Mind Rape - Television Tropes & Idioms

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The trope name comes from the Fan Nickname 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 catatonic depression. Most translations include Asuka screaming something like, "here It's raping/defiling/violating my mind/soul!!" The fact that the mind rape ray also plays the Hallelujah chorus makes it all the worse.
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 who watch the movie as well.
Yu-Gi-Oh:
- Mai's descent into darkness began with the Dark 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.
- Less rape-like versions of this are the point of the "Penalty Games" dealt to losers of Dark Games, especially the ones used in the manga and series 0 of the anime 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.
- This also happens in the final arc of 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 sub-villains of Sailor Moon Super S examined the dreams of pure-hearted people (one attacks young girls, another attacks 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 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. 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, Mind Rape (through infusing her with Dark Energy and 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.
Digimon Tamers features a digital Eldritch Abomination that uses human despair to create weapons. One of the secondary characters, who also happens to be a sweet and kind little girl with hidden Mommy issues 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 Eldritch Abomination. Break The Cutie taken to levels even Eva would envy.
In Saint Seiya, ex-Dragon and actual Aloof Big Brother 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. He gets an absolutely brutal taste of his own medicine as he fights Virgo Shaka during the Sanctuary saga, though: he is shown images of the Seven Stages of Hell, then is given visions of him and his brothers as kids in the Netherworld, and then loses his five physical senses.
Harry's attempts to "hack" Melfina in Outlaw Star. 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)
Code Geass is surprisingly fond of this.
- What Mao does to Shirley Fenette. ^{spoiler - click to reveal}
  ^{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 Psychic Powers to read her frail mind and cruelly playing with her to force the girl into shooting Lelouch. It's so bad that Lelouch has to use his Geass to erase all of the poor girl's memories of him}
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- What C.C. does to Suzaku to stop him from attacking Lelouch would also qualify; 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 a side-effect of Lelouch's Geass becoming permanent apparently boosts her own powers.
- According to one of the 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 Mind Rape.
- And the second season reveals that during the Time Skip, the Emperor used his own Geass to give Lelouch Fake Memories. Not a traditional Mind Rape, but the scene gets almost uncomfortably close to an actual rape, with Suzaku holding Lelouch down and Lelouch begging for him to stop.
- To make things worse, Charles ^{spoiler - click to reveal}
  ^{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 - click to reveal}
  ^{rewriting the memories of Anya Earlstreim, a young girl who had become the vessel of his wife through Grand Theft Me, to cover all of this up}
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- If Lelouch uses his Geass to order someone with strong enough willpower to do something utterly abhorrent to them, a Mind Rape-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, both of them were his sisters
- 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 - click to reveal}
  ^{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 Not So Different 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}
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The Sol Eleven Master Pei La Cain does this a couple of times to Guy in Gao Gai Gar 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 Yu Yu Hakusho executes an eternal punishment on the Elder Toguro by trapping him in his own subconscious with a treacherous plant.
The Festum in Fafner In The Azure Dead Aggressor use this as their ultimate weapon against mankind.
Last Exile Dio's Rite of Convenant is basically a case of Mind Rape that turns him into a semi-catatonic killing machine.
In the Chrono Crusade manga, Pandemonium does this pretty much constantly, mentally assaulting anyone and anything she comes in contact with. In fact, Joshua's insanity wasn't caused by a total 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 Mind Rape 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. 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.
Road does this to Lavi in D Gray Man 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 Heroic BSOD, leaving him 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 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
Muraki from Yami No Matsuei 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 Deadman Wonderland does this to Nagi while drugging and interrogating him, reawakening Nagi's surpressed memories of massacring Genkaku's soldiers and how his baby is actually still in DW.
Often happens in .hack. The very act of a human being Data Drained is...not healthy; but Tsukasa and Sora in .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 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 God Hand, pulls an epic one on Griffith to get him to carry out the sacrifices to become a demon god. It works.
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni; most of the main cast are batshit insane, and poor Keiichi gets mind raped pretty much every arc. ^{spoiler - click to reveal}
^{The victims of Hinamizawa Syndrome are seeing horrifying hallucinations of their friends acting like demonic entities or something similar disturbing to make them Ax Crazy Psychos. Hinamizawa Syndrome is a mind raping disease.}
Rave Master'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 Conclusion: Gods' War. The villain responsible tries to cast this as exposing their true 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 Joe going over the line while beating up a group of human thugs, Geronimo unable to meditate because Cybernetics Eat Your Soul, or G.B. melting down.
In Bleach Aizen is a MASTER of this trope.
Serial Experiments Lain is practically built upon this trope.
Apparently, in Katekyo Hitman Reborn, 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.
Happens in Alien Nine, to go along with all of the other horrible things that happen to the cute little girls involved. Doesn't help that one of the characters is (probably) literally raped during the scene as well.
We see that Seimei from Loveless does this to (deep breath) Yoji, Natsuo, Ritsu, Soubi AND his 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 Paptimus Scirocco's mind rape of Camille Bidan at the end of Zeta Gundam, leaving Camille mentally retarded up until the very end of ZZ Gundam
Toward The Terra has quite a bit of this; in particular, a dystopian society reminiscent of The Giver does this systematically to everyone when they hit age 14, destroying all of their childhood memories. They also use a Lotus Eater Machine-like effect to try to get information out of people, and the "psychological exams" are... unpleasant.
Kamen No Maid Guy 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.
Johan, Johan, Johan. Fandom exaggerates his already formidable ability to destroy the hopes and dreams of anyone he talks to to the point where he can make you kill yourself by smiling kindly. Luckily for everyone involved, the protagonist, Kenzou Tenma, is a master of the Mind Hug.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Parallel Works #8 shows the Start Of Darkness of Spiral King Lordgenome was being mind raped by the Anti-Spiral, which showed him horrific images of the Spiral Nemesis.
Despite all of the fanservice, Divergence Eve is full of this, not too much on the level of Evangelion, but still some of the stuff that happens in that show is pretty fucked up. Poor Misaki
Crocodile of One Piece became infamous among the fandom for his total mastery of this trope. And he knows he's good at it. And he enjoys being good at it. Unfortunately for Princess Vivi...

