History MindRape / AnimeAndManga

*** The Marines also preformed a long running Mundane Mind Rape on her. Starting at when she was 8 years old, they managed to utterly convince her over a 20 year period that her mere existence was a sin. Lucky she has Luffy declare war on the world and to say she had value.

*** Sasuke was under this at age 7 and suddenly witnessed the death of his entire clan, including his mother and father, as murdered by his older brother. He also when through it again as a genin, which causes him to leave Konoha as planned by Itachi.

** And in 497 [[spoiler: Kyuubi musters up all of the residual loneliness, anger, and hatred buried in Naruto's subconscious and unleashes it on Naruto in order an attempt to win a mental battle. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu And he wins it]]. With his own will and the help of a chakra-ghost of his mom.]].

* [[FaintingSeer Hitomi Kanzaki]], in ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'', gets mind-raped almost every time she has a vision or does a tarot card reading. In Episode 11 it's so bad that the poor girl [[spoiler:almost dies because her heart stops out of the sheer force of said mind rape (to be fair, she ''did'' see 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.

** What about Spandam's brutal treatment of Robin is a very vicious version of Mundane Mind Rape. Apart from the beating he gives her, he calls her worthless, blames her for said beating and nearly drives her to suicide. Robin is tough, but he would have [[{{Mundanger}} succeeded]] if not for the Straw Hats encouraging her to live.

* What about Spandam's brutal treatment of Robin in ''Manga/OnePiece''?
** The Marines also preformed a long running Mundane Mind Rape on her. Starting at when she was 8 years old, they managed to utterly convince her over a 20 year period that her mere existence was a sin. Lucky she has Luffy declare war on the world and to say she had value.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The trope name comes from this show; specifically, it is the FanNickname for the mental torture inflicted upon Asuka by the Fifteenth Angel, Arael. It debilitates Asuka to the point where she can no longer sync with her [=EVA=] unit, a fate that eventually pushes her into a [[ConvenientComa catatonic]] [[HeroicBSOD depre]][[DespairEventHorizon ssion.]] Its effect and its execution also make Arael's mind rape one of the cruelest examples of this trope ''ever'', as it forces Asuka to relive her whole DarkAndTroubledPast--which includes [[spoiler: her mother Kyōko going mad after test-piloting EVA Unit-02, being unable to recognize Asuka, shunning her daughter in favor of a CreepyDoll, Asuka herself hearing other people talk about her and her mother's lives, her father cheating on her mother with her mother's doctor, Kyōko [[OffingTheOffspring trying to strangle Asuka]] in the manga, and Asuka finding Kyōko's hanging corpse (alongside the doll) on the same day Asuka was chosen as an EVA pilot]]. The mind rape then moves onto Asuka's present-day issues: her immense sense of self-loathing and all of the numerous insecurities she hides behind her energetic and thunderous exterior, central amongst them feeling rejected and ignored by [[PrecociousCrush Kaji]] and, much to her anger and confusion, realizing that she feels that Shinji is doing the same things to her. All of this culminates in the Angel aligning all of Asuka's ideas of her present and the memories of her past to create such [[DespairEventHorizon an absolutely overwhelming and crushing sense of despair and dread in her]] that she loses the will to live...to a degree where ''even her vital signs start to give out''. Most translations include Asuka screaming something like, "It's raping/defiling/violating/devouring my mind/soul!" (In the case of manga scanlations, [[http://www.mangareader.net/687-33647-23/neon-genesis-evangelion/chapter-60.html sobbing and whispering "I've been violated!"]]). The fact that the mind rape ray also [[SoundtrackDissonance plays the wildly inappropriate Hallelujah chorus]] either [[{{Narm}} defuses the scene completely]] or [[NightmareFuel makes it so much more worse]]. The sheer level of Arael's "procedure" is so crushing that the lines on the psychograph measuring Asuka's mental state drop to zero, then turn into an impossible mass of squiggles that [[FreezeFrameBonus show what appear to be really creepy doodles when paused at the right moment.]]

* Harry's attempts to "hack" Melfina in ''Anime/OutlawStar''. They weren't successful on his part, but the imagery was definitely there (especially so when considering that Gene was tipped off to the first one by Harry's rather...''excited'' reaction). Melfina figured out how to [[PokeInTheThirdEye Stop Him]], though.

