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Psychic Assaults
- In Dæmorphing, touching someone else's daemon is a serious taboo. We learn why in The Cowardice of Lions; when David grabs Diamanta, Marco describes it feeling like David is licking his brain.
- Discussed in These Are the Damned. Tom says that his Yeerks punished him for "thoughtcrime" by making it feel like his "head’s about to explode" for hours.
- In What Tomorrow Brings, various Yeerks, such as Temrash 114, Feriss 512note , and Esplin 9466, enjoy tormenting their hosts by delving deep into their memories, setting off their pain and pleasure receptors, and condescendingly reminding them how hopeless their lives are.
- Shirley Fennete aka India Foxtrot in Armed Resistance
gains a geass that allows her to force people to answer her questions. One or two questions merely leave the victim disoriented for a short period of time, but continued questioning can (and often does) drive them insane.
- In Aeon Natum Engel, Fettel mind rapes Dagon long enough for Rei to kill him.
- In the Negima and Nanoha crossover Equal & Opposite Attraction, Mind Rape seems to be on the menu. Its happened twice. Once with Arf when she was forced to watch Fate get tortured all over again. And again with Hayate, who again has to watch her knights get killed in front of her, but this time its BAD: Only Signum gets the quiet death she received in the series, since Vita gets impaled on an iron fence, Zafira gets beaten to death, and its implied that Shamal was raped on top of being killed. To top it off, Reinforce is revived, only to kill Nanoha and Fate right in front of Hayate, then proceeds to destroy the entire city, leaving Hayate the only living thing for miles. The chapter ends with one word: Hayate: "Help"
- Child of the Storm has multiple examples, owing to the proliferation of telepaths.
- Odin locked away Thor's memories of his time as James Potter - a justified example, since being violently murdered and witnessing his wife's murder in spirit form drove him completely insane with grief and rage, descending into the Warrior's Madness, to the point where it was very likely that he would have gone on to destroy Britain, if not the entirety of the Earth, in his madness.
- This is a favoured tactic of Doctor Essex a.k.a. Sinister, who used it (and bribery) to avert attention from how Harry was being treated at Privet Drive in order to keep him on hand for study. He even managed to do this to a young Jean Grey and her family, making them forget Harry existed. It's also implied that he did this to Harry himself. Needless to say, Thor's near-homicidally enraged.
- What Riddle's Diary did to Ginny is explicitly compared to rape, with Sean Cassidy - a former US Army Intelligence Officer and Interpol Detective who's seen far too much - stating that it ticks all the boxes for sexual abuse, something that Tony and Natasha both concur with. She winds up getting therapy.
- Harry's manifestation of psychic powers allows Voldemort to access that power and do a little bit of this, acting as a sort of psychic foreign object, forcing Harry's powers to flare out of control to allow more power from him to draw on - for which he is deservedly rewarded in chapter 68 when Harry's psychic tutor, Betsy, lures him into feeding on Harry's powers, then cuts the connection, resulting in absolutely brutal feedback.
- Voldemort himself responds to the latter by using the power he's accrued to forcibly possess Pettigrew, erase his mind from his body as he reshapes - 'recycles' it - into one more to his liking. Horrified screaming is mentioned.
- On his reappearance in chapter two of Ghosts of the Past, he reveals this as his new favourite tactic: first, he turns Harry's friends into People Puppets just to screw with Harry, then when he's losing the first psychic duel between him and Harry, he starts draining the life from them. When Harry then tries to reach out to Betsy, he gains revenge for what she did to him by giving her an aneurysm, briefly torturing her before, when Loki tries to investigate, detonating the psychic equivalent of an EMP, which leaves Loki with a migraine and Betsy comatose. After that, he makes Harry cooperate by threatening to force the heavily pregnant Pepper cut out her baby, eat it and enjoy doing so. He then pulls a "Freaky Friday" Flip on Harry's friends, banishing them across the camp, and setting more People Puppets, Death Eaters, after them.
- Harry is normally a rigid practitioner of Mind over Manners, being absolutely terrified of violating this rule, but first accidentally does this when he loses control and traps Cassidy, Ron and Hermione inside a particularly lethal memory. He later tries to do it to the Ravenclaws after Luna's death but Thor talks him down, before getting into the habit of knocking out Mooks with his powers. In chapter 2 of Ghosts of the Past, he winds up destroying the remains of the minds of the Death Eaters that Voldemort turned into People Puppets to save his friends. This leads to significant angst, but he gets over it. More generally, he becomes willing to blur the lines (giving psychic suggestions to clear a train carriage) if he feels the need. If he finds a deserving target, he will start dishing it out; the below mentioned Forever Red example, Syrus the Grey Court Master Vampire who Harry renders a vegetable for threatening Carol and her brother (and him, though he's less bothered about that), and Doctor Reynolds after the latter nearly kills Clark (specifically, Harry rips open his True Sight).
- This is Maddie's favoured tactic, until she learns that it's wrong.
- During the Forever Red arc of Ghosts of the Past, Harry's on the receiving end from Sinister and more mundane examples in the form of the Red Room's programming efforts for about two days straight. Maddie then makes it look like she erased his mind, leaving behind a Blank Slate, when she'd actually hidden it inside the 'phoenix feather' Harry kept on him. Afterwards, Harry is effectively mind-raped by six months of the Red Son's memories. After that, he goes Dark Phoenix and starts dishing it out.
