Brain Removal

Brain Removal
Dr. Loboto (Psychonauts) possesses super sneezing powder in his prosthetic arm, a concoction so strong, it causes people to literally sneeze their brains out.
Power/Ability to:	Remove brains.

The ability to remove brains. Technique of Brain Manipulation. Not to be confused with Brain Drain or Brain Absorption.

​Capabilities

User can remove the brains (including only individual sections of the brain (the frontal lobe, motor cortex, occipital lobe, etc.) of oneself or others, usually resulting in the target's death. This may be done either by physical action (removing the brain out manually via brute force), or by various supernatural means.

By normal biological means, removing one's brain out means instant death. However, the brain may be continued to be connected to the body via a magical link, and anything that happens to it afterwards will be afflicted to the owner's body.

Applications

• Blood Removal
• Death Inducement
• Induce Brainlessness

Associations

• Body Dismemberment
• Brain Empowerment
• Brain Manipulation
• Enhanced Mauling
• Enhanced Strength
• External Nervous-System
• Impale
• Intangibility Combat
• Medical Intuition
• Nerve Manipulation
• Mutilation
• One Hit Kill
• Organic Manipulation
• Supernatural Surgery
• Telekinetic Surgery
• Razor Hand
• Wound Inducement

Limitations

• May be ineffective against users of Immortality, Regenerative Healing Factor or Multiple Brains.
• Useless against any opponents who have no brains.
• Target may be able to resist this power.
• May only be able to affect others.
• May only be able to affect oneself.

Known Users

• Albedo (Ben 10); via Cerebral Vortex
• Mi-Go (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Furons (Destroy All Humans)
  • Cryptosporidium
• Mind Flayers/Illithids (Dungeons and Dragons)
• Pakawa (Kasumi Ninja)
• Living Scarecrow (Mona the Vampire); combined with Zombification
• Dr. Caligosto Loboto (Psychonauts); via Super Sneezing Powder

Known Objects

• Cerebral Vortex (Ben 10)
• Super Sneezing Powder (Psychonauts)
• Brain Sucking Machine (Round the Twist)
• Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse's Vivisection Machine (Wolfenstein: The New Order)

Gallery

Albedo (Ben 10: Omniverse) was able to remove Asmuth's intellectual brain...

...via the Cerebral Vortex.

Furons like Crypto (Destroy All Humans) can telekinetically extract the brains of others via the Extract ability.

Combined with Zombification, the Living Scarecrow (Mona the Vampire) can manually cut a victim's head and skull open to rip their brains out so he can devour them.

Mi-Go (Cthulhu Mythos) can remove brains and place them in cylinder jars.