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== Psychic Assaults ==
=== ''[[Discworld]]'' ===
* [[Older Than Television]]: [[EE Doc Smith]]'s Arisians (the ''[[Lensman]]'' novels) do exactly this to interlopers who enter their space uninvited or in violation of previous warnings. All the bad, wrong or evil things they have ever done are dredged up to haunt them, and they can adjust the intensity. Helmuth gets off light with only a brief dose, but he's still shaken from the experience and heeds their warning not to come back. {{spoiler|On the full dose, people go insane to the point that ''they kill themselves''}}. And for those races too cold-minded to be Mind Raped, they can skip the pleasantries and turn them into [[People Puppets]].▼
* A mild version of this is a favorite tactic of [[The Fair Folk|the elves]] in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* Most of the characters in, [[Hells Children]], by Andrew Boland, experience this sooner or later. [[Mind Screw|Not to mention the readers]].▼
=== ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' ===
* While, in the books, Legilimency is used only as a [[Mind Probe]], the fifth ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]]'' film suggests that Voldemort uses it to inflict mental torture as an end in itself.▼
* Mucking about for any reason in someone's head (no matter the intent) in ''[[
** While we're still on ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'', coming near a [[Emotion Eater|Dementor]] will cause a [[Mind Rape]]-like effect to occur; they are used as guards in the Wizard prison of Azkaban to sap the prisoners' will to escape.▼
*** That's just when they are standing near you. If they actually attack, [[Empty Shell|they can suck your soul]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|right from your mouth.]]▼
** Boggarts do something similar, picking your greatest fear out of your mind and then [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|assuming that form]].▼
** This seems to be what happened to Ginny in the second book in regards to Riddle's diary.▼
*** It was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Get a little too attached to one and it'll start playing hobnob with your head. {{spoiler|That's what happened to Ron after wearing Slytherin's locket (another Horcrux). It started picking at his fears, to the point that Ron broke off from Harry and Hermione for a while, only to come to his senses at the last moment and pull off the save.}}▼
** It also happened to Dumbledore after he drank the potion in the cave. Although the potion is supposed to burn your throat something terrible, it mainly seems to attack the psyche with your worst recollections.▼
** Not to mention [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2AiyH3-8d4 the possession scene] from the finale of the film version of ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Order of the Phoenix''. This scene is, of course, an embellishment of what happened in the book (which was a rather quick bout of unendurable pain), but seems to fit the trope well.▼
** And of course there's also what Snape does to Harry during their occlumency lessons. Its most likely not intentional on Snape's part, but the undertones are undoubtedly there.▼
* Jane and her brother Alec in ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' each have their own special [[Mind Rape]] powers. Jane's is pain while Alec cuts off all a person's senses.▼
=== ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' ===
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▲* While, in the books, Legilimency is used only as a [[Mind Probe]],
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▲* [[Older Than Television]]: [[
▲* Most of the characters in
▲* Jane and her brother Alec in ''[[Twilight (
** Also, Jasper. He doesn't use his power this way, but if he did ...
** Many of the vampires with mental abilities can fit this trope. The Volturi also have Chelsea, who could strengthen or weaken your emotional bonds to others, taking away your free will. Renesmee can insert ''her'' thoughts into your mind. And even Edward's and Aro's ability to read thoughts can feel rapey since it invades the privacy of your mind, preventing you from keeping any secrets from them.
* In the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' a villain gives doubting Linden a brief demonstration to prove that True Evil does indeed exist. Touching mind-to-mind with said [[
* A similar case is the basilisk in [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Knight Life]].'' She reveals that a basilisk's gaze doesn't kill you in and of itself: it lets you see yourself for who you are, everything about yourself, even the things that are hidden from you. Most victims, faced with everything they ''didn't'' want to know about themselves, willingly submit to being eaten.
