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** Teen Jean Grey in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'': her telepathy shows up unexpectedly due to the stress of seeing the future and knowing her future self dies (more than once). Kitty has to repeatedly remind her it's considered extremely impolite to read minds without permission. Jean apologizes, but her curiosity gets the better of her quite a bit -- the fact that she's an incredibly powerful telepath with no control also means that she picks things up without meaning to: at one point, mid freak-out after finding out about Wanda's "No More Mutants" moment and being admonished by Kitty for going looking, she replies that she didn't -- Wanda's mind was screaming it out, as if it was all she thinks of. Sometimes it is PlayedForLaughs, sometimes it leads to awkward moments, but most times [[WhatTheHellHero she can't believe what people have done]]. She gets better by the time she meets [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Miles Morales]], and becomes steadily more controlled and ethical as time goes on.

* ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'': Several ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}rs mind-wiped their enemies and many friends to protect their secret identities and their families.

* In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'', Saturn Girl needs to be chosen leader in order to bench the whole ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes (long story), so she telepathically "nudges" all Legionnaires into voting for her. In that same story, Lori Lemaris reads ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s mind without asking permission only because she is wondering where the Girl of Steel is going.
* PlayedForDrama with ComicBook/DoctorStrange, who has moral lines he does ''not'' want to cross but occasionally has to in order to save the world. Similar to ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'' mentioned below, he once mind-wipes ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's memory when Cap discovers the Illuminati and objects to their course of action. Cap is absolutely pissed when his memory is restored and goes on a nearly self-destructive warpath trying to take them down.
* Mind████ from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' used her psychic powers on herself to prevent herself from becoming like her brother.

* In ''ComicBook/PsiForce'', this is generally averted by Wayne Tucker, who in addition to the combat uses of his psychic powers, routinely erased the memories of both bad guys and bystanders, psychically coerced people into doing things like giving him rides wherever he needed to go, and occasionally invaded his teammates' minds without permission. (Some of these instances are understandable given that he was one of a group of runaway teenagers trying to evade a shadowy organization that apparently wanted them dead; some of them, not so much.)
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', after [[spoiler:Aunt May finds out that Peter is Spidey's secret identity, Kitty begs Jean to use her powers to erase the discovery from Aunt May's mind. All of the other X-Men tell Kitty that this is not a good idea]]. Subverted in a different issue when Xavier performs some sort of telepathic sedation on a super-powered foreign exchange student. Spider-Man asks if doing that was ethical, and Xavier admits that it probably wasn't. (The student did nearly kill Spidey, Kitty, Jean, Storm, and himself when he woke up in the X-Jet and blew a hole in it -- sedating him was probably the safest course of action.)