- The Grandmaster does this simply by existing to whoever ends up in Sakaar - which is an extension of his being that slowly eats away at its inhabitants very identities. He can dial it up far more if he chooses, in a way that isn't exactly telepathic, but somehow far more fundamental.
- In the Naruto/Negima crossover Happy Families Are All Alike, Evangeline tries to read Naruto's mind. The Kyuubi... hurts her. Literally tore her mind down to the foundations. Then Evangeline REBUILT HER MIND and pushed the demon out. It is implied that the Kyuubi does this with fair regularity to Naruto via nightmares.
- The Infinite Loops: The fused loop between Fate/Grand Order and Persona 2 "Eldritch Metropolis of Rumours: Sumaru" features this a fair bit.
- Kandori sends his Servant Assassin to kidnap Ritsuka, and then he straps her to his machine Deva Yuga (which allows him to access her Mental World), and combines it with the power of The King in Yellow and Nyarlathotep himself. What follows is a long, long Mind Screw as we are treated to Ritsuka being mind raped by at least two Eldritch Abominations (Nyarlathotep as BB Summer and the King in Yellow) from her own point of view.
- Nyarlathotep screws with Tatsuya's head to crazy degrees. Tatsuya is paranoid about Nyarly making him hallucinate, so Nyarly uses Tatsuya's own Paranoia and his knowledge of flower language to trick Tatsuya into thinking that Eikichi is being manipulated by Nyarlathotep while in reality Nyarlathotep is manipulating Tatsuya. Said knowledge of flower language? Nyarly makes Tatsuya confuse the yellow iris on Jun's breast pocket for a chrysanthemum, which is used in funerals in the west, and then he follows up the death association by "turning" the flower into a red spider lily, which symbolizes Death - Eikichi's Arcana. Yes, Nyarly made Tatsuya mistake a yellow iris for a red spider lily.
- Intelligence Factor: During Allister's battle against Tapu Lele, his Runegrigus gives everyone in the vicinity flashes of something being torn apart by a Zoroark. It's enough to make his opponent Valyez go down.
- Last Child of Krypton: When Asuka falls into the Sea of Dirac, Leliel sends all kind of nightmares and illusions into her mind to drive her to kill herself, one of them being a giant, knife-wielding version of the doll her mother called Asuka, and says over and over she is useless and worthless and nobody will ever help her or love her. Shinji dives into the Sea to save her, breaks into the illusion despite of the mental barriers and traps set by Leliel and shields Asuka. When Leliel objects, Shinji simply replies: "Burn.".
- In The Night Unfurls, since the Good Hunter is a great one, the Brown Note that occurs whenever he either releases a small portion of his eldritch might, or showing his true form, would have this effect on anyone unfortunate enough, driving them insane. The one time he invokes the effects of this trope is during his second encounter with Shamuhaza, now an insectoid Eldritch Abomination. Upon glimpsing what is behind the Good Hunter's mortal mask, the Evil Sorcerer has his brain "bombarded with nightmares, dreams, and hate". A Fate Worse than Death, this is nonetheless portrayed as a case of Pay Evil unto Evil, as comeuppance for his atrocities.
- In Origins, this happens at least three times.
- The first is canon background for Halo in which Cortana experiences this courtesy a Flood Gravemind.
- The second involves a similar villain to the first — this time against Sarah, partially catalyzing her Heel–Face Turn.
- Third involves Sarah against Jackie Jakobs, though the In-Universe reasons for why aren't clear yet.
- Sarah spends almost a whole chapter doing it to Thalia Tediore, but Torture Is Ineffective so it only shows how far she is willing to go to try to be helpful and prove her attitude has been adjusted slightly.
- The Secret Return of Alex Mack: The Midwich Cuckoos force the team to watch their worst memories, on repeat. Subverted by Hanna, whose abnormal emotional responses mean that reliving her mother's death is not traumatic, it's a welcome opportunity to see her mother again.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: It happens like in canon and completely smashes Asuka: Her worst nightmare becomes "true" as the Angel pulls an Inception and has her think that she broke out of the canon Mind Rape by going berserk and killing everybody she loves (and the Angel, and Rei) with her bare hands, plus an appearance by Superman to give her a rather scathing speech. Shinji also was affected, but turns out that what remained of his Extreme Doormat tendencies gave him some amount of resistance.
- My Little Castlevania: Just looking at Death's face causes whoever does so to relive every painful memory they have. The fact that Dirt Nap is unaffected by it is what clues Death and Actrise in to the fact that he might be an asset.
- In The Return mind rape is Alexia's favourite recruitment tool. Convert someone into a succubus and mindrape them into submission.
- In XSGCOM, this is standard procedure with every alien they don't consider "to valuable to cause brain damage". Yeah, X-Com are ruthless
- The Mission Stays the Same; when Jack expresses her disbelief of Gallardi's stories, Maeteris corrects her by implanting some of her memories into Jack's mind. They weren't pretty.