* ''[[His Dark Materials|Northern Lights]]'': The way Lyra describes how it feels when an attacker touches her daemon, she could very well be describing a rape:
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** To further exemplify this comparison, {{spoiler|her lover Will does the same thing ''on purpose''. Only this time, she enjoys it. Context is everything.}}
* The Mule in [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation]]'' series has this ability, and ruthlessly uses it on the poor Second Foundation decoy who ends up completely brain-dead by the end of it. In one scene, he muses on how he could use his mind-controlling abilities for ''physical'' conquest, which wouldn't count as rape since the subject would genuinely feel nothing but complete love and devotion to him - but doesn't, because.. he didn't choose his nickname due to his stubbornness or physical strength...
* The Sword of [[Shannara]] from the eponymous novel shows the person the absolute truth, stripped of any sort of perspective--''every'' little lie one has ever told oneself or another is stripped away. {{spoiler|It is the only weapon that can harm the [[Big Bad]] as he is keeping himself alive through sheer effort of will and self delusion.}}
* In the novel ''[[Incarnations of Immortality
▲* Mucking about for any reason in someone's head (no matter the intent) in ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]'' will usually cause permanent mental damage. There's a reason people who do it are usually summarily executed.
▲** Also, White Court vampires usually do perform both the Mind and regular varieties, though their preference varies by family. Vampires from House Skavis cause people to feel despair until they commit suicide, those from House Malvora cause fear until people die of a heart attack, and the Raiths cause lust, usually seducing and feeding off people's souls during sex. Lara Raith both mind rapes and regular [[Squick|rapes her own father]] so hard that his mind is completely destroyed. To be fair, he had done the same to her and he really had it coming.
▲** In ''Grave Peril'' Murphy ends up being mind raped from a nightmare demon. It was so bad that in the next book Murphy was suffering from paranoia, insomnia and substance abuse and Harry outright states that she was raped. It took a while for her to overcome it and even in Aftermath she still has a near paralyzing fear of mind magic.
▲*** In the same book, Harry witnesses victims of some form of Mind Rape involving wrapping the mind and soul in something that manifests itself to his Sight as similar to barbed wire. The victims are catatonic and in constant pain.
▲** Also, in ''Small Favor'', {{spoiler|Mab mindrapes Harry to keep him from using fire magic, which would draw Summer's assassins down on him immediately.}}
▲** In the 11th book, Dresden encounters something sufficiently nasty that {{spoiler|merely looking at it with his Third Eye instantly mindrapes him BAD.}}
▲*** Not to mention the traitor on the White Council {{spoiler|having about three-quarters of the younger Wardens of the Council in the grip of mind control, and subtly influencing the thinking of the entire Senior Council through enchantments and potions for years.}}
▲**** Said traitor even turns this into ''actual'' rape, to a degree. {{spoiler|Luccio was only sleeping with Harry because said traitor's mind control was making her attracted to Harry in the first place.}}
▲*** And let's not forget {{spoiler|Thomas getting taken apart physically, mentally and emotionally by the [[Big Bad]]}}. Mind rape seems to be a theme in ''Turn Coat''.
* The White Watch in [[Jesse Hajicek]]'s ''[[The God Eaters]]'' conduct mental "Surveys," in which a member of the Watch is searching a person's mind for magical ability or for information. Often, the Surveys are described as painful Mind Rapes, and in some cases used as instruments of torture. The galling part is that later, you find out that {{spoiler|it's entirely possible to do it painlessly, they just don't care or weren't trained to do so}}.
* In the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "The People of the Black Circle" (1934), a princess is forced to relive all her past
* The necromancer Vargûl Ashnazai in ''[[Nightrunner]]'' has the ability to force visions on people. The hero Alec is held captive and treated nightly to the mutilated bodies of his dead friends taunting him and blaming him for their deaths; later, he watches the man he loves get murdered, and the illusion includes spilled blood that does not disappear when the vision is over.
* The ''[[Second Apocalypse
* {{spoiler|Aornis Hades}} attempts this on [[Thursday Next]] in ''[[The Well Of Lost Plots]]'' by destroying her memory, first of her [[
* In one ''[[
* In [[David Eddings]]' ''[[Belgariad]]'', Polgara's preferred method for getting information out of captives is to subject them to visions of the thing they fear most.