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 they go insane from the experience to the point where it actually kills them.
In Watchmen, this is the effect that 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 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. 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 Mind Rape: in the 80s Captain Britain series, one of the concepts constantly explored in the series is 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, he tried to rape Betsy Braddock, aka 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 Superman/Batman "Emperor Joker" story, where the Joker tricks Mister Mxyzptlk out of most of his 5th dimensional powers to reshape reality, 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...
- You didn't even read the final pages, did you? Superman had the Spectre move the memories into the Joker's mind, not his own.
This is the explanation for Dr. Light's Villain Decay in The DCU. As revealed in Identity Crisis, while mindwipes were... tolerated (to protect secret identities), a cabal in the League decided to screw up Light's brain to change his personality to make him a near-Harmless Villain. When Batman saw the personality changing, he was mind wiped too... of the previous ten minutes. While Dr. Light eventually retakes a level in badass, Batman loses what little trust of the Justice League and creates Brother Eye.
In Joss Whedon's run on Runaways, the kids meet the time traveling parents of Gertrude York, 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 their own death and Gert's after them, but incapable of doing anything about it. Just to clarify, Niko isn't normally a Beware The Nice Ones, just a nice one.
This is the modus operandi of the Psycho-Man, an old Fantastic Four villain. He uses an emotion controlling device called the Control Box with 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.
From The Darkness:
Sonatine: Listen. Your mother was a prostitute, your father was her pimp. Start believing… NOW.
Bouncer: NO!
Jenny: What’d you do to him?
Sonatine: Rewrote his memory. Tremendous fun.
The Umbrella Academy - 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.
The Sandman. Preludes and Nocturnes. 24 Hours. John Dee.
- Also, in a reminder that our "heroes" are not always nice, when a cop rightfully pulls Delirium over for reckless driving, she leaves him envisioning bugs all over him. For the rest of his life.
In the Strontium Dog "Portrait of a Mutant" story, Johnny mind-rapes a couple of Kreelers under the guise of reading their minds to prevent them from revealing that he is Nelson Kreelman's son.

Hero on villain example: In The Crow, 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 Roaring Rampage Of Revenge, Big Bad 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 Star Trek VI, of all places, Spock's mind-meld with Valeris definitely comes close to this trope, and it's really uncomfortable to watch. 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 Mind Rape anyone?
- Implicitly accepted by the rest of the crew because sometimes you just gotta do what you've 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 Peace Conference (Khitomer) — by nicely asking Sulu for it. To be fair that gem of an idea didn't strike anyone until after the whole Mind Rape scene.
- The Novelization, recognizing the implications of Spock's act, first explicitly declares a forced mind meld to fall into this category and then explains that Spock didn't force her, he mentally convinced her the seriousness of the situation and she gave in willingly. Which, uh, doesn't explain the screaming at the end.
Star Trek: 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 violent nightmares, paranoia, isolation and depression. His mercy killing towards a potential Borg victim and his own desire for a Roaring Rampage Of Revenge against their species imply this. His conversation with the Borg Queen pretty much confirms it. It begs the question how he got so messed up aboard a spaceship with a registered psychotherapist with empathic abilities.
- Whats worse is in Star Trek: 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 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, 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 (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 Jedi Mind Trick than Mind Rape - 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 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 - 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 High Octane Nightmare Fuel.

