Guilt Inducement

Guilt Inducement
The Ghost Rider's (Marvel Comics) Penance Stare can induce terrible guilt among other effects on those who harm innocents.
Power/Ability to:	Induce guilt into others.

"<Player> died from guilt over lynching the Jester."

― Flavor text for the death of whoever gets targeted by the Jester (Town of Salem)

The power to induce a great sense of guilt in others. Variation of Emotion Inducement.

Also Called

• Fault Inducement
• Guilt Induction
• Regret/Remorse Inducement

Capabilities

The user can induce and cause a great sense of guilt into others. The guilt can be caused by something they try to keep hidden (such as robbing someone or murder) or something as small as stealing a pen, making them feel immense guilt and shame for it.

Applications

• Despair Inducement
• Suicide Inducement
• Torment Inducement

Associations

• Emotion Inducement
• Emotion Manipulation
• Guilt Manifestation
• Mental Inducement
• Penance Stare
• Truth Inducement

Limitations

• Users of Empathic Power Resistance (resistant)
• Users of Indomitable Will/Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Apathy/Psychic Immunity (impervious).
• May require proximity or physical touch with the victims to use this.

Known Users

• Nene (18if)
• Tamami Kobayashi (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) via The Lock
• Albaster (Lost Girl), the natural enemy of the succubi that induce sexual shame in people.
• Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics); via the Penance Stare
• Guiltrip (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Dream (Sandman)
• Jester (Town of Salem) after dying

Known Objects

• Indigo Power Rings (DC Comics)
• Lasso of Truth (DC Comics)
• SCP-4489 - Apologies (SCP Foundation)

Gallery

Nene (18if) was able to induce an overwhelming sense of guilt in Pol for destroying their friendship and forgetting that he was responsible for killing his best friend, despite the fact that Pol became a truly heartless tyrant.

Diana/Wonder Woman (DC Comics) can force any evil-doers to admit their guilt with her Lasso of Truth.

By taking away the delusions or dreams of being in the right from dozens of serial killers, Dream of the Endless (Sandman) forced them to feel the immense guilt for all the people they had slaughtered.

Due to their mind link, Kara In-Ze/Kara Kent/Supergirl (Justice League Unlimited) unintentionally transferred the guilt she felt about Galatea's heinous deeds to her clone.