Memory Manipulation

Basic

"Practically empty, too, except for some dull-ass high school memories... I may have spiced them up a little."

― Gideon Graves, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

The supernatural power to manipulate memories. Sub-power of Mental Manipulation. Not to be confused with Past Manipulation.

Also Called[]

Memory Alteration
Memory Control
Mnemokinesis

Capabilities[]

User can control memories of oneself and others, allowing them to modify, fabricate, suppress, influence, repair, restore, erase, detect, and view them. They can change memories to confuse, or wipe away certain memories to cause amnesia, discern and provoke nostalgia, and enter the victim into a psychic vision, replaying their memory.

Applications[]

Adoptive Muscle Memory: Replicate any movement that you have memorized.
Enhanced Memory/Panmnesia: Instantly memorize any information that you have learned.
- Instructive Muscle Memory: Perfectly mimic movements via indirect observation.
Genetic Memory: Access the memories of one's genetic relatives or hereditary predecessors.
Knowledge Projection: Project your memories onto others to give them knowledge.
Memory Absorption: Steal the memories of others.
- Memory Vampirism: Feed off of others' memories.
Memory Attacks: Use memories to various attacks.
Memory Communication: Communicate with or through memory.
Memory Destruction: Destroy memories from yourself or others.
Memory Erasure: Erase memories from yourself or others.
- Amnesia: Selectively erase any of your unwanted memories.
- Manual Reset: Dump all previous memories so that one may start fresh.
- Perceptive Amnesia: Cause others to forget the user after looking away from them.
- Psychic Disguise: Remove yourself from the memories of others.
Memory Generation: Generate existing or new memories from scratch.
Memory Implantation: Implant memories into the minds of others, which could either be pre-existing memories from someone else, or false memories created by the user.
- Paramnesia: Distort or erase the memories of yourself or others, so that one can believe fantasies or lies without giving off cerebral implications of deception.
- Presence Insertion: Place oneself in memories of the target (and act as a loved one or old friend).
- Presence Removal: Remove oneself from the memories of the target.
- Traumatize: Implant twisted memories within others to drive them into insanity.
Memory Imprisonment: Imprison others within their own memories or that of others, including the user’s.
Memory Interaction: Interact with one's or others' memory.
Memory Loss Negation: Negate memory loss.
Memory Limit Inducement: Limit what the target remembers.
Memory Manifestation: Manifest memories of oneself or others into reality.
Memory Overwrite: Overwrite the memories of others.
Memory Projection: Create a telepathic/holographic projection of someone's memories in order to be visually seen.
- Lingering Memory: Leave behind a memory of yourself to act as an afterimage.
Memory Reading: Read the memories of others.
Memory Recall: Cause targets to recall memories.
Memory Replication: Copy the memories of others.
- Knowledge Replication: Copy the memories of others to acquire their knowledge.
Memory Restoration: Recover damaged or old memories.
- Déjà-vu: Replay a specific memory.
- Refresh: Replay a subject’s recent optic sight.
Memory Suppression: Lock unwanted memories in the mind until you wish to bring them back.
Memory Transferal: Transfer memories between oneself and others.
Memory Vessel: Store memories in something.
Memory World Creation: Have or create a world of memories.
Racial Memory: Access the memories of one's special brethren and utilize all the knowledge any particular clan or such possesses.

Techniques[]

Variations[]

Associations[]

Limitations[]

Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
Users of Retrocognition can perceive the difference between history and memory.
Users of Mental Regeneration, Mental Restoration and Mental Healing.
Ineffective against those who are all-knowing.
Cannot affect a user of Panmnesia.
May lose control in times of stress or if rushed.
May get overwhelmed with memories of others.
- May confuse your memories with someone else's.
May be an accidental side effect of Life-Force Absorption.
May have limited range, including touch only.
May only be able to create/manipulate certain types of memories.
May be temporary.
Overuse and/or memories inconsistent with the environment, other memories, and/or other key elements may cause the target to suffer a nervous breakdown.
May be difficult in discerning manipulated memories with normal ones.
Memories must be well defined/convincing, or the target may suspect that it's not their own.
May be ineffective/have a weakened effect on a target who has memory problems (e.g., short-term memory loss).