A mild version of this is a favorite tactic of the elves in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Lords And Ladies; 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 Wyrd Sisters by showing her her true self. Unfortunately, Lady Felmet is fully aware, and proud, of just how evil and cruel she truly is. A moment later, Nanny Ogg defeats her by braining her with a cauldron while she's in the middle of a rant.
- In 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 humans INVENTED concepts such as mediocraty, dullness, etc. (Compare the Real Is Brown trope to, say, any photo of nature, or just go to a park or something). For example, rather than forcing the Sisyphus expy to listen to hours of boulder pushing safety regulations rather than being allowed to just get on with pushing the boulder.
While, in the books, Legilimency is used only as a Mind Probe, the fifth Harry Potter film suggests that Voldemort uses it to inflict mental torture as an end in itself.
- While we're still on Harry Potter, coming near a Dementor will cause a Mind Rape-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, they can suck your soul 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.
- Not to mention the possession scene from the finale of the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This scene is, of course, an embellishment of what happened in the book (which was a rather quick bout of unendurable pain), but seems to fit the trope well.
Jane and her brother Alec in Twilight each have their own special Mind Rape powers. Jane's is pain while Alec cuts off all a person's senses.
In the Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant a villain gives doubting Linden a brief demonstration to prove that True Evil does indeed exist. Touching mind-to-mind with said Always Chaotic Evil entity leaves her in a coma.
A similar case is the basilisk in Peter David's Knight Life. 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.
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, her lover Will does the same thing on purpose. Only this time, she enjoys it. Context is everything.
The Mule in 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 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. 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 On a Pale Horse, 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 The Dresden Files 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 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 had it coming.
  - In the 11th book, Dresden encounters something sufficiently nasty that merely looking at it with his Third Eye instantly mindrapes him BAD.
  - Not to mention the traitor on the White Council having about three-quarters of the younger Wardens of the Council in the grip of mind control, and subtly 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. 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 Thomas getting taken apart physically, mentally and emotionally by the Big Bad. 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 it's entirely possible to do it painlessly, they just don't care or weren't trained to do so.
In the Conan The Barbarian 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 Prince Of Nothing 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.
Aornis Hades attempts this on Thursday Next in The Well Of Lost Plots by destroying her memory, first of her unpersoned husband, then of everything else.
In one Animorphs, Tobias is captured by a extremely sadistic Yeerk in the body of a young girl named Taylor and is subject to a torture that draws up his happiest memories and quickly swaps them with very painful ones. He Wangst a lot about this. Of course, he wangst a lot before this too. But this was a subject that really ruffled the birds feathers.
In David Eddings' The Belgariad, 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, 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.
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 except Zaphod, who really is the most important person in the universe where he experiences it.
- Actually it was a fake version of the Total Perspective Vortex, set up in an elaborate Xanatos Gambit so that Zaphod can meet the man who runs the universe.
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.
In James Swallow's Warhammer 40000 Blood Angels novel Deus Encarmine, Inquisitor Stele's Cold Blooded Torture of a prisoner Word-Bearer culminates in a Mind Rape that reveals Stele's not even human.
- Another 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 Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 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 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 New Jedi Order series, teenage Jedi apprentice Tahiri Veila is kidnapped by Yuuzhan Vong 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 lingering consequences for the rest of the series.
In The Thrawn Trilogy, Joruus C'baoth goes far, far beyond the Jedi Mind Trick by mind-raping General Covell to death- reducing him to a state of such mindlessness that, when their link was broken by an Anti Magic field, he didn't have enough mind left to survive.
In Timothy Zahn's Quadrail series 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 mind raped when she discovers that her servant, Lord Soth intends to kill her and make her 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. 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. Later, Zannah pulls it on Jedi Sarro Xaj. He gets lucky however; Zannah just uses it to distract him so she can kill him.
In The Silmarillion, Morgoth's (literal) dragon Glaurung likes to use this on his foes. Example:

"...he constrained her (Nienor) to gaze into his eyes, and he laid a spell of utter darkness and forgetfulness upon her, so that she could remember nothing that had ever befallen her, nor her own name, nor the name of any other thing; and for many days she could neither hear, nor see, nor stir by her own will."