- In Royal Heights, the Elite will occasionally undergo bizarre or downright terrifying shared dreams called Elite Visions created by the Headmaster of the school. These visions are meant to be of some assistance to the Elite in order for them to know about their future work on their new Utopia but it ultimately gives them a gander into pure nothingness, seeing themselves dissected and hooked up to a machine but still self aware. And the worst thing about that vision is that it's meant to truly happen to them at some point.
- In the Harry Potter and Star Wars crossover The Hidden Empire Series, Draco suffers this at the hands of Harry after deciding to taunt him.
- In I Against I, Me Against You, O'Malley gains the ability to infect anyone, regardless of whether they have armor and an A.I. slot, and takes over Pinkie Pie's mind for most of the first act. Even when O'Malley is purged from her mind, Pinkie is still left with residual images of the ways the maniacal A.I. wanted to hurt her friends, and attempts to isolate herself from them as a result.
- In Kingdom Crossovers, this is the purpose of the Overview Omnipresent Perspective Sphere. Anyone strapped into it is forced to feel every harm (both physical and emotional) they've ever done to another person along with every harm they've ever considered doing, all at once. It normally causes the victim's mind to blow out, but Zim survived it thanks to his Pak taking most of the impact and this is what led him to a My God, What Have I Done? moment and his Heel–Face Turn.
- Ring-Maker: Heartbreaker is on the receiving end of this (for once in his life) at the hands of a pissed-off Sauron, an ancient and powerful Maia who is quite experienced at doing this, leaving him an Empty Shell at the end.
- In Thousand Shinji, Arael mind-raped Asuka. It's a remarkable "feat", since Asuka got improved mental defenses against psychic powers, and she'd got over most of her past issues, so Arael looked for and exploited other weaknesses.
- Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash:
- After Marc realizes that Callista was telepathic and passively scanning him, he immediately floods her mind with every image he could think of regarding what he wanted to do to her. This causes her to cry out, react as if she were in extreme pain and break off her assault, leaving her open to a counterattack. Once Callista triggers her Super Mode's second stage, however, she puts a complete stop to that tactic.
- Earlier in the battle, Callista is attacked by a squad of Circe's overzealous maids. Since they didn't have anything to do with the marriage the saboteurs were targetting and weren't in the know, Callista opts to put them down peacefully by using her telepathy to target their brains. To do this, she falsifies pertinent information that the brains receive from the rest of the body, fooling her attackers into thinking their bodies had much less energy than they really did and gradually tiring them out.
- The Flower Princess and the Alchemist: The gang are sent to investigate the mysterious disapperances of people, and eventually find themselves in forest that produces a strange mist that makes each of them udergo terrible, terrible nightmares. The main cast, except for Winry, all go through some sort of mind rape-y experience in one way or another. However, while the short term effect was traumatic as per the trope, the long term effect leaves a rather positive effect on the characters. All but one.
- Edward snaps out his funk and finally faces his feelings for Orihime, and the whole event causes him to start becoming more spiritually aware. Enough to start hearing ghosts.
- Nina remembers her entire past, which leads her to getting some closure.
- Alponse experiences the horrible day of his and Ed's failed Human Transmutation of their mother, and what caused them to go on their journey in the first place. He admits that, although the experience was terrible, it felt great to feel human again, and he likens the terrible vision to a nightmare.
- The only person this trope was played straight with was Orihime. She's forced to relive her nightmare in Hueco Mundo, and endure the harsh criticisms of her "friends" for being so "weak", culminating in "Ichigo" blaming her for the lost of his powers. The whole ordeal greatly affected Orihime's mental and emotional state, causing her guilt ridden conscience to increase about tenfold, to question her sense of self worth, and develop a crippling fear of the color white. You know it's bad when Edward and Nina are starting to notice how fake her smiles are and have been lately, something she's ridiculously good at hiding.
- Ultimate Fairy: The Entrapment spell, casted on Ben by Jellal. As stated by Porlyusica, this spell traps the victim in their own mind and forces them to undergo immense emotional trauma by making them view their worst nightmares and memories, breaking their will, and will eventually kill them via Death by Despair. The only way apart from early treatment to rescue a victim is to restore their willpower, hence why Ezra, Lucy, Natsu, Gray, and Happy travel into Ben's mind to try and save him. The spell, though, is sentient with a personality of its own, being a Faux Affably Evil Soft-Spoken Sadist with a superiority complex against non-wizards (like Ben) and can actually summon opponents from the victim's past to act as antibodies (summoning Kraab, SixSix, Ghostfreak, a Highbreed, and Vilgax in Ben's case, and even trying to bring Aggregor and Dagon). All the while, the current victim is also taunted by previous victims of the spell. This spell was so deadly that there was only one known survivor prior to Ben.
- Anderson Quest: Killing Vampires and Werewolves and Leprechauns has an interesting variant: Ebrietas is decidedly non-hostile... but due to her complete inexperience with the human mind, all of her attempts at communication are rendered as a violent psychic assault. However, Anderson's inhuman resilience allows her to focus for long enough to fine tune the technique, allowing her to properly communicate... and reveal herself as a rather extreme example of Not Evil, Just Misunderstood, turning her from a boss fight into a valuable ally to save Yharnam from the Hunt.
