne. Max obviously doesn't take well to drugs, as at the end of every part, he's drugged and undergoes a particularly intense night terror which involves the screams of his late wife and child, running across an endless maze, following a trail of blood over a bottomless pit, and confronting himself as the true murderer.
* The ''X-Com'' games have this as well. The Ethereals and high-ranking Sectoids (and eventually your own soldiers) have two mental attacks: MindControl and Lower Morale. Helplessly watching as your own hands slaughter your teammates has to be bad enough, and one can only imagine what horrors are committed in the Lower Morale attack.
* All of the BossBanter in AmericanMcGeesAlice force her to confront herself. The tougher the Boss, the closer this gets to MindRape, with the Jabberwock and the Red Queen remarkably wiping the smirk off her face.
* ValkyriaChronicles. [[spoiler:Cezary's ending, where a head injury erases all of his memories of being a JerkAss and completely changes his personality; everyone around him is okay with this.]]

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* Used in the thought experiment/webcomic ''[[OneOverZero 1/0]]'': Ghanny is forced to enact corporal punishment on Junior despite being a ghost, so Ghanny possesses Junior and gives him a "mind wedgie" that leaves him a gibbering wreck for six hours.
* In ''[[http://www.triquetracats.com/?date=2006-06-16 this page]]'' of the webcomic ''Triquetra Cats'', Blaze's adoptive (yet genetically similar) older sister is subject to a Mind Rape by a Hand Of The Dragon vampire with illusionist powers.
* The "Wayang Kulit" arc from ''SluggyFreelance'' combines this with a VisionQuest, forcing Torg to kill all the women he's ever loved (or who have ever loved him) and gradually transform into a demon. It all ends up for the best, teaching him not to blame himself so much, but it's done in the most sadistic way possible.
* Shockamancy in ''{{Erfworld}}'' appears to work by planting horrible images in the victims' minds, if one judges from [[ShockSite the names]] used in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0139.html this Shockamancy-scroll incantation]].
* A hero-on-villain(or at least {{Jerkass}}) version in this episode[[http://www.freakangels.com/?p=34]] of ''FreakAngels'', when Arkady makes Luke experience the memory of her drug overdose.
* A possible explanation of whatever [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/07/21/episode-1154-epilepsy-warning-no-seriously/ this]] is in ''8BitTheatre''.
* The title character of ''DominicDeegan'' can be seen as doing this on occasion, [[YourMileageMayVary depending on your viewpoint]].

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* What's worse than being mind raped? Being mind raped by a GiantSpider. One who is quite clearly enjoying herself. [[BigBad N'Ktane]] does this in {{Tasakeru}}.