** This is also a favorite trick of the Child of Dark after it moves into Zandramas in the ''Mallorean''. The night before the final battle, it digs up the worst possible things to show each individual hero, then makes them spend the entire night dreaming about them. Unfortunately for it, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|it doesn't quite understand friendship, and doesn't realize that they'd compare notes the next morning...]]
* In the second ''[[Sword of Truth]]'', the ghost of [[Complete Monster|Darken Rahl]] gave [[Action Girl|Kahlan]] a kiss in the neck, and she literally had a vision of being raped.
* ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (
* In [[Robin Hobb]]'s ''[[Realm of the Elderlings
** Oddly enough, the conclusion of the trilogy saw {{spoiler|Fitz use much the same technique back on "King" Regal, in a way that was not portrayed as even slightly anti-heroic. Then again, Fitz was the narrator, so...}}
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer
** Another example: a trainee Soul Drinker psyker in ''Crimson Tears'' uses his abilities on a human who died as a sacrificial combat slave under the lash of the Dark Eldar, and described it as "someone...someone tore out their souls."
* In the ''[[Anita Blake]]'' books, there's a few different kinds exhibited by the vampires. First, they use simple brainwashing of a human into a happy automaton with no independent thought (most often used to get people to stand still while they take blood). Not usually used for physical sex, however, taking blood this way is very sexual and is described as metaphysical sex. Then there's dream/magical simulation manipulation. While not used to its full potential, all the characters able to do this are nymphomaniacs and use it to force sex on the unwilling. Thirdly, there's emotional manipulation - this can be either making people hopelessly in love with the vampire or making a person incapable of feeling anything but fear, and both types are shown both with and without physical rape. Finally, there's establishing the Human Servant/Master bond against the servant's will; basically, being a master vampire's human servant is the equivalent in being the wife in a medieval marriage, except the ceremony allows your husband to make you watch any memories he chooses during it and to play with your mind, to some extent, afterwards.
* In the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' series, teenage Jedi apprentice Tahiri Veila is kidnapped by [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Yuuzhan Vong]] [[Mad Scientist|Shapers]], who attempt to rewrite her memories to convince her that she was a warrior of their species, as part of an attempt to create Jedi-fighting Force-sensitive Yuuzhan Vong. She's rescued before they finish, but there are still [[Split Personality|lingering consequences]] for the rest of the series.
* In ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'', Joruus C'baoth goes far, ''far'' beyond the [[Jedi Mind Trick]] by mind-raping General Covell ''to death''- reducing him to a state of such mindlessness that, when their link was broken by an [[Anti-Magic]] field, he didn't have enough mind left to survive.
* Remember ''[[A New Hope]]'', and the scene where Vader brings in an interrogation droid? In the novelization, and in the [http://www.youtube.com/user/StarWarsAudioDramas#g/c/FC7DB8AFA5900D5E audio drama], he dismisses it in favor of what starts as a [[Mind Probe]] but, as she resists, quickly becomes this. It even gets to the point where he's able to make her believe that she is being burned alive, and that [[Irony|he is her father]] and needs to know what happened to the Death Star plans. Somehow, even this doesn't get her to talk. While she needs a medic after, she's also able to recover remarkably fast, shunting aside any effects just [[Angst? What Angst?|like all the other trauma she suffers in that film]].