Herald Talia of Valdemar is a sweet, benevolent person who nearly always uses her powerful empathic abilities to the benefit of all around her. The other .01 percent of the time, you learn why it doesn't pay to piss her off. The most dramatic (and literal) example was the time she forced a rapist to relive his victim's experience in a neverending loop, until and unless he could acknowledge that he'd done wrong.
Amberfuce is a master of Mind Rape. Telepathy is a rather common power among Deepwoods creatures, but Amberfuce posesses something most of them don't (or at least don't use): the power to erase, or rather freeze one's memories (and likely all emotions as well), which he uses to create perfectly obedient slaves. This is described as a painful process, compared to the touch of cold fingers inside your mind.
It is implied that this is what the Chamber of the Ordeal is like for those who wish to be knights in Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe. The fact that it seems to be a semi-aware entity does not help. It shows you images of what can be, what you're afraid of, what you must do, and it acts as a portal for the God(s) words. If you're afraid of spiders and/or drowning, guess what you get visited by. People have described it has being a jewel, and the Chamber is a jeweler's hammer, tapping at your weaknesses. And those are the "good guys". If you're a "bad guy", or just not relevant to the plot, well... Squires have been known to kill themselves once they come out, come out dead, or come out feeling the pain of every injury they inflicted upon women that they beat, raped and murdered, and it doesn't end until it wants to. Anyone want to be a knight?

Star Trek The Next Generation 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 Star Trek Enterprise by mind-meld with a Vulcan renegade. And it gave her Vulcan AIDS. - when the episode aired on Sky One, it was followed by an "If any of the issues in this episode have affected you..." message with the number for an AIDS helpline.
- Star Trek Voyager 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 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 Lotus Eater Machine, then there was the beacon that made people hallucinate particiating in genocide, then there were 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 Negative Space Wedgie 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 Mind Probe 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 he was fine by the end of the episode.
- Spock himself got mind-raped by Klingon apparatus in the episode "Errand of Mercy". Again it was made worse by just how passive he was in the scene following. And considering that Vulcans value their minds above their bodies...
  - The Klingon commander's dialogue in the scene beforehand was even stuffed full of Double Entendre... If You Know What I Mean
- 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: The Manchurian Candidate 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.
- At the end of the original series episode "Requiem for Methuselah," Spock arguably does this to Kirk. Kirk expresses the desire to forget the love interest of the episode when things end badly, but Kirk is asleep when Spock mind melds with Kirk to make him forget.
An episode of The Twilight Zone 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.
Power Rangers Mystic Force: An emerging Sealed Evil In A Can causes Daggeron to experience his own death. (It happens, but a little differently than the flash-forward. He gets better.)
- This is quite a big one to miss. In Power Rangers Dino Thunder Mesogog always does it to Zeltrax and Elsa so they don't betray him.
  - And at one point to his own son.
Tegan's encounter with the Mara in "Kinda" has been compared to a rape scene. Remember that Doctor Who 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 Mind Rape on Donna Noble in Journey's End to remove 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 "No, No, Please Don't!" A rare case of the hero doing it, a rarer case where it might be justified, as 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 consensual version with Madame de Pompadour, for which there is some other subtext. Also, in the episode "The Shakespeare Code", where he gives an Elizabethan mental patient a nice soothing Mind Hug.
- While it's more subtle than some of the other examples from the show, the Master's Time Lord essence, when released from its fob watch, overwhelms his human identity in a way that fits this to a T.
Roswell. Half the plots after Tess entered had her mindwarping some person or other, to the extent that 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 violent little girl who spends plenty of time crying or shaking helplessly in corners... until she's triggered, at which point she unleashes the Waif Fu to end all Waif Fu.
- River also undergoes this whenever she makes contact with the mind of a Reaver. In "Bushwhacked," a man tortured by the Reavers simply wakes up and she starts screaming at the mental contact. Later on in The Movie, while Serenity is passing through the Reaver fleet, her face is locked in absolute horror as she is surrounded by the Reavers, and at the end of the movie, she is rendered catatonic and helpless by their presence as they assault the crew.
- River also gets mindraped by an entire planet when she is on Miranda, and the vast numbers of people who should have been alive but aren't sends her into a screaming mental breakdown. Being The Empath sucks sometimes.
Maury and Matt Parkman of 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. Maury gets the tables turned on him in a season two episode and gets trapped in his own mind by Matt.
- Matt's "good guy" status is questionable... he'll lie, cheat, and steal just to make his own life a bit easier, not just when under severe duress. But as he's very affable and not all that bright, people tend to remember him as "such a nice guy..."
  - Considering what he could do with his power (=pretty much everything), I'd say he has shown so far a rather admirable restraint, with the exception of his evil alternate future version in 5YG.
- 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. 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 Mind Rape: having it all backfire and be used against him. The preview for next seasons also introduces plenty more possibilities for Mind Rape since it apears Sylar (or his hunger, at the very least) is Not Quite Dead. It makes you wonder why they didn't just use Claire's blood to just revive the fallen senator; Noah was brought back using that method, so 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 taking over his body at the worst possible times.
The episode Dust to Dust of Babylon 5. G'Kar takes a drug called "dust" which allows the user to gain telepathic powers for a few hours. He uses it to invade Londo's mind and go through his memories, tormenting him about them in the process. He physically beats him up beforehand in order to subdue him, which emphasizes the similarity to actual rape. 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 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 Psi Corps members saw any problem with passively invading other peoples' minds to read their thoughts.
  - Although the keyword there usually is "passive". There are exceptions- arguably, such as when the Vorlons use their 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 Psi Corps members tend to be bastards. They see no problems listening in on people who cannot protect themselves from mind scans because "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 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 feeding in the bad stuff". 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 holds Ianto down and kisses him 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 Mind Screw to drive its victims completely insane.
- Stark, capable of transmitting memories when unmasked, attempts to pull a Mind Rape 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.
Glory eats Tara's sanity in season five of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. And that of several other people.
- Later, Willow 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 Character Development 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 has his sister, 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.
The Attic. Trust me, there's a reason you don't want to get sent there.
- Heck, the entire freakin' Dollhouse. It's just that they can make you like it.
On The Listener, Charlie thinks Toby's telepathy is this, until he saves her from an actual rapist.

