Memory Manipulation

Memory Manipulation
Damian (Heroes) manipulating and projecting Noah's memories through touch
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate memories.

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

Also Called

• 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, 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.
• 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 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.
  • 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).
  • Traumatize: Implant twisted memories within others to drive them into insanity.
• Memory Manifestation: Manifest memories of oneself or others into reality.
• Memory Overwrite: Overwrite the memories of others.
• Memory Projection: Create a 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 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 others.
• Memory Vessel: Store memories in something.
• Memory World Creation: Have or create a world of memories.

Techniques

• Memory Combat
• Memory Physiology
• Memory Reliving

Variations

• Memory Condition
• Memory Embodiment
• Memory Magic
• Meta Memory Manipulation

Associations

• Existent Information Manipulation
• History Embodiment
• Mental Manipulation
• Nerve Manipulation
• Presence Removal
• Subconscious Manipulation

Limitations

• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
• Users of Retrocognition can perceive the difference between history and memory.
• Ineffective against those who are all-knowing.
• 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

Cartoons

• Anodites (Ben 10 series)
  • Gwen Tennyson
• Cerebrocrustaceans (Ben 10 series)
  • Brainstorm
  • Proctor Servantis
• Kevin Levin (Ben 10 series); limited
• 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)

Comics

• Betta George (Angel: After the Fall)
• Eric Draven/The Crow (Caliber Comics)
• Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
• Miss Martian (DC Comics)
• Raven (DC Comics)
• Forget-Me-Not (Marvel Comics); involuntarily
• Quentin Quire/Kid Omega (Marvel Comics)
• Mastermind (Marvel Comics)
• Professor X (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)

Movies

• Dr. Daniel Schreber (Dark City)
• The Strangers (Dark City)
• Grand Pabbie (Frozen)
• Toothiana/The Tooth Fairy (Rise of the Guardians)
• The Matrix (The Matrix)
• Wipers (Push)
• Etelgar (Ultraman Ginga S Movie Showdown! The 10 Ultra Brothers!)

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)
• Wizards (Harry Potter); via Memory Charms
• Magnus Bane (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
• Catarina Loss (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
• Rezkin (King's Dark Tidings)

Live Television

• Vampires (Being Human)
  • Mitchell
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Cleaners (Charmed)
• Elders (Charmed)
• The Tribunal (Charmed)
• Time Lords (Doctor Who)
  • The Doctor
• Damian (Heroes)
• Mark Griffin (Mutant X)
• Ship (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Vulcans (Star Trek); via the Vulcan Mind Meld
• Adam (Torchwood)
• Space Cats (Ultraman series)

Manga/Anime

• Users of the Founding Titan's power (Attack on Titan)
  • Frieda Reiss
• Aleksandra I. Pokryshkin (Strike Witches/Brave Witches)
• Takuto Tatsunagi (Cardfight!! Vanguard)
• Pierrot (Cheeky Angel)
• Charles zi Britannia (Code Geass)
• Phantom (Date A Live)
• Mest Gryder/Doranbolt (Fairy Tail)
• Hatori Sohma (Fruits Basket)
• Nanami Tomitsu (Gokukoku No Brynhildr)
• Sarue Mitsuki (Hataraku Maou-sama)
• Rohan Kishibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamonds are Unbreakable)
• Warp/Kaiba (Kaiba)
• Regula (Karakuri Dôji Ultimo)
• Aladdin (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic)
• Gowther (Nanatsu No Taizai)
• 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.
• Misaki Shokuhou (To Aru Majutsu No Index)
• Vetrix (Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal)
• Zofis (Zatch Bell!)
• Enrico Pucci (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean)

Video Games

• Naminé (Kingdom Hearts)
• George Weissman (The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky)
• Mewtwo (Pokémon)
• Nilin (Remember Me)
• Mnemosyne (Valkyrie Crusade)

Web Original

• SCP-3000 - Ananteshesha (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3002 - Attempts to Assassinate Thought (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects

• The Animus (Assassin's Creed)
• Fairy Godmother's Wand (Cinderella)
• Doraemon's tools (Doraemon)
• The Cosmic Cube (Marvel Comics)
• Neuralyzer (Men in Black)
• Eidolon (Vampirella)
• The Amnesulet (Yin Yang Yo!)
• Millennium Rod (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Gallery

Karl Fritz (Attack on Titan) using the power of the Founding Titan to change the memories of countless of his subjects.

The seductive vampire Mitchell (Being Human)

Jack Force (Blue Bloods series) is one of the most powerful users of the Glom, a supernatural dimension that allows vampires to have full control over the thoughts, actions, and memories of others.

Rohan Kishibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamonds are Unbreakable) can turn a person's memories into text on paper created from their skin, allowing him to take memories via ripping them out and literally write fabricated ones.

Namine (Kingdom Hearts) has power over the memories of Sora and those connected to him.

Gowther (Nanatsu no Taizai) can use his power Invasion to manipulate the memories of others.

Thanks to the power of the Memo Memo no Mi, Charlotte Pudding (One Piece) can manipulate memories of her target.

Nilin (Remember Me) can steal and remix a person's memory.

Mnemosyne (Valkyrie Crusade)

Laura Wilson/Persephone (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to show past events to others.

The Cosmic Cube (Marvel Comics) can not only manipulation space and time...

...but also memory, like when Steve Rogers/Captain America used it to restore James "Bucky" Barnes/The Winter Soldier's memories...

...or when S.H.I.E.L.D. used Kobik ,the humanoid Cosmic Cube, to manipulate the memories of various imprisoned supervillians for their Pleasant Hill Operation.

Doraemon (Doraemon) has several tools capable of memory manipulation...

Doraemon (Doraemon) using the "Memory Disk" to extract Suneo's memory of Nobita wetting his pants, and implanting a false memory back to make him tell Shizuka that he wet his own pants from over-excitement.

Marik Ishtar (Yu-Gi-Oh!) using the Millennium Rod to erase the memory of the key from Pandora's memory, causing him unable to see or feel it despite still physically holding onto it.

Raven (Teen Titans)