* In ''[[Luke Skywalker and
* In [[Timothy Zahn]]'s ''[[Quadrail Series]]'' series {{spoiler|the main [[Big Bad]] is a parasite that infects people's brains and brings them unknowingly into a group-mind. It can also take full control of the body at will once the infection is advanced enough.}}
* In ''[[
* There's a nasty one in ''The Algebraist'' by [[Iain Banks]] when police, who have been given permission to use whatever methods they think fit to break up a commune which is protesting against certain government policies, switch the total immersion virtual reality game the main character's girlfriend is playing for one which is described as "a nightmare of torture and rape" and leave her trapped in it for several days. {{spoiler|she kills herself almost immediately after coming out of it and this event provides the main character's motivation for his betrayal of said government.}}
* Furthermore, the practice for machine-life is so frighteningly simple to accomplish in Iain M. Banks's ''[[The Culture]]'' Novels, that the mental privacy of organic sentients is the closest that society gets to having a law. Any machine being found to be even reading a person's mind is given the apt title Meatfucker and is ostracized from the Culture. True to form for Banks, one of the protagonists of ''Excession'' is one such perpetrator.
* Also from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' Expanded Universe, Darth Zannah in the ''Rule of Two'' novel does this to a woman named Cynda who is holding her at gunpoint. She uses her powers to conjure up terrifying phantoms that only Cynda can see, and it is explicitly said that Zannah can stop it there, with Cynda only remembering the visions as a nightmare. But in the next moment an image of Cynda in bed with Zannah's now-deceased temporary love interest pops into her head, and Zannah pushes Cynda past the point of insanity, shredding her mind and leaving the tiny fragment of her consciousness that still exists irrecoverably trapped in torment. Later, Zannah pulls it on Jedi Sarro Xaj. He gets lucky however; Zannah just uses it to distract him {{spoiler|so she can kill him.}}
* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', Morgoth's [[Our Dragons Are Different|(literal)]] [[The Dragon|dragon]] Glaurung likes to use this on his foes. Example:
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** [[The Lord of the Rings
* [[Heralds of Valdemar|Herald Talia of Valdemar]] is a sweet, benevolent person who nearly always uses her powerful [[The Empath|empathic]] abilities to the benefit of all around her. The other .01 percent of the time, you learn why [[Beware the Nice Ones|it doesn't pay to piss her off]]. The most dramatic (and literal) example was the time she forced a rapist to relive his victim's experience ''in a neverending loop'', until and unless he could acknowledge that he'd done wrong.
* [[The Edge Chronicles|Amberfuce]] is a master of [[Mind Rape]]. Telepathy is a rather common power among Deepwoods creatures, but Amberfuce possesses something most of them don't (or at least don't use): the power to erase, or rather freeze one's memories (and likely all emotions as well), which he uses to create perfectly obedient slaves. This is described as a painful process, compared to the touch of cold fingers inside your mind.
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* In ''[[The Godless World Trilogy]]'' it is strongly suggested this is what some of the na'kyrim were capable off before the ''War of the Tainted''
* Done to Slick Henry in the third book of [[William Gibson]]'s ''[[Sprawl Trilogy]]'' as punishment for, of all things, car theft.
* In ''[[Carrie]]'', the title character does this to Sue as {{spoiler|one final act of}} revenge for what she felt to be Sue's involvement in her humiliation at prom. Of course, Sue wasn't responsible for what
* In Cordwainer Smith's short story ''Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons'' (read it [
* The villain in ''[[Neuropath]]'' puts many people through this.
* The titular evil cyborg from the future in [[David Weber]]'s ''[[The Apocalypse Troll]]'' (one half of a [[Terminator Twosome]]) does this to several people in order to acquire information about present-day Earth. One victim is a schoolteacher who was camping with her husband; the "troll" has its way with her for ''five hours'' before finally disposing of her body, and [[Complete Monster|records every moment of the process for its later enjoyment]].
* ''[[The Fionavar Tapestry]]'' features a brutal combination of mental and physical rape exacted on one of the characters.
* In the [[
** It's more about removing her knowledge of the Sun Crusher, so that no one can exploit potential weaknesses of his new toy.
