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== Psychic Assaults ==
* This is the premise of [[
* In ''[[Watchmen (
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''. 'You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words '''parsley''', '''intractable''' or '''longitude''', you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.".' Seriously, don't piss off Emma Frost.
** Another of her famous tricks was punishing Dr. Kimura, a sadistic villain with an awful past as well as [[X-23]]'s abusive trainer, by making her forget the only person who was ever kind to her {{spoiler|before sending her out to kill everyone in the facility she worked on}}.
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*** Considering that Alex and Annie had "psychically dated" while he was ''in a coma'', there's [[Mind Rape]] in ''how'' these dates came to be too. They were caused by Annie's son Carter, a boy with [[Telepathy|telepathic powers]] who wanted a daddy so badly that he wasn't above forcing Havok to date his mother in his mind. Not that it helped the plot too much, Chuck.
* An example of an attempted physical rape that ends up as pure [[Mind Rape]]: in the 80s ''Captain Britain'' series, one of the concepts constantly explored in the series is [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]]. Well, a "Kaptain Briton" from an alternate universe where England is a totalitarian state switched places with ours, and in a scene infamous to this date, {{spoiler|he tried to rape Betsy Braddock, aka [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Psylocke]], Captain Britain's sister (and in a certain way, his own). Psylocke killed him in self-defense using her telepathic powers, still believing it was her own brother who tried to rape her.}} Needless to say, this experience fucked her up.
* In the [[
* This is the explanation for Dr. Light's [[Villain Decay]] in [[The DCU]]. As revealed in ''[[Identity Crisis]]'', while mindwipes were... tolerated (to protect secret identities), {{spoiler|a cabal in the League [[Brainwashing for
* In [[Joss Whedon]]'s run on ''[[
* This is the modus operandi of the [[Emotion Eater|Psycho-Man]], an old [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] villain. He uses an emotion controlling device called the Control Box with [[Exactly What It Says
** Doom has forced a number of different forms of this upon Reed Richards. The time when he repeatedly invaded Reed's dreams to turn him into a [[Manchurian Agent]] and make him turn his friends over to Doom for torture and imprisonment was one of the very few times Reed actually considered flat-out murdering Doom.
* From ''[[The Darkness]]'':
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'''[[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|Bouncer:]]''' [[Big No|NO!]]<br />
'''[[
'''Sonatine:''' Rewrote his memory. Tremendous fun. }}
* ''[[The Umbrella Academy]]'' - Essentially, ''The Apocalypse Suite'' arc would not have functioned without this trope.
** Most of Series 2, "Dallas" turned into mind rape for the readers. In a good way. If that is possible.
* ''[[
** Also, in a reminder that our "heroes" are [[Moral Myopia|not always nice]], when a cop rightfully pulls Delirium over for reckless driving, she leaves him envisioning bugs all over him. [[Fate Worse Than Death|"for ever and always"]]!
* In the ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' "Portrait of a Mutant" story, Johnny mind-rapes a couple of Kreelers under the guise of reading their minds to prevent them from revealing that he is Nelson Kreelman's son.
* In ''[[Dark Empire]]'', Luke Skywalker joins the Emperor. It was the better option of a [[Sadistic Choice]], and he planned to subvert the cause from within. Things [[Becoming the Mask|didn't work out as planned]], but when Leia's presence reminded him what he'd been trying to do, he tried to kill the Emperor. The Emperor survived, but didn't kill Luke, who could still be useful.
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'''Luke''': Where am I?
'''Emperor''': ''Alone.''
'''Luke''': No - Help me-
'''Emperor''': There is no one. There is only the Dark Side.
'''Luke''': I... am... a Jedi. *he screams*
'''Emperor''': You are not Jedi. You are nothing. ''You have no name.''
'''Luke''': My name - is - ''Skywalker!'' *he screams again, louder*
'''Emperor''': YOU. HAVE. NO. NAME!
'''Luke''': I-
'''Emperor''': Listen to the Dark Side. You have no name.
'''Luke''': I have... *all the strain goes out of his voice. Dully:* no name.
'''Emperor''': You serve the Dark Side.
'''Luke''': I... s-serve... }}
* [[Martian Manhunter|J'onn's]] [[Evil Twin]] Malefic did this once to a fellow Green Martian. This was an unspeakable crime in Green Martian society since they are normally a very open telepathic race. To them this was the greatest violation of the open trust shared by their race possible. Malefic's punishment was severe indeed: his [[Psychic Powers]] were stripped away along with his memories of the event (so he couldn't get any sick pleasure from it).
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== "Mundane" Torture ==
* In the ''[[Batman]]'' graphic novel ''[[The Killing Joke]]'', the Joker brutally tortures Commissioner Gordon with images of the [[Monster Clown]]'s torture of his daughter Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, in an effort to prove that "one bad day" can drive anyone insane.
** In ''[[
** We can't forget ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]'', {{spoiler|where mind rape was just ''one'' of [[Moral Event Horizon|SEVERAL things]] that the Joker and Harley Quinn subjected young Tim Drake to, torturing and [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashing him]] into becoming "J.J", the Joker's Mini Me. The effects of such a mind rape last until Tim's adulthood and are a BIG plot point in the movie.}}
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