- "Have you finally woke up to your senses? You who averted your eyes from the truth...is indeed a more deplorable imitation than anything else ...Best you part from that aspect of yourself! Let us now forge a contract...I am thou, thou art I...The world is filled with both beauty and vice of truths and lies...It is time you teach people which is which!""
- ― Goemon (Persona 5)
The ability to force a person to tell the truth. Sub-power of Truth Manipulation. Variation of Mental Inducement. Opposite to Lie Inducement.
Also Called[]
- Contact Persuasion
- Honesty Inducement
- Truth Serums
- Truth Compulsion
- Veritas
Capabilities[]
The user can force/induce others to tell the truth, guaranteeing that the person is telling the truth to the best of their ability.
Applications[]
Associations[]
Limitations[]
- Users of Indomitable Will /Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
- May need to know if the person is lying in order to activate this power in the first place.
- Only guarantees the person is telling the truth to their knowledge. If they are misinformed, the truth may be misleading, or they may know nothing about the subject at all.
- May require to ask someone a question to make the power work.
- Likewise, the user must speak and the target must listen and tell, so it is ineffective if the user is gagged or if the target can't hear or speak.
- Unless trained, they can't make anyone tell the truth through gestures or writings.
- May require eye contact for power to work.
- Unless they are fluent in linguistics or can somehow make the target automatically speak in a specific language, such as English, the power may not work if the person is speaking in another language.
- May only work on sapient beings and creatures, like humans, so, unless it automatically makes them speak or are sapient, will not work on animals or feral creatures.
Known Users[]
See Also: Truth Serums.
Comic/Cartoon
- Various Metahumans (DC Comics) via Telepathy
- Various Mutants (Marvel Comics) via Telepathy/Mind Control
- Wonder Girl (DC Comics)
- Captain Universe (Marvel Comics); via Uni-Vision
- La Lumière Bleue (Marvel Comics)
- White Pantera (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera); via Bronze Boots of Truth
- Truth/Luka Couffaine (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)
- Dynamite Watkins (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes); via microphone fueled by attention
- Jessi Glaser (Big Mouth); temporarily
Film/Television
- Green Light Babies (Arrowverse/Black Lightning)
- Issa Williams
- Witches (Charmed); via Truth Spell
- Alicia (Los Protegidos)
- April Skouris (The 4400)
- Vertullarians/Truth-Seekers (Supergirl)
- Jack (Supernatural)
- Veritas (Supernatural)
- Esmeralda (Chica Vampiro)
- Chloe Sullivan (Smallville); temporarily
- Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer); can make others tell their secret desires
- Lliana (Every Witch Way) via Spell Casting
- Castaspella (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
- King Micah (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
- Glimmer (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
- Humans (The Invention of Lying); themselves only
- Vax'ildan (Critical Role); via Zone of Truth
- Désirée Blodgett (The Nevers)
Game
- Persephone (Assassin's Creed Odyssey)
- Jade Leech (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland); via Shock the Heart
- Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney series); via Megatama
- Tattletell (Yo-Kai Watch)
Anime/Manga
- Tamayo (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Haruka Kodama/Sasori Banchou (Kongō Banchō)
- Shin Nemoto (My Hero Academia); via Confession
Mythology
- Aletheia/Veritas (Greek/Roman Mythology)
Literature/Podcast
- Yorick (The Skull of Truth)
- Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)
- Chu Wanning (The Husky and the White Cat Shizun); via his whip Tianwen
Known Powers/Spells[]
- Shock the Heart (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland)
- Zone of Truth (Dungeons & Dragons)
Known Objects[]
- Experimental Truth Serum (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius)
- Truth Potion (Charmed)
- Truth Serum (Charmed 2018)
- The Teapot of Loose Lips (Dr Ramune)
- Lasso of Truth (DC Comics)
- Truth Serum (Divergent)
- Bronze Boots of Truth (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera)
- Floss Lasso (Fairly Odd Parents)
- Truth Telling Teeth (Gravity Falls)
- Veritaserum (Harry Potter)
- Truth Ray (Kim Possible)
- Tea of Truth (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
- Relax-O-Magic Ultra Recliner (Moville Mysteries)
- Truth Talisman of Tonatiuh (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
- Truth Juice (Odd Squad)
- Tell-the-Truth-inator (Phineas and Ferb)
- Microphone (Round the Twist); via lightning strike
- Truth Salt (The Replacements)
- Truth serum aka "vodka" (Sam and Max)
- Mortal Sword (The Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Enchanted Quill (The Smurfs)
- Truth Root (Witches of East End)
- Tianwen (The Husky and the White Cat Shizun)
Gallery[]
Tamayo's (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) Blood Demon Art - Magical Aroma of Daylight can weaken the brain functions of anyone that smells it and can force them to tell the truth.
Jade Leech's (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland) unique magic Shock the Heart forces any victim looking at his left eye to tell the truth. It can however be resisted by strong-willed or magically capable people, and can only be used once per victim.
Alicia (Los Protegidos) can make any person tell the truth.
Severus Snape administers Veritaserum, (Harry Potter) a very powerful truth potion.
Dynamite Watkins (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes) can force others to tell the truth using her attention-fueled microphone.
Truth Talisman of Tonatiuh (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Issa Williams (Arrowverse)
Truth Telling Teeth (Gravity Falls) are a set of false teeth that render their wearer incapable of lying.
Video[]
When People Can't Lie - Supernatural Season 14 Last Episode Caption
The Awesome truth.