Actually, what it really reminds me of is Gotenks's Galactica Donuts attack from DBZ. Point is, this doesn't look at all like mind rape.

Indeed.

Motion to pull

Pic references the trope but doesn't demonstrate it.

A forewarning here people: the image for this is likely to be text-heavy. Let's use that less often to dismiss suggestions.

The pictured example seems to be the trope namer, so if we are to remove that, the use of the name "mind rape" will seem even more needlessly specific than it already is. The point of this trope is that it involves brainwashing and/or psychological torture. The laconic says it is named such because it is traumatic similar to rape, but there are so many things that are traumatic that to single out rape for this is ridiculous. I already disliked the name, but without that page image there will be a lot more potential for thinking from the name that this is about unwanted sexual advances committed through mind powers or whatever.

So yeah, I think any change of page image should be accompanied by a rename, preferably a rename to a word or phrase encompassing both brainwashing and psychological torture.

Good idea.

Supporting pull.

Thirding pull.

I dunno how good it is, but this scene was my first thought.

Is that the guy from the Disney Atlantis movie?

No, it's from Doomsday, My Dear. He DOES look like Milo when just outlined, but that's because they're both scrawny guys with wild hair and glasses.

edited 28th Dec '11 2:45:40 PM by Katrika

Yeah, silhouettes can be confusing like that.

Anyway, it is an okay image, but I still think we should keep looking.

edited 28th Dec '11 3:12:02 PM by HiddenFacedMatt

Here's a hastily thrown together collage of the Trope Namer. It's not easy to tell what's going on here, but after this there's a bunch of random freakish images that don't help at all. The picture quality is terrible too... I don't have the DVDs.

For the record, by the far most common misuse of this trope involves situations that aren't nearly traumatic enough to qualify. There's very little misuse I've seen regarding "literal mind rape". So I don't think this really ought to have any impact on what's done with the image.

Good effort, and pretty much the way we need to go, but way too grainy to use.

If we could get a better quality version of the Eva collage I think it would work. Maybe cut out a panel or two.

I'd support a higher quality Eva collage.

"Don't come inside me!", huh?

That's certainly in keeping with the analogy.

edited 30th Dec '11 6:04:10 AM by Catalogue

Isn't that bad?

I don't know...

... come to think of it, perhaps we could make a subtrope for that, and split off a new supertrope for Mind Torture in general. Or alternatively just pick Mind Torture as the new name for this.

For now, here is a smaller version of hotrods4ben's suggestion:

edited 30th Dec '11 10:10:52 AM by HiddenFacedMatt

I may have misunderstood the trope all along, but I suppose the rape analogy was not due to severity, but violation. In rape, the criminal violates the victim physically without consent and does what s/he pleases. In mind rape, the criminal violates the victim mentally without consent and does what s/he pleases. The latter often evokes imageries of the victim resisting "entrance" and pleading for the criminal to stop.

Of course, it's understandable that some people might find this in bad taste, demeaning to actual rape victims, and so on. I think it's fair, but I might not recognise the nuances.

I can see the problem though; not all mind torture plays this kind of analogy. Depending on how prevalent the mind rape thing is, we might want to build a supertrope or rename it altogether.

edited 30th Dec '11 10:44:58 AM by Catalogue

The 2x2 is too small to read. Prefer vertical.

I tried tweaking it in photoshop, with no luck. The vertical version is too tall anyways. With better quality pics we could probably do 3 panels. Those are the clearest (as in, able to understand what's even going on) screens I could get.

The smaller image isn't clear enough on context; the text captions are the only thing making it clear it's a mind attack.

Here's another possible image:

Regarding the rename; Mind Torture implies the purpose is torture when it might not necessarily be the case, and in some of the examples such as in Sailor Moon, the "disturbing" part is a side-effect rather than the directly intended effect. 1 for keeping the name the same.