Mind Rape/Video Games

Psychic Assaults
"Naminé: No, Sora! Don't listen to me!"
 * Dragon Fable: Your character almost got Mind Raped, controlled and put into a Lotus Eater Machine by the Eldritch Abomination boss of the Water Orb saga..
 * Silent Hill. The entire franchise is one huge mind rape for the player, focusing on reducing you into a state of complete fear rather than bowling you over with pop-ups and run-at-you monsters. The entire Silent Hill series is notable for its scene setting to convey the complete horror. It is for this reason it is often cited as the ultimate horror game series.
 * 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.
 * There's even a Does This Remind You of Anything? scene in Gongaga where Cloud's lying on a bed, clearly severely traumatised, while the others try to convince him that what Sephiroth forced him to do wasn't his fault and doesn't mean Cloud wanted it. Let's add into this the way Sephiroth tells Cloud 'I am always by your side', and the bizarre sexual symbolism of Cloud being forced to find Sephiroth's Materia coffin in the centre of a pink, pulsating, ring-shaped structure, and penetrating it to give him the Black Materia.
 * On a similar note, Final Fantasy IX had  suffering a BSOD... not from   but from   Fortunately, that just
 * Somewhat dissimilar to the previous two Final Fantasy entries but, the second MMORPG entry in the series, Final Fantasy XIV, has an ability called 'The Echo', granted to anyone who witnessed a strange, meteor-shower like event at the start of the game's story (this includes player characters). The Echo allows the user to touch souls, granting the ability to speak to all sentient beings and enter and change their memories. The people on whom it's used without their consent - and are able to recognise someone invading their memories - have at times angrily highlighted the Unfortunate Implications.
 * Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty 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 Guns of the Patriots. Beauty and the Beast Unit. Enough said.
 * In Half-Life 2 Episode 1,.
 * This happens a number of times in Episode 2, as well.
 * Aribeth's persistent nightmares in Chapter 2 of Neverwinter Nights.
 * In Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories Naminé is first ordered to . Later on, she voluntarily . 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, by.

"Cortana: I tried to stay hidden, but there was no escape! He cornered me, wrapped me tight and brought me close..."
 * And in the prequel Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep we have Then, just before the story's ending  It became so much that before the last battle he  If you didn't cry at the look of his face after that you have no soul.
 * Kingdom Hearts 3D features
 * 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 . 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 Wingwong.
 * Though it's not dwelled upon especially much in the Starcraft 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.
 * In Halo 3, before and after rescuing Cortana, her words and verbal cues drop indications that the Gravemind is inflicting this on her. Bear in mind, while an AI she's built off of a human mind, so she's just as vulnerable as any human. 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.

