Mind Exchange

Mind Exchange
Alex Russo (Wizards of Waverly Place) switches bodies with her mother.
Power/Ability to:	Switch minds with other beings.

"A journey soon begins,

its prize reflected in another's eyes.

When what you see is what you lack,

then selfless love will change you back."

― Magic fortune cookie (Freaky Friday, 2003)

"I’m 17 again. I’m 13 going on 30. The baby is the dog, and the dog is the baby."

― The Walker Family (Family Switch; 2023) realizing they’ve swapped in each other’s bodies

The power to switch minds with other beings. Sub-power of Telepathy and Mental Manipulation. Variation of Body Swapping. Not to be confused with Consciousness Transferal.

Also Called

• Brain Switch
• Consciousness Switching
• Metempsychosis
• Mind Swap

Capabilities

User can take over the mind of another, this may or may not accompany the target taking the body of the user. Some users have changed so many times that they no longer know which body is their own. Some users can inhabit more than one mind at a time, producing a Hive Mind.

Associations

• Alien Physiology
• Body Swapping
• Clone Physiology
• Consciousness Transferal
• Doppelgänger Morphing
• Hive Mind
• Mind Absorption
• Mind Control
• Mind Manipulation
• Mystic Human Physiology
• Possession
• Possessive Teleportation
• Sensory Scrying
• Soul Absorption
• Soul Exchange
• Soul Manipulation
• Soul Transferal
• Telepathy
• Transcendent Physiology

Limitations

• Users of Indomitable Will and Strong Heart, are highly resistant.
• Users of Mind Anchoring and Control Immunity are immune.
• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
• May lose control over user's own body.
• May not be able to return to a previous mind.
• May not be in full control sharing the mind with target.
• May have a limit on how long one can stay in a single mind.
• May cause damage to host mind or body.
• May be vulnerable while taking over another mind.
• Transferring may take time.
• May require physical contact or an object.
• User may not be able to use targets memories or change them.
• May lose powers after minds are switched.
• May not work against Divided Mind if the user can only take over one mind at a time.

Known Users

See Also: Freaky Friday Flip.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Astaroth (666 Satan/O-Parts Hunter)
• Mao (Darker Than Black); only with animals
• Baby Land God (Dog Days)
• Captain Ginyu (Dragon Ball Z)
• Super Shenron (Dragon Ball Super)
• Rahab Barisol (The Evillious Chronicles)
• Levia (The Evillious Chronicles)
• Eve Moonlit (The Evillious Chronicles)
• Elluka Clockworker (The Evillious Chronicles)
• Ma (The Evillious Chronicles)
• Silver Chariot Requiem (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
• Haruto Tokishima (Kakumeiki Valvrave)
• Saki Rukino (Kakumeiki Valvrave)
• Orb of Caldia (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Santa Yamanaka (Naruto)
• Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece), via the Ope Ope no Mi
• Switcheroo (Stitch!)
• Urara Shiraishi (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss
• Alex Spencer (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss
• Momoko Seishuin (Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches); via kiss

Cartoons/Comics

• Charmcaster (Ben 10); using a spell
• Manchester Black (DC Comics)
• Experiment 355 "Swapper" (Lilo & Stitch)
• Xi'an Coy Manh/Karma (Marvel Comics)
• Rachel Summers (Earth-811) (Marvel Comics)
• Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom (Marvel Comics)
• Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (Marvel Comics)
• Eda Clawthone (The Owl House); Owl Staff
• Eclipsa Butterfly (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
• Puppeteer (Top Cow's Freshmen)

Live Television/Movies

• Ambar (Aliados)
• Meths (Altered Carbon); via Cortical Stacks and Sleeves
  • Laurens Bancroft
  • Reileen Kovacs
• Tren Krom (BIONICLE)
• Cambiador (Combo Ninos)
• Jen (MisFits)
• Inverted World (Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger)
• Sydney Barrett (Legion)
• Wootox (Power Rangers SPD)
• Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap)
• Felonious Hexx (Robotboy)
• Merlin (Shrek the Third)
• Cameron Vale (Scanners)
• Rao Vantika (Star trek)
• Augustus Bidlow (The Nevers); corvids/crows only
• Wizards (Wizards of Waverly Place); via the Body-Switching Spell
• Walker Family (Family Switch; 2023)

Video Games

• FATE/Lynx (Chrono Cross)
• Connor (Detroit: Become Human); via Transfer
• Manaphy/Phione (Pokémon); via Heart Swap
• Patrick VanDusen (Super Smash Stadium)
• Ellen (The Witch's House)

Literature

• Lonely Freddy (FNAF: Fazbear Frights)
• The Great Race of Yith (H.P. Lovecraft's works)
• Jumpers (Wild Cards)

Known Objects

• Cortical Stacks (Altered Carbon)
• Enchanted Mirror of Scission (American Dragon: Jake Long)
• Draconian Katra (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• The Change Card (Cardcaptor Sakura)
• Particle Interchange Transport (Family Guy - Switch the Flip)
• Body-swapping Joy Buzzer (The Fairly Oddparents - Presto Change-O)
• Changeling Spell (Fairy Tail)
• La Dola (Freaky)
• Magic fortune cookie (Freaky Friday, 2003)
• Soundclash (FreeFonix)
• Electron Carpet (Gravity Falls)
• Lightning berries (Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years)
• Sandy's mind-switching device (Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years)
• Mind scrambler (Lloyd in Space)
• Owl Staff (The Owl House)
• Mind-Transfer-inator (Phineas and Ferb)
• Body Switcher (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Series 9000 Brainalyzer (Rick and Morty)
• R Striker (Round the Twist); via Rabbit randomly flicking switches in the supply box
• Majorina's Rings (Smile! Pretty Cure)
• Meteor (Sonic Boom)
• Ogre Blade (Tactics Ogre)
• Kraang neuro-switcher (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
• Robert Louis Stevenson's Bookends (Warehouse 13)

Gallery

Sam (Quantum Leap) inhabits the lives of targets in the past.

Ginyu (Dragon Ball Z) after his mind was switched with Goku.

Goku Black (Dragon Ball Super) is actually Zamasu after permanently swapping mind and body with a parallel version of Goku via use of the dragon balls.

Body-swapping Joy Buzzer (The Fairly Oddparents - Presto Change-O)

Jen (Misfits) can only swap bodies with others as they come into physical contact with.

The Great Race of Yith (Cthulhu Mythos) can use this ability.

Xi'an Coy Manh/Karma (Marvel Comics)

Marcus Roscoe (Angel) swapping bodies with Angel.

Experiment 355 "Swapper" (Lilo & Stitch)

Switcheroo (Stitch!)

Orb (Marchen Awakens Romance) fought alongside Phantom while he was inside his ÄRM, Babbo. After Phantom's battle with Danna, Orb switched places, sealing himself inside Danna and Danna inside Babbo.

Trafalgar D. Water Law (One piece) uses Shambles to switch the minds and souls of the Straw Hats.

After using the Mind-Transfer-inator Doofenshmirtz attempted to destroy all the grass in the Tri-State Area.

Meteor (Sonic Boom)

Inverted World (Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger)

Body Switcher (The Powerpuff Girls)