* In ''Manga/GetBackers'', a surprising good-guy (well, [[SociopathicHero relatively]] [[AntiHero good]]) example: Ban Midou has the power to show people a perfect illusion for one minute, and he often uses this ability to Mind Rape his enemies. And even when he actually ''doesn't'' use it on people (and simply fools them into thinking he used it), it still ends up mindraping them when they try to wrap their mind around ''when'' exactly he actually ''did'' use it.
* In ''Anime/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: Miroku's hallucination is his Wind Tunnel breaking its constraints and swallowing him slowly from the hand up; Sango hallucinates about Kohaku killing everybody; Shippo hallucinates that he's completely alone and everyone else in the group has disappeared (leaving only their clothes behind); and Inuyasha hallucinates about Kikyo and him dying together. He's the only one to snap out of it on his own, because he remembers that he needs to protect Kagome.

* In ''Manga/MobPsycho100'', MasterOfIllusion Mutou attempts this on Mob by tormenting him with illusions of his brother dying. This backfires ''spectacularly'', as Mob has a SuperpowerMeltdown that fries his brain.
* Often happens in ''Franchise/DotHack''. The very act of a human being Data Drained is...not healthy; but Tsukasa and Sora in ''Anime/DotHackSign'' really get their minds slammed by Morganna. Tsukasa's was particularly gruesome in "Tempest", 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 (in episode "Return") that after he was finally freed his mind completely blanked out the experience. So much that he didn't realize when he played the game again as [[spoiler:Haseo]]. [=AIDA=] in ''VideoGame/DotHackGU'' also gives its special whammy to its victims.

* Arguably what happens to ''Manga/DeathNote''''s Light Yagami when he [[spoiler: [[MemoryGambit regains his memories]] at the end of the Yotsuba Arc. Makes sense, since he was basically forced to watch all of [[GambitPileup Death Note]] in the span of thirty seconds. That, and he just remembered killing millions of people.]]

* In ''Anime/KyouranKazokuNikki'', Gekka explicitly has this ability and has used it on others on occasion.

* In the manga ''Manga/{{Limit}}'', Morishige does this to all of the other survivors except Hinata. She's particularly hard on Haru, eventually driving her to kill her best friend, then decides to rub Haru's face in the fact that she tried to kill her "best friend". All this JUST BECAUSE SHE FELT LIKE IT.

* The series ''LightNovel/{{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.

%% Zero-context* ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}'': This is a big central plot theme in the later episodes.

* In ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'', Dietrich, who possesses technologically advanced puppet strings that allow him to control a victim's nervous system (meaning, he can control both their senses and their movements), has a scene in the light novels where he basically threatens to do this to Esther by saying that he could make her experience unimaginable agony or the feeling of ten men playing with her body, all while she is unable to move and is being forced by Dietrich to cruelly shoot her comrade in non-lethal areas.

* Gauron of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' loves to do this to all of his intended victims. Sousuke seems to be his most consistent target.

* Surprisingly played for laughs in ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'': [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Nora]] tries uses her mind-reading abilities to show everyone [[{{Otaku}} Keima's]] "Most precious thing." It starts with a loading screen. Then a copyright notice. Rated [[InSeriesNickname God]]. (Caution: Making unauthorized copies, rentals, streaming, public viewing, and other commercial use of this imagination is strictly prohibited). Then she tries to turn DatingSim dream into a complete nightmare. Naturally, he [[RantInducingSlight doesn't]] [[LetsGetDangerous take it]] [[UnstoppableRage very]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments well]].

** In the X-Cution arc, Shukuro Tsukishima can use the psychic variant by [[spoiler:manipulating the memories of the person who will be useful to his plans and make them believe he's always been there]] ''and'' combine it with the second by [[spoiler: forcing Ichigo to interact with him ''in the surroundings of his brainwashed loved ones'', doing it so well that when Ichigo cracks and attacks him, everyone thinks ''Ichigo's'' the one in the wrong and is going mad. [[AdultFear So Ichigo, whose biggest aim is to protect people, can't save them from Tsukishima... and is completely helpless]]; the poor guy is so freaked out that he wants to '''kill''' Tsukishima, something he hesitated to do with Hollows, Arrancars or Shinigami alike. It takes a MASSIVE intervention by Rukia and SEVERAL other Shinigamis to stop him. Anyone who tries to fight off his Mind Rape, will experience a full mental breakdown. Poor Orihime and Chad.]]