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* ''Ben10AlienForce'': A very literal mind rape of Ken Tennyson by the Highbreed. It forced him to fight his cousins, which did not go over well with the Tennysons.
* ''TeenTitans'': The confrontation between Slade and Raven when Slade first returns includes Slade ripping her cloak, her clothes magically disintegrating, and her hair growing as he holds her immobilized, showing her a vision of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The End Of The World]] at her own hands before tossing her unconscious from a roof.
** In addition, the entire episode 'Haunted' is just one gigantic Mind Rape.
** Not to mention what Raven did to Dr. Light (implied) during the opening teaser for "Nevermore", when she went all demonic with him with the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] and all the [[NaughtyTentacles black tentacles]] dragging him under her cloak. He came out shivering with his suit shattered, mumbling incoherently.
*** In a later episode, Dr. Light quietly agrees to go to jail when Raven confronts him.
*** Poor Dr. Light. Mind Raped in two seperate universes.
* Tarantulas did this to Blackarachnia in ''{{Transformers}}: BeastWars'', hitching a ride inside her body, complete with a few creepy visuals to show his domination of her mind. Of course, ''she'' went into ''his'' brain to retrieve information first, so if you've got a sick sense of humor you could say she was asking for it. She does, eventually, free herself from his control, and she recovers a bit more fully (not to mention ''quickly'') than most victims, but compare how she acts towards him in the first season to how she does in the second.
** Also happened in ''Beast Machines'' to Silverbolt, by Megatron, via Jetstorm. If you doubt it, compare his description of being Jetstorm to ''{{Carrie}}'s'' mom describing being raped physically by her husband.
*** But... Post-Jetstorm Silverbolt said he ''liked'' it. ;_;
*** Megatron did this to [=amnesia!Starscream=] in ''Energon'', to get Starscream back on the Decepticon side. It was also a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything fairly obvious metaphor]] for something... ''else''.
**** What? You mean when Megatron traps Starscream in a darkened room, then repeatedly commands his struggling and protesting victim to "say his name" while simultaneously stabbing him with his [[FreudwasRight massive sword?]] What could possibly be suspect about that?
* Vlad just loves to do this to ''DannyPhantom''. Danny later on begged for it, in an alternate future after everyone he ever cared for [[spoiler: died [[NiceJobBreakingItHero because of]] [[SelfMadeOrphan him]]]]. [[BigBad Vlad Masters]] respected his wishes and ''removed his humanity''. What happens from there is ''ten years'' of MoralEventHorizon material. He steals Vlad's [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost half]] and murders his human self/shell. Luckily, it is [[ResetButton averted]].... [[MindScrew or IS IT]]?
* In the '80s ''Defenders Of The Earth'' series, ex-DistressedDamsel now HotScientist Dale Arden is actually ''killed'' through MindRape by Ming The Merciless. Her mind is later put in a crystal and becomes the core of the super-computer Dynak-X.
* ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': most other versions have Peter [[spoiler:simply use loud noise to remove the symbiote]], but here he also had to face it forcing him through a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind re-telling the story of him gaining his powers and Uncle Ben's death.
* In the second season of ''JusticeLeague'', Doctor Destiny (John Dee) uses his powers in a disturbing fashion - he traps his ex-girlfriend in a nightmare. In one creepy scene, he removes his clothes in front of her, before "putting on" his costume. She ends up becoming the first person in the series to actually die by action of a supervillain.
** Also, MartianManhunter, in order to get some codes for a Thanagarian ship forces himself into a Thanagarian's mind. The guy obviously resists, but [=MM=] overcomes him. He's left mostly a vegetable, and the next time we see him, he's hooked up into a mech and can barely string sentences together.
***Thinking about a hero mind raping someone just to learn to fly a ship is what NightmareFuel is made of.
** And then there's Ace of the Royal Flush Gang, who can make people insane simply by staring at them. The Joker takes her out of the government containment facility where she was held, and attempts to use her powers to drive the entire planet insane with a reality show. According to Joker, his insanity protects him from her milder mind-rapes, but when Ace realizes that he's no better than the government agents who kidnapped her, she makes him so insane that ''he goes into a coma'' (those who think of BatmanBeyond as an alternate timeline like to believe that Joker remained in this state for the rest of his life), and the only reason he might have recovered is because he's too crazy to be properly {{Mind Rape}}d.
* ''{{X-Men}}'': You wouldn't expect this from him, but somewhat applied to Magneto by Professor Xavier, by having him relive his memories of the Holocaust. It may have had a point in teaching him that violence is wrong, but it is still forcing someone to relive his darkest memories.
** Oh, that's nothing. In the two-parter involving Proteus, the eponymous villain (although the show portrayed him as more of a darker version of ChaoticNeutral, with some shades of PsychopathicManchild as well) mind rapes the hell out of Wolverine. Afterward, even Wolverine, the archetype of the NinetiesAntiHero, was horrified by the psychic attack. And the worst part? [[NightmareFuel He wasn't the only one that was scared]].
* In one episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', the girls face the Sandman, who wants to put everyone in the world to sleep so that he can be free from his duty of putting people across the world to sleep and get some rest for himself. The girls decide that to beat him (after being put to sleep themselves and finding that they can enter dreams) is to give him a nightmare so bad that he will never want to sleep again. [[WhatTheHellHero What follws can only be described as Mind Rape]] ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLgyzHv99w&feature=PlayList&p=3BABAE7A69EA0822&index=34 see starting from 6:26]]).
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* This troper interprets the number [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgnxvioVjbo Grinch Night]] as the [[HalloweenIsGrinchNight Grinch]] doing this to the young protagonist.
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* ''{{Monster}}'': Everything anyone who is remotely close to [[CompleteMonster Johan]] experiences is pure mind rape.
* What Akito Sohma did to Kana in ''FruitsBasket'' is a mix of this and MoreThanMindControl. [[spoiler:After Akito blinded Hatori for asking her for permission to marry Kana, she turned against the poor nurse and blamed her so much for Hatori's partial blindness that she drove her mad. It was so bad that Hatori had to delete Kana's memories of their relationship, so effective and cruel Akito's mind rape of her was]]. We can also count Akito [[spoiler:similarly "torturing" Yuki as a kid, telling him he was unwanted and useless every time; poor Yuki was deeply traumatized for years]]. Also, [[spoiler: telling Kyo constantly that he was a monster who could never be loved and should be locked up probably wasn't too helpful either.]]
** It's also stated in the manga that [[spoiler:Akito herself was a ''victim'' of mind rape at the hands of her own mother, Ren, who told her nonstop that everyone would abandon and hate her ever since she was about ''five'' years old. All out of jealousy because Akito was a DaddysGirl and Ren was jealous of her own daughter, specially after her dad died]]. This [[FreudianExcuse explains]], although not justifies, Akito's misogyny and cruelty towards everybody else.
* What about Spandam's brutal treatment of Robin in ''OnePiece''?
**Same goes for Sir Crocodile's little speech to Princess Vivi about the doom of her kingdom. On top of that he throws her off the palace-balcony to her certain death afterwards. The Hero saves her in the very last moment though.
* In episode 6 of GGundam, [[spoiler: Domon is drugged and forced to watch an holographic re-enaction of his family's downfall by his bosses, to see if he can really use his Super Mode (which is supposed to be powered up through anger-fueled Heroic Resolve). For worse, much later we find out it was all a lie.]]
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* In the ''{{Batman}}'' graphic novel ''The Killing Joke'', the Joker brutally tortures Commissioner Gordon with images of the MonsterClown's torture of his daughter Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, in an effort to prove that "one bad day" can drive anyone insane.
** In ''TheBatman'', the Joker gives a similar speech to police detective Ethan Bennett, while simultaneously terrorizing him with hypnosis and poisoning him with the chemicals that would turn him into the first Clayface.
** We can't forget ''BatmanBeyond: Return of the Joker'', [[spoiler: where mind rape was just ''one'' of [[MoralEventHorizon SEVERAL things]] that the Joker and Harley Quinn subjected young Tim Drake to, torturing and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing him]] into becoming "J.J", the Joker's Mini Me. The effects of such a mind rape last until Tim's adulthood and are a BIG plot point in the movie.]]