The Nightbringer of Warhammer 40000, an Omnicidal Maniac Physical God that usually takes the form of a forty-foot-tall, flying, metal Grim Reaper 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 Psychic Powers are drawn from a hell-dimension Psykers in general face a lifetime with the threat of suddenly being Mind Raped at any moment. For the lucky ones, Mind Rape is the worst thing that happens. For the unlucky ones there is worse. Much worse. For the very lucky, it's a short 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 Mind Rape, 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 Horus Heresy.
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, 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 Care Bear Stare'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.
  - The process is less "breaking their mind" and more "exposing the error of their ways". The alignment change is of the creature's own will - it's just that in the Dungeons and Dragons setting, the world is supposed to be such that any sentient creature that sees pure Good is always going to choose that path. Extremely powerful Good creatures, like the higher angels and gods, have similar abilities that are in some cases instantaneous. Note that even Demons and creatures literally created from pure evil can be sanctified - unlike most settings, the fall from heaven works both ways.
- 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.
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 Mind Rape a step further by detaching the subject's consciousness, and projecting it into the mind of a Cosmic Horror. Both spells are mostly practiced by a group of mages whose whole creed essentially revolves around Mind Rape, and can only be performed by a person with a criminal mentality without potentially putting a ding in the Karma Meter.
- 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 Karma Meter), 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 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 angels they want to emulate.
- Partially subverted with the acamoth. Sure, they're evil, reality-hungry spirits who recreate their horrific home in the minds of those they enter...But it was entirely consensual, to the point that whatever they do with their host dings the Karma Meter, since you literally let them in, and are thus a willing accomplice to their deeds...
- For the Banishers, the Awakening (the moment of becoming a mage) itself is Mind Rape. 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 Pandemonium or 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.
- Mind Rape tends to be what 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 Magic The Gathering (basically, two almost-all-powerful wizards fighting, with cards representing spells and allies) most spells forcing players to discard cards come across this way. cases in 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 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.
- GURPS Discworld brings in the Break Mental Walls spell, which strips away the barriers people erect to deal with all the things about themselves they don't want to acknowledge; while it's in effect, the character is largely incapacitated and has to make a Fright Check every ten minutes. The more unpleasant mental traits the character has and cruel things they've done recently, the longer the spell lasts. It doesn't work, or doesn't work entirely, on three categories of people: people who're truly saintly, people who already know and like themselves, and complete psychopaths.
- 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.
Infernum is full of this. First, you have powers like "Eat the Mind" (you literally tear apart and consume an opponent's mind through a psychic link), or "Nightmare Form" (not only can you become the living embodiment of a creature's worst fears, you become so convincing an embodiment you can kill them through sheer terror). Then, you have more subtle attacks... Imps can shrink down to such a tiny size they can crawl in through your ear and take control of your body by physically manipulating your brain. Malcubi can physically enter your dream if they touch you. Many demons have the power to possess you, either simply riding around as a spirit in your head or outright using your body for themselves. The kicker? These are your player characters, and you're encouraged to do this to your enemies.

