The power to manipulate thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions of others. Sub-power of Telepathy.
Also Called
- Cerebral Control/Manipulation
- Cerebrokinesis
- Mental Alteration/Control
- Mentokinesis
- Mind Alteration/Control/Manipulation
- Mind Trick (Star Wars)
Capabilities
The user can manipulate, modify and control the thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions, allowing the ability to render others unconscious, suppress their memories, and negate the use of abilities, increase/decrease mental capacity, modify minds to be agreeable, control minds, sway sensations to induce altered perception, bestow/heal mental disorders, create/penetrate mental barriers, etc.
Applications
- Addiction Manipulation
- Anima Manipulation
- ASMR Manipulation
- Attention Manipulation
- Behavior Manipulation
- Characteristic Removal
- Communication Shift
- Comprehension Manipulation
- Confidence Manipulation
- Confusion Manipulation
- Consciousness Shattering
- Consciousness State Manipulation
- Consciousness Transferal
- Dream Manipulation
- Emotion Manipulation
- Fatigue Manipulation - Mental only.
- Function Scramble
- Hypnosis
- Illusion Manipulation
- Imagination Manipulation
- Instinct Manipulation
- Madness Manipulation
- Maturity Manipulation
- Memory Manipulation
- Mental Assimilation
- Mental Attacks
- Mental Disorder Manipulation
- Mental Hallucination
- Mental Healing
- Mental Inducement
- Mental Nullification
- Mental Pressure
- Mental Reset
- Mind Control
- Mind Creation
- Mind Reading
- Neurocognitive Deficit
- Neuro-Psychic Knowledge
- Pain Manipulation
- Persona Manipulation
- Personality Absorption
- Personality Splitting
- Power Augmentation
- Power Negation
- Primal Imprint
- Psyche Manipulation
- Psychic Shield
- Selection Manipulation
- Sleep Manipulation
- Social Interplay Manipulation
- Stress Manipulation
- Subconscious Manipulation
- Thought Manipulation
Techniques
- Bioacoustic Disruption or Bio-Acoustic Disruption: To cause a subject's brain to falter in communication, causing an interruption in speech and hearing.
- Confusion Inducement: To cause confusion.
- Conscious Mind Suppression: To suppress one's conscious mind.
- Distraction: To disrupt the attention span.
- Faculty Diminution: To suppress mental access to one's skills.
- Knowledge Projection: To project knowledge into another mind.
- Lie Inducement: To nullify the utterance of truth.
- Logorrhea: To force others to keep speaking.
- Mental Entity Physiology: Turn oneself into mental energy.
- Mental Breakdown: To cause psychological breakdowns and mental collapse.
- Mental Release: To release/remove mental attributes.
- Mental Scramble: To scramble someone's mind.
- Mind Absorption: To absorb someone's mind.
- Mind Imprisonment: To imprison the users in their minds.
- Mind Summoning: To summon anything from the mind.
- Misdirection: To disorient others' sense of direction.
- Motor Continuity: To shut down motor function control so that a subject keeps moving.
- Palindromic Action Inducing: To make others act backward.
- Personality Alteration: To partially/completely change the personality.
- Psychic Bestowal: To magnify a subject’s knowledge capacity.
- Psychic Photography: To imprint marks, images or writing onto the minds of others.
- Psychic Sealing: To seal secrets within others.
- Stupefaction: To induce a mental stupor in others.
Variations
Associations
- Brain Manipulation
- Extrasensory Perception
- Form Manipulation
- Ideal Manipulation
- Intelligence Manipulation
- Mental Regeneration
- Mindshifting
- Neural Impulse Manipulation
- Telepathy
- Unrestricted Thought Process
Limitations
- Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.).
- Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (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
- Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS); via Psychic Vision and absorbing memories
- Kessler (inFAMOUS)
- Sasha (inFAMOUS)
- Abigail "Fetch" Walker (Infamous: Second Son); via Enslave
- Terumi Yuuki (BlazeBlue)
- Miya Shiba (Irregular at Magic High School)
- Mandarin (Marvel Comics)
- Maximus Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
- Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel Comics)
- Nate Grey/X-Man (Marvel Comics)
- Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
- Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics)
- Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
- Emma Frost (Marvel Comics)
- Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics)
- Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
- Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)
- Kid Omega/Quentin Quire (Marvel Comics)
- René/The Haitian (Heroes)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Most Jedi and Sith (Star Wars)
- Ray (Haven)
- Ella Mental (Yin Yang Yo!)
- Daemon (ReBoot)
- Elders (Charmed)
- Vampires (The Vampire Diaries)
- Moloch the Corruptor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Hatori Sohma (Fruits Basket)
- Users of Conqueror/Haoshoku Haki (One Piece)
- Shokuhou Misaki (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
- Mitsuari Ayu (A Certain Magical Index)
- Gregory Kennedy (The Young Guardians)
- Daine (Wild Magic)
- Angel (Maximum Ride)
- Magic users (Harry Potter)
- Female Skrall (Bionicle)
- Koishi Komeiji (Touhou Project)
- Suika Ibuki (Touhou Project)
- The King's Spoon (Super/Roulette)
- Adam Grif (Super/Roulette)
- Daphne Powell (No Ordinary Family)
- Vampires (Being Human)
- Orde (Bionicle)
- The Sisters of the Skrall (Bionicle)
- Annonna (Bionicle)
- NeoCortex (Mighty Med)
- Ancestors (Call of Duty Ghosts)
- Neuro (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
- Most Lunars (The Lunar Chronicles); Limited
- Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
- Rohan Kishibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamonds are Unbreakable); via his Stand, Heaven's Door
- Belial (Magi the Labyrinth of Magic)
- Hakuryuu Ren (Magi the Labyrinth of Magic)
- E-001/Eveline (Resident Evil 7: Biohazard)
- Dr. Malocchio (The Awesomes)
- Zelshione (Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia)
- Osiris (Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia)
- Constant (Hardcore Leveling Warrior); via God Fooler and Memory Deception
Known Objects
- Mind Stone (Marvel Comics)
- Millennium Rod (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
- Parasite Monster (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V)
- Green Lantern Ring (DC Comics)
Gallery
Belial (Magi The Labyrinth of Magic) can use life magic to control the minds of the living...
...which is later used by King Vessel Hakuryuu to brainwash his enemies.
Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics)
Emma Frost (Marvel Comics)
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Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)
Jean Grey (Marvel Comics) can control the higher mental functions of other beings.
The Mind Gem (Marvel Comics) is capable of manipulating minds of other subjects.
Infinity Gem/Stone of Mind (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Chitauri Scepter (Marvel Cinematic Universe) possess Infinity Gem/Stone of Mind.
Eveline (Resident Evil 7) can influence the mental state of others after infecting them with her fungus, such as making them see hallucinations of her and controlling their minds.
Both the Jedi and Sith (Star Wars) possess the ability to use the Force to control the minds of weak-willed individuals.
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Users of Conqueror/Haoshoku Haki (One Piece) like Red Hair Shanks can overpower those of a weaker mental mindset with their mere presence.
Zelshione (Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia) can manipulate peoples minds thanks to her Heart Hybrid Gear Teros.
Few can resist Osiris' (Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia) mental powers.
Constant (Hardcore Leveling Warrior) attempting to use God Fooler on the creator and God of Lucid Adventure, Roy Han.
Constant (Hardcore Leveling Warrior) successfully using God Fooler on the Combat Fairies.
Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS series)