** 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 ''[[MoralDissonance by the Pharaoh himself]]''. Possibly the most important of these is the "Experience of Death" used against Kaiba, which inspires the creation of the holographic duel system used in the remainder of the series. The second anime lightens the Pharaoh's image somewhat by just replacing all instances of this with "Mind Crush", which does vaguely shown mental damage to the target.
** Slightly less extreme version (since it doesn't involve [[AFateWorseThanDeath Shadow Games]]): The Virtual World Arc is [[BreakTheCutie not]] [[FakeMemories kind]] [[MindControlEyes to]] [[TheWoobie Mokuba]].

** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': [=MetalPhantomon=] does this to the heroes, forcing them to either experience nightmares or to relive their worst life experiences in order to [[EmotionEater consume their hearts]]. Thomas in particular is forced to relive the moment his mother died in a car accident. However, instead of falling into despair, it infuriates Thomas that [=MetalPhantomon=] tried to manipulate him with memories of his beloved mother, and he promptly destroys the Digimon with his newly Digi-volved [=MachGaogamon=].

* A less supernatural mind rape was attempted by Suzaku on Kallen in ''Anime/CodeGeass R2''. Suzaku, trying to find out if Lelouch has regained his memory and become Zero again, attempts to [[spoiler:use [[LotusEaterMachine the Refrain drug]] on Kallen to make her tell him the truth; [[AnythingButThat Kallen is so disturbed and shaken that]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything she begs for him not to, as though she were about to be literally raped by him]]. Just before dosing her, Suzaku realizes he is becoming NotSoDifferent from Zero, and stops. When you think back to season one and how [[EmptyShell the mind of Kallen's biological mother was nearly destroyed by the drug]] (though Suzaku doesn't seem to know about that liiiiiittle detail), it's not that much of a stretch to believe that poor Kallen would liken a forced dose of refrain to a sexual violation]]. Kallen is so furious over this shortly after, that she delivers not one, but two {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s, the first with her fists, and the second in knightmare combat.

** Don't forget [[spoiler: Aizen]]'s {{expy}} and BigBad in the X-Cution arc Shukuro Tsukishima. Who can use the psychic variant by [[spoiler: manipulating the memories of the person who will be useful to his plans and make them believe he's always been there]] ''and'' combine it with the second by [[spoiler: forcing Ichigo to interact with him ''in the surroundings of his brainwashed loved ones'', doing it so well that when Ichigo cracks and attacks him, everyone thinks ''Ichigo's'' the one in the wrong and is going mad. [[AdultFear So Ichigo, whose biggest aim is to protect people, can't save them from Tsukishima... and is completely helpless]]; the poor guy is so freaked out that he wants to '''kill''' Tsukishima, something he hesitated to do with Hollows, Arrancars or Shinigami alike. It takes a MASSIVE intervention by Rukia and SEVERAL other Shinigamis to stop him.]]
** And if you try fight off his Mind Rape? [[http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/90527597/11 It'll]] [[http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/90527597/12 get]] [[http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/90527597/13 worse]]. Poor [[spoiler: Orihime and Chad]].
** [[spoiler: As Nodt from the Vandereich]] has taken leaves outta [[spoiler: Tsukishima]]'s books as seen by chapter 501. They invoke the psychic variation [[spoiler: implanting needles in your body that warp your mind via manipulation of your survival instincts as well as your conscious mind]], and ''then'' they use the mundane variation via giving you a BreakingLecture, so they can finish you. [[NightmareFuel/{{Bleach}} It's as horrible as you think.]]

** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': [=MetalPhantomon=] does this to the heroes, forcing them to either experience nightmares or to relive their worst life experiences in order to [[EmotionEater consume their hearts]]. Thomas in particular is forced to relive the moment his mother died in a car accident. However, instead of falling into despair, it infuriates Thomas that MetalPhantomon tried to manipulate him with memories of his beloved mother, and he promptly destroys the Digimon with his newly Digi-volved MachGaogamon.

** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': [=MetalPhantomon=] does this to the heroes, forcing them to either experience nightmares or to relive their worst life experiences in order to [[EmotionEater consume their hearts]].

* ''{{Literature/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. Also occurs among people [[MindScrew who watch the movie]] as well.

* Virtually any character trapped by a Mangekyo Sharingan user's Tsukuyomi on ''{{Manga/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.