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* Of all the Joker's countless acts of villainy in ''TheDarkKnight'', none is more ''[[MoralEventHorizon sickening]]'' than his MindRape of [[spoiler: Harvey Dent]]. The twisted MonsterClown [[spoiler: approaches the hideously disfigured attourney, confined to a hospital bed and mad with grief for the death of Rachel, and proceeds to [[HannibalLecture warp his faith in justice into nihilistic cynicism in his most emotionally vulnerable hour]]. What little was left of Harvey Dent dies there, and in his place stands Two-Face, a vengeful and insane murderer who is as much an instrument of anarchy and chaos as the Joker himself]].
* In ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', Dr. Hannibal Lecter causes a fellow inmate to kill himself through [[HannibalLecture sheer force of personality]].
** Long before him, in German cinema, Dr. Mabuse did the same thing. [[MoralEventHorizon To his own patient.]]
* In ''{{Push}}'', Cassie lures her EvilCounterpart, the Triad Watcher, into getting sneak attacked by a Wiper, who wipes out her entire memory of her family and knocks her unconscious. And Cassie is supposed to be one of the heroes.
* The plot of ''AClockworkOrange'' is nicely summed up by this trope.

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* ''NineteenEightyFour''.
** Further to this, the premise of [=DoubleThink=] is a slow-acting form of Mind Rape in and of itself. Even worse because it's ''self-inflicted''.
* In J.R.R. Tolkien's ''TheSilmarillion'', Túrin Turambar and his sister Nienor get cursed by the Big Bad and [[ButtMonkey go through one disaster after another]]. The thing is, when it all started, Túrin was all of eight and Nienor hadn't even been born yet---the person the BigBad ''really'' wanted to break was their father, who had to sit there for twenty-seven years and helplessly watch it happen. [[spoiler: It worked.]]
* What [[spoiler: HangingJudge Wargrave]] puts his victims through in Literature/AndThenThereWereNone. Specially in the case of the one he thought of as the ''worse'' of all of them: [[spoiler: child-killing {{Yandere}} Vera Claythorne]].

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* 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.
*''BeingHuman'' 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]].
* ''{{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.]]
* What [[spoiler: [[RobinWilliams Merrit Rook]]]] puts [[spoiler: Elliot Stabler]] through in an episode of LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit. [[NightmareFuel *shudders*]]
* Angelus on ''{{Buffy}}''. 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 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 ''Amends''. He winds up so bad-off he tries to kill himself.
*** Hell, this is pretty much ''all the First does'' itself. And does it well. Another example: what it did to Spike in the early part of season 7. Eep.

