Mental Manipulation

The power to manipulate the minds and mental functions of oneself and/or others. Sub-power of Telepathy. Combination of Mindshifting and Mind Control. Not to be confused with Brain Manipulation.

Also Called

Cerebral Control
Cerebrokinesis/Mentokinesis
Higher Cognitive Manipulation
Mental/Mind/Telepathic Alteration
Mind Manipulation

Capabilities

The user can manipulate the mind, the mechanism of proceeding information and set of immaterial facilities that are linked to it. They can create, control, customise, negate and otherwise fashion parts and functions of mind as perception, desires, thoughts, beliefs, memories, attention, personality, behaviour and intelligence in verity of ways. Beneficially, this ability can be used to unlock one's inner potential, bestow talents and skills, improve mental capacity. Destructively, this power may shatter minds, grant diversity of mental disorders and take over others. Either way, users possess outstanding power that make them force to be reckoned with.

Applications

Basic

Mindshifting: Has direct and total control over their mental structure, being able to manipulate at will their own emotions, sensations, perceptions, consciousness, memories, personality and everything connected to their brain and mind granting highly advanced capabilities.
Mind Control: Can control the minds of others, including their thoughts, perceptions, memories, emotions and personality. Depending on the user's skill and power, this can range from a trance-like state very similar to hypnosis, to the target being completely subject to the user's control.

Condition

Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Mind: Can reach its zenith mentally and even develop it to higher levels. In this way, the user can achieve mental success that no one has achieved before, and achieve results that are considered impossible by others.

Manipulations

Anima Manipulation: Can manipulate animas, or the inner personality.
Addiction Manipulation: Can create, shape and manipulate addiction.
ASMR Manipulation: Can manipulate ASMR, "autonomous sensory meridian response”.
Attention Manipulation: Can manipulate the attention of oneself and/or others.
Behavior Manipulation: Can manipulate the behavior, the range of actions and mannerisms of oneself and/or others.
Belief Manipulation: Can manipulate the beliefs of oneself and/or others.
Comprehension Manipulation: Can create, shape and manipulate the boundary between the known and unknown.
Confidence Manipulation: Can sense and manipulate the confidence of oneself or others.
Confusion Manipulation: Can sense and manipulate the confusion of themselves and other creatures,
Consciousness Manipulation: Can manipulate, modify and control states of consciousness onto other people.
Emotion Manipulation: Can sense and manipulate the emotions, including feelings, moods and their affects.
Hypnosis Manipulation: Can manipulate hypnosis, manipulating its effect on the subconscious mind of others.
Illusion Manipulation: Can create, shape and manipulate illusions/hallucinations.
Intelligence Manipulation: Can manipulate intelligence, one's capacity for logic, abstract thought etc.
Instinct Manipulation: Can manipulate instincts, the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behavior.
Imagination Manipulation: Can sense and manipulate the imagination, of themselves and other creatures.
Memory Manipulation: Can control memories of oneself and others, allowing them to modify, fabricate, suppress etc.
Perception Manipulation: Can manipulate perception, which is the brain's processing of sensory information to organize and interpret it.
Personality Manipulation: To partially/completely change the personality.
Psyche Manipulation: Can manipulate ego, id, superego and related things.
Sense Manipulation: Has complete control over the senses of oneself and others.
Selection Manipulation: Can manipulate selections, or final choices, what others decide to do or pick.
Sexuality Manipulation: Can manipulate sexuality of themselves and other creatures.
Social Interplay Manipulation: Can manipulate how social they or others are when they interact with other people.
Subconscious Manipulation: Can manipulate everything hidden inside their or others subconscious.
Thought Manipulation: Can control the thoughts of others; they can make others think what they want.
Willpower Manipulation: Can sense and manipulate the willpower of themselves, people, animals, and other creatures.

Techniques

Mental Attacks: Can release/use mental powers in combat to various attacks/effects.
Mental Barrier Destruction: Can sense and destroy/remove the psychic barriers in the minds of others placed.
Mental Breakdown: To cause psychological breakdowns and mental collapse.
Mental Disorder Manipulation: Can induce, remove, and manipulate mental disorders.
Mental Entity Physiology: Turn oneself into mental energy.
Mental Healing: Can heal mental illnesses, disorders and other forms of mental trauma.
Mental Inducement: Can cause the target's mind/brain to convert into a desired state.
Mental Mimicry: To mimic aspects from the minds of others.
Mental Nullification: Can suppress/negate anything that is part of the mind.
Mental Release: To release/remove mental attributes.
Mental Reset: Can reset the mind of a target, reverting their knowledge, memories, experiences, behaviors etc.
Mental Restoration: Can restore and return lost mental functions (memories, sanity, free will, etc.) to those who have lost them.
Mental Scramble: Can scramble the mind of other people, creating several different effects.
Mind Absorption: To absorb someone's mind.
Mind Creation: Can create minds, including consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, language and memory.
Mind Imprisonment: To imprison the users in their minds.
Mind Link: Link minds with other living being, sharing thoughts, memories, emotions or feelings.
Mind Summoning: To summon anything from the mind.
Mind Walking: Can enter the minds of others, where they can see all the thoughts, memories and emotions of that person.