Final Fantasy VII had Sephiroth doing this to Cloud to the point where he could no longer function. He needed "rape counseling" from Tifa in a Journey To The Center Of The Mind before he was able to do anything at all.
- But was it full on mind rape, or Cloud just being told of what he really was, and not being able to handle it? The mind rapey part could have been the idea that Sephiroth told him only half-truths (possibly because he may not have known himself) to get the desired results, though.
Metal Gear Solid 2 had The Patriots do this to the main character. But it also used Post Modernism and Fourth Wall breaking to extend this to the player as well. It hurt.
- Metal Gear Solid 4. Beauty and the Beast Unit. Enough said.
In Half Life 2 Episode 1, 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 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of memories Namine is first ordered to make the clone of Riku think he's the real Riku (she also makes him devoted to her) then later on she voluntarily 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.
- There is also what she does to Sora, to a lesser extent, removing and manipulating his memories
  - —> No Sora! Don't listen to me!
In Drakengard there is a disturbing cutscene in which 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 you happen to be harboring 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 immediately commits suicide. Manah also does this to the Anti Hero's best friend early on in the game, using it as part of the process for More Than Mind Control to make the best friend into a Rival Turned Evil.
This is how the Mind Worms from Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri paralyze their victims in order to give them a Face Full Of Alien Wing Wong.
Though it's not dvelved upon especially much in the Star Craft Expansion Pack, the Dark Archons have the ability to instantly mindwipe a creature, alternatively overload their nervous system, rendering them paralyzed for a short amount of time.
- If you take into consideration the power that pretty much every individual of the entire Protoss race have in the lore, you could just as well say it's a race of mind rapists.
The final battle of Earthbound was, 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 he goes up against Kotomine Kirei in the final battle.
- Not to mention 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 jerk asses who over-exaggerate the character's fears until they're left screaming "You're not me!". Examples are: the character with sexuality issues seeing himself depicted as a very stereotypical gay guy and 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 Sword Of The Stars 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 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 person intentionally thinks the wrong things. He says he's "Just invoking the master's whip."
- Anyone who spends any amount of time around Sovereign is automatically mindraped by its energy field.
In Knights Of The Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords Kreia uses her mind invasion techniques in conjunction with 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 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 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 the Point Man is her son, while in the latter case, its because Alma is apparently in love with Becket and repeatedly tries to literally rape him, eventually succeeding.
In Dawn Of War 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 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 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 Silent Hill has this inflicted on them by the eponymous Genius Loci, and being a Survival Horror series the player gets to experience it as well. Wonderful.
A very intense version of Mind Rape takes place in Xenosaga Episode 1 where Albedo mentally rapes MOMO in front of the main cast. This is especially powerful given 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 Albedo uses lightning-like energy while cradling MOMO's head to extract information, where as in the Japanese version, 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 Max Payne. 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: Mind Control 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 Boss Banter in American Mc Gees Alice force her to confront herself. The tougher the Boss, the closer this gets to Mind Rape, with the Jabberwock and the Red Queen remarkably wiping the smirk off her face.
Valkyria Chronicles. Cezary's ending, where a head injury erases all of his memories of being a Jerk Ass and completely changes his personality; everyone around him is okay with this.
Happens to Pokemon themselves in the main Gamecube, when they get turned into Shadow Pokemon. They lose all emotion due to their hearts being closed, and get turned into blood thirsty, rage filled, primitive Complete Monsters who work only on their enhanced fighting instincts. They can be brought back to normal with some love.
- So they're murder-machines who barely listen to their master, after being put through fates worse than death?
  - Worse than you think. There's a whole article on Cipher and Shadow Pokemon in the Nightmare Fuel section, and it's safe to guess that the mental aspect shows every sign of Mind Rape you can imagine. It takes a special kind of person to make a Shadow Pokemon... or several.
The Pieces of Eden in Assassins Creed can control human minds this way. In fact, human were apparently engineered by the Precursors so that they could be controlled via the Pieces.
Unsurprisingly in the EVEOnline chronicles series Methods of Torture. The Caldari is particularly noteworthy. linkage
It is a symptom of madness that thoughts become uncontrollably disjointed. This can be encouraged