* In ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', Ubik (and to a lesser extent, Conrad), one of the [[BigBad God Hand]], pulls an epic variant of this on Griffith to get him to carry out the sacrifices to become a demon god by manipulating his memories to enforce his ambitions. [[spoiler: With Griffith already thoroughly broken by his torture at the hands of the Kingdom of Midland, it works, and The Eclipse goes ahead.]]

* ''{{Manga/Cyborg 009}}'' has this happen to the heroes in ''[[TheMovie Conclusion: Gods' War]]''. The villain responsible tries to cast this as [[WhatYouAreInTheDark exposing their]] ''[[WhatYouAreInTheDark true]]'' [[WhatYouAreInTheDark selves]], drawing out and ''twisting'' the very darkest aspects of their character... or, in several cases, their cybernetic enhancements, bringing their worst fears to life. This results in horrifying and [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] scenes like [[spoiler:[[TheHero Joe]] going over the line while beating up a group of ''human'' thugs, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Geronimo]] unable to meditate because CyberneticsEatYourSoul, [[SuperSenses Francoise]] going into a BSOD because she can't turn off her powers anymore, [[ArmCannon Albert]] being unable to hide his cybernetics, and/or [[VoluntaryShapeshifter G.B.]] ''[[SuperPowerMeltdown melting down]] in front of everyone''.]]
* In ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' [[spoiler:Aizen]] is a ''MASTER'' of this trope, in both the supernatural and MoreThanMindControl variations. Poor, poor [[spoiler:Hinamori]]...

* Apparently, in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', all Vongola bosses must go through a 'Vongola trial' to be fit to be mafia bosses where they are put near death to test their resolution. Tsuna was trapped in Hibari's hedgehog box weapon for his trial and was consequently mind raped.

** And recently, [[spoiler: Daemon Spade]] joined the list, by mind-raping [[spoiler: Crome]] ro full obedience, and planning to steal the body of [[spoiler: Mukuro]].

* We see that [[spoiler:Seimei]] from ''{{Manga/Loveless}}'' does this to [[spoiler:(deep breath) Yoji, Natsuo, Ritsu, Soubi AND his [[BrotherSisterIncest beloved]] younger brother, Ritsuka.]] Of course, these are only the people we SEE him mind raping in action. It's implied that there are more victims, not even including the ones that he told Nisei, his subordinate, to do. It's a weird example, because not only does he SEEM display the more "mundane" type, but his unexplained powers can harm people with words, which is usually a Fighter Unit's power, never a Sacrifice's, and he can do so outside of a battle.

* ''{{Manga/Hellsing}}'': This is Zorin Blitz's specialty. In the manga and the [=7th=] OVA she performs a [[MoralEventHorizon particularly cruel]] one of these on Seras. She delves deep into Seras's memories, forcing her to relive her painful childhood, where she had to watch her parents be murdered by gangsters and her mother's corpse being raped. While Seras is trapped in the illusion, Zorin hacks off her arm, stabs her through the back, and [[EyeScream slices her eyes]]. She tries this again when Seras is attacking her for murdering and insulting Pip but Seras overcomes it [[spoiler: because Pip begged her to suck him dry before he died. Since this ''was'' a LastRequest, she did it, and it awakened her into a true vampire; she now had Pip's soul within her, and it helped block Zorin's second attempt at Mind Rape.]]

* [[spoiler:[[CreepyChild Q]]]] in ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'' has an ability which is this entire trope. Anyone who harms him become the receiver for his curse, and when he mutilates the doll he carries around with him, they begun to hallucinate causing them to attack anyone near them, friend or foe.

* ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}'': This is a big central plot theme in the later episodes.

* Arguably what happens to [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] when he [[spoiler: [[MemoryGambit regains his memories]] at the end of the Yotsuba Arc. Makes sense, since he was basically forced to watch all of [[GambitPileup Death Note]] in the span of thirty seconds. That, and he just remembered killing millions of people.]]

* In ''{{Anime/Noein}}'', [[spoiler: when Noein has Haruka in his clutches he shows her a BadFuture of her friends being [[BreakTheCutie broken]] in various ways as self-justification for his own nihilism]], made all the worse because the scene is ''dripping'' with [[NoYay sexual tension between him and Haruka]], and because [[spoiler: he is an evil version of Yuu, Haruka's own sweetheart]].