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* In ''Second Sight'' before the game begins, John Vattic is tortured by NSE director Hanson with a combination of mind-altering drugs, vicious beatings, and horrific images. All the while, Hanson's digitally altered voice echoes through the room, insulting him and blaming him for the deaths that occurred in the playable backstory. Apparently, this torture session was intended to break down John's psyche, forcing him to reveal his psychic abilities to the onlookers, and eventually obliterate his memories. The final and by far the most painful moment of this scene is when Hanson actually enters the interrogation room, and informs John that he's ''the only friend he has left;'' John's so traumatised, he can scarcely remember a thing, so he tearfully submits to Hanson's scheme.
**Jayne Wilde suffers a similar treatment before being committed to an insane asylum.

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* This is basically how the story of ''BrokenSaints'' treats Shandala. [[spoiler:She suffers one horrible thing after another in her life, eventually resulting in becoming an empathic weapon designed to do this to millions of people across the world, employed by the BigBad in his plan to all but restart human civilization.]]

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* In one episode of {{Transformers}}, a Quintesson placed a Junkion in a bare cell to see how long it would take someone accustomed to the most cluttered environment in the galaxy to break down when deprived of stimulation. Almost immediately, the Junkion starts tearing at the walls and ripping up the floor. Disappointed at how quickly his subject collapsed, the scientist turns off the monitor. Later, the trope is subverted when the scientist checks back to see if anything has changed, and sees the Junkion, perfectly relaxed, laying back on an improvised couch. The Junkion hadn't suffered a breakdown; he'd just been redecorating.
* In BatmanBeyond: Return of the Joker, The Joker does this to [[spoiler:Tim Drake when he was Robin.]]
* In Season 2 {{Star Wars The Clone Wars}} Obi-wan, Anakin, and Mace Windu influence [[spoiler:Cad Bane's]] mind in a very strong and disturbing version of the Jedi Mind Trick. [[{{WallBangers/WesternAnimation}} And these are the 'heroes'.]] And the victim does reveal the information not because the trick worked, but because [[{{Main/Designated Hero}} he didn't want them to try again.]]
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*Repressed memory therapy. In theory, it allows patients to recall memories that their minds suppressed because they were too traumatic. In reality, the patient fabricates life-shattering "memories" based on suggestions from the psychiatrist. It doesn't help that psychiatrists practicing RMT instist that the patient ''must'' have been abused and claim that the patient is merely in denial if he/she says otherwise. Thanks to this "therapy," patients have "remembered" incest, Satanic ritual abuse, multiple personalities, and a plethora of other horrors. Side effects may include depression, ruined marriages, and broken families. If that's not mind rape, I don't know what is.
**''Very'' few psychiatrists still practice this. When it was widespread, it was also unintentional--the therapists using it truly believed the memories were true recovered memories.
***The worst part, perhaps, is the fact that repressed memories ''do'' happen...as a result of ''other'' forms of mind rape. (It's a flawed coping mechanism: "The mind rape didn't happen" taken to its logical conclusion.)
*** Repression is actually extremely rare, though. Usually the worse an event is the better it's remembered, no matter how badly the victim may want to forget it. The brain has evolved to remember the worst first and foremost in an effort to make sure it isn't repeated. This is where trauma fits in.
**Even worse when hypnosis gets involved... that made for some very ugly cases of accidental mind rape.
*** And for some very ugly and not-at-all accidental physical rape - hypnotised patients don't say no! Mercifully rare, but it has happened.

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* The ''AxisPowersHetalia'' fancomic/fanfic, Taste of Revenge found here in [[http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/4567.html?thread=5492951#t5492951 comic form]] and [[http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/9482.html?thread=11830026#t11830026 fanfic form]]. (If you like the personification of the United States of America, Alfred F. Jones, please save yourself the guilt and disgust by not reading this. If you're not weak-stomached, go ahead and read this.) The basis of the story is that Alfred, or U.S.A. gets gang-raped by other countries for causing global recession, in the meanwhile getting seriously Mind-raped for all the shit he did in the past. It's a good read and worth your time, but the comic and the read is not Work Safe. The worst thing of it all, they think they're helping Alfred by teaching him a brutal lesson. Sure.... [[BullyingADragon rape the world's last remaining superpower who has enough nukes to destroy you all]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Real nice]].
** It was so severe in fact, that ''many'' members of the community posted requests wanting Alfred to [[TheDogBitesBack get his revenge on them]] in some way or another, or at least make the nine of them realize just how horrible their actions were (which in itself is a MindRape) and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone watch them become overridden with guilt]] and desperately [[ResuscitateTheDog try to regain Alfred's trust and forgiveness]] (though whether they succeed or not depends on just how forgiving the author might be and how the story's tone is).


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