- In Alexnandru Van Gordon's Teen Titans fanfic "Not Again", a telepathic OC ties Robin down and does this. He enters Robin's mind and forces both of them to experience the death of Robin's parents, as well as the other awful memories in Robin's head. The reason- to see if Robin is worthy to kidnap and adopt.
- In Outside85's Teen Titans fanfic "Raven Rising, Book 2: Scars, Raven is captured in Tartarus (Greek hell) and subjected to torture involving getting constant visions of Amazons, Titans, and Justice Leaguers hurting and killing her. In this, it takes the trope literally when one of her visions is of Nightwing/Richard Grayson raping her. By the time a team of Amazons, Titans, and some Leaguers rescue her, Raven can no longer tell what is real and what is her torture.
- In Dance with the Demons, King Faraday offers to help Batman solve a case, but in reality Faraday is attempting to luring him and the Outsiders into a trap set up by the Kobra cult. However, Batman sees through his ruse and confront Faraday. Since Faraday refuses to reveal how he was turned into a Kobra agent, and what kind of trap he is leading him into, Halo telepathically forces the truth out of his head.
- In Fever Dreams Light does this to himself. He feels "defiled" every time he regains his Kira memories which he had to give up and reaccept repeatedly within the space of a few hours for the sake of his new plan.
- A.A. Pessimal's The Price Of Flight deals with the Elf-war in Lancre and the Chalk and is seen through the perspective of the airborne Witches of the Air Police, who for the duration become a more military Air force. As in canon, The Fair Folk can deliver a psychically-enhanced "The Reason You Suck" Speech that overwhelms the victim with self-loathing and can even drive them mad. Olga Romanoff is taunted with her own deepest fears - that she might end up as a ruler of a country and completely fail at it; that she might not even get the chance, because if her Assassin cousin came gunning for her, Natasha Romanoff could kill her in a heartbeat, and then be far better as a ruler. Irena Politek is confronted with the question of why she still believes there can be a Glorious Workers' Revolution, even though it absolutely failed when it was attempted, and shattered her country into fragments. The elves unerringly discover the deepet fears and insecurities of each Air Witch and use them, mercilessly.
- Forward (Peptuck):
- The "Inducer" type of psychics do this to people. The Academy has to keep them constantly sedated and under guard by combat drones or they'll drive the research staff insane, and this is mostly the ones who are too insane themselves to control how they influence minds. The ones who know what they're doing and understand how to influence people's minds can do far worse.
- In the "Charity" story arc, this one almost becomes literal rape. An Inducer makes River and Jayne sexually attracted to one another to keep River distracted. They almost do the deed on a pile of crates right after surviving a fight with a small army of mercenaries, before Jayne realizes something is amiss. The chapter afterward involves River being directly mindraped repeatedly when she confronts the Inducer behind it all, and it ends with the Inducer taking control of her.
- In the subsequent story arc, it gets worse. When River manages to briefly regain control of herself, she tries to fight back. The Inducer in question becomes pissed off and proceeds to brutally crush her mind by alternating between intense grief and guilt and intense pleasure and satisfaction.
- In Broken, Mal is subjected to a technique that forces him to relive old traumas. River is able to heal him when Zoe and the others are finally able to retrieve him and bring him back to the ship.
- In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Professor Quirrell does this to the auror guarding him. By humming. He also claims that this is what Lord Voldemort did to Bellatrix: "there are surer ways to break wills than the Imperius, if you have time for torture, and Legilimency, and Dark Rituals of which I will not speak." He's lying.
- In The Jaded Eyes Series dark!Harry/Tristan is fond of giving to his enemies all the pain he's ever experienced in his life or locking them in their worst nightmare. Also Tristan dumps three lifetimes worth of memories into Canon!Harry's head. These memories include being a mass murderer that's killed off almost all non-magical humans.
- Dumbledore does this to Harry in Paraselenic. After Dumbledore realizes he's lost control of "his weapon," he traps Harry's mind in a Lotus-Eater Machine showing how everything could have been so perfect if he would only forfeit his pesky freewill and become a mindless slave for Dumbledore.
- 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 Well Groomed Mind Dumbledore did this to Harry the moment he set foot into Hogwarts, rewriting his personality from the "clever Crazy Survivalist" that he was into "Messianic Archetype Idiot Hero" that everyone expects him to be.
- This Harry Potter fanfic is based around the idea that Ginny was repeatedly raped by Death eaters using Polyjuice potion to look like her father. It later all but mentions the trope by name, following Harry's reveal that Voldemort forced him to watch Ginny's literal rape and made him suicidal.
- In Dominus Mundi : The King of Kings, Harry suffers one after touching a mutated Nucleus. What happens when he touches it is vaguely described, but the narrator describes the aftermath of the experience as Harry being locked in a world of terror and screaming in horror and pain.
- Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): Tenn explains that Tak did this to her prior to The Rematch in order to force her cooperation in upgrading MiMi for the titular match, by means of hooking Tenn up to a machine that overwhelmed her senses with nightmarish stimuli until she broke. They later use the machine to defeat Space Case.
- In Skeletons in the Closet, Sunil Nevla gets mind raped by Irene. She intended to drive him to suicide but it only made him the Nervous Wreck he is.