* In Robert Jordan's [[
** The Aes Sedai also consider bonding a Warder without said Warder's permission the equivalent of rape.
* In the [[Star Trek:
* This is step one of making a new vampire in ''Thirteen Bullets'' and its sequels. The vampire enters the victim's head and tears them apart mentally, hammering away until the victim is [[Driven to Suicide]]. That suicide turns the victim into a vampire. Arkley suffered this for a moment and is not sure if killing himself would cause him to come back as a vampire now; {{spoiler|Caxton is brutalized for days this way, to the point it's a guarantee she'll turn if she ever does herself in, and then a piece of the vampire's mind got ''stuck in her head'' after she killed him}}.
* Occurs with surprising frequency in Scott Westerfeld's [[Midnighters]] series, starting in the backstory when {{spoiler|the 12-year-old Rex and Melissa shatter Rex's abusive father's mind}}, and going on through {{spoiler|Madeline's meddling that enabled several of the midnighters to even be born}}, Melissa's forcible ripping-open of Dess's mind, and ending up with what Melissa, Rex and {{spoiler|the darklings in Rex's head}} finally do to Madeline in ''Blue Noon''. Fortunately, as the series goes on it's increasingly lampshaded that mindcasters are ''not nice people'' at all.
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* In [[Trudi Canavan]]'s ''[[The Black Magician Trilogy]]'' it's mentioned several times how horrible it is to have someone forcibly read your mind. At lot of people aren't too keen on truth reads (that you at least have to give your permission for and people can only see what you let them, how true that is is a different matter people seem to worry quite a lot if they have secrets as it will be hard to keep them hidden)
* In [[Dean Koontz|Dean Koontz's]] ''[[False Memory]]'', Dr. Ahriman is big on doing this. His [[Mind Rape]] of half the cast fuels most of the story's conflict, since it's difficult to know if what they're doing and thinking is really ''them'' and not his planted suggestions.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Hunger Games|Mockingjay]]'', it turns out this is what happens to {{spoiler|Peeta}}. In addition to other mental torture, the method the Capitol uses (called hijacking) is to revive ''good'' memories and while he's experiencing them, give him a chemical that induces intense fear and hallucinations, then let the memories restore themselves. The result is that, in addition to becoming an angry, paranoid and violent person, for some time afterward he has difficulties differentiating what is real and what isn't, and it's a while before {{spoiler|he recovers}}.
== "Mundane" Torture ==
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** Further to this, the premise of DoubleThink is a slow-acting form of Mind Rape in and of itself. Even worse because it's ''self-inflicted''.
* ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'' has a torture scene in which a female double agent is completely deprived of sensory input until her own imagination overwhelms her and she loses her mind...[[And I Must Scream|after twelve hours]]. Being [[Tom Clancy]], it is ''totally plausible'' - ten whole pages of [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* In ''[[Dune]]'''s ''Butlerian Jihad Trilogy'' the cymeks take brains from their human bodies (literal mind rape?), stick them in [[Brain In
* In [[
** See also the previous category for a less mundane example.
* What {{spoiler|[[Hanging Judge]] Wargrave}} puts his victims through in ''[[
* ''[[Harry Potter (
* Most of the mind rape that happens in [[Stationery Voyagers]] consists of [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] cranked [[Up to Eleven]]. For a series with this many supernatural creatures running amok, it's particularly noteworthy that most instances of mind rape (and physical rape to an extent) are either [[What Did I Do Last Night?|drug-induced]] or the result of a [[Hannibal Lecture]] or [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]] speech, or through all-and-out [[Forced to Watch|forcing them to watch]] relatives die.
* In [[The Republic Of Trees]], {{spoiler|Isobel}} tried to leave the group, which by the laws of the Republic is punishable by death. The only alternative to death is "correction therapy" - unfortunately, with each of the other characters at different stages of their own [[Sanity Slippage]], the role of the therapist is left to Joy, the second in command in the group, a [[Knight Templar]] about the rules and, which others haven't realised yet, {{spoiler|a newly self-discovered [[Yandere]]}}.
* While he is dubiously successful, practicing at this seems to be Beineberg's hobby in ''[[The Confusions of Young
* The tracker-jackers in ''[[The Hunger Games (
* In the web-novel ''[[
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