Used in the thought experiment/webcomic 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 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 Sluggy Freelance combines this with a Vision Quest, 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 the names used in this Shockamancy-scroll incantation.
A hero-on-villain(or at least Jerkass) version in this episode[1] of Freak Angels, when Arkady makes Luke experience the memory of her drug overdose.
A possible explanation of whatever this is in 8BitTheatre.
The title character of Dominic Deegan can be seen as doing this on occasion, depending on your viewpoint.

What's worse than being mind raped? Being mind raped by a Giant Spider. One who is quite clearly enjoying herself. N'Ktane does this in Tasakeru.
In the second I'm a Marvel I'm A DC story Happy Hour, The Joker's plan essentially involves using a mind-controlling cyborg to rewrite the memories of all the superheroes to make them Darker And Edgier by putting them under the delusion that everyone they ever loved had been brutally murdered right in front of their eyes. He also uses that android to psychically torment Green Goblin by forcing him to learn the entire Portuguese language... all at once.
On this page of the scp wiki, Dr. Alto Clef explains that he is Satan, has just gotten God put in a coma, and that Heaven is empty and waiting for his legions to invade. He then reveals that this isn't true. Then that he is a notorious liar, and he could be lying on any or all of these points. Dr. Clef then falls against the table, managing to hit his head nine times.
Happens in Arcana Magi to Alysia Morales and Reya Everheart. The process is called Therapy and for Alysia, she found it humiliating before her mind broke and she was no more, but for Reya, she is completely afraid of it and even warns Alysia not to mess up or else.

Ben 10 Alien Force: 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.
Teen Titans: 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 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 glowing red eyes and all the 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: Beast Wars, 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 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 massive sword? What could possibly be suspect about that?
Vlad just loves to do this to Danny Phantom. Danny later on begged for it, in an alternate future after everyone he ever cared for died because of him. Vlad Masters respected his wishes and removed his humanity. What happens from there is ten years of Moral Event Horizon material. He steals Vlad's ghost half and murders his human self/shell. Luckily, it is averted.... or IS IT?
In the '80s Defenders Of The Earth series, ex-Distressed Damsel now Hot Scientist Dale Arden is actually killed through Mind Rape by Ming The Merciless. Her mind is later put in a crystal and becomes the core of the super-computer Dynak-X.
The Spectacular Spider Man: most other versions have Peter simply use loud noise to remove the symbiote, but here he also had to face it forcing him through a Journey To The Center Of The Mind re-telling the story of him gaining his powers and Uncle Ben's death.
In the second season of Justice League, 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, Martian Manhunter, 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 Nightmare Fuel 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 Batman Beyond 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 Raped.
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 Chaotic Neutral, with some shades of Psychopathic Manchild as well) mind rapes the hell out of Wolverine. Afterward, even Wolverine, the archetype of the Nineties Anti Hero, was horrified by the psychic attack. And the worst part? He wasn't the only one that was scared.
In one episode of The Powerpuff Girls, 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. What follws can only be described as Mind Rape (see starting from 6:26).

In Aeon Natum Engel Fattel mind rapes Dagon long enough for Rei to kill him.
In Arabella's fanfic "The Very Secret Diary", all of the gruesome mind-rape that probably went on between Tom Riddle and Ginny Weasley in the second Harry Potter book is detailed to an uncomfortable degree. It's damn fine writing, though.
In The Return mind rape is Alexia's favourite recruitment tool. Convert someone into a succubus and mindrape them into submission.

Monster: Everything anyone who is remotely close to Johan experiences is pure mind rape.
What Akito Sohma did to Kana in Fruits Basket is a mix of this and More Than Mind Control. 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 similarly "torturing" Yuki as a kid, telling him he was unwanted and useless every time; poor Yuki was deeply traumatized for years. Also, 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 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 Daddys Girl and Ren was jealous of her own daughter, specially after her dad died. This explains, although not justifies, Akito's misogyny and cruelty towards everybody else.
What about Spandam's brutal treatment of Robin in One Piece?
- 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 G Gundam, 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.