- In A Prize for Three Empires, Marcus Immortus lobotomizes Carol Danvers telepathically so she doesn't object to have sex with him.
- In Mass Effect: End of Days, Reaper indoctrination is presented as this, just as it is in the games themselves. During the aftermath of a Collector-raid, we get to follow one of their prisoners as the indoctrination takes a toll on his mind.He did not dare to sleep, for then the whispers would grow louder, stealing his thoughts and dreams. The whispers were already in his head, taking his thoughts away. He felt it before, when he had finally managed to shut his eyes, when the whispers had entered his dreams, obscuring them with shadows and screams. It was as if... as if a graveyard had become an entity, which held him down and... ...and... screamed... screamed into his soul.
- Prince Charming:
- The titular prince was blessed at birth with the power to do this to everyone he interacts with... whether or not he actually wants to.
- This work also features the Bound Oblivion, a spell that literally burns away all capacity for desire or emotion, then sets magic in place to govern the movements of those so lobotomized. The King uses the "akumas" thus created to manage the Prince, since they're the only ones immune to his blessing.
- One Half That You See: Midoriya and Todoroki are held captive by a villain with an illusion quirk who uses visions of rescue to torment the two. By the time they're actually rescued they can't believe it's real and continue to question things for days after.
- In Twenty-Four Bakugo and Izuku are tortured by Parallax, a villain with a illusion quirk who tortures them with visions of each other being brutally killed.
- You Only Feel It When It's Lost has Present Mic captured by villains who torment him with visions of Shouta and other people he cares about. Recovery is a struggle because his mind has so much trouble accepting that he's safe. He nearly commits suicide.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds, during his original rampage Discord tortured Morning Glory's mind for days and days, leaving her almost completely unresponsive to those around her. And due to Rosedust isolating the Flutter Ponies in anger, Morning Glory spent thirteen hundred years like that.
- Checker Monarch from Getting Back on Your Hooves has done both this and the 'mundane' method facilitated by psychic methods. Using a dream infiltration spell (which is highly illegal for her to use at all) combined with Lucid Dreaming, she's a Dream Weaver capable of entering someone's dreams and manipulating them however she pleases.
- Another Discord example: in Night of the Shy, though no details have been given yet, it's revealed by Luna that he mind raped her and Celestia's parents so far past the Despair Event Horizon that they lost the will to live and violently refused to be fed, allowing themselves to waste away.
- Nyx receives memory fragments from Nightmare Moon wherein she wants to kill Twilight Sparkle... the pony Nyx considers as her mother.
- While the canon version of his methods were (almost) too tame to count as this, the Pony POV Series version of Discord loves doing this. Everyone being Driven to Madness under his rule cases such psychological pain that pretty much everypony in Ponyville pretty much needs weeks of consoling and help to get back to some resemblance of their old selves (except Fluttershy, who's hackneyed job on Discord's part simply left her with a pathetic excuse for an Enemy Within who she browbeats easily). Applejack pretty much sums it up quite well:Applejack: Ponyville used to be the nicest, simplest, all around friendly town ya could hope ta settle in. But now it's feelin' like a little filly whose lost her innocence a little bit too soon.
- His psychic Mind Rape of Diamond Tiara persists weeks later and effectively manipulates her into freeing him from his prison again by threatening to harm her mother. Discord is still a statue at this point, it was all a lingering effect of his Mind Rape presumably as a back up plan.
- The sexual angle is referenced when the Wonderbolts member Fleetfoot states that, because of what Discord did to her, she feels violated. Some readers even assumed it was ACTUAL rape until Word of God explained it. The worst part? Discord does every last bit of this For the Evulz.
- Done repeatedly throughout The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum. The fact that it's a Conversion Bureau fanfic should tell you something.
- Becoming a newfoal turns people into perpetually smiling, mindlessly cheery zombies, with little (if any) free will of their own. How is very brutal - basically, the Newfoals' human souls are literally broken to pieces and then bound to Queen Celestia and Tirek's will. Even worse, according to the zebras' elder shaman Quagga, it is utterly impossible to repair said souls; only Mercy Killing them will make their souls whole again and set them free. Meaning even if the Queen and Tirek are defeated, only mass euthanasia will set their souls free.
- The Last Train From Oblivion side-story shows the process from the perspective of the convert. Said convert is a female member of the PER and willingly lets herself be ponified. She then undergoes a "ponification matrix" that decides to design her new pony self into a perfect slave for the Solar Empire. She begs them to let her be a nurse (her old human occupation), but instead, she's "programmed" physically and mentally into becoming a Sex Slave for Royal Guards (despite her having problems with sex due to having been molested in her past). Be Careful What You Wish For, indeed.
- It's also revealed that Queen Celestia placed a "geis" on the Royal Guards so that they serve her every command without question. All of them. In fact, most of the natural born Equestrians have also been brainwashed to some extent; TCB!Apple Bloom describes it as feeling like her thoughts are slowly being replaced by an irrational hatred for humans and a desire to ponify every person she sees (though thankfully, she's able to break free from it).
