Psionic Inundation

Psionic Inundation
Saki Hanajima (Fruits Basket) overloading a bully's mind in anger, knocking him unconscious and nearly killing him.
Power/Ability to:	Project harmful psionic attacks.

"You're going to make my head hurt again, aren't you?"

"Up to you."

― Brainiac 5 and Saturn Girl (Legionnaires 47#)

The ability to overload another's mind, causing various effects. Sub-power of Telepathy and Telekinesis. Variation of Mental Inducement and Overloading. Version of Psychic Blasts. Not to be confused with just Psychic Blasts.

Also Called

• Mental/Mind Inundation/Overload
• Psionic Overload
• Telekinetic/Telepathic Inundation/Overload

Capabilities

The user can mentally overload the brain with psychic energy by mentally inducing and manifesting psychic energy within the brain of those being affected by will alone, causing the victim to spontaneously experience brain damage, memory loss, unconsciousness, vegetative state and/or death. This can be accomplished by various psychic abilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, illusion casting, etc.

Applications

• Catatonia Inducement
• Death Inducement
• Insanity Inducement
• Internal Rupturing
  • Brain Soup
• Memory Erasure
• Mental Breakdown
• Neurocognitive Deficit
• Pain Inducement
• Psychic Torture
• Unconsciousness Inducement
• Will Breaking

Variations

• Empathic Inundation - project vast amounts of emotions.
• Memory Overload - project vast amounts of memories.
• Sensory Overload - project vast amounts of sensory effects.
  • Audible Inundation
• Telepathic Static - project telepathic static.

Associations

• Alien Physiology
• Mental Manipulation
• Superior Human Physiology
• Telepathy
• Telekinesis

Limitations

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

Known Users

• Akhlut the Orca (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Burning Martians (DC Comics)
• Esper Lass (DC Comics)
• Gorilla Grodd (DC Comics)
• Martians (DC Comics)
• Maxima (DC Comics)
• Raven (DC Comics)
• Saturn Girl (DC Comics)
• Babidi (Dragon Ball Z)
• Emperor Calus (Destiny)
• Pandaemonium (Chrono Crusade)
• April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
  • Charles Xavier/Professor X
• Jean Grey (Marvel Comics)
• Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
• Nate Grey/X-Man (Marvel Comics)
• Emma Frost (Marvel Comics)
• Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics)
• Quentin Quire (Marvel Comics)
• Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
• Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
• Onslaught (Marvel Comics)
• The Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)
  • Celeste
  • Esme
  • Mindee
  • Phoebe
  • Sophie
• Users of Tsukuyomi (Naruto)
• Matt and Maury Parkman (Heroes)
• Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed)
• DoppleGanger Dark Rashi (Ninjutsu series)
• Mesogog (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
• Psycwave (The Incredibles)
• Eric Draven (The Crow)
• Fey Rune (Inazuma Eleven Go)
• John Lynch (Image/WildStorm/DC Comics)
• Venom (Ultimate Marvel)
• Saki Hanajima (Fruits Basket)
• Laurin Shattersmith (The Order of the Stick)
• Nymph (Sora No Otoshimono)
• Chaos (Sora No Otoshimono)
• Hiyori (Sora No Otoshimono)
• Shūkurō Tsukishima (Bleach)

Known Objects

• Mind Gem (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

Shūkurō Tsukishima (Bleach) overloading Orihime's mind by tampering with her memories, pushing her to a mental breakdown.

Akhlut the Orca (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) demonstrates.

Emperor Calus (Destiny) with his Psionic Overload can project numerous psionic skulls that attack his enemies mentally.

The Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)

As the world's most powerful telepath, Charles Xavier (Marvel Comics) could disable the robotic brain circuits of a Sentinel.

Psylocke (Marvel Comics)

Onslaught (Marvel Comics)

White Martians (DC Comics) torturing the Martian Manhunter.

Emma Frost (Wolverine & X-Men)

Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed)

Virl Dox I/Brainiac (DC Comics) overloading Superman's mind.

Maxima (DC Comics) overloads Orion's mind.

Laurin Shattersmith (The Order of the Stick) using Mind Thrust.

Saturn Girl (DC Comics) teaching Brainiac 5 a lesson in maaners.

Mesogog (Power Rangers Dino Thunder) generally uses this ability to punish his minions for failure.

Takeda Takahashi (Mortal Kombat X) telepathically overloads a guard's mind.

As a potent telepath, Emma Frost (Marvel Comics) can project painful psychic attacks that can either cripple or render her opponent's unconscious.

April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series) overloading the minds of several Kraang.

Eric Draven (The Crow) overloads Top Dollar's mind by forcing him to experience thirty hours of his murdered girlfriend's pain in one moment.

Venom's (Ultimate Marvel) mere presence overloads Spider-Man's mind by causing his spider sense to go haywire.

John Lynch (Image/WildStorm/DC Comics)

Babidi (Dragon Ball Z) unleashing a psychic attack on Vegeta through his dark magic, causing him intense pain.

Itachi Uchiha (Naruto) using Tsukuyomi to unleash a powerful attack on Kakashi's mind, trapping him in a nightmare world of torture.

Manchester Black (DC: Superman vs. The Elite) overloads Superman's mind by telekinetically pinching the blood vessels in his brain.