In the Batman graphic novel The Killing Joke, the Joker brutally tortures Commissioner Gordon with images of the Monster Clown's torture of his daughter Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, in an effort to prove that "one bad day" can drive anyone insane.
- In The Batman, 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 Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, where mind rape was just one of SEVERAL things that the Joker and Harley Quinn subjected young Tim Drake to, torturing and 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.

Of all the Joker's countless acts of villainy in The Dark Knight, none is more sickening than his Mind Rape of Harvey Dent. The twisted Monster Clown approaches the hideously disfigured attourney, confined to a hospital bed and mad with grief for the death of Rachel, and proceeds to 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 The Silence Of The Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter causes a fellow inmate to kill himself through sheer force of personality.
- Long before him, in German cinema, Dr. Mabuse did the same thing. To his own patient.
In Push, Cassie lures her Evil Counterpart, 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 A Clockwork Orange is nicely summed up by this trope.
Pink Floyd's The Wall is definitely a mind rape on the audience.

Nineteen Eighty Four.
- 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 The Silmarillion, Túrin Turambar and his sister Nienor get cursed by the Big Bad and 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 Big Bad really wanted to break was their father, who had to sit there for twenty-seven years and helplessly watch it happen. It worked.
- See also the previous category for a less mundane example.
What Hanging Judge Wargrave puts his victims through in And Then There Were None. Specially in the case of the one he thought of as the worse of all of them: child-killing Yandere Vera Claythorne.
HarryPotter: The Cruciatus Curse causes excruciating physical pain. However, extended use of the curse causes complete insanity in the victim.

During the occupation of New Caprica at the beginning of season three of Battlestar Galactica, 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.
Being Human had a Sylar-worthy example with Owen, Annie's ex-boyfriend 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 that he was cheating on Annie when she was still alive. Evil. She ends up in a Heroic BSOD till her roommate George pulls her out of it.
- Annie later uses a more supernatural example to turn the tables, 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? She became an empathic Cloud Cuckoolander / One Man Army whose warped mind eventually came back to bite the Alliance on the ass.
- The 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 to become part of it.
What Merrit Rook puts Elliot Stabler through in an episode of Law And Order Special Victims Unit. *shudders*. It fails, by the way.
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.

Suikoden III has this between twin brothersLuc (see Jerkass) and Sasarai. It is not enough for Luc to simply hijack the true rune but in the process inform his brother that they are actually [Artificial Human clones] of Harmonian ruler Hikusaak as vessels for true runes. Sasarai is not amused and becomes physically ill at this knowledge, leading to his HeelFaceTurn once he recovers. His post-game text suggests he did not fully recover.
- The True Earth Rune theft scene becomes all the more a mind rape given the mangaka seemed to depict events like an actual rape. This only promotes the significant Twincest fan following for these two.
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.
The Flying Fox does this to Kai in Heavenly Sword.
In I Wanna Be The Guy after learning that The Guy is your father and beating him down a good bit, on his last phase he says "Yes, I did have sex with your mother"

This is basically how the story of Broken Saints treats Shandala. 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 Big Bad in his plan to all but restart human civilization.

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 Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, The Joker does this to Tim Drake when he was Robin.
In Season 2 Star Wars The Clone Wars Obi-wan, Anakin, and Mace Windu influence Cad Bane's mind in a very strong and disturbing version of the Jedi Mind Trick. And these are the 'heroes'. And the victim does reveal the information not because the trick worked, but because he didn't want them to try again.

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.
  - And made yet even more worse by hypnosis being completely voluntary... people expect help but expose their vulnerability with ugly results.
The Aztecs, Mayans and so forth. They didn't just kill their human sacrifice victims. They convinced them that they (the victims) should be killed. Why do you think the Aztecs were defeated by only a handful of Conquistadors? Their populace wanted their psychopathic leaders gone.
- The Aztecs, Mayans and so forth actually believed this, and would sacrifice each other if they couldn't get enemy's. How else did they manage an average of a person every 10 minutes?

The Axis Powers Hetalia fancomic/fanfic, Taste of Revenge found here in comic form and 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.... rape the world's last remaining superpower who has enough nukes to destroy you all. Real nice.
- It was so severe in fact, that many members of the community posted requests wanting Alfred to 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 Mind Rape) and watch them become overridden with guilt and desperately 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).
The Crack, aka Mind of a Hero, has Vlad use a device as an Emotion Bomb, which he claims will bring forth what Jung referred to as the shadow on Danny. To say that it didn't end well is putting it mildly. Both parties are still messed up about it seven years later to the point that Danny can't/won't have normal relationships.

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