- The corruption of the TCB!Mane Six, combined with an especially brutal form of And I Must Scream. They were all imprisoned in their own minds while dark personalities were implanted into their bodies to carry out the Queen's will. The girls basically possess the same amount of agency as a human being controlled by a Yeerk, and all they can do is helplessly watch as their bodies are used as tools to commit Moral Event Horizon grade acts on the humans. By the time Canon!Luna finds this out during a Journey to the Center of the Mind, the real TCB!Twilight is reduced to desperately begging and pleading with Luna to kill her, if only to end everyone else's suffering.
- And even TCB!Celestia herself given what the Bag of Tirek did to her.
- The Triptych Continuum has a Downplayed version in the griffin's racial magic, which allows a griffin to attack their target's mind and will with their magic. If the griffin wins, the target will back down, surrender, or flee, as appropriate to the nature of the confrontation. However, if the target's will proves stronger than the attacker's magic, the target tends to go a bit berzerk and the griffin may be in serious trouble. Parallels to more mundane assault are explicitly drawn, and it's noted that any griffin who uses the magic against a member of another race except in self-defense or with permission can face serious criminal charges (the rules seem to be a bit looser when using the magic on another griffin, presumably because they can fight back the same way).
- A Crown of Stars: Asuka was mind-raped by Arael in the past. Shinji several times remembers how she was screaming and pleading for his help and he resents his father for not let him save her.
- The Child of Love: In chapter 3 of the sequel Arael strikes. It weakens Asuka's mind with visions of her attempted suicide and nightmares where Shinji loses his nerve and leaves her before forcing her to relive her mother’s suicide again.
- Discussed in Ghosts of Evangelion when Asuka and Toji have a talk about how Arael and Bardiel got inside their heads and saw things they didn't want anyone to know.
- Going Another Way:
- When Asuka falls into the Sea of Dirac facing Leliel, she sees a vision of Satan himself who proceeds to brutally deconstruct her canon personality and shows her a vision of everyone else having a happy future while she commits suicide at the age of 20. Unusually for this trope, this actually pushes Asuka to attempt to be a better person than she was in canon.
- Played all too straight when the Trope Namer flays the minds of Touji and Hikari, all while enjoying every second of it.
- Touji sees a vision where his own carelessness causes his sister Sakura to get killed, and his parents literally break his back in response.
- Hikari sees a vision where she caused the deaths of everyone she cared about.
- HERZ: In chapter 2 Asuka has a nightmare where she relives her Mind Rape and how Arael's blinding light pierced her mind despite of her screams and pleas for it stopping.
- Higher Learning: Asuka goes through one, like in canon. Unusually, the ordeal is seen from Arael's point of view. And the Eldritch Abomination is also sickened with its actions, but Arael thinks that it is sadly necessary for the good of everyone, including the own Children's -and including Asuka's-. He must test them and they must succeed so that they become stronger if they want mankind survives.
- In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, this becomes a strategy of the Emerald Tablet. As it is allowed to make contact with the minds of Eva pilots, such as Asuka, Rei, the Chinese pilot, and Keiko it tries to make them susceptible to its control so it can use their connection to Eva as a conduit to take control of of the Eva itself. It achieves this by attempting to destroy their minds by using the mental connection it makes with them. In Asuka's case, it at first subtly plays on her insecurities and darker sides, such as her Blood Knight tendencies, but eventually it goes all out, confronting her directly by dragging her into its mindscape where it gives her a Breaking Speech while subjecting her to mental images of all her worst existential fears. Rei's encounter with the Tablet is described as quite abstract, but the experience itself ends up almost killing her and puts her out of commission for quite some time. What it did to the Chinese pilot is not directly shown, but the implications, such as the fact that 'she tried to tear off her own face, is rather horrifying.
- The One I Love Is...:
- When Shinji fell into Leliel, the Angel entered his mind to try understand the human mind. However Shinji did not realize what was happening, and he attributed the visions he got to an hallucination.
- On the other hand, when Arael burst into Asuka's mind, forcing her to relive her worst memories, she was painfully aware what was happening. She screamed and even begged for it stopping and leaving her alone."My mind has been sullied. Shinji... it's polluted. What should I do? My mind has been polluted... I... I want to die..."
- Being a Peggy Sue story, The Second Try revisits the infamous trope naming scene. Since Asuka and Shinji have long since gotten over their inner demons, she thinks it'll be easier to deal with this time. So Arael targets the knowledge that her 4 year old daughter Aki is alone in a post-apocalyptic future and there's nothing she can do about it. Even worse, it has a mental version of Aki remind her that she had originally tried to kill her in-utero via starvation. If Shinji hadn't been able to talk with her during all of this, she probably would have suffered another complete emotional breakdown.
- In Neon Metathesis Evangelion, it is Shinji who is attacked by Arael. Arael shows him how lonely his life has been, and how this has been mostly his fault for having turned any advances or attempts to build relationships. Thus Shinji becomes convinced it will most likely always stay that way. He is a near-catatonic wreck after the experience.
- Both Rei and Kaworu end up getting attacked by Arael in Advice and Trust and are subjected to their worst fears (Rei being rejected by Asuka and Shinji for her angelic nature, and Kaworu giving into his instincts and causing The End of the World as We Know It). Rei takes it so hard that she begs Ritsuko to drug away the pain afterwards despite her history with being drugged. Fortunately, there are no long term effects thanks to the emotional support from their friends.