Trivia

In fiction, mind is often portrayed as a triple structure consistent out of three components:

Subconscious is described as set of processes that happen automatically without one's awareness of it: breathing, growing, regeneration, habits, etc.;
Conscious is portrayed in fiction as one's sentience and awareness of existence, it is responsible for all activities one does realising it: studying, thinking, exploring, etc.;
Superconscious is said to be one's supreme mental essence that consciousness evolves into. It is often associated with spiritual realization, Enlightenment and becoming whole with oneself.

Furthermore, in psychoanalytic theory mind consists out of another three elements:

Id: instinctive awareness and competence that is presented in individual since birth;
Ego: sense of self that organizes personality;
Super-ego: piece of collective mind that connects group and gives it similar properties.

Interaction between mind and consciousness vary in fiction as in some cases, they are considered one whole psyche, while in some others' mind is only a tool (or a framing device) of independently existing consciousness.

Associations

Limitations

Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.).
Users of Mental/Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity/Indomitable Will (impervious).
May be limited to a certain range to work, including touch only.
May be limited to a certain number of targets at a time.
May not work with users of Brainlessness or Formless Mind.

Known Users

Dr. Malocchio (The Awesomes)
Vampires (Being Human)
Pesky Dust (Ben 10)
Annonna (Bionicle)
Female Skrall (Bionicle)
Orde (Bionicle)
The Sisters of the Skrall (Bionicle)
Terumi Yuuki (BlazeBlue)
Moloch the Corruptor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Ancestors (Call of Duty Ghosts)
Elders (Charmed)
Slenderman (Creepypasta)
Trollge (Creepypasta)
Mind Control Users (Danny Phantom)
Ryo Asuka/Satan (Devilman)
Hatori Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
Naraku (InuYasha)
Constant (Hardcore Leveling Warrior); via A Lie That Deceives God and A Lie That Deceives Memory
Magic users (Harry Potter)
Ray (Haven)
René/The Haitian (Heroes)
Fu Hua (Honkai Impact 3rd); via Ember Dust
Zelshione (Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia)
Osiris (Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia)
Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS); via Psychic Vision and absorbing memories
Kessler (inFAMOUS)
Sasha (inFAMOUS)
Abigail "Fetch" Walker (Infamous: Second Son); via Enslave
Miya Shiba (Irregular at Magic High School)
Rohan Kishibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamonds are Unbreakable); via his Stand, Heaven's Door
Neuro (LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
Moon (LOCAL58)
Most Lunars (The Lunar Chronicles); Limited
Belial (Magi the Labyrinth of Magic)
Hakuryuu Ren (Magi the Labyrinth of Magic)
Agatha Harkness (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Druig (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Sylvie Lushton/Laufeydottir (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics)
Emma Frost (Marvel Comics)
Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics)
Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
Kid Omega/Quentin Quire (Marvel Comics)
Nate Grey/X-Man (Marvel Comics)
Mandarin (Marvel Comics)
Maximus Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
Angel (Maximum Ride)
Daphne Powell (No Ordinary Family)
Users of Conqueror/Haoshoku Haki (One Piece)
Daemon (ReBoot)
E-001/Eveline (Resident Evil 7: Biohazard)
SCP-3000 - Ananteshesha (SCP Foundation)
SCP-3002 - Attempts to Assassinate Thought (SCP Foundation)
Wil McBride (Sparkstone)
Archangels & Angels (Supernatural)
The King's Spoon (Super/Roulette)
Adam Grif (Super/Roulette)
Brother Blood (Teen Titans)
Kouzaku Mitori (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun); via Exterior
Mitsuari Ayu (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
Shokuhou Misaki (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun)
Koishi Komeiji (Touhou Project)
Suika Ibuki (Touhou Project)
The Man with the Upside-Down Face (Trevor Henderson mythos)
Allison Hargreeves/Number Three/The Rumor (The Umbrella Academy)
Lila Pitts/Number Eight (The Umbrella Academy) via Power Mimicry
Vampires (The Vampire Diaries)
Daine (Wild Magic)
Panacea (Worm)
En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (X-Men Movies)
Ella Mental (Yin Yang Yo!)
Gregory Kennedy (The Young Guardians)

Known Objects

Mind Stone (Marvel Comics)
Millennium Rod (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Parasite Monster (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V)
Green Lantern Ring (DC Comics)
Ember Dust (Honkai Impact 3rd)