Known Users[]

Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]

Users of the Founding Titan's power (Attack on Titan)
- Ymir Fritz
- Karl Fritz
- Eren Yeager
Koku (B: The Beginning)
Laica (B: The Beginning)
Shūkurō Tsukishima (Bleach)
Aleksandra I. Pokryshkin (Strike Witches/Brave Witches)
Takuto Tatsunagi (Cardfight!! Vanguard)
Control/Conquest Devil (Chainsaw Man)
- Makima
- Nayuta
Pierrot (Cheeky Angel)
Charles zi Britannia (Code Geass)
Phantom (Date A Live)
Mest Gryder (Fairy Tail)
Weisslogia (Fairy Tail)
Skiadrum (Fairy Tail)
Hatori Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Nanami Tomitsu (Gokukoku No Brynhildr)
Sarue Mitsuki (Hataraku Maou-sama)
Skearhead/Darkhead/Daijarg (Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure)
Yeon (Hero Killer)
Brownie (Jewelpet)
Rohan Kishibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable); via Heaven's Door
Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean); via Whitesnake
Daiya Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion); via w:c:jojo:California King Bed\California King Bed
Warp/Kaiba (Kaiba)
Regula (Karakuri Dôji Ultimo)
Ragyo Kiryuin (Kill la Kill)
Zofis (Konjiki no Gash Bell!/Zatch Bell!)
Sucy Manbavaran (Little Witch Academia); via Memory Alteration Potion
Croix Meridies (Little Witch Academia); via Amnesia Magic through Pixels
Aladdin (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic)
Charlotte Pudding (One Piece); via the Memo Memo no Mi
Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica); as Homucifer, unknowingly when trapped in the Soul Gem Labyrinth.
Gowther (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)
Tomoe (Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy)
Shokuhou Misaki (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
Vetrix (Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal)
Don Thousand (Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal)

Comics/Cartoons[]

Betta George (Angel: After the Fall)
Eric Draven/The Crow (Caliber Comics)
Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
Miss Martian (DC Comics)
Raven (DC Comics)
Zatanna Zatara (DC Comics)
Doctor Stephen Strange (Marvel Comics)
Forget-Me-Not (Marvel Comics); involuntarily
Quentin Quire/Kid Omega (Marvel Comics)
Mastermind (Marvel Comics)
Professor X (Marvel Comics)
God of Stories Loki (Marvel Comics)
Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
Rachel Summers/Marvel Girl/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
Nate Grey/X-Man (Marvel Comics)
Ebony (Sonic the Comic)
Laura Wilson/Persephone (The Wicked + The Divine)
Anodites (Ben 10 series)
- Gwen Tennyson
Kevin Levin (Ben 10 series); limited
Proctor Servantis (Ben 10 Omniverse)
The Scyphozoa (Code Lyoko)
Wooldoor Sockbat (Drawn Together)
Alien Parasites (Rick and Morty)
Kenny McCormick (South Park); involuntarily
Lil' Pequena (The Adventures Of Puss In Boots)
April O'Neil ("Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012")
Wallflower Blush (My Little Pony Equestria Girls); via Memory Stone and formerly
The Globlin King (Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King)
Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir (Miraculous Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir); via Miraculous Cat Noir

Literature[]

Witches and Warlocks (Beauchamp Family and Summer on East End series); via spell casting.
- Bran Gardiner/Loki, God of Mischief
- Jean-Baptiste Mésomier/Muninn God of Memory
- Mardi Overbrook/Magdi, Goddess of Rage
Blue Bloods/Vampires (Blue Bloods series)
- Jack Force
Minoo (Engelsfors)
The Stitchwraith (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights)
Wizards (Harry Potter); via Memory Charms
Magnus Bane (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
Catarina Loss (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
Rezkin (King's Dark Tidings)
Hazel Levesque (Heroes of Olympus)