- An example in the fic CRME. Cinder decides to punish Mercury for undermining her authority. She has Emerald use her Semblance to project several images of his Abusive Parents tormenting him and insulting him. Something that distresses and angers him because he came to Cinder and Emerald to forget about his past. And Cinder makes him relive the experience up to eleven. It is apparently so distressing to him that he promises to beat the crap out of Emerald if she even thinks to try it for fun. And the only reason he didn't straight up murder Cinder is that she'd make him go through it again.
- In the Ruby and Nora series, Salem's Seer Grimm beast also has the added effect of digging its tentacles into a person's brain and using it to lobotomize them into her servitude. She has performed this on some characters and threatened to do it to others for failing her.
- The Slender Man fic By the Fire's Light feature Slender Man inflicting enough mental pain and anguish on his victims so that they forget everything else except for the pain and the Slender Man itself. This is done to strengthen the Slender Man since it runs on belief.
- Empath: The Luckiest Smurf:
- The Psyche Master subjects Empath to this as an infant to erase all his memories. However, the erasure procedure does not completely erase all Empath's memories, as the one memory he has left is that of his biological father Papa Smurf leaving him in Psychelia at the instant his memories are erased. The Psyche Master also does this to Empath in an alternate timeline story when he is forcibly returned to Psychelia on his 151st birthday.
- In the story "Smurfed Behind: The Other Side Of The Mirror", the Mirror Universe version of Empath likes to inflict psychic mind rape on his victims, particularly on his world's Smurfette, even going so far as to taunt her with "Was that good for you, Smurfette? It certainly was for me."
- In Entropy, There's a plant known as the Abbadonia Rose, named after the demoness who created them. Either from sniffing the flower or used as a gas called Abbadonia's Fury, its designed to cause violent hallucinations, especially for the Stupilites (aka Blue Hedgehogs). We see through Sonic's eyes how much he suffers from exposure on several occasions.
- In Sonic X: Dark Chaos, the voice of Dark Tails either kills those who hear it outright or drives them violently insane. Cosmo nearly meets this fate in Episode 58, but her mother's amulet protects her from the worst effects. Venus, Alice and Trinity are not so lucky.
- Reality Is Fluid: Eleya has a mental conversation with an Undine that proves extremely painful to her (represented by the Undine inflicting a Neck Lift and manual strangulation through most of the conversation). She came out with minor brain damage (nothing Star Trek medicine couldn't fix, though).
Star Trek: The Original Series
- In the episode-centric fanfic Mind Sifter, it is shown what exactly happened to Spock during the episode "Errand of Mercy." The episode itself showed nothing of the Mind Rape process the Klingons used for interrogations, merely its description, and an aftermath where Spock turns up more or less (outwardly) unharmed, thanks to his Vulcan mind powers. The fanfic goes into details, and describes the stoic Vulcan ending up sobbing, bleeding from the nose and mouth, barely managing to pull himself together for dignity's sake by the time he's taken to the Klingon leader's (and Kirk's) presence -The pain intensifies , but that is the least troubling factor. It feels as if there are hands, fingers, fingers that end in unkempt claws, rifling through his mind, reaching, searching, looking deeper than even the deepest meld he had shared ever went.
- In the second arc of Hellsister Trilogy, Desaad realizes he can't physically torture information out of Pariah so he fetches his mind-breaking tools.That had led Desaad down the right track. For tortures of the mind can be even worse than tortures of the body, and Apokolips has mind-probers aplenty.
- In Phasis, Shadow (the aggregate sentience of darkness fonons) fights by showing the characters illusions of their fears or desires. Some of them break out of it on their own, while others have to get help from someone else. In the end, Jade suffers the most lasting damage: just before the battle, he had realized what was going on and come up with a solution...then the battle made him forget not only what he'd figured out, but the memory of figuring it out in the first place.
- The Things, written by Peter Watts and nominated for the Hugo Award (so you know it's well written), is The Thing (1982) from the alien's perspective. Though Childs' status is ambiguous in the movie, in the fanfic he has been taken over by the Thing, and just before his mind is consumed the following exchange takes place:The Thing: (narrative) How little it knows. It knows even less than I do.
Childs: I know enough, you motherfucker. You soul-stealing, shit-eating rapist.
- Alicorn's Luminosity includes:
- Chelsea, a witch whose power is to sever and create relationships—which she does mostly to make people care about her. And you don't feel it happening.
- Due to a series of events and Mega Manning, Addy and Elspeth have the ability to do this with true memories. There are things people would rather not know, much less experience.
- Chaos Effect: During the Mirror Universe arc, the Professor (Edwin's counterpart) uses the Millennium Rod to take control of Tristan, Tea, and Yuri to make them fight Edwin for him. Tea later describes the experience as being worse than being trapped in her own body while someone else controlled it; instead, the Professor made her want to obey him and had it feel totally natural, with her only realizing the wrongness of it after being freed. She specifically calls it a violation, and is clearly still traumatized by it by the time of Battle City.