* In ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'', [[spoiler:Chisa Yukizome]] is strapped to a chair and is forced to watch a brainwashing video which she slowly resists, until the person subjecting her to this uses two needles and inserts them into her brain, lobotomizing her and weakening her enough until the brainwashing was done.
* ''{{Anime/Monster}}'': Everything anyone who is remotely close to Johan experiences is pure mind rape. Fandom [[MemeticBadass exaggerates]] his already formidable ability to destroy the hopes and dreams of anyone he talks to to the point where he can [[DrivenToSuicide make you kill yourself]] by [[DissonantSerenity smiling kindly]]. Luckily for everyone involved, the protagonist, [[AllLovingHero Kenzou Tenma]], is a master of the MindHug.

* In ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' [[spoiler:the Kyuubi's]] psychic assault failed and it was defeated, leaving him little influence over Naruto. Seeing no other way to harass Naruto, he turned to [[BreakingSpeech criticizing Naruto's goals and beliefs]], trying to convince him he would fail before he even began. Naruto [[ShutUpHannibal told him to shut the hell up]].

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' gives us another case of mind rape which happened during the Eclipse, one that was much more heinous. [[spoiler:Griffith, who is now Femto, forces Guts to watch as he rapes his love Casca to insanity right in front of him. This act is all too similar to Guts' own rape experience as a child: being pinned down and left utterly helpless at the hands of a man who betrayed him, only now he has to see the actual act happen to someone he loves. [[FridgeHorror And the worst part?]] Griffith might have intentionally done this [[ColdBloodedTorture to torture Guts even more]], though Guts had only told one person about his horrible childhood: [[LoveInterest Casca,]] who actually [[IntimatePsychotherapy helped Guts overcome his trauma.]] Meaning that Griffith might have some omniscience that saw into Guts' AchillesHeel.]] It's no wonder that [[spoiler:Guts wants Griffith dead with every fiber of his being now.]]

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The trope name comes from this show; specifically, it is the FanNickname for the mental torture inflicted upon Asuka by the Fifteenth Angel, Arael. It debilitates Asuka to the point where she can no longer sync with her [=EVA=] unit, a fate that eventually pushes her into a [[ConvenientComa catatonic]] [[HeroicBSOD depre]][[DespairEventHorizon ssion.]] Its effect and its execution also make Arael's mind rape one of the cruelest examples of this trope ''ever'', as it forces Asuka to relive her whole DarkAndTroubledPast--which includes [[spoiler: her mother Kyōko going mad after test-piloting EVA Unit-02, being unable to recognize Asuka, shunning her daughter in favor of a CreepyDoll, Asuka herself hearing other people talk about her and her mother's lives, her father cheating on her mother with her mother's doctor, Kyōko [[OffingTheOffspring trying to strangle Asuka]] in the manga, and Asuka finding Kyōko's hanging corpse (alongside the doll) on the same day Asuka was chosen as an EVA pilot]]. The mind rape then moves onto Asuka's present-day issues: her immense sense of self-loathing and all of the numerous insecurities she hides behind her energetic and thunderous exterior. All of this culminates in the Angel aligning all of Asuka's ideas of her present and the memories of her past to create such [[DespairEventHorizon an absolutely overwhelming and crushing sense of despair and dread in her]] that she loses the will to live...to a degree where ''even her vital signs start to give out''. Most translations include Asuka screaming something like, "It's raping/defiling/violating/devouring my mind/soul!" (In the case of manga scanlations, [[http://www.mangareader.net/687-33647-23/neon-genesis-evangelion/chapter-60.html sobbing and whispering "I've been violated!"]]). The fact that the mind rape ray also [[SoundtrackDissonance plays the wildly inappropriate Hallelujah chorus]] either [[{{Narm}} defuses the scene completely]] or [[NightmareFuel makes it so much more worse]]. The sheer level of Arael's "procedure" is so crushing that the lines on the psychograph measuring Asuka's mental state drop to zero, then turn into an impossible mass of squiggles that [[FreezeFrameBonus show what appear to be really creepy doodles when paused at the right moment.]]

* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', [[SociopathicSoldier Takaoka]] was easily defeated by [[BewareTheNiceOnes Nagisa]], who smiled at him while he carried out his attack. When Nagisa defeats him again after Takaoka's plan for revenge fails, the soldier ''[[AnythingButThat begs]] Nagisa ''not to smile at him''. The moment he does, all shreds of sanity Takaoka still has vanish.