"It is a symptom of madness that thoughts become uncontrollably disjointed. This can be encouraged"
 * "Human Weakness", a short story in "Halo Evolutions", is entirely composed of this. And the dialog she uses is like something right out of Law and Order...
 * 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.
 * Mass Effect: On Feros 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 and any other Reaper is automatically mindraped by its energy field.
 * Matriarch Benezia's description of indoctrination is particularly brutal: "His teeth at my ear! Fingers on my spine!" "I am not myself, I never will be again!" And, for added discomfort, Benezia is voiced by Marina Sirtis, who played the above mentioned Deanna Troi.
 * Let's talk about indoctrination a bit more. All Reapers can do it, . Certain pieces of Reaper technology are also capable of doing it. You might be able to resist it at first, but eventually you'll succumb. Your mind will become a tool for the Reapers. You will obey their commands without even realizing they are commanding you. And when they no longer have a use for you, you will be.
 * The Prothean beacon mindrapes Shepard for two reasons: first, the transmission wasn't meant for a human mind and required an in-depth understanding of the Protheans to make sense of; second, the beacon was damaged and transmitted an incomplete vision that lacked concrete information until Shepard got the complete package on Virmire and realized . It doesn't help that the message is also a warning about  and shows some graphic detail of the Protheans'   Mass Effect 2 makes a callback to this in a sidequest where Shepard finds another copy of the message, this time with one added image:
 * Mass Effect 2: Morinth and other Ardat-Yakshis are compelled to commit mindrape. They court their prey and eventually brainwash their "paramours" until they have sex, at which point the Ardat-Yakshis' orgasms cause their "paramour's" brain to melt. So mindrape, in this case, leads to physical rape and murder.
 * 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 Player Character's companions, breaking them into his/her service.
 * Don't forget the first game, where it is implied that Malak does the same to in order to gain an underling. And also possibly some honest-to-goodness sex, judging by his suggestive dialogue and behavior during that cutscene.
 * It's also very arguable that the Jedi Council pulled this on your PC.
 * 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, while in the latter case, its because
 * 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 basically 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.
 * And/or a lot more fun and challenging, especially for RP players.
 * 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....
 * And then there's Northrend, home to many an Eldritch Abomination. There are mental debuffs to be found here, such as 'you feel as if something is scratching in your mind' (it doesn't affect your stats, but it's still creepy), and in some areas you will receive whispers from an unclear source, usually urging you toward paranoia.
 * A very intense version of Mind Rape takes place in Xenosaga Episode 1 where . This is especially powerful given.
 * The American version of this scene original Japanese version was modified because the imagery was considered too intense. In the American version, whereas in the Japanese version, . In both instances, the character is shown to exhibit physical as well as mental pain.
 * Well they clearly did a bad job with cleaning up the American version. Despite never having seen the original Japanese version, I remember being horrified seeing what appeared to be
 * 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 Panic (which lowers morale). Helplessly watching as your own hands slaughter your teammates has to be bad enough, one can only imagine what horrors follow after a heavily-armed soldier is subjected to a Panic attack and goes berserk.
 * All of the Boss Banter in American McGee's 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.
 * Happens to Pokémon themselves in the main Nintendo Gamecube games Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, when they get turned into Shadow Pokémon. 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 Pokémon 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 Pokémon... or several.
 * The move Dark Pulse "releases a horrible aura imbued with dark thoughts."
 * The Pieces of Eden in Assassin's Creed can control human minds this way. In fact,
 * Unsurprisingly in the Eve Online 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."
 * The Blaz Blue series has two variants of psychic Mind Rape, one for Hazama and one for Relius.
 * Hazama's Ouroboros has this as a built-in function, though he tends to go light on it, preferring to stick to defamatory speeches, Hannibal lectures, and barbed trolling. Pretty much every character subjected to Mind Rape had Hazama as the "therapist", with as the highlight of his career. At least two characters are shown to be resistant to Hazama - Taokaka, who simply is unable to comprehend his language, and Makoto, who served under him in Library Intelligence and is accustomed to his tricks and tactics.
 * Relius, on the other hand, decides to skip the trolling and go straight to total decimation.
 * In The Force Unleashed II, Starkiller's variation of the Jedi Mind Trick is essentially driving his opponents mad, making them fight each other and eventually try to commit suicide.
 * Indie puzzle-platormer The Manipulator allows you to hijack the bodies of guards to either open doors or eliminate other hostiles. Once they have served their purpose you can either peacefully release your control over them - or mind rape them TO DEATH. There's no speech, but seeing OH GOD! or IT HURTS! in increasingly larger and distorted text as you kill them is more than a little unnerving.
 * Implied to happen to 'claptrapped' enemies in Borderlands.
 * Eversion.
 * The Rite of Tranquility on mages in the Dragon Age universe can be used as a form of Mind Rape in the hands of templars seeking control over their charges for their own evil purposes, as in the case of Ser Alrik's "Tranquil Solution" when it was used on Karl and later threatened to be used on Ella in Dragon Age II.
 * Blood magic can also be used for Mind Rape, as it was used on Ser Cullen in "The Broken Circle" quest in Dragon Age Origins.
 * Demonic possession in most cases. During the Fade sequence in Dragon Age II Keeper Marethari comments that most Dreamers are feeble-minded enough that an onslaught of demons destroys their minds.
 * Interestingly, if Feynriel is spared in "Night Terrors" and not made Tranquil or possessed,
 * The Song of the Old Gods  appears to be this. If you play the Dalish Elf origin, you will eventually meet a tainted elf ghoul, , who has been driven mad by it and attacks you, begging you to put him out of his misery. And in the Legacy DLC for Dragon Age II, if you take along Anders (who, as a Grey Warden, bears the darkspawn taint) he will periodically start whimpering in terror about "make it stop talking" and "get out of my head"
 * In the final battle of the first God of War game, Ares does this to Kratos by trapping him in his own mind, taking him back to the night he killed his own family. Kratos valiantly fights off clones of himself while hugging his family to keep them alive...but his efforts are for naught as Ares rips off the Blades of Chaos and kills them. Kratos falls to his knees sobbing as he watches his family die by his blades again.
 * Eve Online has a particularly harrowing and unpleasant form of this detailed in the "Methods of Torture: Caldari" chronicle - made all the more so by what it doesn't explain. There's an unlabelled box with some electrodes which are attached to the victim, and a circular dial marked only with a line of increasing thickness around its circumference. Questions are asked. When the answers are unsatisfactory, the dial is turned.


 * Shows up in Monkey Island, of all places. The MacGuffin of the fourth game, a mystical artifact known as the Ultimate Insult, works by projecting insults in the primal language (actually monkey noises) that all humans understand on an instinctual level directly into a person's soul until it is utterly destroyed.
 * The "Dragonrend" Shout in Skyrim essentially Mind Rapes a Dragon by forcing it to experience.

"Mundane" Torture

 * Suikoden III has this between twin brothers Luc (see Jerkass) and Sasarai. It is not enough for Luc to simply but in the process inform his brother that they are actually . Sasarai is not amused and becomes physically ill at this knowledge, leading to his Heel Face Turn once he recovers. His post-game text suggests he did not fully recover.
 * The 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.
 * Attempted by the final boss in I Wanna Be the Guy: after learning that The Guy and reaching his One-Winged Angel form, one of his Boss Banter lines is "Yes, ". It doesn't work.
 * In Leliana's Song (a DLC for Dragon Age), the title character is mentally  raped by  and by the woman who trained her for years and Leliana trusted absolutely. As a prequel to the main game, this basically sets up the events that make Marjolaine so damn good at getting in Leliana's head;   See also: Break the Cutie.