"Mundane" Torture
- The AU Winter War had Aizen use both the Hogyoku and Cold-Blooded Torture to Hollowfy and break high-level Shinigami to the point of generally unquestioning servitude, though final results depended on the individual (and were horrifying no matter what).
- In the AU Those Who Stand for Nothing Fall for Anything this is B's specialty. L says he calls it "kill or cure therapy".
- The 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 meantime 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.
- People Turning Into Smith Clones . Eventually, after being infected with the Smith virus, you will undergo this as the “goop” slowly goes into your mind and erases the memories of your past, all while playing a haunting melody. One smith clone is shown to even try and rip the goop off of his body as he undergoes this.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Checker Monarch from Getting Back on Your Hooves, due to having Manipulation as her special talent, is quite adapt at doing the mundane version, but probably the most clear example is when she infiltrates Trixie's dreams and gives her a Breaking Lecture that leaves her so traumatized she is almost too terrified to actually go on stage for her public apology. Counts as mundane instead of psychic because she only used her words and nothing else.
- For another example from pony-related Dark Fic, look no further than Pattycakes. Part 1 has Fluttershy, saddled with a really creepy infantilism fetish, psychologically break Rainbow Dash and make her regress to a childlike state by forcing her to act like one until she totally gives up hope and internalises it. This takes...less than a day, and the most intense torture consists of forcing Dash to use a nappy and drink from a bottle, yet at the end Dash is completely convinced that her oldest friend is actually her mother and that she is let's go with twenty years younger than she actually is. Part 2 retconned it so that Fluttershy instead used a drug called "foalmula" to make Dash regress, and even lampshaded the rape angle to a degree by having Fluttershy comment that for Dash she'd abandoned her rule about only using foalmula for consensual age play. Things get creepier from there.
- Unlike the canon version, the Pony POV Series version of Discord's breaking of the mane cast is treated as this, though for some of the group more than others and in part due to the psychic effects. However, what he does to Trixie most certainly counts, as like Twilight, he doesn't need to do the psychic version and effectively convinces her no one can even tell she exists by illusions and a nasty Breaking Speech. Even after he's been defeated, Trixie has been so psychologically broken she's still "Discorded" weeks later. Her own reharmonizing chapter reveals this Mind Rape was so severe, it caused Trixie to gain a nasty Enemy Within named Loneliness who attempts to Mind Rape and kill Twilight when she comes to heal her. It takes a lot of help from Twilight to break her free of it and destroy Loneliness.
- Pages Of Harmony takes this concept, runs with it, and exploits it in a variety of ways - Twilight uses Mind Rape on each of her friends to analyze their Elements in a quest for "preservation of harmony", altering their memories so completely that all of them go through permanent physical and psychological changes, most barely having any remnant of their old selves. Easily the most evident example is Rainbow Dash, who is reduced to being a self-cannibal in an attempt to rid herself of any loyalty to herself or others - a trait that becomes a self-destructive habit even after she dies. Her thoughts are then consumed with only one true desire: murder Twilight and make sure she burns in Tartarus. And this is just the first of the victims.
- Nightingale uses both psychic and mundane forms of mind rape. Orochimaru in particular prefers the psychic version via genjutsu, and used so blatantly it’s almost mentioned by name.
- Bloodsucker: The Aswang tries to perform a mundane form of it on Nora using supernatural methods. He changes his voice to sound like her dead friend Ren to throw her off while fighting her. Obviously, this is meant to distress her and make her doubt herself.
- War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology: Carter Pillar psychology tortures his Faunus prisoners so they'll be mindless drones by the time he ships them off to Jacques Schnee to be worked to death in his Dust Mines.
Other
Discworld
- In the fan fiction of A.A. Pessimal, a particularly creative Assassin/teacher has come up with the notion of sensory deprivation as a training tool for Assassins. The woman who came up with the idea only initially wanted to create an environment where her students were, like her, deprived of the sense of hearing, and learnt as she did to compensate for the lack of a primary sense. Then she thought about it and extended the idea to, as far as was possible, deprive a person of all senses. She discovered that with no sensory information coming in, the brain and mind do not shut down: they work overtime to process something. This takes the form of memories coming out of storage and projected outwards, effectively being replayed vividly. People in the Sensory Deprivation Envoronment end up confronting their worst enemy of all - themselves. Subjects report vivid replays of their worst memories, perticularly events involving shame, humiliation and an awareness of times when they did not behave as correctly or as ethically or as sensibly as they should. The excoriating experience has indeed been likened to mind-rape. note
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): This Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction sees Ghidorah actively looking to perform a bit of both types of Mind Rape on the Two Beings, One Body San and Vivienne Graham. Ghidorah uses its Psychic Link to Viv and San to telepathically communicate with them episodically, and it does everything in its power to break Vivienne with vicious words and taunts in the hopes that she'll eventually snap and become just as bad as Ghidorah. In Chapter 14, Ghidorah uses the link to drive Viv and San into a full-blown violent psychic seizure which makes them bleed from every facial orifice and causes them to break their own spine in a convulsion.
- Always Visible: The entire third act looks like this - everything that happens around Galbarith seems to be deliberately trying to drive the inspector crazy. The author of Always Visible was inspired by Karen Shakhnazarov's film Zerograd when he wrote this part of the work.
